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Microsoft hedging its bets about Blu-ray – still "talking to" Sony
Microsoft’s Jeff Bell, who has a really long job title so is clearly very important and must have an awesome car, says MS has “been talking to Blu-ray all along.”
The two-faced gits!
Although it hasn’t been talking about putting Blu-ray drives into Xbox 360s or anything as dramatic – it’s been trying to convince Team BR to use Microsoft’s HDi software, the clever bit of technology that added all the extra features to HD DVD…
Studio Leung's stylish-but-impractical MacBook Air bag
There’s an amazing ecosystem that surrounds every Apple product. It’s like a mini rain forest. Every time Apple sprouts a product, thousands of bottom-feeders and parasites all appear out of nowhere to feast themselves silly!
Within hours of the announcement of the MacBook Air we had the comedic Envelope Case, then something from Belkin, now there’s another little bird picking the fleas out of the hippo’s back – the Mac bag by Studio Leung…
Iron Man is proud to endorse LG's VX9400 mobile phone
Iron Man and his female love interest will send each other important text messages using LG mobile phones in the forthcoming blockbuster, after LG revealed it’s done the deal to fill the movie with its products.
Robert Downey Jr.’s Iron Man and Gywneth Paltrow’s Pepper will each use an LG model – with the VX9400 TV phone and the company’s KS20 Windows Mobile smartphone getting the nod…
Green-House PicoDrive ST 256-bit AES USB key
Don’t mind that headline. I’m just trying to win the in-house competition for cramming the most incomprehensible tech phrases into one line. Let’s start with the easy bits first – USB key. That means USB drive. Or USB stick. Or, if you’re really confused about tech naming conventions, a memory stick. Just be warned that calling it a “memory stick” makes you sound as stupid as granddad does when he calls your Xbox 360 a “PlayStation.”
So to recap. The PicoDrive ST is a lump of RAM, that comes in up to 8GB size. It’s small so you can put it in your pocket.
VIDEO: Reporting from the show floor at ATEI 2008
In case you don’t know, ATEI is a massive trade show for the arcade and amusement world. It’s mainly for businessmen to go to and do serious business, but there’s one very good reason everyone should register and attend – loads of arcade machines all set to freeplay!
So I went. And did a video. It’s a bit long, but you get to see lots of people having fun playing new games, including SEGA’s ultra-odd floor-based-TV game UFO Stomper.
Here are the edited highlights:
Grand Theft Auto IV – coming to PS3 and Xbox 360 on April 29
Finally, the game the world has been waiting for has an official release date – GTA IV will arrive on April 29, and it’s such an important game it’s getting a simultaneous worldwide release.
Coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, it was thought for a few worrying months that GTA IV might end up getting re-delayed back to the autumn, after it missed its Autumn 2007 original launch and was sent back to Spring 2008…
Chinavision's solar-powered MP4 player and Nintendo emulator, for the eco-friendly software pirate
Don’t go killing the planet while playing pirated old Nintendo games!
The Mobile Power Station is being sold as a nice little media player, only, thanks to the Chinese and their total lack of respect for international copyright agreements, it comes with NES, Game Boy and Game Boy Colour emulators pre-installed by the kindly factory workers.
Microsoft is making money too – and even Vista's starting to take off
As well as Apple bragging about how much money it’s raked in so far this year, Microsoft is expected to announce some rather pretty upwards-pointing graphs this week too.
Analysts are predicting a huge 66% rise in profits for MS over the last year, as despite the numerous financial disasters going on around the globe people are still buying new computers so their internet loads faster and World of Warcraft looks a bit prettier…
Protect your important bits with the anti-radiation mobile phone case
Bit worried about what your mobile’s doing to you? Think that getting a warm ear after ten minutes of chatting is merely the tip of the iceberg, and that in 30 years time mobile phone users will be forced to stand outside pubs in the rain for the safety of the general population once the SHOCKING TRUTH about DEADLY mobile radiation finally comes out?
In that case, wrap your phone up in one of these – an anti-radiation case. Created, or at least mocked-up in principle – by know-what-you’re-getting-from-the-name Anti Radiation Leather Case Cellular Accessories, the anti-radiation case only has blocking on one side so your phone actually still works and sees the outisde world, while stopping those death rays from penetrating your essential organs.
Compulsory weekly update regarding a new watch from Tokyoflash – the Tibida
We always end up mentioning the new developments down at the insane offices of Tokyoflash, thanks to their regular output of exciting watches with interesting looks.
Tibida’s particularly striking, thanks to featuring 42 little white LEDs. Which, it is rumoured, well-trained wearers are able to interpret to use as a rough guide about what the time is. Or, at least, what the time is near.
Fortunately, the new Tibida comes with a handy visual guide that explains exactly how you’re supposed to tell what the time is with it.
Here’s how it works:
