Oct 16

Nyko Wii Wands get a dash of color

Posted in: controller, gaming, nintendo, peripheral, Today's Chili, wii

Just as Nintendo finally decides to bring some of that noir goodness over to the US, Nyko pops up with no less than four new colorways for its Wand Wii remote. We’re no anthropologists here, but we reckon one of these new options will do a lot better in sales than the other three. All the same, with Nintendo furnishing Japan with blue and pink Wiimotes, Nyko has played it safe and followed suit. These should be hitting Walmart right about now with an MSRP of $29.99, so look out for them at your next government-sponsored Wii bowl-a-thon.

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Oct 13

Plastic Logic deflates dreams, denies Spring 2010 release for color e-reader

Posted in: barnes and noble, BarnesAndNoble, e reader, e-book reader, E-bookReader, rumor, Today's Chili

We had a sneaking suspicion that it was too good to be true, and now Plastic Logic has stepped forward to officially kill our pipe dreams. Just days ago, the web was set ablaze when a Barnes & Noble representative mistakenly (or deliberately, for all we know) stated that a Plastic Logic-sourced color e-reader was on track for a Spring 2010 release. Today, the aforesaid outfit has stated that the video report was “inaccurate and the individual (who was apparently filmed while attending a trade show was not an authorized Barnes & Noble spokesperson) was misinformed.” Continuing on, we’re told that while “color is on Plastic Logic’s roadmap, it is not on the map for the Spring of 2010.” Welp, that settles that… unfortunately.

[Thanks, Charlie]

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Oct 09

Barnes and Noble ‘confirms’ color Plastic Logic e-book reader for Spring 2010 (video)

Posted in: barnes and noble, BarnesAndNoble, ctia, e ink, e reader, e-book, reader, Today's Chili

In no uncertain terms, a Barnes & Noble representative at what looks like the CTIA show says that a color (color!) Plastic Logic e-book reader will launch in Spring 2010. Now, we’re not sure if Daniel Joresson is authorized to make announcements about its Plastic Logic partner but he did so nonetheless. The Plastic Logic e-reader will feature a color screen about the size of a paperback and runs the “Barnes & Noble e-book reader application.” It’s not clear, but it sounds like the B&N application will also be available for cellphones including the iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android devices. Right, similar to the Kindle app. So how does this jibe with rumors about a 6-inch Barnes & Noble e-reader from Plastic Logic launching as early as next month? Easy, the first version will be grayscale while a new model featuring a color display will launch in Spring. In fact, Plastic Logic’s own web site says that its color reader is “around the corner” and expects to be “first to market with a large, flexible color display” — take that Sony and Amazon with your PVI built E Ink-based displays. Watch the flirtatious B&N reveal after the break.

[Thanks, Tom]

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Oct 08

Nintendo quietly reveals pink and blue Wiimotes for Japanese market

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Rumors of a rainbow-splashed Wii and Wiimote lineup have been running for just about ever now, and while we’ve seen Nintendo cave and offer a black Wii, blue Wiimote and black Wiimote in select locales, the company has yet to push colors in a big way as it has on the DS lineup. Hopefully, all that’s gearing up to change. At a small, quaint retailer event over in Japan, the Big N revealed that a blue and pink Wiimote would hit the Land of The Rising Sun on December 3rd, though pricing on the new hues remains undisclosed. In related news, a few new Japan-only Wii console / game bundles were also made public, and while the Samurai Warriors 3 package will indeed include a glossy black Wii, you’ll need a round-trip ticket to Akihabara in order to claim one as your own. For shame.

[Via Joystiq]

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Oct 02

Casio Exilim EX-H10 gets new blue and gold outfits

Posted in: 720p, digital camera, DigitalCamera, point and shoot, PointAndShoot, Today's Chili

The Exilim EX-H10 superzoom looks just dandy in its minimalist black exterior, but Casio has decided to furnish its Japanese customers with a couple more options. To be fair, our far-Eastern brethren have had to choose between a less classy silver affair and a zany pink number, so they’ll probably welcome the newfound diversity. The specs remain the same, of course, with a highly competent 12.1 megapixel sensor, 10x optical zoom and 720p video recording being the highlights, so we wouldn’t expect the as yet unannounced prices to differ either. The blue version above will be joined by a gold variant (picture after the break) when the two are released on October 9.

[Via Akihabara News]

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Sep 22

Neolux badges bring e-ink technology to trade show vendors, sweaty rock dudes

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Ah, the backstage pass — as much a part of the rock’n’roll lifestyle as sleeping with a roadie to get to the lead singer. Now, thanks to Neolux (an e-ink developer best known in these parts for its rather bland e-reader) the things have gotten that much harder to counterfeit. What does an e-ink badge do, exactly? Well, it does what a regular badge does — with the added expense of color e-ink technology. How’s that for progress? See for yourself after the break.

Update: …and by “color e-ink” we meant “regular old e-ink with a red overlay.” Oldest trick in the book, really. Thanks to those of you who pointed it out!

[Via E-ink Info]

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Sep 22

Nintendo introduces some color to European DSi options

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Hey Europe, Nintendo has stopped neglecting you! After Japan had color options before anyone else even had the DSi, the USA got in on the fun with extra pink and white, and Europe was left wearing the black and white dunce cap. That monochromatic dystopia is about to be vanquished on October 23, however, when Nintendo is set to offer the handsome red, blue and turquoise options you see above all over the good lands of the Old World. Facebook photo uploading will come preloaded, as well as the Flipnote Studio app for creating multimedia missives. You can see a couple more shots after the break.

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Sep 21

Colored solar panels work without direct sunlight, double as PAR Can filters

Posted in: green, science, solar, solar power, SolarPower, Today's Chili

With eco-friendliness on everyone’s mind, it’s no shock to see more and more progress being made in the realm of solar. Shortly after hearing that boffins across the way were swapping carbon nanotubes for silicon, a Tel Aviv-based startup is now hoping to push its colored panels into the mainstream thanks to their ability to work sans direct sunlight. Granted, the tinted cells have only shown a 12 percent efficiency rate in testing, but they can reportedly be produced for around half of what a conventional panel costs. In essence, the cost savings comes from the dearth of silicon within, as GreenSun Energy has discovered that power can be generated by simply diffusing available sunlight over the whole panel and allowing nanoparticles to handle the rest. We’ll invite you to visit the links below for the science behind it, but we’re just interested in helping Ma Earth while replacing every windows in our apartment with a stained glass alternative.

[Via Inhabitat]

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Sep 17

Pentax rolls its own colorware for the Pentax K-x DSLR

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Not content with the already generous black, white, red, or navy blue options Pentax is offering on its new K-x DSLR? Then it looks like your persistence has finally paid off for once, as Pentax has now rolled out its own Colorware-type service for the camera — in Japan, that is. That’ll let you choose from twenty different colors for the body of the camera and five for the grip (lens colors are apparently “coming soon”) and, of course, any combination of the two (like the eye-catching number we whipped up above). Best of all, it seems that the customization options are available at no extra cost, other than the hours you’ll spend agonizing over your choice of colors.

[Thanks, Rye]

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Sep 15

New Zune HD colors found in source files: pink, magenta, purple, and atomic

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Well, here’s something interesting. According to tipster Josh S, a perusal through the Zune Software source files will net you pictures of four as of yet unknown Zune HD palettes. From left to right, we’ve got pink, magenta, purple, and “atomic.” We’re still looking through the source code ourselves to confirm. It’s not like early adopters wanted anything other than platinum and black anyway, right?

Update: We’ve finally come up from digging through source code and, sure enough, those images are all in there.

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