Wii Going Under the Knife

Thanks to a Famitsu article, there's been some confusion regarding the forthcoming Wii game Trauma Center: Second Opinion. The title's developer Atlus pinged us to clear things up in four simple points: 1) Trauma Center: Second Opinion will be a Wii launch title in North America. 2) Trauma Center: ...

Storm the House 2

The sequel to the ridiculously fun classic.

Lomographic Fisheye Camera #Two: Still Capturing 180-degrees of Cool

The Lomo cameras were originally known for their leaky bodies that contaminate film with errant light — perfect for art house photos. This 35mm fisheye film camera improves upon Lomo's best selling first with more image distorting capabilities, and a metal case. More, details, and sample shots, ...

Listen to This, Here's the Official DS Headset

Courtesy of Ninty site Go Nintendo, the official Nintendo DS headset. A drawing of it, rather. It goes on sale September 14th in Japan for about US $9; however, Play-Asia already has an unofficial Datel headset on sale for the impatient. All signs point to the Nintendo product being mono, and its application ...

Top Gear's Limey Bastards Hack Cars for Remote Control

There are only so many stunts you can pull in a car before you worry about getting yourself killed. So UK auto show Top Gear rigged some with remote controls, and raced them past a swinging wrecking ball, through a dirt track, and over ramps.– Brian Lam Top Gear Video: Full-Sized Remote Controlled ...

Corsair Flash Readout USB: Lets You Know When it's Full (Burp)

This USB key can display how much space you've eaten up, using either a pie chart or digits. The screen also has an 11-character readout to help you remember what you stored. It's not an LCD, but a "Bi-stable Cholesteric" Display, which doesn't need power to maintain its image. Comes in capacities of ...

The Gizmondo Did Eye Toy

Spending more time buying racehorses and model agencies than fine tuning their business strategy, Gizmondo crashed and burned like Fat Stefan in a Ferrari. But not all the ideas were terrible. In fact, this little prototype video of the unreleased Gizmondo game Catapults is pretty frickin' amazing. The ...

Prey Did Narbacular Drop in '98

Thanks to Tarik for sending in this video of proto-Prey. He seems astonished that Prey has been around for almost 10 years... the rest of us already knew it. But what's fascinating about the live demonstration of Prey by 3D Realms' Paul Schuytema is just how damn good it looks. There's no Dyson sphere, ...

EIKO EGG CUP

No excuse to lie-in on a Sunday morning and actually cook your own breakfast (gasp!). Now, with this nifty little device called the Eiko an idiot can cook an egg to perfection. is the solution for the perfect breakfast egg. Simplyhang the Eiko over the edge of the pan of boiling water and pop in your ...

FASHIONABLE SWEDES

Furniture isn’t the only thing that the Swedes do well – at least that’s what new Swedish design label Ulterior Motive want us to believe. The new men’s accessories label offers an alternative, fashion oriented take on such classic pieces as neck ties and cuff links. The cool range is more at home on ...

COKE PENDANT

Al Pacino as Scar Face needs to be the face of the advertising campaign for this little beauty. It's petite, discrete and stores treats - its the blinged up coke dispenser ala pendant by Tobias Wong. Every celeb has a star studded dispatching unit for their friend Mr White Xmas , but this sophisticated ...

Slide Lights: Photos, Lighting, Decoration

If there is anyone left on earth who is still using physical film to take slide photographs, here's something to do with them other than boring everyone with your interminable slide shows: Slide Lights, a lighting system that lets you insert those transparencies all along its length. You can mount the ...

Firefox Extension Backup Extension

FEBE allows you to quickly and easily backup your Firefox extensions. In fact, it goes beyond just backing up -- It will actually rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi files. Now you can easily synchronize your office and home browsers. Linux version available for testing, too!

Merry go round meets scooter

I wonder what would've happened if they used a real motorcycle and not a scooter. I think somebody might've been ripped in half.

Our one of a kind Spore figurine

Filed under: Culture, PCSome Joystiq readers will no doubt be jealous when we remind them of how Joystiq special correspondent Randall Bennett got to play Spore behind closed doors at E3. And again when he got to see Robin Williams crack jokes while making his own creature at that Wired party.Well, our ...

Silentmaxx ST11-PRO PC Case

When we're testing out a PC in these parts, one of the most important considerations is how noisy is it? The Silentmaxx ST11-PRO quiet PC case is packed with acoustical material covering all of its insides, hushing any racket that might emanate from within. With plenty of room to install your own ultra-quiet ...

Logitech Noise-Canceling Headphones Enter the Fray

Logitech enters its phones into the battle royale between noise-canceling headphones, competing against Bose Quiet Comfort 3 and Solitude headphones for the title of King of Quietude. It's using the same principle as its competitors, with active and passive noise elimination aiming to cancel out constant ...

Nintendo's DS Fall Line-Up Hits

Nintendo, basking in the glow of fantastic sales figures for last quarter, sent out a cheeky email about their Fall DS game line-up. With the exception of late November, Nintendo is pumping out a DS title a week starting on Oct. 9. Many of them sound like fun, though there's still the odd Pokemon and ...

Monopoly ditches cash, goes plastic

Filed under: HouseholdWhile Monopoly is the paragon of good 'ole fashioned board game fun, the "old fashioned" part had to go. Parker Brothers is phasing out the cash-based version's funmoney and replacing it with an "Electronic Banking" flavor that could leave Mr. Moneybags turning his pockets inside ...

design graphik

Design Graphik has a new (to me) short on his site as well as a flickr photostream that are both worth taking a peek at.