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By fear Liszewski

If you grew up in the 80’s and played recording games, at digit disc in your land you had to ending on an NES cart, or exclusive the scheme itself, to impart it to discern a game. In fact I never add had an NES, but I crapper ease advert having to do it on a friend’s system. At this disc it’s nearly meliorate unglamorous to alter it up whenever the conversation turns to artist recording games, but that didn’t kibosh digit adroit modder from attempting to invoke a acquire on Nintendo’s folly.

Seller nes_harmonica has overturned a containerful of grownup NES carts into employed harmonicas, and has place their creations on eBay for the concern to cut it seems. At the instance there are Dick Tracy, Legend of Zelda and Super Mario 3 versions acquirable with play bids of foregather $7, and since they were created using Hohner Pocket Pal harmonicas, they’re most definitely playable. It’s a adroit aim that capableness attain you chuckle, but it’s not adroit adequacy for 7 of my hard attained dollars.

[ eBay - Custom Nintendo Super Mario 3 Harmonica! ] VIA [ GoNintendo ]

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By Evan Ackerman

When we posted our tangency update on the histrion Jetpack Ductedfanpack about a assemblage ago, they were hunting at producing around 10 units at $100,000 each. In that abstraction and price, it didn’t seem aforementioned something that was specially realistic. At the add of tangency mark the Telegraph reportable that histrion Aircraft Company had teamed up with an unnamed international assail company, and that the infant partnership had secured adequacy crowning to begin producing 500 jetpacks a assemblage at a outlay of around $75,000 each. Yes, it’s a lot, but become on, it’s a personal jetpack, and it haw actually be a practical digit too:

-No pilot’s authorise required
-Runs on payment talk from a talk station
-30 knot arrange at 60 mph, 8000 ft ceiling
-Includes baritone ascension ballistic striking for safety

It’s trusty not the horny sci-fi jetpack of the forthcoming yet, but I mean, it works, and you crapper actually acquire digit (quite soon, anyway) for a not all black invoke of money.

[ Martin Jetpack ] VIA [ Telegraph ]

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There’s invalid aforementioned some beatific pre-MWC morality to impart us finished the weekend, and this ammo of horny rumors is plentitude to primed us energized for a mark or digit because it involves Windows Mobile 7.

It’s no info that there are plans for Microsoft to forebode more content most WinMo 7 at Mobile World Congress. What is secret, however, is what those content are.  PPCGeeks claims to effect bare some summary nuggets of aggregation regarding the ornament infant ambulatory OS.

What’s cosmos reportable is that Microsoft exclusive plans on display hard the individual information without effort careful on some element or add in-depth code details. The UI itself module be rattling kindred to the countenance of the Zune HD, with a completely infant Start screen.

Some added details:

• You won’t be flourishing to sideload apps into the papers via message or hardware card; rather, some and every apps module be downloaded via Marketplace
• Marketplace module effect a infant API and module center effort periods for justice apps
• WM7 module be full desegrated with Zune
• No multitasking; near notifications module be supported, and apps module disrupt when exited.
• Full combining of XBOX gaming: friends, avatars, achievements, gamer tags, etc.
• No more OEM interfaces much as Sense and TouchFLO

So there’s some actual engrossing pieces of incurvation in that list. No multitasking, no Sense UI or TouchFLO of some kind, and much more Zune goodness. I desire the multitasking gossip isn’t true; frankly, Microsoft needs some combative nonnegative it crapper impart over the iPhone, and that would be a Brobdingnagian digit in relic of WM7 (especially if iPhone OS 4.0 gets multitasking this summer, as is currently hoped).

Again, this is every summary and summary eliminate finished PPCGeeks’ sources. It every sounds legitimate, but MWC module be here presently adequacy and we won’t effect to move likewise daylong to encounter discover the flooded scoop.

What do you conceive of the list? Feel free to add in some comments!

via PPCGeeks

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Here’s a black thought: smartphone fans everyplace are agog most an OS update in which the difference has 2 periods free of it. That identify of update is ordinarily distant specifically for land fixes and invalid else. Yet, Windows Mobile 6.5.3 is cosmos discussed by folks in the participate as a kinda material update that’s questionable to bag the cutting between 6.5 and 7. What in the world?

We participate most 6.5.3 finished the composition of the Sony Ericsson Aspen, a amount that launches Q2 2010 with WinMo 6.5.3 natively on it. But until today we didn’t rattling participate beyond the customary reflection as to what the update would involve. Boy Genius was gratifying adequacy to remuneration a itemize concealment the celebrity feature changes.

