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Sony Twirl N’ Take Camera Shoots One Picture Per 15 Seconds of Jiggling

This Sony Twirl N’ Take camera seems like an interesting concept, even if its execution is somewhat strange. The camera is shaped like a pizza cutter that you roll back and forth to get enough energy to take a picture with. Roll it for 15 seconds and you’ll be able to take a shot. Unfortunately,…

Canon PowerShot and VAIO Notebook Are Highlights of Holiday Deals From Newegg

Newegg has a bunch of deals on cameras, notebooks, and more just in time to miss Hannukah (Thanks a lot, Newegg!). For those of you who celebrate that other holiday, or just expect presents in the winter, here are some of the better ones: • Canon PowerShot SD870 IS: $295 • Canon PowerShot S5 IS:…

PSP Firmware 3.80 Brings Pocket DVR

Reason #1092 why Japan is way cooler than us: with the new PSP 3.80 update, Sony is offering DVR to every PSP that uses their optional 1seg (wireless digital video) tuner—think of as a completely wireless Archos. And the best part? While the PSP doesn’t have the horsepower to record shows while you play games…

Greenpeace Clash of the Consoles: Corny, Vaguely Informative and Pointless

Never one to take a PR opportunity lying down, Greenpeace is fashioning the hooplah over its goose-eggs for Nintendo on its green company survey into even more media fodder. (And we’re covering it!) Its latest gamer attention-grabber is Clash of the Consoles, a site that ranks the big three on their greenness with hokey, popcorn-y…

Santa apparently granted Sony’s Christmas wishes early: They’ve been moving over 200,000 PS3s a week in the U.S. since Black Friday. It’s no DS Lite saleswise, but pretty nice numbers nonetheless. [WSJ] https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-ds-sets-new-record-wins-all-of-worlds-gold-327335

BusinessWeek Says Blu-ray Ahead; Analysts Predict HD DVD FTW

Too long since your last shot of format-war speculation? BusinessWeek uses three indicators to call Blu-ray (and Sony) the current leading contender: 1. Blu-ray has sold more than twice as many discs as HD DVD this year. 2. While HD DVD has a larger number of dedicated players in the market, 2.3 million PS3s offer…

Sony’s OLED TV Stripped Naked For the World to See

You already saw the unboxing, but that was like thumbing through a Victoria’s Secret catalogue. For the real hardcore stuff, you have to see this gorgeous XEL-1 OLED with its downright obscene 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio and sexy 3mm frame without any covering whatsoever. Don’t tell us it doesn’t turn you on. Hit the jump for…

Afternoon News: Give Gifts on Wii, Get a Cheap Mylo, New Light Bulbs for Ireland and More

• Dealzmodo: Sign up for a Sony Visa card, get a Mylo for $49 and one free year of T-Mobile Hotspot service. Our own Chris Mascari said it best: “Kinda makes me wish I wanted a Mylo.” [Sony] • The Wii Shop now lets you send Virtual Console games to friends as gifts. First person…

New AIBO PS Rumors Grow, PlayStation AIBO?

It looks like Kotaku’s word on a new AIBO was fairly solid, because a new [still rumor] from Stuff talks about an AIBO PS (or AIBO PlayStation as we read that). Controlled through a PS3, the AIBO PS will appear as an avatar on the PS3 XMB (menu system). Personalities will be downloadable off PSN…

Connect360 Mac Streaming Coming for PS3

According to the developers at NullRiver, they’ll be porting their Connect360 software to the PS3, allowing you to stream music and video directly from your Mac to your Sony console. The recent update to the 360 version allowed streaming of DivX and XviD, something that The PlayStation 3 will be getting soon as well. After…

Sony Prepping Direct-to-PSP Downloads

In an interview with Gamespot, PlayStation director of network operations Eric Lempel noted that given the capabilities of the PSP, a direct connection to an online store “should be possible, so it’s definitely something we’re thinking about.” At this point, the only real stumbling block to such a service would be managing the security issues.…

The State of HD DVD

Where Blu-ray is a freight train of unrivaled weight and marketing might, backed by 13 of the world’s most well known electronics and computer makers, HD DVD is a Little Engine That Could, the product of a much smaller group of collaborators that has gotten over each obstacle by simply thinking it can. Judging from…

European PlayStation 3 Ad Actually Makes Sense

Ditching the whole crazy people in a motel motif that dominated Sony Europe’s first year of PS3 marketing, SCEE’s gone and made a commercial that shows off what the PS3 can do and entertains at the same time. It wasn’t easy, but we think firing off the employees that were shooting up during work hours…

Just How White Does Tide Get Your Consoles?

Our friends over at Kotaku did an interesting whiteness comparison between the Wii, 360 and the newest PS3. Reminding us of one of those teeth-whitening before and afters you see around midnight on every channel, the PS3 dominates the (competition?) with absolutely stunning, pearly whiteness. The Wii holds its own with a solid, “standard” white.…

Apple Remote: It’s Not What You Think

At first glance an apple shaped remote may seem sort of ridiculous (and maybe it is) but there are certainly some interesting features to this concept device by Jason Roebuck. First off, the apple theme is more aesthetically pleasing than a standard remote —especially when arranged on its “bowl” recharging station. In fact, they actually…

Sony Offers Up 100 Free Books With Reader Purchase

If you have not yet chosen sides in the battle between the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle, the fact that Amazon’s product will not be available again until after the holidays may be one reason to pick up the Reader. The fact that the device is $100 cheaper may be yet another. If that still…

PSP Online Store – What It Is and Where It’s Going

Stephen T of MTV Multiplayer’s got a huge interview with the Director of PlayStation Network Operations, Eric Lempel, a man partially responsible for the recent rollout of the PSP Online Store. Right, that’s the same store that lets you download games and demos onto your PSP from your computer. Here are some of the highlights.…

8 Reasons the PSP Will NEVER, EVER Overtake the DS

Our own pantsing expert Jason Chen recently wrote up 8 Reasons Why The PSP Might Overtake the DS. It was a fascinating article with some worthwhile arguments. But alas, he was completely, entirely wrong. Jason’s logic is the consumer electronic equivalent of Zeno’s Paradox, perfect in theory…but clearly fallible in real world testing. So here…

Conventional Vs. Solid State Hard Drive Race, Sony TZ91

The Sony TZ91 is available in two flavors. You can get the computer with a standard 5400rpm hard drive, or you can load it up with a 64GB solid state drive (for around a $1000 price premium). Check out this video to watch the SSD toast the moving hard drive by about 12 seconds when…

Sony’s Sexy XEL-1 OLED Display Gets Unboxed

If you are pretty good with the old reading sills, you’ll know from the title that Sony’s XEL-1 OLED display just had an unboxing worth perving over. It might look like a bad day at Abu Ghraib prison from the top photo, but click through to see the slinky screen in all its anorexic, model-like…