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Going live on the Xbox 360's Kinect hub later this morning, Kinect Fun Labs is a series of gadgets that deliver enhanced functionality to Microsoft's magical camera peripheral, including scanning in your face to create realistic avatars and unrealistic bobbleheads. More »
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For less than $100 Roxio's diminutive Game Capture kit lets you play in high-def while capturing video of your Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 gaming sessions. More »
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What's that, little Billy? You say you want a fancy Xbox 360 for your birthday? I've got something even better! More »
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Having access to the internet and its petabytes of easily available information is, for many of us, a good thing. Well, with the exception of our brains, which are being constantly distracted by e-mails, instant messages and video games. More »
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Bill collectors, petition gatherers, creepy neighbors, cheerful-looking people who want to talk to you about your relationship with God, tell them all it's safe to cross into your home when this Pitfall! croc shuts his mouth. More »
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Want some parachute thrusters? How about a half-shotgun, half rocket launcher? All this and more is coming in two sets of Black Market downloadable content for Just Cause 2. More »
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Imagine playing Frogger on your hand just by tapping your palm with a finger, or whipping through menus projected onto your arm. More »
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Alienware has long been one of my favorite computer and laptop makers. It's purchase by Dell didn't change that. More »
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Gizmodo reports that an official Sega Genesis emulator is coming to the iPhone as a sort of virtual console and store. More »
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Two of the ten bazillion HDTVs on display at this year's CES were the LE9500 and PK950, previously noted for manufacturer LG Electronics' claims of a "Wii-like experience," courtesy of its Magic Motion remote. Just how Wii-like was it? More »
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Las Vegas is a city of smoke and mirrors. More »
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Made of solid steel, Saitek's X65F Pro Flight stick doesn't actually move when you use it to fly a plane, instead the shaft sensing the pressure you're exerting on the stick and translates it into movement. More »
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We saw this Wii PC peripheral knock-off while strolling through the halls of CES this weekend. More »
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CTA Digital, makers of Wii bowling balls, tennis rackets and pool cues, aren't content with cornering the market on bizarre Wii peripherals, they're bringing their line of unorthodox controllers to the Playstation 3 too. More »
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A USB drive that features way too many games and exactly one good Vegas gimmick, as seen in the South Hall at CES 2010. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5444504&view=rss&microfeed=true Unveiled at Sony's CES keynote earlier this week, the Dash is a "personal Internet viewer" that includes some pretty nifty technology. More »
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As seen on the CES showfloor. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5443949&view=rss&microfeed=true They weren't exactly impressive, but the Microsoft Surface tables set up at CES did have games running on them. Too bad they all seemed like the sort you'd find on an iPhone and not a $10,000 interactive computer thingie. More »
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Have you heard? 3D is the new it tech for 2010. Thanks to the staggering success of 3D film Avatar everyone seems to be hopping on board the third-dimension wagon. More »
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Finally, audio for your crotch. More »
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Some day, if you get rich enough, this can be yours - a hi-tech luxury bed that combines a giant pull-down hi-def screen with built in gaming consoles and lots of other amenities. More »
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They may not be licensed by Nintendo, but these homemade Mario-themed 4GB USB drives and USB extensions look amazing. More »
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Your real-life Pip Boys now come in two flavors - visually accurate, with few functions; or fully-featured with a different design. More »
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Yahoo! Tech writer Christopher Null listed Rock Band 2 among his personal eight best tech products of 2008. More »
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While Time Magazine did a fine job of picking out the 10 top games of 2008, they might have been a bit premature with their gadget list, with PlayStation Home securing the 10 spot. More »
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If you game in an igloo and have a USB connection, have we got a gadget for you: Heated gaming gloves. Jack these babies into two USB ports and they'll warm your hands by another 10 degrees in five minutes. They have the cut-out fingertips to give you that hobo-warming-his-hands-over-a-trashcan-fire style. Considering the U.S. economy, it's the "it" look of 2008. More »
