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52-Inch Sharp Aquos HDTV for $38.45 (Or Not Really)
Right now, one of the stores at Amazon.com—myOfficeSource—is selling a 52-inch Sharp Aquos 1080P HDTV for $38.45 (thirty-eight dollars and forty-five cents). That's $2,261.54 off its list price. New, not refurbished. Obviously, something wrong—or fishy—must be happening because, right now, you can buy a bunch of products with this discount. Giz reader Cliff, who gave us the heads up, actually bought the 52-inch Aquos and got a confirmation email from Amazon in which they say his order will arrive in mid-september. Update: One reader is giving a word of caution, so proceed with caution because this may be a scam. More »
10:12 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
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412 comments
Latest by Xavoc: Well, let's put it this way. Honoring this obvious mistake will likely bankrupt the company. Chances are they're more »
Airplanes
Eclipse 400 Personal Airplane Is True Sports Skycar
The Eclipse 400 looks is one of those airplanes that you can only imagine in movies or comicbooks. But this is not the Avenger's Quinjet, it is very real, as the video shows. Right now it's being perfected and will be delivered to Tony Starks wannabes in just three years. Its four-seat interior looks more like an expensive sports car than a plane, and it has me saying "want": More »
9:30 PM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Jesus Diaz
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26 comments
Latest by Chese: Cirrus is building a very similar aircraft and are far more stable than Eclipse. [www.the-jet.com] more »
Humor
Blog Vital Security has discovered a fatal flaw in Google's Chrome, which may dramatically affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who are running the browser right now:
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Google Chrome Fatal Flaw Discovered, Will Destroy Lives, Dignities
Blog Vital Security has discovered a fatal flaw in Google's Chrome, which may dramatically affect the lives of the tens of thousands of people who are running the browser right now:
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Apple
First Photo of Apple Let's Rock Event
It's happening. The Let's Rock Apple event has started to roll. Here's the first photo outside the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. [iPhone Savior]
Space
Hubble Repair Mission More Risky than You Would Ever Imagine
If you think that the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope is going to be boring, you haven't seen this video yet. Not only the astronauts will be risking their lives as usual at 366 miles above the Earth, but the sheer amount and the difficulty of the tasks—from repairing components to replacing them to installing new gadgets—makes the mission an almost-impossible one, with soundtrack to match. I never imagined this was going to be such an ambitious and daunting work. More »
In Brief
Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones
FROM IO9.COM: Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, is one of the most techno-savvy scifi authors of his generation, and yet his new novel Anathem is strongly critical of mobile phones. More »
What's Playing, Pussycat?
Hello Kitty DJ Speaker Brings Out the Disco Pussycat Lover In You
Who else would spend $25 in a Hello Kitty Action DJ Speaker—which moves pretending she's a DJ at the rhythm of the music played in your digital audio player—but a twisted disco pussy lover with probably too much Jack Daniel's running through his veins and listening to ABBA right now? More »
Nintendo
If you are sucker for all things 8-bit and all things NES—like I am—you will love these three-dimensional renderings of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games by Justin Buonvino. So much that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago.
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NES Games Renderings Make Great Background Desktops
If you are sucker for all things 8-bit and all things NES—like I am—you will love these three-dimensional renderings of classic Nintendo Entertainment System games by Justin Buonvino. So much that you will put them on your desktop background, just like a did one minute ago.
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Xbox 360
Dean Takahashi, one of the most respected tech journos around, spent years putting together this mind-blowing expose that reveals the truly epic scale of the problems that lead to millions of dead Xbox 360s. It really is one of the most stunning flustercucks in gaming history. According to his account, Microsoft willfully ignored deep, systemic problems in the console's production that reached from chipmakers—initially, only 16 out of every 100 of its IBM-made processors worked—to production lines, where just before launch, an unbelievable 68 percent of consoles made were clunkers.
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The Shocking Inside Story of the Epic Defects That Killed Millions of Xbox 360s
Dean Takahashi, one of the most respected tech journos around, spent years putting together this mind-blowing expose that reveals the truly epic scale of the problems that lead to millions of dead Xbox 360s. It really is one of the most stunning flustercucks in gaming history. According to his account, Microsoft willfully ignored deep, systemic problems in the console's production that reached from chipmakers—initially, only 16 out of every 100 of its IBM-made processors worked—to production lines, where just before launch, an unbelievable 68 percent of consoles made were clunkers.
