http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12630025&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=ff9933&fullscreen=1 Matt had a blast playing this; I wish I’d given it a go before we left Sony’s little press island. Think Wii Sports Resort but with the precision and responsiveness that are lacking from the Wii even with MotionPlus. The upgraded graphics don’t hurt, either. They hit the surprisingly elusive sweet spot between realism and caricature, and it does a good job of keeping you in the game while at the same time allowing some wiggle room in how the characters move and act. The controls looked pretty snappy too; the archery game shows that off. Matt got the hang of the gladiator game pretty quickly, but the subtleties of Ping Ping eluded him completely. → Read More
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/BTRPlayer.swf Join us at 3pm New York Time/Noon Pacific for the CrunchGear and Friends podcast with a live interview with ZipDX founder. You can call in to talk to the guys at 1 (646) 200-4163 and we welcome questions, comments, or random bursts of profanity (looking at you, Dad!). We hope you enjoy the rebirth of the CrunchGear podcast. → Read More
We the people of CrunchGear would like to propose a quick, informal meet-up tomorrow at the View Lounge at the San Francisco Marriott. The meet-up will include drinking, talking about the iPhone 3G S, and the fondling of the Palm Pre, allowing you, the reading public, to try the cellphone of the moment before the next cellphone of the moment comes out. Companies: if you’d like to sponsor the festivities, even for an hour, please let us know. If you intend to come or would like to sponsor the fun, send an RSVP to RSVP. Otherwise, see you tomorrow in San Francisco. The bar is at the top of the Marriott and has great views of San Francisco. We’ll just congregate in the bar and if something changes we’ll post an update tomorrow. → Read More
CES was alive that day, my friends. The show-goers were itching for something new, something more, something raw. Enough gadgets, enough booths, enough walking. What we all needed was some good, old-fashioned rock and/or roll. → Read More
Ustream is broadcasting this year’s Crunchie Awards in its entirety, free of charge. Tune in below. → Read More
CES can be a lot of fun, but it’s a whole friggin’ lot of work, too. Meetings, press announcements, booth tours, darting back and forth from hall to hall, show floor to hotel, and a whole lot of trekking around the show floor in search of diamonds in the rough. Media attendees probably walk more in the four days of CES than most people walk in a month – all while wearing a backpack stuffed to the brim with every single tool we might need.
If you were to take a peek into one of these mystical blogging tool chests, what might you find? Find out after the jump. → Read More
I love these little open handhelds. The GP2X has been the standard for a while, but the Pandora looks to be the new king of the hill. You can order one now for $329, and various accessories as well (not in America? click here). There are only 3000 available in the first batch, and no more will be ready until ’09, so be quick about it and get yourself an early Christmas present. → Read More
Todays Top Posts: Mozilla’s Firefox 3 is now available Wii: Tiger Woods ‘09 finally gets online play, plus better swing mechanics and five new courses New ‘Pepper Pad’ coming with Atom and Vista? Most popular posts for Monday, June 16th World’s smallest (and portable) Karaoke box unveiled Spy shots: Bumblebee on the ground in Philly High-end keyboard roundup! Get excited! Rock Band on Facebook just might be a fail Adobe already has iPhone version of Flash running on emulator United to iPodify its flights with video → Read More
Today’s Top Posts: Amazing mini 3D-display cube developed in Japan Bierstick: Two beers in under two seconds Good news, everyone: Halo Wars will have online co-op Cheap GPU causes Xbox 360 red ring of death Oh Puh-lease: Steve Jobs is too skinny now? Victor-JVC rolls out new portable media players in Japan The Onion describes new World of Warcraft expansion pack Daily Crunch: Hidden Shrub Edition Konami cancels all launch events for Metal Gear Solid 4 in Japan Pearl Jam bootlegs to be available on Verizon Wireless → Read More
