This concept car was created by American Specialty Cars and has a mostly carbon-fiber body. The fixed-roof ASC Diamondback has a supercharged 6.0-liter engine with 6-speed manual transmission, unique rocker panels housing dual side-outlet exhaust and an all-new stowage area behind the seats housing. The car has a carbon fiber roof and a very cool looking OmniCarbon hood that shows off ten trumpeted air intakes, with individual port throttles. The car has carbon-fiber-look instrument panel face and interior-trim accents; race seats with custom trim; a custom roll-cage with 5-point seatbelt harness and the Sony sound system.
This appears to be the first video of a DS Lite, comparing the device to its larger predecessor the original DS. It's been confirmed to be a computer generated mockup.
Another Flash-based puzzle game, where you direct your little dude to climbing around stuff, and shooting a little web gun to climb to other platforms. There are dozens and dozens of these platforms, never mind little critters to annoy. Nothing seems to really kill you or slow you down, and you can grab little pods and plant more creatures. This is something you really have to try to understand. It's worth a few minutes of swinging around and planting things anyway.
The MultiSync LCD20WGX display certainly has good specs: 20-inch widescreen, 6 ms response time, 700:1 contrast ratio, 178-degree viewing angle, and a built-in USB hub. It's due out in Europe this week at a price of €560 ($680). No word on a US release.
The recorder is a 24bit/96kHz 2 channel deck, and includes a USB port, mic inputs, and digital and analog output. It can record both compressed MP3 files and uncompressed WAVs onto CF cards, and runs about $1,200.
The guys over at DS Meet have put up a nifty online catalog detailing all the items that are available and for sale in Animal Crossing: Wild World. It'll let you keep track of which items you've already purchased, which ones you still need and who's selling that elusive snowman fridge you've been dying to get your hands on.
It's a great way of managing your collection of furniture and other decorative junk, as well a good starting point for getting some more friend codes and inviting new visitors to your town. Just be sure to check them at the gates for any suspicious materials...
Juicy Couture has launched a new sunglasses line. The Gela sunglasses shown here, named after one of the co-founders of the fashion line, has a big crystal Juicy on the side and sells for $220. The sunglasses include a gift with purchase, a pink leather case.
Brother Innovis sewing machine puts you in stitches
Brother's Innovis series, comes with hundreds of built-in patterns, including Disney and Sanrio characters and, more importantly, can work with both downloaded patterns and digital photos to make custom designs. At last there's a way to get all of our digital pics onto t-shirts that doesn't involve iron-on prints. The Innovis models start at about $1,000.
The 2006 Electronic Sports World Cup has commissioned a special edition of Trackmania, Trackmania Nations ESWC, which will feature in this year's competition with a $40,000 prize.
This is the first time a game has been created especially for the competition, and it's being offered free for anyone in the world to download and try.
Thanks to CableLabs, CableCARD 2.0 will only be supported on Vista platforms based on hardware systems that are certified by CableLabs. While CableCARD 2.0 support is a general step forward, we're also taking a step back since this could effectively shut out any home-built WMCE machines out now.
This short film by Ryan Wood, Fear of Girls, is a delightful portrait of two elite tabletop D&D players and their attitudes to the outside world. MMO players as well as D&D gamers may find echoes of themselves in the protagonists.
Interestingly, the discussion about this film on Slashdot instantly takes a sharp turn towards MMOs, and World of Warcraft in particular. The stereotype that all female avatars are instantly showered with gifts and propositions is still perpetuated, despite many players with female characters anecdotally refuting it. It seems to happen on occasion, but not to the extent that hearsay would have you believe.
The Anaconda Fissure pendant is a unique take on the heart theme. The 18k white gold heart-shaped pendant features tree engravings on both sides.The necklace is available at Barney's for $2,850. The chain is not included. The pendant comes in a smaller size for $1,850.
The GXV-3000 SIP based videophone from Grandstream
Grandstream Networks is throwing down their new GXV-3000 videophone based on the SIP standard. It uses the H.264 codec for pumping the video stream, and supports bit rates from 64Kb to 1Mb for up to 30fps QVGA conferencing on its 5.6-inch LCD screen. You can also use the RCA jacks for hooking the phone into your TV. Cost $295.
