Archive for December 7th, 2008
We’ve received no official word either way on this, but all the signs are currently pointing to a delay for the US launch of Cowon’s S9 Curve. The undoubtedly sexy PMP is still set to launch in South Korea this month, but unspecified “production problems” are reportedly responsible for pushing the Stateside shipment back. So, when can we Americans expect to have a US version in our palms? We figuring (and hoping) it’ll hit sometime around January at the latest — any longer than that and we might have to cash in these frequent flier miles for a round-trip jaunt to Seoul.
Update: Cowon just issued a press release with date, pricing, and more pictures of the UI and hardware. Starting December 16th, the S9 will be available in Korea in 4GB / 8GB / 16GB capacities for 219,000 won ($150), 259,000 won ($178), and 309,000 won ($212), respectively. Still no word on rest of world releases.
[Via Anything but iPod, thanks Waroxy F.]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Cowon’s S9 Curve PMP delayed for US? (Updated: official date, price, pics) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Motorsports
Click above to check out Thunderhill’s top ten, and a few of our favorites
With 83 official competitors at the 2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill, it’s next to impossible to give each team their well-deserved time in the limelight. So we’ve complied a gallery of the top ten overall finishers (although one escaped our long lensman) and four of our favorites from the race that we caught up with between pit-stops and fill-ups. Check the gallery for their overall and class standings, along with a brief write-up on the teams we were able to corner.
We’ve also uploaded two galleries from the early morning and afternoon; one that covers almost all the contendors still running late into the day and another gorgeous gallery of night shots that provided us with a new desktop.
Autoblog’s Top Ten(ish) from the 2008 25 Hours of Thunderhill originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by Griffin McElroy
Filed under: Nintendo DS, Sony PlayStation 2, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PSP, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360, Business
It’s that wonderful time of year once again — temperatures are plummeting, houses are being adorned in blinding flecks of incandescence, folks are dressing up like Eskimos, and college students are being crushed under the terrible pedagogical strain of final examinations. Those among you who are currently pursuing your collegiate careers know the tragic side-effects of higher education during this new-release-filled season — while your friends and colleagues are genociding zombies in Left 4 Dead, your ink-spotted nose is tucked uncomfortably in the relatively zombie-less Complete Works of Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust.
While we imagine there are those who find French literature from the early 1900s to be just as, if not more, thrilling than the virtual shooting of virtual things, the vast majority of our university-bound readers are probably aching to doff their coursework, giving them time for more ludological ventures. As in most aspects of life, we prefer to take the road less traveled — we find ample time for both activities by eschewing our pesky physiological needs, namely sleep, by using all manner of caffeinated pharmaceuticals. Best of all, there’s no negative repercussions! We’re so excited! We’re so excited! We’re so … so … scared!
Update: Zack just came over and showed us the error of our ways with a tear-filled embrace. We’re probably going to be spending the next week or so at our grandparents’ place for some much-needed reflection. As we do so, you too should reflect — on this week’s sales figures. Observe the impressive doubling of PS3 purchases, and the continued rise of the DS Lite, owed largely to the scarcity of the DSi — and, of course, to a certain tall-hatted riddle-flinger.
- DSi: 87,185  1,658 (1.87%)
- PSP: 55,090 6,136 (10.02%)
- Wii: 49,848  14,550 (41.22%)
- PS3: 34,978 17,542 (100.61%)
- DS Lite: 26,851 8,271 (44.52%)
- Xbox 360: 11,423 4,051 (26.18%)
- PS2: 5,628 347 (6.57%)
[Source: Media Create]
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Japanese hardware sales, Nov. 24 - Nov. 30: Scholastic pressure edition originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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What do an old-school paper day planner and a phone with a 3-inch OLED have in common? If you answered “absolutely nothing,” you’d be correct — but LG apparently didn’t get the memo, because they’ve decided to grace their latest domestic superphone, the SU100, with the rather unusual Franklin Planner branding. Besides the presumably gorgeous display, other totally un-Franklin features include a 3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, and an S-DMB TV tuner, which should all make for a nice, smooth transition for anyone still committing appointments and contacts to paper in the year 2008. The SU100’s launching on South Korea’s SKT for about 700,000 won ($475) with a white version following on next month.
Filed under: Cellphones
LG goes insanely retro with Franklin Planner branding on SU100 phone originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Here we go again. It seems like just yesterday we heard the first whispers of a Google desktop OS, and products like Chrome stoke suspicions that the Mountain View-based company is setting itself up to invade the PC. Although Google insists that it’s focusing on the cloud, since Android was announced, the feasibility of a Google-branded desktop OS has certainly increased. Now, market research firm Net Applications is reporting that it has seen a third of the traffic from Google’s employees with intentionally blocked identification strings. This could be a real indicator that the big G is hard at work on a desktop OS — or just a sign that folks at Google don’t care to share their OS of choice. Hopefully, we’ll be hearing more sooner rather than later, but feel free to chime in with your Google global domination theories and rabid speculation in the comments.
