Star Wars Storm Trooper Beatbox T-Shirt

If you’ve stumbled across this site, chances are you’re a geek of some sort. However, if you’re a geek who happens to have a thing for Star Wars, well today is your lucky day. Show your true colors and represent with the Storm Trooper Beatbox T-Shirt. Even though there isn’t any digital circuit to be had, the geek factor is there. Hey…that’s what we’re all about. The only thing you have to swallow is the relatively steep $41 asking price.

Picture of Blue version right inside…

Instinct HD gets spied. Junior 15 collects at the waist — really.

In what can’t really be seen as a good quality, spied pictures of the Instinct HD stuck between a piece of glass and it’s own box are racing around the web this morning showing one very weird character trait. The Instinct HD went off it’s diet and instead appears to have packed on the pounds. The mystery shooter of the pictures even went on to say that “it felt like a bloated s30 in your hands”. Take it how you want to but when you get called fat and not so nice to hold, something isn’t right. Here’s hoping a little one-on-one time will remedy our faltering opinions.

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iPhone MMS update: West Coast – late morning. East Coast — early afternoon.

While many of you who truly wanted and already activated MMS on your iPhones can disregard this message, for the vast numbers who haven’t, AT&T has gone ahead and shed light on the exact time at which you can download the carrier update file through iTunes to enable said feature. It looks like the party-like-it’s-2002 halapalooza is going down “late morning” for you west coasters meaning east coasters will be well into their “early afternoon” time frame. iPhone 3G/3GS users will soon be able to send audio, picture, and video files ’til their hearts content. Unfortunately, in order to “imply” or “force” you to spend money on a new iPhone, Apple has declined to give original 3G-less iPhones MMS abilities, meaning, jailbreaking and using some other app will be necessary. But I’m sure you already knew that.

I guess I can say I’m somewhat excited as even though I’ve had it activated on my phone for weeks, performance has been spotty. Oh Friday, how we welcome thee…

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Used games retailers fighting against downloadable only content devices ala Sony PSP Go?

The PSP Go to some is the same machine with a slightly redesigned control scheme and inflated price tag. To others it is the way of the future as it drops physical games and ushers in the era of software/downloadable only games. That very same “futuristic” feature may be hurting it in the classic retail environment. First Dutch based retailer “Nedgame” pledged to ignore the PSP Go as they felt it “didn’t offer them the customer any value” with its lack of physical media. The lack of physical media means no game trade-ins which for Nedgame and other used game retailers means no sales, no money, and no job. Some may see this as an issue, but for many I would assume the lack of physical media is a blessing. Gone are the bulky cartridges that take up valuable space as well as minuscule game card formats that are insanely easy to lose. Once you step back and look at the bigger picture, one can see the only people that will be “hurt” by the shift from physical media are outlets that thrive on physical media sales and re-sales.

World’s most useless “invention”: The standard bed sheet Laptop Burka

Love computing outside in all the gloriousness that is sweet mother nature but have a problem with Mr. Sun creating glare, squinting, and headaches? You’re apparently not alone. Thank god the makers of the “Laptop Burka” came along. Featuring a name that may anger some and a design that is anything except original or innovative, the makers of said accessory take you for a complete idiot. A quick look at the image above will come across to most as a bed sheet on top of some moron’s head. But in fact it is a…..uhh…..ya it’s a damn sheet on someone’s head. You can’t fool us Laptop Burka maker….

The most comical yet simultaneously infuriating feature of the LB is the price tag: $36. You read that right and yes the decimal point is in the right spot. This company is charging $36 for a bed sheet made to block out glare and other natural annoyances that may hinder your outdoor computing. If you’ve really got that much of a problem with glare and or mother nature, take your happy ass back inside the house.

One honorable mention from the feature list includes:

• lettoing you work and play on your laptop without the glare of sunlight or stares from uninvited strangers.

I’m pretty sure privacy screens/films were invented for this sole reason. They’re much smaller and won’t make you look like a mental patient when used in public (bonus). You’re best bet is to avoid this at all costs. If threatened with death….it’s not really a hard choice. Move along.

Dvice > Gadget Lab > Worst “invention” of all time, Biggest scam of all time, Laptop Burka

….and the LEGO gods weep. Infamous LEGO house demolished.

The infamous LEGO house that was envisioned by Top Gear’s Maes May and constructed from the blood, sweat, and tears of 1,000 tireless workers was for naught. The house that will live on inside the little kids in all of us came crashing to the ground recently as repeated attempts via many different mediums couldn’t garner the £50,000 ($82,074.21 USD) needed to disassemble the LEGO house brick by brick, transport it to a new home, and rebuild the same house….again. Even a home as fitting as LEGOLand couldn’t be arranged as the costs were (obviously) prohibitive.

In the end, all we have is the memories of a lucky few and some pictures. I’m sure it’s only a matter of time until someone builds another, possibly even bigger and better LEGO house. Until then we’ll just have to reminisce and dream.

Pictures of the pinnacle of childhood fantasies right after the jump.

HTC: “The Chin” an Android exclusive

Do you like chin? Or, do you really like chin — massive, larger than life, Jay Leno edition chin? If you don’t, the chin on the first Android handset that debuted last year, the G1, most likely turned you off. A jutting piece of plastic is a hard thing to make attractive or market successfully. For the most part, the G1 has sold well chin and all. Perhaps your a freak. Maybe you like like or even long for that chin but camp out in the WinMo forest. Get your tissues and caress a souless, battery deficient G1 carcass and pretend it’s full of all that Windows Mobile goodness you love as according to HTC, The Chin will never come to Windows Mobile. An interview conducted between Forbes and HTC’s design firm, One & Co:

Its (HTC’s) Windows Mobile devices come in dark, glossy finishes to appeal to a professional audience, while its Android phones often sport a playful “chin” or angled base. Those characteristics will stay separate, says Zellweger, meaning no chins for HTC Windows Mobile phones. (HTC’s newer Android phones like Sprint’s version of the Hero and the Tattoo have shed the chin as well, but Zellweger says the distinctive feature may return in future devices.)

The Chin may come in various shapes, sizes, and lengths, but you can bet your sweet protrusion loving self that WinMo will never see a chin. That is unless they backtrack on their statements. In the meantime you’re going to have to get a lot friendlier with Android before ever rubbing that oh so lovely chin against your face anytime soon.

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