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9:00AM Owen Good | 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 »
This Would Be My Deathbed
9:00AM Owen Good | 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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Check Out These Custom Mario USB Thumb Drives
11:20AM AJ Glasser | 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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Wrist Computer Very Useful in Your Real Life Wastelands
8:00AM Owen Good | Your real-life Pip Boys now come in two flavours – visually accurate, with few functions; or fully-featured with a different design. More »
Yahoo! Names Rock Band 2 One of the Best Tech of 2008, Blu-Ray One of the Worst
6:40AM Brian Crecente | Yahoo! Tech writer Christopher Null listed Rock Band 2 among his personal eight best tech products of 2008. More »
Time Names PlayStation Home A Top Gadget Of 2008
3:40AM Mike Fahey | 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 »
Air Hockey Playing Robot Breaks My Heart
2:00AM Brian Crecente | 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 »Forbes: Can the iPhone Kill the DS?
12:00AM Brian Crecente | 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. Forbes points out that with a fairly powerful engine and the ability to do both motion and touchscreen, the iPhone could be a threat to Nintendo’s lucrative handheld business. Of course the DS’ staggering numbers will be the biggest opposition to Apple crushing Nintendo directly in some handheld-to-handheld combat, but even that could change over time. And keep in mind a slew of companies have announced games for the iPhone already, also Apple is giving away their SDK. More »
180-Degree Gaming With The J-Dome
7:30PM Luke Plunkett | This is John Nilsson’s J-Dome, a projector-based screen that’s the result of some nifty ideas concerning field of vision. Wrapped around you like a lowered umbrella, the J-Dome promises to give the player a whopping 180-degree field of vision, as opposed to the standard 15-20 degrees you enjoy from a flatscreen monitor/TV, meaning you’ll be able to see stuff in the corner of your eye without having to actually point you character in that direction. While the screen itself is a little dorky, the experience looks mighty promising, and is expected to cost around $US 150-$US 200 (excluding projector, obviously). Vid’s after the jump if you’d like to see exactly how it works. Those not interested will still enjoy Nilsson’s salesmanship. More »
The Etch-A-Sketchist On GTA IV
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | The Etch-A-Sketchist is a talented kid. We’ve featured his stuff many times before, but you know what? It’s GTA IV week, so let’s feature him again. This is his take on the game’s box art, which I’d write more about, but it’s hard to type when you can’t stop applauding. Grand Theft Auto IV [The Etch-A-Sketchist] More »
