Gadgets News

According to former Walt Disney chief executive, Michael Eisner, the writer’s strike is over. Practically. According to Eisner, "It’s over… They made a deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general."

Wait, so does this mean the thirty million reality shows are going off air? Because we were really starting to like the re-imagining of American Gladiators. Then again, it can only get better with writers…

(more…)

Japan, the country that likes to terrify us with new and terrifying technology, has announced that they are building giant solar panels to be shot into space in an attempt to garner delicious, solar energy. While the word "death star" wasn’t necessarily thrown around, the news definitely conjured up the image.

The company called, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or, the appropriately evil-sounding acronym, JAXA, is behind the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) and hope to have it running by 2030.

(more…)

It’s hip to remake old games, and Garland-based video game developer, 3D Realms, knows it — as it’s announced that it will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever, in late 2008.

Duke Nukem, the romantic story of a man who just wanted to blow things up, was revolutionary as a 1996 PC game called Duke Nukem 3D. The new game should be available for the Xbox 360, the PS3 and PCs.

(more…)

Sony has announced that it’ll be launching the "Satin Silver" model of the PS3 in Japan — thereby boosting its sales to seven consoles, instead of the previous five sold this year.

The Satin Silver PS3 will go on sale on March 6th for 39,800 yen, or £190, or ten thousand dollars, because, quote, "Sony has to make a profit somehow."

(more…)

To prove to the kids its hip, Panasonic will be offering a new, thinner and most importantly, greener, Plasma HDTV next year. The move is most likely related to recent criticism of Plasma TV sets, as they consume more power than other TVs, including the flat-panel LCD.

Panasonic wants to know it takes you, environmentalists and trees seriously — and say that its new TVs will cut power-consumption in half.

(more…)

You know that friend we all have, the one that makes big investments and then realizes they can’t quite afford them so they ask you if they could borrow a little bit of cash?

That friend is Microsoft.

After making a huge, unsolicited $44.6 billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo Inc., Microsoft has said that it may issue some debt to finance the cash portion of the buy out.

Oh, get a job.

(more…)

Apple has been determined to be bad at almost everything it does in recent months.

New Apple software for current iPod Classic models is causing troubles for the Mp3 player, causing everything from static, buzzing or wild explosions.

(more…)

Japanese researchers in Tokyo implanted a tiny camera inside the brain of a mouse to see how memory is formed. The scientists hope that the experiment will not only help humans treat diseases like Parkinsons but will also show us the complicated inner workings of a mouse brain.

Finally.

(more…)

Amazon isn’t just slowly moving into the digital media world, it’s smashing its way in, like a large, book-selling rhinocerous. The company announced that it had acquired Audible for $300 million this Thursday, a move that meant very little to anyone who doesn’t know what Audible is.

What, then, is it? Audible is the leading provider of audio books in digital form — with a library of 80,000 titles, Amazon has officially entered the audio book market. Take that… all you audio book market competitors.

(more…)