Feb
28
2010

Nokia Teases, Heavily, That C-Series Phones Are Launching at CeBIT [Nokia]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/340x_nokia_logo2.jpg" class="left image340" width="340" /Remember Nokia? They make cellphones (still!), and at CeBIT they're hinting hard that two more, possibly the C5 and C6, are about to join their ranks./ppThe hint was packaged in the Nokia Conversations newsletter. C ...
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Feb
28
2010

Viliv S5 MID gets accuracy-boosting HID driver for Windows 7

Viliv's S5 MID, the little machine that packs the Vaio P's Z520 processor in a legitimately pocketable form-factor, just got a breath of fresh air. It's an HID (human interface device) driver for Windows 7, boosting the machine's touchscreen abilities ...
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Feb
28
2010

Exclusive Q&A: Front Mission Evolved

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165136-fme.jpg" alt="Exclusive QA: Front Mission Evolved screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pAs any fan knows it's been quite a while since any game in the iFront Mission /ifranchise landed on English-speaking shores. So long, in fact that a few dedicated gamers ...
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Feb
28
2010

Growin’ Up Speaker System Design Rooted in Trees [Speakers]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/growupspeakers1.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_growupspeakers1.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //a"Larry, your new speakers look great, really they do. But...something's off. I can't put my finger on it, but they just sound, I dunno, kind of emwooden/em. You know?"/ppBecause they're inspired by trees! ...
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Feb
28
2010

Grand Auto Thiefman teaches you things

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/164458-45866-164458-titlejpg-620x.jpg" alt="Grand Auto Thiefman teaches you things 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 ...
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Feb
28
2010

UK Bill Would Outlaw Open Public Wifi Hotspots [WiFi]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/thumb160x_free_wi_fi_spot.jpg" class="left image158" width="158" /If passed, something called the Digital Economy Bill over in the U.K. could do the unthinkable in this, the digital age: Ban open wifi spots./ppThe ban comes as part of a bill that seeks to ...
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Feb
28
2010

Heavy Rain Film Rights Optioned Long Ago [Hollywood]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/heavy-rain-10-1.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_heavy-rain-10-1.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aemHeavy Rain/em was announced way, way back at E3 2006, which was the week of May 8. One week after the show, May 15, 2006, the U.S. Copyright Office recorded an option for ...
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Feb
28
2010

ASUS Eee PC T101MT Convertible Struggles in Hands-On Preview [Asus Eee PC]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_500x_asus-t101mt-1.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" /When we a href="http://gizmodo.com/5471797/asus-eee-pc-t101mt-has-a-multitouch-tablet-display-and-new-pine-trail-chip"previewed the Asus Eee PC T101MT/a convertible netbook/tablet earlier this month, it was just on paper. The plucky little netbook looked promising, for an a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts ...
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Feb
28
2010

Motorized Lego Technic Avatar Helicopter is Grounded—For Now [Lego]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/p1090802.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_p1090802.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aGive this Lego Avatar helicopter a few aerodynamic tweaks, a slightly more powerful engine and a pilot spouting off canned, predictable dialogue, and I could easily see it taking flight, literally, to fight ...
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Feb
28
2010

Can’t talk now, playing Infectonator: World Dominator

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165255-infec.jpg" alt="Can't talk now, playing Infectonator: World Dominator screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pa target="_blank" href="http://www.bubblebox.com/play/action/1675.htm"Wave goodbye to the rest of your weekend./a/p piInfectonator: World Dominator/i is a game about destroying the world with a zombie apocalypse. It's less of a thinky-thinky ...
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Feb
28
2010

Indoctrinating the Veterans of a Virtual War [Weekend Reader]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/100219_americasarmy1.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_100219_americasarmy1.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aIn the past year, 70,000 men and women enlisted in the U.S. Army. Sixty-seven times that amount - 4.7 million - played emModern Warfare 2/em on a console or PC, released one day ...
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Feb
28
2010

