Datawrite Nitro MP4 Player looks pretty interesting. The 4GB model costs $100 and for that you get a device capable of playing music (MP3/WMA/WAV), video (converted to MP4) and FM-radio while featuring games, document viewing, voice recording, built-in speakers and a 2" display. It might just be worth investigating after all.
(And there’s a 2GB model for GBP 50 / US $70 as well)
Datawrite.co.uk: Nitro MP4 Player
(Via AnythingButiPod)
Nikko will launch a limited edition (1000 units) of their R2D2 Home DVD / iPod Projector. As far as media goes you can either slide a DVD right into it, put your iPod in the internal iPod dock or plug in your USB Flash Drive, but for the real Star Wars fans there’s an even niftier feature: the Millenium Falcon Remote Control. It’ll let you control artoo and have him turn, move forward/backwards and tilt, letting you project your movies whever you want without getting up from the couch.
Projector specs: Integrated 20W speakers, 1,800:1 contrast, 1,500 lumen brightness, 1,024 x 768 pixels resolution, up to 80 inches vertical display.
(And yeah, it does feature the classic R2D2 sound effects)
NikkoR2D2.com (About $3,160)
(Via ProductReviews)
Drew Curtis, the man behind Fark.com, has published Fark in book form, calling it It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries To Pass Off Crap As News:
“The editorial principle behind Curtis’s Web Site Fark.com is remarkably simple: readers submit news stories with their own wacky headlines, inviting snarky commentary from other readers. Here, he steps back to examine why “Mass Media” keeps churning out the sort of inane stories that are “supposed to look like news” that make the site so wildly popular. The critique is familiar—see Barry Glassner’s The Culture of Fear, among others—but Curtis delivers it with richly sarcastic humor.”
(There was some alarm about Drew Curtis changing the Fark comments copyright to himself a while ago, this might just be why)
Amazon.com: It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News ($13.60)
Here’s the first real iPhone ads from Apple, showing how easy it is to watch Pirates of the Caribbean, use Google Maps, call your mom and order seafood using the same device (featuring the slickest touchscreen interface ever). The release date is still June 29th.
Update: Looks like there was two more ads available. Added them after the jump (take a look at the “Never been an iPod” clip, mmm… touchscreen).
iPhone Ad “Calamari”:
…And two more:
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Here’s yet another trailer for Rockstar Games upcoming Nintendo Wii / PS2 / PSP title Manhunt 2 coming straight from the oven. Shortly put it’s a sweet mix of insane asylums, creepy people with masks and axes and dead nurses.
Rockstar Games: Manhunt 2 (Launching July 10th)
The 160 GB model of Apple TV is now shipping, that’s 120 more gigabytes than the previous 40 GB-model. In Apple terms 160 GB equals up to 200 hours of video content (which apparently includes YouTube video pretty soon) and it’ll cost you $399.00 compared to $299.00 for the “old” one.
Apple Store: Apple TV Product Page (40 GB for $299, 160 GB for $399)
I just stumbled across this new ad for Audi A5 called “Rhythm of Lines”, created by London-based The Mill. It’s quite refreshing to see a car commercial that doesn’t include the otherwise mandatory shots of cars going up/down steep mountain roads or swoosh by on the edge of a dam in desaturated colors.
“Doumo, Macu desu!”. The Japanese versions of Apple’s Get A Mac-campaign feels so familiar, yet so different. For those of us with a Japanese vocubulary consisting of three words or less there’s subtitled versions available right after the jump:
Here it is, Microsoft’s first ad for the shiny, black Xbox 360 Elite. It’ll tell you that it’s black, features HDMI and 120 GB of storage and that it’s.. uuh.. black.
(Via Kotaku)
Love them or hate them, here’s three new Vista-mocking Get a Mac ads from Apple right after the jump.
