Via Twitter, Major Nelson has confirmed that Project Natal is officially named “Kinect.” Meanwhile, an Italian website briefly featured an embedded advertisement that shows a redesigned Xbox 360, presumed to the Xbox Slim. More »

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Stefan Magdalinski sought to find out the answer and had the perfect excuse for the experiment. His wife Kay, residing in South Africa, was expecting her birthday, and Stefan, staying in London, wanted to surprise her with chocolate and an iPad, which was unreleased in back home. More »

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HTC’s Legend is an old toy for Europeans, but it has just landed in Canada by way of Virgin Mobile. An odd mixture of high-end build with modestly entry-level internal hardware, the Legend is luring few Motorola Droid, Nexus One, and other top-flight Android 2.1 smartphone owners from their devices, but it should satisfy most consumers who want a moderately fast and beautiful smartphone. More »

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Audiophile speakers are among the most finicky and precarious entertainment devices to set up properly because their sound quality is so dependent on room conditions. Having the perfect environment for a speaker rig usually requires a wealthy individual, but for regular folks who simply want to listen to tunes, they can lounge in the Acoustic Immersion Pod. More »

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Thought to be have been merely a concept, “the icon,” an iPhone 3G/3GS battery pack made to look like the iPhone OS‘ battery indicator exists, and it can extend your talk time by upwards of an additional 3 hours and music playing for up to 18 more hours. More »

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The iPhone 4’s launch on June 24th will be epic for smartphones and for Apple –but wait, Microsoft is using the same day to open the doors of its 4th retail store, which will be located not only in the same mall as the Apple store, but almost directly across from it. Fireworks are going to explode inside. More »

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Revealed last month, the promising 10-Inch Zenithink tablet that apes the iPad in form is on sale and looks like it could be a good deal, sporting many features that the iPad lacks and at 40% of the price. More »

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On April Fool’s Day, ThinkGeek owned us when it teased everyone with the fake iCade, which is an arcade cabinet into which an iPad slides. A Japanese gamers has constructed a rough prototype - from cardboard! - of the same concept. While the contraption looks unseemly, it demonstrates that ThinkGeek was onto something with the iCade. More »

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To be available in “Tanzanite” and “Sapphire,” the CrystalRoc covers for the incoming iPhone 4 are so sparkly and ostentatious that they are sure to attract stares from thugs on the subway. More »

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It turns out, Steve Jobs was not being hyperbolic when he called the iPad “magical.” After all, the revolutionary Apple tablet can walk. More »

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Malata’s SMB-A1011 10.1-Inch Android slate could be a winner because it possesses many magnificent traits: Android 2.1 Eclair, powerful NVIDIA Tegra 2 (Duo-Core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9) that destroys the iPad, HDMI output with 1080p support, and a capacitive touchscreen. More »

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On May 19th, Sony requested for the FCC to keep all PS3 filings confidential for 180 days. Today, two new Playstation 3 models have appeared on FCC’s website: CECH-2501A and CECH-2501B, both of which have the same specs except for different “HDD type.” More »

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Do you wish that you could do more with your iPad? Feeling musically creative and want to express it? VJ Franz K has answered your dreams with a device onto which you can mount your iPad and play sweet melodies. More »

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Steve Jobs boasted about the iPhone 4’s IPS “Retina Display” and made it one of the new device’s pillars. His claims that the 960×640 LCD’s 326 pixels per inch (PPI) make the display’s pixels invisible to the naked eye when viewed from 12 inches away has come under fire from certain critics, but Phil Plait, who has calibrated a camera on the Hubble Telescope, demonstrates that Apple’s claims are factual. More »

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According to an independent Apple repair source that claims to have acquired a genuine iPhone 4 enclosure (minus the internal hardware), the phone survived the first 2 drops from 3.5 feet but completely cracked on the 3rd. More »

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