Archive for August, 2008

Hands (and feet) on with ION’s Drum Rocker Rock Band Premium Drum Set

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming Rock Band 2 might not be out yet, but ION was kind enough to send us the new Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set a couple weeks early. Built like a tank, this thing makes the original Rock Band drum set look like the toy it is — we’re talking aluminum tube construction [...]

GPS-equipped turtle runs into reefer farm, gets high-fives from police

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Filed under: GPS Though not quite as bad as toting the GPS module around with you, one particular marijuana farmer had to be mighty embarrassed / wondering what he ever did to deserve such bad luck when a GPS-equipped turtle meandered into his crop. As the story goes, a close friend of the police — [...]

All Hail the Mighty SPORE Galactic Edition Trailer [Spore]

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

To get everyone ready for SPORE, EA has released this Galactic Edition trailer for all of you big spenders out there. The $80 edition will include a “Making of” DVD, a National Geographic DVD with the “How To Build A Better Being” segment, a foldout poster, 100 page “Galactic Handbook”, and a mini artbook. The [...]

Kevin Rose unearths redesigned iPod nano, digs for more?

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video Kevin Rose of Digg origins claims to have the scoop on the latest iPod nano. Mind you, this is the same Kevin Rose who notoriously claimed that a generation one iPhone would launch in both CDMA and GSM versions with a pair of batteries and slide-out keyboard. Uh hem. [...]

PSP-3000 screen head-to-head with the PSP-2000: oh, that’s what improved means

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Filed under: Gaming Looks like Sony wasn’t foolin’ when it said that the new PSP-3000 has a noticeably improved screen from the PSP-2000 — check out this comparison shot of the new rig vs. the old. Man, our first-gen unit is starting to look like a real clunker — anyone else feeling the need to [...]

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider I to Underworld

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Just how has Lara Croft aged over the years since her “birth” in 1996. It all started with Tomb Raider 1 of course and is still going strong to this day with 9 transformations according to this model enhancement timeline from Wiki. It shows how far she’s come in both graphical and cleavage enhancements. Check [...]

Photosynth Launches

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Two years after the first technology preview, Microsoft officially launched Photosynth, an interesting way to combine overlapping photos from a place and explore the place in detail from different angles. “Using techniques from the field of computer vision, Photosynth examines images for similarities to each other and uses that information to estimate the shape of [...]

Make an iPhone Ringtone in iTunes for Windows [How To]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

We’ve shown you how you can turn your (non-DRM-protected) music collection into custom iPhone ringtones using GarageBand and iTunes on a Mac, or software like ToneShop for Windows, but the CyberNet… Go to Source

Kratos to Swing the Clubs of Chaos in Hot Shots Golf

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Weather reports signal dark ominous clouds forming over Okinawa Golf Resort. Other strangeness reported: disemboweled elephants in the Great Safari, pillaged villages around the Euro Classics course and loitering Spartans around the great Oceania lobster. Judgment day has come, all bow before the one known as Kratos! Yes, all the rumors are true: Kratos, the [...]

GC 2008: PS3 wireless keypad with mouse input [update]

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Peripherals click for extreme closeup At its Leipzig Games Convention press conference today, Sony unveiled a wireless keypad peripheral that attaches to the top of the PlayStation 3 controller (presumably into the mini-USB port). The keypad also features a “touchpad mode” for mouse input. Pricing was not revealed, but the [...]

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