Category: Technology

Your kids will now know the power of the Dark Side with Lord Vader himself

Darth Vader Laptop for the kiddies

This is why you shouldn’t hand the product design over to Star Wars geeks. The horrific contraption above is a laptop for kids, in the shape of Darth Vader’s infamous helmet. Your kids will be able to play a selection of 50 different games with it, by using the handy lightsaber-shaped pointer attached to it. ‘Themed marketing’ indeed.

Here are its (rather scary) features, straight from the product page:

Darth Vader laptop is the ultimate learning toy for your children. Enter Sith’s realm and let Darth Vader challenge young children’s skills in mind-blowing games in logic, music, and other breathtaking activities.

“Breathtaking”? With Lord Vader? I have a bad feeling about this. It comes with other silly features like a headphone jack and the lightsaber-thingie actually makes a sound as it is waved around.

As cool as it looks to a Star Wars Geek like myself, I’m not quite sure if it is… well, okay to let my kid learn under a menacing Sith Lord who took up choking people and slicing hands as a hobby. I mean, Yoda or some Jedi could have been reasonable. But Lord Vader?!

[Via Gizmodo]

Cloverfield, another look into madness

[Update] – Check out more of our Cloverfield Coverage!

Okay, Garbled Zombie posted two articles about this movie a few weeks ago but much of the article is littered with information that has since been proven false. EthanHaasWasRight is not related to Cloverfield, this has been confirmed by producer J.J. Abrams, in fact it seems to viral marketing for a game called Alpha-Omega. So, while EHWR is not for Cloverfield there are viral Marketing sites out there. One of those all-but-confirmed sites is Slusho, but there is evidence backing up this claim. A scene in the trailer shows a character wearing a shirt with the slusho logo and name on it.

Picture of character with help from the 1-18-08 fanblog

Now, not only is that in the movie, but the company has been tied directly to past Abrams works. The name Slusho was in an episode of Alias, which was produced by Abrams himself, as an Icee type company. The site itself has been stated as a marketing site for Cloverfield by an inside source according to NBC, but not by Paramount of Abrams. The site is strange to say the least. The product’s history is riddled with more than it’s share of Engrish translations and shows a very mysterious past about the company’s creator and his family. The likelihood of the site being fake is slim, but still possible.

third official picture

Now since the last few posts another picture has come up. It doesn’t provide much, if any, information, but it’s definitely after the “attack” by the parasite. The smoke could be anything, an expulsion of gas from the parasite or just smoke from the falling debris of the surrounding buildings. Something that has been pointed out in the the last picture though, a girl in the lower right hand corner of the party has a photoshopped number on her, the number 9. The significance of this has yet to be seen.
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Forget the PSP, I want a PMP!

The PMP

Yes. First off, I’m talking about PMP, not a PIMP. But pimp jokes are going to be rather common now, with this sweet little device in action. It may not look like much, but this PSP-killer is packed with more stuff than your grandma’s attic.

The manufacturer of this beauty, the Portable Media Player is “3rd party”, but I and Engadget are pretty sure it was made in China. I mean, we just need a Chinglish instruction manual to prove it. But regardless of electronic ethnicity, the PMP is able to:

  • Emulate NES, SNES, Sega MD and SMC.
  • Play AVI, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, MP3, WMA, and FLAC files (with an “Equlizer”, OMG.)
  • View JPG, GIF, BMP images.
  • Capture videos with a 1.3 megapixel MPEG-4 video camera.
  • Record sound (MP3).
  • Read E-Books.
  • Support 4-goddamned-gigabytes via SD card.
  • Smash Sony’s teeth and swallow it whole.

Yeah, that above list contains more things than your godforsaken computer can. The PSP costs $200 and can’t emulate the SNES. The sweet, sweet PMP can, at a mere $109.68 (or 850.00 in Hong Kong currency). I freaking want this.

[Engadget via Gizmodo. Buy it here.]

The Pipeline v2.0

The Pipeline v2.0

Here it is! The above image is what our media player The Pipeline will look like in roughly 3 weeks. The technology behind The Pipeline, SplashCast has been working hard at improving the player in many ways.

The mega improvement here is that you can now navigate each show through a series of thumbnails. You can also make the player full screen by pressing a button directly in the player.

Please leave any comments that you have about this new design of the player, whether good or bad. We need all the feedback so we can provide you with the most user friendly player around the net!

A farewell to arms, RIP Logitech MX1000

Three years ago, around the time I got my gaming quality computer, I bought a mouse. It was a wireless mouse, made by Logitech. The first laser mouse to exist in the world commercially, the MX1000. It served me well. Nice shape, long battery life, great design, good weight, and very few problems. However, as with all things, one must move on. My good old mouse has started to deteriorate. All of the labels are warn or missing completely, the feet are entirely gone, the charger barely works anymore, and the plastic layers are fading. So now I must bid farewell to my trusty rechargable Logitech mouse for another.

In a few days I will, if my eBay seller can get his Paypal up and running eventually, have a brand new(see factory refurbished) Logitech(go with what you know and the companies you trust) MX Revolution. Rest In Peace my trusty mouse, you have served me well.