Swine flu: do you’ve it yet? No? Well why not? You need to get yourself an INFLU mask, stat.
The INFLU is like any of the others masks the paranoid public is wearing to combat H1N1, except that it’s not for total pussies:
Plan your sickness, develop antibodies for the flu and strengthen your immune system the natural way. The INFLU flu collector mask increases the prospect of getting the Swine flu (H1N1) as well as the regular seasonal flu with several hundred percent.
Your planned immunity comes by way of a battery-powered fan, which “increases the intake of viruses in ambient air through the respiratory system.” There’s no flaw with this: the plan, or the joke. [INFLU via Nerdcore via Neatorama]
if you were Tiger Woods, the Car Cam Dually would have captured you slamming into a tree and your wife smashing the windows with a golf club, while simultaneously recording how you managed to injure your face.
Of course, it would have also proven whether or not your wife was using the golf club on your face before the incident. The point is that, unlike most car accident cameras, the Vehicle Cam Dually offers a more complete picture of how an accident went down, making it easier to prove who was at fault and what kind of injuries were sustained. To that end, the device also keeps track of your GPS location and the g-force of the impact. [Spy Gadgets via TRFJ via DVICE]
If you think about it—really think about it—or even half-assedly think about it—this Void VO2 Retrograde watch isn’t so different from an iMac.
But whereas an iMac* focuses on its glass screen accented by a tiny strip of aluminum, this Void centerpieces its brushed stainless steel—the informationless void of the watch, if you will—as much just as much as its glass-covered speed dial watch face.
Void’s design admits that it’s only half for utility, saving the other half totally for style.
The Void VO2 watch is available now for $200. But if you prefer a digital face to an analog one, check out the Void V01.[Watchismo via boingboing]
*I thought my iMac comparison was somewhat brilliant before realizing I’d probably unconsciously plagiarized it from my source. Smooches, Rob.
We told you the deals, now tell us how it all went down. Find any sweet deals? Have any horror stories? Reevaluating your plan to flip copies of Paul Blart: Mall Cop on eBay? Let’s hear it.
I wasn’t really in the market for anything, and had no desire to go wait outside in the rain at the crack of dawn. But I did grab the DS version of Chrono Trigger for $10 ($9 after Bing cashback) on Wednesday at Newegg. Not on Black Firday, sure, but it was enough to satisfy my consumerist desires for the week. How about you? [Image via Tri-City Herald]
iPhone Owners More Prone to Pony Up for Digital Content Apple has trained iPhone owners to care about paying for digital content more than the general online population, a survey advocates. digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/iPhone_Owners_More_Likely_to_Pony_Up_for_Digital_Content’; Media law firm Olswang on Wednesday published its 2009 Convergence Survey, which analyzed e-shopping trends among iPhone owners and general online consumers. Apple enthusiast blog 9to5Mac summarizes the findings regarding the iPhone demographic: 73 percent […]
Apple has trained iPhone owners to care about paying for digital content more than the general on the internet population, a survey advocates.
Media law firm Olswang on Wednesday published its 2009 Convergence Survey, which examined e-shopping trends among iPhone owners and general on the web consumers. Apple enthusiast blog 9to5Mac summarizes the findings regarding the iPhone demographic:
73 percent would pay to access on the internet a film just released in cinemas;
67 percent would pay for access to a film that’ll not be on DVD for at least two months;
54 percent would pay to access a film which is already on DVD or pay-TV;
41 percent of iPhone users would already be willing to take out subscriptions to access their favorite Television shows;
42 percent would pay for an online book.
Those numbers are quite high when stacked against the figures from the general online population surveyed:
58 percent of people would pay to access online a film just released in cinemas;
52 percent would pay for access to a film that’ll not be on DVD for at least two months;
40 percent would pay to access a film which is already on DVD or pay-TV;
30 percent would already be willing to take out subscriptions to access their favorite Television shows;
30 percent would pay for an on the internet book.
Olswang found these numbers about the iPhone demographic to be “striking,” but they’re what you’d anticipate. The App Store made purchasing apps incredibly easy, and many of the high quality apps are dirt cheap.
Above all, my view is that the App Store, which serves over 100,000 apps, has conditioned us to demand more and more from a single device. In turn we’re evolving into a demographic that craves more from the digital as opposed to the physical.
These numbers are quite striking indeed. And it suggests the rumored Apple touchscreen tablet, which several independent reports have stated will focus on e-reader functionality, does have potential to resuscitate the dying publishing industry — because there would most likely be a massive amount of overlap between the iPhone and “iTablet” demographics.
Meanwhile, a recent report from The New York Times cites sources who state a consortium of magazine publishers are jointly planning to build an “online newsstand” — a “new iTunes for magazines.” It would involve publications repurposing their print content into multiple digital formats to be sold through a new company, sources told NY Times. If that’s the case, today’s survey advocates they’ll find a friendlier reception among iPhone users than among the general population.
