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Nintendo DSi LL Here On March 28th

Frank — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:32:04 +0000

Nintendo fans rejoice, you too will be able to cash in on the DSi LL on March 28th of this year. The fuller DSi comes at you with a larger 4.2-inch screen and a full-size pen stylus as compared to the is original brother.

Nintendo has also added support for eBooks. Although you will be able to flip the unit sideways and use it in a traditional book format you won’t be able to read those book unless you plugin a special DS cartridge.

The new DSI LL will hit store shelves on March 28th for $190. The eBook system will come at a later date with a 100 Classic Books title shipping around June 15th.

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Nintendo DSi LL Here On March 28th

Frank — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:32:04 +0000

The new DSI LL will hit store shelves on March 28th for $190. The eBook system will come at a later date with a 100 Classic Books title shipping around June 15th.

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In Case You Missed It: Week 43 Round Up

Frank — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:35:51 +0000

In case you missed anything last week; we have everything from Metallica on your iPhone right through to a $1200 Mouse. Enjoy

Gadgets

Remote Controlled Tissue Box
Electronic Guitar Shirt
Sucker Alert: $1200 Mouse
Sucker Alert: Wattgate 381 “Audio Grade” Socket

Gaming

Nokia Kills The N-Gage – Are You Shocked?
Nintendo DSi Get’s Bigger
Quickdev16: SNES Developers Cart
Soccer Hero

Hacking and Security

Use Your iPhone To Control Your Car
Mr. Wake – The Uncatchable Alarm Clock
Crush Your Cans With Electricity
3D Video With One Camera
DIY: Tesla “Spooky Spirit” Radio
Phaser Boasts 300mW Laser
iPhone App To Crack Combination Locks

Mac

Tap Tap Revenge Metallica For The iPhone

Tech News

XBMC on ARM
Install 59 Apps Quickly And Easily
Water Drops At 2000 FPS

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Nintendo DSi Get’s Bigger

Frank — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:14:42 +0000

The Nintendo DSi just got a whole lot bigger. The DSi XL was officially unveiled yesterday by Nintendo. The new handheld is a lot bigger, which is one of the things that fans have been asking for. Instead of dual 3.25-inch displays the bigger brother will now come with 4.2-inch displays. It might not sound like a lot, but if you do the math that’s close to 30% bigger. The unit weighs 314g which is 100g more than the DSi and the overall size is 161 x 91.4 x 21.2 mm.

Besides the size and the new battery that claims to offer 13-17 hours of game play when minimum brightness is used, everything else stays the same. The DSi XL will cost about $220 in Japan where it will be available November 21st. The rest of us shmucks will hopefully see the unit sometime in 2010. It would have been nice to have this unit in time for the holiday season, but like most decisions that Nintendo makes wil releases, North America is always last.

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Open Source DS Bluetooth Adapter

Frank — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:58:31 +0000

Gordan Savicic and Gottfried Haider of DSbrut have just released their open source bluetooth adapter for the Nintendo DS. The adapter will allow the DS to interface to other bluetooth devices like GPS units and keyboards. This should really open up the homebrew scene.

Almost two years in the making, we’re happy to finally release our DS Bluetooth adapter. The tiny Slot-1 cartridge allows you to hook up the Nintendo DS wirelessly with other devices such as GPS-receivers, robots and so forth. Today we’re making all materials of the project openly available, including the schematics and a GPL-licensed software library for the Nintendo DS, because we believe in open hardware design and want to encourage collaboration in the hardware hacking community.
In our design, we use a tiny ATmega168 microcontroller to make the Nintendo DS speak to the RN-41 Bluetooth SMD module by Roving Networks. Using this piece of hardware the Nintendo DS can scan its neighbourhood and establish connections to other Bluetooth devices (supporting SPP). The module can also be remotely connected to, allowing for a range of interesting applications. We also developed a software library for the Nintendo DS, making it easy to use this new Bluetooth interface.

[Link to Open Source Bluetooth DS Adapter]

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Nintendo DS On Your Mac Or PC

Frank — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:11:11 +0000

DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator for the Mac and for the PC that gives you the full functionality of the DS; buttons, touchscreen interface and even the Wi-Fi connectivity. It’s feature packed and allows you to play both Homebrew games and ROM images. It also offers some extra features that are not available on a physical DS like taking screenshots, creating movies from game play, loading cheat codes and even saving your game play.

It’s 100% free and can be downloaded from here. You might also want to check out NDS Homebrew for an impressive collection of homebrew games and applications.

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DSi Here By Next Summer

Ryan Yewell — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:06:36 +0000

The latest Revision of the Nintendo DS, the DSi (with its main new feature being 2 built-in cameras, with a more multimedia focus of pics/music), is now available in Japan.

But all of us North Americans want to know, when can we get our hands on it? Nintendo president, Satoru Iwata, has said in a Reuters press release that in 2009 “an autumn or year end launch would probably be too late”. So, by some simple deduction it looks like the DSi will land in North America sometime this upcoming summer.

[Via Reuters]

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Nintendo Unveils DSi

Frank — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:37:35 +0000

We all knew it was coming. It’s been one of the most talked about releases on the net, and last night made it official. The new DS, dubbed the DSi, will be 12% thinner (they got rid of the GBA slot), have two built in camera (one if reported to be VGA resolution), a bugger (3.25″) screen, and have built in music playback. You will also see an SD slot and some internal storage to enhance the multimedia experience. Nintendo

They will also be rolling out a “DSi Shop” to sell content. The unit will also have a browser application that is free. The store will work off the same point system as we have seen on the Wii.

