LG T80 PMP Packs in Touchscreen, DVB for Europeans
LG has just revealed the T80 PMP, which has the makings of a promising media player, at least for the Europeans. The T80 boasts a 3-inch, 260k color (420 x 240) touchscreen, supports MPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG, WAV, ASF, JPEG, TXT files, has an FM tuner, int...
95% of Kids Aged 18-24 Are Pirating Music
According to a University of Hertfordshire survey of 1,158 kids aged 18-24 in the UK, 95% of them have “pirated” music before. The other 5%? According or our estimates, they’re either technologically illiterate or they don’t li...
Wal-Mart MP3 Store Drops All DRM, But Only Half-Ass Opens
When we last compared Wal-Mart’s MP3 store to Amazon’s, only Universal and EMI had gone DRM-free, and Wal-Mart still stocked tunes locked down with Windows Media DRM. Now Wal-Mart’s store is completely DRM-sanitized, but their saber ...
Company Dares Giz to Try Beamz Laser System Risking Editor’s Life, Soul
Today I was extremely harsh with the Beamz Laser Music system. So acid, it seems, that the public relations company that represents the product contacted me about it:
...Beamz Infomercial Is Most Stupid Promo Video in History
We saw the Beamz Laser Music System in pictures last week, but little we knew then about how totally demented, how amazingly asstupid and musically retarded this “synthesizer music system” could be in real life. Watch it all and marvel at ...
Charles Manson Cuts Killer Creative Commons Digital Album From Prison
Convicted murderer and future American Idol contestant Charles Manson has used the liberal Creative Commons license to release a new 16-track album from prison. The album, called, ironically, One Mind, is free to download at LimeWire. As an added bonu...
Stylophone, Scourge of Seventies Britain, is Back, Back , BACK!
Rather like the kazoo, the Stylophone is what you might term a “musical” “instrument.” The farty-bontempi sound was a feature of school playgrounds up and down the land%26mdash;and even David Bowie used one on Space Oddity. And...