If you’re tired of having the same old boring controllers to go with your favorite games, you’ll like this new design.  It features chrome and not just shiny plastic that looks like chrome.  Granted that means that you’re stuck making fingerprints all over it every single time you pick it up.  However, having a shiny controller like this might be worth the extra trouble it would cause. The device is coming from China’s Dream Cheeky, which in the past have offered all kinds of USB gadgets.  Right now there isn’t even the slightest hint as to where one might get one of these and when it would become available.  However, it is listed on the Dream Cheeky website, which shows all of the details on the game pad.  Well, besides the details we want most, which is where to get one.  According to the site it is compatible with both the PC and Mac.  It also features an 8-way directional game pad and is powered by USB with 6ft cables. (Read the full post about ‘The USB Metal Game Pad features shiny chrome’…)

The Olympus SP-565 UZ digital camera is nothing quite like the previous two Stylus models we looked at earlier today, as this model loves to concentrate on tiny details of a subject thanks to its 20x lens that offers superzoom capability. Some of the features found on the SP-565 UZ include :- 10 megapixel sensor 20x optical zoom Dual image stabilization Perfect shot preview Face detection 33 shooting modes 13.5 pictures-per-second capability Shadow adjustment technology You can pick up the superzoom SP-565 UZ for $399 when it is available this October. All your images are stored on an xD picture card. Tags: wi-fi, tests, video, mobile devices (Read the full post about ‘Olympus SP-565 UZ Digital Camera’…)

Do you think that the iPhone 3G’s problems are Apple’s fault? Or should the blame fall to the carriers? We’ve heard evidence for each case, but aside from some talk about a bad chipset we are still left speculating. Wired.com took it upon themselves to do an iPhone 3G owner survey to see just how well 3G performance was measuring up.

The survey was open to all iphone 3G owners and it measured upload and download speeds for both 3G and EDGE.

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Asus wants you to wake up and smell your laptop. The Taiwanese computer manufacturer recently announced its line of four fragrant laptops with cheesy casing artwork to go along with their smelly themes. For example, a pink laptop called Floral Blossom sports a floral design and gives off the smell of — you guessed it — cherry blossoms. A rather questionable model is the Musky Black, which supposedly emanates a "musky scent" for the XXXtreme athletes. The other two models are blue and green, called Morning Dew and Aqua Ocean (as opposed to a non-aqua ocean), respectively. Feel free to use your imagination. (Read the full post about ‘Asus Announces Smelly Laptops’…)

Supposedly confirmed as of a few days ago, however we are still awaiting official word from Canon on their newest baby, due any day now. Complete specs, (translated from Chinese) are here for the time being. Apparently there had been a big bru-ha-ha when a photo hit the internet apparently taken by the new Canon according to it’s metadata (and the info right on the web page itself), on what many believe to be a Media Temple client page. This being a big oops, since they are a web dev for high profile clients such as Sony, Adobe, ABC and others. The others, in some people’s mind’s, could include Canon. Thus, a page that had Canon photos which was leaked onto the net before it was discovered and subsequently password protected. (Read the full post about ‘Canon 50D; they say she is for real’…)

Here is one of those wrist watches that scream, “Why?” What I mean is that this new watch created by Romain Jerome is unique in the aspect that it is a timepiece, but it doesn’t keep track of hours, minutes or seconds. It only keeps track of the day and night. Not surprising, the name of the watch is similarly called, Day and Night.

The way the watch is read is that the watchface features two different Tourbillons that operate on a twelve hour schedule. When it is daytime, the day Tourbillion is running and when it is nightime, the night Tourbillon operates. Don’t get me wrong - the Day and Night Watch looks gorgeous.

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Add a touch of ghastliness to your yard this coming Halloween with the Illuminated Skeleton Graveyard. This is the graveyard composed of 26 plastic illuminated upper arm bones and skeletal hands that form a three-sided fence that surrounds three foam tombstones textured and painted to look like granite. The fence can enclose a 4′ x 4′ area in your yard. Two rubber rats with feral red eyes that glow with a hint of diabolical sentience lurk beside the upper torso of a skeleton that appears to be pulling itself out of the ground–the chest cavity still houses a beating heart that pulses from bright red to deep crimson as it lights, then dims. (Read the full post about ‘Illuminated Skeleton Graveyard’…)

Gaming chairs from Pyramat are not new to the industry, and they have been around for quite some time already to establish themselves as one of the premier gaming chair manufacturers to date. Prezzybox caters to this particular group of gamers who get more of a kick out of gaming chairs with a new range of Pyramats. A4″ Powersub Subwoofer and twin directional, full range speakers await you in the Pyramat S1500W Deluxe. The vibrations and intense sound help you feel every moment of the game. And, to top it off, this rocker is wireless, so no trailing and dangerous cables. Designed for superior comfort and sound, the Pyramat Game Bag 2.1 brings the Pyramat sound and vibration technology into a bean bag. (Read the full post about ‘Prezzybox introduces new Pyramat gaming chairs’…)

Lexar has increased the capacity of its JumpDrive FireFly USB flash drive to a massive 16GB, making it easier and more convenient than ever before to tote around a plethora of files on your travels. It works with both PCs and Macs and will be available in four different colors for a purpose - these colors differentiate between the memory capacities. The new hot red-colored 16GB JumpDrive FireFly drive joins its brethren as a high-capacity portable storage solution. The ultra-small, ultra-portable JumpDrive FireFly drive is outfitted with an easily accessible keychain hole, making it easy to tether onto a key ring, attach to a backpack, or hook to a purse or briefcase. (Read the full post about ‘Lexar 16GB JumpDrive FireFly USB flash drive’…)

by Darren Murph, posted Aug 25th 2008 at 6:21AMYou’ve got to love it, don’t you? The prolonged hatefest between Intel and NVIDIA is continuing on today, with Andy Keane, general manager of the company’s GPU computing group, delivering the latest blow. (Read the full post about ‘NVIDIA throws another punch, sez Larrabee would’ve been hot in 2006′…)