If you missed out on some of yesterday's news, Wednesday brought us more Apple news, new Samsung gear, electric cars, and foreign gamers who got a bit too intimate with their gear. All that and more in the Wednesday round-up...
• Samsung announced their new Blu-ray/HD DVD hybrid player and we got a hands on.
• Toshiba's Portege R500 is now the world's lightest laptop.
• Brazilian gamer with joysticks in hand and mouth(!?) gets struck by lightning.

• Apple held their quarterly conference call.
• Veins are the new fingerprints.
• Xbox price cut rumors are back.
• Cube Browser offers Wii-like photo fun.
• ABC adds new HD-esque streams to their web player.
• Tesla car is set to release this fall.
• Medison one ups OLPC with their $150 Celebrity laptop.
• Pac Man will chomp ghosts while keeping your head warm.
• Cars now available in wood.
• If flushing a toilet is too strenuous, consider the RoboFlusher.
• The iPod Dock Battlemodo continues.

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