I’m not sure what criteria most people use for buying a phone but I know I’ve never seen – “Feels Like Real Skin” listed anywhere on the specs. At least not outside of some dodgy sex publications that I saw once - briefly - but which weren’t mine. Honest.
These two beauties are showing off LG’s new ‘LG-SH240’ mobile phone which sports a keypad that feels like you’re touching real skin. I’m not exactly sure where that lies on the “Sort Of Normal -Totally F**ked Up” scale used by us for most gadget coverage, but it’s certainly not normal.
If you’re a PC power user for whom blistering gaming performance is a must-have in a new rig, then turn away now.
If, however, you appreciate a novel take on the PC idea, can afford to lose a quite a bit in the speed stakes or, merely want some odd gadget to snigger at, then have a look at the keyboard that doesn’t just think it’s a PC, but actually is.
It may seem a little late to be bringing out a drive with HD DVD capabilities now that the format is history, but an internal PC drive that supports both Blu-ray and HD DVD is a different matter altogether.
Plextor has just introduced two new drives that do just that. The PX-B920SA drive can write to BD-R discs at 4x and playback both Blu-ray and HD DVD-based content. It can also write to blank DVDs and CDs and has a data throughput of up to 150Mbits/sec via its SATA interface.
Oh, the difference a price cut makes. According to Chart-Track, UK sales of the Xbox 360 jumped 40% the weekend before last, thanks to the new price cuts coming online.
Although, while the hardware sales jumped, there was no real rise in software sales.
Chart-Track director Dorian Bloch commented: "Xbox 360 is up 35-40% - that's from Friday [March 14], when the price cut came into effect, up to midnight Saturday. Now it's a question of Easter. The real litmus test will be over the next three to four weeks – it's too early to read too much into it at this stage."
The PS3 has no price cut on the way but Sony is hoping that its new hardware bundle out this week, centred around Gran Turismo 5: Prologue Edition, will boost sales.-Martin Lynch
While many of us were stuffing our faces with chocolate eggs left by some mysterious bunny, YouTube was announcing its Best Videos Of 2007 Awards, as voted by viewers.
Above is the winner of the Creative section, The Original Human Tetris, which is actually very clever and probably took a very long time to get right. Almost as obsessive a pastime as the game itself.
Top of the Comedy stakes was the singing puppet show known as Potter Puppet Pals in “The Mysterious Ticking Noise”. Mildly amusing but you have to ask just what is the average age of YouTube users? See it here.
Avid gamers will appreciate, and possibly see some worrying familiarity, in The Guild [see below], a top YouTube series about an MMPORG guild and their obsessive gaming habits.
Other categories included Adorable, Eyewitness, Politics and Short Film, among others.
I expect no less than heated debate over what Gizmodo readers thought should have won in different categories.-Martin Lynch
I’m not sure what criteria most people use for buying a phone but I know I’ve never seen – “Feels Like Real Skin” listed anywhere on the specs. At least not outside of some dodgy sex publications that I saw once - briefly - but which weren’t mine. Honest. 
Plextor has just introduced two new drives that do just that. The PX-B920SA drive can write to BD-R discs at 4x and playback both Blu-ray and HD DVD-based content. It can also write to blank DVDs and CDs and has a data throughput of up to 150Mbits/sec via its SATA interface. 
Oh, the difference a price cut makes. According to Chart-Track, UK sales of the Xbox 360 jumped 40% the weekend before last, thanks to the 
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