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In: TV
23 Jul 2007After seeing Bob Barker do it for all my life, it’s hard to imagine a different host for The Price is Right, but such is a necessity after Barker retired this year. It looks like the job will go to Drew Carey, of The Drew Carey Show fame.
This choice probably makes more sense than other [...]
In: Internet
20 Jul 2007Puzzle Quest has shown you can succesfully marry RPG-elements with gem-swapping puzzle action, and now Chore Wars wants you to level up your virtual character by doing household/office chores. That’s right, now chores will give you experience points for your virtual avatar…
The premise is very simple. Members of a household or an office register accounts, [...]
In: Electronics
15 Jul 2007How lazy are you if you think remote control is too complicated for controlling your TV? Australian scientists have developed a TV control box with built-in camera that can recognize your gesture and send appropriate inputs to your TV. Most of the gestures seem really complicated and unwieldy. I’ll just stick to my good old [...]
In: Movie Review
14 Jul 2007Die Hard franchise is already at its fourth entry, and Live Free or Die Hard is the best one so far. Bruce Willis returns to the silver screen to portray John McClane, a role he started playing almost 20 years ago. Not much has changed in the franchise: there are bad guys trying to destroy [...]
In: Electronics
10 Jul 2007SkyMall features over 10,000 products and gadgets: most of them tend to be quite useless and silly but few of them manage to showcase some kind of brilliance.
WeatherCast 5-Day Wireless Weather Forecaster
This wireless weather viewer with 3″x3″ screen receives free forecast from AccuWeather. With simple design, you can either put it on a table or [...]
In: Toy
9 Jul 2007Newest robotic puppy trying to outdo now-defunct Aibo is BJ, a robotic dog running on Linux. The dog is fully programmable (which Aibo wasn’t) and it’ll cost $4,900 when it’s released. Is BJ named after that pet-food store? or blowjob? For the unfortunately-named BJ, its ridiculously high price-tag will guarantee its failure, and its ugly [...]