Hasta La Gadget!

It’s not often that a Mattel toy targets the 18 – 128 demographic, but we’ll be frank — the Mindflex has us all sorts of intrigued. Originally introduced at this year’s CES, said game is a brain-powered fun-fest that relies on intense mental activity to control the height of a ball suspended in a column of air. Early on, we heard that it would land sometime during this year for $80, but it seems as if only one of those factoids will prove true. Indeed, Amazon has it listed to ship on October 1st, which gives proactive parents plenty of time to stock up for the holidays. Unfortunately, the price seems to have inched up by a Jackson, as it’s currently up for pre-order at $99.99. Rest assured, however, that said price is far less than what you’ll pay on eBay if you’re empty-handed come December 20th.

[Via I4U News]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming

Mattel’s Mindflex coming October 1st for $99.99 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 May 2009 00:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Check it, North Americans — yet another PMP that’ll never arrive here in this form. The T-DMB-equipped B30 just popped up over on iriver‘s Korean website, complete with an FM tuner, 2.8-inch QVGA display, a microSD expansion slot, 4/8/16GB of inbuilt memory, white / black / silver color options, USB 2.0 connectivity, a user-selectable equalizer and a list of supported file formats too lengthy to cover in this space. Furthermore, we’re told that the battery is good for 40 hours on audio and 5.5 hours with video, and while a ship date has yet to be revealed, we’re expecting ’em to go for around $155, $183 and TBD from least capacious to most.

[Via PMP Today]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

iriver’s T-DMB-packin’ B30 portable media player emerges originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 May 2009 21:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on April 13, 2006 by CyberNet.

A new build of Internet Explorer 7, build 5358, has made it to the web. Conveniently, just in time to compete with the Firefox 1.5.0.2 release . This build is only for those people that are running a genuine version of Windows because the previous Genuine Advantage Workaround does not work properly with this new build.

I am not sure on what is new but it doesn’t seem like there are any noticeable changes. I am sure there are a lot of underlying changes in this build that makes it more reliable and secure to use. Overall though, it is still nothing good enough to pull me away from Firefox.

IE7 Beta 2 Build 5358 via SKRT
IE7 Beta 2 Build 5358 via RapidShare
IE7 Beta 2 Build 5358 via TurboUpload
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After shelling out some $6.5 million, you had to know that Systemax planned on doing something with Circuit City’s trademarks and internet domain names. As of today, CircuitCity.com is back and better than ever, carrying on the legacy of a name that became synonymous with overpriced consumer electronics for nearly six decades. Of course, this doesn’t mean that any Circuit City retail stores will be re-opening, but at least the brand is living on in the world wide web. The wonders of the internet: I Can Has Cheezburger?, Twitter and the continuation of an icon that would otherwise be six feet underground.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Systemax relaunches Circuit City’s website, this time with feeling originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 May 2009 17:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While a good number of its machines are already running the OS — about 13 percent at this point — the United States Army has mandated that before the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, 2009 that all of its Windows-powered computers must switch from XP to Vista, presumably and hopefully with Service Pack 2. Additionally, all Office 2003 users will have to upgrade to the 2007 variant, but thankfully, someone with a little Vista experience made sure to omit standalone weapons systems from the mandate — you know, because there’s not really time to click through eight confirmation boxes when launching a time-sensitive homing missile. All jesting aside, we’re flummoxed that the Army didn’t just wait for Windows 7 to roll out in a few months before making this decision, but hey, what’s a few more billion in upgrade costs next year, right?

[Via HotHardware]

Filed under: Desktops

US Army equipping all Windows PCs with Vista by end of 2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 May 2009 15:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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