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  • Video: Japanese company shows Super Mario Bros. on Kindle emulator

    Video: Japanese company shows Super Mario Bros. on Kindle emulator

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    We've shown you an N64 emulator running on a hacked iPad just a few days ago, and now it's time to see how Super Mario Bros. would look like on a Kindle. And the short answer is that the 1985 NES game would look awful: it's slow, it's in black and white only, it has no sound, it's buggy (since when can Mario kill Goombas by bumping into them?), and apparently, you can't even control Mario properly. Not that this is surprising.

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  • The Sony Playstation Move controller gets a name

    The Sony Playstation Move controller gets a name

    Posted on April 12, 2010 | No Comments
    Quick FYI, everyone. The Sony Playstation Move wand thing should from here on out be referred to not as Sony’s Wii Remote clone, but rather by its official name of Navigation Controller. M’Kay?

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  • Sony: “The PS3 is all the 3D gaming you need and you better like it.” (or something like)

    Sony: “The PS3 is all the 3D gaming you need and you better like it.” (or something like)

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Yesterday's Nintendo 3DS took everyone by surprise. Who expected that Nintendo would announce its next big thing on a random Tuesday in March. Not us. Curious what Sony has to say about it? Well, basically don't expect a 3D PSP anytime soon.

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  • The Sony Dash is available for pre-ordering if you have a spare $199

    The Sony Dash is available for pre-ordering if you have a spare $199

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Good news. You can finally pre-order the Sony Dash. You know, the Chumby clone announced at CES 2010. That is, of course, if you actually want the $199 table-top thing.

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  • Symbian^4 shown off on video, seems.. uninspired

    Symbian^4 shown off on video, seems.. uninspired

    Posted on February 26, 2010 | No Comments
    All around the world, the Symbian-loving chunk of the population is waiting on the edge of their seats for Symbian^4 (pronounced “Symbian Four”). Intended as a complete overhaul from Symbian past, it could very well slingshot the visibly aged Operating System into modern times. The first videos of Symbian^4 have just been released for public consumption, [...]

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  • Report: Acer will launch an ultra-thin notebook this year

    Report: Acer will launch an ultra-thin notebook this year

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Let's not forget Acer's quest to overtake HP as the number 1 computer maker in the world. That's important to remember as the company is reportably getting into the ultra-thin notebook market this year along with making a Chrome OS netbook and ebook reader. 2010 will be Acer's year as the company lays outs its plans, which, surprisingly, doesn't include outing a iPad-ish tablet clone. The Acer Timeline series lead the industry into the CULV game last year, but even those thin laptops look huge next to a MacBook Air or Dell Adamo XPS. So that brings us to right now as a report just surfaced claiming that sometime this year Acer will launch a true ultra-thin notebook based on Intel's next-gen Capella ULV processors that bring conventional notebook performance to ultra-thins.

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  • Asus beat to EEE Keyboard market by knockoff

    Asus beat to EEE Keyboard market by knockoff

    Posted on January 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Bad news for Asus, the EEE Keyboard that still hasn't been released yet was beaten to market by a clone. The knockoff version is made by the Chinese company Great Wall, and while the clone version did beat the original to market, there are some serious reasons to wait until Asus releases their version.

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  • The RCX4 Star Stryker

    The RCX4 Star Stryker

    Posted on January 8, 2010 | No Comments
    DigitTronics showed us their ultra fun RCX4 Star Stryker, a flying, hovering X-Wing fighter-clone that costs $399. It lasts about ten minutes on one charge. Anyone want one? They're $100 off at the show.

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  • Hands-on with the Monster Cable MCC AV50

    Hands-on with the Monster Cable MCC AV50

    Posted on January 6, 2010 | No Comments
    This is Monster Cables’ second line of remotes. The first were a candybar-style Harmony clone. Just like the rest of Monster’s line, it was expensive at $600, but yet nice. I got a chance to spend a few minutes with Monsters’s new line after its presser today, and well, this one seems different. It’s inexpensive [...]

