Feb
28
2010

Archos Home Slate set to grace CeBIT with its family-friendly presence

Watch out now, Archos is about to bestow a whole new category of electronic device upon us. It'll still be a tablet to the knowledgeable among us, but the rest of the world will know the Home Slate as an ...
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Feb
28
2010

New Wacom Cintiq 21UX Has 2048 Pressure Levels and Back Touchpads [Tablets]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/newcintiq.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_newcintiq.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aI'm a a href="http://gizmodo.com/338021/wacom-cintiq-12wx-lcd-pen-tablet-video-review-verdict-simply-amazing-updated"fan of Wacom's Cintiq display tablets/a, so I'm excited about their new 21-inch model, the Cintiq 21UX. According to Wacom, it has better pen performance and ergonomics. The two back ...
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Feb
28
2010

Mysterious yellow and black cards lead to wild Nikon speculation

You know what's black and yellow all over, fits in the average mailbox and gets the imaginations of camera junkies running wild? These cards, that's what. Over the past few days, mysterious cards have begun to arrive in the hands ...
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Feb
28
2010

Intel officially adds Pine Trail Atom N470 processor, early performance results don’t impress

Intel introduced the new Atom N470 netbook CPU back in September and then Lenovo showed off its S10-3t with the new processor at CES, but chipzilla's taking the time today to give its newest Pine Trail CPU a proper unveil. ...
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Feb
28
2010

Mega64: Sonic really sucks

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165359-mega.jpg" alt="Mega64: Sonic really sucks screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pobject width="620" height="376"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pVI6Agm1-kY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pVI6Agm1-kY&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="620" height="376"/embed/object/p pMario's pizza joint ibis /b/iso much better. So much better./p Like this? Then visit the blog it ...
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Feb
28
2010

HP ProBooks Get Prettier Inside and Out [Laptops]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/under_nda_until_3.1_-_probook_4520s_-_bordeaux_front.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_under_nda_until_3.1_-_probook_4520s_-_bordeaux_front.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aHP's ProBook s-series wants to be your everything: punchy enough for work, stylish enough for home. And with a new brushed aluminum industrial design and Core i3/i5/i7 processing power, they may just bridge ...
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Feb
28
2010

HP EliteBook 2740p Tablet Graduates to Capacitive Multitouch Display [Tablets]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/under_nda_until_3.1_-_elitebook_2740p_-__closed_turned.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_under_nda_until_3.1_-_elitebook_2740p_-__closed_turned.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aThe a href="http://gizmodo.com/5038124/hp-elitebook-2730p-tablet-is-ruggedized-and-means-business"HP EliteBook 2730p/a was a tough little convertible tablet, and its successormdash; HP's a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #elitebook2740p" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/elitebook2740p/"EliteBook 2740p/amdash;is no exception. The 2740p meets the ...
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Feb
28
2010

HP adds EliteBook 2540p and 2740p to the lineup, brings the power and the touch

Thought HP was done unleashing its new line of semi-rugged EliteBooks at CES? So did we, but apparently it needed just a little bit more time to pull the 12.1-inch 2540p and 2740p out of the oven. An update to ...
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Feb
28
2010

HP spices up ProBooks with Core 2010 CPUs, ClickPads and caviar paint

No offense to the previous ProBooks s-series, but we think HP may have finally removed the last pieces of boring from the line. The new crop of business laptops - if you can even call them that anymore - are ...
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Feb
28
2010

Valve is going to get better at PS3, promise

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165294-800px-Valve_logo.svg.png" alt="Valve is going to get better at PS3, promise screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pI think calling the iOrange Box/i's transition to the Playstation 3 an epic failure might be an understatement. One of the must own games on the ...
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Feb
28
2010

Valve is going to get better a PS3, promise

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165294-800px-Valve_logo.svg.png" alt="Valve is going to get better a PS3, promise screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pI think calling the iOrange Box/i's transition to the Playstation 3 an epic failure might be an understatement. One of the must own games on the ...
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Feb
28
2010

