Yay PSP Firmware!

3.10 finally released to improve on 3.03 and enable MPEG4-AVC video streaming to as long as you pick up Sony's LocationFree Base station. It'll also include a nice equalizing effect (dynamic normalization) to balance out the annoyingly soft sounds with the annoyingly loud ones. The 3.10 is not really worth it though... it has a feature that will compress websites to conserve cache memory and may downgrade the image quality of some of the pics on the page. Rumors are abound that 3.10 has been decrypted already and some custom release can't be too far away. Might wanna wait for the hackers on this one guys.

Holy #@!al;fdha3@#$23

It's thin. Real thin. Anoxeric Olsen thin. It's Samsung's Ultra Edition 5.9. Samsung, breaking their own record, drops another bomb on the obese American public begging to be thin. The aptly named, Ultra Edition 5.9, is indeed 5.9mm thick, a record in the industry. While there were some rumors flying around the internet, sparked by a video of the phone being broken in two by a very small amount of pressure, the new cell is enjoying a vast amount of hype. Samsung discredited the videos, but it definitely looks flimsy. Specs include an impressive 3.2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth, a tri-band GSM radio, and 80MB of on-board memory. European pockets will have a little less bulge in March, with an expected US release in the near future. Check out the thinness here.

Whew

Phew, it's been awhile. With CES over, not much is happening. But good news! The long awaited Apple TV finally rolls out its specs. Well kind of... Geek friends at Apple have popped the silvery top and discovered a 1GHz processor from the good people at Intel, codenamed "Crofton". It's a sucktacular name, but whatever. We're not here to judge. NVIDIA threw in a 64MB card for video purposes. 256MB of DDR2 RAM running at 400MHz compliments a 40GB hard drive. Oddly enough, the Apple TV can't function as its own wireless router, despite the 802.11 n antenna hidden within. A USB port is in the rear of this little magic box, which Apple claims is for "services and diagnostics", but I'm sure someone will hack it and have linux up and running in now time via a bootable flash drive. All in all, this little box has plenty of horsepower to run the apps it needs to, but don't expect any miracles from Apple's mini TiVo wanna be.

Some things just shouldn't exist

Every man likes to be noticed. Thousands of years ago, we built the pyramids. We had the Taj Mahal, and there was the Great Wall of China. But for some reason, around the turn of the century, the focus shifted and things became smaller and smaller. And now, it seems, in the new millennium, big is good. At the culmination of this year's CES, Sharp announced their 108-inch LCD HDTV. holy shit. The official dimensions: 93.9x52.9 and 107.8 across. There's 9 feet of viewing pleasure for ya right there... if you can manage to find a place to put it... Check out the story here

Zephyr Update

(Note: See "Codename: Zephyr")

Xbox-Scene has done it again and brought us two new images of the mysterious Zephyr, the Xbox 360 2.0. Click the link for details on Microsoft's new project. Still refusing to ackknowledge any claims, Microsoft is a tough cookie to crack. At the bottom of the page you'll find a nice little embed file from YouTube. oh yes... there is a video :) Check back for more updates

(Note: Image taken from www.xbox-scene.com. Thanks guys. Motherboard of the Zephyr)

Codename: Zephyr

Whispers emerge from engadget at the dawn of the next-gen age. Did you ever notice a lack of an HDMI cable for the XBox 360? Microsoft seems to have everything else there... Well apparently next-gen isn't good enough for Microsoft! The "next-gen" 360 delivered all of your amazing high quality graphics and chewed up and shit out all of your old ratty... first-gen games. Ewww first gen. Codenamed Zephyr, we're finally seeing the HDMI port for solid, crystal clear 1080p orgasmic gaming. Did I mention the 120GB hard drive? XBox insider will hopefully release more info soon on what I've dubbed "2.5 Gen Xbox." Not as nice as Zephyr, but bite me. More to come...



(Note: Image taken from engadget, thanks guys =) Believed to be the back of Zephyr)

WTG SEAGATE

Yay Seagate! Seagate has always led the way in hard drive technology, a year ago and to this very day, is the only company with a 750GB drive available to consumers. Now, Seagate has confirmed it! The 1TB drive available to consumers. The drive will run you upwards of $400 most likely, but hey, computing is an expensive hobby. The hard drive will use fewer heads to minimize noise and weight, as we all know that Seagate has had some hard drives loud enough to wake a hibernating bear. But, I could always get a quieter case. I'm not really sure who needs a full terabyte of storage, but I sure as hell know I want it. Expected on the market in 6 months, this will blow away the competition fo' sheezy. Check out the full article here.

I remember...

I remember once a very long while ago, there was a thing called common sense. Anyone out there remember it? Come on someone must... comment me if you find some please? I mean really, an 11-year-old child, Wallison Costa would absolutely adore it! Make sure you save a little for his friend Bruno Potzoony... Wallison Costa is currently hospitalized in intensive care for serious head injuries he sustained while jumping out the second-story window of his Philly apartment onto pavement, in an attempt to imitate a scene from "Jackass 2". Hmm... Funny really. The name "Wallison Costa" almost sounds like "Hello I'm a total fucking moron." Costa has reportedly done it more than once... and he and his friend have apparently imitated every stunt in the movie! Bruno didn't quite know what to do when Costa lept from the window, got caught on some cable lines fell headfirst on the driveway below. Bruno almost got a clue when his mom came home and found Costa unconscious on the ground in a pool of blood... Hm. Guess what kiddies? Disclaimers mean: DON'T FUCKING DO IT. phew. Guess what else little boys and girls? JUMPING OUT WINDOWS HURTS. Try and wrap your head around it. Once upon a time, people didn't jump out of a window because a trained stunt coordinator planned a similar event. Once upon a time children didn't injure themselves for laughs. How many bloody driveways will it take America to lock the second story windows?

Hm

Well, this is my first attempt at a blog with this site. So, hopefully things will go along smoothly. Nine times out of ten, as I'm sure is the case with most people who attempt something like this, I completely give up and eventually just forget it exists. So many dead blogs... Oh well. I noticed that people get famous off of blogging... that's amazing. It's so cool to think millions of people around the world will read your ideas and listen to what you say and sometimes even change because of it. I'm not looking for glory, I just want people to see what I see. Even if no one agrees with me, I want them to at least think of things a little differently. I hope I finally stick around this time to write, I defintely plan to. I'll be like Bush in Iraq, and stay until I'm sure no one cares anymore. Take that government!