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Target sure cares about CrunchGear and we love them for throwing down two Peek e-mail devices (review) for us to giveaway. Now don’t go scoffing about just because it’s not some hotsy-totsy-hotdoggin-showboatin gadget. Not everyone has access to e-mail on their phone and chances are you know some of them. Here’s your chance to hook them […]

Target sure adores CrunchGear and we love them for throwing down two Peek e-mail devices (review) for us to giveaway. Now don’t go scoffing about just because it’s not some hotsy-totsy-hotdoggin-showboatin gadget. Not everyone has access to e-mail on their phone and chances are you know some of them. Here’s your chance to hook them up for the upcoming holidays or feel free to treat yourself.

How can you win?

We don’t want to make this too hard, but not very simple either. To win one of the two Peeks, send an e-mail to contest at crunchgear dot com with the headline “Give me the friggin Peek!” Or you can tell us why you need a Peek in comments. Get your entries in by 3PM EDT on Monday, December 1 and we’ll announce the winner later that day. Easy, right?

Previous Peek coverage on CrunchGear

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While this rumor hasn’t been running quite as long as the original iPhone rumor, we’ve been brushing off whispers of the D3x for a really, really long time. For what it’s worth, the latest tidbit actually seems to have some teeth, with one eagle-eyed tipster noting that the website in the read link was alive momentarily, then canned inexplicably. He managed to grab the image you see above (but not the whole site?), and he swears up and down it wasn’t the Eggnog distorting his judgment. We’ll see, won’t we?

[Thanks, Darryl]

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D3x reportedly shown, then removed from Nikon’s site originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apparently these few lines have turned the world upside down: Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld’s metascore. Right now it’s 78. That’s not good enough, apparently. Which is to state that I dislike the practice of aggregating review scores, be it on Metacritic, […]

Apparently these few lines have turned the world upside down:

Go to Metacritic, which is destroying the video game industry, by the way, and check out the Tomb Raider: Underworld’s metascore. Right now it’s 78. That’s not good enough, apparently.

Which is to say that I dislike the practice of aggregating review scores, be it on Metacritic, Game Rankings, Rotten Tomatoes, etc. You can’t quantify view to start with, assigning a numerical value to how you feel about a game—if you can tell me the difference between an 9.0 and a 9.1 you deserve a biscuit—but then to average several thoughts together and wind up with a nice, neat “metascore” is absurd.

Twenty people reviewed this game, so we’re going to take their non-connected thoughts, average them together, and come up with a single number that, magically, represents a game’s full worth.

I just don’t purchase it, sorry.

(Specific to Metacritic, who made this site’s editors kingmakers? What magic formula do they use to assign weights to the different sites? To that end, what makes one review any more “valuable,” thus weighted more heavily, than another’s? I could go on GameFaqs and read a fan review of a game and learn just as much about the gameplay experience as I can by going to any one of the large gaming sites—IGN, GameSpot, and so on.)

As for the actual phrase, “destroying the industry,” that was meant to convey my annoyance at seeing things like “92/100 on Metacritic!” I see in advertisements. Again, that artificial number means completely nothing to me. Never mind that it’s an open secret that game publishers often times use a Metacritic score as a stick—your game had better get a Metacritic score of [XYZ] or you can forget about royalties.

I thank you for your time.

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Update: http://pinurl.com/dax - Michelle brings you an unboxing, hands-on, and a comparison with the original iPhone. CATEGORY: Entertainment TAGS: iphone iphone3g phone freeiphone free get an iphon unboxing 3g review ad performance commercial apple steve jobs nokia N95 N96 white unboxing t-mobile mobile mac macbook air pro gadget electronics computer vi…

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Israeli scientists have developed software that turns your ugly mug into a mathematically beautiful visage. Yes, we’ve evolved a great deal, us humans. What the software (a Photoshop plugin) does is alters a face to make it “look” more attractive, based on mathematics and “perceived” attractiveness. If you’ve watched any of those TLC or Discovery […]

Israeli scientists have developed software that turns your ugly mug into a mathematically beautiful visage. Yes, we’ve evolved a great deal, us humans.

What the software (a Photoshop plugin) does is alters a face to make it “look” more attractive, based on mathematics and “perceived” attractiveness. If you’ve watched any of those TLC or Discovery Channel documentaries about human behavior, you’ll know that things like distance between someone’s eyes, shape of someone’s nose, etc. all affect a person’s level of attractiveness. A woman whose eyes are too far apart—and we’re speaking micrometers here—might as well wear a paper bag over her head.

Yes, this raises some ethical concerns. Will people use this software to “improve” their looks with plastic surgery? Will this make people think they’re unsightly? Will Sarah Jessica still look like a horse?

One of the silliest stories I’ve heard in a while.

via The Insider

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The BDP-5003 Blu-ray player was announced back at CEDIA ‘08 and the player is finally shipping. The question now is, who will buy the $299, Profile 1.1 player? Sherwood make quality AV equipment, but while Yamaha and Integra might be able to con their fanboys to bite on old technology, chances are Sherwood purchasers might […]

The BDP-5003 Blu-ray player was announced back at CEDIA ‘08 and the player is finally shipping. The question now is, who will purchase the $299, Profile 1.1 player? Sherwood make quality AV equipment, but while Yamaha and Integra might be able to con their fanboys to bite on old technology, chances are Sherwood purchasers might look to more up-to-date offerings from Sony or Samsung. Besides the old Profile 1.1 spec though, the BDP-5003 does offer solid performance with 60 and 24 Hz 1080p playback and both Dolby and DTS lossless audio support. 

Sherwood via CEPro

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The Macbooks have left the old silky, sleek white/black design behind and Mikael gives a swift rundown on the new model!

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Oh noes, here we go again. At the risk of becoming RED’s marketing pawn, we’d be remiss to the gadget community by ignoring Jim Jannard’s latest attention begging tease. Titled simply, “Big Change…,” Jannard writes, “New announcement on Dec. 3rd. Everything has changed… just as we promised.” This comes after revealing “several nice breakthroughs” related to Scarlet and EPIC in the REDUSER forums. JJ then amps up the hype by calling the November 13th announcement of RED’s Digital Still and Motion Camera (DSMC) system “insignificant” by comparison. Ok Jim, we’ll be at your beck and call. But you’d superior show up on the 3rd with something priced more competitively to Canon’s EOS 5D Mark II if you anticipate us to consider your modular SLR / HD video camera anything other than a novelty for the consumer or prosumer markets. In other words: please, with sugar?

[Thanks, Ben H.]

Filed under: Digital Cameras

RED making “Big Change” announcement on December 3rd originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been a few months since Fujifilm showed off a prototype 3D shooter at the Photokina show in Cologne, and CNET Asia has now managed to spend a tiny time with the chunky bronze and gunmetal box. Unlike other tech we’ve seen that does 3D in one shot, this one sports a pair of lenses and sensors to capture light in stereo, while on the back a 2.8-inch LCD alternates between the two images at 60 fps to give an apparently convincing 3D effect. Superior, though, should be the 8.4-inch 3D pic frame under development, and Fuji’s Frontier photo labs are also being upgraded to produce lenticular prints (the sort you can tilt left and right to see different things) that are stated be “really good.” The camera itself is scheduled to drop around September of 2009, but since even looking at the results of your work is going to be a bit of a challenge at first we’re not entirely sure how popular the thing will be. Regardless, we’re glad someone is paving the way.

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Fujifilm’s 3D camera gets the hands-on treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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