[Via Boy Genius Report]
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Is stripped user agent data pointing to a Google OS? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Time Warp, Sports/GTs, Videos, Supercars, Lamborghini, Celebrities
Click above for a gallery of Countaches through the years
The Lamborghini Countach is the poster child for the modern Italian supercar. Literally. If you’re of a certain age (and there are a few of us here at Autoblog who are), you probably had a series of Countach posters on your bedroom wall throughout your formative years. Put simply, the Countach was awesome. Still is, too. The clean-looking LP400 cars, as shown above, are simply gorgeous. Successive updates added visual muscle, but the basic goodness remained the same. (And yes, the 25th Anniversary car’s cheese-slicer grates are an abomination.)
While the Countach is capable of being outperformed by a number of modern, far less exotic sports cars, none of them carry its overwhelming wow factor (or the excellent bold oblique lamborghini logo) Roll up in a Z06 or 911 Turbo today and no one will bat an eyelash, despite their being world-class machines. Arrive in a Countach, however, and you have an event on your hands. That’s just how it is. Always was. Always will be.
Jay Leno, no surprise, has a Countach — a nicely-worn, red, carbeurated ‘86 Quattrovalvole that once served as his daily driver and now has 70,000 miles on the clock. Obviously, he loves it, and it’s the subject of the Jay Leno’s Garage video we’ve got embedded after the jump. Jay gives a brief history of his car, which includes nuggets such as his deletion the rear wing because he thought it was stupid. (And really, it is. These cars look so much better without it.) Make sure you watch the whole thing. If you bail early you’ll miss the ending. And really, who wants to miss Countach burnouts?
[Source: Jay Leno's Garage]
Continue reading VIDEO: Jay Leno and the Lamborghini Countach
VIDEO: Jay Leno and the Lamborghini Countach originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by Griffin McElroy
Filed under: Business
Earlier last year, screenwriter William L. Crawford III sued Midway, claiming they had stolen the plot, characters and designs featured in his 2001 screenplay, titled Psi-Ops, for their 2004 action game … titled Psi-Ops. We kinda see the similarities therein, and were fairly certain Crawford would leave the courtroom with 1.5 million of Midway’s dollars in his pocket.
We were wrong. Not only about Crawford’s ability to carry $1.5 million in his pants (the logistics of which are, well, impossible), but also about how the presiding judge would rule in the case — according to Kotaku, federal Judge Florence Marie-Cooper recently decided that there was “minimal evidence supporting a reasonable possibility” that Midway had stolen any ideas from Crawford’s screenplay, clearing Midway of the copyright infringement charges. That’s $1.5 million that Midway no longer has to worry about paying out. Now, about that other $150 million…
[Via Big Download]
Midway wins Psi-Ops copyright infringement lawsuit originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: News, Xbox Live Arcade
Sometime soon, developer Denki has plans to release a new Xbox Live Arcade game called Quarrel. A game that’s a blended mix of Risk, Scrabble and the UK game show Countdown. To play, players try to capture and hold various territories (Risk) by competing in rounds of Countdown by spelling various words of different point values (Scrabble). Players will also have to strategically place “quarrelers” pieces on each territory, which will ultimately affect the territory’s point value. Sound complicated? Sound fun? Sound Riskascrabblecountdown’riffic? Make the jump to read Square-Go’s early Quarrel impressions.
[Via Joystiq]
 XBLA Quarrel mixes Risk, Scrabble and Countdown originally appeared on Xbox 360 Fanboy on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Filed under: Mac, PC, Meta (about Joystiq)
We are waist deep in the holiday season now but that doesn’t mean Big Download is slacking up. Far from it in fact. Here are our highlights for the first week of December:
Exclusive features
Continue reading The Best of Big Download: December 1-7
The Best of Big Download: December 1-7 originally appeared on Joystiq on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Well this is a nice little project for a lazy Sunday. The folks over at Instructables have given us the step-by-step how-to on making a James Bond style “laser weapon” — though it’s not actually a gun for killing people (thankfully), and it’s not really very much like 007’s weapon, either. Using a CO2 pistol, a laser guide, an Xbox 360 HD DVD drive, a housing for the laser and a circuit board, you too can build a blue laser gun that’ll do things like light matches and pop balloons. Like we said, it’s not going to help you achieve your goal of taking out all those who’ve wronged you, and it probably won’t get you a date with Strawberry Fields, but you might impress your friend(s). Incredibly smooth video of the project after the break. Continue reading DIY “James Bond” laser gun won’t make you anything like James Bond
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
DIY “James Bond” laser gun won’t make you anything like James Bond originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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