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The Wii controller will have build in speaker. This was demonstrated with Link firing an arrow. You could hear when your stretched your bow from little speaker on the Wiimote, and then when fired, the sound would ?travel? from the Wiimote to your television. http://digg.com/gaming/Wii_Controller_%28R...Doppler_Effect_

The picture speaks for itself. http://digg.com/gaming/PS3_Before_After_Pic_%282005_2006%29

The classic non remote Wii controller has been revealed by Nintendo, check it out exclusivly first here! http://digg.com/gaming/Nintendo_Wii_Classi...oller_Revealed_

Nintendo and Lucasarts will unveil the new game during Nintendo?s media briefing which begins tomorrow at 9.30am L.A. time. http://digg.com/gaming/Star_Wars_Wii_Game_..._Revealed_at_E3

A new trailer for the "New Super Mario Bros." has been released. Mario versus Luigi. They fight to collect stars. They can even *fireball each other*! http://digg.com/gaming/NEW_%285_8_06%29_Ne..._-_MULTIPLAYER_

Kotaku has a short Q&A with Richard Castaldo, who was last paralyzed from the chest down after being shot in the arm, chest, back and abdomen by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold during their attack on Columbine High School. He has played the infamous Columbine RPG ands gives his thoughts. http://digg.com/gaming/Columbine_Victim_Ta...t_Columbine_RPG

According to an anonymous poster over at the IGN message boards, a Nintendo representative told him/her and a co-worker that Nintendo is already producing Wii units and has them stockpiled for release. http://digg.com/gaming/Wiis_Stockpiled_for_Surprise_Release

What Happens When The Marketing Machine Breaks Down? Some horrible ads from the early 90's for the Super NES and more.. http://digg.com/gaming/The_Best_Worst_ADs

In your wildest dreams, did you ever imagine that the likes of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas or Leisure Suit Larry might be considered part of the cultural heritage of America? The folks who run the Library of Congress - not generally known for their gaming chops - are giving the issue serious consideration. http://digg.com/gaming/Library_of_Congress...eo_Game_Culture

Wedbush Morgan Securities believes that Blu-ray on the PS3 is more important than gaming. According to them, the battle at the top for supremacy between the PS3 and 360 won't be a matter of who has the best games, but rather who will be the winner in the next-generation DVD format wars. http://digg.com/gaming/PS3%3A_Blu-ray_more...Gaming_for_Sony

The linked article talks about 3 upcoming games for the Wii, all very different then the normal Nintendo game. Lets home that Nintendo finally kicks the "Kiddy" stigma that they've had up to now. I hope the Wii is as revolutionary as it's codename leads us to believe. http://digg.com/gaming/Is_Nintendo_going_M...e_with_the_Wii_

This is a 3D Nintendo Rube Goldberg 3D animation created using some novel ideas with great classic game music. The ending is surprising and unexpected at the same time. http://digg.com/gaming/Nintendo_Rube_Goldberg_Animation

Joystiq recently called people up asking for their blind opinion about the Nintendo Wii, without knowing what the product was beforehand. Not one of the respondants guessed that it was a gaming product http://digg.com/gaming/Real_people_react_to_Wii

No trademarks, admission the name will be unpopular. Could naming the Revolution "Wii" be a brilliant hoax to get free viral marketing? ... It's also interesting that revolution.nintendo.com doesn't redirect to either wii.nintendo.com (doesn't exist) or nintendowii.com. http://digg.com/gaming/Nintendo_Wii%3A_Viral_Marketing_Scam_

Too Hot! wrote to mention a BBC article about extremely powerful synthetic muscles. From the article: "The most powerful type, 'shorted fuel cell muscles' convert chemical energy into heat, causing a special shape-memory metal alloy to contract. Turning down the heat allows the muscle to relax. Lab tests showed that these devices had a lifting strength more than 100 times that of normal skeletal muscle. Another kind of muscle being developed by the team converted chemical energy into electrical energy which caused a material made from carbon nanotube electrodes to bend." http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4354

expro writes "If the root kit scandal was not enough for Sony, Time Magazine reports that it is a delay in 'the release of copy-protection software required for the PS3's game and high-definition movie discs' giving Microsoft a serious advantage in the market place. Is there something Sony should be learning here about preoccupation copy control? With high definition writable media appearing already, will the price drop soon enough to help me overcome the real obstacle to backing up my exsisting commercial DVDs, cost of single media large enough to hold them that is playable in a player? Will the resulting new digital hole in copying existing DVD schemes to higher-density media replace the analog hole of VCRs in copying movies?" http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4342

