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Posts on ‘August 25th, 2007’

Buffalo offers up external HD DVD / Blu-ray combo drive in Japan

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Nah, Buffalo isn’t manufacturing the HD DVD / Blu-ray drive that sits comfortably within its new external enclosure, but those parked in Japan can reportedly get ahold of this peace [...]

PSP wireless heartbeat sensor hack

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It’s amazing what homebrew coders for the PSP are able to come up with, especially when you consider that the “solutions” don’t really solve anything. If you’ve ever hankered for a heartbeat recognition ability for your portable gaming machine, then here it is. One guy called Art simply soldered [...]

Using virtual reality to induce out-of-body experience

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Yeah, we’ve seen bizarre apparatuses that bring about otherworldly feelings, but new studies have reportedly been able to induce out-of-body experiences with just a set of “virtual reality goggles, a camera, and a stick.” Apparently, the “research reveals that the sense of having a body, of being in a bodily self, is [...]

Analyst says Nintendo fed Wii-starved US with Japanese stock

Filed under: Gaming
Despite the launch of the Wii in the US occurring months and months ago, there is still a perceivable shortage of the little white console. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter made his own analysis of the recent upturn in US Wii console sales by predicting that Nintendo filled the gap by diverting [...]

Reminder: Win an Xbox 360 and a copy of Bioshock

Filed under: Announcements, Gaming

So perhaps your PC isn’t quite up to snuff for playing Bioshock, or maybe you just don’t want to get any nasty Sony rootkits DRM in the process. That’s ok, the 360 version runs just peachy, and we’re giving away a copy of Bioshock and an Xbox 360 Premium to play it [...]

Sony’s back for more, running BioShock DRM with a rootkit

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
BioShock is undoubtedly a critical darling, but it’s not without its share of technical woes. 2K Games is already on the ball with the widescreen field of view “issue,” and has even slackened activation requirements, allowing for up to five SecuROM activations per copy of BioShock. Unfortunately, activation problems go deeper than [...]

UniquePhones indefinitely delays release of iPhone SIM unlock software

Filed under: Cellphones
So, as you may have seen, earlier this morning at 3AM local time UniquePhones (the team behind iPhoneUnlocking.com, who’ve claimed to have the second proper iPhone SIM unlock software hack) got a threatening call from AT&T’s legal team urging them to not release their software — or else. Now, we can understand why [...]

eFuse successfully “blown,” Xbox 360 kernel downgrades possible

Filed under: Gaming
A team of modders have found a way to downgrade the Xbox 360’s kernel, giving the console potential for a greater homebrew effort than at present. Key to a homebrew scene is the ability to modify a console’s core software: even if reverting to an older version means no more Xbox Live for [...]

Study finds no link between car accidents and yapping whilst driving

Filed under: Culture, Studies
If you’re ready for a healthy dose of unconventional wisdom, you’ve come to the right place, as a couple of confident graduate student economists at UC-Berkeley are purporting that there is “no match in the evening cellphone use spike and crash data.” Basically, the duo is suggesting that although we’ve been on [...]

Microsoft’s WGA servers down, everyone’s a pirate today

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops

Hope you weren’t planning on installing “your” legally purchased copy of XP or Vista today, Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage servers are down at the moment, meaning your Vista install will go into “reduced functionality mode” when you fail to check in with Big Brother, and your XP install will just be generally [...]