Early Amazon Black Friday Wii bundle deal with $50 Gift Card

Posted in Wii by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

Early Amazon Black Friday Wii bundle deal with $50 Gift CardThe Wii has had it’s time in the sun, but lately it seems to have lost some traction and given way to it’s higher resolution competitors. Lately I’ve been seeing all kinds of Wii deals. Even businesses giving them away as promotions.

Well, Amazon has a great deal if you haven’t bought a Wii yet. When you buy the Nintendo Wii console along with a Wii Fit Plus with Balance Board you get a free $50 Gift Card. Normally the Wii sells for $199.99 and the Wii Fit Plus with Balance board sells for only $89.99. The overall cost is $289.98. But subtract the $50 gift card value and you get this Wii bundle for $239.98 on Amazon.

Thermochromatic Pot changes colors with heat

Posted in Kitchen by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

Thermochromatic Pot changes colors with heatHow many times have you burnt yourself on a hot pot? There’s just no way to tell visually if it’s hot or not, which really sucks. And hurts. The Thermochromatic Pot can prevent such things from happening. It changes colors depending on how hot it is.

When you see the Thermochromatic Pot turn red, that means hot so don’t touch it. When there’s no trace of red at all it’s safe to touch. This could have saved us all some burnt hands had it been released a few decades earlier.

USB TV Card Player

Posted in USB by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

USB TV Card PlayerYour living room still not connected enough for ya? If you answered no, then meet the USB TV Card Player. For $53.99, it allows you to check out all of your favorite digital photos and movies on your TV without the need of any expensive and complicated equipment.

It will read all of your favorite movies from SD, MMC or Memory Stick memory card. Or shove a USB flash drive in it that and you are ready to go. It will do video, plus lots of popular audio formats.

Wink USB flash drive: Perfect for Sarah Palin

Posted in USB Flash Drives by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

Wink USB flash drive: Perfect Sarah PalinActive Media Products is surely going to need a lawyer over this silly USB flash drive. Sure, it is possible that Sarah Palin agreed to have her image used to market AMP’s new “Wink” USB flash drive, (It wouldn’t be the stupidest thing she’s ever done) but chances are that’s not the case.

In any event, this thing is being touted as the world’s smallest 16GB flash drive and it’s waterproof too. It measures 1.2 x 0.5 x 0.1 inches. It’s available now for $7.95 for 2GB. 16 GB will cost you $37.95. So who wants a face on their flash drive?

Radeon HD 5970 video card price leaks

Posted in AMD by Shane McGlaun on November 16th, 2009

atihd5970priceAbout a week ago, the first specifications for the HD 5970 video card from AMD tipped up. The full specs weren’t leaked but we did get a few general specifications of the card. We found out that it will have dual GPUs and will have 2GB of RAM.

Today the price of the video card leaked online when it was published early by ZipZoomFly. The card will reportedly sell for $599.99. That is no surprise I figured the card would be at least $500.

New content Coming to The Beatles: Rock Band tomorrow

Posted in Games by Shane McGlaun on November 16th, 2009

Music games are still doing well and the most recent version of Rock Band is The Beatles: Rock Band. The game has proven to be popular and MTV and Harmonix are set to launch the second DLC pack for the game tomorrow.

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The new DLC content will hit the Xbox 360 tomorrow and the PS3 on November 19. The new content is the Sgt. Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band. The content will be available per song for $1.99 each or as an entire album.

CPU upgrade puts Jaguar supercomputer at the top performance wise

Posted in AMD by Shane McGlaun on November 16th, 2009

jaguarsupercomputer-sgThe Jaguar supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory was recently upgraded with new AMD processors that gave it enough performance to move up the top 5 supercomputers list. The Jaguar is a Cray XT5 supercomputer and is now the fastest machine in the world.

Jaguar previously used quad-core AMD processors and was upgraded to 6-core processors. The new upgrade gives the supercomputer a theoretical peak performance of 2.3 petaflops/s. The performance on the Linpack benchmark was 1.75 petaflops/second.

Cooler Master unveils AMD edition HAF 932 case

Posted in Cases by Shane McGlaun on November 16th, 2009

coolermasteramdhafOne of my all time favorite PC cases from Cooler Master was the Stacker wearing the NVIDIA green color for the trim. The special edition case was great for NVIDIA fans. Cooler Master has now unveiled a new case aimed at the AMD fan called the HAF 932 AMD edition.

