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in Home cinema... Onkyo launches top-of-range TX-SR876 and TX-NR906 receivers Onkyo has announced the latest in its line of home cinema receivers, launching the high-end TX-SR876 and TX-NR906 units boasting THX Ultra2 Plus (like the TX-SR806) and built-in ISF video calibration. The £1,000 TX-SR876 offers seven channels with 200W per channel output, four HDMI inputs and two outputs, 1080p upscaling and conversion, decoder for Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD, three Texas Instruments Aureus 32-bit DSP chips, Burr-Brown PCM1796 192KhZ/24-bit DACs, and music optimiser... read story... Posted: 2008-08-28T09:10:00Z in Weirdness... INTERNET CELEBRITIES: Smiley Chinese iPhone Girl A month ago, she was a nobody, toiling in an iPhone factory in Shenzen in Southern China, but she's rapidly becoming internet-famous thanks to a cheeky smile and v-sign to a co-worker on the production line... read story... Posted: 2008-08-27T18:09:00Z in Weirdness... Zunes for Democrats and Republicans Just to rub it in your face that you can't get a Zune in the UK yet, and following the Joy Division Zune, the team at Microsoft behind the world's third favourite MP3 player have launched some special-edition Zunes for "Green Delegates" at the USA's Democratic national convention. These are delegations who "demonstrate the highest level of commitment to offsetting their carbon footprint from attending the convention"... read story... Posted: 2008-08-27T17:34:00Z in Space... "Norton, we have a problem": Virus on-board the ISS The following is probably quite a scary sentence if you're several miles up and outside the Earth's atmosphere: "A computer virus has made it's way on to the International Space Station". That's right - up in space, where no one can hear you scream and where there are no rescue missions, there's a virus threatening to wreak havoc... read story... Posted: 2008-08-27T17:17:00Z in Energy systems... Akhter Computers launch PC which uses less energy than a lightbulb The world of technology isn't exactly known for environmental friendliness. Greenpeace regularly rate a bunch of tech companies on their website and no-one is currently scoring higher than 5.1/10. Some companies score extremely poorly. Nintendo score just 0.8/10. I'm a big fan of green tech. I studied Meteorology at University, and that came with a bunch of climate change and renewable energy classes. Both taught me a lot about what we really should be doing with our planet. Unfortunately, I also really like having new shiny gadgets full of pollutants and toxic substances. That internal conflict makes me sad sometimes, but I brightened up considerably when I saw the LoCO2PC... read story... Posted: 2008-08-27T16:27:00Z in Weirdness... STREET VIEW SNAPS #4: Marriage Proposal View Larger Map Aw, this is quite sweet - a lovely Googler called Michael Weiss-Malik has proposed to his wife-to-be through Google Street View. He doesn't work for the street view team, but just works quite closely with them, and found out that they were doing a run alongside the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA... read story... Posted: 2008-08-27T15:49:00Z more from tech-digest...	LP 2 CD - £299.95 Make your old 33's become CDs with the greatest of ease - and this turntable does a good job on 45's and 78's too, even without a computer to help... click here for more information InsideOut Glasses - from £34.95 Turning the concept of traditional glassware inside out, these handmade cylinders contain inner chambers shaped like iconic drinking vessels. Pour the drink and the familiar shape appears, creating a seriously elegant effect. Class in a glass. click here for more information Chococlock - £19.95 At 12 o'clock the time sponsored by Firebox will be...chocolate time! Well it will if you buy this amusing desktop clock that dispenses a choccy treat through its mini shutters, on the hour every hour. Sweet! click here for more information The WineRack - £19.95 Hey girls - must improve your bust? Then do it with a stealth wine dispenser that you wear like a bra. As well as allowing you to secrete and sip drinks wherever you may roam, this boob-enhancing gizmo will increase your cup size by two full cups. Gulp! click here for more information Stonebake Pizza Oven - £49.95 Crack out your salami and make like an Italian with this incredibly versatile pizza oven. As well as imparting a