In this week’s tentativelymaterialistic app roundup: Deals, scrutinized! Barcodes, scanned! Movies, thriftily rented! Magazines, digitized! Pac-Man, terrifyingly adapted to the road! The iPhone’s camera, made less terrible! Turn-by-turn, discounted! Home screens, organized! And more…
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This list is in no way definitive. If you’ve spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, superior yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, and check out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory. Have a great weekend, everybody!
Wired Presents 100 Hot Holiday Gifts, Plus a $10,000 Contest Wired’s wish list is our annual roundup of the gadgets, appliances, accessories and toys that we want: 100 of the year’s coolest, most interesting, most exciting products. The product editors of Wired put together this list, which appears in our December issue. But this year, thanks to our sponsors, you can also get some of the […]
Wired’s wish list is our annual roundup of the gadgets, appliances, accessories and toys that we want: 100 of the year’s coolest, most interesting, most exciting products.
The product editors of Wired put together this list, which appears in our December issue. But this year, thanks to our sponsors, you can also get some of the stuff from our wish list without paying a dime of your own money.
All you have to do is enter the One Wired Wish contest, and you’ll have a chance to win a $10,000 prize package, including these cool prizes:
* BlueLounge StudioDesk * BuckyBalls * Casa Bugatti Vera Electric Kettle * Cuisinart Vertical Rotisserie * Dyson Air Multiplier Fan * Fuego Element Grill * JVC LT-42WX70 HDTV * Kästle FX 84 Skis * Kensington SlimBlade Trackball * McIntosh MXA60 * Powermat Cordless Charger * Seagate Replica Hard Drive * Shure SRH440 Headphones * Spot Personal Tracker
Want to know what all those cool things are? Click through the gallery here for pics of the wish-list prize package — or head over to Wish List 2009 to see all 100 glorious products.
So many staffers stopped by to gawk at this laptop desk that we thought it was giving away liquor. It wasn’t (we checked). The clean, understated look is what made everyone pause — and that’s before they discovered the sliding center panel. Move it back to reveal a space for hiding your power strip, cables, or, of course, booze.
Psystar’s recent legal woes keep proving the company’s insanity. New documents show that these guys planned to sell at least 1.45 million Mac clones by 2011. How many did they actually sell in the past year? 768.
The ideal part is, those are conservative estimates. According to Psystar’s aggressive predictions, the company planned to move 12 million computers by 2011. 12 million! That’s a far cry from the triple digit numbers they managed to sell.
The other ideal part is that Psystar pitched their inevitable legal battle with Apple as a competitive advantage, claiming other companies would want to stay away from that mess. Imagine asking the bank for a loan on a truck, saying you’ll use it to haul stolen Televisions, and arguing that fear of getting arrested will make yours the only TV truck in town. No wonder these guys are going under.
The documents were provided as part of the upcoming injunction proceedings, where Apple is trying to halt sales of Psystar’s products. Hey Apple, I know this is all about protecting your IP and all, but going by those dismal figures, you really don’t have to worry about Psystar’s sales. [Computer Wold via BGR]
Before he was a kingmaker at TechCrunch, Mike Arrington was a lawyer at Silicon Valley firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he worked on the deal that brought NeXT Software—and Steve Jobs—to Apple. It almost didn’t happen.
Apple’s decision to buy the ousted Jobs’ NeXT Software was a last minute one. They were in fact looking to buy BeOS (now defunct), but the asking price was too high, and they went with NeXT for $400 million. Apple needed to buy the foundation for a new operating system, as their own OS development efforts at the time were, in a word, screwed. NeXTSTEP became the basis for OS X.
Mike, who saved a voicemail Steve left him about an “administrative issue” for years, thinks about a world without Steve Jobs. And you know, it’s a scary thought. [TechCrunch]
BassJump Subwoofer Beefs Up MacBook Speakers BassJump is a subwoofer that turns your MacBook into a pair of satellite speakers. Instead of silencing the MacBook’s surprisingly good built-in speakers when you hook it up, like a regular external speaker, it augments them with what they lack the most: bass. After installing a preference pane on the host Mac, you plug in the […]
BassJump is a subwoofer that turns your MacBook into a pair of satellite speakers. Instead of silencing the MacBook’s surprisingly good built-in speakers when you hook it up, like a regular external speaker, it augments them with what they lack the most: bass.
After installing a preference pane on the host Mac, you plug in the BassJump to a spare USB port (good luck there). The software controls the crossover frequency (the frequency at which the sound is split and sent to either the sub or the satellites) and lets you choose an EQ preset such as “rock” or “pop”. You can also control the volume of the bass independently to select how huge a kick you get.
At $80, the aluminum-bodied BassJump costs the same as many full 2.1 speaker setups. The advantage, we suppose, is that the BassJump means fewer boxes and cables on your desk.
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