YouTube’s new Leanback feature is pretty much just like it sounds. You fire it up (youtube.com/leanback) and lean back in your chair. Do NOT lean forward! You’ll be treated to a non-stop barrage of YouTube videos that play in full screen, one after another “based on your YouTube settings and preferences, including content from your …
Belkin’s Conserve Valet Does Green The Smart Way
It’s the little things.
Very few things in the CE world get me excited these days. And for whatever reason Belkin’s Conserve Valet USB charging station has me all worked up today. The $40 hub charges up to 4 devices at one time and automatically shuts itself off once each device is fully charged or unplugged. Belkin also claims …
Two Minute Video: Wireless E-book Reader Showdown
The e-book wars are in full swing, with Barnes & Noble firing the first shot by dumping the price of its 3G-enabled Nook to $199 and introducing a Wi-Fi only Nook at $149. Amazon swiftly responded by cutting the price of the Kindle to $189 and eventually dropped the price of the Kindle DX to $379. Sony took its time but finally …
Why Watch Predator (Or Any ’80s Action Movie) When You Can Listen To Rap Recaps?
Need a refresher on the original Predator before tomorrow’s release of the Robert Rodriguez-produced Predators, but don’t have time to watch the entire movie? Don’t fret – Here’s a rap recap of the movie courtesy of DJ MaYhem & Mouthmaster Murf.
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It gets better: They’ve also done the same …
Teaser Trailer #2 For The Social Network Features Status Updates!
Like the first trailer, the second teaser trailer for The Social Network is void of any actual footage from the film about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook, but it’s ripe with drama and suspense. I can’t wait to find out what happens! Did Zuckerberg steal the idea for Facebook?! October can’t come soon enough!!!
Sidenote: I can’t …
New episode of Futurama airs on Comedy Central at 10 p.m.
New YouTube Mobile Site Handles HTML5 Quite Nicely
Goodbye, YouTube apps on my iPhone and Android devices. The fine folks at YouTube have put together a nicely revamped mobile site at m.youtube.com that works with a fair amount of smartphones, leveraging HTML5 videos instead of Flash videos.
The new mobile site is currently accessible on iPhones and Android phones and, according to a …
Wall Street Journal: Sony’s New Handheld with 3G Capability?
According to a Wall Street Journal report today, Sony might just be working on their next-generation video-game handheld. Quotes from executives at NTT DoCoMo, a major Japanese wireless carrier, indicate that they’ve been talking to the major Japanese game hardware manufacturers about integrating 3G into the next round of …
Behind the Scenes: AT-AT Day Afternoon
Remember this video? Well, here’s how it was made.
13 Thoughts On Warehouse 13 2.1: Time Will Tell
Let’s get this out of the way first: Warehouse 13 definitely knows how to fill an hour of television. Last night’s season premiere, “Time Will Tell,” was so packed with reveals, climaxes and, yes, pretty frustrating deus ex let’sjustundothisbecausewedon’tknowwherethiswasgoing-ses that it felt more like a season finale for a series that …
iTunes Hacked By Vietnamese Comics Pirate, Others
Apple is currently dealing with the public fallout from the discovery that someone had hacked iTunes accounts to fake purchases for 41 of his comic apps in the bookstore – comic apps that were, themselves, stolen intellectual property. The trail began with the discovery this weekend that 41 out of Apple’s top 50 book apps belonged to …
Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Book Club: Volume 2
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (due out July 20) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan …