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Filed under: Gaming “Touching is good,” but hacking? Not so much. Nintendo has gone on the war path against five Japanese companies that make their living helping users rip off DS games. Of course, a primary use for such hardware — such as the R4 Revolution, pictured — is homebrew and emulation, but good luck [...]

Gaming

Filed under: Gaming If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player [...]

Gaming

Filed under: Gaming, Laptops So yeah, quite a few NVIDIA GPUs have been acting up. Nothing new there. However, Dell’s attempting to help its laptop owners out by making a few notable BIOS updates readily available for download. Apparently the issue “is a weak die / packaging material set, which may fail with GPU temperature [...]

Home Entertainment

Matsushita sets goals for itself: 40-inch OLED TV by 2011

Posted on 30 July 2008

Filed under: Industry, Displays, Others, Panasonic, OLED A bit earlier this year we heard that Panasonic (Matsushita’s red-headed stepchild) was vying for a tiny recognition in the OLED TV game, but outside of that, details were scarce. Now, however, we’re being told that the outfit is planning to begin selling 40-inch OEL (organic electroluminescent, better known [...] Continue Reading

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Apple

Pwn your iPhone: PwnageTool 2.0.1 now out

Posted on 30 July 2008

Over the weekend, the iPhone-dev team released the PwnageTool v2.0, a program that granted users to activate and jailbreak their iPhone units, including the iPhone 3G. The team decided to spruce up the application and work on it a bit further though, which leads us to the release of PwnageTool v2.0.1. PwnageTool v2.0.1 takes care [...] Continue Reading

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Laptops

Details surface on Lenovo’s IdeaPad G430

Posted on 30 July 2008

Filed under: Laptops We’ve been hearing the faintest of whispers that Lenovo had a new IdeaPad on tap, and while we haven’t received any official confirmation just yet, we figured it prudent to pass along the latest. According to an anonymous tipster, the G430 will boast a 14.1-inch WXGA display, 2GB of RAM, a 160GB hard [...] Continue Reading

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Mobile

Teenager hacks together hardware for controlling your car via phone

Posted on 30 July 2008

Filed under: Messaging, Misc Using little more than book knowledge, experience from previous projects, and a healthy shot of elbow grease, a Kenyan kid has constructed a nifty (and perhaps just a little scary) box that attaches to your car to provide a number of very special remote-control features that you’re not going to find [...] Continue Reading

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