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rumors
The Mystery of iPod Nano Spy Photos
Yesterday we said that the leaked iPod nano shot looked real to us. After all, Apple seems to be going through its curved surfaces and tapered edges period. This new shot of this old-green-lime colored one however is a completely different beast. More »
Useless gadget for most
Condom Dispenser Sets the Bar Too High
At last. Female sex pros and male overachievers rejoice—as the rest of us scratch our heads and look somewhere else while the level indicator on this $28 condom dispenser keeps going down at the same rate of our hand cream dispenser. [Uncommon Goods via Random Good Stuff]
Interview
Food Network's Alton Brown Talks to Giz: Caribbean Adventuring With a Garmin, an iPhone and a Shload of Cameras
Tomorrow night at 10PM, Food Network kicks off Alton Brown's latest TV show, Feasting on Waves, where the Mensa-smart kitchen geek and his crew hop into two 50-foot catamarans and sail around 15 different Caribbean islands in search of quality cuisine, shooting and editing the hi-def episodes right there on the boats. It turns out, despite his disdain for specialized kitchen gadgets, Brown depended on regular high-end tech to make a cooking show on a boat happen.
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10:00 AM on Sat Sep 6 2008
By Wilson Rothman
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58 comments
Spy shot
Unconfirmed: An Actual Picture of the New iPod Nano
Looks like we've got a supposedly legit, actual spy shot of the new iPod nano in its packaging (apparently originally posted by MacNN in an obscured form before getting cleared up). Thankfully, while it confirms everything we've been hearing about it, it's much, much prettier and Apple-y than what Kevin Rose provided us with, which looked like it was crapped out of a plastic robot Ewok or something before it had its picture taken. This, all assuming that it's actually a legit picture. Orange? My dream of a lime green nano on Tuesday now has wings. Update: We have changed the photo again for one without watermarks we just got in the mail. [MacNN—Thanks Mike]
Retromodo
Regulars might remember Adam's similar Photoshop contest a few weeks ago, but these amazing oil-on-canvas paintings were lovingly adorned with Macintosh SEs for a Sweden-only ad campaign all the way back in 1987. Erik Saxen produced these original works (inspired by a number of famous artists) for Apple's marketing, but is now seeking a (weird) collector to take them off his hands.
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Purchase Classical Works of Art, As Dreamt by a Young Steve Jobs
Regulars might remember Adam's similar Photoshop contest a few weeks ago, but these amazing oil-on-canvas paintings were lovingly adorned with Macintosh SEs for a Sweden-only ad campaign all the way back in 1987. Erik Saxen produced these original works (inspired by a number of famous artists) for Apple's marketing, but is now seeking a (weird) collector to take them off his hands.
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CEDIA 2008
Oppo BDP-S83 Blu-ray Player May Be First (Almost) Universal Disc Reader
Oppo, pimps of the upscaling DVD realm and makers of one of the best (and last) SACD/DVD-Audio capable machines out there, are moving into the Blu-ray business with the BDP-S83 player. There are no announced deets, but an AVS Forum member spotted this unit at CEDIA. And from what we can see in this image and the back shot below, the feature set is laid out clearly, and something's unusual about it. Update: Oppo got back to us with extra info, including confirmation of Anchor Bay upscaling, soon-ish shipping date and a possible price ($500-$700). More »
iPhone Apps
The Week In iPhone Apps: Spore Origins Hands-On Edition
I've been running around at CEDIA this week, so for today's installment, on top of a rundown of our app news from the week, we had a chance to give Spore Origins for the iPhone a spin before it drops (hopefully) this Sunday. More »
6:57 PM on Fri Sep 5 2008
By John Mahoney
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17 comments
Latest by RetepNamenots: An advert for Sport last night in the UK said that the RRP was £4.99 - £44.99; so I'm willing more »
Design
Though it's in no way official, I happen to enjoy Google Blogoscoped's analysis of the Google Chrome logo and agree with the influences listed. In addition to the hodge podge of handheld Simons, Pokeballs, Firefox, webcams and Google logos, Neatorama also throws in the Sal-9000 eye from 2010 for good measure. It also kinda looks like that robot lamp from yesterday (obviously, they're not remotely related). Anything else this reminds you of? [Google Blogoscoped via Neatorama]
Google Chrome: Anatomy Of A Logo
Though it's in no way official, I happen to enjoy Google Blogoscoped's analysis of the Google Chrome logo and agree with the influences listed. In addition to the hodge podge of handheld Simons, Pokeballs, Firefox, webcams and Google logos, Neatorama also throws in the Sal-9000 eye from 2010 for good measure. It also kinda looks like that robot lamp from yesterday (obviously, they're not remotely related). Anything else this reminds you of? [Google Blogoscoped via Neatorama]
Custom Cars
