Concept designs are just cruel and unusual. First of all the designer creates something completely new and gets consumers all excited over a product that may never exist (although sometimes eventually does). To make it worse, bloggers help the process by writing it up.
I’m all for cool console mods, especially when it’s something old-school like an NES. However, sometimes I see one that makes me stop and wonder why on earth someone would make such a creation. Take, for example, this light gun which has an entire NES stuffed into it.
Last week shots of what purported to be Fujitsu’s entrance to the budget ultraportable market showed up online, together with a rough Fall release estimation and pricing believed to be around the €400 mark. Today, though, the possibility of such a device reaching consumers has been perhaps called into question; in New York Times article, Fujitsu’s senior director of mobile product management describes the segment as having “no margin” for manufacturers to make profit.
Pricing details for Gigabyte’s M912 mini-convertible have emerged, courtesy of UMPC Fever’s user forum. From the start, OS details were confusing; now it appears that three versions of the touchscreen notebook will be available, the M912V running Vista and the M912X and M912M both running XP.
Creative’s Zen X-Fi certainly has the spec-sheet to take on Apple’s PMP range, but until now we weren’t sure it followed through with the usability. Jenn over at Pocketables has been playing with what must be one of the first out of the shipping crates, and while she likes the PMP it does seem to fall short of Creative’s “the sound of perfection” marketing hyperbole.
Shuttle have taken a lump hammer to any suggestion that a compact PC should be lacking in memory with the announcement of their XPC Barebone SX48P2 Deluxe. Despite its size, the unit can manage up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM across four sockets, courtesy of Intel’s X48 Express chipset. In fact, Shuttle are really pushing the SX48P2 Deluxe as a miniature power-house, with support for Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad processors and dual PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots.
Although this latest iPhone/iPod case may appear to be something you’d pick up at the local craft show, this cute little frog is actually being mass produced. This isn’t exactly a chic case to have around, but you have to admit, it is kind of cute.
If you’re low on space, but like having guests over this couch would be nice option. Especially if your guests tend to be younger, this is obviously not something you set up for Grandma on a weekend visit. Well, I suppose that depends on how much you want her to come back sometime.
In case you are one of those people that only checks your email every so often, you might want to be doing so just a little more. If you’re a WoW player and have signed up for the Wrath of the Lich King beta, you’ll be happy to hear that invites are finally being sent.
Tomb Raider is one of those games that I loved a long time ago. The first and second games were awesome, but I sort of lost interest for a while. A few months ago I decided to pick up Legend, which was a pretty decent game, and gave me hope for the series (despite some rather annoying bugs). Hit the jump for the trailer for Tomb Raider: Underworld, which I have to say I’m getting pretty excited about.
