Macworld.com - Nintendo’s popular Wii game console will displace Microsoft’s Xbox 360 as the new-generation game machine, iSuppli said Thursday.
Archive for February 16th, 2008
Feb16
MCE offers smaller QuickStream video capture drive (Macworld.com)
Macworld.com - MCE Technologies announced Friday that it’s shipping its smallest ever QuickStream DV/HDV, a portable digital video capture and storage drive. It’s available in 6-hour (80GB) and 9-hour (120GB) models for $799 and $999 respectively.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb16
Toshiba To Stop HD DVD Player Production
Reuters is relaying reports from Asia that Toshiba will cease production and development of HD DVD players, essentially abandoning the platform.
Toshiba had been the single largest proponent of HD DVD hardware. Earlier this year Warne…
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Feb16
HD-DVD Death Is Official; Downloads to Kill Blu-Ray Next
Reuters confirms Toshiba will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, which leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. Rob Beschizza reports in his Gadget Lab blog.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb16
Gmail task list feature spotted in the wild
One of the most requested features, that has been noticeably missing from Google Calendar and Gmail from the beginning, is a task list. This feature has been on Google’s own task list for a long time, but unfortunately it’s long overdue. Now for the good news — there are brand new reports that […]
Filed in: Google
Feb16
Flu Vaccine Is a Poor Match for Current Strains
It’s shaping up to be a bad flu season, and U.S. health officials say it’s partly because the current vaccine doesn’t protect against most of the spreading flu bugs. The flu shot is a good match for only about 40 percent of this year’s flu viruses.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb16
Digital TV Shift Will Affect Millions of Consumers
The switch from analog to digital TV broadcasts will be complete in just one year, on Feb. 17, 2009, and many consumers are puzzling over how the shift will affect them. What exactly do they need to make the transition?
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb16
The Problem of Scale in Environmental Solutions
With several panels dedicated to biofuels at the AAAS annual meeting, the sustainability of growing a large percentage of our transportation fuel is emerging as a major theme of the conference. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb16
Helping Patients Wiihabilitate
Some call it “Wiihabilitation.” Nintendo’s Wii video game system, whose popularity already extends beyond the teen gaming set, is fast becoming a craze in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries. The usual stretching and lifting exercises that help the sick or injured regain strength can be painful, repetitive and downright boring.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Feb16
Life After iPod
The little thing literally expired the first day of classes this semester, without a chance for me to say goodbye. After about two years of moderate use, it had a good, long life. However, now I’m alone in this world. No David Bowie, The Killers, Nine Inch Nails or the latest podcast from National Public Radio’s “Wait Wait — Don’t Tell Me!”
Filed in: Personal Tech
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