The rechargeable AirPlay speaker from iHome, the iW1 will be arriving in retailers and available through iHome starting September 26th. The long-anticipated system uses Airplay and either direct-from-device or an iOS app to control multiple units throughout a space to stream music from a Mac or iOS device. A limited quantity was offered for sale on the company's website earlier today to customers who had signed up for availability notifications and were sold out in 45 minutes.......
File this one under crazy/awesome/but really more crazy.
This fall, Sony will be releasing personal 3D home theater headgear for one viewer at a time. Called the HMZ-T1, it's your chance to finally quash your Geordi La Forge envy.
You connect the half-helmet, half-goggles contraption to its own gaming console-sized processor, which in turn attaches to your Blu-Ray player or gaming rig, and voila! The two 0.7-inch OLED screens�one for each eye
Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5836108/sonys-wearable-3d-home-theater-sits-on-your-face
A video posted on YouTube of memory card maker Transcend and Industrial Technology Research Institute says they have teamed up to produce a USB 3.0 flash drive with up to 2TB of capacity.
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219661/Is_Transcend_planning_a_2TB_USB_thumb_drive_
Facebook plans to launch a music platform at its f8 conference in San Francisco on 9/22, a source with knowledge of the plans tells CNBC.
Source:
http://www.cnbc.com/id/44344540/Facebook_Plans_to_Launch_Music_Platform_in_September
One of the nicer $70 cases we've tested
Calling the Core 3000 a mid-tower chassis would be technically correct, though at 17 inches tall by 19 inches deep by 8 inches wide, it's on the smaller side of the spectrum. This becomes apparent when building into the chassis---our test build was a little more difficult than normal due to the limited space inside. Our test bed's abnormally large heatsink made it damn near impossible to get the 8-pin power connector connected, though we could have mounted the heatsink afterwards, as the motherboard tray has a large CPU backplane cutout. As in many cases, the top hard drive cage...
In a post about two months ago we exclusively reported that Facebook would launch its music platform at its annual f8 conference. CNBC now reports that would happen at the much-delayed annual developer hoopla, which is now scheduled to be held on September 22 in San Francisco.
Source:
http://gigaom.com/2011/08/31/as-expected-facebook-music-to-launch-at-f8/
After pseudonym bannings, Eric Schmidt admitted Google Plus is meant to be an 'identity service.' Bye-bye privacy, hello online surveillance.
Does Google hope to someday issue your trusted online ID passport? But what if all that user data tempts cyberthugs for massive spear phishing attacks?
