If there’s one thing geeks love more than technology, it’s pictures of hot girls using technology. And we have to say, it’s a damn fine combination. It seems as though Apple products are the gadgets of choice for most hot girls wanting to bring out their inner geek - maybe it’s the sexy styling that goes so well with a sexy body, we don’t know. But whatever it is that makes these lovely ladies strip down to nothing but an iPod, it has to be good.
If you were confused weather or not the future has arrived, LG has just announced the “3G Watch Phone,” and this thing is more sci-fi than Will Smith. With simple styling and a 1.4-inch screen, the watch-phone comes armed with 7.2 Mbps high-speed Internet access for quick downloads, Bluetooth, an Mp3 player, voice recognition and text-to-speech features and video phone capabilities.
The device is scheduled to debut at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, and will go on sale in 2009, first being released in Europe before coming to the US. So convincing girls you’re a spy is going to have to wait a little while.
Forty years ago today, Stanford Research Institute engineer Douglas Engelbart introduced one of the most revolutionary products of the modern day: the computer mouse. Since its debut, no other computer input device has been more ubiquitous, next to the keyboard. And its existence transformed the computer’s accessibility and user experience, helping to catapult the PC into countless homes around the world. Read More »
For those Netflix fans out there, today it starts getting better.
Netflix’s mail-based video rental program has expanded to a VOD capacity over the last year, but with limited success. If you don’t like 70’s B-movies and ALF Season 2, you will not like the Netflix online video offering. Especially when it only works with Internet Explorer! Amazingly, the savior of this conundrum - is Microsoft.
Infomercials are typically a point of humor for the drunk, high and insomnia-prone. You stumble home from the bar or party at 4am, turn on the TV and laugh at how excited people are over solutions for modern living. But what about the products they sell on infomercials that might actually be worth writing down that impossibly long 800 number.
Through hearsay, our imagination, and some actual experience, here is COED’s list of the 10 products you’ve seen on TV that don’t completely suck.
Check out Top 10 3AM Infomercial Products after the jump! Read More »
General Motors revealed today, on its 100th anniversary, the 2010 Chevy Volt–the car that’s expected to ’save Detroit,’ where the American automakers have seen steep decline in sales with the rise in gasoline prices and more affordable, fuel efficient cars coming out of Japanese companies. Cool, you might think. Saving US automakers is a good thing. And we’re not trying to take a dump on your dreams, Detroit. But just one question: Why the hell does it have to look so F’ing stupid? Read More »
For those of us (everyone) who hates the new Facebook…
[Just don't tell 'em we told you...we hear they send snipers out after all dissenters]
Visit the application page by clicking here
Apple released a brand new iPod on Tuesday and while the rest of the nation was captivated by all the pretty colors and the new gizmo’s shake-to-shuffle feature, I was a little busy geeking out about the other announcement: iTunes 8.
Unlike previous incarnations, iTunes 8 is shaking up the application for the first time in years, this time with the introduction of a better visualizer, a new way to peruse your library and a handy little feature called Genius. Read More »
Okay, so a monk walks into a Best Buy. This isn’t a joke.
He buys three CDs, eight movies, two computer games, Adobe Illustrator CS3, the entire X-Files series, Microsoft Office Professional, and Rosetta Stone v3, so he can learn Swahili to communicate with his half-sister. The cost of all that? Easily over $2,500. Two weeks ago he bought Autodesk Maya Unlimited for his son who just got into graphic design–that was over $5,000.
Well guess what? He could have gotten all that in about two days or less for free. It’s all about the torrents–transferable pieces of data (like on Limewire, kids) that anyone with a computer and the Internet can access, click on, and wait for a few hours (or even minutes) to download. Literally type, click, and wait. Music, games, movies, applications, books, porn–you name it, it’s there. For free.
Now. What is wrong with this picture? You tell me. Limewire’s legal. uTorrent’s legal. Azureus is legal. Think about it for a minute. I could get all those things in an hour or two while I go to the gym or go to school or sleep. When I get back: TADA! Read More »
I have seen the dark side of laptops with built-in webcams and microphones. It’s not leaked videos of you doing a naughty dance for your significant other, or some bizarre government conspiracy to spy on everyone in the country. It’s much simpler than that. It’s a little thing I like to call, video chat PDA, and it could very well be the next cutsie pandemic.
My roommate’s girlfriend recently moved to Baltimore to start her teaching career, and since my roommate still has a semester of school left before he graduates they are trying out the whole long distance relationship thing.
I’m sure it’s been hard to transition from seeing each other every day to living 600 miles apart, but it’s only for six or seven months, it shouldn’t be that difficult, right? They started things off by calling each other multiple times a day, chatting online at every possible moment and e-mailing little messages whenever the other wasn’t logged in to one of many instant messaging programs. But they completely changed the game last week when I walked in on a video chat between the two. Read More »
As students prepare to either enter or return to college one thing is certain, students love gadgets and will spend big bucks to have them. While many of these gadgets are nice to have, not all are essential to the everyday college student. With tuition going up and cost of living on the rise, it is important that we get the technology we need at a price that doesn’t kill. Almost all “Must-Have College Gadgets” lists are compiled with absolutely no practicality in mind. While I think it would be awesome to own a 52” Plasma with my non-existent rich dad’s AMEX, I also know that it won’t fit under my crusty dorm’s loft bed. So, here is a list of college “must-haves,” but priced so students can actually get them.
Check out 6 Sweet College Gadgets after the jump! Read More »
Within the next month a major change may be coming to Apple’s digital music strategy with Steve Jobs reportedly about to unveil a subscription-based service connected to the iTunes store.
Although Jobs has blasted subscription-based music services in the past saying,”the subscription services are not succeeding… People want to own their music, not rent it.” But he seems to have flip-flopped, and the timing could be right on as iTunes currently dominates digital music sales and could convert users of other subscription-based music serivces like Rhapsody.com. Read More »
