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Microsoft Songsmith can turn your life into the musical from hell

Shawn Farner, Jan 13th 2009 Discuss [3]

The premise of Microsoft's newly-released music making application is simple - you just sing into your PC's microphone and Songsmith analyzes your song's notes to create a background track. If you'd like to see all the ways you can use this power for evil, watch the video after the jump. Read The Full Story

Real Apple fans have iPhone wedding cakes

Shawn Farner, Jan 13th 2009 Discuss [1]

If I told you that we found this picture courtesy of Gizmodo, you'd probably look at it and call me a liar right to my face. I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with, however, is this beautiful iPhone cake and its wasted potential. Look at those apps - the thing isn't even jailbroken! I suppose it's fitting though; a locked down phone for a newly-locked-down man. The cake took 18 hours to make and was a gift to Bobby Casey from his new bride. Sure, it says Cingular on it, but that doesn't take away from its awesomeness one bit. It's almost too beautiful to eat, but unfortunately, the cake was eaten. At least they took pictures. Bottom line: whoever made this thing has serious talent. In fact, I wonder if she'd make us a Palm Pre cake for launch... If you're out there, get in touch!

CES 2009 Wrap-Up: Vincent goes red-light rogue

Chris Davies, Jan 11th 2009 Discuss [3]

In a surprise career move, SlashGear co-founder Vincent Nguyen announced today that he would be leaving the technology blogging community and beginning a career in the adult industry. Speaking to a sparse crowd at the Sands Expo this morning, Nguyen described his waning interest in smartphones and iPods, and outlined his intention to bring quickfire lessons learnt in live-blogging to blue movies. Check out the on-set live action shots of Vincent in action after the cut Read The Full Story

The transition to all digital TV will be smooth, eh?

Brenda Stokes, Oct 17th 2008 Discuss [0]

Okay, I just saw something hilarious. Most people know by now that all analog TV signals will be switched over to digital ones come February 2009. And while all the commercials tout the process to be super easy, it may not be so for everyone. Read The Full Story

Teddy Bear Lamp is a headless wonder

Brenda Stokes, Sep 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

Okay, so I need to speak up about something. Why oh why have there been so many abuses of the teddy bear lately? Headless teddy bear flash drives and now this lamp? What is the world coming to! But in all seriousness, the Teddy Bear Lamp is just like any other light fixture. It features a shade made from black fabric that sits on a teddy bear's body. He's soft and fuzzy but missing his head! Read The Full Story

X-Ray Message Plates for Airport Screeners are carry on communication

Brenda Stokes, Sep 29th 2008 Discuss [1]

Tired of waiting in the security lines at the airport? Tired of having your laptop scanned? Well now, you can do more than use a checkpoint-friendly bag. In fact, you can send a little message to the scanner operators! Read The Full Story

Musical road gets repaved after drivers complain

Brenda Stokes, Sep 25th 2008 Discuss [2]

Sometimes consumers complain about things that are just petty. But this time, I'm going to have to side with drivers traveling through Lancaster, CA that have to put up with a harmonic segment of road. Read The Full Story

Olympics Opening Ceremonies plagued by BSOD

Brenda Stokes, Aug 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

I think we've all encountered the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) at one time or another, but never has it been so epic in both size and scale than at the opening ceremonies for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Read The Full Story

David Jaffe thinks Nintendo = Ronald

Chris Scott Barr, Jun 16th 2008 Discuss [0]

Have you guys ever seen the movie Can't Buy Me Love? It's been a really long time since I've seen that movie, but I seem to recall it was about some guy that mowed lawns and hires a popular girl to be his girlfriend for a month. That really doesn't seem to fit into the gaming world, however, that's the first thing that David Jaffe (of God of War fame) thought of when he heard Nintendo's comments about only “geeks and otaku” wanting extra storage on the Wii. Read The Full Story

Video game power-ups in real life

Chris Scott Barr, Jun 13th 2008 Discuss [0]

After spending several hours emerged in a video game, the real world can seem pretty boring without all of those cool weapons and power-ups. Every now and then I stop to wonder what the world would be like if we had some of those items. Apparently I'm not the only one. Read The Full Story

Konami Code displays easter egg in Google Reader

Chris Scott Barr, Jun 12th 2008 Discuss [0]

If you were a gamer back in the days of the NES, I can bet that you came across the Konami code at some point. In fact, I'd even be willing to bet that you can recite it from memory, despite the fact you haven't used it in 15 years. Well if you want to put that bit of knowledge to good use again, open up your Google Reader and enter the code. For those rare few gamers out there that don't know what I'm talking about, the Konami code is most famous for its use in the game Contra (which is impossible to beat without the code), where it gives you 30 extra lives. Just in case your memory is a bit rusty, the old code is up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A. Read The Full Story

The Wii Fit finds multiple alternative uses

Abby McVay, May 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

The Wii Fit has been out for a little over a week now and already people are finding alternative uses for it. Wii Fanboy has been throwing random objects onto the Balance Board to see how different things are measuring up and Joystick Division have come up with various alternative uses for after you get bored of the game. Read The Full Story