Mio stuns at CeBIT with ultra-sleek Moov V780 MID

Uh, folks -- we've an identity crisis on our hands. Is this a MID with a penchant for navigating? Is this a PMP with pre-loaded maps? Is it an ultra-sleek navigator that just so happens to play music? There's a ...
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Feb
28
2010

Error: 8001050F Takes Down PlayStation Network [Playstation]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/thumb160x_playstation-network-logo.jpg" class="left image158" width="158" /Something is happening in a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #playstationnetwork" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/playstationnetwork/"PlayStation Network/a land this evening, and it isn't good. Known cryptically as emError: 8001050F/em, all we know right now is it ...
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Feb
28
2010

Apple files for Magic Trackpad trademark

This one slipped under our radar this week, but it's interesting nonetheless: Apple's filed for a "Magic Trackpad" trademark, which would seemingly indicate that there's a companion to the Magic Mouse in the works. That's all we know for now, ...
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Feb
28
2010

Splinter Cell Conviction has lots of multiplayer

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165319-Splinter-Cell-Conviction-1024.jpg" alt="Splinter Cell Conviction has lots of multiplayer screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pscript language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/js/swfobject.js"/script script language="javascript" function getVideo() { var so = new SWFObject("http://cdn.springboard.gorillanation.com/storage/xplayer/yo033.swf", "mplayer", "620", "375", "8", "#000000"); so.addParam("wmode","transparent"); so.addParam("swliveconnect", "true"); so.addParam("allowscriptaccess", "always"); so.addParam("allowfullscreen", "true"); so.addVariable("pid", "dest002"); so.addVariable("siteId", "357"); so.addVariable("videoId", "128125"); so.addVariable("file", "http://cms.springboard.gorillanation.com/xml_feeds_advanced/index/357/3/128125/"); so.addVariable("pageUrl", document.location); so.write("flashcontent_357_dest002_single_128125"); } /script div id="flashcontent_357_dest002_single_128125"/div script language="javascript"getVideo();/script/p pSure you knew ...
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Feb
28
2010

Games of the week for 02/28/10: Ed Gamble edition

pobject width="620" height="376"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLsO8wbhj_c&hl=en_US&fs=1&"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qLsO8wbhj_c&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="620" height="376"/embed/object/p pAs you may have learned yesterday, British comedians Ray Peacock and Ed Gamble had an argument thanks to my posting of a Ray Peacock video in ...
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Feb
28
2010

PSN is down for many, Sony on the case

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165345-blurb_psn.jpg" alt="PSN is down for many, Sony on the case screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pIt seems that the Playstation Network is having some issues. Over the past two hours or so people have been having problems getting online over PSN ...
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Feb
28
2010

PlayStation Network down, so are lots of PS3s

It's unclear exactly what's going on at the moment, but it appears that the PlayStation Network is down and causing a whole host of related problems for PS3 systems, including 8001050F error codes, game crashes, corrupted trophy info, and even ...
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Feb
28
2010

PSN is down, Sony on the case

p img src="http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/165345-blurb_psn.jpg" alt="PSN is down, Sony on the case screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pIt seems that the Playstation Network is having some issues. Over the past two hours or so people have been having problems getting online over PSN and are ...
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Feb
28
2010

PS3s Suffering From Global Network Lockdown [Psn]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/psnerror.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_psnerror.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aAll around the world, PlayStation 3 consoles simply aren't working like they're supposed to, with a PlayStation Network error preventing people from not just going online, but from playing some PS3 games emoffline/em ...
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Feb
28
2010

An education in gaming: Gnomon School of Visual Effects

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165247-image006.jpg" alt="An education in gaming: Gnomon School of Visual Effects screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pAny one of us with an artistic bone in their body has always dreamed of being somehow involved in the creation of videogames. After all, for ...
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Feb
28
2010

Money Well Spent [Night Note]

pTo: Lukebr / From: Owen/ppThis past week I got my taxes done - because I lived in three states last year, and other circumstances, I figured a professional was the best way to go. The bill wasn't so bad. California got ...
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Feb
28
2010

