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We had a talk with Bill Anderson of Novint Technologies, maker of the upcoming force feedback Falcon controller/interface. It’s come a long way from a year ago, and it’s grown a ball. https://gizmodo.com/novint-technologies-falcon-33280 How it works: you grasp it with your fingertips in a handshake-like grip, then move it in any direction inspace and it…
This week at Uncrate: We help our lady friends launch Outblush, the new shopping blog for women. Rabid soccer fans demand we find them the 2006 World Cup match ball. We mount a 50″ plasma on the Alu Media Wall from Design Within Reach. The countdown starts for the unaltered Star Wars Trilogy DVDs. We…
One of the first things Team Giztaku spotted at Nintendo’s booth at E3 this morning was the Wii Zapper, under glass in the peripherals case—no Duck Hunt announcement sadly, and there weren’t any games on the floor using it, but we were still pretty excited to see it regardless. The first two games we got…
Man wants a G5. Man begs online. Man gets $5,000. Man blows up Mac. Cyber-begging: when you’re too lazy to work.
Don’t miss Kotaku’s on-the-scene coverage of E3 ’06, with stories like these polished, possibly collectable gems: • Kotaku’s E306 Mini-Guide: Day 1 • Our up-to-the-minute image gallery live from the show floor! • E306: Nintendo Wii Zapper • E306 Clips: Press Conference Score Card • E306: Shiver Me Timbers, Pirates of the Caribbean Online •…
This is the Eye of Judgement CRAAAAW—you know, because it looks like a claw. This monstrosity of a device is actually a PS3 camera peripheral for the Eye of Judgement game. The game itself is somewhat odd. A three by three grid is placed on the table with this camera mounted beside it. Once cards…
Kowon is now shipping personal TV glasses that create a 32-inch screen 6 feet in front of the viewer. While these things have historically caused all sorts of pukiness, these glasses apparently work quite well. Dual 320×240 LCD screens and a stereo headset means you can look like a freak and watch the World Cup…
I’m sure this has been out for a while, but this is the first time I’ve ever seen an optical guitar. Apparently, this thing detects string vibration optically rather than magnetically, which means you can have a big set of sloppy rubber bands on there and the pickups will still be able to register it.…
Bloops! In our Microsoft peripheral coverage yesterday we forgot to mention the most glorious peripheral for avid PC users. A USB wireless receiver for all Xbox 360 wireless peripherals. So yes, you can finally use the wireless controller, the upcoming wireless force feedback steering wheel and even the wireless headset with USB goodness. This will…
We wish someone had told us about this years ago, before we wasted money on fancy stereo systems that blow every time we have a party. We just bought two self-powered speakers, Mackie 450s. Setup was very easy. The speakers came with power cables, and nothing else. We got an XLR-XLR cable to chain the…
A group of visual researchers have come up with a method that alters pictures so that they look like what babies see. (Just ignore that terrible phrasing and take a look at the picture to understand better.) Dubbed TinyEyes, it shows the clear progression of vision’s improvement through the first few weeks of life. By…
General Motors has been toying with hydrogen fuel cells and the drive-by-wire concept for many years, but take a look at the video below and you’ll notice that the company actually has a working prototype. GM calls this Hy-Wire vehicle the first drivable concept car to use hydrogen fuel cell and by-wire technology. Maybe now…
Our upper-crust readers will be happy to know that now they can impress their neighbors with Loewe’s Individual Edition One, a crystal-encrusted 32″ LCD TV. They’re only making 2000 of these HD-ready baubles, which will be available with either a black body with dark crystals on the sides, or silver body with a light-colored crystal…
The number two satellite radio company Sirius is poised to launch its next generation of plug and play receivers, much to the delight of everyone who didn’t like the idea of mounting something the size of Mt. Everest to their car’s dashboard. Sirius contends that their Sportster4 is 40 percent smaller than its previous incarnation…
We’re thinking that buying a surplus MiG-21 jet on eBay for $24,730 sounded like a good idea at the time to Chinese businessman Zhang Cheng, but when it was time to actually move that plane from Idaho to his home in Beijing, the deal went sour. Imagine the guy’s disappointment when legal experts told him…
The remarkable Wii controller for the upcoming Nintendo gaming system does a lot of way-cool stuff. As we watched the streaming demo online yesterday from here at the mother ship, we noticed the controller itself has built-in speakers, allowing gamers to, for example, hear the twanging sound of a crossbow releasing its arrow in their…
John here. I’m heading upstairs, out of the basement, to char myself a steak and have a glass of red in a lonely, sad celebration of my very own birthday. I leave you in the capable hands of the E3 team and Editor Charlie.
Not sure why we didn’t see this earlier, but everyone’s favorite wireless brand, Cingular, is going to go bye-bye. AT&T is currently purchasing Cingular’s parent company, BellSouth, and will remove the Cingular name, replacing it with the euphonious AT&T Wireless. Gone, too, will be the dancing orange fellow we all know and love. Branding and…
Sure, the company may be going belly-up, but that doesn’t mean you can’t still pop a cold one. This case mod melds the best of two worlds—antiquated high-end computing and mini-fridges. https://gizmodo.com/bye-bye-sgi-former-workstation-giant-bankrupt-172251 This Challenge DM workstation gave up the ghost and some students in Amsterdam decided to stuff a hotel fridge inside it. The result…
This sexy black beast is just loaded with “urban cool” which apparently stands for “biometric security.” It is a tri-band GSM phone with a 2-megapixel camera and music player. There’s also 20MB internal memory, MicroSD slot, and Bluetooth to round things out. Not much else to say, except that while we’ll never see it on…