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Early 3DS adopters, your smorgasbord of throwback make-goods is now only a day away. Nintendo recently announced via its Twitter account the full line-up of ten Famicom / NES virtual console games headed for the company’s Ambassador Program. Owners of the 3D handheld in Japan and North America can look forward to re-acquainting themselves with such 8-bit classics like Metroid, Super Mario Bros., Ice Climber, The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II : The Adventure of Link, Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong Jr., NES Open Tournament Golf, Wrecking Crew and Yoshi. Those golden games of yore will be available to download from the eShop tomorrow, but gamers looking for the GBA goods will have to wait until later this year.

Update: Turns out the games are available to download now.

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Nintendo’s 3DS Ambassador Program line-up revealed, games available September 1st originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember the ringtastic Loop that motion control manufacturer Hillcrest Labs introed back in 2009? The Scoop Pointer is its more straightforward followup, an in-air mouse with six-axis control, nine programmable buttons, and souped up hardware and firmware. The pointer will be dropping in Q4, likely carrying a non-Hillcrest brand name.

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Hillcrest Labs’ Scoop Pointer is decidedly less loopy than its predecessor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, Elgato already has an app that lets you stream TV to your iPad — but that’s only if they’re being broadcast online. To pull in live TV over the air you’d need a TV-tuner, something that has, until now, been unavailable for Apple’s popular slate. By the end of September that lack of broadcast television will become just a distant memory with the release of EyeTV Mobile, a £100 (about $163) dongle that connects to the iPad’s proprietary port. The tuner will be able to pull in MPEG 2 streams over DVB-T, but won’t work with DVB-T2 broadcasts like Freeview HD. Check out the source for more details.

Elgato EyeTV Mobile dongle brings live TV to the iPad 2 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Flexible displays may well be the future, but it’s not hard to see that they won’t truly be practical unless they’re also as durable as they are flexible. Polymer Vision is well aware of that fact, of course, and it’s now gone to some “extreme” lengths to demonstrate the progress it’s made on that front. See the results for yourself in the video above.

Polymer Vision drops the ball on its flexible display, literally originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Lots of things are getting tweaked, if not completely overhauled, for Windows 8. That includes the ever-present Windows Explorer. Just like many other Microsoft apps, the file manager will be adopting the slightly more finger-friendly ribbon interface. But don’t freak out about your precious screen real estate, the next version of Explorer will actually display more files than Windows 7 could by moving the details pane to the right-hand side and tweaking the padding. The up button has also returned and a slew of new keyboard shortcuts are being introduced. Check out the source link for more detail and a demo video.

Microsoft details Windows 8 Explorer tweaks, adds ribbon UI originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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