San Francisco to Display Cell Phone Radiation Levels Next to Price Tag

There has been a lot of hub bub lately about how much radiation cell phones give off when in use. Some experts say levels are so high consumers have the right to be notified and are calling for radiation levels to be listed in the product specs. Well the city of San Francisco wants to take it a step further, making it mandatory to list radiation levels right next to the price tag in the store

The San Francisco Department of the Environment is pushing radiation postings to begin as early as next month. Even the city’s Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing the plan.

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Merry Christmas From The Review Crew

We just want to take this time to wish all of our readers a very Merry Christmas! Hopefully Santa brought you all the electronic goodies you asked for. If you’re reading our site from a brand new computer today…you lucky dog! You must have been good this year. For everyone still reading it from their old computer…obviously you weren’t a very good boy/girl.

Best wishes to all of our readers old and new. Now get off your computer and go spend some time with the family!

First Impressions: Dante's Inferno (Demo)

I’m not going to pretend I even know how game concepts are born, but I have a really good idea how Dante’s Inferno came into being:  someone at EA has played God of War. More importantly, an executive at EA has seen how much God of War made for Sony.

“Yeah, let’s do that, but with a different religion, bloodier, and with more boobies.”

After playing the demo, it’s hard not to think that Inferno isn’t simply a new HD and Christian skin for God of War that exchanges chained blades for a long battle axe. Sure, Dante has a moving tapestry sewn onto his chest, but from a distance he doesn’t even look all that different from Kratos.

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A Decade of "Meh" Gadgets

At The Review Crew, we love gadgets. I believe it’s a job requirement. There’s just something special about a piece of technology that is shiny and new and provides a “solution” (even if you didn’t think you had a problem to begin with). But, the sad reality is that a gadget’s long-term existence is rarely guaranteed. In fact, many flop right out of the gate, and if they get further than that, they run the risk of failure for any number of reasons: high cost, poor marketing or the lack of a market the developers thought existed.

And in the past ten years, we’ve seen many gadgets make the trash heap. Fast Company has helped us start a good list of them by picking their top ten gadgets that just didn’t last. Remember Modo, the LCD hipster city guide from the turn of the century? Yeah, me neither.

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Pirate Bay Goes Retro With All-Swedish Site

How’s your Swedish? I hope it’s passable because The Pirate Bay has gone retro–all the way to 2003. And back then everything was in Swedish.

The Pirate Bay blog explains that back in 2003, they were just a tiny site serving primarily Swedes. Now many users from all over the world use the site to get their movies, music, and TV shows.

So what does this redesign mean? Perhaps this quote from the blog will explain.

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Mouse Memories – 25 Years of the Mac Mouse

From 1984 to 2009

Ah, the classic Macintosh mouse. Just the sight of it brings me back to my parent’s basement in 1986… playing pirated and homemade games. Back then, the single button made no difference to me–it was what it was. Nowadays the single button takes a lot of flack in a multibutton world, but the simplicity and design brilliance of the single button can’t be denied.

From the 1984 brick to the new magic mouse, we’ve seen 25 years of the cute Macintosh input device. It’s become a symbol of the cult of Apple and the company’s staunch adherence to design AND function.

To help us all reminisce on the Mac mouse, we’ve found a new Flickr photostream of mouses through the last quarter decade. You can see more of my favourites after the break.

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Full Uncut Mass Effect 2 Cinematic Trailer

Excited to get your hands on Mass Effect 2? You don’t have much longer to wait. In the mean time, check out the full uncut cinematic trailer. If you were excited about this title before, wait until you finish watching this!

The Safe Sexting App Arrives

Send a naughty text without the risk. Well okay there’s still a bit of risk, but at least your goods won’t be hanging out for everyone to see right? Yes, the safe sexting app has arrived for the iPhone.

Here’s how it works. You snap a picture, then slap on a censor patch on the area you want covered. Don’t like the standard black bar? How about replacing it with red satin. Satin makes everything classy.

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Oh Noes! Yet Another BlackBerry Outage

For the second time in a week,  Research in Motion is busy trying to get it’s email service back up and running. On Tuesday night RIM confirmed a widespread outage affecting customers in North and South America. While most users complained email was not working, some reported they could not connect to the internet.

News of the outage spread online with some BlackBerry users “tweeting” their frustration on the social networking site Twitter.

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Dragon Age Comic Coming in March 2010

EA is bringing the epic Dragon Age: Origins from your TV to the printed page. The company has announced we will see the very first issue of the previously announced Dragon Age comic book series in March 2010.

The series will be based on the Dragon Age video game and will be will be written by acclaimed novelist Orson Scott Card. What we know so far is the story will revolve around rogue mages within the Circle of Magi who “will defy the rules of the Templars and change the course of the world forever.”

You bought the game, you paid for the downloadable content. Now will you shell out even more cash for a comic?

[Via Big Download]