Friday, April 10, 2009
Games
XCM Cross Fire Adaptor Mates PS3 Controllers With Your Xbox 360, For Some Reason
11:40PM John Mahoney | This seems to violate every fanboy code ever written across the hallowed halls of the gaming internet, but if you must use your wireless PS3 controllers to play Xbox 360 games, this is for you. More »
Hardware
Intel’s New Easy-for-Your-Mum-to-Understand Processor Badges
11:20PM Matt Buchanan | They’re designed to be simple to understand for regular people, so you don’t need these explained, right? More »
Phones
Casio’s Exilim Phone Ads Make Me
10:25PM John Herrman | There’s a thin line between effectively using skin to sell a product and making your audience feel like sex creeps. With these vaguely porny Exilim C721 phone ads, Casio is nowhere near it.
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Casio’s Exilim Phone Ads Make Me Want To Buy An Exilim Phone Feel Like A Pervert
10:25PM John Herrman | There’s a thin line between effectively using skin to sell a product and making your audience feel like sex creeps. With these vaguely porny Exilim C721 phone ads, Casio is nowhere near it.
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Gadgets
Bluetooth 3.0 Is Wi-Fi Fast, Arrives On April 21st
9:11PM John Herrman | As useful as Bluetooth can be, it’s become a little like the serial port of the wireless world: too slow for anything heavy-duty, but too ubiquitous to get rid of. Spec 3.0 should change that. More »
Robots
Mass Production Planned For HAL Exoskeleton; Your Personal Iron Man Conversion To Cost $4,200
7:57PM John Herrman | Products like the Human Assistive Limb exoskeleton have a frustrating tendency to remain in the labs and universities that spawned them, usually for reasons of impracticality or cost. But this one is going mainstream. More »
Online
Google Street View Car Commits Suicide By Bridge
7:04PM John Herrman | Capping an unseasonably goofy week for Street View, one of their drivers managed to clothesline his car’s protruding pole camera with a low bridge outside of Pittsburgh. He submitted the photos to his boss anyway. More »
Regulars
This Farm? Oh, At This Farm We Grow Fluorescent Bulbs
3:25PM Dan Nosowitz | Richard Box’s art installation, called FIELD, is powered by the electrical fields from the power lines that run above the project. It’s an eerie sight, to be sure. [io9] More »
Vehicles
Area 51’s Secrets Revealed: Existence of UFOs Still Being Denied
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | With Area 51’s overdue military declassification, those who used to work there are finally free to speak about the projects they developed. All those UFO rumours, it turns out, have a pretty reasonable explanation. More »
Entertainment
The Daily Show Mocks the Army’s Unfeasible, Unaffordable Laser Plane, For Some Reason
2:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Last night on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart spit in the face of real-world sci-fi by applauding the U.S. Military’s elimination of its laser plane project. A plane. That shoots lasers. What’s the problem, Stewart? More »
Vehicles
