Nintendo DS Lite Travel Charger

• Conveniently gives your DS Lite battery a boost whether you are on a business trip, in a hotel, or at home.
• World traveler (100-240V). The innovative travel charger automatically adjusts to all voltages and frequencies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
• Great for users who frequently travel and as a replacement charger.
• Features fold-away prongs for easy travel and storage
• Small and lightweight accessory

Plug in the AC adapter and power the Nintendo DS Lite handheld video game systems from any 120-volt outlet. The AC adapter also allows you to recharge the battery pack, even while you play. The small, lightweight design allows you to easily pack the AC adapter along with your handheld system for a convenient back-up power source. Nintendo is the acknowledged worldwide leader in the creation of interactive entertainment. Nintendo manufactures and markets both hardware and software for its popular home video game systems.

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This episode of Boing Boing Video is brought to you by www.wepc.com Academy Award-winning special effects designer John Gaeta (Matrix, Speed Racer) talks with Boing Boing about the technology and the human talent behind the forthcoming movie Ninja Assassin, directed by James McTeigue. Along the way, we explore a broader realm of questions about the future of games, movies, and interactive entertainment. Will movies become more like games, offering new ways for us to insert ourselves inside the stories? Who will create them, using what tools, and how will the experience be different? Will computer-generated actors replace human actors, or stunt persons — or will the two realms overlap in ways we can’t yet predict? All of this we ask of the guy who invented “bullet time.” Due in theaters this fall, director James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin follows the story of Raizo (played by Asian mega-popstar Rain), one of the world’s most deadly assassins. As Gaeta explains in this video, the movie merges blindingly badass Bruce-Lee-esque martial arts stunt work with tastefully integrated “virtual” work. BB blog post, with extended interview transcript of a longer conversation we had about the future of interactivity and “hybrid entertainment” — and why Hollywood is, in Gaeta’s words, “like a mule.” www.boingboing.net

• Blu-ray Disc player with Full HD 1080p output for Blu-ray Discs and upconversion of standard DVD video to 1080p
• BD Live capable for accessing bonus content from BD-Live Blu-ray Discs via Ethernet port connected to your home network
• 24p True Cinema capable lets you watch films at their intended 24 fps (frames per second); Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD
• Outputs: 1 HDMI, 1 component, 1 composite, 1 analog audio (2-channel), 1 digital optical audio, 1 digital coaxial audio, 1 Ethernet
• Includes remote control and composite AV cable; measures 16.9 x 8.1 x 2.2 inches (WxDxH)

Product Description
The Sony BDP-S360 Blu-ray Disc player provides a movie experience worthy of your HDTV. Plays Blu-ray Disc movies in Full HD 1080p quality and upscales the quality of your DVDs. Supports BD-Live technology to download bonus interactive entertainment on select movies. Supports Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD audio codecs for up to 7.1 channels of high-definition sound. With QuickStart Mode your movies will start approximately six seconds from the moment you turn on the player…. More >>

Sony BDP-S360 1080p Blu-ray Disc Player

Sony wants you to know that the “Motion Controller” will be available worldwide this Fall. It’s also adamant that the name “Motion Controller” is a tentative name for now. We’ve heard murmurs that it’d be called “Gem,” but for now it’s “Motion Controller.” I’d suggest that Sony call it “Purple Bulb Knob,” but the company’s official strategy is “Don’t Listen to Doug.”

Oh, a couple other things. You’ll need to have the PlayStation Eye camera to use the Motion Controller. And Sony “will vigorously promote the Motion Controller as the de facto controller of the PS3 platform along with the DUALSHOCK series controller and will deploy various measures to enhance the software title line-up for the Motion Controller, delivering groundbreaking interactive entertainment only possible on the PS3 platform.”

That’s about it. No pricing or firm launch date beyond Fall. Full press release here.

Mad Catz isn’t actually known for being subtle, but this is a bit much even for them. It’s the new Cyborg R.A.T. – and it’s a hot mess of wasteland design gone wrong.

