How to Eavesdrop on Bluetooth Headsets [Clips]
Our experience with Bluetooth headsets tells us that you first have to place it into discoverable mode before any other device can connect to it, but this video claims otherwise. The man in the vid explains that just by knowing [...]
Japanese Aquarium Bathroom Makes You Feel Like a Mermaid While You Go #2 [Luxury Pooping]
You think your bathroom is awesome? It’s not. Check out this Japanese bathroom that’s built into an aquarium, featuring a peeping tom of a turtle and a bunch of fish with no dignity. It’s a ladies’ room, so there are [...]
EA Chief Says Black Friday Completed Next-Gen Console Transition [Full Circle]
Two years after the Xbox 360 kick-started the next-gen console race on a Black Friday week, EA chief John Riccitello says this year’s Black Friday completed the transition to the (now) current-gen consoles: “It’s been the longest, hardest transition in [...]
$250 Flat Fee Producers Offer Writers Guild for Internet Distribution Is Way Lame, Still Screws Writers [Scrooged]
The Writers Guild strike languishes on: Heroes ends for the year next week. In a bid to end our suffering, the producers’ trade group has made a “groundbreaking” offer to the Writers Guild, grandiosely titled the “New Economic Partnership.” The [...]
The FCC Cuts Comcast Off at the Knees [No More Flintstones Vitamins]
Comcast is pissed. Per the FCC’s latest vote, it can’t provide cable to more than 30 percent of the country. It has a 27 percent market share right now with 26.2 million subscribers. With the FCC’s 30 percent market cap, [...]
Exclusive: Learning the Secret Sauce That Goes Into an OLED High Def TV [Our OLED Odyssey]
UDC is one of a handful of companies pioneering OLED development and manufacturing techniques for the big boys such as Samsung, Sony, LG and of course, the US Department of Defense. No one’s written about how they make these displays, [...]
Apple patents 8cm to 12cm disk adapters
Filed under: Storage We’re not sure this is still relevant — the patent was filed in May of 2006 — but the USPTO has just published a patent application from Apple detailing a number of different 8cm to 12cm optical [...]
Upside-Down XBox 360, Sofas Kill Fat Children [Gaming]
According to the Health Care System Foundation, a lack of diet and exercise combined with a sedentary lifestyle (that includes playing an upside-down Xbox 360) leads to childhood obesity and an untimely death. Yeah, the kid is definitely fat–but if [...]
Bluetooth Wristband: Better Than the BlueQ? [Bluetooth]
This is not the first time we have come across a wristband that alerts you to incoming calls. Some of you may recall the BlueQ from earlier this year. It worked–but not all that well. Could this device, dubbed the [...]
PS3 HD Video on Demand Service Crashes Into Japan Next Year [The Slow Lane]
The PS3′s still got a long ways to go to catch up to the Xbox 360 in the online space, and their next step toward it with an HD VOD service seems kind of lackluster. It’s launching next year in [...]