Barack Obama delivers the Top Ten list on the Late Show with David Letterman: # 4 may be the best fake campaign promise yet!

The outline of Steve Job’s 2008 MacWorld Keynote, one of the most hotly anticipated speeches of the year, has reportedly been leaked to the Internet via Wikipedia. We can’t vouch for the accuracy of this, and it’s most likely completely bogus – but it’s fun to speculate. If the leak proves to be real, it […]

CES: Taser may get the prize this year for introducing the most stupidtactular product at the Consumer Electronics Show – a leopard-print “fashion Taser,” with an MP3 player holster. While everybody else was putting iPod docks onto televisions and refrigerators and speakerphones, Taser had the audacity to something truly unique and, well, possibly insane! The […]

If you’re planning on buying an iPod, Zune or other portable media player for your kids, you may want to think twice before buying it at Wal-Mart. According to several reports, the company has been selling used media players as new ones. Some parents have even found that the players that they bought for their […]

The New York Times has a story today about the case of Stacy Snyder, a 25 year-old mother of two that lost her job over a MySpace photo of her as a “drunken pirate”: In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly chosen words or even a single photograph posted online in one‚Äôs off-hours […]

The Mpillow is a bizarre new age MP3 player pillow designed to use light and sound to help you relax: MPillow can connect to a computer wirelessly and music can be downloaded to it by way of MP3‚Äôs or by using the sounds available on MPillow servers. The enterior of the pillow is filled with […]

Back in 1957, when the British Queen delivered her first television message, she acknowledged the need to adapt to changing times. “I very much hope that this new medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct,” she said from her Sandringham estate in Norfolk. “That it is possible for some of you to […]

New media advertising in virtual worlds like Second Life appears to be dead in the water. Virtual world technology firm The Electric Sheep Company let go nearly a third of its employees yesterday. The company laid off 22 employees, is scaling back its events staff and cancelling several projects, including the creation of an ad […]

We thought that our 2007 Holiday Guide to iCrap was pretty comprehensive, what with the iPod Tooth Whitener and all. Well, looks like we were wrong: The iPond is a tiny fish tank that doubles as a music speaker. Unfortunately, it’s a tiny fish tank that is about 15 times smaller than the recommended tank […]

The holidays are upon us, and you know what that means; it’s time for the second annual Podcasting News Guide to iCrap. There are a lot of great iPod accessories you can buy. You can get iPod cases, audio recorders, FM transmitters and all sorts of other useful iPod gear to help you make the […]