Dean Takahashi recently took a measure of his household’s carbon footprint, and the veteran gamer discovered the greenest gaming console by far is the Nintendo Wii. Attaching a device that measures electricity use to various gadgets around his Silicon Valley home, Takahashi found that the Wii consumed just 17 watts.
“Get an exclusive look at the gameplay demo that was shown behind closed doors at E3. Based on the Halo universe, Halo Wars introduces a new landmark in the strategy genre.”
Founder of Ubuntu Linux Mark Shuttleworth took time out of his busy schedule to talk with us about email, productivity, travel, web applications, Ubuntu, free software and much more. We asked Shuttleworth what you wanted to know and he gave us the full scoop. Hit the jump for the full interview transcript.
This is my tale of purchasing a computer from Dell, with Ubuntu 7.04preloaded on it. It’s got a bit of everything. It’s got farewells, happy meetings, struggles against evil and clueslessness, mild defeats,mild triumphs, and concern for the future. (Warning, quite a read but worth it).
Confirmed by two sources, the first shots of the 80GB Zune 2 and the Zune Flash (4 and 8GB). What’s up with that funky controller?
Here’s the mock-up of the next generation iPod Touch. And when we said touch, we mean touch: the home button doesn’t have to be pressed, it could be electrostaticmagickalifragilistic and glow. Call us wild speculators if you want —you will be right— but we are betting/lusting on it: Apple’s iPod 100% Touch, no physical buttons whatsoever.
Sony elaborated on previous comments made about 60GB PS3 inventory stock on Wednesday, confirming that only retail supply of the $499 machine remains and suggesting that the expected 80GB price drop is imminent.
Per Engadget: We don’t yet know a lot about this happening new HP desktop, except that it’s been dubbed the Virtus and it’s got some fairly slick design. We’ll hit you up with more as we get it — for now, bask in our gallery of leaked shots.
Today last.fm released a tool that will allow users to audio fingerprint their music and then give that data to last.fm to use for standardization of track names. In a sense each individual user is contributing to the data mining process by letting this tool scan their mp3 collection.
The Sony Ericsson gaming boss, Peter Ahnegard, said that a PlayStation-branded gaming phone would be coming by Christmas.
