BlackJack II Available On Black Friday

Hello,

Anyone waiting for the BlackJack II only has to wait until Friday for the black version, and the red wine one is out on 12/6. Both units will sell at $149.99 with a two-year contract, so go forth and get it my friends.

Voodoo M:152 Envy: Santa Rosa Love Is In The Air

Alright, who's ready for some gaming laptop love!

One of the things that I love about Voodoo is that they don't believe that cramming everything into a laptop is to extreme. And that brings me to their newest announcement, the Voodoo M:152 Envy. Not only did they start this baby off with a Santa Rosa processor, but it comes with a NVIDIA GeForce 8600GT 512MB graphics, 2GB of DDR2-667 RAM that you can upgrade to 4GB, a 2-megapixel camera, and a 5.4-inch WSXGA+ 1680×1050 resolution screen.

All of this comes in under 7 pounds!!!

Pricing is starting at $3,308, which is a bit much. And that doesn't even include the paint job or the tattooing.

[Product Page via Crunchgear]

Vigor Intro's New Gaming Laptops

Who's ready for some hot gaming laptop action?!

Well the guys at Crunchgear have found some very cool portable rigs by Vigor, and the specs on these are glorious. The top of the line "Atlantis Pro" (shown above) has a 20" inch widescreen WSXGA+ (1680×1050), AMD Turion 64 X2, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX two of them in SLI, and a 500GB HDD (2×250 in RAID-0).

Check out the 'Ares' and the 'Artorius Pro' after the jump. [Crunchgear]

No word on pricing, but I'm sure that they won't be cheap.

Samsung Shows Off F8 Series At IFA

Samsung has unveiled their new F8 series LCD set at the IFA in Berlin. The LE46F86BD is just stone cold sexay, with a variety of features like 1080p support, and 25,000:1 contrast ratio.

That's right!!! Your eyes are not playing with you, 25,000:1 contrast ratio.

It also has 100MHz Motion Plus technology for a sharper picture, USB 2.0 port, 3 HDMI 1.3 ports, 8-millisecond response time, and CCFL backlighting. No word on pricing or availability yet, but we'll be watching and waiting.

[ PRAD via Engadget]

Tesla Electro-Roadster: 0-60 In 4 Seconds

Doing what Porche couldn't, the Tesla electro-roadster goes from 0-60 in 4 seconds, and is totally electric. The sexy electric fire-breather is due out this fall at a price of $98,000, and 560 of 800 are already sold.

So it's not to late to put in your $50,000 deposit, which will allow you to buy the Tesla by next July.

Check it out after the jump. [Mercury News via Gizmodo]

Hot Windows Home Server Photo

With the announcement of Windows Home Server going to OEM, some early photos are starting to show up. Like this Velocity Micro design with external expansion upgrades that is scheduled for release just in time for the home server to hit the streets in early 2008. Check the bullet points:

• It has an Intel Conroe-derived processor with DDR2 memory. This will accommodate any future Home Server applications that may be more demanding in horse power, etc.

• It features a high performance Intel chipset for maximum I/O performance including PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet, Sata 300, NCQ, etc.

• It is extremely price competitive and will be available for Windows Home Server launch.

• Can be configured up to several terabytes.

• Most likely available in silver and/or black. Color schemes are not finalized.

• It's designed for vertical or horizontal placement.

• It's an enterprise-class design in regards to thermals and up-time. But it's very quiet!

• It features eSATA for an external expansion box that will match the design and will be available by Q1 '08.

Thanks Gizmodo for this information.

Samsung Wireless Plasma HDTV

Look at this thing!!!

This is Samsung 94 Series plasma TV. What?! So what is the big deal about it?

