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SNES Controller Brings Retro Button-Mashing to the Wii

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
If there is one thing Nintendo does right (apart from making amazing games) it's making controllers. From the N64's amazing analog thumbstick and rear-mounted trigger to the shaky-shaky Wiimote, the controllers have always been intuitive, innovative and downright easy to use.

Mo:Ben. Stylish, Self-Heating Lunchbox

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
My school lunch box contained the same thing every single day. Four Cheddar cheese and salad cream sandwiches, a bag of salt and vinegar crisps (which would be shoved into the sarnie just before eating it) and a two-finger Kit Kat.

MSI X-Slim X600: 15.6-inch MacBook Air lookalike

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
From one Air-a-like to another; MSI have announced the next in their X-Slim series of ultraportable notebooks.

Focal XS 2.1 Premium iPod speaker set & USB soundcard

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
French audio firm Focal have announced a new iPod dock and speaker set, the Focal XS, intended to bring studio-monitor level sound quality to your desktop.  The Focal XS 2.1 Premium setup consists of the company’s slender-necked stereo speakers and a 70W subwoofer.

ASUS Eee PC T91 gets pre-production hands-on

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
There’s a lot of people eagerly anticipating the ASUS Eee PC T91 convertible netbook-tablet, and bit-tech’s early hands-on with a pre-production prototype certainly won’t do anything to staunch that interest.

Breakfast Gadget Round Up

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Dell Inspiron Mini 10 now official Review: PAD-L Weatherproof Portable LED Light Ricoh CX1 Camera Announced Pocket Purifier - UV light germ killer Genius G-Pen F509 Ultra Slim Tablet iRiver P7 Multimedia Player Rolls-Royce 200EX Samsung Omnia HD Logitec...

Philips’ Cinema 21:9 HDTV – Get Priced

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
At the beginning of the year we introduced you to the Philip Cinema 21:9 HDTV which is apart of the Philips Net TV series. The Philips’ Cinema 21:9 is the world’s first super widescreen TV for movie viewing and browsing the internet.

Philips Tapster Bluetooth Headset

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Recently Philips announced the Tapster Bluetooth Headset. The Tapster comes with a touch sensible surface which you can touch the surface to adjust the volume of your music, tap the surface and your calls are answered or take the headset out your ears and the headset will transfer the call to your...

Panasonic Toughbook W8 gets SSD treatment

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Panasonic Toughbook W8 series which was introduced last September get an upgrade from the company. Instead of using a 160 GB HDD, Toughbook W8 now sport a 80GB Intel X-25M SSD with a 250MB/sec in reading speed and 70MB/sec in writing speed for storage.

Rumor: PSP2 or PSP-4000 coming soon

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
The fate of Sony’s portable handheld is wavering at the moment with poor sales and lackluster titles, but there’s still hope for a revamped design this year that might pull it out of the dark. Here we have two fresh rumors with one having a seed of truth while the other is ‘out there’.

Coby 1.5-Inch Digital Photo Keychain for $7.99

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Amazon offers the Coby digital photo keychain for only $7.99. The gadget is originally priced at $29.95. This digital photo keychain has a 1.5 inch CSTN LCD full-color display that displays JPEG, GIF, and BMP image files. You can store for approx. 60 photos.

Samsung outs a pair of point and shoots ahead of PMA, again

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Unfortunately for Samsung, we’ve all known about the TL320 for the last week thanks to Amazon, but the HZ15W is brand spankin’ new. The TL320 is the first digital camera with a 3-inch HVGA AMOLED screen with a contrast ratio of 10,000:1. This should offer a decent viewing angle even in direct light.

Dual External USB SATA Drive Dock

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
For just $79.99 you could get one of this Dual External USB SATA Drive Dock from Thinkgeek. This Plug and Play device lets you dock two SATA hard drives, either 2.5″ or 3.5″ HDD’s with your PC or MAC, via either USB or eSATA.

Googly eye clock

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Mike Mak’s Eyeclock is watching you ... well, you know. Product Page [Mike Mak via Technabob]

Office chair explodes, kills boy

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
A 14-year-old boy from Jiaozhou in China died of blood loss after the gas canister inside his chair exploded, sending shrapnel into his bottom.

Pontiac photo retrospective: Every year from 1948 to 1971

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
It's official, the American auto brand Pontiac is basically dead as a doornail. But we want to remember that there were many decades when Pontiac produced some truly beautiful designs.

Mickey Mouse Digi-Pod Portable Digital Frame

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Segatoys’ Digi-Pod has a special edition design with Disney’s Mickey Mouse. With the same compact body size, it allows you to place it anywhere in the house or carry it with you casually.

AppleScript: Exploring the power of Folder Actions, part II

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Filed under: Features, AppleScriptIn the last AppleScript post, I mentioned some of the useful ways to create Folder Actions, and showed you how to use one of the built-in scripts to perform a pretty useful action.

Cool Mods – Apple Disk ][ Drive Mac Mini

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Check out this cool mod using a retro Apple Disk ][ Drive and a Mac Mini. The modder managed to get a whole Mac Mini inside this Apple Disk ][ Drive, using the 5-1/4 inch drive for slot loading DVD's. Very cool, head on over to Charles Mangin’s Flickr page for more photos and details.

A brief history of cellphones

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Mat's got a gallery of mobile phones from the last two decades up at Wired.

In case you hadn’t heard: EA and Spicy Horse announced a sequel to American McGee’s Alice

February 23rd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
High res available here This news is a few days old if you were following D.I.C.E. last week, but in the off chance you hadn’t heard I thought I’d share the news that EA has announced a sequel to their popular Alice title from 2000.

D-Link Unveils D-Life Web-Based Home Surveillance Cameras

February 22nd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Now you’ll be able to monitor any room in your house from anywhere over the Internet with this D-Life Web-based home surveillance cameras.

Philips’ Cinema 21:9 HDTV Gets Pricing And Release Date

February 22nd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
The highly anticipated Philips’ Cinema 21:9 HDTV is finally official and set to hit UK shops in June for €4000 ($5,044). As a reminder, this 56-inch ultra-widescreen is claimed to be the world’s first HDTV set to deliver a true cinematic experience with its 21:9 aspect ratio.

Multi-Touch Air Hockey: Panasonic’s 103-inch TV Modded For Old School Fun

February 22nd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Panasonic has figured out a plan how to sell off its $70,000, 103-inch TVs in a tough economy. Sell them to companies in the business of building other niche applications, and have them put together a gadget that an even fewer number of people can appreciate.

Windows 7 updates that don’t actually update anything?

February 22nd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Section: Computers, Desktops, Laptops, Netbooks, Software / ApplicationsThe wait is over; Microsoft has some news for all of you out there that are participating in the Windows 7 beta.  Starting February 24th, Microsoft will start rolling out a series of updates for the fledgling operating...

Video Exclusive: First look at Boost Mobile’s new “Unwronged” TV spot

February 22nd, 2009 link to (permalink)

15 years ago
Boost Mobile recently unveiled their $50 unlimited plan that includes nationwide talk, text, web and walkie-talkie. With that new plan comes a marketing blitz and what Boost calls the Unwronged campaign. The first ad in this campaign was kind of revolting, but I’m not keen on hirsute women.

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