Available in 10-inch, 15-inch, or 17-inch models, the Holocube is an innovative projector that stores video — on a built-in hard drive — and uses it to create 3D holograms. Continue reading to see more. Click here for first picture in gallery.
Britain’s Imagination Technologies announced that they have licensed their “high-performance graphics processor core to a major international consumer electronics company — actually meant Imagination had inked a deal with Sony to supply the graphics processors for a PSP successor.”
On the one hand, it’s certainly plausible: Imagination are also the team behind the iPhone’s graphics processor, though the one mooted for the PSP2 – the unannounced SGX55x – is obviously more powerful.
[via Kotaku]
Aside from using an accelerometer, the TrueMotion 3D system employs “a magnetic field to track both your hands’ positions in 3D space.” Continue reading for the video.
With a refresh rate of ten milliseconds and accuracy up to a millimeter, and interest from developers including Activision and EA, this guy could someday relegate your Sixaxis to the back of your junk drawer — right next to your old Atari’s paddle controller.
[via Engadget]
The FreeLoader Portable Solar Charger from ThinkGeek “is an advanced portable charging system that can power any hand held device anywhere, anytime.” Click here for one more picture.
Once charged, the internal Li-Ion battery can power an iPod for 18hours, a mobile phone for 44 hours, PSP for 2.5 hours a PDA for 22 hours and much more.
[via ThinkGeek]
Called “Bajca”, this USB-powered device “connects to the computer, adding 16 emotional keys that represents a different ‘smile’ each one: finally each emoticon is found in one key, apart from before where a combination of keys had to be used in order to create the same emotion.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
The keys can be replaced with others having different graphics and meaning. The keys can also be used to make emotional “jewels” to be worn, given away and exchanged.
[via Tuvie]
That’s right, the British Advertising Standards Authority has banned an Apple iPhone 3G ad for being misleading, “as any iPhone user knows, any similarities between reality and those iPhone ads is a coincidence.” Video after the break.
After banning an Apple iPhone ad earlier this year, the British Advertising Standards Authority has pulled out another one that glossed over how “really really” fast the new iPhone 3G is.
[via Gizmodo]
No longer an April Fool’s joke, the Personal Soundtrack Shirt from ThinkGeek has “a speaker embedded in the front, and would play music and sound effects as you went about your daily business, making your boring life that much more exciting.” Video after the break.
Don’t like the built-in sounds? No problem. Simply pop in your own SD memory card loaded with MP3 files to use your own sound effects and music. The Personal Soundtrack Shirt remote has buttons from 1 to 20, each can play a different sound.
For $499.99 on eBay, you could pick up a copy of Street Fighter 2 for the NES. The seller reports that “versions of the game were released under the name,”Master Fighter,” but Yoko had released the game as ‘Street Fighter II.'” Auction page. Click here for first picture in gallery.
You are bidding on the ultra rare STREET FIGHTER II for the Famicom game system from Yoko Software. The game comes complete with original box. instruction manual, and game cartridge. Everything is in great shape. Instruction has a fold horizontally across the middle though.
[via eBay]
The Sonic Unleashed game “introduces two new features: the ‘Speed Drift’ and the ‘Quick Step’. Speed Drifting is similar to drifting in racing games, allowing players to slide around corners at high speeds, while Quick Stepping is a sidestepping maneuver allowing Sonic to avoid enemies with quick steps to either side.” Product page. Continue reading for the review.
The game combines the feel of 2D side-scrolling that fans of the Sonic series love, with sharp 3D graphics, and throws in an over the back third-person perspective reminiscent of FPS gameplay for good measure. And just as in earlier games, as players race through and explore the expansive world before them, using auto lock to hone in on enemies and areas of interest, they will rely on the power they gain from the rings they collect for a variety of things, but with the new twist of Sonic’s split personality, things are a little bit different.
[via Amazon]
Priced at $100, this fake iPhone clamshell phone from China features a “.3MP camera, a 2.6-inch screen with a 240 x 320 resolution, the ability to play mp3s and mp4s and some ‘built-in’ games.” Click here for first picture in gallery.
Also note the plastic “brushed aluminum”, almost-but-not-quite Macbook Air look and the adorable Apple icon on the front. It lights up.
[via Gizmodo]