Well my friends this little set is wireless!!! That's right! It only has the power cord in the back, so mounting on the wall is easier when hiding only one cord. It communicates with a hidden receiver, and it does this with a built-in 802.11n connection that has the range of 200 feet. Check the quote:

"Rather than plug various home theater components into the back of the HDTV, such as Blu-ray/DVD players, home theater in a box systems and cable boxes, consumers can instead connect them to a receiver, leaving only the HDTV’s power cable to hide. With a range of up to 200 feet, the receiver then wirelessly transmits the audio and video signals - up to 1080i HD resolution - directly to the television set. The receiver features a number of connectivity options for easy home theater expansion including three HDMI 1.3 ports with CEC technology. Over-the-air HDTV channels can be viewed with the built-in NTSC/ATSC/QAM digital tuner."

These Samsung babies will come it at 50-inch and 58-inch, and run you $3599 and $5299.
They're totally out of my budget, but maybe not for you.

Hit the jump to read the Samsung pdf press release. [via Crunchgear]

LG Is In The Black

Look at this beautiful LG Shine Titanium Black phone! It just screems 'I've got to much money to spend on a phone'. But you know what? You won't have to worry about that if you live in the U.S. because this isn't coming here!!! Damn it!!!

This has 2-megapixel camera, Bluetooth, GPRS/EDGE and MP3 player. I would be upset over the EDGE if it was coming here, but oh..well. It is due out at the end of the month in the UK, France, Netherlands and Austria.

Lucky Bastards.

Hit the jump to read more. [Crunchgear]

Top 10 Most Beautiful Cell Phones

One thing that I've always had a weakness for is cool looking phones. I use to replace my cell phone yearly, just to have the best looking cell phone. All the features were secondary to me, I just loved the looks of it. Well my taste has gone up a little, and now features are very important to me, but the cool looking ones always catch my attention.

That's why when Fosfor Gadgets put together the top 10 most beautiful cell phones, I was all over it. The list starts with one of my favorites, the Nokia 8800 Sirocco and counts down from there. Take a look at the list.

Top 10 most beautiful cell phones. [Fosfor Gadgets via Crunchgear]

iNavi G1: Comes With The Goods

If you don't live in Korea and your looking for a cool GPS system, you might want to find a way to import this thing. In what seems to be the uber GPS system, iNavi G1 is one of the coolest devices that has not left Korea yet.

This baby has 3D GPS which shows you surrounding buildings and mountains, and is supplemented with a geomagnetic sensor (g-sensor) which helps when the GPS signal is weak. It also has Picture in Picture for video viewing and plays damn near every music format out there. No HHD but it does come with SD memory slot for your pleasure.

But the best part about this device is a built in Karaoke machine!!!
That's right, Karaoke baby!!! Right in your car!!!
Who's ready for some "Sweet Caroline"?

Hit the jump for more info. [NaviGadget via Gizmodo]

Targa's desktop replacement laptop has RAID-5

If you're looking for a desktop replacement, check out what Targa has in their bag for you.

Targa's Raptor-60, which they’re calling the “first of its kind” to support RAID 5 (in JBOD, RAID 0, 1 or 5 forms), and that in its self makes this thing a heavy beast. But when you add in a 17-inch WSXGA+ screen driven by a dual NVIDIA GeForce 7950 you realise that this isn’t something you’ll be tucking under your arm and swaying off to the park with.

It's pretty sweet if you get all the options, and you'll pay for it too!!!

It can handle up to three SATA hard-drives and a Blu-Ray drive is optional. There is a range of processors, starting from a pretty boring Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz and ranging up to a 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme.

Prices start at $2,345 although that only gets you half a gig of RAM, and lurch up to $5,481 for something massively over-specified - we’re talking 4GB of RAM, a couple of fast 200GB hard-drives and Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Dwayne Wade Sidekick 3: video preview

“CeriousProductions” provides us with a hands-on look at the special edition Dwayne Wade Sidekick 3.

"The back of the limited edition has “realistic basketball texturing” for increased comfort, grip and sexay, but like always with these limited editions, there isn’t really a whole lot else going on here"

Man I love that: sexay!!!