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Dec
Posted on 2007 under Other Gadgets |
RoboPhilo — the self-proclaimed personal humanoid of your dreams — has landed just in time for the holidays after being announced months back, and yep, it will indeed sell for under five bills. Available now at the RoboBrothers website, this (comparatively) affordable creation comes ready to walk, kick or boogie down with 20 servos, an included remote and a couple of ports for good measure. Essentially, it’s only limited by your imagination and programming knowledge, and is ready to consume your forthcoming time off just as soon as you cough up the $499 required to get it on its way.
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Dec
Posted on 2007 under Other Gadgets |
We’re not sure why Lenovo is feeling so particularly jolly this holiday season, but we’re certainly not complaining. The company just slashed prices on its ThinkPad R, T and X series laptops, and its ThinkCentre A desktops. All models have received a 25% price cut, except for the R series with a still-lovable 22%. Yeah, you know the person on your list with everything? We bet they don’t have seven ThinkPads courtesy of their new favorite nephew.
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Dec
Posted on 2007 under Other Gadgets |
Alright, try to stay with us here. Guitar Hero IIIs’s axe works just fine with Rock Band, but only the one for the Xbox 360, and Rock Band’s guitar won’t play the first note on any flavor of GHIII. Your head spinnin’ yet? We’re betting yes, and apparently, the folks over at 1UP were downright tired of being dizzy. Consequently, they phoned up Red Octane’s (publisher of Guitar Hero) co-founder and VP of Business Development, Charles Huang, to chat about the totally confusing compatibility quandary. We fully understand the complexities in getting the instruments to work with other games, as well as the potential business impact, but Mr. Huang chose to take a different route when explaining why no Guitar Hero title would accept a Rock Band controller. He was quoted as saying that Red Octane wasn’t “too interested in having [Harmonix] guitars work on its game, because [Harmonix is] having a lot of issues with its guitars.” Of course, this logic begins to fall apart when you realize there was absolutely no compatibility even before these malfunctions came to light. Nice try, though.
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