Lots of reports coming in that the early Xbox360′s crash quite a bit. Ah.

My money is, I think, going to be on the built-in Microsoft Dashboard thing, as apparently the crashes are across all games. At least, that’s the optimistic view. The pessimistic view is that the first load of hardware has some manufacturing defects (or ‘hardware bugs’).

In a word, oops. Just as well they didn’t have that large a supply of them anyway…

The LG AN110 Video Projector – It does HTDV (1080i) and mounts directly onto your well if you want. But the best thing is that it really looks like HAL from the film 2001: A Space Odessy. Brilliant!

Original article from Akihabra News

Updated: Direct link to press release from LG UK – allegedly out “September 2005″ so presumably should be here Real Soon Now.

con·fute
tr.v. con·fut·ed, con·fut·ing, con·futes

1. To prove to be wrong or in error; refute decisively.

I didn’t believe this was a word until I looked it up!

The crazy people at LaCie are soon to launch the Brick Desktop Hard Drive, a brilliant, stackable external hard drive system. I believe they even automatically work together when stacked – how’s that for expandable storage? They even come in a slimline ‘mobile’ version (pictured above right).

Crazy, but good crazy.