If you thought Apple had a tax on their computers, you haven’t seen the luxury PCs from Gaiser High End. They launched a slew of new PC’s that start at a whopping $7,820. Yup, you read that right, and that doesn’t even include the monitor, keyboard or mouse. More »

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Yesterday, we wrote about the guy who wanted $1.1 million for a Sarah Palin signed Xbox 360 on eBay. Well today his auction was pulled, probably by eBay. When you click on the link for the posting you get a messaging saying the item is has been removed. What’s surprising was, someone actually placed a bid on the item.

(Via CrunchGear)

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DDOS Attack Against Facebook, Twitter, Et Al. Was Because of One Guy’s LiveJournal -

According to a Facebook executive, the target of today’s DDOS attacks on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, YouTube and other social media sites was one pro-Georgian blogger going by the username of “Cyxym.” No word as to who was behind the attack…Gizmodo

Transmission Audio Ultimate speakers — $1M for the best monophonic sound ever -

We didn’t think anything would top Goldmund’s $190,000 Telos 5000 amplifier, but we should have known better. Bloated excess knows no bounds, so coming in at a cool $1,000,000 per side, we’ve got Transmission Audio’s Ultimate speakers. Each channel consists of six, 7-foot high panels (one supertweeter ribbon, two tweeter/midrange ribbons, one 24×8-inch woofer, and two 10×15-inch subwoofer); taken together, a stereo pair of the Ultimates will eat up a modest 37-foot swath of your living room airplane hangar. Even people with more money than sense like convenience, though, so the Ultimate takes a page from the HTIB crowd and bundles in six 500-Watt dual-mono amplifiers and a preamp…Engadget

Digg Ads To Begin Testing This Week -

Digg has just announced that it’s going to begin rolling out Digg Ads, the site’s innovative and experimental advertising product that invites users to vote on which ads they like best, over the next week. Digg first announced the new advertising product in June, and they were briefly spotted in the wild in July, though Digg claimed at the time that the ads were limited to an internal test. Digg plans to roll the product out gradually over the next few days to a small subset of users, with plans for a larger deployment over several months…TechCrunch

The remote-controlled kitchen arrives -

Ever since home automation systems were invented, manufacturers have been looking at ways to integrate the technology into the busiest room of the house – the kitchen. But apart from the original Internet fridge (with its frightening price tag and lack of functionality) useful products have been few and far between…GizMag

How to squeeze a PC into a mini briefcase - a DIY activity -

Since the whole world is going compact, a user at TBCS demonstrates how you can shrink a PC to fit in a mini briefcase, maintaining the whole compaction thing. The guy fitted an Axiomtek SBC84810 embedded motherboard ( which has an onboard Celeron-M ULV 1GHz and 1GB of DDR333, running at 266MHz), inside a small aluminum briefcase hardly bigger than it. The mini system boots Windows XP from a 16GB Compact Flash Card…Gizmowatch

Crazy Nut Wants $1.1 Million for Sarah Palin Autographed Xbox 360 -

If you’re an idiot with a million dollars lying around, love the Xbox 360 and think Sarah Palin is the greatest thing sent from God, then we have the perfect item for you to buy. A Sarah Palin autographed Xbox 360 on eBay, posted for $1.1 Million…Ziggytek

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Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire media mogul, said his online newspapers will be charging for its content starting next year. “Quality journalism is not cheap,” said Murdoch. “The digital revolution has opened many new and inexpensive distribution channels but it has not made content free. We intend to charge for all our news websites.” More »

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Looks like text message will start saving lives. In Iowa, callers in distress can text for emergency help such as police, fire or EMT. To get the location of the sender (you can’t really figure that out through a text), the caller will have to response to a request for location. More »

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We’ve all heard of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Technology), more widely known as the chip put into animals to track them. Well, Yelamarthi and two senior engineering students from Michigan University have developed the SmartCane for the visually impaired designed with RFID technology. The SmartCane can search and find electrical navigation tags installed in buildings, which can help the visually impaired across the street. More »

