Nobody is going to share the murky photos from the DSi’s integrated camera, so why not hack a classic DS to become a controller for a dSLR? More »
It’s no 80-porter, but ThinkGeek’s 16-port USB hub is definitely one of the classiest I’ve seen. At $US160 though, you’d be paying a tenner a port. Are those extra USB slippers really worth it? More »
At SXSW, The Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde helmed a conference via Skype, where he likened P2P to Coca Cola, and The Pirate Bay to sugar. He also said he could make Sergey Brin “want to marry me”. [TechRadar]
What do you do when a laptop breaks down three months after purchase? Get it repaired? Sell it? Or do as this Chinese man did, and destroy it silently at a HP store, with not a single swear-word passing your lips? More »
GDC is over for another year, but the omission of any solid Nintendo news – particularly in the shape of a new handheld console – was not enough for RPAD.tv, who spent the whole show digging for DS2 information from developers. More »
On this day, back in 1985, the first ever dotcom URL was created, Symbolics.com. There were just six dotcoms registered that year, compared to the 100,000 that are created every day now. More »
At Google’s panel today at SXSW in Austin, a Gmail team member named Jonathan Perlow asked the crowd to raise their hands if they think Gmail is too slow. We love Gmail, but certainly we can sympathise with the fair percentage of those audience members who raised their hands – the problem is pretty much limited to those, like us, who are power users with hundreds of thousands of messages (most of which are junk, we’re not bragging, but still). More »
Our game-loving sister site Kotaku reviewed the newest of that king of all RPG series, Final Fantasy, and found it, if not a blockbuster, worthwhile, and “a step in the right direction.” Read the whole review here. [Kotaku]
Like the idea of 3D, but worried about the prospect of ‘binocular dysphoria’? Tomorrow night Byteside is all about what’s going on in the world of 3D. Screens, content, glasses or no, how it’s changing the business, and what’s going to be the hook that sells a thousand screens? You’re welcome to join the fun live in Sydney! More »
