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Those of you out there who doubt that the Nintendo Wii’s Remote is going to be the best thing ever: If you’re still drinking the total haterade after watching this video of Reggie Fils-Aime, Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto and one lucky contest winner playing Wii tennis at Nintendo’s pre-E3 press conference this afternoon, there is…
So far Team Giztaku’s favorite gadget from all the pre-E3 press events we’ve attended over the past two days is this beautiful, beautiful Margarita machine we had the pleasure of acquainting ourselves with over and over again at yesterday’s Sony press conference. To the catering guy who made the decision to fill the machine with…
Well, folks, this is it. Microsoft showed the actual external HD DVD player and mentioned that it will be out this Fall/Holiday Season-ish. We’re predicting a November release in traditional Xbox fashion. No price point, either. At least it’s pretty, and isn’t that really all that matters?
Microsoft has announced three sexy and savvy pieces of hardware. First up, a Microsoft branded steering wheel that will be released in conjunction with Forza Motorsports 2. The actual steering wheel itself seems pretty average, but the big perk is that it is wireless. Next up is a truly wireless headset. This features the same…
We forget who this Microsoft guy onstage with Bill Gates at Microsoft’s E3 press event just now is, but he was very proud to be using a Motorola Q. Stil no idea when this thing is coming out, but we can tell you now that if wearing Hammer Pants are a requirement for Q usage,…
The NY Times has a dedicated gaming ninja, Seth Schiesel, on the floor at E3 and he has some hands-on time with the Wii. The verdict? Gyroscopic controllers are cool and that this thing might actually be worth buying. First up was a tennis game. This was certainly the simplest game because I didn’t have…
This week at TreeHugger: We unearth a “plant” that, rather than using the sun’s rays to grow, uses them to glow. TreeHugger also has SOUL: check out the Sun | Oven | Ultra | Light solar oven, perfect for picnics, barbeques and other sunny outdoor fun. Solar is good for more than glowing and cooking…
Nothing portrays the glamor and glitz of E3 better than a bunch of dudes standing around drinking and avoiding eye contact. Thanks to E3 and iMeem, we now have an official E3 PARTAY-PHOTO-WEBSITE-COOLNESS-WOW-site where we can read such exciting news as: Well since Imeem for some reason doesn’t allow cut and paste functions, I was…
If you looked like this dude, you’d be saying “That hurts” as well. This is a robot pre-programmed with 8 different medical conditions. It has 24 sensors under its soft, warmish silicone skin and can respond to proddings and pokings with vocal complaints. Designed as a teching aid, they’ve discovered that laying hands on a…
The Wall Street Journal, that bastion of strong gaming journalism, has a detailed look at the business behind the 360 and the PS3. Essentially, they’re saying that Sony is gambling that Blu-Ray and its attendant coolness will propel the console and the media into the stratosphere. The make or break point, however, is E3. “Clearly,…
Silly Sony. They had this sign up in the reception area of their E3 press event and people crammed around the tables actually believing that this was the only places that had wireless access. If Sony can get people to believe that Wi-Fi is limited to specific area than maybe they have a chance convincing…
Just a quick reminder to rush on over to our brother site at Kotaku for live blogging coverage of the Nintendo press conference—breaking news, coming your way from our ace “Giztaku” team on the ground at E3. Kotaku Live http://www.kotaku.com/gaming//e306-liveblogging-the-nintendo-press-conference-172533.php#more
You know those posters at the butcher shop that show you which cuts of meat come from which part of the steer? Well now you can have those illustrations right in front of you as you dine, with Food For Thought Plates, cheerfully inviting you to carefully consider where that juicy cut of red meat…
In case you’re in the mood for some average performing, only mildly interesting technology, why not take a look at the Genus VIZO? It’s a portable media player with pretty much everything you’d expect (and no doubt likely already have) from such a device: MP3 and WMA playback plus Ogg Vorbis support, which is admittedly…
If this JBL Radial speaker system sounds as good as it looks, we’re in for a treat. It has a quartet of aluminum-domed drivers with some serious magnets inside, all pumped up with 60 watts of musical goodness. Dock the iPod in the middle, and the whole thing looks like a piece of avant-garde architecture.…
E3 brings out the lighter side of staid peripheral manufacturers like Logitech. Take, for example, the updated Logitech G-Series. Hee have the G25 rading wehel with force-feedback motors, the Logitech G3 Laser Mouse, and the Logitech G11 keyboard with 18 macro keys. The G25 is particularly cool. It has a six-speed “gated shifter” and 900…
We’ve seen things like this before, but laptop fan looks pretty hot… errr… cool and runs on USB power. This is an update of PORT Design’s Cool Stand, which was just a laptop stand sans fan. No pricing yet and it looks to be available only in Europe. Product Page [PORT Designs via CrowdedBrain]
Go ahead and shoot me, but I feel like I’m over Motorola’s consonant phones. I liked the RAZR and the SLVR looks cool, but the rush for black, pink, blue, and plaid models baffles me. That said, rush on over to Cingular and get yourself a $199 pink SLVR L7 for momma. It’s got a…
JVC introduced the GZ-MG47, an entry-level member of its Everio family of hard disk-based camcorders. The MG47 which has a 20GB hard drive and an F1.2 lens with a 15x zoom and includes a Direct DVD function where you can connect the camera directly to a DVD burner and create DVDs without using a computer.…
The SVIAZ Expo trade fair in Russia is host to a fair number of cellphone introductions this week, one of which is the Pantech PG-2800 finger writing recognition phone, particularly well-suited for entering Chinese or Russian text. It’s a tri-band clamshell handset with a 2-inch 260K color screen, a 1.3-megapixel camera, an external memory card…