Posted on December 28th, 2007 by BRiT
MADISON, Wis. — Electronics might be the hot item on all gift lists this holiday, but it’s also on the list of some lawmakers.
A proposed bill in Wisconsin would add an extra sales tax to electronics.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, said the money raised from the tax isn’t to dissuade gamers, but to [...]
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Filed under: Dumbass, Gaming, Internet, Other, Software, Technology, Television, Toys, Video
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by BRiT
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European version of PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games when it launches on March 23 compared with models launched earlier in Japan and America, Sony Corp said on Friday.
“The backwards compatibility is not going to be as good as the U.S. and Japan models,” a Sony spokesman said.
PlayStation [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2007 by BRiT
Rabbit vibrator and other popular sex toys created for pleasure may be also very harmful for health. Such a conclusion was made by Greenpeace which had investigated levels of phthalates in sex toys.
Rabbit vibrator may cause serious damage to healthPhthalates are a chemical compound used to soften hard plastics into soft rubber and jelly. Derived [...]
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Filed under: Science, Toys
Posted on February 16th, 2007 by BRiT
According to a survey conducted by Gametart, a game rental service in the UK, chicks who game get more lovin’ than those who don’t. Out of a sample of 200 ladies (or should that be “laid-ees”?), the ones who gamed got, erm, fragged 1.1 more times a week than those who didn’t.
So what I’m saying [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Internet, Toys
Posted on January 15th, 2007 by reflex
The grizzly man is back, and this time he’s ready to take on bullets and bombs.
Troy Hurtubise, the Hamilton-born inventor who became famous for his bulky bear-protection suit by standing in front of a moving vehicle to prove it worked, has now created a much slimmer suit that he hopes will soon be protecting Canadian [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Dumbass, Funny Bone, Gaming, Other, Science, Security, Technology, Toys
Posted on December 30th, 2006 by MaxPower
LAYTON — Christmas became XXX-mas for a 14-year-old Layton boy who discovered hard-core pornography on a video game he received as a gift.Kolton Mahoney was shocked when he put the Madden NFL 07 game in his new Xbox 360 console Christmas day and an explicit image popped up on his television screen.
“This is definitely not [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Technology, Toys
Posted on December 4th, 2006 by Jason
A segment during Monday morning’s edition of Fox and Friends explored why the novelty toy “Silly String” is considered the best method for detecting trip wires on bombs in Iraq, and how it has made the Army-issued grappling hook obsolete.Last month, a town in New Jersey began a campaign to convince people to help donate [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Toys
Posted on December 3rd, 2006 by BrainwashedMonkey
Asus Technology announced that the ASUS TeleSky telecom adaptor will now be included in the package of the M2N/TeleSky and P5B/TeleSky motherboards.
The TeleSky telecom adaptor converts ordinary house phones into multi-functional Skype phones. It is a highly integrated application for traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) and Skype VoIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) calls. The [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2006 by BrainwashedMonkey
When items like pictures frames and analog turntables are outselling the media-hyped Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Zune digital music player shortly after its release and during the hottest shopping time of the entire year, something may be amiss, yes?
Sales of Microsoft’s Zune digital music device ranked Number 58 on the list of Amazon.com’s best-selling electronic devices [...]
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Filed under: Music, Technology, Toys
