Author: Brian Barrett

Just a friendly reminder not to hookah and drive this weekend. Not because you’ll get in an accident. Because it looks suggestive. [Black and WTF]

This is Nathan. While the rest of you were off being giddy about playing as Big Daddy in Bioshock 2, Nathan was building himself a costume that lets him play as Big Sister in real life. Now that’s commitment.

It’s the designer’s second Bioshock costume: two years ago he made a similarly impressive Big Daddy get-up. And as you can see, a DIY Big Sister costume isn’t for the faint of heart: corsets and leg braces are just the beginning. But if you’re a truly dedicated gamer—or a truly deranged costume enthusiast—it doesn’t get much better than this. If you start yours now, you’ve got an outside shot of having it ready by Halloween. [College Humor]

Comcast—aka Xfinity—has launched an online backup service called Secure Backup & Share. Current high-speed internet customers will get 2GB of storage for free, upgradeable up to 200GB for $100/year. But hey wait—didn’t Comcast desperately need to cap data?

The service comes via a partnership with Mozy, with plans including the aforementioned free 2GB, a 50GB option for $5/month or $50/year, and 200GB for $10/month or $100/year. That’s a decent price for cloud storage, but it’ll also put you dangerously close to maxing out your monthly bandwidth allotment. And to be clear: Comcast has confirmed that the 200GB of storage will count against your cap.

Comcast users currently have a 250GB limit on the amount of data they can consume. If they use more than that, the reasoning goes, the internet might stop working altogether. Or something. Go over the cap twice in six months, and Comcast reserves the right to terminate your service.

So while giving users a storage option—some of it free, even!—is great, it just doesn’t jive with the looming bandwidth crisis that Comcast has used to justify its draconian data caps. If you’re going to put your files in the Comcast cloud, be ready to cut back on those Hulu visits. [CNET via Boy Genius Report]

The celebrant wore a black turtleneck and read vows from an iPod. The ring was brought in on a first-generation iPhone. And the bride and groom both said iDo. What more could you hope for from an Apple store wedding?

Josh and Ting first met at an Apple store, and could think of no place better to affirm their eternal devotion than between rows of MacBook. Apple didn’t sanction the event, which took place at the flagship Fifth Avenue location in New York, so they took the good ol’ fashioned flash mob route. As Josh said to Entertainment Weekly:

“I used to joke that the Apple Store is my church because I am not religious, and I loved everything Apple… Ting then came up with the idea of having the wedding there.”

Let’s hope their love has a better warranty than my iPhone. [EW via Cult of Mac]

A leaked roadmap had previously indicated that Sprint would be launching a 4G WiMax handset sometime in 2010, and now the company has confirmed that we’ll be seeing the technology within the next few months. But is the network ready?

Well, sort of. Sprint’s been working with Clearwire on building up a 4G WiMax network since 2007, and while it’s taken longer than they thought, they do have it up and running in 27 markets that serve 30 million people. But! Those markets currently don’t include biggies like New York, San Fransisco, and DC, and 4G. WiMax hasn’t been put to the test by a wide audience.

Still, they’ve got to do it sometime, and sooner is better than never for those who can use it. There’s speculation that the handset in question will be the HTC Supersonic, an Android WiMax phone that leaked just last month. [Forbes via Electronista]

In the wake of Dell’s acquisition of Alienware in 2006, three key execs decided to jump ship. Their mission: to make top-tier gaming PCs the way Alienware used to. The result: a company called Origin, and the Eon18 laptop

The Eon18 certainly looks like Alienware. (Though it’s designed by an ODM.) It’s a highly customizable gaming laptop with an 18.4″ full HD widescreen, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 280M GPUs, 7.1 high-def audio, and up to three 250GB SSDs. It sports a Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300 now, but on Monday is stepping up to Core i7. UPDATE: The Core i7 and Nvidia 285M card in SLI versions ended up launching late last night.

While the specs aren’t over the moon—expect a battery life of 45 minutes when gaming unplugged—the opportunities to customize your rig are pretty great: You can specify whatever color and design you want for the top cover, and can even put your own name or logo in the place of Origin.

Most importantly, it’s the first gaming laptop from a group of people who are clearly passionate about their products. Their products come with a lifetime labor guarantee, and they still have small enough distribution that you can get top-level customer support on demand.

