Tag: HGGNEWS

We know you aren't going to believe it 'til you see it, but SCEA has confirmed to our brethren at Joystiq that PlayStation Home will hit the US market before 2009 dawns. In the words of PS Home director Jack Buser: "We've been saying it will launch by the end of calendar year 2008, and that's getting very, very close." He continued by affirming that "launch is imminent," but stopped short of ...

Unless you have some unexplained obsession with gadgets of yesteryear, you probably haven't been paying close attention to how many brands of portable CD players your local retailers have been stocking. According to Currys over in the UK, however, it's being pressured to order up truckloads of 'em to satisfy the 50 pervent uptick in demand compared to last year. Moreover, John Lewis (a ...

Looking for something a bit more distinctive to decorate your iPhone than a sports team logo or rubberized case? If so, you're in luck, because Infectious.com just launched its iPhone art store online. The site offers exclusive laptop, car, wall, and now iPhone art created by real artists, many with actual street cred! The 'art' is made of adhesive vinyl that sticks onto the back of your iPhone. ...

Resolution+. Super Resolution Technology. Upscaling. Upconverting. You've heard it all, but what does it all really mean? Home Cinema Choice has taken the liberty of breaking down the art of upscaling to explain in-depth what's going on when pixels become slightly-more-detailed pixels. We'll leave the dirty work to the read link, but if you've been wondering just how good SD content could look ...

Simply put, we laughed our backsides off when we came across this new, blonde-tastic splash of bubblegum fun. We are, of course, talking about the Keyboard For Blondes, a bright pink keyboard designed specifically for OMG enthusiasts. Though the color alone is enough to drive a 'Hills'-obsessed-daughter and her enabling mother wild, it is the fun details that won us over. Though completely ...

One analyst suspects that Apple may be undergoing what he describes as an "iPod shortage" this Holiday season, Cnet reports. Shaw Wu (of the Kaufman Bros. market analysis firm) disclosed in a statement that, judging from insider retailer reports, he believes stores like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target are experiencing this "shortage." Buyers found Amazon.com to be under-supplied with the media ...

Seriously, we feel a little more street just by lookin' at these things. The followup to the smashing over-the-head Beats headphones are here, and yes, they deliver sound so big, you'll think you've got speakers in your ears (Dre's words, not ours). They also feature what's touted as the planet's first "tangle-free earphone cable," in-ear noise isolation and a trio of cone tips to ensure the ...

Look, we know you've been holding out for the iPhone to hit Wal-Mart before you pick it up, sandwiched between the fishing gear and row upon row of exercise videos -- and we don't blame you. You'll ride your shopping cart down the wide aisles like a chariot, and when you get home with the phone you'll dial up all your friends and let them know how much cheaper your iPhone was than theirs. What ...

Back when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, Blu-ray and HD-DVD coexisted in a competitive market that frustrated consumers with a lack of high-def disc formats. The result was no one really upgrading to either format due to fears of one or the other going obsolete. Then HD-DVD officially gave up, and Blu-ray was declared the winner. Happily ever after, right? Not quite. According to a study by ABI ...

It was HP who made the PC "personal again," but don't think Dell isn't doing its darnedest to make it ultra-personal... again. After seeing a number of Dell laptops get unorthodox paint jobs and hearing that it would make Art House machines CTO in 2009, we've now learned that Dell has swung open the doors to its all new Design Studio. Naturally, said studio was built to customize the outfit's ...

Just in time for Christmas, Lightning GPS is lending GPS units to churches and charities for those institutions to conceal in nativity scene figures, BoingBoing reports. The company's Web site, cheekily stating that "Lightning GPS Strikes Down Sinners," explains that this program had its origins in a few victimized churches asking the company for donated GPS units in recent years. Moved by the ...

A fortnight after going on sale, Apple's shiny new 24-inch LED Cinema Display has been acquired, unboxed and photographed for your drooling pleasure. Not much to say here outside of what's told in terrific detail by the pixels above, but just like the new MacBook family, there's lots of gloss to go around. Check the read link for a few more looks. ...

Yesterday's news about holiday shopping was somewhat positive, with online shopping found to be up two percent on Black Friday compared to 2007, but the word that overall holiday shopping was down four percent sent the markets reeling. Today's news about Cyber Monday, though, is much more positive, with word coming in that there were 46 percent more shoppers online than last year! The rate of ...

Trying to figure out something unique to give someone for the holidays, but not quite ready to go the arts and crafts route? You could give the gift of subscription services. For the talkative, a Skype subscription might prove useful. $60 a year will get you a phone number for accepting calls. If you spring for unlimited calling in the U.S. and Canada ($2.95 a month) the price of a SkypeIn ...

It's not like geeks really need another reason to stay home and watch movies in their pajamas while surfing the Web on their laptop and eating snickerdoodles on the sofa, but here are six more anyway. The folks at Download Squad have compiled a list of six DVDs to make your favorite tech nerd happy this holiday season, ranging from the story of a robot who finds love in 'WALL-E,' to a ...