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The Nintendo 3DS. Is it a DS, just in 3D? Is it an entirely new thing? What’s the deal? The Nintendo 3DS is a portable game system… In an era of multifunctional smartphones, the 3DS mostly attempts to do one thing well: Play games. At its most simple, it’s the sort of Nintendo portable you…
The Fantastic Roadtrip-a-Matic is 20 ready-to-ride roadtrips, steeped in everything from hiking and biking, to backroads and underground railroads, to foodies and photogenic elk. Fantastic! Even more fantastic? A chance to win a stay at one of PA’s swankiest hotels. Your vacay could win you another one in the Fantastic Roadtrip-a-Matic Shutterbug Challenge. Just become…
Apple’s iPhone 4 pre-ordering has been a total disaster, but it gets much worse: An AT&T insider claims that this iPhonecalypse may be related to “a major fraud update that went wrong.” The bug is exposing AT&T users’ private information. So far there have been at least three accounted cases of mistaken identities sent by…
It’s obvious from the 3D glasses we just got handed as we were entering, that Sony is going to be debuting a 3D system in a few minutes. You can watch that live. Here’s Ustream’s video, which you can watch comfortably without 3D glasses. Click to view Also, again, you can watch the stream live…
Sony’s going to be pushing 3D hard, starting right now. Every PS3 is going to get 3D capabilities through a system update. Sony’s Demoing the 3D on stage right now. You need glasses, but it looks very much in 3D. If you don’t wear 3D glasses, it’s just a normal screen.But when you do wear…
Keanu Reeves never fails to provide us with tons of unintentional humor; as a huge fan of his, I can’t get enough of these photos. Here are some totally excellent Keanu approved deals that are will surely make you say “whaoo!” Top Deals: • 12.3MP Olympus PEN E-PL1 Digital SLR with 14-42mm lens for $449…
Police in the Brockton, Massachusetts gang unit are getting a shiny new toy to tackle crime with: a facial recognition system called MORIS that uses an iPhone to identify suspects in the field. I guess it beats being dragged downtown. Here’s how the system, developed by BI2 Technologies, works: an officer uses an iPhone to…
The World Cup is great and all, but it could stand to be spiced up sometimes (especially during those blasted tie games). What better to spice it up than robots, jetpacks and other assorted gear? Third Place—Abernasty Second Place—Bobo the Teddy First Place—Dr. Danger Click to view
Considering my car is bombed out in a shed somewhere, I’d be happy with any car—but given half the chance I’d love to see this Audi Q7, complete with all 62 speakers, in my garage. It’s the Audi Sound Concept, which sees the car manufacturer’s engineers cramming in 52 mid-range speakers, five woofers and five…
What’s the Nintendo 3DS screen look like? It looks great. UPDATE: A longer set of gameplay impressions here. The instant you put the 3DS in your hands, you recognize the feeling. It’s a DS through and through, but maybe a touch lighter than the DSi I’ve been accustomed to. In our 2-minute demo, we weren’t…
Kids, if you ever have to get a jet ski inside a van, please don’t use this method. Unless you want to get a Darwin award for a lifetime of practicing the fine art of douchebaggery, that is. [Thanks Roger!] Click to view
AT&T’s servers have made preordering a new iPhone from either their website or Apple’s pretty much impossible this morning. Did you have any luck, or have you been frustratedly repeating the same couple steps over and over again? It appears that these server issues are sending people out to the physical stores, where they’re waiting…
This is the Nintendo 3DS. It has two screens: a 3.5-inch widescreen on top, and a standard screen on the bottom. It also has a Slide-Pad, and it has a two-tone color scheme. Best of all, no glasses. There is a 3D depth slider to choose a degree of 3D, to maximize or even turn…
Sometimes you look back in time and you see industrial designs that seem to be timeless. Like the Suzuki Nuda. It could come from 2045 or 1986, the year when it was actually introduced as a fully functional 174mph prototype. Suzuki showed this bike 1986 Tokyo Motor Show. It’s not hydrogen powered or even electrically…
Counting the Apple WWDC Wi-Fi trouble and the Google I/O Wi-Fi trouble, this is the third conference in which there was wireless interference problems on stage and they asked us to turn off our Wi-Fi. This also explains why Miyamoto spent 30 slingshot rounds trying to take out one spider in the new Zelda game.…
When Apple breaks with a technology—like, say, Flash—where does it go to live out the rest of its days? Looks like a nice little purgatory, actually! I think in this scenario, HyperCard is Gilligan. [Joy of Tech] Click to view
Odds are Nintendo is going to go THREE DEE for their DS today, allowing you to get all three of the dees in a portable package. You can watch their unveil live. Here’s Ustream’s, which should be live shortly before the presentation starts (at 9am PT) Click to view If you want Nintendo’s own stream,…
Near my iPad’s iBooks bookshelf sits a new vBookz bookshelf. It looks awfully similar, but it’s much better stocked: It has every public domain novel and text-to-speech tech to read them aloud. But a true audiobook text-to-speech is not. As far as iPad ebook readers go, iBooks is probably the most beautiful one, and in…
Capital punishment. Sends a chill down your spine, doesn’t it? Hopefully none of our readers will ever see first-hand the following methods of execution in the following states of the US. Buzzfeed put together a guide to the US’ favorite forms of execution, with lethal injection being the most common way to say goodbye to…
The iPhone 4’s first pre-ordering day has been a total disaster. AT&T’s online system has collapsed, there are account security breaches, Apple’s online upgrades are down, and stores are now using pen and paper to process sales. Major update: Exclusive: iPhone 4 order security breach exposes private information. The photo of the line above was…