Again, the Eon18 has its faults. But it’s a good first effort, and we’ve got high hopes for Origin’s future.

Overview:
The ORIGIN EON18 is pure portable domination. No more choosing between lugging your desktop or having to play on a subpar laptop, with ORIGIN you’ll have the best in mobile gaming in your hands. When you step through the door with this beast under your arm everyone will know, its game over man!
Gamers looking for portability without sacrificing their gaming experience. Hardware enthusiasts who want a personalized laptop with dedicated support. DJs that want their logo in lights on the front of their laptop.
Who wants the EON18 the most:
• • •
Features and Benefits:
• See every detail of your opponents demise with the 18.4″ Full HD Widescreen
• Put your name in lights with ORIGIN’s customizable multi-color top cover logo
• In a world filled with copycats, be original with ORIGIN’s custom paint options
• Lifetime Phone/Online Support and Lifetime Labor means ORIGIN always has your back
• With ORIGIN’s dedicated support team you never have to deal with anonymous agents that don’t know your name
• 72 hour benchmarks, burn in, and testing ensures every EON18 ships with only the best performing components
• Dual NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M’s provide the most powerful mobile graphics to run any game with ultra high detail and smooth frame rates.
• Don’t deprive your ears the fun your eyes are getting. Get the full experience with all your games and movies with the ORIGIN EON’s optical
digital out and 7.1 High Definition Audio
• Secret agent status awaits, be the only one with access to your ORIGIN EON18 with the integrated high precision fingerprint reader
• The ORIGIN EON18 is equipped with a full size keyboard complete with numeric pad for a familiarity essential to elite gaming
• Programmable gaming buttons will give you the advantage in any game.
• Make no compromises with the ability for one optical drive and three hard drives in your ORIGIN EON18
Features/Specs: Dimensions: (H)1.7″ x (W)17.25″ x (D)11.75″ Customization and Personalization:
• • •
Customizable top cover ORIGIN logo Multi-color lights on ORIGIN top cover logo, front vent, and rear vent Unlimited color and design options on ORIGIN top cover
Hardware:
• Video Card: Up to SLI Dual 1GB GDDR3 NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 280M
• Display: 18.4″ Full HD 1920 x 1080 – (1080p) Wide L2,499CD (16:9 Aspect Ratio)
• Processor: Up to Intel® CoreTM 2 Extreme Quad QX9300 (12MB Cache, 1066MHz FSB)
• Memory: Up to 8GB Dual Channel DDR3 – 1333Mhz
• Optical Drive: Up to Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner Combo (BD-R, DVD+-RW, CD-RW)
• Hard Drive: Up to three 250GB SSD
• RAID Configurations: RAID 0 and RAID 1
• Network Adapter: Built-In Wireless 802.11 a/g/draft-n
• Audio: Integrated High-Definition Audio with 4 Channel support
• Media Card Reader: Built-In 7-in-1 Media Card Reader (MMC/RSMMC/MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/SD/Mini-SD)
• TV Tuner: Built-In Digital TV Tuner with Remote (optional)
• Operating System: Genuine Windows® 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
• Keyboard:
• Full size keyboard w/ numeric pad • Programmable Gaming Buttons (G1 – G8)
• Touch Sensitive Volume Control and Access Buttons
• Battery: 12-cell Lithium-Ion Battery
• Starting at price: $2,070

[OriginPC]

So much for apologies! Google CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday described user discomfort over Buzz’s privacy issues as “confusion,” saying that “nobody’s personal information was disclosed.” This is, of course, complete and utter manure.

Buzz’s privacy problems are widely documented. Google’s misadventure in social networking has already inspired an FTC complaint and a class action law suit. Google itself has had to make multiple security updates on the fly. So… where’s the confusion?

Actually, come to think of it, I am confused. Confused how Eric Schmidt can blacklist CNET for publishing info about him they found on… wait for it… Google, then turn around and say his company did everything right when exposing people’s contacts and personal information without user knowledge or consent.

Yep. That confuses the heck out of me. [Guardian UK]

According to Steve Jobs, running Flash video on the iPad would cut its battery life from 10 hours to a measly 1.5. At least, that was his pitch to Wall Street Journal execs recently. But could it possibly be true?

