Equilibrio
- DSiWare
- Nintendo DSi Browser (Nintendo, FREE): The first free app in the DSi Shop, the Opera-powered DSi Browser will let you surf the Web on your DSi.
- Bird & Beans (Nintendo, 200 DSi Points): This mini game lets you control Pyro, a bird with an elastic tongue. Use it to grab falling beans and earn more points the quicker you catch them!
- Master of Illusion Express: Funny Face (Nintendo, 200 DSi Points): This game lets you use your DSi as a prop in a card game.
- Art Style: AQUIA (Nintendo, 500 DSi Points): AQUIA is a fast-paced underwater puzzle game where you match colored blocks vertically and horizontally.
- WarioWare: Snapped! (Nintendo, 500 DSi Points): Snapped! is a collection of mini games that uses the DSi's onboard camera.
- Brain Age Express: Math (Nintendo, 800 DSi Points): This is just the math version of a Brain Age game and wraps up this week's DSiWare offerings.
- WiiWare
- Equilibrio (DK-GAMES, 500 Wii points): This balance game has you sending a marble through various worlds as you tilt your way to the exit. There are 64 levels to play and you can even use a balance board to control the game!
- Virtual Console
- Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (1994, Super Nintendo, 800 Wii points): Play as one of six famous explorers, navigating the oceans of the early 16th century.
What games do you think are missing from the Wii Virtual Console? Sound off at our discussion board!
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Harbortronics)
This seems like a lot of money to do some time-lapse photography, but if you're an aspiring science teacher it will undoubtedly produce better footage of plants growing than the reel-to-reel films we were subjected to in grade school. This all-in-one system from Harbortronics can also provide a lesson in alternative energy because it runs on solar power.
The package includes a Pentax K110D Digital SLR, two 2GB memory cards and an automatic shutter controller for $2,300, according to Uncrate. Let's hope the photos look better than the system itself, which resembles a camera stuck in a microwave with a solar panel glued on top.
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Sweex)
Could the video iPod face a serious challenge from a Dutch media player? That's what the cheeky monkeys at U.K.-based Pocket-lint appear to be saying with this headline.
The supposed contender is the "Blaze" MP4 player from Holland's Sweex, which sports a 1.8-inch color display and can has all the usual functions and, in its latest version, comes with a pair of "exclusive" Sennheiser MX 300 earphones as well as 4GB of memory. No price has been disclosed, which makes it tough to gauge the Blaze's market prospects, though earlier models went for around $100. But no matter what the cost, Sweex has a secret weapon that will make even the most formidable opponent cringe: Mr. Bean.
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Red Ferret)
The more things change, the more they stay the same--either that, or they just morph into each other. Take, for example, the retro '60s trend that won't go away: Just as it's kept alive the lava lamp, it continues to pump oxygen into another staple from the era--the bean-bag chair.
The "Slouchpod InteractiveXT" (sounds dangerously close to an oxymoron) updates the classic bean bag for modern times with two 5-watt speakers, a 10-watt subwoofer and connections for game consoles, media players, PCs, TVs and pretty much anything else you can plug into a socket, according to Red Ferret. It looks comfy enough, but we're really not interested in paying $600 for a bean-bag chair, no matter how many cords we can attach to it.
Besides, when it comes to game lounging, we'd rather go all the way and be fully reclined.
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Sweex)
Regular readers of this space know that we're given to the occasional rant against silly special or limited editions, but this is one we can get behind: a "Blaze" MP4 player from Dutch company Sweex that comes preloaded with a trailer of Mr. Bean's Holiday. The player otherwise seems fairly unremarkable, available in 1GB black and 2GB pink for about $93 and $117 respectively. But there's one more thing--if you do buy one, you could win a ticket to the premiere of the movie.
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Hackedgadgets)
We never thought we'd see the day when two of our passions--technology and coffee--would be combined. But that day has arrived, thanks to the brilliance of one Matthew Williams.
This obviously homemade contraption uses a Fuji temperature controller hooked up to a laptop's USB port and a fan to control the roasting process, according to Gizmowatch and Hackedgadgets. At the bottom of the cylindrical chamber, which is made of bakelite and glass tubes, is a screen that catches the beans as soon as they're roasted to perfection--ensuring a tailor-made cup o' joe, inventor Williams says. We'll take his word for it.
In the meantime, we'll be perusing Sweet Maria's, an entire site devoted to DIY coffee-making technologies. Who knew?
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