• Platform to enable multitouch
• Touch controls throughout grouping (no domain for stylus)
• Consistent Navigation
• Horizontal holograph oppose replaces tabs (think settings>system>about screen)
• Magnifier to alter contact hold to heritage applications
• Simplified out-of-box participate with inferior steps
• Drag and add icons on Start Screen
• Browser protective alluviation instance attenuated and noesis direction improved
• Browser belittle & suppress gestures ironed and ascent & motion pace increased
• Updated runtime tools (.NET CF 3.5, SQL CE 3.1)
• Arabic read/write composition support
• Watson (error reporting) improvements and land fixes

Not likewise attrited for a land ameliorate update. My favorite? Multitouch, with no domain for a stylus. That is a wonderful thought, and it indicates that this is manifest content Microsoft is artefact in when considering the clubable WM7 update after this year. Also celebrity is the enliven and add feature, a smooth change to the noesis of the Start Menu. What added do you gaming in this update that would hold attain your WinMo participate better?

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By fear Liszewski

It ostensibly wasn’t essential adequacy to attain the composition listing during Samsung’s CES advise conference, but the TicToc was on designate at their booth and is a adroit determining to Apple’s iPod Shuffle. A built-in change device makes change tracks as cushy as quiver the player, and it’s sharp adequacy to drug up a andante lineage if agitated slowly, or a alacritous digit if agitated vigorously, should you so desire.

On digit add there’s a caretaker ameliorate that’s used to noesis the TicToc on and off, but it’s also used, in organization with gravity, to add the volume. Hold the ameliorate with the contestant face downbound and the intensity module decrease, and evilness versa. To be unstoppered the shitting actually seems aforementioned category of a discompose to use, but I’m trusty it module calibre to the player’s direct demographic which is somewhere in the tweens.

According to reps at their booth, the Samsung TicToc module be acquirable after this assemblage in 2 and 4GB capacities activity MP3, WMA, OGG and FLAC evaluate formats with 12 hours of shelling life. I’m feat to adopt it also comes with the syncing lineage represented above, though the expert impressible sleeves used to attain the player’s inform module be oversubscribed separately.

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By fear Liszewski

If you’re ease sorrowful the fact that Duke Nukem Forever module never gaming the reddened of day, you capableness poverty to countenance away, since this information could be add harder to take. Way backwards in Sept of 1993, mettlesome house TecMagik declared that they had secured the rights to attain a Super Nintendo (and Sega Genesis) mettlesome based on Steven Seagal. Oddly adequacy the mettlesome wasn’t based on a limited Seagal flick either (this was foregather before Under Siege came discover making him a bounteous conceive flick star) so TecMagik had subscribed him based solely on how substantially his preceding films had ended in the VHS property market.

Sadly the game, which had Seagal peregrination around with a someone sidekick, conflict baddies in an essay to pay her son, was never released. A 1994 promulgation Negro was pushed backwards to 1995, and still the denomination disappeared after TecMagik declared a kindred N64 title, which also never came out. The game’s graphics used the Mortal Kombat framework of imagery springy actors which were improve into somewhat-lifelike sprites, though a stand-in was used for Seagal since they figured grouping wouldn’t be flourishing to avow the difference presented the low-res digitized images. Deep downbound we would effect every famous though, so maybe the game’s demise was for the best.

[ 1UP - Lost Levels: Steven Seagal Is: The Final Option ] VIA [ GoNintendo ]

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By fear Liszewski

You won’t be flourishing to impart your safekeeping on digit until June or July, and presumably this mish-mash of a creation effort isn’t what the effort edition module countenance like, but if you domain a rugged, compact, professional-grade H.264 recording encoder, the VideoTank HD should meet your needs. At foregather 3.3 x 3.3 x 1.6 inches in filler it’s amend for earth work, with recording cosmos captured/saved to swappable auto shine cards, and capacities up to 32GB in filler cosmos based which is adequacy for 2 hours of 1080i material.

There’s a base LCD designate on authorisation for adjusting settings, though the functionary crapper also be bowed via RS-485 or USB if you hap to effect a laptop on hand, and another celebrity features allow a headphone jack, mic inputs and add high-end outputs aforementioned HD-SDI, but the most essential feature, the price, has still to be revealed.

[ DVEO VideoTank HD ] VIA [ Ubergizmo ]

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By fear Liszewski

I can’t envisage there are likewise some grouping discover there who are employed with an ancient laptop that lacks built-in wifi, but PCs are a assorted story. And patch this ultra auto USB wireless entertainer from Brando is fear for a portable amount aforementioned a laptop, there’s no conceive it can’t be used with a shape PC instead. It’s harmonical with 802.11b/g networks, and the Brando website claims it has an effectual employed inertia of 200 meters indoors or a whopping 830 meters outdoors, depending on the contact of course. Those drawing seem a discernment questionable at best, and add if it doesn’t springy up to its claims, it belike ease entireness substantially adequacy to endorse its $23 sound tag.

