Buy 120GB Zune on Amazon!

Now you can get the 120GB Zune on Amazon. Yey!

Music and entertainment, your way. That’s what the Zune 120 GB Digital Media Player is designed to deliver. The Zune easily connects you with your music, videos, and pictures wherever and whenever you want, and unlike the iPod, it even has a built-in FM tuner so you can keep up with local news and sports. Your Zune gives you the power to wirelessly share full-length tracks, playlists, pictures and podcasts with your other Zune-wielding friends. And when you receive songs that you just can’t get out of your head, you can easily tag the songs and buy them the next time you sync up. Whether you’re listening to music, radio, or rocking out to the latest music videos on the bright, roomy screen, the Zune allows you to tailor your entertainment, right in the palm of your hand.

via engadget

Google is providing some live scores and schedules if you type, “xxx olympics”, where “xxx” is the name of your sport.

Try this for soccer

Search Engine Land noticed that Google now shows a onebox* for certain Olympics-related queries, like tennis olympics or taekwondo olympics. This seems to work in the US and China but not, for instance, using normal google.com results from Germany. In the onebox, you’ll see an icon alongside the upcoming events for the sports category, linked to Beijing2008.cn.

via lifehacker - gb

Yes, run your Xbox media center from a USB drive. How cool is that?

Continue reading ‘Xbox HACK - How to Run Xbox Media Center from a USB Drive!’

This is probably the most expensive battery that anyone would ever buy, but if you look closer you could make out that in fact it is not a battery at all, but a 4 GB flash drive.

Features:

USB 2.0
Portable and easy operate
Plug and play
Support Window 98/ME/2000/XP, Mac OS 9.X or above, Linux Kernel 2.4 or above
Size: 16 x 16 x 63mm (approx.)
Weight: 26g

Package Contents:

USB Battery Flash Drive

This a nice ideal, because if you have some data to hide, all you need to do is store it on the flash drive and place the drive itself into the box where all of the batteries are kept.

Priced at $38

Source [Shiny Shiny]

This is a great image which demonstrates the humble 1 GB, the device that looks like a nuclear bomb is a 1 GB hard drive as made by IBM around twenty years ago, and then it was a top item.

While in the mans hand is a SD memory card, which we know can hold anything up to and beyond 20 GB’s, I wonder what technology will be like in a further twenty years?

Source [Fosfor Gadgets]

This is a great looking flash drive, which looks like a fuel tank from a motor bike and is finished in bright red. The drive is available in 4gb, which has a 20mb/second read/write speed. Comes with a special Ducati Lanyard for safe keeping of the drive. Also in the pack comes the recuePro deluxe recovery system on CD.

There are also available some really exciting flash cards, SanDisk Extreme, 4 GB and 8 GB in compact flash card style, which has a great 45 mbps read/write speed.

SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive costs $124.99. SanDisk Extreme Compact Flash cards, 4GB costs $164.99 and 8GB costs $314.99. SanDisk SD Plus card costs $129.99.

Source [New Launches]

Is it a forgone conclusion that Blu Ray has already won the battle of the Hi Dev format? Or are they just making sure that they get enough customers using the format that everyone else will have no choice, similar to the battle of the video players in the early 1980’s.

So starting from the beginning of July right up to the end of September, with every purchase of a quality Blu Ray player you would be given the opportunity to choose five great titles from a choice of twenty two titles, you can even get the free films with the purchase of a PS 3 60 GB model.

Here’s a list of all the qualifying models:

Sony BDP-S1
Sony BDP-S300
Sony Playstation 3 (60 GB)
Panasonic DMP-BD10K
Panasonic DMP-BD10KA
Philips BDP9000/37
Pioneer BDP-94HD
Samsung BD-P1000
Samsung BD-P1200

Source [Techna Bob]