Thursday, May 3, 2007

TVR Tuscan Wireless Mouse


The TVR Tuscan is a primo sports car, and for those who can't afford the $100,000 price tag, you can pretend with the TVR Tuscan wireless mouse! It is powered by a couple of AAA batteries (a small step down from the traditional 360hp engine) and includes two buttons, scroll wheel and blue lights. $40

http://www.dontdosocks.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=210&osCsid=e7614182be57bc861e36cec64a42b0b1

[Via gearfuse]

The DeLorean Watch: It's Retro Time


As famous as the DeLorean car is, you've probably never heard of the DeLorean Time watch—and for good reason. John DeLorean made this garish silver DeLorean-esque monstrosity for the sole purpose of raising funds for him to build a new sports car, the DMC2.

Each watch was to be $3,495, and by buying it, you were placed on a list for an exclusive early chance to buy a DMC2 when it was available. John unfortunately passed in 2005, so neither watch nor car made it to stores. However, you can still see what the planned watch design was going to look like, except that the dial was hidden in the picture on the left

http://watchismo.blogspot.com/2007/05/delorean-time-dmc2-wristwatch.html

Pioneer Rings in "Cheap" 5X Blu-ray Drive for Your Desktop


Looking for a way to get Blu-ray on your PC? Pioneer is making it a little bit easier with their BDC-2202 Blu-ray drive (that's the older model in the pic above). The $299 drive will read BD-ROM, BD-R, and BD-RE discs at speeds of up to 5x while also reading BD-ROM (DL) and BD-R/RE (DL) discs at 2x speeds.

Mac fans can fall back on this drive (which is pricier) or if you wanna swing both ways, there's always the LG option. Just remember—if you're getting it to watch Blu-ray movies on your PC you gotta have the right video card and monitor set up (HDCP friendly), so you may be better off just getting a standalone player

http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/press/release/detail/0,,2076_310069589_439711429,00.html

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

The S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants 2007


1 El Bulli Spain World's Best RestaurantBest in Europe
2 The Fat Duck UK Chefs Choice
3 Pierre Gagnaire France
4 The French Laundry USA Best in the Americas
5 Tetsuya's Australia Best in Australasia
6 Bras France
7 Mugaritz Spain
8 Le Louis XV Monaco
9 Per Se USA
10 Arzak Spain
11 El Celler de Can Roca Spain
12 Gambero Rosso Italy
13 L'Atelier de Joël Robuchon France
14 Hof van Cleve Belgium
15 Noma Denmark Highest Climber
16 Le Calandre Italy
17 Nobu London UK
18 Jean Georges USA
19 Hakkasan UK
20 Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée France
21 L'Astrance France
22 Can Fabes Spain
23 L'Ambroisie France
24 Restaurant Gordon Ramsay UK
25 Troisgros France
26 Le Bernardin USA
27 Martin Berasategui Spain
28 Le Gavroche UK
29 Le Cinq France
30 Charlie Trotter's USA
31 Dal Pescatore Italy
32 Daniel USA
33 Rockpool Australia
34 St John UK
35 Chez Dominique Finland
36 Alinea USA
37 Bukhara India Best in Asia
38 DOM Brazil
39 Oaxen Skärgårdskrog Sweden
40 Chez Panisse USA
41 Enoteca Pinchiorri Italy
42 Cracco Peck Italy
43 L'Arpège France
44 River Café UK
45 Oud Sluis Netherlands
46 Combal Zero Italy
47 Le Quartier Français South Africa Best in Mid East & Africa
48 Taillevent France
49 Bocuse France
50 Les Ambassadeurs France


Source:www.theworlds50best.com

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

TVersity Now Available on PS3, Wii


For those unfamiliar with TVersity, it's the app you run on your PC that lets you transcode just about any format into a format your Xbox 360 can understand. Essentially, this means you can watch DivX, XviD, and other media files on your consoles on the fly. Good news, because now it's available for the PS3 and the Wii.

However, since the Wii and PS3 have limited format support already, TVersity transcodes into flash video (FLV) format in order to play back on these two consoles. But, you can also play back YouTube, Yahoo, and Google Video on your consoles now with TVersity. Now your grandmas can record and play back internet videos. The cycle is complete

Go here:http://tversity.com/home

OWC's Mercury Elite-AL Pro "Quad Interface" 1TB external drive


We're pretty impressed by OWC's "gotta plug 'em all" collection of ports on this new external drive, the OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro, which features a "Quad Interface" and 1TB of 7200RPM storage in a Mac-friendly enclosure. The drive can handle FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2.0 and eSATA, and OWC is claiming speeds up to 80MB per second on FireWire and 150MB/s on eSATA, thanks to the Oxford 924 chipset. The $600 pricetag is a wee bit steep, but OWC is nice enough to include FireWire, USB and eSATA cables in the box, along with various backup softwares for Mac and Windows. We're getting a little tired of the Mac Pro-style cheese grater look, but you can find 1TB drives with a whole lot more ugly, that's for sure, so we won't complain too much. The drive should be available now, in capacities on down to 250GB if you're not quite ready to make the 1TB plunge.

American Airlines offering PMPs to upper class fliers


Bored and lonely first class and business class transcontinental fliers on American Airlines will now be treated to branded Archos players to while the time away with pre-loaded video and audio programming. Such premium fliers will be able to opt for an Archos 704, while all passengers on MD-80 flights between LA and Chi-town can get an Archos 605 to play with -- though the economy peeps have to pay. AA is packing the 704 with Bose Noise Canceling headphones, and the 604 with "high-end" earbuds, and has feature films, TV, news, music videos, AA radio and music CDs pre-loaded. Right now American Airlines is running a four month test of the service, which is sure to incur a few more thefts then those headrest-mounted displays cropping up on certain airlines, but a nice bit of good will from discerning portable media consumers

Source:Pocketsynch.com