July 31st 2009
In the history of the company, there’s only been one Nintendo-published game that has been overtly about “fighting and fucking”: GameCube game Animal Leader (Cubivore in the states), and it’s the subject of Margaret Robertson’s latest One More Go column, where she peers into Nintendo’s heart of darkness and prods at some of the company’s [...]
July 31st 2009
In Brief: The Loop Pointer is cheaper than Logitech’s MX Air, which uses the same technology, and it gets the same job done: high-precision wireless mousing that doesn’t need a surface. If you have an application at hand needing something like this, such as couch browsing, you won’t be disappointed. Impulse buyers, however, will find [...]
July 31st 2009
Meet Robochan, a desktop-sized dancing humanoid robot with an iPhone 3GS for a face. She can entertain you, interact with you, wake you up via the alarm function with a cute little robot dance, and twirl scallions like a pro.
The face displayed on the 3GS screen is actually that of Hatsune Miku, the anime [...]
July 31st 2009
Old media coverage of cutting-edge toys is increasingly hapless. If you ever have trouble sleeping, just read the gadgets column in a lifestyle mag. The big newspapers’ gadget blogs are phoned in, too: they want to beat techie sites like Engadget and Gizmodo, but they stick with a stuffy approach at odds with the enthusiast [...]
July 31st 2009
Sometimes geeks sit in front of computer screens for a really long time, and we forget to do stuff like eat food, drink water, and blink our eyes. That’s why Masunaga, the company that designed Sarah Palin’s glasses, is coming out with a new product called Wink Glasses on August 10th. A sensor attached to [...]
July 31st 2009
Matt Buchanan at Gizmodo already hit the nail on the head with his spot-on assessment of the N97: Nokia is doomed.
So I won’t spend much time shooting a dead (well, dying*) horse dead-er, but having manhandled the N97 for a few weeks, I’ve also got a few thoughts.
First off, I’m no fanboy. But I have [...]
July 31st 2009
Vivitar’s ViviCam 8025 and T328 are budget point-and-shoot cameras that offer standard features and come in blister packs. They’re not very good, but they are cheap and they are easy to use.
The T328 has 12 megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom lens, face detection, anti-shake and 32 MB of internal memory. It’s an inch thick, [...]
July 31st 2009
I’m the Mayor of my local dog park. For two days, I was also the Mayor of Wired Magazine’s San Francisco office. I’m now recovering from a disconcerting case of TMI-tus. All thanks to Foursquare, a GPS-enabled app I downloaded to my phone.
If you’re unfamiliar, here’s how it works: You launch the app, your [...]
July 31st 2009
Shuttle’s XS29 barebone PC has a 1.6GHz processor, up to 4GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet, DVI, VGA and standard audio jacks, 6 USB ports and Via Chrome9 HC3 video. It’s a Via Nano version of the X27, an otherwise identical machine equipped with an Intel chipset and Atom CPU.
Thoughts follow.
• I haven’t tried the X27, [...]
July 31st 2009
Kodak unveiled the Zi8, its latest pocket video cam (far right). The HD shooter features 1080p, 4x digital zoom, SD slot, and weighs just 3.9 oz.
Oh, and did we mention it costs $180.
As we’ve said before, Flip-maker Pure Digital is gonna have to work, hard, to compete.
[via Gizmodo]
Previously:
Six cheap camcorders compared (Verdict: Flip Ultra still [...]
July 31st 2009
Recently on Offworld we went deep into the virtual arthouse, as McSweeney’s DVD offshoot Wolphin screens a faux-16-bit short, Ledo & Ix, we discovered a quarter-square-mile Second Life art/vinyl toy gallery that never was (above), and we watched the first video of Fig. 8, a game where a bicycle wends its way through “the surreal [...]
July 31st 2009
BBG reader bazzargh reminded me of the awesome, Alaskan ice wall we blogged about four years ago.
At the time, the wall was 132 feet tall. Since then, it seems they’ve perfected the art of ice gardening.
Not only does the block appear even more massive and challenging, but the climbers who scale it [...]
July 31st 2009
In an informal interview, a RIM executive strongly hinted that the company’s BlackBerry line would be getting a front-facing camera for videoconferencing in early 2010. It’s still officially…
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Tags: Blackberry, Cameras, Informal Interview, Videoconferencing
July 31st 2009
Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your…
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Tags: Ears, Easy Piano, Game, Keyboard Controller, Musical Chops, Nintendo Ds, Piano Keyboard
July 31st 2009
Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.)
This could be the ugliest Touch Pro2 I’ve ever seen. We spared you before…but now you’re not so lucky. [IntoMobile]
Here’s the…
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July 31st 2009
Pico projectors have been bullshit. They’ve been dim and useless. The P2 is one of the next generation with LCoS display of 800×600 and 33 lumens, twice as bright as previous. In two gens, I might…
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Tags: Forefathers, Gens, Lumens, Next Generation, Pico, Projector, Projectors
July 31st 2009
We’d like to say thanks to this week’s jkOnTheRun sponsors.
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