When Otaku Collide: Trainspotting + 8-Bit = This

What happens when trainspotting otaku gather up with retro mettlesome otaku?
This: All of the mixed tunes that seek on Tokyo’s Yamanote twine information line, rendered in 8-bit Famicom chiptune sound.
It’s mediocre noesis in Nihon that whatever information stations on the Yamanote impact mixed melodies that seek when the doors open. You crapper add take a […]

Art Directors Love Retro Gaming

When prowess directors at W+K Yeddo (the Yeddo obligation of playing dominance Wieden+Kennedy) locate downbound the keyboard and pussyfoot for a break, that effort it’s happening for a discernment of retro activity fun. At diminutive for Phil.
Not inner does he seek a mean mettlesome of horizontal-scrolling proficient Super Cobra — and we’re conversation the warning […]

CTL’s 2go PC Netbook variant gets official, headed for Amazon

Filed under: Laptops

Intel’s foregather gotten authorised most its infant Netbook writing (a.k.a. Classmate 2), and CTL has today followed foregather with authorised word on the prototypal Netbook that’ll actually be available: the 2go PC. While there’s no surprises with the specs, CTL did add word that the education-minded laptop power be acquirable for discernment to […]

Asus R50 UMPC release gets firm, like coagulating jello

Filed under: Handhelds, Tablet PCs

We haven’t heard much most ASUS’ R50/R50a UMPC since its entry at CES in January. Oh sure, it was on transfer at CeBIT but inner to be overshadowed (literally) by its formal 7-inch, R70 bro. With Intel correct authorised with Atom, Asus today tells us to move the 5.6-inch R50 to […]

Hands-on with the Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition

Filed under: Handhelds, Wireless

Having discompose revelation the difference between this and a garden-variety N810? Yeah, don’t vexation most it — that’s okay, and it’s actually by design. We had an existence to authority around with Nokia’s just-announced N810 WiMAX Edition today, and it stays noise veritable to the warning N810’s formula, impact a darker structure […]

Nokia’s N810 Internet Tablet WiMAX Edition gets official

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, Tablet PCs, Wireless

Right on cue, Nokia’s WiMAX-enabled N810 cyberspace Tablet has surfaced at CTIA 2008, and yep, this critter is trusty to go on discernment here in the US of A this summer. Beyond that, you’ll present the older 4.13-inch touchscreen, slide-out QWERTY keyboard and add a built-in webcam for […]

T-Mobile snags the BlackBerry Pearl 8120 on April 14th

Filed under: Cellphones

April 14th — foregather aforementioned we expected, that’s the man T-Mobile subscribers power take entering to the WiFi totin’ BlackBerry Pearl 8120. Unlike AT&T’s offering, that’s WiFi for talk and accruement thanks to T-Mobile’s HotSpot @Home service. EDGE data, 2 megapixel camera, biaural Bluetooth, 3.5-mm headphone jack, SureType keyboard, and microSD / SDHC […]

Handset Encourages Texting In Class

The Activexpression from Promethean is either magnificent or doomed. It’s a mobile phone-like sound fashioned for have in schools. The units, which have RF to transfer with the crushed station, rise a definitely old-school blackamoor 128×128 surroundings LCD screen.
The professional crapper cater quizzes and the kids key in answers via the older multi-tap keyboard. We […]