newVideoPlayer("wiifitskii.flv", 494, 275,""); With the snow season practically over, we are starting to miss those winter days of snowboarding and hot tubbin’. This summer when the snow is long gone we might actually have an outlet for our snow-sport deprived lives. The Wii Fit. There is a whole set of mini-games that take place on the mountain. With games that range from ski jumping to snowboarding, it makes us wonder if it will be enough to kill the mid-summer, snow-missin’ blues.
newVideoPlayer("wiimariocartwheel.flv", 494, 275,""); I got up close and personal with the Wii Wheel at last week’s Nintendo Media Summit, where I (literally) played hours of Mario Kart Wii. I tried playing with the wheel attached and without, trying different configurations of play. And after spending a day with the peripheral, I can’t exactly call it great, but it’s not horrible either.
We alerted you to NEC’s fancy media-streaming home server last year: it’s an “on demand” system that’ll send your media content to Lui devices around your home and beyond. NEC has just stumped up the release schedule and pricing in Japan, and “Life with Ubiquitous Integrated solutions” systems isn’t cheap. The pocket sized player and laptop-like device are around US$495 and US$890, while the desktop PC will be US$2,100. Topping it all off, the main home server costs a whopping US$3,700. If you’re in Japan and like the idea of accessing your audio and video remotely using dedicated devices, it’s available from April 24th. We don’t have timings on a US release. [AV Watch]
The previously announced PlayStation 3 2.30 firmware update is now live, bringing with it a new PlayStation Store and DTS-HD Master Audio Support. To see more detail on the DTS audio support, click here, or hit the jump for the release. We’re happy that Sony’s finally revamped the store—the original one really was designed with less of a controller and more of a mouse in mind for navigation. The new store feels much more refined with the navigation menu running down the left.
The Vtech IS6110 is the little cordless telephone that could. There is a lot of functionality packed into one tidy little package. It is a fully featured DECT 6.0 cordless phone that includes a full QWERTY keypad and lays claim to being the first cordless phone to deliver instant messaging capabilities. All you do is plug the base station into your PC and you will be able to roam around your house instant messaging to your heart’s content.
You read Giz, so you’ve got to be a pretty tech savvy guy. Hell, you might even be technical at work. Who knows? It’s a crazy world we live in.
Anyway, if you are a technical-type person at work and you’re looking for a new job – maybe because your current gig isn’t technical enough – there’s a new site designed specifically for you.
Jobreel only posts ads direct from employers, so you know who you could be working for before you bother filling out an application form.
It’s a fairly simple design, but it offers RSS feeds for their job categories, which takes most of the hard work out of jobhunting. And as most technical people know, hard work is overrated.
And if you’re an employer looking for a technical person to join your team, placing ads are currently free (for a limited time). It’s simple and useful – kind of like Giz.
[Jobreel]
Naked DSL seems to be getting a lot of fans in Australia at the moment, from consumers to ISPs. It might have something to do with the exorbitant price of line rental through Telstra and Optus, or it might just be that people like the thought of anything – even broadband – naked. We can’t decide.
Internode recently launched the Naked DSL service to new numbers, and within weeks had garnered over 1000 people signing up to the service. The success has prompted the company to rollout Naked DSL to existing phone services.
It’ll cost you $129 to make the switch – which is $20 cheaper than setting up a new number – and plans start at $60 per month for 5GB worth of data. For $10 per month extra, you can add a VoIP service to your bill, which includes $10 worth of calls.
The service is available at about 350 exchanges, although you’ll need to enter your phone number on Internode’s website to find out whether you’re eligible.
The process of switching is supposed to be a relatively painless one, but they would say that. if anybody decides to make the switch, let us know how it went in comments.
Monstrous is the first word that comes to mind when gazing upon the Dewitt Incognito 2008, a design that is the lovechild of a collaboration between DeWitt and French architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte. At first glance, the Incognito looks to be a little fat and perhaps clumsy; on closer inspection, however, you can see what a truly amazing timepiece this is. Technical aspects of the Incognito are most impressive. It features a flying tourbillon, which is used to counteract the force of gravity and keep the watch accurate. There are also five barrels and it has a power reserve that ought to keep you covered for up to three weeks.
It seems like the last time we heard about the Samsung i450, we were wandering the fields in loinclothes hunting dinosaurs.
The good news is that Samsung has decided to launch the i450 music phone in Australia. The phone is their first over here running the Symbian S60 series OS, and is available through Optus, Vodafone, 3 and Virgin for an RRP of $649.
Inside you get HSDPA connectivity, ICEPower technology from B&O, FM Radio, 2-megapixel snapper, A2DP Bluetooth, and a two-way sliding mechanism with some innovative music controls.
Stay tuned for a review of the phone in the near future.
[Samsung]
This month, four eagerly awaited cameras all hit the market with a big ole thud: Canon’s EOS Digital Rebel XSi, Sony’s Alpha a350, Nikon’s D60 and Olympus’ E-420. They are not all evenly matched on paper, as you will see, and they certainly vary in price. But what’s different about them, really? They are all aimed at people who wake up one morning and realise their point-and-shoot’s pics are pretty crappy, people who don’t consider themselves photographers but wouldn’t mind spending a little money (under $1,500) to put those high-school photography lessons to practice with a decent body-and-lens kit. I decided to fiddle around with the four hottest new entry-level DSLRs and see what I could see.