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Just in case all of those retailer circulars from Best Buy, KMart, et al, wasn't enough proof of an Xbox 360 price drop coming on Sunday, here's one more tidbit of proof. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5022926&view=rss&microfeed=true Happy Fourth of July you American readers you... and anyone else looking for an excuse to get drunk and blow stuff up. Make sure to drink your mojitos responsibly today and at some point sit down and watch this robot arm suck all of the fun out of Air Hockey. Man, I'd pay good money to see this thing score on itself... I'd pay even more for someone to give it a face just to see the expression when it happens. More »
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On Monday there's a good chance that Nintendo's console war is going to get a new front. That's when many believe Apple's Steve Jobs is going to unleash the iPhone's App Store and with it the ability to download directly to your iPhone, applications and, yes, games. More »
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Congratulations to the team at Zalman for walking away with this year's coveted Least Worst 3D Gaming Display award, which I suppose will now have to be a yearly tradition when we cover CES. Of all the companies demonstrating custom 3D solutions for PC games, Zalman's caused the least eyestrain, generated the lightest amount of nausea and required players to suffer the least dorky eyewear. Playing Unreal Tournament 2004 was actually quite fun in simulated 3D. What made the experience even better was that crowds had thinned on the fourth day of CES 2008 to the point where we don't think anyone but Zalman reps saw us wearing dainty polarized glasses. Kudos to them and the team at Nvidia for making a nearly interesting experience! More »
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The South Hall of CES is loaded with traditionally non-gaming companies showcasing their wares with popular games. If you want to get in a few free sessions of Guitar Hero III, Halo 3 or Wii Sports, this is the place to be. If you're looking for a speaker that's shaped like a Wii nunchuk, it's also the place to be. Fenda Tech's home theater offering may have a very specific appeal with it's Wii inspired speakers and subwoofer, but it actually sounds pretty good for a novelty product. Fenda says the 2.1 system "intensifies your gaming with a soundfield that surrounds you," so if that sounds like your bag, watch for the $50-ish system to launch later this year. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343426&view=rss&microfeed=true Kotaku CES: Getting restless? Check out our gadget-obsessed brother site Gizmodo's coverage of the CES 2008 show. Or if you want to skip the tech and just follow the gaming announcements make sure to check out Mike McWhertor's Kotaku coverage starting Sunday evening. It will be fun, promises. [Gizmodo] More »
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One thing that the Consumer Electronics Show isn't lacking are adequate gaming chairs, the kind that gently caress ones bowels with a precisely placed subwoofer in an effort to "get you in the game." This year's CES will be no different, I'm sure, but it will bring at least one gaming chair advancement to the gadget-loving public's attention: the gaming ottoman. Known as the Boompod from Boomchair, it appears to pivot, in an attempt to appeal to the more animated, more spastic gamer seen in television commercials and print ads. Expect plenty of the annual gaming chair coverage you crave and have come to expect from Kotaku when we touch down at CES 08 next week. Rump-on impressions of the Boompod will be posted as soon as is humanly possible. More »
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Most of us have heard of the candle replacement trick for your Wii sensor bar, but for those traveling to places they'd prefer not to set on fire, this retractable travel Wii sensor bar might be a good solution. Actually...no. We don't get this product at all. Even if the middle is made of wire, how is this any more portable than our old sensor bar? Don't buy this. It's a dumb product in search of a problem that it cannot solve. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=319607&view=rss&microfeed=true There's been some buzz about the Tenori-on, the musical instrument-toy-game-Lite-Brite thing designed by Toshio Iwai (the guy behind Electroplankton) - it's been released in the UK and can be yours for a mere £599 (about $1200). It's obviously reminiscent of Electroplankton, and I'm also reminded of Lumines. Alas, I'm but a poor grad student, and even an exceedingly cool, shiny, and musical Lite-Brite isn't in the budget. Here's Iwai demoing his creation at the UK launch on 4 September. [via Music Thing] More »
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Clicking blindly through Japanese websites, I came across this little jem which is genius. The Cyber FM Radio is an attachment that uses the DS Lite's GBA slot to turn your DS into a beach-toting, mini radio. FM frequencies range from 76.0 MHz - 90.0 MHz, so you can probably at least get NPR, but the website suggests that (translated from Japanese): More »
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