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Dec 7, 2009
When you pay $80 for a mouse, you want it to be extraordinary. Imperator, Razer's latest gaming mouse, certainly qualifies with its solid feel, adjustable side buttons and 5,600dpi laser sensor. We got our hands on a shiny review unit, putting it through its paces in frenetic gaming as well as more conventional desktop work. We were impressed.
Dec 7, 2009
For a while now we've been keeping an eye on the CrunchPad — a tablet geared towards browsing the Internet while sitting on the sofa — though last month it looked like it was all over for the niche-y computer with Michael Arrington, Mr. TechCrunch himself, declaring the tablet dead.
The CrunchPad has resurfaced amidst a flurry of drama and legal action as the decidedly blandly named JooJoo, free of Michael Arrington's name or any TechCrunch branding. According to Fusion Garage, the company that partnered with TechCrunch to help realize the CrunchPad/JooJoo, the tablet could launch as soon as this Friday.
It'll feature a 12.1-inch touchscreen and reportedly boots in a scant nine seconds. Unlike your computer, which experiences a slower boot time the longer you use it, something like the JooJoo — which won't run any applications save for a browser to surf the net — that's a boot time that may actually stay nice and low for the life of the unit. It also has a virtual keyboard, Wi-Fi (no 3G), a 4GB SSD, five hours of battery life and it weighs 2.4 pounds. The JooJoo can be preordered for a whopping $500, double what was originally projected during the early phases of the CrunchPad.
It's weird. Back when this thing was the CrunchPad and Arrington's baby, I was excited. Now that it's the JooJoo and Arrington has been booted, I find I couldn't care less. It now comes off as overpriced and too narrow in scope. I guess it's just a case of mom's grilled cheeses always tasting better — she just puts more love in 'em.
JooJoo, via Engadget and the New York Tmes
Dec 7, 2009
LG's new SL8000 Borderless is an LCD HDTV with a screen that runs right up to the edges, with no borders to distract you to the action happening on screen. It's got a full 1920x1080 HD resolution, 150,000:1 dynamic contrast ration and a 2ms response time.
It's going on sale now for about $2,113 for the 42-inch model. In Russia. If you want one here in the States, well, too bad. One assumes this will arrive here at some point, but who knows.
Dec 7, 2009
I love winter, I really do. I also opted to get a 4×4 vehicle so I’m never really home bound, even in the worst blizzard. This is something not every New Englander has the luxury of owning, which means most people have to wait for those awful plow trucks to come through. Besides being loud, spewing emissions, and tearing up asphalt, putting plows on the road costs states many millions of dollars every winter.
But self-heating roads could melt snow before it ever gets a chance to accumulate while eliminating corrosive road salting and extensive plowing during winter snow storms.
Dec 7, 2009
Although the Lexus booth at the 2009 LA Auto Show was rather devoid of inspiring next-gen green automotive technology, I did make a quick stop by to look at their traveling LF-Ch exhibit. The company has put together a display that’s supposed to help figure out what styling cues show attendees like best about the concept hybrid hatchback by giving them the ability to take pictures of the car and upload them to a database. It actually was one of the worst-executed interactive displays I’ve seen in a long time. Needless to say, I decided to pass up the interactivity.
But, hokey auto show displays aside, the LF-Ch concept—which made its official debut at the Frankfurt Auto Show—is actually kind of a cool looking car. And it marks a clearly new direction of thinking for Lexus; it’s the first compact hybrid concept from the automaker that’s geared towards the younger Scion crowd—reflecting a trend in the luxury market towards a smaller scale and outreach to young urbanites.
Dec 7, 2009
These Harman Kardon GLA-55 computer speakers are designed to make a statement. No black plastic to blend into the background for these guys! Of course, you'll pay for such uniqueness.
Yes, for a mere $1,000 you too can have these speakers decorating your desk. I'm not quite sure how the hell they're getting away with charging four figures for a pair of speakers that don't come with a subwoofer, basically guaranteeing that they don't sound all that great, but hey, some jackass will pay that much. Harman Kardon wins, I guess.
Dec 7, 2009
Okay all you fraidycats, you can emerge from your bunkers now, because cellphones aren't going to kill you after all. The Danish Cancer Society studied just about everyone in Scandinavia over 30 years, concluding there is no "clear change in the long term trends in incidence of brain tumors." This is the most conclusive study yet of the imagined link between cancer and cellphones.
We've heard other credible scientists saying that the "radiation" from cell phones is of a wavelength that can't possibly have any effect on brain cells. Our take: if you play on people's fears, you get lots of attention. Attention equals funding. Scare up everybody, profit. Perhaps the same goes for those who dispel fears. Either way, put away your tinfoil hats, hypochondriacs, and be not afraid.
Via CrunchGear
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