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Metal Gear Arcade gets head-tracking VR goggles

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It’s been a long time since I’ve been in a modern arcade. Since I suck at Street Fighter 4 and the like, and most of the games are huge money sinks, I’ve been avoiding them for years now.

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Baby Bidou mp3 player. You know, for kids

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I always say that you’re never to young to start with your first gadget. This is an example of that theory, taken maybe a little more serious then I would normally consider reasonable. How old do you need to be to have your first MP3 player? Baby Bidou says you’re old enough at birth.

TeleNav: GPS helped guys get out of the Valentine’s Day doghouse

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Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone TeleNav is known for its phone-based GPS navigation products, particular the AT&T Navigator app for iPhone. The company has over 11 million subscribers to its services, so it has a lot of data to sift through to find interesting location search trends.

Who’s on Crack in tech: 02.19.10

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Section: Audio, Communications, Computers, Gadgets / Other, Features, Originals, Columns, Who’s On Crack Welcome to this week’s Who’s on Crack, Gadgetell’s lump sum of odd moves in tech for the past week. This week, the action was in Barcelona as the big guns showed off…

Nintendo successfully sues Aussie retailer for selling DS flash cartridges

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It’s getting to be a mighty dangerous place out there for DS pirates. Several months ago, Nintendo decided to sue a few of the big DS hacking companies out there, and although that ended up causing a major boost to those companies’ sales, it looks like the big N is starting to crack…

iPhone accessories from Toy Fair

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Filed under: Humor, Odds and ends, iPhone Woot.com is one of my favorite sites on the entire Internet — not only do they offer some great deals, and not only are they witty folks, but they’re from my original hometown of St. Louis, MO.

New Motorola Droid Battery Door Less Fall-Offy

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[The new Moto Droid battery door on bottom, old on top. Photo by PJ Jacobowitz.]Every new phone has its fair share of issues, as evidenced by innumerable support forum logjams.

Apple banning sexual content in the App Store?

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Filed under: Apple Corporate, App StoreJon Atherton, the developer behind Wobble iBoobs, has just told TechCrunch that he received an email from Apple stating his application was being removed from the App Store because of a new policy change: “We [Apple] have decided to remove any overtly sexual…

Apple banning sexual content in the App Store?

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Filed under: Apple Corporate, App StoreJon Atherton, the developer behind Wobble iBoobs, has just told TechCrunch that he received an email from Apple stating his application was being removed from the App Store because of a new policy change: “We [Apple] have decided to remove any overtly sexual…

Sony’s mysterious universal video game controller patent portends PS3 Virtual Console (or maybe it doesn’t, who knows?)

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This is more interesting than I had originally thought. Sony filed a patent last year (it was only unearthed today or yesterday) describing a universal video game controller.

Fujifilm FinePix XP10 12 MP Waterproof Digital Camera on Pre-Order

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The Fujifilm FinePix XP10 waterproof digital camera has been listed on Amazon for pre-order recently. Currently there is no known shipping date, but we expect it to be within the next few weeks due to the pre-orders being taken.The FinePix XP10 has a 12 megapixel sensor that allows large images to...

Acer Aspire One Netbook Deal of the Day

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The Acer Aspire One netbook currently has a discount over at Amazon who are giving $75 off the full pricing bringing it down to $254.99 with free shipping.The Acer netbook runs the Intel Atom N270 processor that is clocked at 1.6GHz.

Gorillapod Focus with Ballhead X Can Carry 5KG Cameras

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The Gorillapod has been updated and a new accessory added to the range that allows a camera weighing up to 5KG to be securely attached.

Gorillapod Focus with Ballhead X Can Carry 5KG Cameras

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The Gorillapod has been updated and a new accessory added to the range that allows a camera weighing up to 5KG to be securely attached.

Two Archos Android home-use tablets at CeBIT 2010

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The Archos 7 looks pretty much to be locked-in for CeBIT in around a week’s time, but according to Archos’ German PR team the company have a second Android-based internet tablet to bring to the show.

Hulu for iPad, mobile may carry subscription fees

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Hulu's iPad-native player may come with a paid subscription attached, leaks hint today. The normally free web service would carry a rate to help prop up the presently cash-negative company and may include extras to make the subscription worth the investment.

Mastone Prowave Android tablet hands-on

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Archos may be planning a couple of new Android home tablets, but over in China there’s already a few options to be had. One such model is the Mastone Prowave, on show at MWC 2010 this week at Freescale’s booth, and we stopped by for a quick play with the compact touchscreen device.

Nostalgia week continues with Apple ][, Pascal, and old-fashioned newsletters!

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Hot on the heels of our celebration of the BBS, here’s a pair of retro stories to ease your transition into the weekend. First up is “Pascal Spoken Here“, by Ian Bogost about the subtle shift over the years in how we view computers.

DreamBook Lite M81 netbook Boast HSDPA

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Pioneer Computers Australia unveils another netbook called Dreambook Lite M81. Unlike the DreamBook Light U11 which packs Intel Core 2 Duo or dual core processor, Dreambook Lite M81 packs Intel Pine Trail processor and up to 2GB of RAM. Its 10.1-inch display deliver a 1024 x 600 pixel resolution.

App Store rules changed to allow sweepstakes and contests

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Filed under: iPhone, App StoreThe prospect of an always-on, portable and discreet e-lottery ticket in your pocket may thrill some and horrify others, but as far as Apple is concerned it looks like it's A-OK for the App Store.

Review: Kempler & Strauss W Phone Watch

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Short Version: The Kempler & Strauss W Phone watch is a great idea. It’s a compact, unlocked GSM phone that makes a great conversation piece and is fun – if a bit maddening – to use.

Samsung SL630 Announced

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Samsung have announced another digital camera. This time it’s the Samsung SL630 that has a 12.2 megapixel sensor along with a 28mm wide-angle lens capable of zooming up to 5 time optical.The camera is quite small in size and measures 0.8 inches thick.

Samsung SL630 Announced

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Samsung have announced another digital camera. This time it’s the Samsung SL630 that has a 12.2 megapixel sensor along with a 28mm wide-angle lens capable of zooming up to 5 time optical.The camera is quite small in size and measures 0.8 inches thick.

Google Shopper on Android helps shoppers make smart decisions

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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile, Web, Google Just recently, Google announced Google Googles, an augmented reality-like software where you can point your Android-based smartphone camera to an object and it will tell you what that object is, be it a book, a landmark, or even translation…

Apple: What iPad freight records?

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Filed under: iPad Philip Elmer-DeWitt over at Apple 2.0 is reporting that Apple has taken steps to hide ocean shipping data for its iPad. Several business intelligence companies exist that collect, analyze, and resell data of a company's shipping records.

Sprint’s first 4G phone due before summer

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Sprint’s first phone to use its WiMAX-based 4G network should be ready in the first half of the year, the company said late Thursday. The confirmation to Forbes comes earlier than anticipated and doesn’t include any phone details.

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