Author: Gary Cutlack
Someone mocked up a fake Zune Phone to keep themselves amused
Well, we’ve all got to find something to do over Christmas. One man made this – a concept Zune phone. Unsurprisingly, it;s a total iPhone rip-off – full-face touch screen, curvaceous black design – it’s probably even got a shiny metal concept back.
PSP getting Skype support in next update?
Apparently Sony’s about to add another feature to PSP’s bulging little memory – Skype support.
An incredibly secret source we can’t name for fear of DEATH (or… a post on Sony’s CES site) announced the feature, pointing out that you’ll be able to “call friends, talk trash to fellow gamers or catch up with…
Playyoo – free homebrew games for your mobile
Playyoo is a new game creating and sharing site, where you can play mobile games for free – and game makers can upload their stuff for the world to see.
What’s in it for them is MONEY – all of the home made games uploaded to the site are entered into a prize draw, with $10,000 going to the best game.
Eee PC's TOP SECRET bonus ability – gaming
Eee PC can bravely run Half-Life 2 (at 10fps, mind) with even World of Warcraft now added to the growing list of PC games hardcore Eee fans have managed to get working on the pocket laptop.
For the benefit of those who don’t believe
Shiny Video: Cheap pound shop batteries EXPOSED
Hi everyone, I’m here today with a very important piece of investigative journalism about the SHODDY and downright shameful state of the discount battery market.
Watch with HORROR as I insert a brand new set of cheap batteries into a torch – only to be rewarded by a pathetic five seconds of usable power. You may well get 12 batteries for £1 – but what use are they if they fizzle out after five pathetic seconds?
Eee PC an actual statistical success – 350,000 sold already, says Asus
It’s today’s Asus Eee PC News of the Day!
Today’s Asus Eee PC news is the official global sales figures for the thing so far – it’s done a whopping 350,000 already, compared with the official pre-launch estimate/hope of 300k. And if parent company Asustek could’ve made more it would’ve sold more – Eee PCs of all specs and sizes are still annoying sold out pretty much worldwide.
To celebrate, here’s a particularly angelic and festive promotional image of a lovely happy family all brought together by the mega-portable laptop:
Sci-fi dreams coming true – cloaking device now a reality
That weird black blurry thing on the left is something very important. No, I am not pregnant. It is a cloaked plastic object of some sort, hidden from view by clever scientists.
This is quite complicated science, so please excuse me if I just kind of gloss over the whys and hows of all this, and just say “Hey, wow! Cloaking devices like in Star Trek! Awesome!”.
Hybrid cars will make up 10% of its car sales by 2010, says Honda
Honda’s definitely gunning for the whole ‘green’ thing, claiming that 10% of all the company’s car sales will be of hybrid models by 2010. That’s over 400,000 cars.
This is thanks to newer, cheaper hybrids it’s planning on introducing, plus sales of the existing Civic Hybrid…
Eee PC hack of the day – touch screen!
Can’t everyone just leave the poor little thing alone? The latest shameful example of Eee PC abuse comes from this guy who has installed one of those achingly fashionable touch screens onto the mini laptop.
He used a $60 touch screen kit he got off eBay, fitting it between the screen and its housing. He then presumably also used quite a lot of brain and technical knowledge to get it all working.
Digital photo frames the most popular Christmas present this year
Funny you should say that – I was considering getting one for for the parents. Mum can just about use a computer so ought to be able to get the thing to work.
Problem is, decent ones with good resolutions and screen sizes are still about £70 – which is a bit more than the £25 I’m usually prepared to blow on a parent’s…
