This is mostly for my Brazilian buddy Wampa, the biggest Star Wars geek I know. But for anyone else that might be as well, go read this post written on Careful With That Blog, Eugene: Awful Star Wars Character: Jek Porkins This is the kind of passionate discussion of minutiae that the world needs more... 

For all 90 of you out there that have downloaded audio files, here’s more interviews with Nash and a few other fella’s. Nothing real special here. A lot of talk about defense which might be because there were a lot of questions about defense. I suppose there’s some interesting quotes... 

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment Good news, developers of the world — the Netflix API will be open to all starting tomorrow. As of October 1st, absolutely anyone can self-signup by visiting the read link, and while details are a tad sketchy at the moment, it sounds like this could hold some... 

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment Here it is, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Pricing for Sharp’s sexiest, freshest and altogether loveliest HDTVs has arrived. As stated at CEATEC in Japan, the 65-inch LC-65XS1U-S will sell for a whopping ¥1.28 million (,225), while... 

TDK has announced a new hard drive at CEATEC that manages to fit 260 GB of data into a 1.8-inch form factor. Using their prototype TMR head, TDK is able to attain a surface recording density of 803 gigabits per square inch, besting Toshiba’s previous 378 gigabits per square inch. The leap was possible... 

Filed under: Storage It’s no Drobo, but Western Digital is dabbling in the NAS space with its minty fresh ShareSpace 4TB Network Storage System. Aimed primarily at small business users and “multimedia” junkies, the 4-bay NAS comes with gigabit Ethernet, support for multiple RAID configurations,... 

Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right to negotiate royalties with the record industry’s SoundExchange coalition for the years 2006 to 2015. OK, that’s a mouthful—what... 

At probably like the worst time ever for your stock to plummet harder than a meteor on a collision course with Bruce Willis, a glitch knocked 0 off of Google’s stock price—that’s half—in the span of four minutes as the markets were closing today. billion. Erased. In four minutes.... 

Filed under: Gaming As should be clear by now, any talk of a successor to a still relatively new game console should be taken with a hefty grain of salt but, if word from Japan’s Impress is to be believed, it looks like we could possibly be getting a clearer indication of what might be under the... 

Holy crap. Parts of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are being shot in IMAX, meaning you’ll get to see literally five-story Transformers getting smashed, exploded and all of the usual Michael Bay craziness in the only screen size truly worthy of Michael Bay. Like The Dark Knight, non-IMAX scenes... 

While I understand why people would want their GPS navigators to give them directions in the voice of KITT or Mr. T, I have no idea who in their right mind would want Kim Cattrall (the old one) from Sex in the City telling them where to go whenever they drive. Not only will her voice remind you of that... 

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment Hitachi drug its oh-so-sexy 1.5-inch plasma to Japan after showing it off in Denver earlier this month, but what we didn’t see at CEDIA was this: a 15-millimeter thin 37-inch LCD TV. The “reference” set packed a 1,920 x 1,080 panel and...