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So say you’re really into Jersey Shore. And you want to make a phone like the duck phone in the show. And you’re like “Why not make an app that quacks like a duck and makes your phone quack like a duck?” Heck, it’s a free country, as far as you can tell. This is what our grandfathers fought the Battle of the Bulge for, right?

Well the cheese-eaters at Apple will say that your dumb quack app “contains minimal user functionality” and, as a result, deny your application to rock out on their App Store.

The Xbox Live Arcade port of Perfect Dark now has a release date: March. This is the part whee you jump up and down in celebration. Rare also has a video , a trailer, I guess, of the game on its Web site.

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March: Perfect Dark Xbox Live Arcade

Surfacescapes Demo Walkthrough from Visual Story TAs on Vimeo .

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Video: Dungeons and Dragons on the Microsoft Surface

Looks like EA finally understands what we’ve been talking about for a while now: that, in just a few years’ time, we’ll look back at disc-based media (here, video games) and be all, “Man, how quaint .” Peter Moore, who’s the president of EA Sports (no minor position, that), called the disc-based distribution model a “burning platform,” and that companies are either staring in the face of “probable” death or “certain” death, depending on how they want to go about things. Moore was speaking at a digital media conference when he said what he said

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Peter Moore: Yeah, disc-based games will go the way of the [insert extinct animal here]

Perhaps your job has you driving miles and miles and miles in a relatively straight line. You might as well rig your steering wheel up with a surface suitable for eating, computing, and playing solitaire

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Steering wheel table increases productivity, fast food intake

If you enjoy being frustrated and agitated first thing in the morning, then you’ll appreciate this DDR-style alarm clock that forces you to finger-dance various combinations on the built-in four-way pad in order to get the alarm to stop making noise. Product description: “If you love electronic dance mat games – the ones where you have to follow the onscreen pattern by dancing on different coloured lights - this alarm clock is a great way to get you out of bed as it incorporates a mini finger dance pad. When the alarm sounds, it can’t be turned off unless you do a little dance with your fingers to follow the sequence shown by the lights, just like on a full sized dance game.” Gee, sounds really great.

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DDR-style alarm clock forces you to finger-dance first thing in the morning

The Boynq Pad2Go Retractable Mouse Pad has just been deeply discounted at Radio Shack. It’s now $3.99, down from $19.99. The Pad2Go is billed as “the ideal travel mousepad that can be stored in any type of luggage.” Know what other type of mousepad can be easily stored in luggage?

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Retractable mouse pads aren’t selling well

Logitech ’s Bluetooth mouse lineup has been somewhat non-exsistant lately, but the M555b takes care of that. This mouse seems like your standard two-button mouse but the wheel features the hyper-fast scolling that some love in the MX Revolution line. Plus the mouse features laser tracking and a low-battery indicator for the AA power source.

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Logitech announces the Bluetooth Mouse M555b

Digitimes is reporting that “Microsoft plans to redefine mini-notebooks that Intel has categorized as netbooks with a new term — low cost small notebook PC.” Oh that’s much simpler, thank you. Microsoft general manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division, Steven Guggenheimer said at Computex yesterday that “netbook” shouldn’t be used any more since netbooks can do more than just get on the internet. Hey Guggenheimer, on behalf of technology bloggers everywhere, give it up.

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Microsoft wants to change ‘netbook’ to ‘low cost small notebook PC’

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