Archive for October, 2008

Gmail Adds SMS Chat

Users of Google’s Gmail service can now send text message chats to mobile phones using the webapp’s built-in Chat feature.
Google is adding the experimental functionality through Gmail Labs. To turn it on, go to the Labs tab within Gmail’s settings. Or, just click on the little green Erlenmeyer flask icon next to your e-mail [...]

New Lounge Chair ‘Hovers’ Using Magnets

A $9,500 LOUNGE CHAIR THAT FLOATS ABOVE THE GROUND VIA MAGNETS — yeah, a maglev chair — is on display at Britain’s gadget show called Stuff Live.

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New Google tools sift and sort search results

There’s new information this week concerning Google SearchWiki, an experimental feature that allows users to annotate, rank, amend and rearrange search results, and to see how other people have modified theirs.

Intel and Asus collaborate on open source ‘dream’ PC hardware

Today, Intel and Asus unveiled a collaborative project which they hope will yield the first PC designed by “crowdsourcing.”

NetFlix To Debut HD Streaming Over XBL

Apparently, when the New Xbox Experience goes live on November 19, users with NetFlix accounts will be able to stream movies to the Xbox360 in HD. This is actually the first platform that will allow streaming of fully HD movies. Even NetFlix’s own website does not do this. Of course, a great connection will likely [...]

Atari Grabs Riddick and Ghostbusters Titles

Atari has grabbed the publishing rights for the new Riddick game, Assault on Dark Athena, as well as the new Ghostbusters game that caused such a stir a few months ago. Both games are due out later next year, and although Atari claims the future is the “online space,” it looks like they are hedging [...]

City of Heroes for Mac (Finally) Unveiled

NCsoft will release it as a Special Edition game this holiday, but an exact release date is not yet known.

David Tennant To Quit Doctor Who

David Tennant announced that he will quit as the title character in the BBC’s Doctor Who, after becoming one of the most popular Time Lords in the history of the BBC science fiction show, the BBC reported.
Tennant stepped into the Tardis in 2005 and will leave the role after four special episodes are broadcast next [...]

Sho’nuff! Samuel L. Jackson is in The Last Dragon

Samuel L. Jackson is set to star as the bad guy in Columbia Pictures’ remake of Berry Gordy’s 1985 cult classic The Last Dragon, says The Hollywood Reporter. Jackson will play Sho’nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, a role played in the original by the late Julius Carry.
“I’m a huge fan of the original and [...]

5 Minute The Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer!

A new 5 minute trailer for 20th Century Fox’s The Day the Earth Stood Still is now online and can be watched using the player below! You may have seen a lot of this video on TV in September, but this new version of the clip features more footage previously unseen.
Opening on December 12 in [...]