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Sure, Microsoft might be moving past the controller entirely with Project Natal, but that doesn’t mean it’s not going to try and milk you for all you’re worth with limited-edition frippery like the Halo 3: ODST-themed controller that comes with the $99 collector’s version of the game. You know you’re powerless to resist — we know we are. Check a couple more shots after the break.

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We more or less knew that Computex would be a coming-out party for NVIDIA’s Ion platform, and it looks like the company can’t wait to get started: it juiced up an otherwise boring server press event by also displaying a small selection of Ion machines. Out to play were the now-familiar Acer Aspire Revo and the just-announced Lenovo IdeaPad S12, but MSI’s new Wind Box D200 and a handful of other nettops and netbooks from various other Asian ODMs were also present, including a hot-looking nettop from ECS called the Morph. We’re expecting to hear more official information about all these soon enough, but hit the read link for the full set of pics from Engadget Chinese in the meantime.

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We’ve known that Google has designs on the ebook market for quite a while, and now Tom Turvey (the company’s director of strategic partnerships) has said that the program will be ready by the end of 2009. Details are still rather sketchy, but according to The New York Times, the plan involves selling the books at prices set by the publisher — as opposed to the rather strict Amazon pricing guidelines that sees most Kindle titles selling for $9.99 (to the chagrin of many publishers). In addition, the company will be selling readers online access to the titles. On one hand, this means that access to your books won’t be limited to specific devices, but it will require Internet access and some sort of off-line caching (presumably Google Gears). This news has us wondering if we weren’t a bit hasty in putting down the money for Danielle Steel’s limited edition Sony Reader. Aww, who are we kidding? You know we can’t get enough of those Sisters.

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Josh Spear: Atlanta-based designer Brooke Serson Cernonok has come up with a creative way to “upcycle” your old cashmere sweaters: she turns them into one-of-a-kind plush bears, bunnies and elephants. You can donate your sweaters to Teddylux and leave it at that, or for about $55, you can have your sweater transformed into the aforementioned animals. Each plush is hand-crafted with vintage silk accents and comes gift-boxed with the a Teddylux story and a certificate of authenticity.

Teddylux [Josh Spear]

Webmonkey editor Michael Calore went to Google’s I/O developer conference last week and triumphantly returned with a new Android phone (dubbed the Ion) in his mighty paw. The handset is essentially an HTC Dream — the next-generation version of the T-Mobile G1 — with a few cosmetic tweaks and loaded with Android 1.5 software. It wasn’t fully baked yet so we did a preview on the device and didn’t assign a rating to it. From Mike’s preview:

Google’s developer device is loaded up with Android version 1.5. This build is much improved over the G1’s software. Configuring things like ringtones, wallpapers, alarms and behaviors is a breeze, and direct access to the Android Marketplace makes installing apps a no-brainer. The notification system — a bar you pull down from the top of the screen — makes it easy to switch between active applications without having to go back to the main screen.

You can read the rest of our take on the Google Ion right here.

Photo by Jim Merithew for Wired.com