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Sony rolled out firmware v. 3.10 for the PS3 today, bringing Facebook integration to the system. Your boss will now know that you’ve been playing Pro Evo 2010 instead of writing your blog posts. Yay. Screw that, here’s something us PS3 owners can look forward to: a PlayStation Insider source who’s “very close to Sony” says…
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November 19th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: gadgets technology video games
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This new technology from Hitachi automatically detects when you’re actually watching your television, then shuts the display off whenever you’re not looking.
By using advanced facial recognition technology, the monitor can tell when your eyes are on the TV screen, and keeps it turned on only when you’re actually watching. Jump to the 45 second…
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October 25th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: future tech technology
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Directed by Juan Cabral, Sony’s Soundville campaign turned Seydisfjordur village in Iceland into one large sound system for a week.
Some of the songs that the sometimes bewildered citizens heard were from Bob Dylan, Death in Vegas and the Guillemots. And some Mastodon in the morning. I’m kidding. I don’t think any of the music…
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October 13th, 2009
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author: lambert v.
filed under: audio strange + wonderful technology
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Sure, the PlayStation 3 is eventually getting its own official motion controller from Sony, but while you wait for this bit of futureware, the guys over at UK gaming outfit BLAZE have announced their own motion-sensing PS3 controller. And it looks an awful lot like a Wii-mote.
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October 13th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: technology video games
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Nope, this portable gaming system is most definitely not a PSP Go. What you’re looking at here is a cheap Chinese handheld known as the PXP-2000.
While the PXP-2000 won’t play any of your PSP games, it will play classic games from the NES, Famicom, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Famicom/SNES, and SEGA Megadrive/Genesis…
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October 6th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: gadgets media players mobile tech retro technology video games
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Skeptical about the PSP Go? Apparently, someone is worried you might be, since Sony has released a memo stating that the system will have 16,000 various downloadable items available at launch. That’s a pretty impressive number, at least on paper.
Of course, 13,000 of those individual items (give or take) will be television episodes. But…
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September 28th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: mobile tech technology video games
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Who wants to stop playing long enough to pick up their mobile phone? Or worse–the horror–what if you have to get up? What a world this must be, if we have to get off the sofa just to order pizza. Well, folks, no longer are we reduced to such barbaric circumstances… at least, not if…
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September 17th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: just plain fun video games
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While the jury is definitely still out on whether or not the Sony’s new PS3 Slim looks better or worse than the PS3 Phat, we can all agree that it’s time that the PS3 got some colors besides black.
Thanks to the guys over at ColorWare, you can now get your new PS3 Slim dipped…
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September 11th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: design hacks + mods video games
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Heavy Rain is more an interactive visual story than a traditional game, which is why it looks like most of the development resources went into the game’s look. They did. But from the newest media, that was money well spent. Heavy Rain is still lingering in the ol’ uncanny valley, but at times, it looks like we’re…
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August 19th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: strange + wonderful video games
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Sony has just officially announced the upcoming release of their new PlayStation 3 (PS3) Slim console during their press conference at GamesCom 2009.
The new PS3 Slim console sports a compact new form-factor, and a lower price to go with it. Priced at $299.99 (USD), €299, and ¥29,980, the PS3 Slim is $100 bucks cheaper…
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August 18th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: cool toys home entertainment technology video games
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It was probably the end of last year when my Blu-ray disc collection was something like 10 discs. Now, just a few months later, I have my collection is probably around 100 discs, and growing. So when I saw the beastly BDP-CX7000ES Mega Disc Changer from Sony, my eyes lit up.
This ginormous disc changer…
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August 16th, 2009
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author: technabob
filed under: audio home entertainment technology video
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At this point, I’m pretty sure that everything in the damn world is about to be patented as a possible game control system. Right now, someone is filing a patent for a game controller modeled after their grandmother’s little finger. Why? Tea party simulations, y’all. In the meantime, Sony has filed a patent for a…
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August 16th, 2009
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author: alisha k.
filed under: cool toys future tech strange + wonderful video games
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