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Nintendo’s gun peripheral has a slot for your Wiimote, and comes with Link’s Crossbow training. It’s no duck hunt, but it’s really fun. The Good: High build quality, battery-less design, fairly accurate, Tommy-gun design of the Wii Zapper makes me feel like Wii Capone. Inexpensive, since it doesn’t introduce electrics, depending on the Wiimote’s exisiting…
The amusingly named peripherals manufacturer Thrustmaster has launched the T. Flight Stick X, describing it as the “World’s first PS3 joystick.” This should be welcome news for flight-sim fans —as long as your favorite game doesn’t exclusively utilize the motion sensor, which renders the device useless. Still, the device has plenty to offer, like rudder…
Dell’s exclusively got the Wolfking Warrior Xxtreme gamepad right now for $80. That much extreme for only 80 bucks might be a Dealzmodo. [Dell Gaming via Electronista] https://gizmodo.com/wolfking-dual-hockey-puck-gaming-keyboard-gets-a-name-322895
The HXC5 HDMI-over-CAT-5 system is being billed as a simple “plug and play” solution for sending HDMI signals over large distances —164 feet (50 meters) to be exact. The manufacturer also claims that this signal is “virtually loss free.” The device utilizes balanced/unbalanced signal processing to ensure full hi-def signal integrity for all video formats…
Pioneer’s launched an invite-only beta of its online TV download service, SyncTV, which has unlimited downloads in channels for $2 to $4 a month per channel. Shows outside of your subscription run $2. The selling point is that everything’s in at least DVD quality, and in HD w/ 5.1 Dolby surround when possible. And it’ll…
Tiny and piano black, one of the Sense’s better features is that it might make you look less douche-y than more space-age Bluetooth headsets. The talk dimple is endowed with touch-sensitive magic, plus it has voice alerts for stuff like redialing, rejecting a call, connecting or disconnecting for your phone, etc. The wire ear hook…
An internal Dell document for the Latitude XT Tablet has surfaced, more or less confirming previously-leaked specs, while revealing a few new ones. https://gizmodo.com/more-dell-latitude-xt-tablet-details-squirt-out-309978 The internal document shows the XT will have a 1.2 GHz Core 2 Duo Ultra Low Voltage processor, 1 Gig of RAM (expandable to 3), Bluetooth 2.0 and built-in mobile broadband.…
With the inclusion of two 512MB GeForce Go 8800GTX graphics cards, the Black-Hawk XR5 will be the first laptop to feature such graphical power. Along with a 17-inch screen, Core 2 Quad processor and EV-DO support, Black-Hawk clearly is not messing around, and intend for the XR5 to be a desktop replacement. However, our friends…
Kindle‘s nice and all if you wanna read books and stuff, but this is much more awesome. It’s a “Revoltech Danboard, Amazon box version,” but to me it looks like the kodama with clicking heads from Princess Mononoke, except with Amazon stamped all over it. The only thing that would make it more excellent is…
Today, for the first time, Bug Labs CEO Peter Semmelhack is showing off a genuine powered-up prototype of the modular, open-source consumer-electronics device. Want a camera? Snap it on. Want GPS? Go for it. Here you see him attaching touchscreen LCDs, motion sensor, camera, 3G wireless LAN and GPS. It’s powered up, and the PDA…
Holy Batman! Today is World Toilet Day (no kidding) and what better way to celebrate than a hidden toilet that emerges from the ground after you insert one yuan? I’m so there, Maxwell Smart. The pop-up conveniences are being installed in China and will debut next year, just in time for the Beijing Olympic Games.…
The Auto Assault-12 (AA-12) is an automatic 12-gauge shotgun that can fire 300 rounds per minute and is recoilless. Basically, it’s incredibly powerful and you really, really, don’t want to be at the wrong end of it. It’s also claimed that it requires no cleaning or lubrication ever, although I’m not really sure how that…
These RC cars have four passengers, and when you smash one into the side of another, it throws them out of the sunroof like so many other tragic highway accidents where seatbelts were refused in favor of wrinkle-free suits. It would be my number one prop if I were a driver’s ed teacher. [IWantOneofThose via…
Dell matches the economy class XO and Asus Eee laptops by permanently chopping its $700 Vostro 1000 to $399. It’s got superior specs to both: 15.4-inch screen, 1.7 GHz dual-core Athlon64 X2, 1GB RAM, 256MB integrated ATI gfx card, 8x DVD burner and 802.11g Wi-Fi card, running XP Home. The super-cheap laptop market’s getting nicely…
You can tell digital photo frames are getting to be a commodity item when designers go far afield, even creating egg-shaped units to adorn the desktops of novelty-crazed grandmas and their minions. But eggs, yeah, chicks like them, don’t they? That notwithstanding, this one has such a tiny screen you almost need a microscope to…
Wired has compared the features of the new Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. They don’t give a definitive verdict yet, but point out the $400 Kindle’s biggest drawback: lack of “format neutrality.” Labeled as a “portable DRM bookstore,” the Kindle won’t be able to read open formats like Acrobat PDF (unless you have a…
This Russian “UFO” video is certainly more subtle than some other UFO videos we’ve seen, but that just means it was easier to fake. It seems to me that UFO videos are the new way for people to show off their mad video special effects skills. I mean, no one really thinks these UFO videos…
Our brothers from another mother(s) over at Jalonik got to test-drive the Honda FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel cell car from Honda that gets the equivalent of 68mpg in a conversion metric that (we’ll be honest here) confounds us since the car uses no gas at all. So what was Jalopnik’s verdict? At one point…
This week Stephen and Charlie talk about Black Friday deals, HD monitors, Avid not attending NAB, and the Joost-killing open-source Miro 1.0 media player. Then they point out the height of the week’s coolness in their unique Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products segment. [Free Podcast at Coolness Roundup or at the iTunes Store]
All that pre-release hype from Alienware we heard last week led up to even more pre-release hype today, with the company unveiling its two new laptops, the Area-51 m15x and m17x. It’s calling the radical PCs “the most powerful notebooks ever created.” There’s still an air of mystery around the two laptops, but we do…