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Nintendo Game and Watch: Cult reborn as keyholders (video)
Game & Watch is the name of a series of (now) simple LCD handheld games Nintendo produced between 1980 and 1991. The small devices still enjoy cult status among hardcore retro gamers (just look at these prices on Ebay ), which means it’s not that big a surprise that toymaker Takara decided to come up with three new keyholders that are designed exactly like Game & Watch units. Specifically, the keyholders resemble the Octopus , Parachute , and Chef Game & Watches (all of these games were ...
Game & Watch is the name of a series of (now) simple LCD handheld games Nintendo produced between 1980 and 1991. The small devices still enjoy cult status among hardcore retro gamers (just look at these prices on Ebay ), which means it’s not that big a surprise that toymaker Takara decided to come up with three new keyholders that are designed exactly like Game & Watch units. Specifically, the keyholders resemble the Octopus , Parachute , and Chef Game & Watches (all of these games were ...
Dear Apple: What we want to see in iPhone 4.0, part 2
First, I want to take a moment to thank all of you. The response to the first open letter has been incredible, and it wouldn't have been possible without your suggestions. This is the second in a series of letters from you, the TUAW reader, to Apple. This time around I received over 1500 emails with suggestions on how to improve the next iPhone's hardware.
While the ...
First, I want to take a moment to thank all of you. The response to the first open letter has been incredible, and it wouldn't have been possible without your suggestions. This is the second in a series of letters from you, the TUAW reader, to Apple. This time around I received over 1500 emails with suggestions on how to improve the next iPhone's hardware.
While the ...
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars Hits the App Store [IPhone Apps]
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The iPhone's got its first GTA title, and it looks pretty great. As teased before, this is a top-down GTA, and it's a near-direct port of the Nintendo DS version, albeit with better graphics, and more awkward controls.
Touch Arcade's had some time to run/jack/drive/murder their way around the game a little bit, and here's what they noticed:
• The graphics are much better than they looked in the early screenshots, falling closer to the PSP version of the game than ...
The iPhone's got its first GTA title, and it looks pretty great. As teased before, this is a top-down GTA, and it's a near-direct port of the Nintendo DS version, albeit with better graphics, and more awkward controls.
Touch Arcade's had some time to run/jack/drive/murder their way around the game a little bit, and here's what they noticed:
• The graphics are much better than they looked in the early screenshots, falling closer to the PSP version of the game than ...
Resistive screens are dead: HTC now selling a stylus for capacitive screens
When it comes to touchscreens, you just can’t beat the feeling of a nice, high-quality capacitive screen. If you’ve been using an iPhone, Motorola Droid, or any one of many capacitive smartphones made in the past few years, try to hunt down one with a resistive screen; the difference is almost shocking. Touches to a capacitive touchscreen are registered with the lightest tap, while moving things around on a resistive screen requires you to press down so hard that people probably think you’re angry at it. Of ...
When it comes to touchscreens, you just can’t beat the feeling of a nice, high-quality capacitive screen. If you’ve been using an iPhone, Motorola Droid, or any one of many capacitive smartphones made in the past few years, try to hunt down one with a resistive screen; the difference is almost shocking. Touches to a capacitive touchscreen are registered with the lightest tap, while moving things around on a resistive screen requires you to press down so hard that people probably think you’re angry at it. Of ...
Asus OLED ebook reader
Word from The Times of the UK reports that Asus will be rolling out a new ebook reader to join the many other ebook readers in the market with an OLED-capable version that also boasts Flash playback support. Apparently, Asus will also throw in Wi-Fi and UMTS connectivity that further blurs the already razor thin lines between a slate and a tablet computer. Touted to be called the Asus DR750, you can achieve up to 122 hours of ...
Word from The Times of the UK reports that Asus will be rolling out a new ebook reader to join the many other ebook readers in the market with an OLED-capable version that also boasts Flash playback support. Apparently, Asus will also throw in Wi-Fi and UMTS connectivity that further blurs the already razor thin lines between a slate and a tablet computer. Touted to be called the Asus DR750, you can achieve up to 122 hours of ...
