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Hey, buddy, got a light? Cell hhone with built-in Cigarette Lighter

· News


Here’s a phone design that you most likely haven’t seen before – the world’s hottest cigarette lighter cell phone. There probably have been USB lighters before that, but have you ever seen a cell phone with a built-in cigarette lighter? Dubbed the Machismo, you just have to slide open the safety hatch at the back of [...]

US Air Force Stocks Up on PS3s

· News, PS3


It seems like the US Air Force is a big customer of Sony’s. By now you already know that it purchased 336 PS3s a while back for their supercomputer research. Now news has broken that they’re planning to pick up another 2200 PS3 consoles, which should bring a huge smile to the executives by at [...]

Xbox 360 | Interstellar Marines Hands-On

· 360

We went hands on with that indie-developed first-person shooter and learned what it takes to build a first-person shooter on a shoestring budget.

Interstellar Marines has had an interesting development. A first-person shooter conceived by Zero Point Software in the early 2000s, it was prototyped using a well-known game engine and next shopped around to [...]

RC Car That Drives On Walls

· News


Now here’s a remote controlled car you don’t see everyday. Takara Tomy’s latest remote controlled car, dubbed the Aero Spider Laser, can drive on walls or ceilings, without having to be bitten by a radioactive spider! It gets better, to direct the car, you have a gun-shaped controller which projects a bright red light beam, [...]

Guitar Hero: Smash Hits Track List and Impressions

· News

Last year, Guitar Hero World Tour expanded the seminal franchise to include vocals and drums in addition to guitars and bass. A slew of new songs for the full band have since been released, but what about the tracks from the axe-only days of Guitar Hero? For those hoping to revisit those tracks, Activision has [...]

Burnout Paradise: Hands-On With Big Surf Island DLC

· News


The glut of downloadable subject matter continues with Burnout Paradise . Hot on the heels of last month’s Cops and Robbers release, Criterion Games has unveiled its latest DLC pack: Big Surf Island. Due for release later that summer, Big Surf Island is a brand-new chunk of real estate for you to zip around like [...]

Firefox 3.5 Portable Is Available

· News


You might have upgraded your home Firefox to version 3.5, but whether your IT folks at work are pro World Wide Web Explorer, or whether you’re using a computer that’s not yours, you can still carry Firefox 3.5 Portable with you. that version is available now and can be installed on a USB key. Let [...]

Doh! Blippy Accidentally Reveals Your Credit Card Numbers On Google

· News


You might not have heard of Blippy before that, but after today, you can be certain that it’s a name that you’ll remember, albeit probably for the wrong reasons. The site is supposed to be a “fun and easy way to see and discuss what everyone else is buying”. That’s just fine in concept, but [...]

Clutch – Fast Cars vs the Undead = Cool!

· PC

You have racing and zombies in Clutch. What else do you need in life (well, Conan the Barbarian might disagree)?

Fully implantable hearing aid

· News


Hearing aids have certainly come a lengthy way from being an embarassment initially for its wearers to something that is deemed normal and essential in that day and age for folks suffering from hearing loss. Well, brains of that generation has further shrunk the hearing aid to manufacture it fully implantable, with the FDA’s Ear, [...]