DIY 8-Bit Game Console June 26, 2007
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The Hydra 8-bit console kit has more juice than an NES, and you can write your own games for it. $200 gets you instructions on how to program for the Propeller processor, a keyboard, mouse, NES-ish joypad, and a 128KB rewritable cartridge to match its 128K EEPROM. -Brian Lam
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Mooing Thong the Perfect Garment to Orchestrate a Break-Up June 26, 2007
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I don't know how you make this posing pouch, the epitome of flawless taste, actually moo - and I'm not sure I want to know either.
This tasteful cheap thong is perfect bedroom attire for any man who wants to break up with his girlfriend but doesn't want to be the dirty perp. Light the candles, fire up the Barry White, crack open the champagne and slip into this. Soon, dear reader, you will be single again - and single you will stay, once news of what you wear for sexy time gets out to the other ladies in the 'hood. A trumpeting elephant would be a different matter, though...
Product Page [Novelty Gifts via Nerd Approved]
LG’s Chocolate-y Home Cinema Rig June 26, 2007
READ MORE HDMI , Hi-fi , Home Cinema , Home Entertainment , Movies , Music
Getting tired of the LG Chocolate-everything yet? Anyway, home cinema enthusiasts are the target for the latest confectionery-styled offering, the LG J10HD Chocolate. This is a media jukebox with a DVD player and 80GB hard disk drive (HDD).
The J10HD sports a touchpad like that on the LG Chocolate mobile phone, and can playback CDs, DVDs, MPEG4 or DivX videos. The two speakers are rated at 75W and there’s a 150W subwoofer for giving your movie soundtracks some low-end grunt. CDs can be burned straight to the internal HDD and tunes or videos can transferred directly via USB from a PC, laptop or removable HDD.
The drive is good for around 100+ DivX movies or 20,000 MP3s and there’s a handy HDMI output.
Finally, there’s a pseudo-surround mode - VSM (Virtual Sound Matrix) – which will, allegedly, but doubtful , serve up a decent 5.1 experience. It costs £329 here. It’s due in next week and you can see the full specs after the jump.-Martin Lynch
Xbox 360 Props Up HD DVD June 26, 2007
READ MORE Blu-ray , Entertainment , Gizmodo UK , HD DVD , HDTV , Movies , Peripherals , Xbox
After Blockbuster Video recently bestowed its blessing on Blu-ray movies for a national roll-out, things seemed to be going from bad to worse for the HD DVD format.
But now, like Will Ferrell’s Mustafa in Austin Powers, it appears that HD DVD is not actually dead – but possibly still in an incredible amount of pain.
A Microsoft rep has said that the HD DVD add-on on for the Xbox 360 is the biggest selling add-on for the console ever, shifting 155,000 units in the US alone. OK, it’s hardly going to worry the millions of Blu-ray enabled PS3s out there but it certainly puts paid to the endless Blu-ray hype that the format war is over. It should also be remembered that HD DVD is going better on this side of the pond than in the US – where most to the format war hype comes from.
While this is all good news for HD DVD, it’s not for anyone hoping that a there was going to be a quick resolution to this very annoying and costly format war.-Martin Lynch
Sharp Promises ‘Idiot-Proof’ Home Networks June 26, 2007
READ MORE Entertainment , Gadgets , Gizmodo UK , Home Cinema , Laptops , PC , Wireless
There’s a push on these days for a new type of home network that uses the existing electrical network in your house for shifting multimedia content from room to room. It certainly works but tends to be pricey.
Sharp is the latest - and somewhat late - entrant to this sector, promoting its new adapters as the perfect solution for those that can’t get their head around wireless networking and have no desire to lay an unsightly wired LAN around the house.
The new products are the HN-VA40S and HN-VA10S PLC Adapters, which use the international HomePlug AV 1.1 standard. In reality, it promises up to 200MBps transfer speeds but 85MBps is more likely – and pretty damn fast to boot. Just plug the HN-VA10 into a plug socket, connect the Ethernet cable of whatever device you have files on and then plug in the 4-port HN-VA40S receiver in the other room, up to 150m away – if your house is that big.
Launching in August, we have only Japanese pricing right now, which works out at around £100 for the pair. Expect that price to jump a bit while traveling this way.-Martin Lynch
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