The MRI machine can track the flow of blood into certain areas of the brain, indicating increased activity consistent with lying. One company, Cephos Corp., is being advised by former O.J. Simpson lawyer Robert Shapiro, who says, "I'd use it tomorrow in virtually every criminal and civil case on my desk." So far, however, the reliability of the tests has yet to be proven, and they haven't been used in any court proceeding. And bioethicists worry about the potential of the new technology to "change ... our ability ... to invade what has been the last untouchable sanctuary, the contents of your own mind," in the words of Hank Greely of the Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences.
There is a messenger bag made to look like a distressed motorcycle jacket and this canvas weekend bag that features a Triumph on one side and a close-up of the engine on the other. The bag has leather trim and a vibrant purple lining. It's on sale at eLuxury for $329, down from $495.
Luxury Ingredients Make A Pricey Chinese New Year Feast
The ultimate meal for Chinese New Year has been created at the Lao Zhengxing restaurant in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. CNN reports that the menu includes lobster cooked eight ways, sharks' fin in a brown sauce, stewed bird's nest sweetened with apricots and braised abalone. The meal costs 198,000 yuan ($24,500). The restaurant only has enough ingredients to serve 20 to 24 in total.
Tom Ford is working with Estee Lauder on a cosmetics line, and he also has a line of sunglasses. Available at Neiman Marcus and other fine retailers, the oh-so stylish line features sunglasses named for famous Americans; Kennedy, Fonda, Farrah. With a twinge of retro/70's glam.
Fanjita has responded to the challenge, finding the PSP firmware v.2.60 syscalls and opening the doors for the homebrew eLoader. Sony's new nemesis had this to say: "[Thank] you to all of the PSP lovers out there for supporting us... our goal is to continue to give all PSP owners with all firmware versions the ability to play homebrew."
Forget about that puny terabyte RAID system you just set up. If you want to be on the cutting edge in storage, you need to start thinking in petabytes. EMC has launched its first petabyte array, a version of the company's flagship Symmetrix DMX-3 system that includes nine room-filling cabinets of drives. The Symmetrix DMX-3 system is built around 500GB drives; the petabyte version includes a whopping 2,400 of them and goes for about $4 million. Of course, if your needs are more modest, you can always opt for one of EMC's "entry level" systems; a two-cabinet version that will give you a mere 480TB of storage is available for just $250,000.
Pre-order your HD DVDs or Blu Ray titles from Amazon
Amazon has a bunch of early titles up and ready for pre-order notification. There is the normal "guy" titles like the Matrix and Terminator series but stuck in the middle of this list is Friends. Most of them do not have a cost up yet except for Chronos. The DVD sells for $9.99, but the HD DVD and Blu-Ray flavor retails for $24.99.
Would you spend $24.99 for a old movie just because it is in HD?
In-Stat is reporting that the number of HDMI-enabled devices sold in 2004 was 5 million, while in 2005 that number jumped to 17.4 million. Digital Visual Interface clearly provides a stunning digital signal, but for video only, while HDMI provides a digital conduit for both audio and video. Add the fact that the HDMI standards have been updated over the past year to include better PC compatibility as well as UDI, or Unified Display Interface specs and you've got DVI technology disappearing faster than SACD & DVD-Audio, as HDMI begins to take center stage. In-Stat anticipates that DVI will be extinct by 2008.
Apple's accelerometer patent for video gaming on tablet PCs
The fanboys over at Macsimum News are reporting that the US Patent & Trademarks office unveiled a patent filed by an un-named company that Macsimum writer "Neo" believes is Apple. The patent describes a variety of uses for accelerometer technology in a portable device, including the following:
"In a gaming application, where the accelerometer may be used to detect a scene change during a video game running within a portable device."
Game Revolution has an awesome gallery of classic 8-bit and 16-bit game endings. There are a couple dozen videos on the site, all playable in flash. The majority of the games are all AAA classics like Super Metroid and The Revenge of Shinobi, with the obligatory Zero Wing entry, and the occasional Kid Chameleon, No Final Fantasy endings though.
The CX 200 Portable Director II cellphone jammer for the polite
The CX 200 Portable Director II, not even close to being legalized here in the US by the FCC. This device is specially tuned to continuously jam the popular Japanese carrier frequencies for 70 seconds and even allows you to politely fade-out a call you'd rather not be taking "with natural atmosphere". Costs $71.
-Lytir1
