Whenever I hear of anything linked between wireless or bluetooth and speakers, my face lights up. This is also the case here with JBL and Infinity signing a partnership to create a wireless subwoofer. Well, we now have the PS212W, a 12 inch 400 W subwoofer that comes with an included 2.4 GHz wireless receiver/transmitter. We also have JBL’s Cinema Sound CSS10W, which uses the same frequency but only appears at 10 inch and 300W. This baby will cost around $560 and the PS212W is sold for around $680.

The PlayStation Store makes it possible for gamers to connect to the PlayStation 3 console with their PSP in order to download some classic PlayStation One games to play on their handheld. This brings a small problem as those individuals that do not own a PS3 can not access the feature. Well, this changed, in Japan at least. Sony recently announced that the PlayStation Store is now accessible to PC users connected to the Internet. Unfortunately, this feature will only be available in Japan so not much of a good news here. The company is struggling and this seems like a good move, if it were to be available around the world and not in Japan only.

We have seen it before and were waiting for it to happen again so here we are. Turkey just put another ban on YouTube after a user reported that Google’s video sharing web site had some clips that were considered to be insulting to some Turkish political persons. Well, the Turkish government acted promptly and ordered the national telecommunications company to block access to YouTube. That is for all Turkish residents until YouTUbe will delete the “offensive” clips. We did see this before, in March. The ban then lasted 2 days but now we can not really know how much it will last.After the ban was announced, the Reporters Without Borders organization promptly responded and stated that blocking an entire web site just because of some videos is a “disproportionate measure”. I totally agree as this might be a case of denying someone of the freedom of expression here, and maybe even of speech. We would of course need to see the clips to really see what the problem was.

There has been much stipulation as to the future development of Google Mail, especially after Yahoo hit it hard with the no storage limit feature. Now Gmail needs to come with something to top that and offering the same thing would probably viewed as a copy of Yahoo so I do not really think this would happen. On the other hand there are reports of two new features that are to appear. So, we have Google Gears and View Account Activity. We did not properly understand what is the deal with Google Gears but the View Account Activity feature can be useful. It will show all the IPs connected to your Gmail account and those of the past. This way you can be sure that nobody is using your e-mail unless they are allowed. Nobody really knows when Gmail 2.0 will be launched or how it will look and what will showcase. It does seem that existing features are also upgraded so we can probably expect a good experience. I sure hope so as Gmail is my favorite e-mail client.

There are a lot of strange lawsuits in USA. We recently saw one senator that started a lawsuit against GOD and now we see that Google is being sued for crimes against humanity. Dylan Stephen Jayne from Pennsylvania is the one that started this and he asks for just $5 million in damages. The charge is even more bizarre as the reason stays in the fact that his social security number, if it is turned upside down and scrambled spells “GOOGLE”.

If you click on the thumb you will see a handwritten real lawsuit! Strange things happen in America!

Via TechCrunch

Tony Wright is an individual that does not stand out in the crowd but now he became famous. The reason? Breaking the world record for the longest phone call ever, with 40 hours and still going. Just in case you care, the previous record was of 39 hours, 18 minutes and 24 seconds, set on November 3 2005. Well, Tony Wright broke the record while talking to Jenny Barnard. It is interesting that people, as soon as they found out, took chat slots with Wright in order to help him beat the record. The good news is that the phone call is made by using Tesco Internet phones, making the call almost free. Way to go Tony!

Via Engadget

If you want to have more storage spage on one notebook, Alienware brings a great solution to the table. The company claims that they are the first company that will offer Samsung’s 2.5 inch 320 GB hard drive in both single and dual device configurations on notebooks. This does sound good as it basically means that we will have the possibility of holding 640 GB of files on a notebook, a storage capacity that was previously not imagined to appear so soon. So we have RAID 0 and RAID 1 systems with 17 inches Area-51 m9750 and Aurora m9700 notebooks. A dual drive notebook will cost around $2400.

On the other hand, if you want even more space, you could opt for Eurocom’s mobile workstations. You can order them with three 2.5 inches 250 GB hard drives. Each costs $469. It is your choice.

In the picture above we can see the new Ruffneck PC launched by GE Fanuc’s Computer Dynamics subsidiary. This here personal computer is ready for abuse. It shows a nice 15 inch touchscreen LCD that is to be used with gloves. The processor is a Pentium M at 1.6 GHz, we have 2GB of RAM memory and a good enough 40GB hard disk. What is interesting with this PC is that it is wrapped in thermally-managed enclosure. This allows it to operate in low temperatures of -40 and high temperatures up to 140 Fahrenheit. We do not know how much it will cost but if you live in an environment that needs the specifications above, you should purchase it no matter what.

I am looking at the picture above and I am trying to wonder if this is a commercial for clothes or I should take a look at the model instead. The lovely lady above is actually wearing a very high tech Army Combat Shirt that is made out of an anti-microbial fabric. The good news is that this army combat shirt is flame resistant and improves breathability. The bad news is that it is kind of tight and I keep looking besides the essential and think about the lady wearing it. OK, leaving jokes aside, this suit is to be worn under the Interceptor Body Armor and comes with 8-bit camouflage pattern. It is also equipped with anti-abrassion elbow pads, infrared identification tabs and cargo pockets. It does look like a pretty interesting armor.

We keep seeing stranger and stranger speakers and this one is just the latest in a series of hundreds. The Ferguson Hill FH001 Horn Speaker is simply put huge and looks like a monster. If you want to make the news even stranger, think about the $19,916 price tag it bears. To make the case even more interesting, this baby can not handle bass under 150hz because of the horn shape. On the other hand your treble will be too loud. Why would anyone purchase this speaker? Hell if I know!