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Tek Swank Investigates
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Tuesday, 18 March 2008 |
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PBS' Charlie Rose appeared on last night's show looking like a victim of a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick or two. According to the good people over at TechCrunch, however that shiner the journalist was sporting last night was not the result of brut force from the legendary leg of Norris.
Rose's eye got bruised and abused from a fall while walking down the busy streets of New York. In order to protect his brand new MacBook Air, Rose sacrificed his mug.
Having lost that MacBook Air would have really hurt. Really. Like if you fell right on your face on a New York street. Well, maybe not that much. He's important, the Apple PR team would surely hooked him up with a new one. Smart man on a smart show, not a smart move, Charlie.
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Friday, 07 March 2008 |
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Britney Spears, she's the one in this picture - hard to believe that's her considering the fact that not that long ago she was kind of attractive, has a fairly important date this Monday. Let's just hope she saved in that BlackBerry of her's.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
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While many of Hollywood's starlets have turned to their plastic surgeon for a boost in their busts, Hollywood studios have recently turned to their Photoshop experts to augment the chests of their stars in their movie posters.
According to the Daily Mail in the UK, Kate Hudson is the latest female to recieve the Photoshop bump. Hudson was upgraded from an A-Cup to a B-Cup in the poster for Fool's Gold, because who would want to see a movie starring an A-Cupper? With Hudson as a B the movie saw A-level success, topping the box office.
As Defamer points out, Kate is just one of many who have had some mamary enhancements without going under the knife.
With the success of Fool's Gold, we can expect to see more digital boob jobs. Actually, even if the film had fallen...flat, we probably would still see more upgrades.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
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Oscar winning director Steven Spielberg is rumored to be starting up his own social network. That alone would be news.
But the kicker is that his network will be dedicated to people chatting about their encounters with ghosts and aliens.
You're probably thinking the same thing I am thinking...Thank you Steven! Finally a place where I can meet other people who have seen the inside of a UFO and know what it's like to be the subject of a science project gone bad.
My real network of friends just doesn't get it. I am going to need to talk to people I can't even see to discuss the pain those green men have inflicted upon me.
OK, so maybe I never was probed by an alien, but who's going to stop me from joining this network. MySpace and Facebook have a tough enough time proving people's age, what web tool can the director who brought us Batteries Not Included develop to verify that you have seen a ghost and/or alien?
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
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Less than a week after we profile the new Cell Phone Spy, Britney Spears goes through the phone of her paparazi boyfriend to find flirtatious text messages from other women. The former pop diva went through boyfriend, Adnan's iPhone and found more than just his playlist (which probably includes a couple tracks from Brit).
According to the Sun, the text messages caused her to go crazy crazier than normal leading her to throw his phone into the pool.
I have seen lots of iPhone commercials, but have to see one that mentions the waterproof feature for those times when your insane girlfriend decides to throw it into the pool.
Adnan might have been able to smooth talk his back into the heart of Brit, but I'm not sure how far his soul-patch and kind words will go with the boys down at AT&T. Good luck getting that thing replaced without having to slap down some of your hard earned...errrr some of your girlfriend's money.
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Friday, 29 February 2008 |
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Parents-to-be Jessica Alba and that guy who unfortunately isn't me communicate via BlackBerry. My guess is Jess is picking up the tab on the monthly bill for the both because I am not really sure what Cash does to get cash. He sits at home and waits for the amazing Alba to come home from a hard day on set of her latest acting tour-de-force like Fantastic Four, tough job but I guess someone's got to do it.
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
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Just a few months ago, Tony Parker and Eva Longoria were rumored to be on the rocks thanks to the NBA guard shooting in another female's hoop.
The proof of Parker's adultery supposedly lied in the Frenchman's phone. Tony and the other girl were exchanging flirtatious text messages.
The whole thing seems to be forgotten and the two are back together and happy as can be.
But if the housewife gets desperate she may want to turn to The Cell Phone Spy, a $150 reader of SIM cards that is able to find deleted text messages and recover them. The reader can be useful for things other than spying, like backing up contacts and other info on your own phone. But the name of the thing is "Cell Phone Spy" so we all know what this will be used for.
