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Yet another company has produced an iPod shuffle competitor with an OLED screen: The Adamond XK1 is a slick little black number with some great features. The XK1 features an OLED screen, 512MB or 1GB capacity, Line-In recording (or two headphone outs for sharing your music), and it’s all powered for 13 hours with a single AAA battery. The XK1 seems crippled by the fact that it only supports USB 1.1 transfers, and while being out for a while has failed to produce much media or really make a splash at all. While the XK1 lacks the clean lines of the shuffle it does feature strong black lines and has its own sense of charm. The XK1 is available for around $150 for the 1GB model and is availble now through UK webshops. Apple had better pay attention to all the flash based players with screens out there, or they will quickly lose their place atop the ultra-portable MP3 player market.
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| PocketNow via DAPreview
There is a new FujiFilm printer aimed at the mobile market. The new printer will interface with a mobile phone via IR (what - no Bluetooth?!) and produce a credit card sized image for all your devious mobile printing needs. The printer features Fuji Image Intelligence, which will supposedly help correct for dark photos normally associated with the camera phones it is designed for. Retailing for $129, this miniature printer will be available in September. I’m glad to see a 1st gen product like this - hopefully someday the technology will exist to provide onboard printers of some sort for high end digital cameras - obviously a high quality print will involve a photo lab, but for your quick snap instant prints would be fantastic.
Read More | Gizmodo
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Revolution Controller to Be Revealed At Tokyo Game Show
Posted by Sparky Categories: Accessories, Wii,
The world can finally be at peace: Satoru Iwata is said to be unveiling the Nintendo Revolution controller on September 16th at the Tokyo Game Show. Much speculation has occurred as to the exact means of controlling the upcoming Nintendo Revolution- we have even written a number of articles on the matter. The current prevailing theories center around gyroscopic control and feedback, but nobody will know for sure until Nintendo’s Iwata speaks.
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Ah, the good old days of the original NES and Duck Hunt. I remember how much I hated to hear the ducks make fun of me whenever they got away, resulting in me holding the light gun right in front of the television – come on, you know you did it too. Now Duck Hunt has been combined with a long time FPS favorite Doom. This means you can shoot those birds out of the sky using some of the most violent guns they have ever seen – who’s laughing now ducks?!
Read More | Duck Doom Deluxe Download
Here’s a look at the latest Doom movie trailer, featuring more footage than its predecessor. This time you actually get to see the weapons being used in combat, as well as the very cool first person camera shots being put into the movie adaptation of Doom. The FPS shots look awesome, but I can’t help but wonder how many people will get dizzy at the watching this one. Remember Blair Witch?
Read More | Doom Movie Trailer
Unreal Tournament 2007 Screenshots
Posted by Oscar M. Cantu Categories: First Person Shooters, Xbox 360,
These screenshots of Unreal Tournament 2007 look just amazing. What stands out the most is the level of detail put into the game. It’s not clear if these are in-game shots, or if they originate from a pre-rendered version. We’ll just have to sit and wait just a little bit longer to find out.
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Free iTunes Downloads With Fruit and Salad Purchase
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Portable Audio / Video,
Even more iTunes partnership insanity going on, this time down at my local Safeway, where I snapped the above photo. In an effort to help you get your health on, it seems that Fresh Express wants to lure you to eat your veggies with three free iTunes downloads. All one needs to do is buy 3 pounds of peaches, plums, or nectarines along with two bags of Fresh Express salad for the downloads. This is an interesting one, as most iTunes contests/giveaways normally just give you one download for your efforts.
Tons of Blockbuster Coupons From Lawsuit
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Corporate News, Home Entertainment, Movies,
I just walked out of Blockbuster with a total of eight coupons due to the class action settlement from way back in 2002. Apparently, the more late fees you paid, the more coupons you receive. I guess I must have paid quite a bit. This is what I walked away with:
- Two Free Non-New Release Movie Rentals
- Five $1 Off Rental/Nonfood Purchase
- One Rent One Get One Free
It’s a nice gesture and all, but the fact is that I am a Blockbuster Online member. This means I get unlimited rentals by mail, plus two free in-store rentals each month. The only coupons that I will likely use are the two free non-new movie rentals. If you paid late fees to Blockbuster in the past, you should also have coupons due if you haven’t received them already. Let us know what you get!
In a recent survey provided by Info Plant - a online market researcher – 1,000 PSP owners were selected to gather some statistics. Do any of these surprise you?
60% purchased PSP within three months after its release
The average user owns 3.1 titles
Nearly 90% have PlayStation 2
Over 60% own PlayStation One
Just under 50% own a GBA
About 30% own Nintendo DS
Over 10% of the respondents (13.5% of male and 12.9% of female) own at least one UMD
53.2% of male and 59.3% of female, said that they have none and that they do not plan to purchase [more UMD’s] in the foreseeable future.
26.2% of the male respondents and 15.8% of the female respondents currently use a Memory Stick Duo
24.9% and 40.3% of the male and female respondents have no intention to use it.
25.9% male and 11.8% female said that they have updated their consoles in the latest firmware upgrade.
25.9% male and 51.7% female respondents have not heard of the upgrade.
Of such female respondents, 22.8% have no plan to update their units soon.
Read More | Jancorp via PSP World
Mio has let the Register in on its A701 Windows Mobile phone. The A701 will be the first GPS enabled cell phone running Windows Mobile 5.0. With a 520MHz Intel XScale processor and 192MB of memory this, sleek phone could be just the thing for the mobile professional. As slick as this phone looks though, I’m a little worried that it has no QWERTY keyboard, a screen with a resolution higher than 320x240, or support for faster internet access than GPRS. For the non-email addict this stylish phone could be the answer. What do you think - form over function?
Read More | The Register