Well, yes and no. Jobs is picking and choosing here between hypothetical versions of Flash. If the iPad version of Flash were to have hardware acceleration, which Flash 10.1 offered up for desktops (though not OS X), that wouldn’t be remotely the case. If Flash on the iPad were to support hardware video decoding where available, it wouldn’t require nearly as much CPU. You’d lose battery life, sure, the same way you lose battery life watching any type of video on any system, but nothing near as dramatic as 85%.

Of course, that hardware acceleration isn’t currently possible on Macs, because Adobe doesn’t have access to the appropriate APIs. So Jobs can easily on a imaginary version of Flash that doesn’t have hardware acceleration and come up with an imaginary battery life impact.

Jobs’s bigger fib might be his description of ditching Flash as “trivial.” It’s not. While HTML5 is good, it’s not great—yet. And even when it becomes great, it’ll take major sites years to make the switch—however long it takes for the majority of internet users to stop using outmoded browsers. And that won’t be for a very long time. Certainly longer than the first few generations of the iPad.

So. Would Flash make the iPad’s battery life only 1.5 hours? Maybe, maybe not. But the bigger question is: will we ever get the chance to find out for ourselves? [Gawker]

Beecem’s upcoming BCS500 4G chip is going to be able to handle both WiMax and LTE connectivity. Not only that, it’ll be able to switch seamlessly between the two, depending on which provides the best signal in your location.

The chip is the result of a collaboration with Motorola, with mass production starting early next year. That may sound like a long ways off, but our WiMax and 4G networks aren’t built up enough now for there to be much of a rush anyway. And anything that’ll simplify our manifold 4G options of the future makes me feel just a little more warm and fuzzy inside. [Beceem via Engadget]

Okay, Sony Ericsson CEO Bert Nordberg, here’s the deal: if you’re going to spill the details of backroom discussions that never panned out, be sure the story at least makes you look good. Because this Nexus One ditty does not!

Nordberg was speaking to Swedish publication Sydsvenskan when he confirmed that Google had first approached Sony Ericsson to be its Nexus One hardware partner, and that Sony Ericsson cold refused. Apparently Sony Ericsson would rather compete in the US exclusively with their own products. So let’s see how that turned out, shall we?

The Nexus One, despite lackluster sales, has established itself as the best Android phone out there. More importantly, it’s given manufacturer HTC huge boosts in reputation and recognition.

Meanwhile, sad Sony Ericsson has yet to release an Android phone in the US. Whoops? Maybe Bert Nordberg is just that desperate to become a trending topic. [Sydsvenskan via Engadget]

AT&T is late to the Android games, but they’re making up for lost time with five Android handsets in the first half of the year. First up: the Motorola Backflip, coming March 7th for $100 with contract. Wait… $100?

To me that seems a little steep, but I guess that’s because I’m not the biggest fan of Motoblur, Motorola’s social UI. The Backflip also has a touch panel on the back, though that doesn’t function as anything more than a D-pad, along with a 3.1-inch hi-res screen and a 5MP camera (with flash) on board. It’s also compatible with AT&T’s speedier 7.2 HSPA 3G network.

Most importantly: if you’ve been stuck in an AT&T contract and worrying that the Android grass is greener, you’ve finally got a chance to see what all the cool kids are talking about. But maybe it’s better to wait to see if one of the other four on deck is better than the Backflip.

AT&T Announces Availability of First Device on Android Platform with Motorola

HSPA 7.2 – Capable Motorola BACKFLIP Coming Soon to AT&T Stores Nationwide

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AT&T* and Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that the Motorola BACKFLIP ™ with MOTOBLUR™ will be available in AT&T stores nationwide and online at www.wireless.att.com beginning March 7.

MOTOBLUR offers AT&T customers a new way to connect to their favorite people, content and applications, whether it’s work or personal email, messaging or social networking. Motorola’s exclusive Android™ experience syncs contacts, posts, messages, photos and much more – from sources such as Facebook®, MySpace, Twitter®, Gmail™, Picasa, work and personal e-mail, and Last.fm – and automatically delivers them to live widgets for immediate reply, right from the home screen. And, for customers who prefer multi-tasking, AT&T’s 3G network offers the added advantage of talking and surfing the Web and accessing applications at the same time.

