Archive | February, 2009
Buying a proper headset requires some amount of individual research. One must look after the comfort level of the headset while buying. Long stretched usage of headphones require a padded headband that can be adjusted to comfortably fit the size of your head. Whatever your listening requirement be it late night music listening, watching TV, etc., it is important that your headset sits comfortably in place.
The choice of the design of the headset also needs considerable amount of study. Say you need to use your headphone in a noisy situation or say while working in a shared environment e.g. an office where you don’t want to disturb others as a result of leaking of sound from your headset. This requires Sealed Headsets which are classic heavy and roust type headset solutions.
If not the case you can use Open-Air headsets. They deliver the best overall sound quality. Lightly weighted makes them the most comfortable choice for users using headphones for an extended period of time. Open air headsets tends to be quite fragile and breaks easily so, care must be taken while using them. These are the most reasonable buy.
The cell phone makers are doing today what the cigarette makes did it fifty years back. Cell phone causes risk to the health of the user – however, there is still enough smoke over this issue.
One of the largest growing industries is the cell phone industry. However, the market has saturated since 2004. In spite of it, the numbers of sales of cell phones are still quite heavy and 2 billion phones are still sold annually around the world. The sale has been further encouraged by introducing new designs and other facilities on the phone. As a result of it, the market of India and China has started to grow again.
However, in spite of this growth in sale, no cell phone companies have yet been able to come up with any counter attack for hundreds of researches that are being conducted everyday. The electromagnetic field of the cell phones are considered to be most harmful. On the other hand, the FDA has given clean chits to the cell phone companies for the time being. So whether you want to use cell phone or not is entirely your decision.
PS3's controller is too light! Xbox 360 ripped off PS2! The Wiimote makes you look like an idiot when you wave it around! Which controller is the best? Which is the dumbest?! You cannot be banned for anything you say in this thread. But otherwise, rational arguments or pure flamebait, fire away. Source[gizmodo]
Filed under: ABC, Primetime, Daytime It's one thing to simply fork out some cash for new equipment and pull the lever on HD newscasts, but Lexington, Kentucky's WTVQ-TV is doing it real big when it takes its local news to high-def this month. Starting on October 30th, not only will locals view the evening news in HD, but they'll see a new anchor team, a new news set, a fresh graphics arrangement and revived vivaciousness all around. We've always heard that going all out was the only way to go -- guess we'll see how the ratings react in around a week.[Thanks, Eric]Lexington, KY's WTVQ gets major makeover as part of HD news transition originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read
The first is fully covered with keyboard keys-with the hood keys showing a pixelated Homer Simpson-, the second with floppy disks and Compact Flash cards, and the third one with Lego pieces. Fugly or purty? galleryPost('geekcars2', 10, ''); I say purty. Head to Dark Roasted Blend for their catalog of weirdly-covered cars. [Paula Wirth, Photophonic, KirsFricke, ddhac via Dark Roasted Blend] Source[gizmodo]
The Pack Chair is a concept (with five working prototypes in development) by designer François Azambourg. Stored rolled like a tiny sleeping bag, the chair inflates instantly when needed. But instead of just filling with air, the Pack Chair has a cloth body that inflates with liquid polyurethane. Presumably that polyurethane is not something you can just squeeze out later, so the chair most probably becomes a permanent fixture in your home after its deployment. Still, if it's strong enough to withstand the force of my pork-fed Midwestern frame, it sure looks more comfortable than a folding chair. [Design Boom via Craziest Gadgets] Source[gizmodo]
Research in Motion (RIM)'s Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.0, known as Argon, will launch in the second quarter of 2009 and will include more user-friendly functions, like the ability to view attachments in calendar entries. Some of the improvements will include: • Retrieve corporate documents behind firewalls • Add, read, rename and delete folders on the handset and have those changes be applied to the desktop email client • Create rules within the inbox to filter email and have those changes be applied to the desktop • View attachments in calendar entries and meeting requests • Download and store emails and email attachments onto microSD cards Over-the-air updates will also be easier for administrators and users in this new version of BES. [Boy Genius Report and Computerworld] Source[gizmodo]
Filed under: Industry, ABC, MyNetworkTV, Advertising
While LIN TV and Time Warner Cable remain embroiled in all sorts of disagreements, two of the company's stations in the Hartford-New Haven, Connecticut area are gearing up to trial Backchannelmedia's TV-to-Internet click through technology. If you'll recall, we first heard of this worrisome interactive advertising platform back in May when MGM Grand at Foxwoods signed on. Now, WTNH (ABC) and WCTX (MyNetworkTV) have also agreed to participate in the company's market trial, which is set to start next month. In essence, it will give viewers the ability to click on "non-intrusive icons at the bottom of the their TV screen" in order to bookmark offers for online viewing; obviously, all of the response data is forwarded on for use in soliciting more cash from advertisers. Why does the idea of having to engage with ads sound so dreadful from here?
