Dr Who scores TV awards hat-trick
Doctor Who takes three prizes at the National Television Awards in a repeat of its success last year.
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700MHz Dell Refurb OptiPlex Celeron for $47.91
Need a cheap file server, Linux machine, or emailing machine? How about a refurbished 700MHz Celeron for $47.91. It's really bare-bones, with only 128MB of RAM, a 10GB hard drive, Windows 2000 (not installed), onboard Video and Audio, two PCI slots, one AGP slot, and four USB slots. Not bad for $47 though.
Product Page [HCDI Trading]
Monster Tries to Screw PS3 Owners with Overpriced Cables
Word from our homies at Kotaku is that Monster is already prepping a line of GameLink cables for the PS3. According to Noel Lee, the head monster, it is crucial to properly connect your PS3 with high-end cables for the best PS3 experience possible. These cables are expected to run between $30 and $100.
And with Best Buy goons always trying to upsale Monster Cables with your purchases, expect to shell out the extra money just to get the salesman to shut up and allow you to take home your PS3.
Product Page [Via Kotaku]
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Top 5 Early Bird Luxo-Gift List
As soon as Halloween is done, it's a sprint until Christmas. Never mind all that talk about Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that launches the holiday shopping season. If you're planning to buy a luxo-sport gift for that special someone this year, you'll want to avoid that herd of sheep, and get your shopping done early.
That's why we've put together this quick list for the smartest shoppers of all: The Top 5 Early Bird Luxo-Gift List, with gifts priced from $1300 down to $200 listed in descending order. Start now. Avoid those maddening crowds, the relentless pressure, and avoid that sinking feeling when you hear that clock ticking, counting down the minutes until Zero Hour.
After the jump, pick out one of the top 5 luxo-gifts you can get right now, and get it all done ahead of time.
5. Nikon D80 Digital SLR
This is looking like the hot digital SLR for the season, with its 10.2-megapixel CCD, bigger and brighter viewfinder and excellent lenses from Nikon. It has an 11-area through-the-lens autofocus system, improved color metering, smaller size than its predecessor, and we don't even mind that it uses SD memory cards instead of CompactFlash. You get your money's worth for $1300.
4. Garmin Nuvi 660 GPS
We're big fans of Garmin's Nuvi series of GPS navigators, and this latest model stretches that screen out to 4.3 inches, the perfect compromise between portability and readibility. Like its brandmates, it gives you hands-free mobile phone calls and then there's that outstanding Garmin user interface, easy enough to use in traffic but powerful enough to get you where you want to go. With its integrated FM traffic receiver that will warn you about heavy traffic or construction, and an FM transmitter that sends its navigational commands through your car stereo, it's tough to beat for $999.
3. TiVo Series 3 HD Personal Multimedia Recorder
We've had one of these babies in-house for the past two months, and it's the best digital video recorder we've ever seen. It's the only THX-certified PVR and its video and audio consistently demonstrate that fact, plus it has that famed TiVo user interface that has no equal. Too bad it's so damned expensive, at $800, but you can find one for $680.
2. Canon PowerShot SD900 10MP Digital Elph Camera
The form factor of the Digital Elph cameras from Canon is hard to beat, and this is the best one yet, the PowerShot SD900, with its 10 megapixels of quick-starting goodness and 3x optical zoom, you'll see it all clearly now on a 2.5-inch LCD viewscreen. Sure, you can't use many manual settings with this camera, but one of those digital SLRs can be awfully hard to fit in your shirt pocket, too. Best of all, you can find one of these trinkets for $383.
1. Motorola KRZR Cellphone
We know you want the latest smartphone, but that special person in your life is probably looking to simplify her cellphone situation. The KRZR is the way to go, fitting easily in the pocket 'cause it's a lot smaller than the mainstream-popular RAZR, and will only set you back around 200 bucks with a two-year contract.
Categories: Misc Tags: Digital Video Recorder, Gadget, Gadgets, Hd, LAN, Megapixels, Motorola, Traffic
Razer Tarantula Keyboard Reviewed (Verdict: Gives Your Gaming Some Bite)
The first keyboard from high-end gaming moue extraordinaer, Razer, is about to ship, finally. The Razer Tarantula was first announced at CES 2005, yes almost a year ago, and it again made a debut at E3 back in May with promises of an August release. A few months past the expected release and many refinements, the Tarantula is ready to hit the shelves.
Overall, Razer did a nice job with the Tarantula. If their goal was to develop a keyboard for the hardcore gamer- not your average keyboard with some lighting and a few extra buttons, but actually a keyboard just for gaming- then I would call the product a success. The Tarantula is packed with functions and when the drivers are used properly (this may take a lot of time and effort) the keyboard can help your gaming performance.Good stuff. The Tarantula is currently available for $99.
Razer Tarantula Gaming Keyboard Review [XYZ Computing]
Hooray for the Future—First Wireless USB Hub Ships
Y-E Data has shipped the first Ultra Wideband USB hub in Japan. The hub uses the Wisair chipset ahs has a small USB dongle that that connects to your computer and wirelessly communicates with a four-port USB hub. Now we just have to wait to see how long a device like this takes to get through the FCC's pound-me-in-the-ass certification process. Come on, FCC goons. I know you wants wireless USB just as much as us.
First UWB Hub Ships in Japan [Everything USB]
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DVR Sales Down The Pooper by 49%: TiVo Hit Hard?
Yesterday, we wrote about how TiVo is fairing after launching their Series 3 DVR. Since then, we've had some astounding numbers come in that show US DVRs sales are down 49% for January through August, as compared to last year. Since TiVo is number one in this space, they might be taking the brunt of this hit. Seems like a sound jump to reason that most of you are renting your DVRs from your cable or satellite providers.
By the way, I still <3 TiVo, so it pains me to write this. We always hurt the ones we love!
(Thanks for the data and kisses, NPD group)
Halloween Costume Greatest Hits: Dead Pixel
This is one of the easiest and most innovative costumes I have seen today. The geekiness inside all of us absolutely despise dead pixels and this costume shares our hatred. I still don't understand the link between dead pixels and diskettes, though. And good luck explaining what you are to almost everyone you see out tonight.
Got a tech, or otherwise awesome Halloween costume, e-mail us some pictures at our tips address and your costume could get featured in your very own post (as long as the costume is cool enough)!
Dead Pixel [happydesigns]
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Leno and GM Roll Out EcoJet Supercar
SEMA (Specialty Equipment Market Association) is underway in Las Vegas, and our esteemed compatriots at Jalopnik are there, where they saw Jay Leno rolling out the EcoJet, the latest supercar concept that he and GM VP of Global Design Ed Welburn (pictured with Leno above) sketched out on a napkin. Just in time for Halloween, it's a bio-diesel monster with 650hp under the hood, powered by a Honeywell LT101 turbine engine fueled by refined vegetable oil or even animal fat.
The car resembles a Corvette, using a modified Corvette Z06 aluminum frame underneath, and it has other GM styling cues such as the nose, which looks like a Cadillac STS. The similarity ends there, though, because this is a mid-engine behemoth, looking more like an aircraft than a car. What a spectacular design and engineering feat! We're hoping the GM Design Studio and its attendant suits will decide put something like this on the road sometime soon. Could the 2008 Corvette steal an idea or two from this?
The EcoJet: Jay Leno's New GM-Outsourced Supercar [Jalopnik]
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