2008
Earlier today, the sound of thousands of Zune owners crying out in terror made ripples across the blogosphere. The response from Microsoft is to wait until tomorrow and all will…
If you are a girly girl, or if for some reason you love someone with an obsession with hearts and the color pink, then you may be interested in this…
Want to live out your “Blue Thunder” fantasy? Now you can legally get military-spec night vision goggles for when you are flying your helicopter. In the past, there were no…
Welsh company Haemair’s prosthetic lung just won UK Institution of Chemical Engineers’ Stopford Projects Award for Bioprocess Innovation. Normally, when a patient’s lungs don’t function, the patient is put on…
Image courtesy of Nataliedee I just saw this infomercial so forgive me if you’ve already seen it but I immediately thought of my days living in the dorms as a…
Mad Catz has released two new accessories for Rock Band. One is the M.I.C., a microphone with integrated controller. The other is a portable drum kit. Mad, indeed!
Because of numerous delays, China has had trouble rolling out 3G on its TD-SCDMA cellular standard. Now they are allowing construction of CDMA 2000 and WCDMA networks, North American 3G…
Because Oregon doesn’t have enough taxes (like personal income tax and really high property taxes), the governor is proposing a mileage tax, based off of a GPS unit installed in…
Amazon may have had their best ever Christmas, but they weren’t the only ones who witnessed record holiday sales over the past month. One of Amazon’s competitors, LightInTheBox.com, is a…
In exactly one week, the CrunchGear team will be descending on CES for your benefit. Why should we be going? Because it’s the biggest consumer electronics show in the world?…
If you’re bored or out of a job in these difficult times, or if you’ve always dreamed of becoming an entrepreneur, then this Internet Entrepreneur Starter Kit will not help…
As you guys well know, there are zillions of Zunes out there stricken with a mysterious malady. According to a new statement from the devs, it is (as we all…
A Look At Some Of The Best iPhone Apps Of 2008
The iPhone and iPod Touch have taken the world by storm. In just a little over six months time we’ve witnessed the doors of the iTunes App Store opening to…
Kissing USB octohippo shocker: A-Data ripped off the Octorok!
I knew these things looked familiar! They’re trying to cash in on that “nearly-forgotten cute many-legged land-dwelling octopods from Zelda games” market. I think someone owes Nintendo an apology!
I’d say this irresponsible and inflammatory rumor is half-true. With Snow Leopard likely being shown off at MacWorld (by Schiller, alas), Apple will want something to make the OS pop…
Audiolizer Puts Your iTunes Library In The Cloud, But Lala Does It Better
Audiolizer is a new music streaming service that lets you put your iTunes library in the cloud. After uploading your iTunes Library database file, the site will automatically compile a…
Have you ever jailbroken an iPhone? Ever used a software solution to “unlock” the iPhone’s SIM slot, freeing it from the shackles of its original carrier? Chances are, the iPhone…
Info ’bout Ford’s Active Park Assist parallel parking wizardry recently broke cover and now the Blue Oval released a video demo of the system. It seems to work well in…
Survey says: U.S. consumers don't trust mobile banking security
A new report entitled “2008 Mobile Banking Security Standards” by Javelin Strategy & Research finds that less than 10% of U.S. consumers use mobile banking tools. 47% of those surveyed…
Whoa, dude. Slow down. It is actually a transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons. I drank Stella once. It was good. Whoa.
In a wide-ranging interview, CNet talks with Research in Motion about all things Blackberry. Trailing only Nokia in terms of sales volume, RIM has a lot reasons to feel good.…
Government to allow private firms to monitor every move we make. I'm moving to China.
It will cost £12 billion, be run by private companies and track every move you make on the internet, every call, text message and every transaction. Yes, this is the…
CrunchBoard: Work as a community manager, managing editor, or freelance developer (from anywhere)
Want to work as the community manager of a fully-funded company that hasn’t launched yet? Or an “Information Repository Specialist”? Maybe work as a managing editor at CBS Interactive? (Here…
SpatialView has announced the Wazabee 3DeeShell, a protective casing that includes a removable lens to displays 3D stereoscopic images on the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch without those dorky glasses.…
Scribd Had A Blowout Year, And So Did the Web Document
The biggest surprise fro me in the social media rankings that I posted earlier today was the appearance of document sharing service Scribd in the top 20. According to the…
Time to throw away your old Mac Minis, friends, because new ones are coming next week. TUAW has on good authority (read “some guy told them”) that the new minis…
Apple’s Washington D.C. store facing opposition or part of a mass conspiracy?
So Apple is facing opposition to putting up one of its gigantic glass-everywhere stores in one of Washington D.C.’s historic neighborhoods, the complaint being that it’d be too big and…
Phenom GSM watch phones drop, give Dick Tracy a lot more options
Watch out LG, looks like you’re not the only touch screen watch phone maker with an announcement this week. Phenom Communications has released an entire line of timepieces-turned-mobiles, (creatively named)…
Okay. We have all lost a beer. It happens. You set it down for a moment, only to lose it seconds later. It’s frustrating early in the night, but infuriating…
iPhone Dev Team posts cryptic message – what are they up to?
Update: The Dev Team has released an image with further confirms our original suspicion. Check it out after the jump. On the eve of the iPhone 3G software unlock, the…