PlayStation Move Hands-On

PlayStation Move Hands-On

PlayStation owners, rejoice! Soon you will stop hearing "when are you getting a Wii?" from your friends and family. Sony has just announced the PlayStation Move at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Presented last year at E3 (in fanfare), it is now a real product that will be sold as a bundle (game+ EyeToy webcam + PS Move) for $100. If you add the secondary controller, and make that a set of two,...

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iPhone 3.2 Beta SDK Hints At New Gestures

iPhone 3.2 Beta SDK Hints At New Gestures

Folks who are keen to dabble with Apple’s latest iPhone 3.2 Beta 4 SDK might be interested to check out some new gestures that have appeared in the gestures folder. Upon inspection, you’ll notice the 3Tap.plist and LongPress.plist files, which seem to indicate that the iPhone will get the triple tap and long press interaction methods. Can you imagine any scenario or app that would benefit from such additional interaction methods, or do you think...

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Pioneer DJM-2000 digital mixer sports multitouch screen, per-frequency mixing delight

Ready to graduate from DJ Hero? Got a house payment handy? Then Pioneer would like to show you the way to the pros. Say hello to the DJM-2000, a four-channel digital mixer built around a 5.8-inch multitouch screen and sporting enough knobs, buttons and sliders for a NASA launch sequence. Designed to play nice with the matching CDJ-2000 players Pioneer released last year, the unit features an integrated audio effects suite with six dedicated processors...

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ARM guy: 50 tablet computers coming out in 2010

Man oh man. This is going to be like the netbooksplosion that happened after the EeePC hit. Roy Chen, a big man at ARM, said at a press meeting that they expect perhaps 50 tablet computers to be made available worldwide in 2010. Of course, in the US, we’ll only see a fraction of them — maybe 15 or 20. Some of these will be knockoffs, some Android devices, some this or that or the...

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Will The Horror Flicks Of The Future Call Your Cell Phone?

Ever been in the movies to catch a horror flick, and halfway through the movie, in that moment of suspense, yell out “RUN!” or something similar? Obviously the person on screen couldn’t hear you (and as a result met a horrible end), but what if you could influence the person on screen? That’s what the folks behind Last Call are aiming to do with their interactive horror film. Audience members will be asked to supply...

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Motorola And Microsoft Strike A Deal To Put Bing On Cell Phones

Motorola And Microsoft Strike A Deal To Put Bing On Cell Phones

Oh the irony of some things. The folks over at Google certainly aren’t going to be too amused to hear that Motorola has just struck up a deal with Microsoft that will see Bing search and mapping services come standard on Motorola’s phones that are powered by Google’s Android OS. In short, there will be a Bing bookmark and search widget loaded by default on your cell phone, starting with Motorola’s phones in China. This...

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Western Digital My Passport AV portable media drive

Western Digital My Passport AV portable media drive

Western Digital has rolled out a new range of My Passport AV portable media drives, where it will offer a seamless plug-and-play experience for digital media enthusiasts. After all, there is a growing number of game consoles, camcorders, TVs, DVRs, Blu-ray players and media players which boasts USB connectivity, making the My Passport AV portable media drive well poised to to meet the requirements of this demanding video streaming environment. Sony users will be pleased...

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Sony PlayStation Move announced

Sony PlayStation Move announced

It won't be immediate that you will be able to enjoy true motion controls on the Sony PS3, since the PlayStation Move platform will be hitting the gaming scene only sometime this fall. Finally, Sony seems to have seen the light where motion controls are concerned, but we are sure the PlayStation Move won't come cheap - not as cheap as the Wii, anyways. After all, you will not only have the PlayStation Move controller...

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Another Hourtime Episode for your pleasure

In this episode the boys talk about the upcoming Basel show and offer some tips on collecting. Download MP3 Subscribe in iTunes ...

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Is The Motorola Opus One The Motorola i1?

Is The Motorola Opus One The Motorola i1?

Pictures of the upcoming Motorola Opus One for iDEN networks have been going around for a while now, but now a little update on the device seems to have surfaced. Apparently it could be called the i1, instead of the Opus One, and it will sport a 5-megapixel camera, instead of the initial 3-megapixel rumor. The more interesting bit is that Opera Mini will be the default browser on the i1, which is probably indication...

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KT To Offer The LG KH5200 Andro-1 In Korea

KT To Offer The LG KH5200 Andro-1 In Korea

If you think that the LG KH5200 Andro-1 phone looks rather familiar, you’re right, as it seems that this phone is a rebadged version of the LG GW620 that we’ve seen before. The KH5200 will be launching in Korea via KT as soon as next week, and should be going for about 600,000 won ($531). What makes it more interesting is the rumblings of a plan that will allow you to get the phone for...

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Motorola partners with Microsoft, will use Bing search and maps on Chinese Android phones

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Motorola_s_Android_phones_to_use_Bing_search_in_China'; Uh, whoa. When we heard Google's threatened pullout of China had prompted Motorola to seek out an alternative search provider for its China-bound handsets, we can't say we were expecting a partnership with Microsoft to result. But here we are, staring at a press release announcing the Bing search and Maps will be the default on Moto's Chinese Android phones starting in Q1 -- and the partnership is described as "global," so...

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