BACKFLIP features a unique form-factor with an original reverse flip design, spacious keyboard and BACKTRACK™ touch panel, allowing the display to be hands-free while one’s fingers work behind the screen. BACKFLIP runs on the nation’s fastest 3G network and is powered by MOTOBLUR™, Motorola’s Android-powered content delivery service created to make phones more personal and socially smart. Customers can see photos and learn more at www.att.com/backflip.

“Motorola BACKFLIP brings together the best of social networking with the nation’s fastest 3G network,” said David Christopher, chief marketing officer, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets. “With the ability to ride on our newest and fastest 3G network, access to more than 20,000 AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots, and the ability to talk and surf at the same time, BACKFLIP boasts a better Android experience.”

MOTOBLUR™
MOTOBLUR keeps track of contacts so it’s easy to keep up. Users can flip through messages and updates on the BACKFLIP and respond in a flash, without having to log in and out of applications. MOTOBLUR helps consumers keep a pulse on what’s happening on their social and news networks. Only MOTOBLUR can sync Facebook, MySpace and Twitter with phone book and email contacts, while threading status updates and profile pics through calls, messages and address book. From the home screen, consumers can update their status to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter at once.

Finally, MOTOBLUR provides users with simplicity and peace of mind, as lost devices can be located from a secure personal information portal and GPS can be used to locate them. One user name and password brings back a user’s contacts, messages and connectivity to previously configured networks and email providers.

“Motorola is proud to bring the first Android-powered device to AT&T’s 3G network,” said Mark Shockley, senior vice president, Motorola Mobile Devices. “AT&T customers will love the social media advantages MOTOBLUR offers as well as the innovative hardware design.”

BACKFLIP is the first Motorola device to feature the new and unique BACKTRACK™ feature which gives AT&T customers the ability to navigate quickly and easily through Web sites, menus and more with a touch panel located behind the screen when the device is folded open. BACKTRACK offers a new way to scroll through the Web, texts, e-mails and news feeds without obscuring the home screen. Flip the keyboard backwards into table-top mode to listen to music, watch videos, view pictures with the digital picture frame or to turn BACKFLIP into a digital, bedside alarm clock.

BACKFLIP comes with a full HTML browser that can be viewed on the 3.1″ high-res, touch screen display and makes use of 7.2 HSPA 3G technology on the nation’s fastest 3G network. Android Market™ has access to more than 20,000 apps and widgets, in order to customize the device to fit each consumer’s personal style. Customers can easily shoot photos and video with the BACKFLIP’s 5 MP camera and flash, and upload them to their favorite photo sharing or social media site.

The Motorola BACKFLIP features Wi-Fi connectivity and AT&T customers receive AT&T Wi-Fi access at U.S. hotspots included as part of their unlimited data plan. AT&T’s has the nation’s largest Wi-Fi network with more than 20,000 U.S. hotspots.

Pricing and Availability
The Motorola BACKFLIP will be available March 7 at AT&T retail locations nationwide or at www.wireless.att.com for $99.99 after $100 mail-in rebate. (Pay $199.99 and after mail-in rebate receive $100 AT&T Promotion Card. Two-year agreement and smartphone data plan required.)

I’m sorry, roaches that I’ve squashed. I didn’t know that one day your kin would be our nuke-detecting salvation.

Nuclear engineers from Texas A&M, who clearly are less squeamish than I am, have attached radioactivity sensors to the backs of cockroaches. Oh, sorry, to the backs of remote-controlled cockroaches, which sounds like the start of a wonderful prank. It turns out that the little buggers are perfectly suited to the task of locating nuclear material:

“Cockroaches really are the perfect medium for this,” says William Charlton, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the university and a principal investigator on the project. “They can go for extraordinarily long periods of time without food. They exist on every continent except Antarctica. They’re very radiation resistant, and they can carry extremely large amounts of weight compared to their body mass.”

That’s right: instead of sending humans into possibly contaminated areas, we’re sending our army of roaches. And we’re not stopping there! According to the Texas A&M researchers, other applications could include search and rescue and counterintelligence. And scaring the bejeebus out of rival scientists.

