Archive for November 19th, 2009
Lexar announces new line of “Gamer” SDHC cards
19, Nov 2009
Lexar announced their new “gaming” memory cards today. I”m curious what exactly makes these cards specifically for gamers? Do they drink Mountain Dew? Do they call other memory cards ‘Bro’ while giving them dead leg?
Other then labeling, I’m not sure what else makes these gamer level memory cards special.
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: CrunchArcade, Headline, SDHC, Storage
Twilight USB drive jumps on the marketing bandwagon
19, Nov 2009
Heads up, Twilight fans. Now you too can own a piece of the Cullen family empire. Specialty USB drive makers Tymemachines have produced a Twilight product for your purchasing pleasure.
It’s… a self-rolling ball
19, Nov 2009I’ll tell you what. Fill a city with these things, and I’ll move there. I can’t think of a greater source of childish delight than a playground full of these things, haphazardly zipping around the asphalt, attracting the attention of every bird, dog, and blogger that passes by.
Apple has a history of spoiling hackers’ fun. In fact, they’ve almost made a business model out of it. But hackers won’t be kept down, and a little netbook running OS X is too tempting a gadget to give up on. So when Apple nixed Atom support in an recent update (strictly out of spite), [...]
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: apple, Hackintosh, hacks, Headline
The DuinoTagger and Talcapult
19, Nov 2009Like a ’70s cop team – one is the goodie two shoes and the other one is the drunk – the DuinoTagger and Talcapult allow you to shoot things and make smoke appear. The gun uses an Arduino board to control a tiny catapult that blows out a little puff of smoke.
The instructions are pretty [...]
Gift Guide 2009: Wireless E-book Readers
19, Nov 2009Intro
We’re only about five weeks away from Christmas, so now’s as good a time as any to talk about (drum roll, please) e-books. Amazon kick-started the e-book market (with apologies to earlier e-book readers) with the introduction of the Kindle in the fall of 2007. Two years later, Barnes and Noble, IREX, and Sony announced [...]
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: gg09autotravel, gg09feature, gg09portables, gift guide 2009, Headline
Starcraft II Story Mode on video; it looks fantastic
19, Nov 2009
Even though Starcraft II was playable more than a year ago, Blizzard has still been extremely selective about the assets that they release. This latest video shows off the “Story Mode,” also known as the game, in which you can see a few characters driving the story, directing the flow of the game, and so on. The graphics, as we know, are very reminiscent of the original, yet polished and in high resolution; the added depth of 3D makes that Yamato Battle Cruiser look way meaner than it did in Starcraft. And the environment seems way more dynamic with the emphasis on high/low ground. How about that lava?
Check out the video inside.
- In: Tek Oh!
- Tags: Blizzard, CrunchArcade, Starcraft, Starcraft 2, starcraft II
Android-powered Motorola Motus caught on film, apparently in the middle of an earthquake
19, Nov 2009
There seems to be an unspoken style guideline amongst spy shot shooters: find the worst lighting possible, ditch the flash, and down 3-4 cups of coffee before snapping away. Unfortunately, the spy behind this shot of the Android-powered Motorola Motus played by all the rules.
Here’s a public service announcement from the friendly Consumer Electronics Association and National Association of Broadcasters: Move your TV antenna way from the TV for prime DTV reception.
If you prefer warm, indoor shopping to cold, outdoor, middle-of-the-night Black Friday shopping, then you may be happy to hear that Best Buy “is bringing the excitement of Black Friday a week early this holiday season.” How is this possible? How can one retail store bend the fabric of the time-space continuum in such a way?
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- Tags: Best Buy, CrunchDeals, Deals, gg09audiovideo, gift guide 2009, Headline, TVs