Gadgets

Unboxing the 3.2MP Toshiba TX80 (811T) UMTS music phone

SmarTone-Vodafone Hong Kong announced the migration of Toshiba Softbank 811T (TX80) phone at ITU Telecom World just 2 weeks ago. Gearfuse managed to grab not one, but three of these to snap pictures for you. Coming up is an exclusive spot review of the TX80 phone, first in any non-Asian language site on the internet. In any case, prior to ...

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Apple Cinema Displays to have HDMI technology

This might only be a rumor as of yet, but we heard through the grapevine that the next generation of Apple Cinema Displays might have HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) capability. It might not sound like much, but what HDMI allows is pretty impressive. HDMI enables the transfer of totally uncompressed streams of media, while keeping the HD goodness. Apple freaks ...

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NetCafe frenziness will push up Asus sales by 50%

Asus currently takes up 1/3 of the world’s computer motherboard market, and they have been doing that by striving to expand the market themselves. At a press conference on Friday, Asus indicated that they would join forces with intel (not AMD), they even projected that their sales will increase by another 50% in 2007, if they manage to meet their ...

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Microsoft listens to customers with 360 extended warranty

More and more companies are wising up to the fact that customer service is what makes or breaks customer loyalty. Microsoft is following suit of Apple and other subsequent companies and extending the warranties on the Xbox 360 from 90 days to an entire year! Jeff Bell, a VP of marketing at Microsoft said, “Customer satisfaction is a central focus ...

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Never recharge a solar-powered cell phone

The boys over in Japan at NTT DoCoMo created the newest type of mobile phone: solar powered. This new device is a flip phone in a Gameboy sp like design covered in solar panels on the outside. This could solve all those problems of having your battery die at its most crucial moment, or better yet, traveling with all those ...

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Hack your living space: Mouse Pad Couch

Optical mouses have dealt out the sentence of mouse pads. The consequence of being a technologically disabled product? Death. With the multitudes of mouse pads that are being disposed of as we speak, there are more then enough to create your own furniture. We can’t tell you if this piece of furniture is very comfortable or not, but for the ...

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The Model 914 PC-BOT: a PC on wheels

If you�re a PC hobbyist and are willing to dish out a measly 5 grand, then maybe you should look into the Model 914 PC-BOT. This PC-robot is basically a PC on wheels that can interact with the physical world; something that some people wish their laptops would do. Once you pull the 914 PC-BOT out of the box and ...

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Why can’t you ever dial on Jan1 0:00?

A lot of people have been asking why on earth can’t we call/send new year and Christmas messages on time. The answer is simple, it’s because the lines are jammed. It might mean nothing to the phone users whether it is the system that is crashed or really the traffic that is jammed, but to the network providers, it makes ...

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