For the chronically overweight, the short trip from the living room couch to the refrigerator represents one of the last remaining forms of legitimate daily exercise. And now some designers have gone and thrown that right out the window.

This here is the Refrigerator 2 from R & R Associates, a cold box that integrates a 14.1-inch television right into your freezer door. The LCD television sports a resolution of 1280 x 760, works with either cable or satellite and is even Internet ready. It also has an FM radio and dual 2-watt speakers. Oh yeah–and it’s built into a refrigerator.

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It’s an unwritten rule that every other tablet of 2010 and beyond is gunning for the iPad. Apple’s device pretty much defined the tablet market and has been sliding off the shelves at a feverish pace. Most companies are content with letting analysts compare their devices with the iPad–particularly since they have little to no experience in the tablet segment when launching that first device.

LG, on the other hand, is personally taking the fight to Apple. Chang Ma, president of mobile marketing, told the Wall Street Journal bluntly: “”Our tablet will be better than the iPad.”

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Used video game stores are a lot like used record stores. They function like some sort of communal, hipster  gathering place where dudes can hang out and make fun of whoever walks in—the same kind of placeholder segue setting you see in every Kevin Smith movie that takes place in New Jersey. They differ from used record stores, however, in that they’re not… shoot-yourself depressing.

There’s a low-key, hopeful hustle & bustle, like how an old-folks home might look like if everybody visited their grandmas a couple of times a week and took them back home to play polish horseshoes.

Used record stores now only exist to be a place in a ‘watch-how-they-fall-in-love’ montage in a romantic comedy. They’re quaint, dusty, cute, and useless to all but a few aging baby-boomers who like to get reminded of how they used to be able to do the no-pants diggity and not wake up with AIDS covering their balls. The fact is there are way more old gaming consoles out their than there are old record players, which means even used games as far back as Vanilla Ice still get picked off the shelves, sometimes.
So who, pray, might a person find at one of these charming establishments? A variation of five different kinds of people, mostly.

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Verizon is preparing to turn the iPad into the sleekest, sexiest mobile TV around. The company has a FiOS app in the works that will deliver live television streaming to the iPad.

That is the coolest that the FiOS app will ever look, however. From there, it’s all downhill.

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We’ve heard a whole lot of rumors, confirmations and white noise about all forms of tablet, from the iPad to Windows 7 to Android to WebOS-based devices. However, there hasn’t been too much out of the Google Chrome corner since a Chrome tablet rendering appeared on Chrome’s website back in the winter.

Today, Chrome is officially joining the Great Tablet Buzz of ‘10. According to a report on Downloadsquad, an HTC tablet running Google’s lightweight operating system will be hitting the market this November, just in time to snag a few hard-earned holiday dollars. Not mincing any words about its intentions, the HTC tablet will reportedly launch on Black Friday. The tablet will be offered on Verizon and is expected to enjoy a heavy helping of subsidization.

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Fujifilm announced its new FinePix W3 today, a point-and-shoot that can shoot 3D footage in HD. The model builds on the W1, a non-HD 3D point-and-shoot, adding a new processor that allows for 3D video footage in 720p.

The camera uses two 10-megapixel sensors that film in sync to capture the 3D effect. To view that wonderful, lifelike footage, Fujifilm includes a mini HDMI port for connecting to your new 3DTV and enjoying the fruits of your labor. In case you don’t happen to have a 3D HDTV around, simply view your video on the 3.5-inch autosteroscopic LCD display on the camera itself–no glasses necessary.

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Hulu, an online television venture that has helped to add a new dynamic to television viewing, is preparing to go public, according to the New York Times. The report quotes anonymous sources in explaining that Hulu has been in talks with investment banks about an initial public offering as early as this fall. The company could be valued as high as $2 billion.

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ASUS is hitting the tablet market swinging late this year, and will offer a variety of devices at different price points between this year and next. The first tablet, which is bound to be pretty unpopular, is the Eee Pad EP121. Sounding more like a laptop in a tablet’s body, the Eee Pad EP121 gets a 12-inch screen, Windows 7 Home Premium and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It will come with a keyboard dock and will sell for a too-expensive-for-a-tablet price of $1,000.

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4G customers now have options. At least they will on August 31 when the Samsung Epic 4G launches on Sprint. Sprint announced the pricing and availability today. The phone will be more expensive than the HTC EVO 4G, running $250 with mail-in rebate and two-year agreement.

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