Short Version: Yes, this is that scale that Tweets your weight. And yes, it’s actually pretty cool.

The VIERA 3D full HD plasma TVs weren’t the only 3D products Panasonic priced and dated for the Japanese market today. The company also announced a total of three new Blu-ray 3D recorders and one player. Here are the details.

Panasonic says its Blu-ray 3D player, the DMP-BDT900 [JP], is the world’s first of its kind. Available only in black, the device features 4HDMI ports, an SD card slot (compatible to ...read more

In May 2009, we covered the launch of Fotomoto, a Web-based photo monetization service built by the eponymous startup based out of San Francisco.

The product has grown a lot since then, and founder & CEO Ahmad Kiarostami informs us that they have signed up 2800 website publishers since launching publicly, which translates to some 610,000 photos to date.

Some of these publishers are big names – Mirror.co.uk for instance uses Fotomoto ...read more

So the Internet made me fat. That and all the beer. Anyway, now I'm going to depend on the Internet to make me skinny again and I think the Withings WiFi scale is just the thing to get me back in Abraham Lincoln mode.

This glass scale features a body mass sensor complete with invisible electrodes as well as a backlit OLED readout. To start, you connect the scale to your ...read more

Nvidia is launching its Optimus technology today in an effort to match your laptop’s graphics horsepower to fit a  given application.

The technology will assess a running application and decide whether to engage Nvidia’s own graphics chip or an Intel-provided graphics component that is part of a laptop’s chip set. Optimus can thus deliver the most appropriate graphics power while preserving battery life.

The new technology recognizes an old fact. A lot ...read more

Fresh off the success of Mass Effect 2, Electronic Arts is launching one of its big bets on a brand new video game as it debuts Dante’s Inferno.

The game goes on sale today. EA spent an estimated $3 million or so on a Super Bowl commercial touting the game. EA chief executive John Ricciteillo said the ad helped drive more than 3 million downloads of content related to the game ...read more

Like it or not (and honestly, why would you not?), USB 3.0 is upon us, and we're guessing it's just a matter of time before every single USB peripheral in the entire world is equipped with SuperSpeed support. Exaggerations aside, there's still a good chance that you'll snap up an item or two over the course of your life that could benefit from hastier transfer rates, and that's where Green ...read more