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Weird Combo of the Day: PS3 Kiosk With HD DVDs

Seen at Wal-Mart, the finest high-tech outlet in the US, this PlayStation 3 store display has not just PS3 games and Blu-ray movies, it even has HD DVDs as well! No wonder its console costs so much. Hidden HD DVD support that nobody knew about! Click in for a better view. [Thanks Tipster!]

Like the Helio Ocean, the Sidekick 3 and Sidekick ID can both get Opera Mini working as a browser. The caveat is that you have to be a Java programmer in the developer community. [Hiptop3]

Despite only having a PS3-amount of playable games, the Nintendo Wii has just passed the Xbox 360 in worldwide sales. Which means the 360’s winning the race for 2nd place. [VGChartz]

Hands-on With Windows Home Server (Verdict: Great In Unpredicted Ways)

Speaking of Windows Home Server, Michael Gartenberg of Jupiter Research has lived with one for a while and really, really likes it. In fact, he said it was one of those things (like the first time you used TiVo) that you didn’t know you needed until you experienced it. Here are some of the things…

How to Comment: How Much Storage Do You Have?

I’m in the middle of testing out this Network Attached Storage kit for a review, and it got me wondering how much storage the average Giz reader has on his home network. This is counting all your machines + all your external hard drives + all your network hard drives. Doing some quick napkin math,…

MoanMyIP.com Lowers My Faith in Humanity One More Notch

Well, this is depressing. A new website that’s sure to really change the media landscape has appeared; it’s called MoanMyIP.com. Any guesses as to what it does? Yes, that’s right, it has a “sexy” girl moan your IP address to you. Look guys, I know that a lot of you are really sex starved and…

Blu-ray’s Atomic Bomb in the Format War

Blu-ray has been turning the tide, selling almost twice as many discs this year as HD DVD. Their next weapon in the format war? A 40-foot-long promotional mega-kiosk, shaped like a Magic Kingdom Castle. The moving castle will target the fence early adopters are squatting on by touring 18 malls across the nation (by the…

Fake UFO in Haiti Video Creator Uncovered

Remember the badass “UFO in Haiti” video that was all the rage last week? Big surprise, guys: It was a fake. The LA Times did some investigating and figured out just who was behind the convincing video. https://gizmodo.com/the-aliens-are-here-the-aliens-are-here-290363 Yeah, I know, you wanted to believe. But it turns out the video was an exercise by…

We thought that $149 Microsoft Zune on Woot would have sold out immediately, but apparently it’s still up on the site. You have until midnight (or until the last one’s sold). [Woot]

Ageia Puts PhysX Gaming Chip into Huge Laptops

The standalone physics chip that Ageia released two years ago is making its way into laptops. Don’t expect to use the PhysX 100M mobile processors in tiny notebooks though, these are designed for big desktop replacement mofos, and should ship with a Dell machine first before it hits other “laptops”. No info on how much…

Build a Candy Catapult with LEGO

We just found one more video of one of the projects from that new book, Forbidden LEGO by Ulrik Pilegaard and Mike Dooley, and this one’s the Candy Catapult. The book with all the particulars about how to build this mini trebuchet for sweets will retail for $24.95. [No Starch Press]

Keyboard with Plants Growing Inside is More Gross Than Cool

You could get a USB Greenhouse to give some life to your computer, or you could go the cheaper, grosser route of just growing some plants in your keyboard. This thing looks like it’s still being used to me, and while it’s neat looking, the idea of having plants growing around my fingers while I…

UPDATED: iPhone Speech Recognition Demo from VoiceSignal

Click to viewWe’ve heard of VoiceSignal speech recognition for lots of other phones, but now VoiceSignal sent us a video that allegedly shows it working for the first time on the iPhone. According to the guy in the clip, a couple of VoiceSignal engineers designed this app, but all we see it doing so far…

Okoro’s Vista media centers are now shipping with CableCard. [MSMVPS] https://gizmodo.com/okoros-extravagant-high-end-vista-media-center-232959

The iPod nano Mock-Up (UPDATED again: Yes, It Is Real)

Click to view[UPDATE 10:30PM EST: Apple asked us to take down the spy shots because they are their intellectual property. So yes, it’s real, even while we don’t know if the design is final or just an old prototype. However, we are keeping this. It’s exactly like the spy shots but it’s our own rendering,…

Bang & Olufsen DVD 2 Has TV Tuner, DVD Recorder

Bang & Olufsen’s latest sex-tastic DVD player doesn’t just play back DVDs, there’s an analog TV tuner, HDMI output, Guide Plus+, a 250GB hard drive and the ability to burn shows to DVD as well. This may not have TiVo-level functionality, but it’s infinitely better looking. And when’s the last time anyone besides that redhead…

HP’s Windows Home Servers Shipping Sept. 15

Amazon, by way of a product page, leaked the ship date and price of HP’s MediaSmart Home Servers. These Windows Home Server machines (more about them here), will be sold in two models at $599 and $749, with 500GB and 1TB of storage respectively. Each one will have a 1.8GHz AMD Sempron processor along with…

Intel is launching the Core 2 Extreme X7900 mobile processor, which brings speeds of 2.8 GHz and a front-side bus of 800 MHz. [The Inquirer]

Sony Europe Releases PlayTV PVR for PlayStation 3

Just as we reported before, Sony’s just announced a personal video recorder (PVR) add-on system for the PlayStation 3 in European/PAL territories. Starting early 2008, the dual HDTV DVB-T tuner setup and the PVR will be available in the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain, and you will have the ability to store shows on…

PS2 Memory Card Modchip Gets Competitor

It’s only been two days since the first PlayStation 2 Memory Card slot modchip was announced, but a separate group has popped up and and claimed that they’ve been working on a similar product for two years. The new chip, as of yet unnamed, works as a 32MB memory card and has a USB port…