Imagine that the world ended, people live in underground bunkers, but there were some survivors. They’d build stuff out of whatever they could find, combing buttons, switches, and dials into an ungodly mess of function and form. Now imagine someone from this post-apocalyptic future came back and designed a mouse. That’s what the Cyborg R.A.T. makes me think of.

Ultimately though, what matters is if the thing is comfortable. We’ll get one when it comes available and review it for you, and let you know how well it works. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe it’s the best. mouse. evar.

From the press release:

San Diego, January 06, 2010

Mad Catz® Interactive, Inc. (AMEX/TSX: MCZ), a leading worldwide third-party interactive entertainment accessory provider, today unveiled a new range of premium Cyborg gaming mice expected to begin shipping in Spring 2010.

“Cyborg is best known for ergonomic and fully adjustable flight sticks, gaming mice and keyboards. The new mouse range incorporates the same market leading design principles and applies them to gaming mice. For the first time ever on a mouse, the key points of contact between the gamer’s hand and the mouse are fully adjustable allowing it to be customized for any grip preference” commented, Darren Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz. “The Cyborg mouse range was developed entirely in house and I believe they are the most comfortable gaming mice you’ll ever use. Besides, they just look cool!”

Following-up Darren Richardson said, “The addition of this line of mice bolsters Cyborg’s strong gaming keyboard market presence and is a continuation of our strategy of developing products that evoke a passionate consumer response.”

For a complete feature matrix, see the table at the end of the announcement. The gaming mice expected to ship as part of the range includes:

• Cyborg R.A.T. 7 Gaming Mouse
o Features: Fully Adjustable; 5600dpi laser; Programmable; Weight System; USB powered
o MSRP: $99.99 / £79.99 / €99.99

• Cyborg R.A.T. 9 Gaming Mouse
o Features: Wireless, Fully Adjustable, 5600dpi laser; Programmable,; Weight System; Powered by Rechargeable Batteries
o MSRP: $129.99/ £99.99 / €129.99

• Cyborg R.A.T. 5 Gaming Mouse
o Features: Adjustable Length; 4000dpi laser, Programmable; Weight System; USB powered
o MSRP: $69.99/ £49.99 / €59.99

• Cyborg R.A.T. 3 Gaming Mouse
o Features: 3200dpi laser; USB powered
o MSRP: $49.99 / £34.99 / €49.99

The ever increasing love of the Nintendo Wii has also created aburgeoning demand for Nintendo Wii cheats. Because game consoles such as the Wii have become a major aspect of our lives, the necessity to finish the titles successfully has grown. But as you will no doubt know, ‘beating the game’ can sometimes be very hard, and so there’s no harm in progressing with a cheat here or there.

However, there are a selection of players who use Nintendo Wii cheats to get afast fix to getting stuck on a specific level of the game. But what if these stages were designed so that you do get stuck? The explanation might be that if you use your mind and imagination in making an attempt to crack the issue you may discover a completely new enjoyment to the game.

Fortunately, there are other types of Nintendo Wii cheats that you might want to test out. These cheats let you have a good time without always changing the gameplay. These let you unlock secret features that might be there in certain stages of the game. This is what is known as an ‘Easter Egg’ in gamer’s lingo and can add extra surprise and enjoyment to the game.

Players are absolutely justified if you say you need to play the game with complete liberty, without the demand of having to finish one specific level in order to progress on to the next. But in your rush to reach the end, it might be sensible to be careful not to spoil the interactions with the videogame by using Nintendo Wii cheats.

Nintendo Wii was made to offer interactive entertainment to game players of all ages. Complex titles for which you have got to rack your brains aren’t a part of the ethos as Wii is focused on relaxingand not taxing your mind. So in the act of making an easy game even simpler by using Nintendo Wii Cheats you could be missing out on the subtleties of the game.

In other words, only employ the Nintendo Wii Cheats where absolutely neccessary and play the game to the maximum!