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The Nintendo Wii is the only console that doesn’t support HD gaming (or at least that’s what Jeff tells me), but all that could change according to Metroid’s co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto, who recently spilled on the next Nintendo system.

In a recent interview with 3D Juegos, Sakamoto gives little detail about the forthcoming console, but assures gamers that the new machine will “leave you all with your mouth open.” Jeff and Wilson envision a virtual reality-style helmet with an integrated gyroscope, but it’s anyone’s guess this early in the game.

Remember the video of the double rainbow guy that flooded our in-boxes and Walls for a solid two weeks? Paul “Bear” Vasquez is the he man behind the camera and plans on squeezing as much Internet exposure out of it as possible, starting with two new video advertisements for Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Essentials.

It’s a clever move for Microsoft to use the flash-bang recognition of this kind of viral video to sell software, which begs the question–why isn’t The 404 making money on this video with YouTube’s profit sharing plan? Thirty-five thousand views and we’re still eating ramen noodles with clearance-special spaghetti sauce!

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If you can just put down Angry Birds for one minute and plug your iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 2nd generation, iPod touch 3rd generation, or iPod touch 4th generation into iTunes, you should be in for a pleasant non-surprise: iOS 4.1 is finally out and ready for your consumption. It’s not a huge update, but Game Center is an exciting addition (for the few, proud devices that are getting it), and we’re sure your face will be happy to stop getting accused for iPhone 4 hang-ups with the long overdue proximity sensor fix (shots of the changelog are after the break). Let us know how 4.1 is treating you in comments below.

Continue reading iOS 4.1 is live, available to download right now

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OnStar will be updated in the coming months, according to reports, and when that happens, the service will have Facebook integration and voice-to-text functionality. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20015825-17.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Digital Home/a/p

Robots need to be useful, whether it’s vacuuming the rug, picking up things, or bringing you a soda. Willow Garage’s PR2 leaves it up to you to decide what it will do.

With the PR2, the hardware is taken care of. It’s up to you, the robot-maker, to take advantage of over 1000 software libraries available to decide what it will do.

It has a lot of potential, with powerful “brains” and a full sensor suite. The brains are a pair of onboard Xeon servers with eight cores, 24GB of RAM, and a 2TB hard disk drive. Power comes from a 1.3kWh battery and onboard chargers.
 
Perched on top of an omnidirectional base, the PR2 ships with a 5-megapixel camera, forearm cameras, and gripper tip sensors as part of its arsenal of sensors. PR2 navigates its surroundings using the two LIDAR optical remote sensors to know where things are located. It has two arms and grippers.

It has strong network capabilities, such as a Gigabit Ethernet network with 32GB backplane switch and dual WiFi radios and a base station.

The hardware is all yours for the price of $400,000. For that price, I would need the robot to clean my house, cook me dinner, and give me a massage.

We’re reporting live from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where Google’s just taken the wraps off its latest software product. The announcement itself is taking its time right now, with background facts like Google recently crossing the one billion users a week milestone, but the Google Instant service has been activated and you can see details about its immediate result delivery at the source below. Basically, the Goog no longer waits for you to hit Enter while searching and starts updating its results page Instantly as you type. Google describes it as a fundamental shift in seach and you can find more details along with its warm and fuzzy video introduction after the break.

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