Turns out Joe’s Apartment is another movie ahead of its time. [National Defense Magazine via Wired]

Researchers at the University of Michigan have created a prosthesis that makes walking much easier on amputees than current options. The trick: an artificial foot that recycles the kinetic energy generated by walking.

The device works by mimicking the natural push-off of a human ankle, using a microprocessor to control the device and capture the energy normally dissipated by the leg:

In tests on subjects walking with an artificially-impaired ankle, a conventional prosthesis reduced ankle push-off work and increased net metabolic energy expenditure by 23% compared to normal walking. Energy recycling restored ankle push-off to normal and reduced the net metabolic energy penalty to 14%.

That means less cumbersome dragging of an artificial limb and a more natural walking sensation. It also only requires a small battery to operate, running off of less than one watt of power.

It’s just a prototype for now, but assuming the current round of testing goes well, there’s no reason not to expect a commercial application in the not too distant future. [PLoS ONE via Inhabitat]

First, Nokia successfully got the ITC to investigate Apple over patent infringement claims. Now the regulatory body has taken Kodak’s complaint seriously enough investigate RIM and Apple. Again. The stakes? A possible ban on US iPhone and BlackBerry imports.

In announcing that they’d investigate the complaint, the ITC made it clear that they weren’t taking sides… yet. But before you dismiss Kodak out of hand for being rabble-rousers, it’s worth noting that they’ve won similar judgments recently against both Samsung and Sun Microsystems.

Will we actually see the iPhone and BlackBerry banned from US stores? Highly doubtful. This will end the way these things always end: vast amounts of money changing hands. But with two simultaneous ITC investigations and countless lawsuits, the regulatory heat’s been turned up at Cupertino. And a loss in either the Nokia or Kodak case could hit Apple’s reputation even harder than its checkbook. [USITC via CNET]

This magic SIM card from SK Telecom is a long way off from being commercially viable. But so help me, when someone stuffs this much information into a single SIM, I’m going to stand up and take notice.

Packed into this protoype are a processor, memory, 1GB flash storage, and Android OS. That’s enough to keep your entire mobile world into one SIM, making switching phones the simplest thing in the world. You could also use it to easily switch off information between your handset and your netbook.

Of course, it also means that losing your phone would come with its own additional host of problems. Though by the time this would actually be available, it’s likely that all your most important stuff would be in the cloud anyway.

I’m looking at you, AT&T SIM in my phone. I’m looking at you with equal parts pity and regret. [PC World via Engadget]

The best way to figure out what something’s made of? Vaporize it. With a laser. That’s NASA’s philosophy, anyway, in the form of a high-energy laser system that’s going to be mounted on the next Mars rover. PEWPEW.

The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy system (LIBS), called ChemCam, will launch next year on the Mars Curiosity. It sends an average of three 10-watt, five-nanosecond laser pulses per second, which may not be enough to stun a Romulan but is perfect for collecting and analyzing rock samples:

The laser shots vaporize a crater less than a millimeter across, turning its molecules into a 14,000-degree plasma. The atoms are shorn of their electrons, but as the plasma ball cools down, they return to a more normal state. The electrons drop into their orbits around the nucleus and as they do so, the little plasma ball emits light…

The specific color of the light tells scientists exactly what element they are looking at if they pass it through a spectrometer, which can precisely measure the wavelength of light.

The technique could be equally handy right here on earth for forensics experts to examine crime scenes. Or, more likely, for evil genius supervillains to create them. [Wired]

Despite the apologies and quick-fixes, Google still has a lot of explaining to do about Buzz. And if the FTC decides to hear the Electronic Privacy Information Center’s complaint, we’d get some answers right quick.

EPIC’s 16-page complaint, filed yesterday, cites a dissatisfaction with the measures Google has taken so far to shore up Buzz’s security. Users still have to opt out of the service, and Buzz still uses address books to build follower/following lists.

An FTC complaint is significant because it frames the discomfort over Buzz legalistically. Should the agency choose to investigate—which given the degree of public outcry and clear privacy violations, they may well—that could result in government regulation of the service. If nothing else, it’s another black mark on Buzz, and another indication that while Google may “do no evil,” they don’t necessarily always do good. [EPIC via Ars Technica]

We’ve seen Segways built partly from Legos before, but a Segway built entirely from the Legos in a standard NXT 2.0 set? That’s something special.

