Gadgets Technologies

Sony Europe has announced the DVP-NS708H upscaling DVD player. Touting this new DVD player as a perfect complement to BRAVIA LCD TV or any other HD Ready TV, the DVP-NSH708H transforms your standard definition DVDs into a better 1080p at 1920×1080 maximum full HD resolution, which suits perfectly for viewing in a larger TV screen sizes. Aside from packing the DVD player with a useful remote which controls the DVD player using BRAVIA Sync, the DVP-NS708H also features; HDMI, high resolution video output at 720p/1080i/1080p up-convert, stable playback through precision drive 3 mechanism, precision cinema progressive, photo TV HD, component video and coaxial digital outputs.

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We never claim that these criminals are smart, but they always seem to be hitting a new low for stupidity. Recently a 17-year old from Wisconsin has been charged with felony child porn after he posted nude pictures of his 16 year old (i.e. underage) girlfriend on his MySpace page. When contacted by police, Alex Phillips refused to remove the photos, which is where the new low for stupidity comes in, and in turn prompted his arrest. The photos, taken with the unidentified girl’s cellphone, had been given to Phillips while the two were still together. He maintained that he had not intended to cause his ex any harm but admitted it he shouldn’t have done so.

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One thing I learned in college was there was nothing better then a good and dependable backpack. If you’re an avid hiker or outdoors junkie then a solid backpack is also something you quickly learn is an essential tool to keep your items dry and your back from suffering. Even with this said, there is no rule that states you have to have just an ordinary backpack. If you are a gadget geek there’s no doubt that I have found the backpack for you. It’s the Link Hydro Pack by Skullcandy.

Hydro as in water?

The first cool feature in the Link Hydro Pack is a bladder which fits into a zipper pocket between the main compartment and the very back of the pack.

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UrbanOutfitters.com knows that your appetite for food-shaped USB drives is absolutely insatiable. Don’t believe me? Then check out their 1GB pizza flash drive. What reason other than capitalizing on your foodie-drive hunger would the company have for charging $50 for portable storage that can often be had for less than $10? Via geeksugar. (Read the full post about ‘Pizza USB flash drive costs a lot of dough’…)

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by Donald Melanson, posted May 26th 2008 at 2:09PMWe’d already heard that Intel planned to trot out some dual-core Atom processors sooner or later, and the Fudzilla website has now turned up a few more details on ‘em courtesy of a supposedly legitimate leak. According to it, the first dual-core processor will be dubbed the Atom 330, and will clock in at the same 1.6GHz as the current single-core Atom 230 (no word on that 1.87GHz version we heard about previously). What’s more, the processor will supposedly pack 1MB cache memory (twice the amount of the current single-core processor), and boast a TDP rating of just 8W, which is a good deal more than the 2W rating the current Atom 230 has, but still far less than any of Intel’s other low-voltage processors. (Read the full post about ‘Rumored dual-core Atom details get fleshed out’…)

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by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted May 26th 2008 at 10:05AM Things are looking good for the Phoenix lander which touched down on Mars at 4:53pm on Sunday, May 25. The NASA nerds are reporting an almost perfect landing, with the spacebot tilted only one quarter of a degree. In fact, they’re claiming that this landing was “far smoother than any simulation or test that was ever done.” The lander’s north-pole location is measured at -106 degrees Fahrenheit and chock-full of life-preserving ice. Phoenix will chill on Mars for 90 days, sniffing soil and looking for frozen Martians in whatever form they may take. Now that Mars Oddyssey — one of its main communication uplinks — has passed over the lander, we have our first pictures, one of which is above. (Read the full post about ‘Mars Phoenix lander has near-perfect landing, says “it’s really cold out here”’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted May 26th 2008 at 7:54AM
Given MemUp’s recent past, we wouldn’t be too shocked to find that the outfit’s latest bundle of media players were all rips of other units, but we’ll assume innocence until proven guilty. Up first is the K-SLIM, a simplistic DAP with a 1.8-inch display, FM tuner and 2GB / 4GB of internal capacity. Moving on, we’ve got the all-too-similar K-TOUCH, which gently ups the ante with a 2-inch touchscreen and 4/8/16GB of space. The V-TOUCH gets oriented horizontally and boasts a 2.4-inch panel, while the M430 TR PMP arrives with 4.3-inches of screen real estate. Lastly, we’ve got the M430 DTV, which obviously trumps the latter with its integrated TV tuner. (Read the full post about ‘MemUp reveals new line of portable media players’…)

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I don’t know why I never saw these commercials. As a kid, I LOVED M.A.S.H. and I loved computers. Of course, I was more of an Atari fan back then, but I would have loved to see my old friends together in these commercials.

IBM hired the entire cast of M.A.S.H. to promote their new computer, the PS/2.

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Filed in archive Tip by jim on May 26, 2008