Archive for June 4th, 2008

Klipsch Image X5 headphones are slightly bigger, slightly cheaper

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Filed under: Portable AudioKlipsch made tiny waves with their original Image headphones, saying they were the world's smallest. We took their word for it and moved along. Now Klipsch has given up on the size game with its new X5 headphones, boasting that the 2mm-bigger X5 headphones are "light but ...

Verismo Networks’ PoD beams all sorts of web video to your TV

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment This whole "it's web video, on your TV!" space is getting crowded fast, but we'd say there's certainly room from this new "PoD" device from Verismo Networks. Not content to merely concentrate on one form of content, the PoD can handle content from YouTube, BitTorrent, vTap, ...

Archer Quinn calls it quits: “You may have been able to prevent the straw from falling, maybe not.”

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets With another steaming pile of cryptic sayings, Archer Quinn is officially bidding his all-too-entertaining free energy project farewell. From what we can gather, he's decided that the problem of free energy is really too simple to warrant his time and effort -- we're all "monkeys" who let ...

WowWee’s Wrex the Dawg reviewed: puts real canines to shame

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Filed under: Robots Unless you've specifically been lookin' out, you may have very well forgotten about WowWee's crazed robotic dog that was uncaged at CES. After lasting through its first few days of training (which we'll call a review for our purposes), we're led to believe that this pup is "the ...

AT&T touts 20% boost in 3G data speeds

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Filed under: WirelessIt looks like AT&T is getting a bit more generous these days, with the company now following up its supposed plans to offer free WiFi to LaptopConnect and smartphone users with a promised 20% boost in 3G data speeds. That translates to "typical" downlink speeds of between 700 ...