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nintendo wii

Nintendo Wii's Nintendo Channel Screenshot Tour and Hands-on

The Wii's "Nintendo Channel" just went live, giving you a way to both watch trailers of current and upcoming Nintendo games, and feed Nintendo information on what games you play. What's the latter for? So Nintendo can better customize the trailers of games to recommend to you, thus making you buy more games and completing the cycle by feeding THOSE stats back to them. How good is it? Okay, I suppose. The other stuff, like downloading DS demos and finding game information (how many players, whether the nunchuck is supported) is more useful. Hit the jump for a huge gallery tour.

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6:34 PM on Wed May 7 2008
By Jason Chen
8,660 views, 13 comments

Latest by ColdAsIce: The best part is that on May 12th, we are going to get WiiWare! I like the idea of being able to download cheap games like the FF demo in the videos. I will gladly pay $10 for a crappy more »

batman

Batman Utility Belt PC is Better Than a Face Full of Acid

Made for the Mod Shop's Comic Book Challenge, this Batman Utility Belt PC is, well, it is what it is. There are wires interconnecting the various parts—you can see the power supply's yellow tentacles snaking all throughout the setup—as well as green liquid cooling tubes making sure everything is cool. Cool in the way that this PC is not. We're sorry to hate on this after the creator spent so much effort in building it (especially since we love the Bat), but it's pretty impractical. And dangerous. A much better mod would be to make something Batman-inspired that wouldn't cause a house fire if one of the pieces toppled over. [Modshop]

6:00 PM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Jason Chen
4,099 views, 12 comments

Latest by nutbastard: @logruszed: word. although an entire face-full? i dunno, i dont usually like to chop my head off for more than 12 hours... more »

apple

Leopard Disk Utility Format Issue Screws With Time Machine (But There's An Easy Fix)

The bad news is, we have discovered a Leopard-related issue that may very well throw a monkey wrench into your Time Machine. Anyone trying to use Time Machine with a previously PC-formatted drive could be at risk. The good news is, there is an easy—albeit none-too-obvious—fix. Here's the dilly-o: More »

Feature

12:00 AM on Tue Oct 30 2007
By Wilson Rothman
68,113 views, 44 comments

wireless

Apple AirPort Utility Guided Tour


Unlike regular routers, Apple requires you to use its own AirPort Utility in order to manage and change settings on the AirPort Extreme. If you're still curious as to what features Apple's newest router does and doesn't have, take a look at our illustrated walkthrough of just about the entire AirPort Utility. More »

8:20 PM on Fri Feb 16 2007
By Jason Chen
3,297 views, 12 comments

gadgets

MIT Student Creates Real Life Batman Utility Belt


Nathan Ball, an MIT graduate student, has created a battery-powered rope ascender, which is just a fancy name for Batman's utility belt. Ball and his team were challenged to create a 25-pound package capable of lifting 250 pounds 50 feet into the air in five seconds or less and after nearly two and a half years of research they finally did it. Ball and his team have since founded Bat Tools, LLC Atlas Devices, LLC to develop and market their officially named ATLAS Powered Rope Ascender. Batman jokes aside (I have well surpassed my quota), this is a great tool that could be used by the military, firefighters, window washers and more. Ball even won $30,000 for making it. Damn, it pays to be a smarty. –Travis Hudson More »

3:05 PM on Wed Feb 14 2007
By Travis Hudson
5,403 views, 19 comments

Latest by Mogbert: Dang, Craig beat me to my observation. See, he could have been working the frier at McD's and gotten 30,000 in two and a half years. I expect Bat Sleeping Gas, the Programable Batarang, and Bat Thermal Underware better have more »