Xl Archive

  • Blood sugar testing game and accessory coming for the Nintendo DS

    Blood sugar testing game and accessory coming for the Nintendo DS

    Childhood diabetes sucks, there's no way around it. Testing is annoying and uncomfortable for adults, much lets kids, and the testing technology isn't exactly what you'd call fun or interesting. Bayer is trying to make it better though, by creating a fun way to test blood glucose levels using a Nintendo DS.

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  • Heaven forefend! Has Nintendo’s 3DS announcement killed the DSi XL?

    Heaven forefend! Has Nintendo’s 3DS announcement killed the DSi XL?

    NOT FOR KIDS! In all honesty, I don’t think the DSi XL is part of Nintendo’s standard line-up. It’s a reaction to the popularity of the Wii in retirement centers and is aimed at a much older – and much different audience – than the new 3D DS, aptly named the 3DS. Older folks who may [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Pac Pills Edition

    Daily Crunch: Pac Pills Edition

    Wearing your unread email count on your chest This gives Pac-Man a whole new twist RCA’s AirPower has been repackaged to better hide the snake oil inside Review: Nintendo DSi XL Rugged Camera Roundup: The Movie

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  • Review: Nintendo DSi XL

    Review: Nintendo DSi XL

    Short version: Nintendo’s new DSi XL is aimed squarely at the older generation of casual gamers. People that appreciate something that’s a little easier to read. The people who wear their reading glasses while they sit down for their morning glass of fiber and read their copy of the AARP Journal. And heaven help me, [...]

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  • Daily Crunch: Burst Bubble Edition

    Daily Crunch: Burst Bubble Edition

    AquaAntics Water Bomb Factory is genius, should win an international peace award DIY: Convert a disposable camera into a slave flash DIY: Get medieval with the Mini-Trebuchet SIMBox, the texting incontinence pants TomTom brings free lifetime traffic and maps to the XL and XXL GPS models

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  • iFixit tears down the DSi XL

    iFixit tears down the DSi XL

    No Tegra chip for you! iFixit tore down the Nintendo DSi XL and found, not surprisingly, a bigger DSi. It’s running the DSi’s ARM processor and the motherboard is big enough to fit in the case, but that’s about it. Click through for more findings: * Nintendo is again using a custom ARM CPU, manufactured in [...]

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  • PSA: DSiWare games don’t transfer to the DSi XL

    PSA: DSiWare games don’t transfer to the DSi XL

    Remember that DSi XL that's coming out next week? Well, I hope you didn't spend a bunch of money in the DSiWare store with your regular size DSi. Yep, turns out that you can't transfer games to your new hand-held. That really sucks.

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  • Official iPad “HD” apps leaked

    Official iPad “HD” apps leaked

    A list of “HD” or “XL” apps is appearing on the iTunes web interface including a number of person favorites like Flight Control and Plants vs. Zombies. The new apps will look better on the iPad’s larger screen. You can see some of the apps here but here’s a very short list [...]

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  • Nintendo 3DS: New details leak in Japan

    Nintendo 3DS: New details leak in Japan

    Nintendo's announcement of its new portable 3D gamimg device 3DS was very brief, prompting us to speculate about possible features and implications for the way people will play games in the future. But today the Nikkei, Japan's Wall Street Journal, is offering a bit more insight (and the Nikkei is usually a very reliable source).

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  • Video unboxing of the Nintendo DSi XL

    Video unboxing of the Nintendo DSi XL

    Excuse our enthusiasm, but here’s the DSi XL unboxed for all and sundry. Enjoy!

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  • The Tiniest Press Release In The World Contest Winner: Nintendo DSi XL

    The Tiniest Press Release In The World Contest Winner: Nintendo DSi XL

    We have a great hands on up but did you know the DSi XL came with the tiniest press kit in the world? The kit includes all the specs but is written on little sheets of paper about 2 inches by 3 inches. There’s even a mini business card! Say what you want about PR people [...]

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  • First Look: Nintendo DSi XL

    First Look: Nintendo DSi XL

    Just got another care package from Nintendo, and it’s a big one — literally. Nintendo sent us one of its new DSi XL units, and color me impressed. The screens look great, and games look like they should have been on a screen this size in the first place. I don’t even need my reading [...]

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  • Nintendo DSi XL: March 28, $190

    Nintendo DSi XL: March 28, $190

    Nicholas here, from the past communicating to the future! (The site is all messed up, so I probably wrote these words several hours before you're reading them. It's like a Metal Gear Time Paradox or something.) Nintendo has said it will release the DSi XL on March 28 for $190.

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  • Series 3 TiVo boxes will NOT get the Premiere software

    Series 3 TiVo boxes will NOT get the Premiere software

    Sorry, TiVo owners. Your TiVo HD and HD XL boxes will not be getting the swanky new software TiVo announced today according to an official TiVo spokeswomen we just asked. It probably has something to do with the fact that the Premiere hardware is the same as the current generation and therefore current owners would [...]

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  • The TiVo Premier is finally official

    The TiVo Premier is finally official

    Finally. We finally have new TiVo models. The TiVo HD XL launched a long year and half ago and the UI is even older. But that’s behind us now, the TiVo Premier is here and it’s (nearly) everything we need in a DVR. Everything is different: the hardware, the interface, even the remote. (QWERTY!) With the [...]

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