Jun 02

Engadget & Joystiq live from Nintendo’s E3 2009 keynote

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We’ve teamed up with Joystiq for live coverage of E3, and Nintendo’s keynote is next up for the extra special liveblogging treatment. The event is scheduled to start at around 12PM ET / 9AM PT.

We’re live! We’re on the scene at the Nintendo keynote, getting ready to fire salvo after salvo of news at you, our readers. Get those bingo cards ready and start making your own predictions of what the Big N’s got planned in the comments section. (And no, “Cammie Dunaway does something embarrassing” doesn’t count!)

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Jun 02

Wii Vitality Sensor Turns Wii Into Definitive Nursing Home Console

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Some news at the Nintendo E3 conference at last: The Wii Vitality Sensor. It tracks your pulse. I’m sure it will have millions of fun applications. Seriously Nintendo, really?

What are they going to do with this thing? Probably tie it to Wii Fit and some other games that would monitor your heart rate to make things more difficult. Who knows. Who cares. I think this time this is going too far, and I don’t care this makes the console even more popular among different demographics. Maybe I’m too thick today after being bored to dead by that press conference—and I’m the biggest Nintendo whore in the planet.

Do you have any extra ideas?

To start, here’s one suggested by a friend on Twitter: Nintendo Wii, the Nursing Home Console™.

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Jun 02

Palm Pre stock levels for launch day at Best Buy leaked?

Posted in: BestBuy, palm, pre, Today's Chili

We don’t want to incite panic in big box parking lots from coast to coast or anything (or do we?), but from the looks of things, Best Buy’s Pre stock for launch day is meager at best — and distribution is a little weird. A poster over on everythingpre‘s forums threw up a bunch of alleged inventory screen shots, suggesting that Florida and Texas stores are particularly well-off — many stores are expected to get 18, 20 or more — while Illinois stores appear to be getting hosed (a trip to the Hancock location downtown, for example, will result in success for just two people). The way we see it, this could be fake — but it might just have to do with how close each store is to Best Buy’s distro centers or a balancing act with proximity to Sprint locations in the area. Worst case scenario, we figure, you can just riot.

Update: A tipster tells us these “On Order” numbers are actually the number of Pres each store’s manager has requested, which doesn’t necessarily correlate to the number they’ll actually receive. Of course, that still doesn’t explain why downtown Chicago’s Best Buy would request just two — there have to be some other constraints involved that we’re not privy to — but it’s an interesting tidbit nonetheless.

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Jun 02

Engadget’s recession antidote: win one of five Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete Blu-ray Discs

Posted in: blu-ray, sony, Today's Chili

This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff / companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got five copies of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete on Blu-ray Disc, which just so happens to street today. Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting! Check after the break for some photos of the prize!

Major thanks to Sony Pictures Home Entertainment for providing the kit!

The rules:

  • Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
  • You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
  • If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
  • Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
  • Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) of five (5) copies of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete on Blu-ray Disc. Approximate MSRP value is $38.
  • If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
  • Entries can be submitted until Tuesday, June 2nd, 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
  • Full rules can be found here.

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Jun 02

Nvidia Releases Names of Tegra Netbook Prototypes

Posted in: netbook, NVIDIA, Today's Chili

Mobinova ViewBook N910.jpgNvidia released some of the names and models of its Tegra-based netbooks and notebooks the company talked about on Monday.

In a post earlier today, Gizmodo pooh-poohed the no-names that are showing off the Tegra, an attitude that I think misses the point. Recall that Acer, Dell, HP and others don’t actually build PCs any more; they use a network of Taiwan and Chinese ODMs to build them, and, increasingly, design them. Getting the Taiwan ODMs to back Tegra is a sly way to encourage OEMs to ship them.

But even the ODMs support isn’t critical. Nvidia invited twenty or so
mobile-phone carriers to Taiwan to try and persuade them to commission,
say, a Verizon-branded netbook. that’s where Nvidia sees the volume. Again, it’s these ODMs that will be
building them.

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Jun 02

OCZ intros 3.5-inch Colossus SSD at Computex

Posted in: SSD, Today's Chili

Not satisfied with a few new machines from OCZ Technology? Have a look at this. Over in Taiwan, the company has slid out an all new SSD solution designed to fit into the 3.5-inch holes that desktop gamers have grown to know and love. The so-called Colossus solid state drive will be made available in around eight weeks in 512GB and 1TB sizes, though there’s no telling just yet how pricey they’ll be. From what we can gather, there will be a pair of drives in there strung together in a RAID 0 array; in a sense, it’s a Z-Drive in a different form factor. Color us emphatically interested — even though we aren’t yet willing to sacrifice our child’s education in order to put a down payment on one.

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Jun 02

E3: Add Netflix Movies Directly to Queue from Xbox 360

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Microsoft made headlines Monday with the announcement of its gesture-based, controller-free Project Natal for the Xbox 360, but the announcement also includes upgrades to Microsoft’s deal with Netflix.

Starting in the fall, Xbox Live Gold members who are also Netflix subscribers will be able to browse and add movies to their Netflix queues from the Xbox 360, not just from the PC, Netflix wrote in a blog post. Users will also be able to simultaneously watch movies with up to seven friends, chatting about the film while it plays.

The news builds on a deal that was announced in July 2008 and went live in November. Launched in tandem with the New Xbox Experience (NXE), the Netflix deal allows members to watch movies available via Netflix’s “Watch Instantly” library through the gaming console.

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Jun 02

Pandora creeps ever closer to production in latest round of photos

Posted in: gaming, open source, opensource, Today's Chili

We keep hearing about how Pandora’s “almost” in production… and we don’t like to be naysayers, so we’re not going to get sarcastic about it now. And while it is taking it’s sweet time in getting to us, but the evidence of progress just keeps piling on, day in, day out. The newest photos that have emerged show a nearly final casing, and we have to say, we do like what we’re seeing. We’re assured that video is en route, and we’ll let you know as soon as it turns up. Because, you know: we want to believe. There are another two shots after the break, hit the read link for the full set.

[Via Gadgetoid]

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Jun 02

DigiLife DDV-JF1 pocket cam shoots HD, packs its own projector

Posted in: camcorder, pico projector, PicoProjector, projector, Today's Chili

Another wild one from the surreal landscape of Computex. DigiLife’s new DDV-JF1 camera bears much resemblance to most mini camcorders, but while it’s perfectly content to shoot 720p footage and show it off on its 2.5-inch LCD, things really start to get wild when you notice that there’s a 640 x 360 pico projector built right into the thing. No word on price or when to expect this thing to show up in your local Dalí-ist electronics shop.

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Jun 02

Live from E3: Nintendo press conference

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CNET TV and GameSpot are teaming up to bring you live coverage of E3’s keynote press conferences.

LIVE VIDEO: Nintendo E3 press conference

Followed by Sony press conference @ 2:00pm ET / 11:00am PT

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