Archive for July 22nd, 2008

TiVo lets users buy stuff from Amazon on their TV, all three QVC fans go wild

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Home EntertainmentBack in May, TiVo's VP of product marketing got all of our hopes up that the next announcement involving it and Amazon would include HD Unbox content. As you can very clearly see, this is most certainly not the case. Instead, we have the immense pleasure of ...

Garmin introduces waterproof nuvi 500 / 550 for the argonauts

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Filed under: GPS Sure, Garmin's new nüvi 500 series can get you from point A to point G on paved and well-lit highways, but that's not the (whole) point here. Instead, these rugged (and waterproof) navigators are geared up to take to the trails, waterways and sidewalks with one-touch transitions between ...

Sony said to be prepping PSP-3000 with built-in mic

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Gaming There may not have been any word of a new PSP out of E3 as some had suspected, but it looks Sony may have a bit of a late surprise for us, at least if these tantalizing pics from PSPChina are to be believed. Apparently, this new PSP-3000 ...

Electric MINI hitting US streets in summer 2009

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Transportation Not that electric MINIs are anything new, but unless you were willing to pay for all the mods yourself, procuring one wasn't exactly simple. Now, however, we're hearing that MINI itself will be bringing scads of these buggers to American streets in the summer of 2009. Yeah, like, ...

Transistors on paper become a reality

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsCheck it, nerds. A team over at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa has reportedly figured out a way to use paper (yes, paper) as an interstrate component of a Field Effect Transistor (FET). In testing, the group "fabricated the devices on both sides of the paper sheet," ...