Saturday, August 22, 2009
Games
4:00PM Nick Broughall | It’s recently come to my attention that I’ve become a little pudgy. A little flabby. A little rotund around the middle. But rather than actually join a gym and burn that fat off, I thought I’d try and play it off with EA Sports Active for the Wii. More »
Saturday Night Gamer: EA Sports Active
4:00PM Nick Broughall | It’s recently come to my attention that I’ve become a little pudgy. A little flabby. A little rotund around the middle. But rather than actually join a gym and burn that fat off, I thought I’d try and play it off with EA Sports Active for the Wii. More » 
Software
Qik iPhone App Now Allows Video Streaming Over 3G On iPhone
12:20PM Rosa Golijan | On first mention, video-sharing app Qik had one majorflaw: Video streaming could only be done over Wi-Fi. But thanks to an update of this currently free app, you can now stream live video over 3G. More »
Random Stuff
ATM Card Skimmers Go Low-Tech, Start Using Pythons
11:40AM Rosa Golijan | I used to worry about card skimmers in ATMs, but now I have a new nightmare: pythons. Six-and-a-half foot pythons like this one which was lurking in an ATM in Nis, Serbia More »
Weapons
This Fireball Cannon Will Be My Weekend Project
11:20AM Rosa Golijan | The shoulder-launched dry ice cannon is great, but it takes $US200 in supplies. At $US55, this fireball air cannon is a far better deal for bargain hunters. Actually, forget being cheap. IT SHOOTS FIREBALLS. It’s better period. More »
Gadgets
Remainders—Things We Didn’t Post
11:00AM Wilson Rothman | Snow Leopard Shipping (or Not Shipping) August 28th…Nokia 5800 Navigation (aka Free Maps and Car Kit) Edition…Will Southwest Airlines Wi-Fi Be Cheap Like Its Tickets?…Blu-ray Quality 1080p on an iPhone 3GS… More »
Games
Wii Sports Resort 8-in-1 Pack Preserves All The Fun
10:40AM Joanna Stern | The Wii Sports Resort kit comes with a ping pong paddle, wakeboard and row boat paddle attachment for the Motionplus?! Sign me up. More »
Random Stuff
Refreshment
10:20AM Mark Wilson | Sometimes the extra little bit of effort pays off. [Photo by Sarah Ji via Chicago Reader]
Business
Intel Buys Company That Makes Multicore Parallel Programming Easier
10:17AM Matt Buchanan | Intel just picked up RapidMind, a company that specialises in making it easy for developers to optimise and program their applications for multicore processors. Their technology sounds a little bit like Apple’s GrandCentral technology built into Snow Leopard, actually. It’s an interesting move, since Intel already hires more software engineers than hardware dudes because of the difficulty of parallelism. [PC World]
Design
Xbox 360 Controller Pillows Actually Look Extremely Comfortable
10:00AM Sean Fallon | Now that I’m seeing this handmade Xbox 360 pillow, I can see how the natural contours of the controller might actually be easier on my lower back then they are on my hands. More »
Music
