Microsoft’s RSS team has announced that the icon they will use to identify available RSS feeds in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 7 is…the one that Firefox is already using.
I’m excited to announce that we’re adopting the icon used in Firefox. John and Chris were very enthusiastic about allowing us (and anyone in the community) […]

In a similar move to Yahoo!’s, Google has released their own version of widgets. But instead of adding them to your desktop and consuming valuable resources they all run from your Google homepage. The process of making them is also, according to Google, ridiculously easy:
Modules are so easy to create that they are a good […]

For all those which have wondered what you can do with electronic paper, Citizen has brought this example. And what an example it is:
This watch measures 130×53cm and is only 3mm thick, and it can be bent in an angle of 180 degrees. It weighs 1.5kg though. the battery life is quite impressive too, because […]

Everyone has been wondering how the Nintendo Revolution Controller will work. Now there is a video on Google that shows (computer animated of course) how the device is intended to work, including images of what some Gamecube titles would look like using the new controller.
If it works as good as the video, it might be […]

Deep Space here we come.
I have to admit, I am a little bit of a Star Trek and Babylon 5 fan, and the fact that we are getting closer and closer to faster and more efficient forms of space propulsion really gets my Geek going.
BBC News has an article about a Plasma Engine […]

While in America, the console is sold out everywhere, in Japan a few sources are reporting that only about a third of the consoles available were sold. Previously, the original XBox sold around 123,000 units. According to the Japanese Game Magazine Famitsu, 62,000 units were sold, which less than half of the previous console’s sales.

As […]

A surprising move was made today by Alexa, the company responsible for some interesting projects like the way back machine (and owned by Amazon).
So what do they offer, well basically they offer your their hardware and database to take a snapshot, organize and “compile” your results.
US$1 buys you 50 Gigabytes of data processing, or one […]

This is a small first step, and only works with Grand Theft Auto, but Fanjita has discovered a way to run a small “Hello World” program using the technique discovered in the hacked save game file for GTA.
This could very well breed a whole bunch of new firmware in a not so distant future and […]

So you missed out on the first round of XBox 360’s that were up for sale. Best Buy stores in the U.S. will be receiving new stock on December 16 and they will go on sale December 18.
Want to find out how many units your local Best Buy will receive? here are a list of […]

Eric Bangeman from ArsTechnica has written an all-round review of Nokia’s latest portable communication gadget.
In case you don’t know, the 770 is a Linux based PDA-like device and the main functions are internet surfing and e-mail reading that we mentioned here back in May.
In short, this is the pros and cons list, but the whole […]

ThinkSecret is reporting that one of the new products rumored to be released in January by Apple, the Intel iBook, may be a 13.3 inch widescreen version, replacing the current 14.1 inch model.
he 13.3-inch widescreen iBook is said to sport a WXGA resolution of 1280×720, serving up about 15 percent more pixels than the current […]

Team Emergency Exit has released possibly one of the best applications ever built for the PSP. This program’s main features are:

Boot PSP games that require 2.0+ firmware (not ISO load)
Downgrade your PSP and considered a very safe downgrader and even backups your old firmware so you can revert whenever you wish
Swap the O and X […]

Christoph Sinai from coconut-flavour.com has released an interesting little application that tells you where your Mac or iPod was built and the approximate date too.

Source: New Launches

Once tabbed browsing became mainstream thanks to Firefox and other tabbed browsers, I knew it would only be so long before people tried to find ways to make tabs useful for other applications, and it looks like the makers of Thunderbird are going to be throwing tabs into their e-mail client software. Tabbed e-mail messages? […]

It’s light, it recharges in 30 seconds and you can bend it. The NEC ORC (Organic Radical Battery, yes, Radical)

I’m all for technological achievements, but I don’t see a great amount of use for this unless it’s used together with that flexible e-paper they’re developing.

Metal Gear Acid 2 has just come out in Japan and introduces that stereoscopic accessory we showed you a few months ago.
I know that the device is not very portable, that is why Metal Gear Acid 2 has an option to turn on and off the stereoscopic vision.
But what else can you do with it? […]