Hasta La Gadget!

Now that NVIDIA is totally free to chat up its Tegra involvement in the Zune HD, it’s wasted little time in publishing a list of Zune HD preview locations where you can witness the magic for yourself this weekend. The tour is fairly limited to the big urban hubs, but peep the PDF and see if your friendly neighborhood Best Buy is represented.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in. Warning: PDF link]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Zune HD getting previewed at select Best Buys this weekend originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Maybe I’ll start a new feature on Gearlog, “Fish-in-a-barrel Fridays,” where I’ll take easy potshots and poorly thought-out new tech products. Many thanks to editor-in-chief Lance for passing along the press release for the Waist Band MP3 Player with Remote Control, brought to us by USBfever.com.

This attractive wearable is like a small boom box you can strap to your midsection. The product description says it’s great for hikers who would like to listen to their favorite music. Finally, a way to listen to music outside the home.

The Waist Band MP3 Player apparently has no onboard storage, and users need to supply their own SD card or flash drive. The flash drive will stick up into your midsection if you’re wearing the player. The product page cautions that you can’t have both a card and flash drive inserted at the same time or the player won’t work.

No portly people, please, because the included waist strap is 40-inches long. If you have trouble reaching the player strapped around your waist, it comes with a helpful remote.

Perhaps the greatest terrible thing about the Waist Band MP3 Player is that while it seems to have a radio, the radio doesn’t actually work. “Radio is a dummy,” the description cautions twice. It’s not alone.

So how much would you pay for small, poor, wearable speakers, no storage, and a non-working radio? USBfever is hoping $32.99 sounds right.

This article was written on May 17, 2006 by CyberNet.

I was doing a search for some information on the Google Blog Search today when I noticed a new sidebar with some nifty features. The main feature that they added was the ability to view articles during a certain time period (for example: only articles from the last week). This is great because many times a search will provide results that are very old and irrelevant to you.

The other thing on the sidebar is the ability to subscribe to a feed for a particular search. Depending on your subject you subscribe to you may want to adjust your Google preferences to only show results for your language, because many searches return results in many languages. You can adjust your preferences next to the search box where it says “Preferences”.

I am sure I will still use Technorati as my primary tool for blog searching but Google is inching closer to pulling me away. If only they incorporated the “Note It” feature for the Google Notebook into the Blog Search then it would be really great!

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Verizon has announced that its V CAST Video on Demand service is now accessible on the BlackBerry Storm.

The service–available since 2005–now features over 100 full-length programs, as well as live NHL hockey games and college football games.

To get to the service from a Storm, click the VZ Today link in the browser, click Get Apps, and then select V CAST Videos in order to download and install the app.

Verizon said in a statement that the app has a redesigned UI specific to the Storm, along with higher-resolution video. It requires an unlimited data plan and costs an extra $10 per month.