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FYE says BYE – Music Downloads Rise

All around the world its beginning to get noticed more and more. The Cd stores are fading out, sales of the hard copies are seeing a fall while sales off internet music sites such as Itunes are seeing a rise. Why is this? Because you, the consumer, as well as me, find it better to download the song for .99 cents, and I don’t see my mind changing on that to soon. What does this mean for the CD shops though?

An iPhone without the phone or it’s an iPhone clone?

iPhone is only coming into Asia market in 2008, there is no surprise that we’d see lots of iPhone-clones coming up in Asia before iPhone launched in 2008. Well, the copycats phenomenon has become a norm in Asia market, especially China.

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Wii keeps gamers in touch with the outside world!

Wii have the concerns that gamers might stay out of touch with the outside world due to too much gaming. In order to help gamers stay in touch with what’s happening in the outside world, they’ve just launched an online news service through its popular Wii console.

The Wii news channel features top news stories and photographs from The Associated Press. Consoles with a broadband Internet connection and the Opera Web browser will be able to access the free news channel, which will offer AP news in multiple languages. Japanese-language news will come from a separate agency.

The news channel is equiped with an interactive map, which gamers can easily zoon in and out of areas of the world. If you wanna focus on religional news or national news of the U.S, you just blow up the map of the U.S. No intention yet from Wii to put ads on the news channel.

Source: CNN

Technorati: Wii,Wii news,Nintendo,Gaming

The world’s slimmest slider phone by Samsung

The Samsung Ultra Edition 10.9 is only 10.9mm thick. 10.9mm! This ultra slim phone features a 3.2-megapixel camera, 80MB of internal memory, microSD card slot, TV-out, and Bluetooth. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced.

Via [TechEBlog]

Technorati: Samsung,Slider phone,Ultra slim phone,cellphone

Blu-Ray cracked!

Sony claimed that Blu-Ray was inpenetrable, but it’s now been cracked by some hardcore hackers, just last week. If you are new to Blu-Ray, here is a little explaination. Blu-Ray or Blu-Ray disc is the new generation of optical disc format, which enables recording, rewriting and playback of high-definition video (HD), as well as storing large amounts of data. The format offers more than five times the storage capacity of traditional DVDs and can hold up to 25GB on a single-layer disc and 50GB on a dual-layer disc.

The current report is only the partial crack, a full crack is just in a matter of days. Those geeks managed to take down the DRM wall and grasp the AACS encryption, just as they did on Toshiba’s HD format. It sounds like the more so-called uncrackable disc formats the industry trying to produce, the more these hackers are feeling challenged to crack it!

Source T3

Technorati: Blue Ray,Sony,Blue Ray Disc

The world’s smallest two-legged walking robot, i-Sobot!

The i-Sobot by Tommy is the world’s smallest 2-legged humanoid robot, which was just unveiled on Tuesday. The little bot is only 6 inches tall and weighs 12.3 ounces. It has 17 actuators to help it move and a gyro-sensor to keep its balance. Its skills include walking and playing the drums.

Its size is small enough to fit in a lunch box, easy for you to bring along anywhere. It will keep you accompanied and amused. Perhaps when you’ve got too bored with your work, take a break, take out this little cute bot and it will surely keep you amused by dancing along with music, playing drums and doing push-ups. It knows how to pick itself up when it falls.

The i-Sobot will retail around $260.00. Availability: July, 2007

Source: News.com

Technorati: iSobot,Robot,Robotic toy,gadget

Why the iPhone keynote was a mistake

The keynote of iPhone at MacWorld was a mistake of Apple’s indeed, in return it caused the over expectation by customers. Customers expected that iPhone was having much greater features than any other smartphones, in fact it has less than what the smartphones have. When customers expect more and don’t get it, they become dissatisfied. Mike Elgan at Computerworld has six reasons of why the iPhone keynote was a mistake!

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Optical storage stores tremendous amount of data

Scientists have found way to store images into just a photon. For those who know physics (quantum physics) well, you should know what a photon is. In plain English, a photon, which is an extremely tiny particle that makes up light.

Just imagine, images of thousands or millions of pixels can be stored only on a single photon, which means we’d get some kind of optical storage drive in the future (could be in few years time or shorter), which allows us to store tremendous amount of data!

Source: Rochester , Pressesc.com

Technorati: Photon,optical drive,optical storage,technology

Wanna lose weight desperately? Try Wii sport games workouts!

You’ve been doing pumping, sit-up kind of exercises, trying to shed some pounds but they never worked out and you’ve become obsessed. No worry, here is a better, fun and easy way i.e give yourself a 30-minutes session of Wii sport games (tennis, bowling, boxing or baseball etc) everyday.

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Microsoft unveils e-Toilet for geeks

Perhaps, for geeks like us, this is something that you really don’t wanna miss. The e-Toilet, which was unveiled by Bill Gates, if you really can’t let go of surfing the net, even just to spend few minutes in the toilet, this is a must-have. The eToilet lets you surf the net, play music from Zune and it also monitors your personal hygiene by shutting down the lid automatically if left open.

The eToilet includes a 21-inch flat-screen monitor built into the toilet lid itself that swings out on a swivel arm when you are….. in position. Many of its functions are activated by touch, and the eToilet contains a proximity sensor that will protect the screen from spray during use or flushing.

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