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Original Lightsaber Sells for $200,000
Posted by Alex Grahmann Categories: Accessories, Internet, Movies,
The original lightsaber prop used by Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in 1977’s Star Wars grabbed a closing bid of over $200,000 at a recent auction of Hollywood memorabilia. The auction, with both live and online bidders, took place in Beverly Hills, California, and featured 550 different movie props, some from the personal collection of Star Wars producer Gary Kurtz. Despite being made up of only a metal tube and some rubber, the lightsaber sold for far more than the $60,000 to $80,000 that was expected. Darth Vader’s original saber also sold, but for a much smaller sum of $118,000.
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Nintendo Wi-Fi Theatrical Trailer Debuts
Posted by Alex Grahmann Categories: Driving, Portable/Mobile, Wireless,
Nintendo has chosen to begin the mainstream hype of its upcoming Wi-Fi service with a 1 minute trailer that will be run before copies of The Fantastic Four, The Dukes of Hazzard, Bad News Bears, Stealth, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The Island. The trailer, titled “The Sad, Agonizing Tale of Bhunvan Ganguly,” will run between July 29th and August 25th. Rather than a detail-laden explosion, Nintendo has decided to employ some cinematic subtlety to generate interest. However, the ad does feature footage of the online Mario Kart DS and stresses world-wide connectivity. Be sure to catch the trailer on the big screen, or at online at the link below.
Read More | IGN
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SCOTTeVEST Hidden Cargo Shorts Review
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Wearables, Features, Product Reviews,
The folks over at SCOTTeVEST have come up with yet another piece of clothing aimed at making the tech life just a little bit easier to live. The TEC Hidden Cargo Shorts are perfect for the summer, but how well do they carry your gadgets? Find out in our review, after the jump.
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You want to prevent carpal tunnel syndrome? Gel mousepads are great for supporting that mouse hand, but we all know that boobs are softer, right? Busty Mousepads even self-proclaim on their site that your male friends will feel and steal them, while your female friends will think you’re a perv. I think this may help ease some internet pr0n tension for a one time fee of $19.95.
Read More | Busty Mousepads
Atmel has announced a new biometric flash drive today aimed at protecting your sensitive data. The FingerGear has a self cleaning fingerprint sensor that you swipe your finger over. The flash drive will feature a LCD display on the front to enable the operator to have a much more user-friendly experience. When you swipe your finger software stored on the flash drive activates and authenticates the user thus enabling the flash drive to be mounted. Because all of the authentication technology is located on the drive itself this is host independent - and will work on Windows, Linux, OS X or any other USB host compliant operating system. As clunky looking as this flash drive is this Gear Live editor is very impressed that it can operate without using OS specific software on the host PC and in this day and age of increased security concerns I suspect biometrics are going to be creeping into more and more data storage mediums.
Read More | FingerGear via MacMinute
Playstation Magazine claims to have some advance info on the upcoming PS3. Of note is that the hard drive won’t be used for games - I’m guessing Tivo/PSP use. The PSP will be able to access media on the PS3 via Wifi. The PS3 will have a TiVo-like accessory so that it will be able to record TV - hopefully in Hi-Definition. The last tidbit surprised me - you will be able to chose to run games at a lower resolution for smoother game-play - the PS3 has enormous amounts of processing power already, do people really think that this thing is going to get maxed out by a lot of games? I sure hope so!
Read More | MaxConsole via Kotaku
mobiBLU DAH-1500i: iPod Shuffle Killer?
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: Portable Audio / Video,
There have been many other flash memory based audio players claiming to be the iPod Shuffle killer, but none have done so yet. However, this portable audio player seems to be very promising. The world’s smallest player at only 1” cube including an OLED display and with a price tag that is wallet-friendly, this player is sure to impress anyone. The features include the following:
- OLED Display
- WMA (DRM)
- FM Radio Receiver And Recorder
- USB 2.0 Flash Drive
- Built-in Voice Recorder
- Five Preset EQ modes plus one User-Set EQ mode
- SRS WOW - Surround Sound
- File Navigation System and Unlimited Folder Capacity
- Easy & Convenient Clock
- Built-In Lithium-Ion Battery
- Resume Function
- Firmware Upgradeable
Most interesting is where you can get one of these players – Wal-Mart.com exclusive. That’s right, this nice and affordable can be picked up at everyone’s favorite “everything’s cheap here” store. At time of writing, the mobiBLU Cube was sold out; however, I’ll definitely be on the lookout for this one.
Read More | mobiBLU Product Page
Buy It | Wal-Mart Page
Fox has now joined the bandwagon that is Podcasting, or blogcasting. The FOXcasts are narrated by Michael Krogmann, and are free to download. This idea is nice since you don’t have to be tied to a TV set to get an idea of what an episode is about. Only problem is that the site lacks updates, or content for that matter. Hopefully they’ll get on the ball and give us some more.
Read More | FoxCast
This is a pretty cool photo show on Flickr – The Xbox 360 Faceplates Pool. Twenty-one pages of images of would be faceplates for the upcoming box. Some of them are so good that I wish they are actually real or can be printed from a high quality printer to stick it on the actual product when it ships. Have an image of your own? Show it off on the comments.
Read More | Flickr Xbox 360 Faceplate Show
Many have heard of the awesome new PSP 2.0 firmware upgrade, and are wanting to make the jump. In the US, you have to go through a couple of extra hoops if you want to accomplish this task. Fear not, thanks to this nice step-by-step tutorial. A word of caution: this update is not intended for US PSPs and thusly will not be supported by Sony. Also, if you do decide to do the update, you cannot downgrade to the current firmware release. This means no more emulators, but cool new features such as web browsing. Check it out and let us know how it went.
Read More | AskDaveTaylor via Lockergnome
