Trey Gaming Chair is Both an Office Chair and a Gentleman May 9, 2007
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While your standard office chair is great for when you need to file your taxes and a bean bag is great for when you're getting lazy in the living room, there's rarely a time you'll be able to use one for the other's purpose. That's why this Trey Gaming Chair is so neat, especially for dorms and apartments where space is tight.
The chair looks like a normal chair at first, but you can detatch the back or the bottom in order to turn it into a stool, a rocking chair, a tray, a tiny chair or a foot rest. All this at a price of $239, and you've got the perfect chair for college kids. – Jason Chen
Product Page [TreyChair via Gearlog]
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NASA's Moon Mission "Trailer" May 9, 2007
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NASA has clearly been spending their funding wisely. The above video is a, well, teaser trailer for the next planned mission to the moon. Complete with music and editing reminiscent Battlestar Galactica and animation that looks to have been made around the same time as the original Toy Story, it makes me really want to go see whatever movie it is they're promoting.
I guess this is meant to get the public behind this new project, and I'll admit that it does get me pretty curious about what exactly the next mission is going to entail, but I guess I don't really understand the point. Oh, what am I talking about… those drums sold me. Spend our Social Security money on a moon base, I'm all for it! –Adam Frucci
NASA's incredibly weird return-to-the-moon video [Collision Detection]
Darth Vader Phones Home May 9, 2007
READ MORE Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Movies
Ring….ring…ring
Luke: Yeah, who is it?
Darth Vader: [heavy breathing] It’s your father, Luke
Luke: Yeah, what now?
Darth Vader: Make sure you put the bins out before you leave the house.
Luke: Do it yourself..Dad?
Darth Vader: Don’t take that tone with me boy. You put those damn bins out!
Luke: Yeah? Or what you shiny-headed freak?
Darth Vader: Or I’ll chop your friggin’ hand off, you Rebel-loving punk
Luke: Later loser.
Darth Vader: Don’t you hang u…...[dial-tone] ARRGH – Get me my ship.
If you need a little bit of Darth in your life, you can opt for the official Darth Vader Phone. For £20, you get the Imperial March when an incoming call arrives along with a little head-turning action. There are three sound effects in all: Imperial March, saber swing, and the iconic, 80-a-day heavy breathing. Hardly new, I know, but then again, Star Wars will never, ever, ever go away. Find it here.-Martin Lynch
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Samsung Overhauls The Q1 UMPC May 9, 2007
READ MORE Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Mobile Devices , Portable Media
The oddity that is the UMPC continues to gain traction, albeit really slowly, and sitting at the forefront of the drive is Samsung, which has just delivered the Q1 Ultra. Yesterday, we had Fujitsu enter the fray while Sony is commanding the high-end with its pricey Vaio UX-1.
Promising that’s it better than the overpriced original Q1- which was pretty slow, had no keyboard and poor battery life - this one is powered by either a 600MHz or 800MHz Intel processor, has 1GB of DDR2 memory and comes with an integrated split-QWERTY keypad, mouse, and user-defined function keys.
Battery life has been boosted to 4.5 hours [claimed] and performance speeds have been increased. There’s a 7in LED display with a native resolution of 1024 x 600 and a brightness rating of 300nits. On the comms front, it sports integrated 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR and an optional 3.5G HSDPA modem. It weighs 1.5lbs.
There are four versions of the Ultra on the way, and the first to arrive is the Ultra-V, sporting a 60GB hard disk drive, Vista Home Premium Edition, biometric fingerprint scanner, camera and a $1,200 price tag. A budget version, the $799 Q1 Ultra-EL, has a 40GB drive, slower processor and no camera and is due out in a few weeks. Remember, none of these attractive prices are a useful indicator of what they will cost over here, just prepere to be gouged.
The Ultra-XP, due in June, is aimed at businesses and will use the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition OS. Top of the range will be the Q1 Ultra-CMV, due in August, with in-built HDSPA modem and an 80GB HDD. No prices for those yet.-Martin Lynch
Steve Jobs Turns 50p Into £324m May 9, 2007
READ MORE Apple , Technology , iPod
Now that's my kind of maths. Steve Jobs might have only paid himself a salary of $1 in 2006 but it's still enough to make him the best paid CEO in the US. How so?
According to the latest survey of best paid CEOs, Steve Job's topped Forbes list by earning a cool $647m (£324m) last year, thanks to ‘vested restricted stock’ [stock options and other benefits]. That's what I need, a behind-the-scenes, covert salary.
Michael Dell, who recently decided to retake the helm at his troubled PC maker, only managed a miserable £72m. But, are these companies getting value for their money, the most bang for their buck? Apparently not.
Forbes ranked Jobs in 36th place in its pay/performance ranking, which means shareholders are not getting the best payback from their charasmatic front man. Will the iPhone worsen, or improve, that rating?-Martin Lynch
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