Archive for January 14, 2008

Rock Band Stage Kit with lights, smoke leaked by GameStop

As if playing Rock Band wasn’t one of the greatest group gaming experiences to come around in years, it appears that a new accessory is set to amp up the fun even more by bringing an “interactive light and smoke stage show” to your already thrashing performances.

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Scientists create beating heart. Wow!

SCIENTISTS have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.

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New Get a Mac ad: Time Machine

Apple is airing a new Get a Mac ad today (thanks to everyone who sent this in) all about Time Machine. The ad, as you might be able to guess from the shot above, features a number of Macs who quickly explain what Time Machine is to a slightly confused PC.

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100 Greatest Quotes from fundamentalist christian chat rooms

“I often debate with evolutionists because I believe that they are narrow mindedly and dogmatically accepting evolution without questioning it. I don’t really care how God did what He did. I know He did it.” oh and “am a bit troubled. I believe my son has a girlfriend, because she left a dirty magazine with men in it under his bed.”

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Introducing the MacBook Air?

After the banners went up on Friday, we posted the whispers we’d heard about the upcoming thin Laptop, and that it would be called “MacBook Air”.

9to5mac posts some notes about the history of this name, including a Google cache record of a computer named “MacBookAir” documented in Adium’s usage …

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You decide ‘08: The best of Crapgadget at CES.

Primaries schmimaries. Your vote is so obviously well spent here: we’re asking you to make your selection for best (and by best, we mean worst) Crapgadget of CES.

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Macworld San Francisco: Covered Banners, Early Shipments

Many bloggers and media (including MacRumors) have started to descend on San Francisco for Macworld Expo 2008. SetteB.IT managed to take an extensive gallery of photographs from the expo floor, including Apple’s floor displays which were covered in their usual black tarps:

They even managed …

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iriver prepping handwriting-friendly e-book / tablet?

To wrap up its CES week, iriver has some pictures and scattered Korean text about its booth experience and product reception in Vegas over the past days. Tucked below all the self-congratulation, however, is what looks to be an as yet unannounced prototype from the ever-active iriver designers.

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Gizmoron Runs Amok At CES - Another Strike Against Bloggers?

While representing Gizmodo, a very large and popular gadget blog, Richard Blakeley decided to run around with a gadget called “TV-B-Gone” turning off TVs at the CES convention. Rich is now banned for life from all future CES conventions. Will this have an adverse effect on bloggers and blogging sites in terms of access to future events?

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Ubuntu 8.04 Mock Up

Filmmaker BJ Davis threatens lawsuit over bad review

Veteran stuntman and producer BJ Davis has threatened the owner of the website Your Video Store Shelf with a lawsuit after being upset with a review that he wrote. The ridiculousness of all this is hilarious, yet BJ, who was deemed a ‘vexatious litigant’ by the Federal Court System recently, still plans to file a lawsuit.

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Jericho Season 2 Leaks on BitTorrent!!

The first three episodes of CBS
’s TV-series “Jericho” have leaked to BitTorrent a month before its official premiere date. The popular show was initially canceled last year, but after several protests from angry fans CBS decided to revive it. Nuts!

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