The Most Annoying Song Ever, Scientifically Speaking
I used to think kids playing the recorder was the worst “music” ever. Wrong. Russian-American artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid conducted a poll a few years back of the music people hated the most, like holiday music, harps and bossano...
Sunvision PMPP, World’s First Media Player With Pico-Projector
We’ve been talking about pico-projectors for a while, and here’s what’s apparently the world’s first commercially available media player with one built right in: the Sunview PMPP. The LED-lit iView IPL630 unit inside it can pro...
ASUS M70 One Terabyte Laptop Screams “FIRST!!!”
For the digital pack rats, the ASUS M70 (which was quasi-announced at CES) looks to be the first stock laptop to support a full terabyte of storage (a feat achieved by packing dual 500GB Hitachi Travelstar drives). So what do you do with all that data...
HP MediaSmart SL4282N and SL4782N Media Center Extender TVs Available Now
Back around CES, HP announced that they were creating an updated line of MediaSmart TVs with built-in Microsoft’s Media Center Extender support. Now those models have been unleashed on the public. A couple of 1080p LCD HDTVs with a modest 2000:1...
NBC Wants iTunes to Block Pirated Content from iPods
NBC Universal Chief Digital Officer George Kliavkoff: “We’d love to be on iTunes. It has a great customer experience. We’d love to figure out a way to distribute our content on iTunes.” Obviously NBC did, until they walked out....
A Bit More Comfy)
CNET UK has just published the first review of the upcoming £329 Asus PC 900—the 8.9″ version of the Eee packing a 20GB SSD. Their verdict? While still disappointed by the unchanged keyboard, CNET appreciated the bigger screen and additio...
Why Isn’t Anyone Defecting from iTunes to Amazon’s MP3 Store?
Number two digital music retailer Amazon was given DRM-free tracks from all four majors in the hope that it would be the first real rival to iTunes’ total domination of music sales. But, on top of the fact Amazon’s numbers drastically pale...