PSP Phones Home This Friday February 28, 2008

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Sony’s plans to turn the PSP into an all-singing-all-dancing communications device will take off this Friday with the release of Go!Messenger.

It was due out last month but PSP owners will not be grumbling too much since it’s going to allow them to chat, send messages and - using the optional Go!Cam – send video to any other PSP user wirelessly.

Wii Fit To Cost £70 February 28, 2008

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Nintendo has announced the price of making your ass smaller using the Wii, as the new Wii Fit pack will cost £70 when it finally launches here on April 25. The European price will be 90 Euro.

The health-oriented pack contains a Balance Board and a host of software fitness routines designed to make the Wii the first console to try and make people slimmer. After taking your weight and sorting your BMI, there's 40 routines spanning Aerobic Exercises, Muscle Workouts, Yoga and Balance Games to get you in shape. Think of it like Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for your bingo wings.

Wii Fit has sprinted off the shelves in Japan, with over 1 million units sold. Nintendo looks like it could be onto another oddball winner.-Martin Lynch

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BeerTracker Sorts The Boys From The Alcoholics February 28, 2008

There are times when you wake up after a hard night’s drinking with a head like a banging drum, a mouth like a manure-flavoured desert, and a wish that you had someone there to tell when we’ve had enough beer.

The BeerTracker is that friend, although very small. Every bottle you pop with this is recorded on the display so that when you’ve had enough, you can stop. Hahahahahaha. Like that’s ever going to happen.

Nokia ‘Morph’ Phone Concept February 28, 2008

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Nokia is looking to nanotechnology to make our future dream phones a reality and has wheeled out its Morph concept device to tease us.

The Morph – nothing to do with our childhood plasticine friend – features in The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition in New York and is the brainchild of boffins at Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the Cambridge Nanoscience Centre in the UK.

Flexibility is at the heart of the new device using materials and components that are stretchable, transparent and very strong. Fibril proteins would be woven into a 3-D mesh that reinforces thin elastic structures – like spider silk – allowing the device to morph into a wide range of shapes. Fold it up and it looks like a phone or open it our into a reading tablet with keypad. The device would also use nanotechnology to create self-cleaning surfaces on mobile devices while nanostructures like “Nanoflowers” naturally repel water, dirt, and even fingerprints.

For the truly green ,something called Nanograss structures could be used as the device surface to harvest solar power. The animated video is cute but this is a concept after all, and we may all be in wheelchairs before any of this happens. Jump for a photo of Morph close-up.-Martin Lynch

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Shuttle’s Mini Gaming PC Powerhouse February 28, 2008

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With Cebit Show madness set to kick off next week, wee PC specialist, Shuttle, is hoping to beat the rush with news of a gaming PC that manages to be small too.

The mini-powerhouse is the XPC P2 3500G, built inside the aluminium XPC Barebone SP35P2 Pro chassis, sports an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 processor, 4GB of DDR2-800 Dram and a fast 750GB Serial-ATA 2 Samsung hard disk drive with 32 MB of cache. You can also fit another HDD if you need. There’s a serious amount of cooling and noise reduction technologies employed too so that it doesn’t sound like a plane taking off under your desk every few minutes.