The UberReview http://www.uberreview.com An Eclectic Mix Of Gadgets & Wired Madness Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.uberreview.comhttp://www.uberreview.com/urbloglogo.jpgThe Uber-ReviewUberReviewhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSpecial note for BLOGLINES USERS: Our feed is not updating in Bloglines since May 29, 2008. We have contacted Bloglines multiple times and we have yet to hear back. We strongly recommend using any feed reader except Bloglines. This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site. Driver Comes To The iPhone and iPod Touch http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UberReview/~3/Qf9J3agRe3E/driver-comes-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch.htm http://www.uberreview.com/2009/11/driver-comes-to-the-iphone-and-ipod-touch.htm#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:11:40 +0000 C. S. Magor http://www.uberreview.com/?p=13267 driveriphone
It never ceases to amaze me how far processing power has come. Back in the late nineties, 1999 to be precise, Driver was one of the better PS titles and it would put a PC through its paces – now we can get it on a phone with “the exact same physics and driving engine present in the PC original.”

Sure, you lose the replay editor, but that is neither here nor there. Gameloft does it again. [Touch Arcade]

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Trust me, I get Apple. As a lifetime Windows user I readily concede that they make the best laptops on the planet. The lack of bloat in OSX makes it a damned quick OS. What I don’t get is their unrealistic expectations when it comes to the price-tags on their monitors. Take the new LED Cinema Display. It is a beautiful monitor to be sure, but there are enough buts to put all but the most rabid fanbois off the purchase.

The extra 24-inches will be a welcome addition to folks tired of squinting at their laptop screens and the 1,920 x 1,200-pixel resolution will make for some awesome playback. It looks great, a worthy accompaniment to any unibody MBP, it has a spare set of controls, and according to all accounts is a sweet performer; Wired even went so far as calling it unparalleled.

It acts as a dock for the MBP, with a USB hub and an onboard MagSafe charge port; very convenient and what you would expect from something that is meant to extend Apple’s flagship notebooks.

But then there are the buts, and there are a few of them before you come anywhere near to the price. No DVI or HDMI, it uses mini DisplayPort. On the one hand, that is something that you would kind of expect, but given the size you would think that Apple would have built in a little bit more interoperability. It would be nice to be able to hook it up to a BluRay player or console as I do with my Samsung monitor.

But one deal breaker for me is that it doesn’t play nicely with Windows. Wired reports that it won’t work on an MBP via Boot Camp – something that seems more of a slight than an oversight.

The other deal breaker is the cost. While it might feature an arsenic-free screen backlit with mercury-free LEDs and offer “unparalleled performance” the price is a serious issue here. The fact is that I can get two pretty good 24-inch displays from Samsung or LG for the same amount of money. If it played nicely with my other gadgets I would consider the LED Cinema Display for $600 but not $900. I don’t need all that brightness, I normally turn my monitor brightness down. What I want is interoperability and value for money.

[Wired]

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There are three things that make this snack geeky: firstly, it is made out of elvish bread, second there is the unmistakable Vulcan salute – the third thing is a little more subtle, but it is most definitely there. Who can pick it?

If you can’t figure it out, you can always head over to Geekologie to find the answer, but if you take all things into account and look beyond the bread then you should find the answer. [Rose-Bullet@DeviantArt via Geekologie]

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People just don’t seem to be prepared to let this meme go the way of so many before. Does it have a little versatility or are people just clutching at straws? If nothing else, this t-shirt gets the clingers-on ready for the festive season.

Price: $20 [Fashionably Geek]

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Twenty-five years of unhealthily heavy computer use have seen to my being exceptionally short-sighted, so much so that without glasses or lenses, I would struggle to make out the digits on a nearby clock. My solution to this has been to keep my cellphone within reach, but the idea of this sheet/clock has me hoping that one day I may no longer need to. Think about it, a clock incorporated into a mattress that would let you feel the time.

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How does it work? The sheet has a special pocket that holds the clock, which is largely constructed of silicone. The heavy lifting comes via slats of EPS “(electroactive polymer, used for artificial muscles).” When zapped with electricity the relevant slats expand to show the time.

[Yanko via CG, Unpluggd]

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