Monday. You can’t stop it, you can only hope to get through it. Here’s a set of handpicked gadget deals to help you do just that.
Refurbished 4.3-inch Insignia GPS: $29.99, today only (CowBoom.com)
Best Buy-owned CowBoom.com offers a one-day deal on a refurbished GPS. It’s an Insignia, which is a Best Buy house brand. Works out …
Sometimes, Virgo, sometimes when I’m lazy Sunday-ing around Wednesday can seem so far away. To alleviate the anxiety (or maybe to exacerbate it) I make a list. A list of all the comics that are coming out this week. I look at the list and I hunt around for previews and I sigh. Join in my lament, reader.
(A ♠ marks my projected pull …
After last week’s Torch announcement, the introduction of the Curve 3G (9300) isn’t all that impressive.
The Curve 3G will ship with BlackBerry OS 5 but it is BB 6 ready. Specs are par for the course with GPS, optical trackpad, Wi-Fi, 256MB of internal memory, a 2-megapixel camera and a 320×240 display.
Look for it this …
Not that the average Joe would ever need a 12-Core machine or need to spend $5,000 on one but Apple now makes one just in case.
Slipped into the Apple Store this morning, the latest Mac Pro is equipped with two 2.66GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon Westmere (32nm) processors with 6GB of memory and 1TB drive. And that’s just the base …
Less than two years after leaving IBM to join Apple, Mark Papermaster has left his post as head of iPhone hardware. If you recall, IBM sued Papermaster in an attempt to keep him from joining Apple and divulging trade secrets, which was later settled after Papermaster testified in court that he partook in no such nonsense.
A source …
Academy Award-winning director David Fincher was spotted with five or six EPIC cameras today at RED’s Hollywood shop (HQ in Lake Forest, CA). This is important for two reasons a) with five or six (or more) Epics out in the wild it means the 5K camera could be close to finished and b) a new feature may have been spotted in what could be …
In a rather needlessly lengthy post, TechCrunch contributor Steve Cheney claims that unnamed sources have revealed to him that Apple has ordered millions of CDMA chipsets from San Diego, CA-based Qualcomm. The fabled iPhone for Verizon will supposedly go into production in December.
The entire story is a bit contradictory. Cheney …
I am morally opposed to this third-rate reproduction. Who are these guys?
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Friday, August 6, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
A great white shark named Nicole, after actress and shark lover Nicole Kidman swam from South Africa to Australia and back in under nine months. This 12,400-mile trip set a record as the fastest return migration of any marine …
Chris Sims at Comics Alliance has made the incredible happen. He’s smushed together superheroes from the Big Two into classic video games. Go over there and dig ’em all. Some of my faves below:
Watchmen x Super Mario 3
Superman x Punch-Out
Hellboy X Castlevania