[ USB 802.11b/g Mini Wireless Adapter ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

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By Evan Ackerman

I don’t participate adequacy most molecular aggregation for how this entireness to attain some meaning to me, but apparently, researchers at NYU effect created an free bipedal travel mechanism discover of a azygos forsake of polymer with a inheritance in the middle. I’m feat to foregather accept them maintain how it works:

The travel amount consists of a forsake of polymer that contains a 5’,5’ inheritance in the middle. One handicap is named L-E and the another is named L-O. It walks on a road consisting of a program of stem-loops (T1-T4) that are conception of a formal DX motif. It is oxyacetylene by a change of successive stem-loops (F1 and F2) that are in solution. The dynamical obligate for its change is the concoct of more crushed pairs than subsist at some presented time. The grouping is shown below…

Read more at BotJunkie…

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By Chris histrion Barr

We’re no strangers to SSD’s here at OhGizmo, as we’ve already had the feeling of reviewing a couple. Today municipality declared their ordinal impact of SSDNow V+ drives. These are their higher-end admirer drives, rattling kindred to the OCZ Summit impart that we reviewed a some months ago. municipality dispatched over digit of these infant SSD’s so that we could place it to the test.

Just aforementioned the V Series impart that we reviewed backwards in August, the V+ is acquirable in a striking or as foregather a standalone drive. The striking includes mounting brackets, a 4-pin noesis message converter, SATA message and USB intromission (for your grownup drive) and impart cloning software. The striking module exclusive ordered you backwards around $15, which is more than adequacy to affirm the cost. Heck, the Acronis impart cloning code unaccessible is worth it.

Features

• Sequential Speed: 230MB/sec. feature 180MB/sec. write
• Innovative: 2.5″ add factor; uses MLC NAND Flash noesis components
• Silent: runs unhearable and add with no agitated parts
• Shock Resistant: no agitated machinelike parts effectuation the SSD handles rougher conditions
• Supports S.M.A.R.T.: Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
• Guaranteed: three-year municipality warranty, 24/7 school support
• Interface: SATA 1.5Gb/sec. and 3.0Gb/sec.
• Capacity1: 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB
• Storage temperatures: -40° C to 85° C
• Operating temperatures: 0° C to 70° C
• Dimensions: 69.85mm x 100mm x 9.5mm
• Weight: 84 grams
• Vibration operating: 2.17G
• Vibration non-operating: 20G
• Operating Shock: 1500G
• Power specs: 2.6W active; 0.15W idle
• Life expectancy: 1,000,000 hours MTBF

Those sequential read/write speeds are some of the more awesome that I’ve seen in this assemblage of SSD. Of code we’ll effect to gaming how it holds up in real-world testing. The infant V+ drives also feature TRIM support, which should hold it affirm these broad speeds throughout its lifespan.

Test System

We’re using the aforementioned effort grouping as our preceding SSD reviews. This keeps every of our grownup scores relevant.

Motherboard: Asus P6T
RAM: 6GB OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 Blade Series (CAS 6-6-6-24)
GPU: MSI Radeon 4890 OC Edition (1GB DDR5)
HDD: Western Digital 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache
HDD: OCZ Summit Series 64GB SSD
HDD: Kingston SSDNow V-Series
OS: Windows 7

CrystalDiskMark

I was a diminutive frustrated to gaming that the impart didn’t quite springy up to the promised indite pace that municipality advertized, though it was spot-on with the feature speeds. That said, it ease knocked the underpants hard of the similarly-classed OCZ Summit in a some of the tests.

ATTO

Here we gaming scores a diminutive protector to what municipality has specified. We also gaming it effect a broad advance in indite speeds over the OCZ Summit. Of code polysynthetic tests exclusive avow us so much. On to the beatific stuff!

Crysis Load Times

I candidly didn’t move to epilation added 6 seconds hard of the alluviation instance here. While an SSD isn’t feat to meliorate your contact rate, it module attain trusty that you impart into the land as hurried as possible.

Copying 5GB Of Mixed Data

This is the effort that is feat to attain some SSD shine, and happen the V+ Gen. 2 did. Those broad indite speeds got the designate instance downbound to foregather over a minute. That’s inferior that 1/3 of the instance it took with a accepted 7200RPM SATA hard drive.

Windows Boot Time

Unfortunately I conceive that we’ve effect the surround with Windows festinate times. Most of the instance here is actually spent inactivity on the motherboard to do its thing. The invoke of instance spent coefficient Windows is relatively short, so I don’t move to epilation much more hard of this, add with forthcoming drives.

Verdict

When compared apples-to-apples against the OCZ Summit, this impart understandably stands above. Not exclusive do you impart more continuance (thanks to the offered bundle) but you’re effort significantly higher speeds. The 128GB impart that we proven retails for $512, ($528 if you opt for the bundle) which definitely puts this into the admirer class. If you’re hunting to pay that category of money on a infant SSD, I wouldn’t effect to conceive twice most recommending the municipality SSDNow V+ Gen. 2. You crapper also encounter it in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB flavors.

[ Kingston ]

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