Best Gadgets World

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 15th 2008 at 4:50AM
Just in time for Father’s Day, ESPN’s tvCompass-built WiFi Ultimate Remote is finally available, and rapidly making its way into the awaiting, Cheeto-stained fingertips of a couch potato near you. It still costs $300, and with a good number of laptops retailing for that price these days, it’s certainly hard to justify, but forget all that… who on earth thought this packaging was a good idea? It kind of looks like a dumbell, but not. We’re really at a loss for words here. It’s almost like ESPN wants to fail.

• Read
• Permalink
• Email this
• 16 Comments

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Peripherals

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 15th 2008 at 12:40AM
Don’t get ahead of us here, Intel isn’t building full-featured Second Life and World of Warcraft apps for handheld Mobile Internet Devices. Instead they’re using a new “Interactive 3D Streaming” tech to control and view the game remotely — similar to some to that Telekinesis app we saw playing WoW on the iphone last year, but Intel seems to be much further along. Their Xeon 5400 server can handle 14 clients simultaneously, but we’re guessing this won’t be cost effective for Blizzard anytime soon — though we can imagine quite a few addicts rigging up similar systems for themselves. The sad news here is that Intel might’ve just discovered the best use for a MID yet.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

• Read
• Permalink
• Email this
• 9 Comments

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 15th 2008 at 12:40AM
Don’t get ahead of us here, Intel isn’t building full-featured Second Life and World of Warcraft apps for handheld Mobile Internet Devices. Instead they’re using a new “Interactive 3D Streaming” tech to control and view the game remotely — similar to some to that Telekinesis app we saw playing WoW on the iphone last year, but Intel seems to be much further along. Their Xeon 5400 server can handle 14 clients simultaneously, but we’re guessing this won’t be cost effective for Blizzard anytime soon — though we can imagine quite a few addicts rigging up similar systems for themselves. The sad news here is that Intel might’ve just discovered the best use for a MID yet.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

• Read
• Permalink
• Email this
• 9 Comments

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds

You have to admit. The age at which girls get into revealing high-fashion is becoming younger and younger. At this rate, we’re going to have toddlers wearing low-neck tank tops in the not-so-distant future. And already, we have a company whipping out a pair of tongue-in-cheek joke high heels for babies. But how long before this isn’t a joke?

Heelarious is a company which makes high heeled crib shoes for young ones. Of course, these boots aren’t made for walking, but more for just lounging around in a play pen or crib, tapping their toes and waiting for their next bottle feeding. The Heelarious heels are made pretty fragile. The weight of a baby standing up in them would apparently crack the heel in half.

The Heelarious site also has a disclaimer, “WARNING: May cause extreme smiling and hysterical laughter when in use (this is completely normal).” Though we’re yet to find any warnings about baby’s stabbing themselves in the eyes or choking on the extended heel. So we’ll just assume these high heel crib shoes are completely safe.

In order to hook up your up and coming fashionista of a daughter (or son, we suppose) with these Heelarious crib shoes, you’ll need to pay $35, plus any future psychiatric charges for your child after they learn of the horrible torture you put them through as infants.

Product Page via The J-Walk Blog

• Email to a friend
• Leave a comment

Dell is on track to deliver 2 new notebooks, one a 8.9″ dubbed the “E” (the Asus Eee challenger), and a 12.1″ super thin one called the “E slim” (the macbook air competitor). The E is between .8″ and 1.2″ thick, weighing only 2.2lbs, and will come with either Win XP or Linux, WiFi, Bluetooth, WiMax!, will run for potentially 5 hrs, but you’ll be limited in the hard drive department (up to 16GB Flash drive).

The E Slim on the other hand is a 12.1″ WXGA machine that doesn’t even break an inch in thickness, and weighs in at 2.6lbs. You can get this outfitted with an SSD drive (up to 8GB) or go with a traditional 40GB. There’s an option to get a 6-cell battery that may last up to 9 hrs (must see to believe).

