It isn’t the first balance board-enabled ski game for the Wii, but it sure looks like it’ll be the best. With the weird and richly varied balance board hacks cropping up all over the place, it’s good — though late — for Nintendo to finally demonstrate a game that looks worthy of the device. [Kotaku]
Considering the heaps of information available about BlackBerry’s new touchscreen phone, including our full hands-on report, there will be little surprise left for consumers when the devices actually ship. Using BlackBerry’s new Storm emulation software, released along with a suite of new development tools for the BlackBerry OS, you can take your dinner-spoiling habits one step further and actually use the device right now, albeit on your computer screen. As with the online G1 emulator some capabilities are disabled, but the software should give you a pretty close approximation of using the Storm will actually be like. UPDATE: It works, though it’s Windows-only. [BlackBerry via Slashphone]
Sony has teamed up with the Max-Planck Institute in Germany to create a flexible, translucent display that creates 3D multi-colour images from laser beams. The all-organic screen uses a chemical reaction called photoexcitation to render images, where energy moves from the lasers to the screen and “turns on” the photons to emit light.
It’s probably not a surprise that RIM definitely had iPhones on the brain while creating the new (and pretty awesome) BlackBerry Storm–but who knew they’d make it this obvious. In the vodafone technical specifications manual, the company’s Storm is sporting a very familiar OS, and it’s definitely not the regular BlackBerry’s. Hmmmm. [BlackBerry UK]
Asus has updated its G-series gaming laptop line with the G71, a notebook that sports Intel’s new QX9300 quad-core processor. The computer comes with a 17-inch Crystal Shine display, an NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT GDDR3 512MB graphics card, and can be customised with up to 4GB of system memory and 1TB of hard disk space. Asus is also throwing in a 2mp integrated webcam and a Eee Stick–some casual gaming dongle that works a little like Sony’s Eyetoy. Price and retail date are not yet available. [Akihabara News]
The very first time you touch the BlackBerry Storm—RIM’s first all-touchscreen keyboard-free smartphone, just announced for Verizon Wireless—you will be startled. No matter how many times your fingers dance on the screen like you’ve been trained on every other touchscreen, nothing will happen. At least, not until you push the screen all the way down and you feel a click. Yes, the screen is a giant button, one you have to punch for basically every action, even every letter you type, completely breaking the touchscreen paradigm. Surprisingly, it works. galleryPost('blackberrystormhandson', 3, '');
Solyndra, a California-based solar start up, says it’s figured out a way to make solar panels cheaper to install and better at producing energy–rolling them up. The company’s solar panels are comprised of rows of cylindrical solar cells deposited on glass tubes, a new type of shape that purportedly lets them absorb more light during the day.
This Halloween, instead of candy, why not hand out a couple of these cute zombie plushies? The Dismember-Me Plus can be torn limb from limb and reassembled to your heart’s delight. It even comes with a cuddly mini-zombie brain! The adorable undead doll is now available now on Think Geek for $US15. After all, being a kid ought not to mean that you shouldn’t be reminded that we’re all heading towards an apocalyptic future. [Think Geek]
It’s been a rough couple of years for Navman. Once the undisputed King of the Australian Satnav market, they got bogged down in a clunky design, slow software, terrible audio quality and average navigation. Now they’re back and better than ever (at least on paper) with their new platinum S-Series range of satnavs.
Just like Mio (who now owns Navman), the new satnavs run Navteq’s mapping, which means you get 3D landmarks, lane guidance and a pedestrian mode, plus a boatload of POIs. There’s a new user-interface (Woohoo!), and a petrol efficiency mode, which navigates away from intersections that require you to stop and start frequently.
Navpix is present, although the new models don’t feature a camera like previous models, instead relying on geotagged photos downloaded from Flickr. Depending on the model, there’s an FM transmitter built-in so navigation commands come through your car speakers, and the 300T comes with the SUNA traffic channel updates (the S200 is SUNA capable).
Oops, someone at Best Buy leaked a presentation that’s revealed the ship dates for several upcoming handsets. For instance, the titanium version of the Verizon Blitz, now has a ship date of October 26th (it’s only marked as Coming Soon on the Best Buy site. Other mobile phones dropping on the 26th include Sprint’s HTC Touch Pro and black Samsung M540 Rant, AT&T’s BlackBerry Bold 9000 and T-Mobile’ BlackBerry Pearl Flip. Oh yes, the BlackBerry Storm’s on there as well, with a ship date of November 16th. [BGR via Electronista]
