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Anytime we hear the words “incompatible” and “music game” mixed into the same sentence, we typically can’t resist the onset of a bitter beer face. That being true, we can’t say we’re too terribly bummed about this one, particularly since we highly doubt Microsoft’s Lips will have the same following as Rock Band and / or Guitar Hero: World Tour. At any rate, you should probably know that the accelerometer-packin’ Lips microphone will not work with RB nor GH at launch, though creator Keiichi Yano of Inis did confess that compatibility was theoretically possible with future patches. ‘Course, we doubt anyone will spend time on said patches unless Lips moves like a billion copies this winter, but we suppose anything is possible with a snap of the fingers and a pinch of pixie dust.

[Via Joystiq]

Lips mic incompatible with Rock Band / Guitar Hero (at launch, anyway) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Men, be careful with the lies your tell your wives. See, there’s this thing called the Internet which is… uh, like a series of tubes connecting everybody. On The Internets you’ll find services like Google and places to discuss just about anything imaginable, even the iPhone. So when you tell your wife that there’s a bug in the iPhone that causes photos of your naughty bits to “sometimes automatically attach themselves to an e-mail address and appear in the sent folder, even though no e-mail was ever sent,” well, it won’t take long before she’s on the Apple Discussion forums asking if this is true. Buddy, we hope you get what you deserve.

[Via The Inquirer]

No, the iPhone will not accidentally email photos of your nekkid husband originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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HP Pavilion dv4-1125nr: a feature-packed $800 laptop.

The five laptops in the $700 to $800 price range that we reviewed as part of our Holiday Retail Laptop Roundup are a diverse group. These budget laptops are one step up from the entry-level models you’ll see on Big Box store …

When 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley and his crew went to China to record the black market dismantling of electronic waste, or e-waste, the experience was almost as hazardous for the 60 Minutes team as working with the toxic material is for poor Chinese workers.

Jumped by a gang of men overseeing the e-waste operations who tried to take the CBS team’s cameras, Pelley’s crew managed to escape and bring back footage of the hazardous activities. Pelley’s investigation will be broadcast this Sunday, Nov. 9, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

The Chinese attackers were trying to protect a lucrative business of mining the e-waste — junked computers, televisions and other old electronic products — for valuable components, including gold. “They’re afraid of being found out. This is smuggling. This is illegal,” says Jim Puckett, founder of the Basel Action Network, a group working to stop the dumping of toxic materials in poor countries that certifies ethical e-waste recyclers in the United States. “A lot of people are turning a blind eye here. And if somebody makes enough noise, they’re afraid this is all going to dry up.”

E-waste workers in Guiyu, China, where Pelley’s team videotaped, put up with the dangerous conditions for the $8 a day the job pays. They use caustic chemicals and burn the plastic parts to get at the valuable components, often releasing toxins that they not only inhale, but release into the air, the ground and the water. Potable water must now be trucked into Guiyu and scientists have discovered that the city has the highest levels of cancer-causing dioxins in the world. Pregnancies in Guiyu are six times more likely to result in miscarriages, and seven out of 10 children there have too much lead in their blood.

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Originally posted at Green Tech

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