Gadgets Blog

A quick recap of gadget news and blogs around the Net:

• All-in-one washing machine and toilet. Do all your cleaning in one….sitting - Gizmodo
• Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro Get Upgrades - The Gadget Blog
• The ultimate Xbox 360 arcade controller - Technabob
• PS3 gets a steel color with Metal Gear Solid 4 launch - Kotaku
• Rockit coaster at Universal Studios, Orlando to tape your ride - Engadget
  

And in Smarter Gadgets we talked about:

• Facebook to Launch an Instant Messaging Service
  
• Sony Deal: Save $400 off a 52″ Sony Bravia HDTV
• Refurbished Apple iPhones on Sale at AT&T for Cheap
• Wii Games Deal: Buy 1Wii Game, Get 1 $20 off at Toys R Us
• What Happens When the Alarm Goes Off at the Gas Station

A quick recap of gadget news and blogs around the Net:

• Bluetooth purCushion pillow allows you to talk in your sleep - Reg Hardware
• Cow Manure turned into Renewable Energy - Reuters
• G-Fi Wireless GPS Accessory for the iPhone - G-Fi
• Phone has a built-in Bluetooth headset - Yanko Design
• Silver Satin PS3 and Xbox 360 Arcade available in Japan - Engadget
• Apple and Kleiner Perkins launching a $100 million iFund for iPhone developers - ValleyWag
• IMing coming to the iPhone with AIM - Gizmodo via live.gizmodo.com
  

And in Smarter Gadgets we talked about:

• Save 20% off Dell XPS 630 Desktops $1699 and Up
• Martian Skiers Cause Avalanches on Mars
• Save $300 0ff HP Pavilion Notebooks Priced $1,199 and Over
• Death Star Hotel Coming Soon. Prepare for the End
  

A quick recap of gadget news and blogs around the Net:

• Microsoft bids to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion - MSNBC
• PlayStation 3 to get a new, slimmer look? - T3
• New blow-up mouse, the Jelly Click - Yanko Design
• An endless Pac-Man game is in sight - Engadget
• Freeze in a nice Snow Room - Gizmodo

And in Smarter Gadgets we talked about:

• Save $100 off Pre-Configured Sony VAIO CR Models
• Cow Farts to Become Less Lethal to the Environment?
• Pink Apple iPod Nano is the Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift
• Blackberry to go Pink, Hopes to Cut into iPhone Sales
• Apple MacBook Air is the Thinnest Notebook Around
• SanDisk Sansa Connect 4 Wi-Fi MP3 Player: $89.95
• Google Executives Pledged Their Life Together for 20 Years

For those of you who are sick of the same ol’ black that the PlayStation has been released in for the past few years, prepare yourselves for some change.

It looks like the 40 GB Playstation 3 will now be available in a ceramic white color soon after papers were filed with the FCC to release the gaming console in that color in North America.

The PS3 has already been available in white in Japan since November, so it’s nothing new to our counterparts overseas, but for those of you in the US, you now have something new to look forward to.

Except for the price. The really steep price. That’s not going to change.

But at least it’ll be white!

Source: GamesIndustry.biz

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It was a slow week because of the holidays, but here is what happened in news and sports blogs around the Net:

• Napster takes an annoying 30 minutes to cancel account - Boing Boing
• A guard for your car bumper? It exists and it’s called the Bumper Badger - Coolest Gadgets
• A Shark Gun for your Nintendo Wii - Kotaku
• Expect LCD TV prices to fall dramatically in 2008 - Ubergizmo
• Amazon.com’s Best of 2007 List - Business Wire
• T-Mobile to waive activation fee for new customers until 12/31/07 - Gizmodo
• Bluetooth headset stops a robbery in-process - United Press International
• Kid opens a Playstation 3 from EB Games on Christmas, gets a phone book - Engadget via Fox News

Watch the clip here

And in Smarter Gadgets we talked about:

• Save $200 on a Dell Inspiron Notebook
• Uniden MaxTrax GPS to include Radar Detector

It looks like Time Magazine has come up with their own list of the Top 10 Video Games of 2007.

Here is what they have come up with and where on Smarter.com you can find them:

1. Halo 3
   Platform: Xbox 360
   Find it on Smarter.com.
2. The Orange Box
   Platform: Xbox 360, PC, PS3
   Find it on Smarter.com.
3. Rock Band
   Platform: Xbox 360, PS2, PS3
   Find it on Smarter.com.
4. Super Mario Galaxy
   Platform: Nintendo Wii
   Find it on Smarter.com.
5. BioShock
   Platform: Xbox 360, PC
   Find it on Smarter.com.
6. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
   Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC, Nintendo DS
   Find it on Smarter.com.
7. Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
   Platform: Nintendo DS
   Find it on Smarter.com.
8. Mass Effect
   Platform: Xbox 360
   Find it on Smarter.com.
9. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation
   Platform: Xbox 360
   Find it on Smarter.com.
10. God of War 2
    Platform: PS2
    Find it on Smarter.com.

Source: Time Magazine.

A quick recap of gadget news and blogs around the Net:

• Marky Mark Walhberg to star in the movie adaption of the video game Max Payne - Variety
• Great Deals at Best Buy Black Friday - Gizmodo
• Fan raps about the soon-to-be released Verizon Voyager phone - Wired
• The Escalade goes Hyrbid - Crave
• Dude, where’s the Dell guy? - New York Magazine
• Apple and Starbucks integration has begun - Engadget

And in Smarter Gadgets we talked about:

• Save money and get more on a PS3 at Dell.com
• Now you see me, now you don’t
• Pound Puppies control riots?
• Alvin and the Chipmunks movie trailer
• Top Gun: High speed, low passing jets video

Who would have thought that if you go to Dell, you’d get a better deal on a Playstation 3.

Currently, the 40 GB version of the PS3 is going for $399 at most stores, but I bet you didn’t know that at Dell, you can get about $80 worth of freebies. When you get the console, you’ll receive a free HDMI cable and a copy of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.

Click here to go to Dell.

Source: Gizmodo via Digg

Here are a few headlines that stood out this week:

• Professor looks to invent a real Spider-Man suit. - Discovery Channel
• PlayStation 3 Eye of Judgment to be released in October - PlayStation Blog
• T-Mobile Sidekick to integrate a MySpace Mobile experience - Sidekick Wiki
• Man sets a new world record for talking on the phone for 40 hours - PhoneyWorld.com

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Looks like people have a reason to go to the bank, even if you don’t have any money to dump into it.

Sony has set up Playstation 3 kiosks at Shinhan Banks in Korea. Besides the conventional print ads and commercials, it looks like Sony is pulling out all their ideas trying to get consumers to play their games. Forget BestBuy, they’re pioneering into banks.

And banks aren’t the only place their trying to tap into. In Mokdong, Seoul, a public demonstration of the Playstation 3 was setup in a multiplex theater.

What’s next?PS3 booths in McDonalds!?

Source: Kotaku