Kotaku ‘Shop Contest: Next-Gen Cereal System Edition [Photoshop]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/thumb160x_nintycereal.jpg" class="left image158" width="158" /Last week a box of 22-year-old cereal a href="http://kotaku.com/5476743/box-of-cereal-old-enough-to-drink-legally-and-vote-sold-for-200"sold for more than $200 on eBay/a. Video game cereals died in the 8-bit era. Since then there have been four console generations - and zero cereal ...
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Feb
28
2010

LG’s 15-inch 15EL9500 OLED TV sets sail for Europe, scheduled to arrive this May

We've had only tantalizingly brief (or is it briefly tantalizing?) chances to see LG's glorious OLED television, but each and every time it's left us with the feeling that our lives are poorer for not having one in our homes. ...
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Feb
28
2010

Naysayers Begin to Poo-Poo On Bloom Box’s Lofty Claims [Bloom Box]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/bloombox.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_bloombox.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aWell, that didn't take long. Already analysts are crawling out of the woodwork to put the seemingly miraculous a href="http://gizmodo.com/5479460/giz-explains-fuel-cells-and-bloom-energys-miracle-box"Bloom Box fuel cell/a in its place as yet another energy saving technology that ...
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Feb
28
2010

Final Fantasy XI to Get Three Expansions in 2010 [Final Fantasy XI]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/5a_0984en.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_5a_0984en.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aAt Vanafest 2010 in Tokyo, Hiromichi Tanaka, the lead developer of emFinal Fantasy XI/em, announced that game will get three new high level battle area additions this year: emVision of Abyssea, Scars of ...
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Feb
28
2010

Amazing DSiWare game is amazing

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165299-hhtgghr.jpg" alt="Amazing DSiWare game is amazing screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pspan style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"object width="620" height="376"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZlP8hZepaKQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&"/paramparam name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/paramparam name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"/paramembed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZlP8hZepaKQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="620" height="376"/embed/object/span/p pIt's not often that ...
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Feb
28
2010

Apple Threatened Me With Legal Action For Selling a Broken Step From Their New York Store On eBay [Apple]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_ebay-step.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" /emLast week a href="http://gizmodo.com/5476997/broken-step-from-apples-new-york-store-on-sale-at-ebay-for-2500"we posted an eBay auction/a where the sellermdash;an ex-employee of Applemdash;was selling a a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #brokenstep" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/brokenstep/"broken step/a from the Fifth Ave New York Apple ...
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Feb
28
2010

K Monthly – February 2010 [K Magazine]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/k_feb_10_01.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_k_feb_10_01.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aWelcome to the February 2010 edition of K Monthly, a look back at some of the best original coverage, including reviews, features, weekly columns and more, from Kotaku./p pDon't miss our reporting from this ...
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Feb
28
2010

ASUS Eee PC T101MT convertible gets handled twice (video)

What's better than one hands-on report to whet your appetite ahead of the release of a new gadget? Why, two of them, of course, and it's the convertible ASUS T101MT getting the stereo impressions. The machine has netbook specs (1.6GHz ...
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Feb
28
2010

Blur multiplayer beta sets a date

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165291-blur-game-wallpaper-7.jpg" alt="Blur multiplayer beta sets a date screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pFor those of you out there who are looking forward to iBlur/i and all its real racing/kart racing action there's something to look forward to now. Dan Amrich, Activision ...
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Feb
28
2010

The World Cup Goes High-Tech [World Cup]

pFrom the ball to special uniforms that make you jump higher, this year's a class="autolink" title="Click here to read more posts tagged #worldcup" href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/worldcup/"World Cup/a could very well be the most a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/27/the-many-hi-tech-wonders-of-adidas-at-this-years-world-cup/"techie soccer tournament/a the world's ever seen./ppThe ball, ...
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Feb
28
2010

Corsair Nova, Reactor SSDs now available

Well, it didn't exactly seem like these were nearing an imminent release when they were introduced earlier this month, but Corsair has now pulled a pleasant surprise and announced that its new Nova and Reactor SSD drives are available right ...
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Feb
28
2010

Three new add-ons coming to Final Fantasy XI

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165289-abyssea.jpg" alt="Three new add-ons coming to Final Fantasy XI screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pI know that plenty of iFinal Fantasy XI /iplayers out there are not so patiently awaiting iFinal Fantasy IV/i for a chance to sink their teeth into ...
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Feb
28
2010

