GEN Corporation has put together the world’s smallest helicopter.  The whole helicopter weighs about 155 lbs. and is available for $35,000.  The helicopter takes off in about 30 seconds.  Want to buy it? Visit GEN’s website (in Japanese). Want to see a video demo?  Here you go:

[via Neatorama]

Wayne Burdick of Schaumburg, Illinois wanted to watch the Chicago Bears while waiting for a cruise so he set-up his Slingbox and an AT&T wireless card.  Burdick was in Miami waiting for his Caribbean cruise.  The set up was that Slingbox was connected to his cable box that feeds the television transmission into his modem at home.  Burdick could watch his cable channels and DVR wherever he goes as long as he had his AT&T wireless card.

The date was November 2nd and Burdick was at the Port of Miami.  It was around 1PM Florida time and the Bears game was starting.  The boat was leaving Miami until 4PM so he slid in his wireless card, brought up Slingbox, and watched the Bears play.  Burdick watched the game for about 2.5 hours and then shut down the computer.  When Burdick got his bill, it said $28,067.31.  When Burdick called AT&T about the glitch, they said that the bill was correct.

Apparently the wireless card was being charged for international rates and the cost for that was 2 cents per kilobyte downloaded.  That came to $27,788.93.  Burdick explained to the AT&T rep that he was not at sea and the boat was still in port.  Even his cellphone was working without roaming.  Burdick even had the cruiseline confirm with AT&T that they were still at the port, but the best the phone company did was bring the charges down to $6,000.

Eventually after getting more media attention, AT&T ended up reducing the bill to $220.  The Chicago Bears ended up beating my home team Detroit Lions in that game 27-23 that day.

[via Chicago Sun Times]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg should be proud of Corey Kinney.  Kinney, 19, went as far as committing a crime just to find out if someone poked him or messaged him on his profile.  Here is how the story goes.

Kinney walked into a Starbucks at the Prime Outlet mall in Ellenton, Florida.  He noticed one of the patrons had a laptop.  The laptop owner Gary Lyman was busy using his laptop when Kinney asked him if he could check his Facebook profile.  Lyman said he was too busy to spare his laptop for Kinney.  Kinney decided to take matters into his own hands by snatching the laptop and running.

A couple of mall bystanders caught him and took him down.  Police arrested Kinney and learned that his aim was to actually steal the laptop.  Kinney told police that he did not intend on hurting anyone.  Apparently Kinney has no known address, but needed money to get back to Texas. The laptop was supposedly worth $4,000 and he knew that people at coffee shops usually have laptops.  Lyman was from North Carolina.

[via FOX]

Eminem’s publishing company F.B.T. Productions will finally be appearing in court against Universal Music Group over digital music royalties.  The trial will feature witnesses such as Universal Music Group head Jimmy Iovine and Apple CEO Steve Jobs via video.  F.B.T. Productions is seeking additional royalties from purchases made through digital music services like iTunes.  Eminem himself isn’t expected to appear in court.

Eminem sued Universal based on how much the record company was taking away in digital royalties.  If P.B.T. wins the case, it could significantly impact how much the record labels make from online music sales.  This past summer, fellow Detroit native artist Kid Rock decided to have his music removed from iTunes because the record labels were already taking away too much money even after iTunes takes their cut.

Eminem’s record company is seeking about $1.3 million to settle the lawsuit.  The main defendant in this case is Aftermath Records, the label founded by Eminem’s friend and mentor Dr. Dre. One of Eminem’s singles from his upcoming album broke a digital download record.  Eminem’s “Crack a Bottle” featured Dr. Dre and Eminem and had about 418,000 download sales in the first week.

[via The Wrap]

The Verizon CDM8975 will be selling for $99.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate starting March 9 with two year agreement.  The CDM8975has a 1.3 megapixel camera, V Cast, Music/Video, Bluetooth, microSD, VZ Navigator, and EVDO Rev.  The phone is slightly old fashion, but comes at a good price.

[via BGR]

Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. has found a way to get young girls interested in their device.  Sony announced that they have created a PSP in lilac color and it comes bundled with a Hannah Montana rhythm game.  The PSP comes with a 2GB memory stick PRO Duo and stickers.  Ubisoft is creating a Petz line for the PSP later this year for kids to “create and care for cute, furry pets chosen from many different breeds of dogs, cats, horses, hamsters, dolphins, tigers and bunnies.”

[via Joystiq]

Toshiba has announced that they have unleashed three products in their Portégé line of Tablet PCs.  The Toshiba Portégé M750 model has Intel Core 2 Duo processors.  The tablet PCs have LED backlit displays and standard WiFi.  The Toshiba Portégé M750-S7211, Portégé M750-S7212 and Portégé M750-S7213 have 2GB of DDR2 memory, 160GB hard drives, and a 12.1″ XGA display.  All of these tablet PCs have a digital pen input.

Webcams and Bluetooth are built-in.  The Toshiba Portégé M750-S7211 is $1,279, the Portégé M750-S7212 is $1,699, and the Portégé M750-S7213 is $1,799.

“Administrators, teachers and students can feel confident with their computer purchase as Toshiba delivers the Portégé M750 with full performance processors, upmost security, functional features and generous warranty coverage,” stated Carl Pinto, VP of Product Development & Marketing at Toshiba. “Additionally, the Portégé M750 series is among the greenest available with its EnergyStar 4.0 and RoHS Compliance and its Gold EPEAT rating.”

[via SlashGear]

The guys at Urban Trend has put together this disco ball hat.  This hat actually illuminates and rotates.  Pricing is only available on request and can be found on the Urban Trend website.