Tech and Amusing Stuff

WTF?!?! This color is hideous. Good thing this is gonna be a Japan only release and that only 60,000 units will be made, the upside is that you get a TV out cable in this bundle for ¥23,800 ($230). But i would just spend the extra 29 bucks for the cable and get yourself a hot red God of War PSP.

Via Engadget

The screen is 1024 X 600 and it’s got basically the same features as it’s little brother, the 7 inch Eee PC. It looks like you will have a choice between Linux and Windows XP version when it comes out later this year.

Via Engadget

“Nintendo sold 331,627 units of the Wii in the four weeks to February 24, compared with 89,131 units of the PS3, Enterbrain said on Thursday.The Wii’s lead on the PS3 appears to be widening: In January, Nintendo’s game console outsold Sony’s by almost 3-to-1.

Nintendo’s own “Super Smash Bros. Brawl” for the Wii became the best-selling software for the month in Japan, with 1.33 million units sold, followed by the “Wii Fit” home fitness game, which sold 309,311 units in the four weeks, Enterbrain said.

The Wii has been leading the three-way game console battle with the PS3 and Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) Xbox 360 as its strategy of offering easy-to-play and innovative games to expand the overall game population has proved a big success.

Microsoft, whose videogame business is struggling in Japan, home to both Sony and Nintendo, sold 14,079 Xbox 360 units.”

Via Reuters

Firmware 1.1.4 has been released for the iPhone and iPod touch, but no one has been able to find any new features. Perhaps it gets the phone all ready for that sweet SDK who knows.

Stay tuned

Sony has finally decided to bring the coveted Dualshock 3 to the U.S. look for it in store shelves in April.

Via Engadget

“It’s official. Toshiba just made a statement saying, ” it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.” Cessation of the player and recorders are targeted for March 2008. Volume production of HD DVD disk drives for PCs and games will end in the same time frame. However, Atsutoshi Nishida, President and CEO of Toshiba Corporation did say that Toshiba will, “continue to assess the position of notebook PCs with integrated HD DVD drives.” That’s it folks, the format war is over, Blu-ray has won.”

Via Engadget

“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.

“We thought it was a mistake and made our engineers check the logs again,” Vic Gundotra, head of Google’s mobile operations told the Financial Times during this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona…..”

Via AppleInsider <— story continues

Excerpt from VG Chartz:

“Nintendo’s latest console, the Wii, which was released in November 2006 in North America, and December 2006 in the rest of the world will surpass the lifetime sales of the Nintendo Gamecube by February 16, 2008.

Through February 9, 2008 Wii has sold 21.490 million consoles, while Gamecube had sold 21.515** million consoles. Worldwide, Gamecube has been selling fewer than 500 units per week lately, while Wii has been selling several hundred thousand units per week. Using the week ending February 9^th, when Wii sold 447,000 units in one week as an estimate for rate of increase (~64,000 units sold worldwide per day) for the week ending 2/16 Wii lifetime sales caught and surpassed Gamecube lifetime sales on February 10^th, 2008.“

Via VG Chartz

I can’t believe that this happened in my town, fucking cops i swear……..

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You heard it right, point your Apple TV to “Update Software” to get this juicy update for free. New features:

Netflix is going all Blu-ray, they’re decision comes from the fact that most Hollywood studios seem to be converging solely around Blu-ray. But don’t worry HD-DVD lovers, Netflix should continue offering a limited selection of discs until current stock is phased out around the end of the year, that’ll give you enough time to save up for a new shiny Blu-ray player

Via Reuters

“Best Buy has announced it will officially promote Blu-ray as the HD format of the future. Starting in early March the store will showcase Blu hardware and software on its shelves and website, and switch from its current neutral stance, to recommending Blu-ray to any customers that ask. While “an assortment of HD DVD products” will remain, a vote of confidence from major retailers, following the majority of studio support, will make it impossible for red to recover.”

Via Engadget