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DSi Studio Kit Adds Flash To Your DSi

November 21st, 2009

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DSI Studio Kit

Want a flash for your DSi? Then be prepared to be emasculated because Thrustmaster’s Studio Kit is anything but manly. In the package they’ve included a snap on flash, a not so attractive shiny bag, in addition to a macro and telephoto lens. And if you want to ‘add a touch of color’ to your photos you can pop in one of six colored lenses. Expect it to go on sale for about $20.

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Classice Nintendo Icon Rubik’s Cube

November 20th, 2009

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nintendo-rubik's

Not too long ago we posted on the expensive but cool Touchscreen Rubik's Cube and today we have the Classic Nintendo version. Though I don’t recognize all of these icons, I’m sure there are fanboys out there that have these tattooed in special places. Designed by deviantARTist r4r3truffle, this item is not for sale at this time. I have never been that great at puzzles and I definitely have never completed a Rubik’s Cube. I’m not so sure this version could get me interested.

Games, Gaming, Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, Toys, nintendo, rubiks cube

Gadget Rumor: Next Nintendo DSi To Receive Free Wireless 3G Connection

November 10th, 2009

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It looks like Nintendo is feeling the pressure from the iPhone. So much so, that the company’s President, Satoru Iwata, is perhaps considering an Amazon Kindle like wireless model to deliver games to the portable gaming unit.

I’m interested because it’s a new business model in which the user doesn’t bear the communications cost.

Currently Nintendo DSi users can access the Nintendo store to download a variety of content via WiFi, but that requires that the user be within proximity of a signal and seriously hinders the purchase anytime, anywhere impulse. Of course, this kind of delivery system would be implemented in the next generation of Nintendo DSes and would add some significant cost to the handheld device, something Nintendo may not be willing to do.

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Nintendo Super Sizes Their Nintendo DSi To 4.2-inches, Now DSi LL Or XL

October 29th, 2009

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4.2-inch DSi

Apparently, the Japanese are adopting an American mentality because their DSi portable gaming system, which has a 3.5-inch screen, just got bumped to 4.2-inches. Of course with a larger screen comes larger components and the weight of the pocket gamer has gone from 214g to 314g, which is about .7lbs for all you US fans. Outside of that everything seems to have remained the same. The Japanese version will be called the ‘LL’ and Europe ‘XL’. The DSi LL will hit Japan on 11/21, no word on the US and the EU can expect it in the first quarter of 2010.

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The Biggest Lego Mario Ever Built [Lego]

October 24th, 2009

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If you have $3700 handy, you can buy this 6-foot tall, 110-pound, 40,000-brick Lego Mario, the biggest ever built. It took one week to plan, and 175 hours over 16 days to build.

You don’t have to feel like a dorky geek for buying it, because the money will go to charity. So you can feel like a good-hearted dorky geek.

The auction lasts till November 1st, and the money will go to the Ronald McDonald foundation in Netherlands, “a dutch organization that arranges proper housing for relatives of hospitalized children, in the vicinity of clinics.” [eBay via Brothers Brick]