Fighting game fanatics (I know at least a few of your a reading) will love this one. Developed for use with the forthcoming Street Fighter X Tekken game, the FightStick V.S. is sure to grace tournaments and basements in due time. [......]
We knew that Microsoft’s hit motion-control accessory for the Xbox 360, Kinect, was coming to Windows eventually. They’ve been hinting at it, people have been hacking it, and they even released an SDK a little while back. But one of the last things Ballmer said tonight at his keynote was a definite date for when Kinect would be coming to Windows: February 1st. [......]
Remember that feeling you got back when Steve Jobs was unveiling the iPhone, and he did the "slide to unlock" gesture for the first time? [......]
Here are some recent posts on TechCrunch Gadgets: Review: AAXA P4 Pico Projector AIAIAI’s New Headphones Continue Trend Of Understated Design What Witchery Is This? A Cardboard Camping Pot? Not Bad, LG Marketing, Not Bad A Very TechCrunch CES: How To Follow Our CES Coverage Nobody Wins At CES [......]
Short version: A powerful little device, significantly brighter than others of its size, with decent battery life and a good picture. Too bad it’s so damn loud, and not the most user-friendly thing of all time either. Features: 80 lumens, 2000:1 contrast ratio 854[......]
A court in Paris, France has fined Google $65,000 because its search engine's autocomplete feature brings up the French word for "crook" when users type the name of an insurance company. Google had been sued by insurance company Lyonnaise de Garantie, which was offended by search results including the word "escroc," meaning crook, according to a story posted Tuesday by the Courthouse News Service . "Google had argued that it was not liable since the word, added under Google Suggest, was the result of an automatic algorithm and did not come from human thought," the article states[......]
We don’t design and hardware quite as much as we used to, but I’m making an exception for these. A good while back, I wrote about a pair of headphones I thought was the most understated and attractive I’d ever seen[......]
Despite protests and threats of legal action, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is pushing ahead with its plans to expand the availability of top-level domains. The plan, approved in June of 2011 , will potentially lead to a flood of new name space for websites beyond the established national TLDs (like .us and .uk) and generic TLDs such as .com, .net. and .gov[......]
Mobile industry watcher Eldar Murtazin took to Twitter today, claiming that Microsoft and Nokia executives will be meeting each other shortly to discuss the possibility and terms of a deal involving the sale of the Finnish phone maker’s smartphone division (including "one or two" manufacturing plants). Such an agreement between the two tech giants, which Murtazin says could be finalized in the second half of 2012, would leave Nokia with nothing but its ‘dumbphone’ or feature phone business, mapping services subsidiary Navteq and Nokia Siemens Networks, the flailing networking and telecom equipment company (a joint-venture with Siemens). Murtazin also asserts that current Nokia head honcho Stephen Elop will resign from his chief executive role in the course of this year (possibly to return to Microsoft, where he used to run the Business Division?)[......]
Here’s an interesting little project that, while it’s unlikely to grow into a major product, nevertheless demonstrates the potential of alternative interfaces. Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees (an abbreviation of "mosaicing gestural surface") takes input from a contact microphone and analyzes it to determine the placement and direction of gestures on any surface through which vibrations can be detected[......]
Righthaven is in the final throes of full collapse. The copyright lawsuit factory claimed to have less than $1,000 in operating capital when opposition lawyers attempted to collect a judgment against Righthaven , and the company's lawyers have simply been ignoring court actions and have not shown up for proceedings[......]
Features: 24-inch 1080p 3D Display 240Hz Refresh Rate Includes One Game, HDMI Cable, And One Pair Of 3D Glasses Supports Dual-Player Gaming, Each Player Sees a Different Screen MSRP: $499 Pros: Excellent build quality Cool 3D dual-gaming feature Bright, crisp video Cons: Oddly-placed buttons Screen is glossy and reflective Not all games are supported [......]
Here’s one for today’s "Yeah, I probably should’ve thought of that" pile. If you’ve got anything even remotely private on your phone (and who doesn’t[......]
Digital music downloads rose by almost a quarter in the UK in 2011, but it couldn't prevent an overall decline in album sales. Sales through iTunes and other download platforms reached 26.6m albums, which was a 24 per cent rise on the 2010 figure. However, when CD sales are factored in overall album sales in the UK fell 6 per cent[......]
Did you know that your brain releases dopamine when it processes something new? At least that’s what the Internet told me . [......]