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has reviewed the AlphaGrip AG-5 handheld keyboard and mouse. From the article: 'After lots of research and five revisions, the perfectionists at AlphaGrip finally decided that they had a product worthy of marketing, and they released the long awaited AG-5. Although the AG-5 looks strange and intimidating, it is a unique and highly innovative product that deserves consideration, particularly by mobile computing enthusiasts. The AG-5 interfaces with computers via a single removable USB cable. It uses a simple chord-like keyboarding model and an integrated trackball to provide complete keyboard and mouse functionality in a unique form factor that looks a bit like a console gaming controller.'" http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4303

An anonymous reader writes "Well, looks like rumors are flying, and Dell may have bought Alienware according to an article on cnet. It really would fit Dell well. They are the last big manufacturer not to use AMD, and this would fill that void. Acquiring this company would also help them grow their business to where they want it to be ($80 billion anually). One can only hope that Alienware support and hardware won't be ill effected by this acquisition." http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4276

Carl Bialik from WSJ writes "It seemed like the latest instance of a recurring story: Two Chinese blogs had shut down, apparently the victim of government censorship. 'Within hours, English-language bloggers and Western news media spread the word that the Chinese government had closed the sites,' the Wall Street Journal reports. The BBC spread the word, and its report was picked up by the French free-press group Reporters Without Borders. 'But in this case, it appears the Chinese government wasn't involved, the WSJ reports. 'By Thursday, a day after the shut-downs, the blogs were back up and running. In an interview, Beijing-based journalist Wang Xiaofeng of Massage Milk says he shut his blog down to make a point about freedom of speech -- just one directed at the West instead of at Beijing. He calls the Western press "irresponsible" and says that the hoax was designed "to give foreign media a lesson that Chinese affairs are not always the way you think." ' The BBC later corrected its story." http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4253

QuietLagoon writes "The evolving Citibank PIN scandal is getting worse with each passing day. Gregg Keizer of TechWeb News writes: 'The unfolding debit card scam that rocked Citibank this week is far from over, an analyst said Thursday as she called this first-time-ever mass theft of PINs 'the worst consumer scam to date.' ... The problem...is that retailers improperly store PIN numbers after they've been entered, rather than erase them at the PIN-entering pad. Worse, the keys to decrypt the PIN blocks are often stored on the same network as the PINs themselves, making a single successful hack a potential goldmine for criminals: they get the PIN data and the key to read it.'" http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4193

blueZ3 asks: "It seems that the readers of Slashdot are the most likely early adopters of electronic books, but from posts I've seen here, it doesn't appear that many on Slashdot are e-book fans. In the hopes of sparking a discussion, I'd like to ask what keeps you personally from reading e-books?" http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4177

Thomas Hawk writes "TiVo held their most recent analyst conference call today and on the call announced that they will be dropping their lifetime subscription option as well as offering three new monthly no upfront fee TiVo plans combining their box and service for one year, two year and three year commitments. Additionally they announced that their highly anticipated Series 3 HDTV standalone model with CableCARD support will not be available until after "mid year," a new retail partnership with Radio Shack and the fact that the company is in solid discussions with other cable operators for deals similar to their previously announced Comcast initiative." http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4147

andy753421 writes "Wired is running an article featuring Katherine Albrecht who, with her new book 'The Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance', is warning that RFID tags may in fact be the "mark of the beast". Among her arguments are that in a futuristic world anyone who wishes to buy and sell goods would be compelled "to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads," as is foretold in the book Revelation. Others are skeptical saying that many new technologies, such as the printing press, bar-codes, and several others, have also created fears about the beginning of the end." http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4063

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objekt writes "According to an article in USA Today, Caller ID spoofing has become much easier in the last few years. Millions of people have Internet telephone equipment that can be set to make any number appear on a Caller ID system. And several websites have sprung up to provide Caller ID spoofing services, eliminating the need for any special hardware. For instance, Spoofcard.com sells a virtual 'calling card' for $10 that provides 60 minutes of talk time. The user dials a toll-free number, then keys in the destination number and the Caller ID number to display. The service also provides optional voice scrambling, to make the caller sound like someone of the opposite sex." http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4026