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Tech NewsGizmodo’s Official License Plate
The guys at Tasty Booze may think whoever owns this guy is a gigantic douche, but we know better. This guy is a gigantic Gizmodo fan. You can’t fit “Gigantic Gizmodo Fan” on a license plate, so he shortened it to “BIG GIZ”. Here’s to you, Giz fan—you Pontiac driver you. [TastyBooze – Thanks Blakeley!]
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Man Stuff – The Best of Uncrate
This week at Uncrate: We race across the Northeast in the Rental Car Rally, perfect our dugout spitting techniques with Zotes Sunflower Seeds, and protect our guitars with the Belkin BreakFree. We also go green with the Lotus Eco Elise, hit the rapids in the Trak Kayak, and keep our facial hair in check with … Continued
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How Sony’s Cheapness Is Biting The PS3 In The Ass
Sony’s mantra of not writing checks for exclusives-or much of anything-seems to be biting them in the ass a couple times this week. There are at least four cases where the PlayStation 3 has suffered because of Sony’s lack of willingness to open up the purse strings. We knew two of these before-backward compatibility and … Continued
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Tech NewsApple
iPhone Gets Stereo Bluetooth A2DP Adapter
The iPhone (both 2.5G and 3G) might not come with an A2DP Bluetooth in place, but you can easily add it on yourself with this Infinixx adapter. It’s $62, but works with the iPhone, iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod video, iPod color and iPod mini, meaning you can basically turn any fairly recent … Continued
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EcoModo – The Best of Treehugger
This week at TreeHugger: We look back at 17 electric cars that were featured in our archives during the past 3 years, including speed demons like the Eliica (top speed 250 mph) and Wrightspeed X1 (0 to 60 in 3 sec). The not very useful, but oh-so-fun Circular Bike, aka Vicious Cycle made from salvaged … Continued
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Sega Says the iPhone Is As Powerful As the Dreamcast
Developers are just getting their heads around the concepts introduced by the iPhone, but so far they like what they see. EA said it’s more powerful than the DS, and now Sega-the guys who made Super Monkey Ball for the platform-is saying that it’s just as powerful as the Dreamcast. The Dreamcast! Do you remember … Continued
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Sony Knows What Went Wrong With the PS3
In a non-exclusive round table with various outlets like us, Kotaku and Engadget this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s CEO Jack Tretton gave us some great looks behind the public curtain of the PlayStation brand. In short, they know what’s wrong with the way they made the PS3, and they know how to fix it. … Continued
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The iPhone is More Powerful Than the DS, But Sucks As a Controller
You know that the iPhone is powerful enough to render 3D games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as well as various other ones we covered in the marathon review session, but just how powerful is it? How does it compare to actual gaming handhelds like the Nintendo DS and PSP? An EA developer put … Continued
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The Nintendo Wii’s New Real Price
Click to viewThe Wii’s $249 base price always allowed it to be known as both the cheapest console and the best deal in town for next-gen gaming. Even at a price of $60 a pop for the WiiMote and Nunchuk, the cumulative price of the system and four controllers would still be under the cumulative … Continued
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Exclusive: Wii Sports Resort With MotionPlus Is $49 In Spring
Click to viewA Nintendo exec told us that the Wii Sports Resort will be $49.99 when it’s released next Spring. This next version of Wii Sports comes with the MotionPlus accessory, which gives people a true 1:1 motion mirroring on their WiiMotes. The price of the MotionPlus accessory on its own is undetermined, but it … Continued
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Sony E3 Liveblog
We’re here at Sony’s E3 press event, preparing for the onslaught of hardware and software news they’ve got planned for today. Could there be a price cut? A new WiiMote-like peripheral? Just new games? Just old games? Whatever it is, it’s going to be shown on the giant stage full of Sony’s TVs. It’s about … Continued
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Nintendo E3 Liveblog
Mark and I are down at the Kodak Theater for Nintendo’s E3 press event. It starts at 9:00 AM PDT, with Miyamoto and pals showing off whatever’s going to be sold out at Gamestops around the country for the rest of the year. Mark’s prediction: a bundled Wii Sports 2 that comes with the new … Continued
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Tech NewsMicrosoft
Red and Green Limited Edition Xbox 360 Controllers Coming in September
Microsoft is rolling out limited edition green and red Xbox 360 controllers at the end of September for $64 each. The red one which we see here has black accents plus comes with a bundled Play & Charge with red battery pack. The green one isn’t listed on xbox.com yet, but Kotaku has a picture … Continued
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EA iPhone Games Upgrades: Scrabble Getting Multiplayer, Tetris Getting Piece Drawing, Plus New games
The three games we already saw on the iPhone from EA are Scrabble, Tetris and Sudoku. Scrabble is getting Wi-Fi upgrade for multiplayer plus accelerometer action that shakes up the words on your tray. Tetris is getting a feature where you can actually draw the upcoming piece right on your screen. Upcoming games are Need … Continued
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Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update Details
Here’s what we just learned from Microsoft in their round-table discussion on Xbox Live and the new Dashboard. First, the impetus for re-designing the dash was that the current content navigation is too difficult. They only planned on a couple hundred/thousand items, but they currently have 20,000+ pieces of content in their marketplace. There needed … Continued
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Microsoft E3 Liveblog
We’re here in LA and livebloging the Microsoft presser today at 10:30 PDT. Mark Wilson and I will be covering the hell out of the hardware announcements, but if you’re interested in the new game announcements, Kotaku will be the place to go. What announcements will there be? A motion-controlled interface? A karaoke controller? We’ll … Continued
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Xbox 360’s “Lips” Karaoke Game Microphone Has Motion Sensing, Vegas Lounge Lights
Could the rumored upcoming “Lips” accessory + game to the Xbox 360 have the most advanced karaoke microphone for a game yet? Quite possibly. The game’s made by iNiS, a team that’s no stranger to music games, and features the accessory that pulses in time with your singing, plus detects how you swing it around … Continued
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Tech NewsNSFW Video: Topless Wii Fit Lets You Exercise In Front Of Your Computer
Remember Topless Wii and Topless Wii: The Revengening? Well this is different. This is Topless Wii Fit, as inspired by that one underpants video of the Wii Fit girl gyrating around. Like we said, different. Zoo Today has a really NSFW video and a slightly NSFW video. The slightly NSFW video after the jump. Head … Continued
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Xbox 360 Pro Hits $299 at Target
The Xbox 360 price drop has pretty much gone official, with Target offering an in-store price of $299.99. The only thing weird about this is that it’s not the rumored 60GB version that we thought was coming, so it’s possible that Target is just clearing out old inventory for the new SKU? We won’t know … Continued
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Gizmodo and Kotaku at E3 2008
Not only does Monday mark the start of the week where you can wave your new iPhone 3Gs around in your coworkers’ faces, it’s the start of (what used to be) the biggest video game event of the year: E3. We’ll be there with Kotaku, and by extension, you’ll be there. There are a ton … Continued
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