Archive for August, 2010 - Page 13

MiLi Powerspring Adds Life to iPhone 4 Batteries

The MiLi Powerspring Adds As Much As 36 Hours of Life
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

One thing about the iPhone 4, it’s a great phone, but it can chew through batteries like no tomorrow. So there’ll always be some demand for ways to quickly supplement your iPhone’s juice levels, and that’s where the MiLi Powerspring comes in.

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Supernova X1 3D Tablet Does 3D Without Glasses

Rockchip Powered Tablet PC Can Display in 3D
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

This one comes as something of a shock, but a really surprising product is starting to hit trade shows–a tablet PC that can display in 3D, but without glasses.

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Microsoft Wireless Mobile 4000 Mice Get Sweet New Paintjobs

Pirouette, Crania Just Two New Mouse Color Schemes
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

You haven’t heard anything about the Microsoft Wireless Mobile 4000 mouse line out of us since back in 2009, so it’s great to be coming to you with a big new announcement about them. Specifically, they’re getting several sweet new paint jobs to match your office color scheme or even [...]

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GeForce GTS 450 Specs Allegedly Leaked

Rumored Next Mid-Range NVIDIA Card To Feature 789MHz Clock, Compete Against Radeon HD 5700 Series
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

A German website has posted specs of what allegedly will be NVIDIA’s next GeForce 400 graphics card. According to the rumor, Big Green is planning what will be called the “GTS 450″, which looks it’ll be an entry-level graphics card. Among the handful of specs, it’ll allegedly have a healthy [...]

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New iPod touch 4G & iPod nano 6G Details Emerge

iPod touch 4G & iPod nano 6G to Surprise With New Designs; Changes Implied by New Rumors
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

Yesterday we’ve seen a couple of leaked iPod touch 4G and iPod nano 6G cases that were suggesting some important design changes for these two upcoming Apple products. And it looks like today we have more rumors on the matter, which seem to confirm that both the new iPod touch [...]

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Best Buy and Target Look To Offer Used Video Game Sales / Trade-Ins

One Day After THQ Head Calls Used Games Cheating The Company, Best Buy and Target Step In
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

Guess Best Buy and Target don’t read TFTS. Their loss, of course, but they clearly missed out on our coverage of THQ creative director Cory Ledesma, who announced that buying used games was “cheating the company”. After all, if they knew such a thing, surely they wouldn’t have launched their [...]

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Hulu Plus Has Almost No More Content Than Hulu

One Touch Intelligence Staged Step By Step Comparison
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

Now here’s a surprise, folks–looking at this chart may suggest a big difference, but the firm One Touch Intelligence took a look at the episodes that Hulu offered and compared it against the offerings from Hulu Plus. As it turns out, your extra ten dollars a month doesn’t buy you [...]

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The Littlest Lambo--An RC Reventon

The Lamborghini Reventon Comes In Pieces That You Collect Then Build Yourself
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

I’ve never seen an RC car get so complex in its collection, but when you’re dealing with Lamborghini, everything’s got to be a little more complicated. Anyway, we’re talking about the DeAgostini Lamborghini Reventon, quite possibly the most complex RC car I’ve ever seen.

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Japan Develops Touchable 3D System

Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Develops i3space, A Tactile Feedback System
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

There was once an old Dilbert strip that said the driving forces behind technology were money and male hormones. It further posited that, should virtual reality ever get cheaper than dating, society itself was doomed. Ladies and gentlemen, behold your doom.

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iPhone 4 Dual SIM Is Not a Cheap Chinese Knock-Off But a Different Case

iPhone 4 Dual SIM Adapter Case Prevents Death Grips & Offers Support for Second SIM
Filed by on Friday, 27. August 2010

I’m going to show you a dual SIM iPhone 4 and I promise it’s not a cheap knock-off made in China. It is in fact a really real iPhone 4 unit made by Apple (come to think of it, the real thing is made in China too) wrapped inside a [...]

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