Unfortunately we won’t be seeing the DSi in North America until sometime in 09, but if you live in Japan you can grab a black or white unit on November 1st.

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Are These The New DS Screens?

Frank — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:00:18 +0000

There have been a lot of rumours flying around the internets about a new Nintendo DS lurking around the corner. We have seen rumours of a built in camera and even GPS, but if these leaked shots are accurate, then it quashes the rumours of a wide screen unit hitting the market. The only difference I can see is they are going from a 3 inch screen to 3.25 inches.

Could these be accurate? Quite possibly. The internet is a wonderful marvel of information. Only time will tell.

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New DS Rumour

Frank — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:45:28 +0000

IGN has speculated to a new DS hitting store shelves some time in the first quarter of the new year. The third coming of the popular handheld gaming system will include dual touchscreen (one of them being widescreen). If that’s the case we are looking a major hardware refresh, a nice one at that too.

Don’t get a woody looking at the above picture, that’s just IDN’s mockup of what the unit might look like.

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iBand

Frank — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:23:23 +0000

Hereâ€™s a first; a band that uses handheld devices, namely two iPhone and a Nintendo DS to create music. Using various applications on the respected devices the iBand actually sounds pretty damn good.

“Unfortunately we only have two iPhones, so we dug out that dusty Nintendo DS. But we want to take it further. There are some guys with iPod touches in our neighbourhood, so we’ll gather them and add a drumset with the BeatPhone app and a guitar and lose the DS”

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Make Your Own Nintendo DS Games

Frank — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:02:20 +0000

I probably spend more time with my DS than I do with any other gaming handheld I own. Itâ€™s quick, fun, and also easy to put down and pick up later if I have to. Now you can take all of the fun of the DS and apply your own games to it.

XtenDS allows anyone to design their own â€œhomebrewâ€ games using a very easy GUI. The software includes support for sound effects, sprites, music, backgrounds, menus, and a fully working collision system. Using an advanced scripting language you might just make the next big hit.

The only downside is that you will need to have a homebrew cartridge to play your games (or an emulator on your PC).

So if you have an idea brewing for the next big hit what are you waiting for? I need some new games to play.

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Nintendo DS Game Teaches You How To Dress

Frank — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:30:34 +0000

Letâ€™s be honest, most geeks out there lack some sort of fashion. Most of them will walk around in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt every day, all day. Itâ€™s not exactly the best way to attract people of the opposite sex (or the same sex for that matter).

This Japanese import for the Nintendo DS will teach you how to dress properly. The game features over 200 recorded lectures on how to dress yourself and includes a 3D model to show you how to dress and coordinate.

Itâ€™s unsure if this game will ever make it out of Japan, but itâ€™s good to know that help is available for the fashionably challenged.

[Via Joystiq]

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Best of the week – Sept 10 – 16

Frank — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

iTunes Movie Rentals? (Frank)
iPhone: User racks a $4,800 bill (Frank)
How To: Add RAW support to low end Canon camera (Frank)
Mouse Danger in Vista (Frank)
Hacking an Alarm Clock (Frank)
Un-Portable Nintendo DS (Frank)
Urine Powered Batteries (Frank)
DS gets VOIP (Frank)
iPhone firmware 1.1.1 may break soft unlocks (Frank)

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Jam Sessions – Mini Amp For Your DS

Frank — Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Think Guitar Hero for the DS. Ubisoft takes a serious leap with Jam Sessions for the Nintendo DS. The game is basically a guitar simulator, and while you can play along with whatever the game is jamming, the serious fun comes from the improvisational aspects of the game: You can pretty much play the DS like a guitar. The game hits stores this month, but if you wait until November, you can pick up the Jam Sessions bundle while comes with a mini amp so you can drive everyone crazy.

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Un-Portable Nintendo DS

Frank — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Feel like your Nintendo DS’s screen is a little small? Hacker Loopy decided that his DS needed a bit more real estate and did something about it. By pairing together two 15″ tablet PC screens he turned his tiny Nintendo DS into a behemoth. The bottom screen remains touch sensitive just like the DS while the top screen just displays what the top screen on a DS would. By using a FPGA to translate the input from the tablet screen back into data that can be used by the DS. I can just image what play Super Mario Kart on this would be like.

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USB Mini Battery for instant power

Frank — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Like I’ve said in the past, there is nothing like a good solid usb charger to help you along the way when you have no electrical outlets available to you to charge all that electronic goodness, which is why the USB Mini Battery from Brando gives you portable, instant power whenever there is no power outlet in sight. It is compatible with the iPhone, a variety of smartphones, digital cameras, cellphones, portable media players, the iPod, MP3 players, CD players, and even portable game consoles like the PSP and Nintendo DS and DS Lite. Just make sure there is a USB charging cable compatible with the device you’re going to charge before picking the USB Mini Battery up. The li-ion battery has a capacity of 2200mAh, and measures 70mm x 35mm x 21mm, making this an essential portable item to bring on your travels. It retails for $36 a pop.

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PSP gets touchscreen

Frank — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Just the other day I was blogging about the guy who created a heart beat sensor for his PSP. I went on about how someone should create an iPhone emulator for the PSP, well, I’m now one step closer to my dream. Sparkfun is selling this colour 24-bit LCD touchscreen for $23.95. Currently you have to develop your own homebrew app to take advantage of the touchscreen functionality (hence the iPhone emulator). At the very least a Nintendo DS emulator might just be possible.

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