There’s no question: retail has a serious lack of Wii, once again.
February 3, 2010 - 2:00 am
Tags: games, gaming, house, light, motion, remote-control, smart, smart-playlists, uspto, words
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Filed under: Gaming , Hardware , Video The USPTO has published seven different patents from Apple today , including one that might be found in the next generation of the Apple TV. The patent allows for a “Remote Control System that can Distinguish Stray Light Sources” — in other words, a Wii style remote that can pick out a certain type of light source from other bulbs in the house
February 2, 2010 - 5:51 pm
Tags: christmas, europe, heading-towards, james-armstrong, japanese, motorsport-opus, position-held, PS3, ps3 news forum, release, tokyo, towards-the-end
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A Sony Computer Entertainment Europe executive has said that he expects Gran Turismo 5 to come out “this fall, before Christmas”, while confessing the release date is “not yet decided”.
It’s taken me a couple of days for me to understand the wet sickness I felt in response to all the post-iPad whining, until it finally came up in a sputtering lump: disgust. The iPad isn’t a threat to anything except the success of inferior products. And if anything’s dystopian about the future it portends, it’s an American copyright system that’s been out of whack since 1996 .
Absolutely dread going to your location wireless provider’s store and having to be social? If it’s one of your worst nightmares, hopefully this will help you change that. Guest post by a “connect” in the wireless industry.
January 26, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: 1980s toys, actually-afford, bigtrak, direction, gathering-dust, its-futuristic, left-image500, like-the-most, remote-control, school, schoolyard, smaller-models, thoughts, toys
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Most of Gizmodo is comprised of whippersnappers who can only just remember the Bigtrak from the ’80s, so we asked an actual , genuine, grey-haired old man* to tell us his thoughts upon hearing it’s to make a comeback this year. Back in 1980, Bigtrak’s chunky all-terrain monster truck looked like the most exciting toy on six wheels, especially with its futuristic programmable navigation system, but it was a fad that passed faster than a Sinclair C5. Forget remote control, you had to laboriously punch in the direction and distance you wanted it to go before it would do anything
January 24, 2010 - 7:00 pm
Tags: barnes & noble, christmas, customer service, ebook, failure, fledgling, good-customer, jesse-vincent, left-image500, mainstream, nook, nook-related, silver-lining, still-running
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The Consumerist , as always, is right on top of Barnes & Noble’s recent Nook-related failings.
January 22, 2010 - 6:30 pm
Tags: appletablet, christmas, guide, likely-credible, roundup, tablet, tablet-dreams, the-tablet, tuaw, world
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Filed under: Hardware , Rumors In light of the current tablet frenzy, TUAW is not alone shouting “Tablet, Tablet!” from the rooftops. The tablet has been a widespread and consistent story from several directions which we have been compiling and discussing
January 21, 2010 - 10:00 pm
Tags: Browsers, entry, firefox, firefox 3.6, halloween, highlights, internet, internet-tools, plugin-warnings, tools, video
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Filed under: Software , Internet , Internet Tools Head on over to Getfirefox.com , Firefox fans. Version 3.6 of your favorite browser is now ready.
January 20, 2010 - 11:26 pm
Tags: christmas, controllers, drums-or-guitar, games, kitchen, looked-at-some, nintendo wii news forum, price, read-the-rest, the-controllers, wife
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It could have happened to any man with any console.
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