The Daily Dose
Monday, June 21, 2010
Here’s what else is going on in nerd news around the web:
Up Front:
Jaws Took A Bite Out Of Movie History 35 Years Ago This Week [via LA Times]
Gadgets:
Seven Ways AT&T Is Failing Its Mobile Customers [via Ars Technica]
Pandora Radio Ready For iOS 4 With Multitasking Support [via Mac Rumors]
You’ve Got …
Exclusive: Your First Look at Dyson’s New Air Multipliers
Today marks the first official day of summer. It also marks the debut of Dyson’s latest batch of Air Multipliers. You remember those, right? The bladeless fans that came out in October 2009.
This is how the tech works:
From the base the air is forced into the loop amplifier and accelerated through the annular aperture,
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Here Come The Tron: Legacy Toys, Keyboards and Snowboard Boots
PDP may have jumped the gun earlier today with the announcement of their upcoming Tron: Legacy-related goods but it certainly isn’t the last you’ll be seeing or hearing about such things.
The following is a smattering of what will eventually come to market this October and November from the Disney Consumer Product team that …
Doctor Who 5.9: Don’t Stick Your Hand In There, Doctor!
For the first time since the start of this season, I’m beginning to think that Doctor Who isn’t playing fair. Sure, “Cold Blood” may have been, on one hand, a fairly dull by-the-numbers conclusion of the Silurians two-parter (Humanity’s basest natures, driven by love, prevent a new golden age of man and lizard living in perfect harmony! …
Tron, Epic Mickey Controllers to Light Up Your Life Later This Year
Video games get a lot of accessories. Controller cozies, charging stations, cable extenders. All too often, this crap doesn’t function not to mention it can look awful.
PDP’s looking to buck that trend with their new controllers for two upcoming Disney games. The game accessory manufacturer will be rolling out some …
iPad Dummies: How To Fake It For Just $49
Want all of the green-eyed glances associated with iPad ownership without actually having to purchase one? Buy an iDummy ($49, iPadDummy.net).
These display models are realistic-looking alternatives to actually owning or operating an actual iPad. You’ll look impressive, until inevitably, someone asks to see the thing and you’re …
Settlers of Catan in Development for Microsoft Surface Machines
Hmmm, where to find a quick $12,500? Looks like my love for the Settlers of Catan will soon necessitate the purchase of a big, fat, expensive computer-infused table running Microsoft Surface.
According to CNET, an early Surface version of Catan will be shown off at the Origins Game Fair in Ohio this week with the finished version …
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11 for Wii Review: ‘True View’ Trumps All
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11
Electronic Arts
Developer: Tiburon
Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
ESRB rating: E for Everyone
System reviewed on: Wii
There are few things in life that I’m as committed to as buying the Wii version of Tiger Woods every year. Since I took my first virtual swing with Wii Sports back in late 2006, I remember thinking …
Can Jonah Hex Teach DC Entertainment A Lesson About Movies?
With an estimated opening weekend of somewhere around $5 million, it’d be tough to deny that the Jonah Hex movie is a flop – but coming only a couple of months after the similarly soft The Losers, should Warner Bros. and DC Comics be worried about their cinematic future together?
Both The Losers and Jonah Hex were adapted from …
HBO Surfs The Vampire Trend, Renews True Blood For Fourth Season
HBO invests further into this whole vampire craze, renewing vampire series True Blood just three weeks into its third season, The Hollywood Reporter claims.
With the Twilight and True Blood franchises at the beginning of their respective third installments of bloodsucking romance (and still the height of popularity), the decision …
Swype Said To Be Working on iPhone and iPad Software
Swype is a pretty compelling new input method for touch-screen devices. Most of us have seen Samsung’s world record breaking fastest text messaging commercial, which seemed a bit gimmicky until I actually tried it out on a device.
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In an article this morning in the NYT, Jenna …