Natal Marketing Effort Targeting Women’s Magazines [Project Natal]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/340x_kristenbellcosmopolitanmagazinemay2008-781418.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /You know those women's magazines like emGlamour/em and emCosmopolitan/em that promise BIG SEX NEWS every single month? Well, if a report's to be believed, they're going to be delivering BIG NATAL NEWS as the product ...
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Feb
28
2010

This Week in the Community: The family tree

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165277-23164-165134-GameCollectionjpg-620x.jpg" alt="This Week in the Community: The family tree screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p psub[iThis Week in the Community is your weekly look at some of the best Community related work that has come from the Community Blogs and Forums./i]/sub/p pThis week's ...
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Feb
28
2010

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar… gold?

The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat, recapping the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat peered into the future of green tech as we liveblogged the most ...
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Feb
28
2010

Mario 1Up Quilt, as Made by a Dude [Screengrab]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/quiltdude2.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_quiltdude2.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aTwo years ago, longtime reader Jacob C. was expecting his first child, a daughter. "I wanted her to have a handmade video game quilt, unrivaled in awesomeness as only they can be." Problem ...
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Feb
28
2010

Week in Games: Baseball’s Back [New Releases]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/thumb160x_mlb2k10_01.jpg" class="left image158" width="158" /Pitchers and catchers reported last week. One week later we have opening day on the consoles, as MLB 2K10 and MLB 10 the Show release on Tuesday. Oh yeah, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is also ...
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Feb
28
2010

My Expertise: Collecting

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165134-23164-165134-GameCollectionjpg-620x.jpg" alt="My Expertise: Collecting screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p psub[iEditor's Note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware that it may not jive with the ...
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Feb
28
2010

HTC Desire’s Sense UI ported to Droid; HTC, Motorola cringe

If you work for Motorola, cover your ears and say "Blur Blur Blur Blur" at the top of your lungs over and over again for the duration of this post, because what we're about to present is an unholy marriage ...
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Feb
28
2010

Deadly Premonition is blatantly better than Heavy Rain

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165288-dphr.jpg" alt="Deadly Premonition is blatantly better than Heavy Rain screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pYesterday we reviewedi Deadly Premonition/i and gave it a score of 10. This comes just weeks after we reviewed iHeavy Rain/i and gave it a score of ...
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Feb
28
2010

Sony Vaio P Clone Can’t Compete with the Original [Clones]

pSo, the Sony a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #vaiop" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/vaiop/"Vaio P/a has a clone. Congrats, Sony! Too bad the mimicry ends with the aesthetics:/ppa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/vaio-p-clone-1.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_vaio-p-clone-1.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aThe appearance is spot on, but ...
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Feb
28
2010

Kotaku’s Top 5 List of Top 10 Lists [Lists]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/340x_custom_1248626904412_checklist1.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /emEach week throws off several new video game lists ranging from the humorous to the trivial. What's better? strongA list of those./strong Here's a roundup of the rundowns out there./em/ppbr br br img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/340x_custom_1267388697136_gow2--article_image.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /•stronga ...
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Feb
28
2010

Löopa Gyro Bowl Provides Intense Astronaut Training for Your Frosted Flakes [Bowls]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/340x_toddlergyrodish_01.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /There's actually no "gyro" in the Löopa "gyro bowl," so the designers' decision to market it as such is a bit disingenuous, but nevertheless it's a novel idea that could get the brattiest of kids ...
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Feb
28
2010

Jason Rohrer’s Sleep is Death now available for preorder

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165251-sleepisdeath.jpg" alt="Jason Rohrer's Sleep is Death now available for preorder screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pa target="_blank" href="http://sleepisdeath.net/"iSleep is Death/i/a is either going to be one of the coolest things I've ever played, or it's going to reflect my own boringness ...
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Feb
28
2010

Activision Terminates Fan-Made King’s Quest Extension [King's Quest]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/71964_large.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_71964_large.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aThe team of emKing's Quest/em enthusiasts who had, since 2002, been working on an unofficial continuation of the seminal adventure game, have complied with a demand by Activision to cease all development of ...
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