Darklite is Messiah’s new and sleek DVD remote control for Playstation 3 sporting bright backlit buttons (primary buttons on top and the secondary buttons just a slide-out away), a USB-connected receiver doubling as a charging station and both BluRay / DVD compatibility.
The Darklite is available on pre-order now and starts shipping September 25th.
PlayMessiah.com: Darklite DVD Remote ($29.99)
(Via Geekalerts)
Sony just announced VPL-VW200 and VPL-VW60, their two new 24p True Cinema 1080p SXRD Bravia projectors. The VW-200 sports a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tesar lens and a 120fps frame rate, the VW60 is gifted with improved brightness of 1,000lm.
“The VPL-VW200 and VPL-VW60 models feature newly designed SXRD panels with wire grid polarizers and high contrast plates that more than double the previous native contrast ratio. When combined with Sony’s Advanced Iris technology, the panels help to deliver a stunning 35,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.”
The VW-200 will be launched in October for about $15,000 (ouch) and the cheaper VW-60 will set you back about $5,000 when its launched in September.
(Via Ubergizmo)
Here’s the Go Video Portable Media Player, a modern take on those good old cassette tape boomboxes. Besides being able to play CD’s and AM/FM-radio it can be hooked up with external devices using USB and play photo-CD’s and DVD’s on the 7" wide screen display.
Other than that it sports bass boost, stereo speakers, video and coaxial digital audio outputs and, of course, a remote control.
FingerHut.com: Go Video Portable Media Player ($159.99)
(Via Geekalerts)
Hitachi will launch the world’s first Blu-ray camcorders in Japan this August. They’re dubbed DZ-BD7H and DZ-BD70 and they’re both capable of recording one full hour of sweet, high-def footage (mmm… 1920×1080…) directly to Blu-ray discs for later viewing using any compatible Blu-ray player.
From AVING:
“Both camcorders also feature a 5.3M CMOS sensor with an effective 2.07M for video and 4.32M for stills. You would also get a 10x optical zoom(electronically stabilized) and 2.7-inch widescreen LCD on the Hitachi DZ-BD70 and DZ-BD7H.”
(Via Aving, Fosfor Gadgets)
Bitman Video Bulb is a Japanese toy that promises to light up any house party. Just plug it in your TV’s RCA video jack and Bitman will pop up on the screen, portrayed as a giant, pixeled stick man. He’ll run around in his pixel house, climbing stairs and dance wherever he wants to (which seems to be pretty much everywhere).
If everything goes like planned your house party guests will stare in awe for a while and then blindly join him in his crazy monkey disco dance. Or something.
AudioCubes: Bitman Video Bulb ($19.00)
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”:
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…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.
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Rockstar Games: Manhunt 2 (Launching July 10th)
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