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Friday, July 17, 2009
Gadgets

What Are Your Hottest Gadgets Of The Year?

4:27PM Nick Broughall | I was reading through the latest issue of my old flame T3 magazine last night – it ’s their Hot 100 Issue – and found that I profoundly disagreed with some of the products they had in their top 10. So rather than bottle it up, I thought I’d vent here on Giz, and try and see whether you agreed with me or not. More »
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Saturday, June 6, 2009
Games

Project Natal Won E3, and Maybe the Motion Control Wars

8:20AM Mark Wilson | Wii MotionPlus will make the Wii better. Sony’s very impressive motion control demo will be better than Wii MotionPlus. But Microsoft stole E3 and may have already won the motion control wars with the announcement of Project Natal.
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Saturday, November 22, 2008
Gadgets

A Call for Revolution Against Beta Culture

2:20AM Jesus Diaz | digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/A_Call_for_Revolution_Against_Beta_Culture'; I’m tired of this. This sense of permanent discomfort with the technology around me. The bugs. The compromises. The firmware upgrades. The “This will work in the next version.” The “It’s in our roadmap.” The “Buy now and upgrade later.” The patches. The new low development standards that make technology fail because it wasn’t tested enough before reaching our hands. The feeling now extends to hardware: Everything is built to end up in the trash a year later, still half-baked, to make room for the next hardware revision. I’m tired of this beta culture that has spread like metastatic cancer in the last few years, starting with software from Google and others and ending up in almost every gadget and computer system around. We need a change.
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