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Of all the consoles to stuff into a laptop form factor, the Wii’s minute size makes it as good a candidate as any. And while Wii laptop mods have been done before, this most recent one has the distinction of being relatively thin at just over 2.5 inches

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Wii laptop hack is about 2.5 inches thick

Looking at the image above, I know what you’re thinking, but look on the bright side: you’ll be much safer crossing the streets at night with that thing plastered to your ear. Huawei has just announced a number of colorful handsets that don’t look like your average Android handsets. Read the rest of this entry at MobileCrunch> >

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Huawei makes the U8100, U8110, U8800 and U8300 with Android official

StuffBuff , a TC50 company , has officially launched bringing with it social, embeddable auctions for the masses.

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StuffBuff Social Bidding System Hits Beta And You Can Try It Here (You Can Also Get a PS3 For Cheap)

Intro Microsoft Xbox 360 Sony PlayStation 3 Nintendo Wii Portable Gaming Systems Intro GRAND Flash Album Gallery Skins for GRAND FlAGallery developed by CodEasily.com - Flash Templates, WordPress Themes and WordPress plugins The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed.. Ah, gaming consoles. They pick up where TV left off

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Gift Guide 2009: Gaming Consoles

Were you one of the 1 million Xbox live users that got banned yesterday? Well, you might not want to go buy that new Xbox quite yet

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Modders hard at work circumventing Xbox banning

A while back I went to a fun overclocking event held by AMD , where there was a lot of vapor, some exploding burritos, and some overclocking that got tantalizingly close to 7GHz. It was just an arbitrary number, and they broke a bunch of other records, but they couldn’t quite hit that last target.

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AMD breaks 7GHz barrier with liquid helium and nu-metal

Steam has yet another great weekend sale going on right now. Both Crysis and Crysis Warhead are $15 each this weekend and let me just say, they are totally worth it.

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Crysis & Crysis Warhead $15 each this weekend on Steam

Now, this isn’t scientific data, especially since we know that Microsoft hides that data from prying eyes, but it’s more than supposition. Game Informer did a poll and found that the 360 has the highest failure rate of any of the consoles at 54% — not exactly the most unexpected news, but putting a number on it is kind of sobering

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Oh my: the 360 has (or had) a 54.2 percent failure rate

Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter is prognosticating that the price of the Nintendo Wii will drop to $199 in time for the holidays, pointing out that the console’s supply has finally eclipsed its demand. Meanwhile, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently said that his company plans to introduce great games instead of lowering the price of the little white box. No offense to Nintendo, but its announcement of games at E3 wasn’t anything earth shattering

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Analyst forecasts $50 Wii price cut