Two LIN TV stations to trial Backchannelmedia's TV-to-Internet ad platform originally appeared on Engadget HD on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Blockbuster is set to test out offering video games in addition to movies via its Total Access rental by mail system. It's a move Netflix probably won't counter. Blockbuster is testing offering games now, and planning to offer it to customers in the second half of this year. Netflix has made no noise on the subject, and judging by the fact that it promotes Gamefly in envelope ads, probably doesn't have immediate plans to jump on board. There's no word on the pricing of a movies-and-games package at Blockbuster, but they did mention half-priced game rentals in-store, so that could be nice. [Hacking Netflix] Source[gizmodo]
Until we get organic cyborg beetles at the pet store, we'll have to use these RC helicopters that look like real roaches. Here's an idea: get a dozen and control them all using the same channel. In a four star restaurant. 30 minutes of charge equals 5 minutes of sheer dining terror and a few months of painful health inspection investigations. If you're terrible and into that kind of thing. [Gizmine] Source[gizmodo]
It's not quite Hulu, but CBS just dropped a ton of their old favorites into a decent flash web player, serving them up for free with a couple short ad clips. Plus, Melrose Place! The flash player kind of sucks, but apparently the site works internationally, which isn't always the case for these types of services (maybe not - commenters aren't having any luck outside the states). So all of you expatriates missing that unique brain sensation only golden-era USA TV can provide, you are in luck sadly still fucked. Looking at a lot of these, I can feel being dug up from deep in my cortexes the exact feeling of being at home sick in elementary school in 1991. Here's the complete list of shows, for which almost all have complete seasons: Beauty and the Beast Beverly Hills 90210 Dynasty Family Ties Have Gun - Will Travel Hawaii Five-0 The Love Boat MacGyver Melrose Place Perry Mason Star Trek: The Original Series The Twilight Zone Twin Peaks Enjoy. [CBS Classics - thanks, Trina and Tony!] Source[gizmodo]
Miniaturization of circuits and displays could lead to televisions shrunk into contact lenses and being powered by body heat, according to British futurologist Ian Pearson. Channels could be changed using voice commands or gestures, Pearson told The Daily Mail. "You... Miniaturization of circuits and displays could lead to televisions shrunk into contact lenses and being powered by body heat, according to British futurologist Ian Pearson. Channels could be changed using voice commands or gestures, Pearson told The Daily Mail. "You will just pop it into your eye in the morning and take it out at the end of the day," he said. Pearson's predictions are in contrast to how consumer electronics companies have been pushing bigger TVs. In the last few years, advances in plasma and LCD panel technologies along with falling prices have made it easy to buy TVs with up to 100-inches in screen size. But Pearson believes that trend will change and contact lenses that double up as personal TV sets could be reality within the next ten years. Already scientists have taken the first steps towards making contact lenses more powerful and versatile, says LiveScience. Digital contact lenses that can zoom in on objects and display related information have been tested on rabbits for up to 20 minutes. Digital and programmable contact lenses will be the next big step, say futurists like Pearson. Another possibility to advance your pleasure while watching Temptation Island or Flavor of Love? digital tattoos that could let users feel the emotions of the actors on the show by provoking similar impulses in their bodies. Photo: (fxp/Flickr) Source[Wired Gadget Lab]
Lots of things are wigging me out about the burned up CCTV building. Are fireworks that dangerous? What will happen with all that debris? And WHY are they censoring news of it over here? The building that caught fire was the Rem Koolhaas designed companion to the CCTV angular marvel. Named the Television Cultural Center, it was supposed to be a more lighthearted companion to its hulking sister. Besides a 300 room luxury hotel (The Mandarin Oriental), it would have also held restaurants and spas, recording studios and a 1,500-seat theater. The design was equally as fascinating as the CCTV headquarters (nicknamed Big Underpants or Big Hemorrhoids by the Chinese public). The Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Koolhaas' firm, drew inspiration from giant termite mounds. The first four floors protruded from the building's facade like randomly-arranged boxes and the entire building was to be wrapped in a unique titanium zinc alloy. OMA had chosen the material, ironically, because it would "endure time better than other metal buildings." Right now the official story is that the Mandarin Oriental, which was located at the top, caught fire from the myriad of fireworks set off to mark the Lantern Festival. Beijing usually bans the fireworks from its downtown area, but eases restrictions during the Spring Festival period (we really, really love our fireworks). But did you see how that building burned? Has anyone ever seen a skyscraper light up like that without... you know, being hit by a jet? But what weirds me out the most is the government response. This notice went out to news websites, BBS and blogs telling moderators to stop reporting on the CCTV fire. That means posting no more pictures, videos and only using the officially-sponsored Xinhua report. Why? Some say it's because the CCP doesn't want anybody to know about it until they've determined the cause of the fire – having millions assume that Beijing was under terrorist attack would be damaging to the country's harmony. But wouldn't a "The CCTV building caught fire last night. Cause is unknown, but terrorism is unlikely" blurb solve that? I know I'm living in a country that doesn't find anything wrong with censorship. And sometimes, considering the scarily huge masses of people they have to deal with, I can understand why. Nonetheless, my jaw's really on the floor right now. I never thought that something this newsworthy, and this hard to hide, would get the silent treatment. I eagerly await what they government say when they finally hold a press conference on it. The pictures are from Flickr user fuzheado. Here's another amazing gallery of the TVCC building by Ai De Ke. Source[gizmodo]
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