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Sure, we already knew the Halo 3-themed Xbox 360 was on the horizon, and we even warned you to save a bit extra for those Halo-clad accessories, but now we’re absolutely certain that you better have the necessary dough by next month if you’re looking to be an early adopter. Yep, Microsoft’s special edition console will be landing sometime in September for $399.99, and will include “an authentic Spartan green-and-gold finish,” matching wireless controller, a 20GB hard drive, headset, a Play and Charge Kit, and “more” — though we’re not… Continue Reading»

If you worked with pictures on your iPhone Tuesday morning, and again Tuesday afternoon, you may have noticed a peculiar change. In what might just prove the existence of Apple Elves, iPhones everywhere got a magical Web Gallery update; without actually updating.However, you DO need a .Mac account already set up for this to take effect. The last (and only, at the time of writing) update for the iPhone, version 1.0.1, was released last week, and didn’t include this feature. So unless this is some sort of Apple-exclusive timed update in the works, my Elves theory… Continue Reading»

The good news is that the official Windows Mobile 6 Professional update for the Treo 750 is just around the corner; the bad news, though, is that you probably can’t have it yet unless you’re lucky enough to live in one particular corner of the world. Following countless incognito shots of WM6-sporting 750s in the wild, an imminent official announcement was pretty much a foregone conclusion — though we admittedly never suspected Australia would be the first to get the hookup. Specifically, customers of the Australian branch of Hutchison 3 will be… Continue Reading»

We’ll admit, there’s a few sects who’ve already crossed SMS Technology’s M500 watch phone off as vaporware in its finest form, but apparently, the firm is finally coming through on its most recent declaration. Yep, those wearable phones the company has been promising all this time are finally shipping soon, at least, we think. According to the company, “the final version of the M500 production model has been given full clearance to be supplied with full metal strap bracelets,” and it sounds like deliveries should begin within a month. Furthermore, the final production model sports a… Continue Reading»

Granted, this week may be a bit too in many parts of the country, but Interactive Frontiers is hoping that you can beat the heat by figuring out exactly what clubs you’ll need for your next outing. The firm, which created the V1 Pro Digital Coaching System, is now introducing the V1-8CAM to “simultaneously capture eight angles of warm to walk a round of 18video streams” of individuals practicing their swing. Subsequently, fitters can use the data to “more precisely evaluate performance and determine optimal club and putter specifications for clients,” and just in case… Continue Reading»

YOUNG Chinese internet “addicts” will go to camp to be cured.

The experimental 10-day program would accept youngsters aged between 14 – 22 once they had undergone a psychological test and evaluation, the China Daily said.About 2.6 million – or 13 per cent – of China’s 20 million internet users under 18 were classed as addicts, it said.The 40 youngsters at the summer camp would be treated for depression, fear, unwillingness to interact with others, panic and agitation.It would appear to be offering a softer option than the internet Addiction Treatment Centre near Beijing which uses a blend of… Continue Reading»

Lenovo, the no. 3 personal computer maker in the world, has just dropped news that they will be introducing a new line of laptops that will not be powered by Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system, instead settling on Linux. This effectively sets the tone of being the strongest endorsement of open-source software by a major computer maker to date. Microsoft might be the number one operating system in the world (and have been for quite some time already, sitting in more than 90% of the computers in the world), but Linux blows its trumpet by… Continue Reading»