Digital cowbell: “Cory Doctorow:
The Rad Monkey VLC800 is a digital cowbell that simulates the sounds of 12 popular analog cowbells through a high-quality digital signal processor. Will Ferrel and/or The Moody Blues should pick one of these up pronto.Link
(via Red Ferret by way of Boing Boing.)
PSP firmware v2.0 available: “
The new PSP firmware with embedded web browser (no more need to hack WipeoutPure) is out in the wild now. If you keep up to date with these things then you probably already know about this; the PSP firmware v2.0 update has
been released. Currently it’s only available on the Japanese PSP site so unless you speak Japanese you’ll need to use a
web translator to find the right link. The US version should be out later in the day if you don’t want to take the
risk. One other word of caution – this will wipe out some capabilities for homebrew hacks. I’ll probably patch later tonight and update tomorrow.
Read (Original link)
Read #2 (English Translation)
(Via Joystiq.)
Hat tip to LostRemote.com this morning. Interesting stats on how much video is viewed on their service, and their newly announced extension to MSN Messenger.
Watch MSNBC Video On MSN Messenger: “‘Online video is becoming more and more mainstream,’ says Charlie Tillinghast, GM and publisher of MSNBC.com. ‘One out of every five visits to MSNBC.com includes a video play and we’re reaching audiences that traditional broadcasters are struggling to reach.’
Now the site ‘plans to extend those videos to users of MSN Messenger,’ WebProNews.com says. ‘While many users do not stay on a web site all day, especially at work, many do have instant messaging clients available.’ (Via Lost Remote)”