Starting at $299, and available in quite a selection of colors, expect to see these showing up in the Aug-Sep timeframe, with a 2nd generation showing up in Q2 2009. I’m highly tempted to snag one of these when they arrive, particularly because they will run Linux as well, but I’m a bit wary of the 1GB memory on the E. We’ll see how they test out in the real world.

Engadget has the Dell slides posted for your perusal.

Posted in Computers, Portable

by Paul Miller, posted Jun 14th 2008 at 9:20PM
Sony Ericsson is having a bit of trouble keeping its newest lineup on the down low, but we suppose that’s the price of fame. Most notable of the new crew is the F305 (pictured), which isn’t exactly feature-packed, boasting of mere EDGE speeds, a Memory Stick Micro slot, a 2-inch 176 x 220 display and some music playback features. What sets it apart is a built-in accelerometer for motion controlled games. The game-oriented face buttons are also a perk, but we hope this thing has enough processing power to handle something actually entertaining. The S302 Snapshot is camera-oriented, but only just barely, with a 2 megapixel fixed focus camera, a flash, and PhotoFix software. You can also shoot video, with 20MB of built-in storage, and Memory Stick Micro expansion. Both phones come with A2DP and will be announced on the 17th, according to whoever leaked all this info. The F305 should hit Q3, with the S302 to follow in Q4. Sony Ericsson will also be busting out three stylish but cheap-seeming Bluetooth headsets to accompany these two.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Read - Sony Ericsson F305
Read - Sony Ericsson S302
Read - HBH-PV-715, 720, 740

• Permalink
• Email this
• 23 Comments

Filed under: cellphones, Gaming, Peripherals

UK company Sqish has a self-titled product that is a rectangular satellite dish that they can camouflage for you by taking a picture of the background that the dish will sit in front of and then applying that picture to the front of the dish.

Now the dish isn’t actually a dish at all, but a flat rectangular box. It doesn’t look square to me, but I suppose “Sqish” sounded better than “Rish”

It’s funny how times change. Where I grew up, the folks with money to spare mounted huge 30′ foot satellite dishes on 20′ platforms. You couldn’t miss them - they were visible from very far away. You always knew how had $ by whether or not they had a dish in their backyard. Now that everyone has one, they don’t ‘look’ so good any more.

via TV Snob, via DailyMail

Posted in Miscellaneous

This is something that I have been looking forward to for a very long time now—MySpace getting a site redesign. With what can only be described with a finally, it seems that MySpace has realized that its website interface is old and is no longer catchy. Hence a site redesign is definitely long overdue.

Of course we understand why it took this too long for MySpace to realize that it badly needs a more vibrant and interactive site, it is after all the largest social network in terms of worldwide and US unique visitors every month, so its almost like why mess with a good thing.

Expected to start next week, MySpace announced that this is going to be its largest scale re-launch to date, and it will include changing its home page, navigation, profile editing, search and MySpaceTV player facilities. But that’s just for the first phase of the project. MySpace promises more enhancements to come during the summer. In fact MySpace has somehow started this project already when it overhauled the look and feel of its searches, which it claimed to be the in third place based on total number of searches by any site.

Via [I4U News]

Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed →

UK company Sqish has a self-titled product that is a rectangular satellite dish that they can camouflage for you by taking a picture of the background that the dish will sit in front of and then applying that picture to the front of the dish.

Now the dish isn’t actually a dish at all, but a flat rectangular box. It doesn’t look square to me, but I suppose “Sqish” sounded better than “Rish”

It’s funny how times change. Where I grew up, the folks with money to spare mounted huge 30′ foot satellite dishes on 20′ platforms. You couldn’t miss them - they were visible from very far away. You always knew how had $ by whether or not they had a dish in their backyard. Now that everyone has one, they don’t ‘look’ so good any more.

via TV Snob, via DailyMail

Posted in Miscellaneous