Nintendo’s Miyamoto casually references new hardware, MotionPlus games

Do you think non-disclosure agreements apply if you’re one of the guys who built the company you represent? Probably not, as evidenced by Shigeru Miyamoto, who recently took the opportunity — while receiving an award, no less — to blab about forthcoming hardware and games based around the MotionPlus peripheral. There wasn’t much content [...]

Software Bug Causes Toyota Recall of Almost Half a Million New Hybrid Cars [Cars]

Toyota just announced a recall of its 2010 hybrid cars. Four hundred thousand worth. The reason? A change in “brake feeling” caused by faulty antilock braking software. There is no fix for cars on…

New Super-Wide, Super-Fast Nikkor Lenses

Nikon has two new full-frame lenses for you, and both are pretty exciting. Upon reading that there is now a 24mm ƒ1.4G ED prime, you will first shout “ƒ1.4? Holy hell! I want one!” Then, after calming down slightly, you will murmur “Wait, ƒ1.4? That thing’s gonna be big. And expensive. And I still want [...]

Cube’s 6-inch capacitive touchscreen e-reader is a Windows Mobile 6.5 fantasyland

If you’re a sucker for immaculate specs at a discount price then the Cube e-book reader might be the device for you. The Chinese outfit is said to be working on a 6-inch, E Ink reader built around the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system with baked-in WiFi (sorry, no mention of 3G data) for “remote [...]

Panelfly Comic-Book Reader for iPad

The iPad screen is just short of ten inches on the diagonal. The Standard American Comic Book measures 17 x 26cm (6 ⅝ × 10 ¼-inches), which comes to 12.2-inches on the diagonal. That’s a lot closer than any other hi-resolution, slab-like media viewer.
The people behind Panelfly, the highly regarded comic book viewer for the [...]

Netgear partners with Ericsson for a 3G-receiving, WiFi-emanating router

Had enough of dealing with oligopolistic wired broadband suppliers? Well, with Netgear’s brand spanking new MBRN3300E you can just ride off into the 3G sunset and say goodbye to those pesky wires. Like the majority of wireless routers today, it comes with 802.11n WiFi and a built-in firewall, but what sets it apart is the [...]

Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet Will Have Flash, Output At 1080p and Have Battery Life 2x Longer Than iPad [Tablets]

Flash, a longer battery life, outputting video at 1080p, a $1m app competition—these are just some of the ways Notion Ink is hoping its Android-powered Adam tablet will be able to win customers…

AMD Fusion sampling soon, arriving in 2011 with Llano APU

To say that we’ve been waiting for AMD’s Fusion CPU / GPU combo for a long time would be an understatement. In fact, while AMD was busy talking about it, Intel swept in with its own Arrandale and Clarkdale chips that pack graphical and computing processing into the same chip. Lest we were discouraged, then, [...]

LG Mini GD880 Phone Has 16:9 Ratio And Looks Hot To Trot [Phones]

This LG Mini GD880 is so good-looking it makes my brain hurt at the injustice of it (presumably) running LG’s S-Class OS, and not Android. Still, there’s some nice spec to back up this slim 16:9…

Helium Digital HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband gets reviewed, given 3.5 Jack Bauers

Looking to get a Bluetooth earpiece without actually upping your tool factor by 40x or so? Good luck. Helium Digital’s so-called alternative (that’d be the HDBT-990 Bluetooth wristband) was recently reviewed by our iPhone-lovin’ pals in the Great White North, and while they found it to work well when it came to handling calls without [...]