Commodore comes back
Yep: the Commodore, the computer-in-a-keyboard from your 80’s yoof, is back – this time rocking a DVD drive instead of a tape deck and some meaty innards in place of the hamster-in-a-wheel scenario that used to spend nine hours loading Chuckie Egg.
Apple Bans screen protectors
Apple’s in a banning mood of late. Presumably having enjoyed the sense of power that came with culling all the iPhone’s smutty Apps, Steve Jobs turned his attentions this week to the next major problem in the Apple legacy: those damn… erm… screen protectors.
Hacker remotely disables 100 cars
Now that all new cars are powered by central nervous-system style computers, apparently they’re more vulnerable than ever. Exchange the word ‘Hacker’ here for ‘Skynet’ and this seems a lot more serious.
Playstation Move takes a swing at Natal, Wii
The old idiom says that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. We’ve yet to have a go with the Playstation Move, so Sony’s got to be pretty confident about the brickwork of their metaphoric gaming-peripheral house to launch a boulder like this Nintendo and Microsoft’s way. It’s about as tact and subtle as a tank covered in parrots.
Dell PCs: Good for doing three things at once
We appreciate that to sell a computer you sometimes need to break the associated jargon down so that the uneducated masses can understand it’s not a toaster, but this is going a bit far. Actually, maybe we should get one of them – as a general rule T3.com will only run if our monitors are all turned off. It’s tricky.
Mario made of toast
Fairly self-explanatory. …Although technically a lot of it’s just bread.
Touch an iPad
You might have noticed a bit of hype around the Apple iPad. Recent news suggested that it garnered 120,000 pre-orders on launch day, which is a bit mad given that 99.9 per cent of those people won’t ever have even seen one in person. Here’s a comic to that effect. It’s funny ‘cos it’s true.
Google to lose Nexus One name rights?
You’d have thought that one of the biggest and most powerful companies in the world would have the legal and financial gravitas to be able to name its products whatever it liked. Philip K. Dick’s family have quietened down, but now there’s a new Nexus One threat on the cards.
Chat Roulette hero
Chat Roulette is a pot-luck chatroom randomiser that thrusts you into a video conference with a complete stranger at the touch of a button. More often than not it’ll just act as a ticket to watch some reprobate ‘enjoying themselves’, but get lucky and you might just end up with this chap.
