Nintendos Miyamoto Does Not Fear Rival Motion Controllers

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Shigeru Miyamoto, who helped create Mario, Donkey Kong, and Nintendogs, says Nintendo’s competitors face a “big challenge” not only in creating a natural motion controller, but also getting it to consumers.  

“We have sold millions of controllers at a good price point. And we have that delivery system successfully already implemented. For other companies starting from zero and trying to figure out how to get it out there at a decent price point is a big challenge,” said Miyamoto.

Since Nintendo has recorded a 60 percent drop in profits, it will be interesting to see if the company does, in fact, come out on top in sales. 

Via GamesIndustry.biz

Name that Netbook: What should Apple call its rumored tablet PC?

Concept
art for an Apple touch-screen Netbook.

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Inside CNET Labs 54: You can never feel clean, ever.

Whether from Walgreens or Purell, this little item will not save you.

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I’m getting married next week, so Dong takes this opportunity to get an idea of my mood and anticipation level. I think he may actually be a little sad. You know, missed opportunities …

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Samsung working on a Zune HD-killer?

Photo of the Samsung M1 MP3 player.

The Samsung M1 authentically emulates my messy, flower-strewn desk.

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A portable media player with a 3.3-inch OLED touch screen and an Nvidia Tegra chipset? Sounds familiar.

Nope, we’re not talking about the Zune HD. This is the Samsung M1, a PMP that officially popped up on …

Originally posted at MP3 Insider

Fujitsu’s CELSIUS ULTRA gaming PC caught on video

It’s not exactly the most exhaustive of hands-ons, but the video after the break appears to be one of the very first looks at Fujitsu’s much-hyped CELSIUS ULTRA gaming PC which, as promised, made its debut at the big KnastLAN event in Germany this weekend. From the sound of things, however, Fujitsu still isn’t quite ready to dish out many details about the system’s specs, although it does apparently make use of a pair of unspecified overclocked NVIDIA graphics cards in an SLI configuration, and it was reportedly able to run Crysis “impressively” at a full 120 fps. Head on past the break to see it for yourself.

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Our Apple tablet hardware, software wish list

Not really the Apple tablet.

Hardly a day goes by without some form of feverish speculation gripping the Web about the existence of a tablet computing device from Apple. While most of these echo-chamber blog posts are fact-free excursions into wild speculation, the general zeitgeist points to a possibly 10-inch …

Kodak Zi8: Best pocket camcorder yet?

The $180 Zi8 comes in three colors and is capable of capturing 1080p video.

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Over the last few years, as the pocket camcorder market has taken off, pioneer Flip Video has narrowly hung onto the lead it built by offering models with arguably superior designs and slightly better …

Video: Cornell’s autonomous robot sub wins competition, our hearts

Cornell sure seems to be doing its part to usher in a world where robots call the shots and humans spend most of their time cowering in the corners of bomb-out buildings. Researchers at the school have variously applied their brain matter (and we’re guessing the occasional government check) to such sticky problems as robot consciousness, distance walking, and complications related to using robotics in zero gravity. And now we’ve heard that the school has just won something called the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition. The vehicles entered in the 12th annual AUVC (which was held at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego) ran an underwater obstacle course that involved bombing things, firing torpedoes, and eventually recovering a suitcase with “secret documents” (or old issues of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, depending on who you believe). You can see the thing in action for yourself in the video after the break.

[Via GoRobotics.net]

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Purple Amethyst


Here’s a shot of a purple amethyst stone I carry around. It’s about the size of two golf balls side-by-side and is blue on one side and white on the other. In low light conditions, the blue side is almost black, but in light it becomes radiant.

The photo is taken similar to that of the marble shots from awhile back. I put the rock right up to the lens and snapped the shot. Kind of a neat abstract result, don’t you think?

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OCZ’s 1TB Colossus SSD gets a price and launch timeframe

We already got word of the starting price for the entry-level 128GB drive in OCZ’s new Colossus line of SSDs, but details on the standout 1TB model have unfortunately been quite a bit harder to come by. OCZ’s now finally cleared up most of those remaining questions, however, and announced that the drive will be available mid-August for a jaw-dropping $2,500 (give or take a few bucks). The 500GB drive will also apparently be available at the same time, although OCZ doesn’t seem to be saying anything more than that it’ll be “less expensive.”

[Via Electronista]

Update: OCZ just hit us up with the official information. The company is actually “about three weeks” out from release, and it’ll ship the Colossus 120 (128GB), 250 (256GB), 500 (512GB) and 1TB (1024GB) for $300, $650, $1200 and $2200 in order of mention.

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