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  • The Sony motion controller is named “Gem”?

    The Sony motion controller is named “Gem”?

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Here’s what we know. John Riccitiello, the CEO of EA, spoke yesterday at the UBS 37th Annual Global Media Conference and said this, “In the coming year, both Sony and Microsoft have announced new controllers. Motion sensor controls, Natal and Gem, these are likely to bring new consumers into the marketplace”. Kind of sounds like he knows [...]

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  • Hands-on with the Blump.it Firefox plug-in on a Viliv X70

    Hands-on with the Blump.it Firefox plug-in on a Viliv X70

    Posted on December 9, 2009 | No Comments
    The Blump.it Firefox plug-in just hit the blogosphere today and I had to try it. So I loaded it up on the Viliv X70 with the hope that it will improve the functionality of the small-ish touchscreen and turn it into a certain tablet computer clone. In short, it does both very well. Check out [...]

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  • Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader

    Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader

    Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader
    "You know, that pallet of overpriced skin cream isn't going to stock itself. Maybe if you'd stop playing Bingo Bonanza you'd have done that already. Oh, you say you're scanning their RFIDs to add them to our system? Whatever, you're fired." It's a scenario we see playing itself out at warehouses all around the world thanks to the iCarte from Wireless Dynamics, a device enabling iPods and iPhones to read from and write to RFID tags. It clips on the bottom and sports a mini-USB port so that you can still sync, but can also use the phone's wireless mechanisms to communicate with various systems, updating inventory or tracking purchases. As far as we know it will not prevent your phone from playing games, but we won't tell your boss about that. Nor will we tell him how much these will cost or when he can order them, since we don't know ourselves.

    Update: Wireless Dynamics asked that we clarify that this device is indeed consumer-oriented, able to scan the RFID tags in your credit cards, transport badges, and probably even that chip you had implanted into your dog's head. So, this means you would be able to make MasterCard PayPass and similar RFID transactions without even reaching for your wallet -- which sounds as convenient as it does disconcerting. Being able to verify that your dog hasn't been replaced by an evil clone while you were at work? Priceless.

    Wireless Dynamics brings the joys of inventory management to the iPhone with the iCarte RFID reader originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXIX: Genuine Android shipping on a counterfeit Storm

    Keepin’ it real fake, part CCXXXIX: Genuine Android shipping on a counterfeit Storm

    Posted on October 13, 2009 | No Comments

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    Looks like someone in Shenzhen had time to kill overnight at the Storm factory -- and they've put it to good use. Instead of giving us a faux-BlackBerry with a horribly mangled KIRFed-out UI (or at most WinMo) what we have here is a genuine clone with a trackball thrown in for good measure running honest-to-goodness Android 1.5. Dubbed the Broncho A1, this guy features a 600MHz CPU, 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen, 3.2 megapixel camera, WiFi, GPS, and an FM radio. That's the good news. The bad? 128MB RAM isn't going to do much for you, app-wise. Oh, well. Price and ship date to be announced at a later date. Get a closer look in the gallery below.


    [Via Cloned In China]

    Keepin' it real fake, part CCXXXIX: Genuine Android shipping on a counterfeit Storm originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Rumor: Nikon is releasing a clone of the Leica X1

    Rumor: Nikon is releasing a clone of the Leica X1

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    So we've known that something was coming, but we weren't sure exactly what. We still don't know for certain what Nikon is up to on the 15th, but that whole is looking better and better. It's not a huge surprise really, since the new Leica's have really been in the news lately.

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  • MacBook Air lookalike is more netbook-y but only costs $250

    MacBook Air lookalike is more netbook-y but only costs $250

    Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Oh wow, take a look at that MacBook Ai—hey, that’s not a MacBook Air! It’s a $250 netbook from China! That’s actually not too bad of a deal, considering that the machine has a 12.1-inch 1366x768 display, weighs just under three pounds, and is less than an inch thick.

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