We’re down with turning children’s toys into electrical goods, but children’s sweets? That’s asking for trouble. Transistors tend to stick in the throat you know, never mind AA batteries. Still, Mars must think it’s on to something, because it’s releasing a pair of M&M headphones with manufacturer Maxell.
January, 2009
It’s a bad day for TV chucker Sling Media: the company’s top brass have all deserted in just over a day, with a slate of execs handing in their resignation letters.
Future Apple gadgets could pack super-slim OLED screens, as Apple shows an interest in LG’s next-gen displays. The Mac maker just signed a huge deal with LG to provide its LCD screens, but according to rumours, it’s also eying up OLED.
The Xbox 360 isn’t so far from its fourth birthday now, and one of our favourite hobbies when we’re bored is pestering Microsoft execs about when we’re likely to see new consoles, but there’s bad news: Redmond says it’s not making an Xbox 720 anytime soon.
Late last year, a developer calling her/himself RyeBrye showed off a working Multitouch app on a T-Mobile Android G1. Turns out that RyeBrye’s method required extensive modifications to the G1′s kernel (the core of the OS) and was a bit impractical for general use.
CES just wouldn’t be CES without a laptop breakthrough or two, and this year didn’t disappoint. From two laptops in one to tiny netbooks and and beyond, we were on hand to test out the best laptops of CES – see what’s coming to a lap near you after the jump.
With the PS3 losing out to the Xbox 360 and the Wii this Xmas, and reports suggesting that Sony will suffer a $1.1 billion loss this year, Analysts are predicting that the company must lower the price of the PS3 console to match its competitors.
Kids today, eh? Don’t know they’re born. When I was a lad we didn’t have free wifi on the bus. We used to have to trail great lengths of coaxial cable from the back window from huge spools that we had to carry on our backs. Then we used to just sit there, hoping someone would hurry up and invent the Internet before we got to school.