Frag and hear footsteps wirelessly!

I remember what happened to my last Logitech headset. The audio cable snapped while I try to stand up instantly to kill that annoying mosquito, because the audio controller got stuck in the edge. Luckily my new neckband from Steelseries comes with an extender. But this new Logitech might win back my heart, as I always love Logitech products.

Logitech has updated their headset products with this new G930. It comes with Logitech’s original 7.1 surround sound gaming headset, but wireless. Logitech says the G930 uses “gaming-grade wireless” tech, whatever that actually means. But what happens if you’re in the middle of a frag session and the batteries die? Whoops!

The charging station basically turns it into a standard USB 7.1 gaming headset, so you can keep playing while it’s charging. Smart, right? Like the preceding G35, it’s got three programmable keys on the side to use for voice morphing, music or chat controls. It even comes with a premium ‘gaming’ grade price tag of $160. *shrugs* But that’s how gaming gears costs these day, leeching those poor and ‘innocent’ lil` gamers.

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Logitech recharge your iPod/iPhone while blasting you with 8 speakers.

Yes, another day another iPod/iPhone speaker docks. But this S715i is from Logitech, not your cheapo China-brand plasticky speaker with a cheap connector to connect to your iPod or iPhone. Now Logitech’s not planning to sell them as some normal speaker dock. They’re persuading you that this thing “sounds like a beast”. Maybe the speaker roars instead of singing. But with 8 custom-designed, laser-tuned speaker drivers that deliver “next generation”, “professionally tuned acoustics” capable of “filling a room” with “bold sound”, I guess it can really roar. Because the brand’s reputable, therefore Logitech’s throwing an extra 8-hour rechargeable battery. But other than that, it’s still a speaker. There’s nothing wrong for you to give out a sceptical face, but for $149.99, this speaker REALLY is not your typical China-brand speaker that bleeds every time you blast Lady Gaga’s song.

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Facebook, the family destroyer

I’ve seen many funny cases of people getting fired over what they said at Facebook. I’ve seen few relationships getting bombarded over scandalicious photos tagging them. But marriage ‘Game Over’ is quite the first for me. This John France dude surely let his new pet wife too loose that she posted dozens their ’secret wedding’ photos all over the Internet. Somehow, somewhere, someone who knows John’s 1st wife, Lynn France came across those photos. My oh my what disaster did that caused. What’s worse? The lady’s last name is now “France”. W00t!!!

John doesn’t seemed very bright either. The loophole came when John told Lynn he’s going for a China business trip, but oddly left behind his Passport back at Cleveland, Ohio and never came back. I wonder why didn’t the wife rush over to the airport when she found the passport, or maybe give him a call.

The two were married at Disney World in December 2008, with the Frances’ two young boys in attendance. John France was dressed as Prince Charming, said Lynn France’s attorney, Andrew Zashin.

After Lynn went on the Today show to rant about how her “happy ever after” turned into a nightmare, her husband’s lawyer states that their Italian wedding in 2005 wasn’t really legally enforceable, so he was actually free to go fly off to Florida on his private plane and marry some lady, no problemo. I guess that’s the latest trend excuse for those failed marriage that started with “runaway marriage” in Vegas.

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Miniature dog killer, but no not the coke!!!

I thought that back then BB-guns were pretty dangerous stuff already. But this, this really amaze me at how home-made lethal weapons can be so dangerous. Can you actually kill someone with this? Well all I know is, I won’t want this guy to be my housemate! Checkout the things killed for this video: smirnoff, glass bottles, fluorescent lights, computer monitors, and another balloon—but filled with gasoline. Damn, that Heineken got wasted!

By the way, getting serious here, don’t you think this baby killer is kinda very accurate? And oh, all these ‘awsm’ videos were shot using this special tool from Canon. I think it’s called the 0.5D MkII.

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BlackBerry Curve 9300 waiting for sunrise?

What you see above is a black fruit device with a ‘9300’ code, with quad-band GSM and HSDPA 850/1900/2100 radio. Designed in a fat candybar body with 802.11n WiFi, GPS, it’s got a shady 256MB of RAM. Not amazing for some, but do-able for the mass market. There’s a 2 megapixel camera at the back, microSD expansion (2GB in the box), and 2.4-inch display throwing 320 x 240 pixels.

There’s no BlackBerry 6 running in it though, but that can be easily upgraded if RIM would want to. This is actually up in Canadian Roger’s website for a price of $79.99 Canadian price. We shall see what RIM would say about this, as somehow this Curve slipped passed the announcement for the Torch 9800 and the BlackBerry 6.

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FaceTime via Email arrives in iOS 4.1 Beta 3

This would surely be seen coming straight up. Previously we’ve seen FaceTime that might be coming in email. And it seemed that Apple’s upcoming iOS 4.1 will have this feature in it. That means we can expect the upcoming iPod Touch to come with iOS 4.1 as default too, in order to have FaceTime running on the front-camera enabled Touch.

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A paper Hummer to show how much you wasted on lottery

When your lifetime investment of that ‘oh-so-hopeful-instantly-rich’ weekly lottery didn’t actually harvest any retirement funds for you, you can still sought for optimistic ending in some method, such as this Hummer. But sadly, this Hummer won’t be able to bring you to the beach when you’re in your sixty. In fact, it will burn itself in the next summer, or when the kids come the next round.

Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom from the Rhode Island School of Design gathered together thousands of dollars worth of tickets and created amazing sculptures of what the money could’ve actually been spent on. Instead of hoping to win enough money for a lavish holiday or car, gamblers could’ve bought the real thing with the money invested in their hobbies. So, this is yet another proof that you should ‘eco’ for the real thing, instead of trusting on those ‘scam-licious’ lotteries.

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Teardown: BlackBerry Torch 9800

The new BlackBerry flammable phone has been put through one of the more important ceremonies of acceptance into the smartphone world: a teardown. Very typical actually, and also seemed to be a ‘MUST’ for all the new smartphones that is about to engrave the world. The CrackBerry crew have disassembled a Torch to see what makes it burn and smoke, and produced some glamor shots of naked hardware for us to gawp and stare at in the process. As you can see by the exploded shot of the phone above, most internals are either integrated or soldered down, but this undressing does afford us an opportunity to take a look at the biggest novelty in this new BlackBerry, namely its slider mechanism. It’s impressively thin, rated for 150,000+ cycles. Head over and watch the video below to see it for yourself.

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Real wood panel makes iPhone 4 classic yet classy

Ever since the iPhone embrace the world, there have been gazillion of accessories designed uniquely for it. Speakers, bumpers, cases, bags, mics, DSLR lens. You name it, they have it. Here’s Karvt’s latest skins for your iPhone 4, and its theme is obviously wood. Not just ordinary skins, these are real wood panels. They even come with multiple options for you. Pine, cherry, bamboo, maple, walnut. $25 for a wooden iPhone 4. Not bad actually…

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