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 |
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Rapper Flo Rida's single "Low" has been the number one single for
what seems like forever. While you and I struggle to get the little
diddy out of your head, teens are busy not buying his CD or any other
CD for that matter.
According to a report from NPD, nearly half of teens bought zero CDs in 2007 . Yes, zero CDs. That's not a single CD.
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kids are relying on the tubes of the Internet for the musical fix. Some
of them even pay for them, 29 million people bought music online last
year, a 21% jump from 24 million in 2006.
In the words of our boy Flo, record sales are low, low, low, low, low.
Sorry that song is now stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Just go buy a new CD, or steal a song or two on a P2P.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
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Celebs and I don't have much in common. One interest some of the famous faces and I do share, however, is writing in what the kids call a blog. A few weeks back we took a look at one of the better celebrity bloggers, Kanye West. Today, however, our surfing on the interweb has lead us to quite possibly the worst.
Courtney Love the person is in need of some guidance, some help and possibly a paying gig or two. Courtney Love the blogger is in need of some guidance, some help and spell check.
On Monday, February 11 Love posted on her MySpace blog an entry titled "not my number". This entry was a rant in what may or may not be English about someone posting her friend's cell number online and saying it was in fact Love's. While reading West's blog you feel like your learning a little but more about the rapper/producer, while trying to read Love's MySpace blog you're left feeling dumber.
Three sentences, if we can call them sentences, into her blog post I could feel braincells leaping off the edge to their untimely death. I read it so you don't have to. You can click the link but please look away from your screen. Look away!
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Friday, 15 February 2008 |
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Saturday night at a pre-Grammy event , will.i.am walked the red carpet rocking a blingged out Bluetooth. The bright lights of the cameras were no match for the blinding rays bouncing off the rapper/producer's ear.
Not only was the Black Eyed Peas frontman's ear piece smothered in diamonds, it was also custom fitted to the shape of will's ear.
With laws here in California soon passing to make it illegal to talk on handheld devices in your car, expect to see a lot more gowdy glowing headsets like will's.
Yes, in the words of the BEP's it's getting retarded in here.
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
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Yesterday BlackBerry users everywhere experienced an outage. Nearly as addictive as cocaine, (so I hear...I have never tried either) the BlackBerry has had very few outages in its nine year history.
Speaking of drugs and work...
Former child star actor, Corey Haim is looking for some work. Haim is so desperate for a role that he posted this ad on page 11 of Thursday's Daily Variety.
Haim's lack of work has lasted nearly a decade, unless you count three movies nobody outside of the Haim household has ever heard of, BlackBerrys were out of work for three hours.
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Monday, 11 February 2008 |
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Samsung and Bang & Olufsen have once again hooked up to bring you a very expensive phone. Previous partnerships between the two brands gave us the Serene and Serenata, two phones that God couldn't afford. God actually could afford them, but he's more of an iPhone guy.
Introducing the Samsung F400, a dual slider mobile phone/music player.
The high-end audio gear manufacturers are continuing to bring high-end audio to a device that is usually blasting the not so high-end sounds of "Soulja Boy" and "Party Like a Rockstar". Is it so hard to download a ringtone that doesn't suck?
Lots of research goes into a B&O system, but I doubt any of their scientists have come up with a solution that will make "Crank Dat" listenable.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
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This screenshot of TMZ from two days ago proves that you don't have to be an out of your mind crazy celebrity to get some love from the Time Warner owned entertainment/gossip blog. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was caught on camera leaving Beverly Hills restaurant Mr. Chow alongside girlfriend Priscilla Chan.
He may have a boatload of cash and a lot of "friends" (not nearly as many as his counterpart, Tom) but Mark has zero social skills. This video is just awkward. Hopefully one of his "friends" will develop an app to give him a little personality.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
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Aside from being really rich and sometimes really talented, celebs are also really demanding. They are very specific with their demands as well. Have you seen Bill Cosby's rider? For a famous funny man, he sure does take his toilet paper seriously.
The folks at zzzPhone are allowing you the people to be just as specific with your cell phone. Just like Dell is to computers, zzzPhone (How do you pronounce that? Is it a snore into the word phone? Help me out here.) will let you pick and choose the features you want on your next cell phone.
Hopefully your list doesn't include a video player that plays Jello pudding pop commercials on a constant loop. That would be a bit much.
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