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iRiver has been hiding away for a while, time which Apple took advantage of and advanced their music players to take over the portable media player market. iRiver is showing its face again with the new iRiver E200 PMP. More »

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If you’re an idiot with a million dollars lying around, love the Xbox 360 and think Sarah Palin is the greatest thing sent from God, then we have the perfect item for you to buy. A Sarah Palin autographed Xbox 360 on eBay, posted for $1.1 Million. (pictures after the break) More »

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Paparazzi don’t always get the best shot of celebrities because the flash gives off a glare or they get noticed by the celebrities. Well, thanks to researchers Dilip Krishnan and Rob Fergus, we have the invisible flash which can take a clear shot without the annoying flickering lights. More »

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Sony has always been ahead of the curve in many areas in the field of technology, when their products are breaking apart into a gazillion pieces. Now they’re trying to test out something a little different with the introducton of the Party-Shot personal photographer dock. More »

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The dudes from Entourage were wrong about Facebook. A few days ago we wrote a post about the two characters from Entourage bashing Facebook, saying it’s for kids. A new study from Ofcom, a media regulator, says kids aged 15 to 24 think social networking sites are lame. What’s causing this trend? Well it’s the older crowd, the 25-years and older, that’s pushing the younger kids away from social networking sites. More »

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Sprint and Samsung are teaming up to help save Mother Earth. They introduced the latest offering from Samsung, the Reclaim, an eco friendly smartphone made from 80% recycled material. Here’s the best part, the phone is made from corn but you can’t eat it. (Specs and details after the break) More »

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In another post about an alarm clock iPod/iPhone dock, iHome has released a unique version that’s definitely worth a look. The rotating clock/dock changes the LED display as you rotate your iPod/iPhone into landscape mode. More »

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As Snow Leopard Lurks, OS X Leopard Gets One More Update:

Apple has just pushed out the newest update to its OS X Leopard (10.5) operating system, with 10.5.8. This could potentially be the last Leopard update we see before Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) is released to the public sometime in the next couple of months…TechCrunch

The Shack, short on money for new signs, asks for your help:

Like the rest of America, we’ve gotten some serious LOLs out of Radio Shack’s current bid for relevance. But, as you know, rebranding comes at a price — all those new signs excising the word “Radio” from the chain’s storefronts aren’t exactly cheap, you know. That said, we were equally amused and annoyed by today’s email blast urging consumers to carry around little pieces of paper with the word “THE” printed on it…Engadget

Using Mountain Dew for fuel, a brave man’s claim for greendom:

Stumbling upon this for once I was amazed to read it, but the second thought reminded me of my crazy friend who would dilute his motorbike’s fuel tank with Coke saying, “One day I will drive my bike with Coke” – and the further he reached in his misadventure was, selling off the bike for a cheap price. But inventor Paul Patone has got a similar adventure working somewhat right for him…Gizmowatch

Nanoscale lasers are about to get even smaller:

In a collaborative effort between the Arizona State University and Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands, researchers have found a way to make optical lasers much smaller than it was previously thought was possible, making dreams of speedier computers and faster Internet access closer to reality than ever before…GizMag

Hurry up and wait: StarCraft II delayed till early 2010:

Bad news, guys: Blizzard just “delayed” StarCraft II. (Did it ever have an official release date to begin with?) I just received the devastating electronic mail…CrunchGear

The Kindle Got Me Interested in Reading Again:

The years I spent in college, I never picked up a book just because I felt like reading. You couldn’t pay me to read because my professors already made me read so much. But for some reason, I became interested in reading again after the release of the Kindle 2…ZiggyTek

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Cassettes have come and gone. We rarely see them now except for those times people find a way to bring it back somehow. Case in point, the iPod Nano sleeves made out of cassette tapes. The cassette tapes fit the latest iPod Nanos and are going for 50 Canadian dollars. More »

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