Today’s Top Posts: Show us the tech in your car, win $200 in audiobooks from Simply Audiobooks iCraw formerly known as iCall switches iPhone calls to VoIP Microsoft is totally jealous of Apple Camera with Eye-Fi card uploads thieves pictures after theft CrunchWord Puzzle! Screw the Smart Car: The Polish Fiat 126p aka Maluch is 35 years old Qik goes WinMo: Our exclusive interview This DVD turns shy boys into Romeos (or not) Super Mario Bros, Zelda make top 5 worst sequels list CrunchGear live podcast → Read More
Todays Top Posts: HTC to launch Touch Pro for biz users this year Daily Crunch: Office Warp Edition LED shower light turns blue when cold, red when hot 2K Marin to develop BioShock for PS3; new screen shots Pentax goes wide, long with new lens KDDI au releases 12 new cell phones in Japan Flip ‘Mino’ flash-based camcorders available today Cool yet complex DIY video transmitter 10 things better than Wii Fit Metal Gear Solid 4 gets rare perfect score from Famitsu magazine → Read More
Today’s Top Posts: Monsoon Multimedia to announce HAVA player for S60 tomorrow VIA launches “open source” notebook iPhone coming to Baltic region AnswerOil: Lubricate your gadget purchases Apple could use the magical powers of the sun to charge the next iPhone Sega releases cheap photo frame for fickle, inscrutable Japanese youth Lawsuit against AllofMp3.com dropped by RIAA Monster Cable sues Monster Mini-Golf in Monster lawsuit Nintendo Japan starts new wireless data service for the DS Amazon Kindle back in stock, cheaper → Read More
Today’s Top Posts: Researchers study locusts to make jumping robots Sanyo releases 7 inch digital photo frame in Japan N-Gage games can’t be transferred to new devices Poor economy leads to increase in CRT sales: Plasma, LCD too expensive Self-timer for lovers in new FujiFilm FinePix Z200fd Merch: Indiana Jones projector looks about as exciting as the movie looks good Miniature greenhouse takes up yet another USB port BioShock for PS3 confirmed Daily Crunch: A Wall Edition Details and release date of the Prada phone in Japan determined → Read More
Today’s Top Posts: Netflix Player by Roku review Netflix Player by Roku screenshot walk-through OMG! KIDS GET 3G IPHONE! OMG! MTMini: Even cheaper multi-touch Bluetooth cassette adapter! The real story behind AT&Ts “iPhone Insurance” Rejoice! Rolly now available at U.S. Sony stores Wireless RC car with wireless camera is wirelessly creepy Sony achieves a (small) step forward in the development of large-size OLED TVs GTA: The Board Game → Read More
Today’s Top Posts: Videogame fitness from A to Zebra Striped Unitards Sony releases the VGC-LJ25L laptop AKA the WTF-2008 Wooden Suit for Stephen Hawking mystifies all who try to discern its purpose In using AmazonMP3, The Office shows tension between NBC, Apple Chuck Maddox, watch guru, dead Samsung shows a practical use for OLED screens CrunchWord Puzzle! Nature or nuture: XO Laptops will now run Windows Alltel chooses LTE for its future 4G network Atom-based Eee PC 901 on June 3rd for $650 → Read More
We’ve been talking quite a bit about our reader meet-up on May 1st in New York City, but we didn’t want the West Coast (you and I both know it’s the best coast) to feel left out, so we’re having an admittedly smaller meet-up on Friday the 25 in Seattle. You’ll get a chance to meet with Yours Truly, our own Devin Coldewey, and Peter Ha‘s flying in via Virgin America from NYC just so you can yell at him. We’re also working on getting reps from a few of our favorite local tech companies there as well, so it’s a good time to see what we insiders get to experience. Mostly the “no comments” and “are you nuts?” We’ll be meeting at six o’clock and going till eight at the wonderful McLeod Residence in Belltown, which has a fully stocked bar. And there will be a very special CrunchGear drink special. If you’re interested in attending, email me at tips@crunchgear.com and let us know so we can make sure to get everyone in. See you there! → Read More
[photopress:tetrisval.jpg,full,center] Just wanted to say thanks for reading us today when you should be scrambling around, trying to find a way to impress your certain someone, which you won’t do, because his or her friend bought their signif a ride in a horse drawn carriage, and while your homemade dinner and expensive wine and diamond necklace seemed perfect, it just doesn’t compare, of course you tried your hardest, but it will never be enough. You complete us! → Read More
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