Kotaku Off-Topic: Packin’ Heat [How Is This News?]

pa rel="lytebox" href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/1006.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/02/500x_1006.jpg" class="left image500" width="500" //aIn some parts of our fine country, a person can walk into a supermarket visibly strapped and no one bats an eye. I want to try that with a machete, or that replica ...
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Feb
28
2010

The Pentagon Wants You—Yes, You!—to Develop a Life-Saving Robot [Robots]

pimg src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/thumb160x_robot-dog.jpg" class="left image158" width="158" /Hey you! Be all that you can be! Help the U.S. military design an autonomous robot capable of ferrying injured troops from the front lines to safety with little or no help from a human ...
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Feb
28
2010

Corsair Nova, Reactor SSD drives now available

Well, it didn't exactly seem like these were nearing an imminent release when they were introduced earlier this month, but Corsair has now pulled a pleasant surprise and announced that its new Nova and Reactor SSD drives are available right ...
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Feb
28
2010

Fujitsu’s LifeBook UH900 gets unboxed, sized up against the competition

Fujitsu's LifeBook UH900 started shipping to Americans just over a fortnight ago, and now one has landed into the capable hands of Pocketables. Boasting a 2GHz Atom CPU and some of the most unsightly adapters we've ever seen, this flip-open ...
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Feb
28
2010

Bass Pro Shops: The Hunt lets you shoot animals

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165234-BPSheader.jpg" alt="Bass Pro Shops: The Hunt lets you shoot animals screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pHey guys, is this a preview for iBass Pro Shops: The Hunt/i? Yep, it's a preview for iBass Pro Shops: The Hunt/i, and I'll be really ...
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Feb
28
2010

Sports stars know how to game while traveling

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165222-vg_NBAGamers_2_576.jpg" alt="Sports stars know how to game while traveling screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pIt must be good to be a professional basketball player. I mean as long as you aren't one of the ones whose under criminal investigation. Take Kobe ...
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Feb
28
2010

Yoshi Akai’s Wireless Catcher senses nearby wireless waves, makes music (video)

What's cute, cuddly, and makes all sorts of bizarro noises when it senses wireless waves? Yoshi Akai's Wireless Catcher, of course! This analog synth contraption is simplistic in nature and complex in design, utilizing an onboard antenna to sense WiFi ...
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Feb
28
2010

Foto Showdown is all bout the monsters and the fighting

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165220-camera.jpg" alt="Foto Showdown is all bout the monsters and the fighting 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", "127973"); so.addVariable("file", "http://cms.springboard.gorillanation.com/xml_feeds_advanced/index/357/3/127973/"); so.addVariable("pageUrl", document.location); so.write("flashcontent_357_dest002_single_127973"); } /script div id="flashcontent_357_dest002_single_127973"/div script ...
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Feb
27
2010

Mega Man 10′s has a challenge mode, also candy

p img src="http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/165228-Megacandyheader.jpg" alt="Mega Man 10's has a challenge mode, also candy screenshot" width="468" border="0" / /p pOne of my favorite things about iMega Man 9/i was the game's a href="http://www.destructoid.com/mega-man-9-dlc-round-up-proto-man-and-endless-attack-mode-106567.phtml"Endless Mode DLC/a. Combining the best aspects of rougelikes with traditional Mega Man ...
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Feb
27
2010

Palm webOS 1.4 update hits Verizon’s Pre Plus and Pixi Plus

According to a little late night tweet from Palm -- and the update screen on our device -- the stacked new webOS 1.4 update is making its way out into the world for the company's Verizon-flavored devices. That's right, Plussers ...
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Feb
27
2010

Woman Attempts High Jump: Not Even Close

I don't really know what's going on here. Some kind of adult Field Day? brbr If that is what it is, this woman who made a pathetic attempt at the high jump -- with the bar set below her waist -- ...
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Feb
27
2010

Caltech gurus whip up highly efficient, low cost flexible solar cell

Solar cells are cute and all, but let's be real -- these things are far too inefficient for mainstream use. Scientists at the California Institute of Technology are working hard to remedy that very issue, and they've recently concocted a ...
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