What’s particularly cool about the NXT Segway is how it balances itself: instead of using a gyro sensor, it leans on the NXT Color Sensor in light sensor mode to detect its angle relative to the ground. It’s controllable via Bluetooth, and has that certain Wall-E-esque feel that makes me feel all fuzzy inside. Complete instructions to make your own are riiiiiggghhhht here. [NXT Programs via The NXT Step via Make]

Windows 7 Media Center and Boxee each has its own strengths, and now the Boxee Integration App gives you access to both with minimal hassle.

It’s a Windows Media Center plug-in that’s simplicity itself to use. Just click on the Boxee option in the WMC main menu to close WMC and open Boxee, and when you’re done watching your content just close out to automatically bring up WMC again. Even better: the switch can be made with your remote, so you never have to leave your La-Z-Boy.

You can get it as a free download now from here, but know that it’s only compatible with Windows 7 and, sadness, won’t work on your Xbox. [Boxee Integration App via Lifehacker]

The Sony Dash reminded us mostly of a really nice Chumby when we got to play with it at CES. Now when Dash launches in April, it’ll be a really nice Chumby that streams Netflix from your Queue.

The device has a 7-inch touchscreen and provides access to over 1,500 apps from the Bravia Internet Video platform and from Chumby. Today Sony also announced that eHow, Golflink, and Livestrong.com will be providing content for the Dash, but the big news is the streaming of Netflix movies and TV shows. Just touch the Netflix icon on the display and you’ll be taken to your Queue, from which you can select your content of choice.

A Personal Internet Viewer ain’t a tablet on the order of the iPad or Notion Ink Adam, but having Netflix on board does make the Dash an appealing content-delivery device—especially for its $200 price tag.

Sony ‘dash’ Personal Internet Viewer to Feature Movies and TV Episodes Streamed Instantly from Netflix

eHow, Golflink and LIVESTRONG.COM also join Sony’s growing dash platform

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Sony today announced that its new dash™ personal Internet viewer will feature a dedicated application for Netflix, allowing Netflix members to instantly watch thousands of movies and TV episodes directly on the unit.

Additionally, Demand Media, Inc. has confirmed that its service offerings, eHow, Golflink and LIVESTRONG.COM will be added to the expanding content lineup.

Sony’s dash personal Internet viewer wirelessly delivers the real-time Internet to any room of the home or office by providing always on, sequential display of over 1,500 apps from Sony’s Bravia™ Internet Video platform and the chumby industries, inc. personalized content channel.

Further, the new dash device has the ability to stream online music videos, television, or film content on-demand. It features a vivid 7-inch color touch screen and multiple viewing angles: upright, ideal for a table or nightstand; and tilted, perfect for a countertop, keeping its users connected, informed, and entertained without the need for a PC.

“We’re continuing to develop innovative products that bring online music, news, video and more into our customers’ homes in real time,” said Brennan Mullin, senior vice president of Sony Electronics’ personal imaging and audio business. “By adding content from Netflix and Demand Media to our dash product, Sony is giving consumers a new, convenient way to enjoy some of the highest quality entertainment and most useful information available on the Internet today.”

Movies and TV episodes streamed instantly from Netflix can be easily accessed through a Queue-based user interface, in which choices from a Netflix member’s Queue will be automatically displayed when the Netflix icon on the device is touched.

From Demand Media, eHow is a leading how-to resource with a thriving online community dedicated to providing people with the ability to research, share and discuss solutions for life’s everyday projects. eHow brings thousands of instructional, professional and high-definition videos to the dash platform.

Designed to help golfers of all ages and skill levels improve their game, Golflink provides hundreds of its valuable instructional golf videos from world class coaches such as Hank Haney and Jim McLean as well as hole-by-hole golf course flyovers.

LIVESTRONG.COM is a partnership between Demand Media and the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), and is home to 2.1 million registered members who share a passion to lead a healthy, active lifestyle. The channel offers hundreds of videos from topics such as healthy food choices and treating injuries to instructional videos on sports and fitness.

Sony’s dash personal Internet viewer will be available this April for about $199 at www.sonystyle.com, Sony Style® retail stores and a variety of authorized dealers nationwide.