NYE in NYC

All you sELECTROCLASHERs are invited to our exclusive upscale New Year’s eve party in SoHo. Top shelf open bar and great DJs going all night with a champagne toast at midnight. Visit http://dv8nye.com for more info.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiii-ful

Those images are just a small sample of what my darling sister has to look forward to. In other news if you are in NY and want a Wii get to them Ninentendo World store ~1 hour before it opens, wait outside for 1.5 hours and then inside for another 1.5 hours and you too can have a wii. I asked the clerk how many they got but they refused to tell me, however from some crafty line scouting as well as solid estimation skills I can definitively say that the number is between 140 and 180 wii’s everyday. So thats the dilly. Also they were sold out of wario ware smooth moves, sorry lisa!

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-less

So apparently there is something to this Wii thing after all, this intrepid reporter trekked up to Nintendo world at the crack of dawn (AKA 8am) only to find a soul crushingly long line, ridiculous. I’m going to try and head there super early tomorrow, like 6am to snag one and if not, well a certain someone will be getting an IOU for xmas, sorry.  Also NYC craigslist which was selling them for 325 back in the summer is not up to a solid 425-500 so don’t count on that either.

Air Up There

Some clever artist has put up a super (unsafe) high bench on Houston by the ole APT.

more pic’s on flickr here: Bench PhotoSet

Make this Christmas ’slap yo mama good’ with Chris Christmas Rodriguez

If you invite him or you don’t, welcome the new Santa with open arms!

Dubai.. home of the fun police

Imagine flying for a god awful 10 hours to land in a sandy desert, getting ready to spin for a sold out club of nearly 3000 people. But wait, you left a tiny bit of ganja in your record bag, not so bad right? Think again! Grooverider now faces 4 years in jail AND deportation due to having a harmless porn dvd (I guess DJ’s get lonely too?) and something to take the edge off the long flight.

Beware all, no one is safe in Dubai from the fun police!

Resident Advisor Article

Apple’s New NYC Flagship Store

In a city where your iPod is your car stereo, you had to know that 2 Apple stores weren’t going to be enough. Say hello to the newest edition, opening today on W 14th in the Meatpacking district. The largest store in the city (and second largest in the US), this will be the new hub of Apple operations on the East coast. The outside of the store looks exactly like the SoHo store, with no branding besides an Apple logo hanging from a lamp post.

The inside of the store is 3 stories and 35 feet high and occupied by the most complex glass staircase ever made. Outfitted with the normal Apple interior decorations, there are reasons to visit even if you’re not in the market for a new Mac Book Pro. For the first time in any of their stores, Apple will be offering free Pro workshops. If you’ve been meaning to learn how to use all those icons that come by default on your dock, get your ass to the meatpacking district.

Solar Powered PMP plays games, charges your gadgets

This little Chinese media player sports a 3.5″ LCD, 2GB internal storage (with an SD expansion slot bonus), and plays Nintendo, Gameboy, and Gameboy Color games. Pretty run of the mill these days, huh?  Not so fast!  This bad boy unfolds to reveal two high output solar panels which not only charge up the internal LiOn battery, but also any USB enabled gadget up to 9volts (this includes iPhones/iPods, blackberries, and pretty much any other USB gadget you’ve got lying around.) Not bad in the looks department either.  Import today at the low low price of $144 USD.

via Chinavasion

Harder Bodies Faster Stronger!

Philips Dynamic Daylight Window

Control the amount of light, the color, and effects coming through your futuristic home’s windows with Philips new Dynamic Daylight Window. A simple wave of the hand is the interface. Amazing.

Thinking About Buying a Maxtor Hard Drive? Think Again!

So on Feb 15th I bought 4 Maxtor MaxLine Pro 500gig drives for a RAID 5 server (model#7HF500). Fast forward to September and one drive fails, no big deal RAID 5, pay for advanced shipping replace the drive, rebuild the array, awesome. Then 9 days ago another HD fails, I contact Maxtor/Seagate immediately and they agreed to advance ship me a replacement for free since this was the second on to fail. Great. Tonight, I get the new drive. Install the new drive, boot up my server (turned off to avoid the next thing) and find out that ANOTHER drive has failed, so there goes my RAID aray (not to mention that 5 petabytes of anime).

THANKS MAXTOR.

P.S. I met some marketing guy at an event that maxtor/seagate was at and he confirmed that maxtors have terrible reliability but said that the seagate drives were much better. Anything has to be better then then 3 drives failing so close together, it must be a mfg issue. And yes the 3 drives that have failed were all purchased at the same time so were probably the same batch off the line. If you have a failed maxtor drive leave a comment and let me know.

–K

Live at the DigitalLife Holiday Press Event in NYC!

Live at the DigitalLife Holiday Press Event in NYC!

Originally uploaded by djmac20.

Gadgets, free booze, and food. What more could one ask!?

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Hands on with the Pantech Duo 3G

The guys at AT&T just got the new Pantech Duo in stock.  It’s much smaller than I imagined and makes the Helio Ocean look like a Newton.  The keyboard feels great and the slide action is smooth.  Just wish it had WM6 Pro instead of Standard, but otherwise this baby’s rockin’ 3G data, decent camera, and all the Exchange Push Mail you can eat.  $249 with two-year indentured servitude.

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Kid Robot NYC

Kid Robot NYC

Originally uploaded by djmac20.

So you gonna buy some wigs or ain’t ya!?

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Boynq’s sexy new WakeUp iPod system

This has got to be the new de-facto ultimate-in-cool from the crowded iPod dock arena.  The design pros at Boynq have unleashed their new WakeUp iPod system which not only looks amazing, but packs some serious features too.  A 20-watt speaker system has plenty of power for your tunes;  there’s video-out for connecting to TVs; a removeable wireless remote that charges itself when you’re iPod’s away; an FM radio tuner; and oh yeah- it’s an alarm clock too.

Should be shipping stateside before the holidays, but it’s already in the hands of discerning eurotrash for about $185.

Boynq.com  via Technabob