If you're in Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan or Korea, Microsoft wants to know what's wrong with you. That's right, your tepid response to their console isn't their fault, it's yours. Which leads Microsoft to launch the website "whatswrongwithu.com" questioning what really is wrong with you. C'mon, it's got great Japanese games, blockbuster titles, and it looks cool!
Was it your inadequate parenting? Perhaps a childhood trauma? Fetal alcoholism? Just plain stupid? Tell Microsoft what's wrong with you at their website. – Jason Chen
What's Wrong With U [via Xbox 360 Fanboy]
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Sony Ericsson is adding some new music phones to its line-up soon, with the introduction of the skinny W880/W888 and the W610 Walkman phones.
The 9.4mm thin W880 is the most anorexic phone yet from the company. It comes with a 1GB Memory Stick Micro that will allow you to store 900 tracks and boasts the now obligatory, 2 megapixel camera. It also comes with Walkman 2.0 software and the Disc2Phone music management software for transferring tunes to and from PCs. The W880 is a UMTS phone and will be the one we see over here, while the W888 is a GSM version for China, without the W880’s video telephony functionality.
The W610 Walkman can store 470 music tracks on the bundled 512MB Memory Stick Micro. It has a similar camera but it also sports some software called TrackID. Just record a clip of a song you just have to know the name of, and off it goes to get you the track name, artist and album.
Both are due out in Q1. Jump now for some pics.-Martin Lynch
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Don't bother teaching your children how to tell time. Oh no. Just get them one of tehse Kidsleep nightlight alarms and they can easily discern when "sleepy time" and "wakey time" is.
Simply look at the clock face, and the sleeping rabit or wide-awake rabbit will tell you exactly what you should be doing right now. The best part of this clock would be if your kids regularly wake up at 4:00 am, the sleeping bunny would tell them not to stay in bed and not come and wake you up. Yeah, that'll probably work until 4:30 am. – Jason Chen
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Cao's Vision cigars are Dominican. The case they come is decked with blue LEDs that light it up like a gaming PC, and a hygrometere that'll tell you if your cigars are in the 68 - 70% humidity range that keeps stogies fresh.–Brian Lam
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As gadgets go, this one is big. About the same size as five football pitches, actually. The UK’s largest science facility, costing £300m, opened for business yesterday.
Dubbed the Diamond Light Source synchrotron – or uber microscope – it's a machine that allows intense beams of x-rays and ultra-violet light to penetrate inside matter to an atomic or molecular level.
This light is concentrated into beamlines, which are now open for use by all manner of scientific, academic and technical organisations. There are seven beamlines available for scientists to fight over right now and the queues are growing. Thankfully, the pitiful sight of academics throwing haymakers at each other will be offset by the rollout of 14 more beamlines this summer.
For more on the synchrotron, go here.-Martin Lynch
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No, it’s not a rusty pair of scissors. But, UK company Global Security One has launched a device called XGate, designed to help keep kids safe from paedophiles on the Net. It works by letting parents monitor where their child is online, see their conversations in chat rooms and even shut them down remotely using a PC or mobile phone if things are looking suspect.
Most Net nanny-type solutions are software-based but this is a piece of hardware with an ADSL modem inside, that monitors the kind of language used by sexual predators. It has more than a whiff a big brother about it and young teens might not be happy – are they ever? - but many parents feel helpless when their kids are on online.
Michele Elliott of anti-bullying and child abuse charity, Kidscape says: “Parents are right to be concerned that paedophiles are using the Internet to groom children. The XGate offers protection for children and gives parents a way to monitor or shut down activity that could be dangerous. We want children to be able to use the Internet safely and so we welcome this new technology.”
On sale now for £100. Necessary or overkill?-Martin Lynch
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