XCM Fire takes the "light" out of light gun, still looks sufficiently violent
XCM's Fire gun controller for the PS3 might look like something you use for aiming at precise segments on your screen that happen to contain the heads, torsos or legs of your enemies; you know, like a light gun. Instead the controller is a motion-sensing affair, with dual analog controls along for the ride -- more of an augmentation of traditional console controls than a replacement. We've seen this fail miserably before (see: SIXAXSIS), but we're willing to give ...
XCM's Fire gun controller for the PS3 might look like something you use for aiming at precise segments on your screen that happen to contain the heads, torsos or legs of your enemies; you know, like a light gun. Instead the controller is a motion-sensing affair, with dual analog controls along for the ride -- more of an augmentation of traditional console controls than a replacement. We've seen this fail miserably before (see: SIXAXSIS), but we're willing to give ...
Study Suggests There’s a "Texting While Walking" Epidemic Too [Texting]
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Forget the grisly effects of texting while driving for a moment, if you can. Instead, focus on a new epidemic, one that's admittedly much sillier than the driving one, but no less dangerous. Ladies and gents, meet texting while walking:
Slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006, according ...
Forget the grisly effects of texting while driving for a moment, if you can. Instead, focus on a new epidemic, one that's admittedly much sillier than the driving one, but no less dangerous. Ladies and gents, meet texting while walking:
Slightly more than 1,000 pedestrians visited emergency rooms in 2008 because they got distracted and tripped, fell or ran into something while using a cellphone to talk or text. That was twice the number from 2007, which had nearly doubled from 2006, according ...
Aceeca Brings PalmOS Back Into The Market
When Palm launched its webOS, everybody expected the existing Palm OS to die out, and it did (in a way), but the folks over at Aceeca certainly think enough of it to license the use of the OS for 2 of their upcoming handsets, the Aceeca PDA32 Garnet, and the MEZ1500 Garnet. The former apparently is taller than a Palm TX, and is about twice as thick as ...
When Palm launched its webOS, everybody expected the existing Palm OS to die out, and it did (in a way), but the folks over at Aceeca certainly think enough of it to license the use of the OS for 2 of their upcoming handsets, the Aceeca PDA32 Garnet, and the MEZ1500 Garnet. The former apparently is taller than a Palm TX, and is about twice as thick as ...
Apple attacks Nokia, Psystar does some legal stuff against Apple, Earth keeps turning
Blah blah blah. More lawsuits. Anyway, Apple is after Nokia for patent infringement after Nokia sued over infringement against Apple. The Nokia case is over some smartphone technology and is a reaction to Nokia’s request that Apple stop exporting the iPhone, iPod, and MacBooks. Then Psystar appealed the Apple lawsuit in which it paid $2.7 million in damages. It writes: On the front page of its website, Psystar writes: “We respectfully disagree with courts notion that we are ‘hardcore copyright infringers.’ Psystar has never, and will never, ...
Blah blah blah. More lawsuits. Anyway, Apple is after Nokia for patent infringement after Nokia sued over infringement against Apple. The Nokia case is over some smartphone technology and is a reaction to Nokia’s request that Apple stop exporting the iPhone, iPod, and MacBooks. Then Psystar appealed the Apple lawsuit in which it paid $2.7 million in damages. It writes: On the front page of its website, Psystar writes: “We respectfully disagree with courts notion that we are ‘hardcore copyright infringers.’ Psystar has never, and will never, ...
Is a Firmware Update Killing PS3 Blu-Ray Drives? [PS3]
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This lengthy thread at the Playstation forums suggests that some combination of the 3.10 firmware and Modern Warfare 2 is killing PS3 Blu-ray drives. Maybe it's true, or maybe they're all just drinking the kool-aid.
Forum members have reportedly pinpointed several reproducible freezes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which they claim began only after installing the 3.10 firmware (the most recent release is 3.15). After experiencing this freezing, many members reported problems in other games, leading them to conclude that the ...
This lengthy thread at the Playstation forums suggests that some combination of the 3.10 firmware and Modern Warfare 2 is killing PS3 Blu-ray drives. Maybe it's true, or maybe they're all just drinking the kool-aid.
Forum members have reportedly pinpointed several reproducible freezes in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which they claim began only after installing the 3.10 firmware (the most recent release is 3.15). After experiencing this freezing, many members reported problems in other games, leading them to conclude that the ... 
