Freak Archive

  • StarCraft II official release date has been set: July 27, 2010

    StarCraft II official release date has been set: July 27, 2010

    Posted on May 3, 2010 | No Comments
    Hold onto your knickers, everyone, for Blizzard has announced, via fancy e-mail, the release date for StarCraft II: July 27, 2010. So, slightly less than three months from now. You may freak out now.

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  • Plant face mask takes cutting down on your carbon footprint to the extreme

    Plant face mask takes cutting down on your carbon footprint to the extreme

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    If the volcano's in Iceland keep pumping out ash, we may all need to start wearing face masks to protect our delicate lung tissues. Of course, standard fabric or paper masks aren't enough for some people, as physical filtration may not be enough in some cases. So you have this concept face mask from designer Robert Ortega.

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  • Microsoft, News Corp in talks over Xbox Live channel (but it’ll cost you $1 or $2 extra)

    Microsoft, News Corp in talks over Xbox Live channel (but it’ll cost you $1 or $2 extra)

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Would you be willing to pay an extra dollar or two per month for Xbox Live if you were able to watch live TV on it? That's what Microsoft and News Corp. execs are currently contemplating, with the two companies in talks over bringing a "young, male" channel to XBL. Now, this is all rumor and speculation, so no need to freak out if you're diametrically opposed to the idea.

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  • StarCraft II given Adults Only rating in South Korea, teens freak out in response

    StarCraft II given Adults Only rating in South Korea, teens freak out in response

    Posted on April 19, 2010 | No Comments
    StarCraft II has tentatively been given an Adults Only (18+) rating in South Korea, causing Blizzard a certain amount of consternation. Blizzard has 30 days to appeal the rating. If you think that volcano caused chaos and mayhem, you obviously aren't familiar StarCraft's significance in South Korea.

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  • FoxSoccer.tv learns that Web sites work best when they’re actually online

    FoxSoccer.tv learns that Web sites work best when they’re actually online

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Call me crazy, but Web sites usually work best when they're online. Nobody knows this better than we do here at CrunchGear, where the site is down a good 20 percent of the time. But at the very least you're not paying for our crummy service, unlike the poor FoxSoccer.tv customers. Fox wants $45 per season for online access to a whole host of content, including live games from all over the world. It's really not a bad service when it works, but when it doesn't work people freak out, and rightfully so.

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  • That student spying case is now officially boring

    That student spying case is now officially boring

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember the story about the school district that spied on its students at home? Well it just got boringer. Now that the lawyers are involved and some of the IT guys have been put on leave, this he said/she said/school officials saw story has just jumped the shark. To recap: The Lower Merion School District gave their students MacBooks. The MacBooks had a theft protection system built in designed to capture images of the laptop's surroundings in the case of a theft. The school district instead took pictures of a kid eating Mike&Ikes at home and accused him of being a pill popper. Essentially, the school spied on a student at home and is claiming it was only trying to recover a stolen laptop. As we later learned, however, some school officials enjoyed turning on the cameras just to freak the kids out, a decidedly Orwellian thing.

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  • Look, up in the sky. It’s 3 more Iranian satellites.

    Look, up in the sky. It’s 3 more Iranian satellites.

    Posted on January 22, 2010 | No Comments
    It's your daily space (Space?) update. The subject today: Iran, a country we in the United States are programmed to hate (I've never met an Iranian, but I'm sure they're friendly people), may well launch three new satellites in the near future. Be afraid, I guess.

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  • Rhapsody for Android Beta goes live

    Rhapsody for Android Beta goes live

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | 1 Comment
    If you’re an Android handset owner who happens to double as a Rhapsody customer, you might have spent the last few months feeling like you’ve been left out in the cold; more specifically, you might be a bit chuffed that the iPhone has a Rhapsody application while Android phones don’t. We’d heard tales that Rhapsody was [...]

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  • This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event

    This season, crazy monkey shoes are the new hotness at the Chrome OS event

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Velcome, darling! Look what we have for you! Sergey Brin wearing VFF KSOs, CrunchGear's favorite, as Greg calls them, "crazy monkey shoes." I'm personally a VFF convert and I'm very impressed that Sergey is willing to walk around in these. Embiggen after the jump.

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  • CrunchDeals: Asus 1920×1080 23-inch monitor for $158

    CrunchDeals: Asus 1920×1080 23-inch monitor for $158

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    I'll start the day of with a quick and easy CrunchDeal for y'all. It's an Asus 23-inch widescreen monitor, with a 1920x1080 resolution, for $158 after some sort of rebate. I know $158 for a 23-inch monitor is nothing to freak out over, but most of the ones I found on Newegg didn't quite reach that 1920x1080 mark. Being that it's Asus, as Devin told us the other day, we know it's not junk. That is all. (Don't click “read more,” since there's nothing more to read!)

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  • Proposed law would give White House ‘cybersecurity emergency’ powers over the Internet

    Proposed law would give White House ‘cybersecurity emergency’ powers over the Internet

    Posted on August 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Internet King and America's news editor Matt Drudge is freaking out right now, complete with his trademark scare quotes. (I swear, you could probably write a thesis about how Drudge influences the American media.) There's a bill that's currently floating around the U.S. Senate that would, in times of emergency, put the Internet, in a sense, in control of the White House. And then the government will make you eat fruits and vegetables! Tyranny!

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  • Snow Leopard will be out soon, no need to freak out

    Snow Leopard will be out soon, no need to freak out

    Posted on August 21, 2009 | No Comments
    Here's some advice to all of you guys who are trying to keep up-to-date on the latest Snow Leopard news: don't go anywhere near a computer for the next week or so. There were rumors last week that Snow Leopard build 10A432 was slated for gold master, but then you read message board thread after message board there wherein people complain about little glitches here and there. Hardly a sign of Apple polish! Then the disc artwork changes from a snow leopard theme to a space theme, à la Leopard, and there's even more confusion.

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  • Garmin Forerunner 310XT: Much better

    Garmin Forerunner 310XT: Much better

    Posted on May 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Wired seems to truly enjoy the new Garmin Forerunner 310XT, a follow-up to their popular 405 and 305 models.

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  • The iPhone will have a glowing Apple

    The iPhone will have a glowing Apple

    Posted on May 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Artist’s rendition Mea culpa. So I said the iPhone wouldn’t light up. It was too tacky. Who wants lights on an iPhone, right? Wrong. A tipster has seen the new matte iPhone and the bugger has a light-up Apple. That’s right: it lights the freak up. Who knew? What in the name of Soleil Moon-Frye is [...]

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