Arizona Bike Maker Builds 6-Pound Racing Model

Fairwheel Bikes, a bicycle manufacturer based out of Tucson, Arizona, took their craft to new extremes with the introduction of their new six pound racing model. It cost them$45,000 to build but considering that it’s a 10-speed rear gear, I’d say that’s an acceptable pricetag.

Unfortunately, this won’t have any real impact on professional racing. (The minimum weight allowed for a bike on the pro circuit is fifteen pounds.)

Lawsuits in the Mobile Business

It’s almost impossible to keep track of who’s suing who (and for what) in the world of wireless communications today. It seems like every major player is pointing the finger at someone for patent or copyright infringement.

The infographic below illustrates just how tangled the legal web has become.

Thieves Nab $1.2 Million Worth of Western Digital Hard Drives

A cargo truck holding 524 boxes of Western Digital hard drives worth $1.2 million was stolen from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The thieves walked right into the warehouse wear the truck was parked. They entered via the police entrance.

Unfortunately for the thieves – who turned out to be warehouse employees – the police cracked the case and made five arrests. Most of the drives were recovered from a house.

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/10/01/wd_theft/

Computers to Boot in “Seconds” Once UEFI Replaces BIOS

So long, BIOS. It’s been nice knowing you for the past 25 years!

I, for one, welcome UEFI

Zoom Q3HD

Looking for a compact HD video camera that won’t break the bank? You might want to take a pass on those Sanyo and Flip models that everyone’s been buying. Zoom, a small company known mostly for its audio recorders, is about to release their first video recorder. It’s called the Q3HD – and it’s a beast.

Featuring both 1080p and 720p recording options, an HDMI port, and stereo microphones, it will be the highest-end model in the sub-$300 market. $299 at release

http://samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=2062

Hydrophobia Developers Freak Out Over Negative Reviews

The people at Dark Energy Digital, creator of Xbox Live Arcade title Hydrophobia, don’t take kindly to people criticising their hard work. They spent three years working on the game and they’ll be damned if they’re going to stand by and listen while reviewers say anything bad about it. Not only has their public relations department contacted authors of negative reviews directly to tell them that they’re playing the game “wrong”; they’ve gone so far as to speculate that some publications reviewed the game without actually playing it.

On one hand, you have to hand it to them for standing behind their product. On the other, however, one can’t help but wonder about the quality of a game when some of the biggest review sites on the web (1Up, Destructoid, Joystiq, and Eurogamer, to name a few) are calling it crap. Hydrophobia looked like it was going to be a fantastic game, too.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/hydrophobia-developer-defends-game-attacks-critics.ars

Blizzard Cleans Up StarCraft II

As promised a few weeks ago, Blizzard dropped the ban hammer on “thousands” of dirty rotten StarCraft II hackers today. It’s really nice to know that they’re being aggressive in their approach to map hacks, because it really ruins the game.