Research in Motion (RIM) and AT&T recently announced the new BlackBerry Torch, which will be available Thursday, August 12th for $200 with a two-year contract. Here’s a quick overview of the phone and its capabilities.
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The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications in Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glasses that use LED lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the right direction.
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your final destination, which works in tandem with a sensor to facilitate …
Apparently CBS is in talks with Hulu to feature its shows on the new $9.99 per month premium Hulu Plus plan. Said CBS CEO Les Moonves,
“Are we having discussions with the Hulu subscription service? Yes we are. Our goal is to get paid for our content in as many different ways as we can without hurting the mother ship. The key here is
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In honor of Star Wars Month, I volunteered to painstakingly watch all six Star Wars movies and compile a list of gadget-like devices I spot in each one. I can promise you I will miss a few and I won’t know what some of them are supposed to be called, but I’ll be damned if I don’t watch all six episodes of one of the greatest film …
DirecTV subscribers, I envy you. Moreso this year than in previous years. Not only can you get the NFL Sunday Ticket package, which grants you access to live coverage of almost every NFL game, but this year you’ll also get all the extra stuff you had to pay an additional $99 for in previous years.
DirecTV is now offering its $300 NFL …
I had a chance to swing by a geek mixer held at Microsoft’s New England Research and Development Center (NERD, get it?) to rub elbows with a handful of local startups doing some interesting things. Keep these guys on your radar screens—you might hear more from them in the future.
Episend
Browser-based Episend aims to make …
Monday, you are a jerk. The jerkiest of all days. You’re only welcome September through December thanks to Monday Night Football and various three-day weekends upon which yours is the day off.
Here are some handpicked gadget deals to help get you through your Monday. The theme today seems to be refurbished pocket camcorders, …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
At your income level, you …
At Microsoft’s Financial Analysts Meeting yesterday, CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to talk about the company’s consumer initiatives. The entire video of the presentation is available here. He spent a portion of the time talking about slates and tablets, saying the following:
“One of the top issues on my mind is, ‘Hey there’s a
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The year was 2004. My wife and I had just started dating when she told me—on Valentine’s Day, no less—that the gold hoop in my left earlobe looked “pretty stupid.” I took it out, placed it in my pocket, and never wore it again.
My how that night would have been different if I’d been wearing a fully functional pocket knife earring. …
Giving you yet another reason that you never need to go outside, Google Earth has added live weather. It’s accessible by activating the “clouds” layer inside the program and shows rain and/or snow wherever it may be happening around North America or Europe. Currently in Boston where I live, it’s… not doing either of those things.
If …
NERF’s Blast-a-Ball system was about as advanced as I got when it came to foam-based childhood gun fights. This $50 NERF Longstrike Sniper Rifle would have rendered my shotgun-like Blast-a-Ball shooter utterly useless.
The three-foot Longstrike is capable of picking off targets from up to 35 feet away and can be broken down into two …