The case has black with red trim and a clear side window with a frosted AMD dragon and AMD Fusion logo. The chassis also has red LED lights inside. Other features of the case are the same as the original HAF 932 chassis. The drive bays are tooless and the case has a removable HDD rack.

CyberPower Gamer Xtreme Series with USB 3.0 and SATA III

Posted in gaming accessories by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

CyberPower Gamer Xtreme Series with USB 3.0 and SATA IIICyberPower just announced that it is upgrading its Gamer Xtreme series. The new line of CyberPower Gamer Xtreme PCs will come with USB 3.0 and SATA III as standard. Prices start as low as $749. Buyers can configure and order a Gamer Xtreme system with the new specs today.

Intel’s latest i5/i7 processors and P55/X58 chipsets will give you some nice performance and both USB 3.0 and SATA III are backward compatible so your system will have a longer life as well.

Hyundai drops two 3D LCD monitors in Europe

Posted in monitors by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

Hyundai drops two 3D LCD monitors in EuropeHyundai has two new 3D LCD monitors for the European market. The 22-inch W220S and the 24-inch W240S. Both monitors come complete with polarized glasses to insure that you look your dorkiest while taking in that sweet 3D.

Some other features include a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, two 3W speakers, a D-Sub port, a DVI port and an HDMI port. The W220S has a native resolution of 1680 x 1050 pixels with a 5ms response time, while the W240S offers a higher resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels with 6ms response time.

3TB drives coming soon

Posted in News by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

3TB drives coming soonIf you’ve been wondering when we might see 3TB drives arriving, the answer is soon. At least according to Dr Geoff Barrall, founder and CEO of Drobo. He says that Drobos will be offering a 3TB drive by April 2010. Drobo uses Western Digital drives, so there’s a good chance that it could mean that Western Digital will be outing some 3TB drives of their own very soon.

Currently Western Digital offers a 2TB Caviar Black 3.5-inch SATA drive. A 3TB, 4-platter drive would need 750GB per platter - a 50 per cent increase over what the Caviar Black has.

MK 2 Circuit watch

Posted in Watches by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

MK 2 Circuit watchThe MK 2 Circuit watch is everything we love about modern watchmaking. The LED watch is integrated into a stainless steel bracelet style band. It comes from Storm of London and it won’t be that much of a pain to figure out the time. It displays just the time and date, but that’s okay. We like it simple.

If cylons wore watches, this is what they would look like. Obviously reading this thing in the dark should be easy. It isn’t too hard to pay for either at just $200.

Samsung unveils Galaxy Spica i5700

Posted in Samsung by Conner Flynn on November 16th, 2009

Samsung unveils Galaxy Spica i5700A sibling to the Galaxy, the i5700 has been rumored for a while. Now it has been made official by Samsung and dubbed the Galaxy Spica. Samsung’s latest Android-powered handset is just 13.2mm thick and features a 3.5mm jack, an 800MHz core, and built-in DivX support.

According to Samsung, it’s already out in Europe and will be coming to the Middle East and Asia shortly.

Animated musical Starship Enterprise Lamp

Posted in Sci-Fi by Conner Flynn on November 15th, 2009

Animated musical Starship Enterprise LampThis musical Star Trek Enterprise lamp is superior to this one in almost every way. It says Star Trek, is actually from Star Trek and the Enterprise looks just like it should.

This one has a button at the base that will automatically turn the Star Trek theme song on. Don’t everybody all nerdgasm at once, but there’s more. That music is accompanied by a spoken prologue as the Enterprise on the base spins.

Plush Star Wars USB flash drives are a cute disturbance in the force

Posted in USB Flash Drives by Conner Flynn on November 15th, 2009

Plush Star Wars USB flash drives are a cute disturbance in the forceWe’ve seen our share of Star Wars USB drives, but Etsy seller Alas My Dear has hand made some of the most adorable we have ever seen. These are hand knit Star Wars plush dolls that double as USB flash drives.

You used to fear Vader. Now you’ll want to cuddle up to him on a cold night. The drives cost from $40-45 for 2GB with a $10 4GB upgrade option. There are a few to choose from, like Yoda and slave bikini Princess Leia for example.





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