unique stonebaked flavour to your favourite circular snacks, it cooks quiches, pasties, omelettes and more. Mamma mia! click here for more information Digital Camera Mask - £89.95 Now you can take Cousteau-quality underwater photos and shoot video without having to fumble around for your gizmos with this hi-tech dive mask/camera. Featuring a built-in viewfinder with crosshairs, it's perfect for mermaid-hunters, pool party-goers and SpongeBob stalkers. click here for more information Condiment Gun - £14.95 D'ya feel saucy? Well, do ya, sausage? Find out with this gloriously infantile gun-shaped sauce squirter. Just fill one of the included cartridges with your favourite sauce and prepare to give your chips a right good seeing to. click here for more information Millennium Falcon - £149.95 It can't do the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs but this awesome 2.5ft version of the legendary Corellian freighter is realistic in every other department. Featuring spine-tingling sound FX/quotes, lights, blasters, moving parts, plus Han and Chewie figures, she's got it where it counts, kid! click here for more information Busbi Digital Video Camera - £34.95 Forget about complex camcorders with eye-watering price tags; the ludicrously simple, pocket-friendly Busbi features just 4 buttons, allowing you to capture footage and upload it to your computer/the web in a flash. Fame-hungry, accident-prone skateboarder not included. click here for more information Lego Star Wars T-Shirts - £11.95 Celebrate the Lego Star Wars phenomenon via these hip T-shirts emblazoned with iconic Star Wars characters in Lego form. Ideal for sci-fi loving building block fans. C'mon, Lego of your hate and buy one. click here for more information more from Firebox.com...	Navigon brings gratis real-time traffic updates to entire product line Filed under: GPS In a move that we can only hope signals a trend, GPS maker Navigon has announced that real-time traffic updates will now be free for all users of its wares. For awhile now, the outfit has offered gratis traffic updates on its higher-end models, but now, it's taking the Free Real-Time Traffic Updates for Life program to each navigation system it produces. There's no extra hardware to buy, no hidden fees -- just good, clean, free traffic updates. What's not to love? Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments read story... Dell's Inspirion 910 netbook limps a bit closer to release Filed under: Laptops You're looking at official Dell pics of its upcoming Inspiron 910 netbook nabbed from their on-line support docs. These images match the others we've seen down to the key (look, no dedicated function keys) which pretty much confirms the mini laptop's final appearance. Now if Dell could just hit one of the rumored release dates we could all get back to pillaging market share from standard sized laptops. [Thanks, Mike and Hao] Read -- keyboard Read -- external optical DVD/CD drive Read -- status LEDs Permalink | Email this | Comments read story... Sony's 1,000,000:1 contrast BRAVIAs launch in Japan this October Filed under: Displays, HDTV Sony's XBR6 / XBR7 / XBR8 models are still waiting in the wings for their U.S. debut, but along with HDTVs that push the extremes in thin and fast, the company announced these more conventional models it's deemed "the highest quality BRAVIA HDTVs in history." The XR1 (read: XBR8) series will feature a 1,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio (3,000:1 static) courtesy of those new TRILUMINOS three-color LEDs, 10-bit BRAVIA Engine 2 processing and Motionflow 120Hz technology. If you can live without 240Hz or WHDI, the 1080p 55-inch edition runs ¥750,000 ($6,489 U.S.) with a 46-inch for ¥600,000 ($5,479 U.S.). The next level down is the X1 (read: XBR6 / XBR7) series, based on old school CCFL backlights limited to a 3,000:1 contrast rating, ranging in size from 40- to 52- inches and in price from ¥530,000 ($4,866 U.S.) to ¥320,000 ($2,922 U.S.) when they go on sale October 10. Digital Media Extender support, DLNA connectivity and all the other high end feature's make their expected appearance across the lineup. With fears of watered down technology effectively quelled, Sony wouldn't make us wait until October to find out when we can buy an HDTV in the U.S. or Europe from this lineup -- somehow we doubt it. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments read story... more from engadget.com...