Mar 16, 2009

You’ve probably heard of text-to-voice but have you ever thought that the words you speak could be converted easily – and quickly – into text on your computer? Well, the technology is coming and we’ve got how in this show. From Adobe to Skype, we’ll tell you how this technology is working as we look at voice to text! Plus...

Mar 13, 2009

Almost twenty years ago, a team of people at Capcom in Japan came up with a game that was to be so legendary, it would spawn sequel upon sequel & franchise upon franchise. Street Fighter II became the arcade game of legends. For years (and still today), gamers would hover around arcade cabinets watching masters pump coins into machines like madmen. Opponents...

Mar 13, 2009

One of the world leaders in sound head-wear are going out with the old, in with the new. Plantronics – the people behind the sound gear over at NASA – are releasing something cool and we’re telling you about it right here on The Gadget Grill. Can you guess what it is? Okay… it’s a pair of headphones. That wasn’t hard. Not hard...

Mar 9, 2009

A Gadget Grill listener has pointed out to us that the PlayStation 3 edition of Street Fighter IV has been sold out across Australia. After checking through multiple stores including Game, JB HiFi, Target, Big W, Harvey Norman, and EB Games, our source has confirmed that the game can only be found in abundance for the Xbox 360. When our source asked someone at...

Mar 9, 2009

When ET tried to phone home, Voice-over IP didn’t exist. These days, you can spend less money and still make the same amount of phone calls. Had the lovable alien from the Steven Spielberg film used VoIP, he would have been able to make a call, miss an asteroid, and it still would have cost only a few cents. It probably would have made for less dramatic...