If you didn’t know, Nintendo released their new gaming console Nintendo DSI earlier this month to replace the old but popular NDS. Similar to the NDS, the DSI has a double screen (one of which is touch) in addition to some nifty new features. It will include two cameras (one outside and in), a SD card slot, bigger screens, a new interface and some more user options on the startup page.

I love Nintendo but I can’t say I’m jumping for joy here. Supposedly the DSI doesn’t support an R4 card which is a big factor for me as I love homebrew games. Also, they’ve taken out the GBA card slot (for what reason I don’t know) which again limits the game selection by a lot. Some of us still play old school games!

While the camera is a fun feature as there are all sorts of photo editing included, it can’t replace the R4 and GBA. Unless this camera has SLR quality (which it doesn’t), I’m going to stick to my NDS. Sorry Nintendo!

For more information on the DSI, you can read Danny Choo’s review or Kotaku’s coverage.
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Tags: camera, feature, gadget, gba, nintendo, nintendo dsi, r4

The girls in Ms. Motoko Okubo classroom at Tokyo Joshi Gakuen Middle School in Tokyo, Japan have got to be the luckiest girls. Apparently, their administration thought it would be an awesome idea if they started using the Nintendo DS as a method of teaching English. Well they’ve been experimenting since late May and so far the results have been impressive. The students not only enjoy playing the DS, but the average vocabulary per student has increased by 35% - pretty impressive for a 2 month span. It also has had a positive impact on the slackers.

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If you haven’t heard or seen this teal haired pop diva, then you’re missing out. Hatsune Miku is a product of a speech synthesizer software called Vocaloid. The software allows a user to synthesize music by typing the lyrics and melody. My geeky senses are tingling.

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For those of you who want to hide their emotions or your face all together, Koreans at Hongik University have developed something just for you.

A project known as the “Mask of Emotion” lets you display LED emoticons on a ridiculous head gear. You can choose which emotion you display but the default expression is none at all. The mask was designed to display emotions that could be use in every day conversation.

This actually looks like something Bai Ling would wear in addition to a skimpy outfit. Or maybe we can have a rave. ^.^

Source: Naver

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Okay for all you Apple iphone lovers, here’s an 8 FOOT long multi-touch display wall. That’s taller than me (I’m 5’1 mind you).

The creator, Jefferson Han, first displayed his godlike touch screen at the Technology Entertainment Design Conference in Monterey, California in 2007. A few months later it’s a video and a hit on Youtube. He founded his company Perceptive Pixel to develop his invention which is now distributed to the military. He’s an engineer with a background in graphics and decided one day that there should just be something this awesome. He wanted to take advantage of the multi-touch technology and actually make it multi-touch (more than one) while be able to give you better graphics.

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