Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Gaming

PS3 Motion Controller Slated For March, Dreamcast Titles Inbound

11:07PM September 22, 2009 | Mark Wilson

According to a legit-looking leaked document from Sega, Sony is planning on launching their PS3 motion controller this March in Japan with the US release coming sometime before mid-2010. From the document: More »


Entertainment

Movie Theatres Will Fry Us All With Infrared To Stop Pirates

10:46PM September 22, 2009 | Mark Wilson

You can’t shoot a film pirate with bullets, but IR light is just fine. More »


Computing

UMID M2 Gets Faster, Cheaper: Windows 7, 1GB RAM For $US500

9:59PM September 22, 2009 | Danny Allen

Intel’s Developers Conference kicks off today, and UMID is showing off its upgrade to the M1 ultra mobile PC. The M2 has the same keyboard and 4.8-inch (1024×600) screen, but will use faster 1.2Ghz or 1.6GHz Atom processors. More »


Gaming

Space Foosball Table Looks Ready For Star-Trek

8:20PM September 22, 2009 | Danny Allen

Wow, the humble foosball table just continues to evolve. This latest incarnation keeps the familiar handles, but replaces the spinning players and ball with physics-powered graphics developed at Ewha Women’s University in Korea. It looks pretty cool in action: More »


Police Taser Legless Man In Wheelchair

7:40PM September 22, 2009 | Danny Allen

Internal Affairs are investigating witness reports that Merced police twice Tasered a 40 year-old double-amputee because he had a “big mouth”. Initial charges against him were dropped, so how much resistance could he have put up? Talk about overkill. More »


Unplug Your Laptop To Keep Your Li-Ion Battery Healthy

6:21PM September 22, 2009 | Danny Allen

Will leaving your notebook constantly plugged-in kill your battery faster? Gina Trapani is exploring the issue after a friend’s battery wouldn’t charge after only two years. Though HP and Dell support pages weren’t quite definitive, Apple clearly cautions against it: More »


Mobile

Samsung Pushes Mobile Devices Forward With Processors, Cameras

3:00PM September 22, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Samsung introduced a mess of new components for mobile devices that we’re likely to start seeing in early 2010, including a 5MP camera capable of taking 1080p video and a couple powerful yet efficient chipsets. More »


Geek Out

Man, Ray’s Got Some Shots To Show

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2:53PM September 22, 2009 | Chris Oaten

I’m guessing there’d be two kinds of Gizmodians — those who remember the halcyon days of Australian current affairs television when Ray Martin wore a doyen’s cap, and those who don’t remember such a time. For those who do remember Ray, and who are in Sydney tomorrow (Wednesday, September 22) might like to take a squizz at Ray’s photo exhibition. More »


Gadgets

Hands-On With Digital Foci Photo Book. Sweet.

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2:18PM September 22, 2009 | Chris Oaten

Digital photo frames have been around for a while now but they seem locked into the birthday-present-for-grandma category and, so I’m told, tend to get used once and mothballed. Californian company Digital Foci, however, has taken the digital photo frame somewhere new with its digital Photo Book. More »


Gadgets

Remainders — Things We Didn’t Post

1:00PM September 22, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Ubuntu 10.04 announced, named after a deodorant…A sampling of Facebook friends can function as a marginally-offensive “gaydar”…World’s most efficient ultra-thin solar cell…The world’s most sustainable tech company is a surprise to me… More »