From the same people who brought you the Solar Powered Wii kiosk, here is the Solar Powered Nintendo DS Lite. The crazy modders over at Tom’s Hardware managed to mod the Soldius 1 solar-powered cellphone charger to connect directly to the battery cable of the DS. Check out the site for a video documenting the process, which was considerably difficult ...

Opera announced that the Nintendo DS will be the next gaming console to use its browser for console web surfing. Starting June 4, Opera will be available to all U.S. gamers. Opera has been available to Nintendo players in Japan and Europe since the tail end of 2006, with the beta version for the Wii available in the U.S. since ...

While making our rounds scourging the Internet, we came across this spiffy hack for your Nintendo DS. Using an asymmetric wavelet codec specifically made to playback video on the DS ARM-based hardware (whatever the hell that means), this Flickr member has managed to capture this image of the Nintendo DS video hack, running on his handheld. Flickr member, Gwire, says ...

[ev type=”youtube” data=”8X4tWIwx0ns”][/ev] This is one of the coolest mods we’ve seen out of any gaming console. We have no idea how this works, but its amazing how realistic sounding the guitar tones are coming from the DS. Very, very impressive and something we want to get our hands on. This also makes the prospect of a DS Guitar Hero ...

The good thing about Nindendo DS is that it invents a new way of gaming, using a stylus and looking at 2 screens at the same time, the bad thing about that is you would need to hold the device with one hand and the stylus with the other. If you happened to be doing this for hours, your hands ...

The Inquirer reports that a drunk Nintendo representative was spewing at the mouth about the Wii GPU’s hi-def capability, even though the full potential is yet to be seen. So why DON’T we see the Wii slinging out high definition resolution? Apparently, for two reasons. The console can’t handle a reasonable frame rate for true HD quality and because the ...

Nintendo has demoed a card reader for their Nintendo DS portable gaming machine at the Toy Forum in Japan. The card reader is used to incorporate battle cards (such as Yu-gi-oh) with the game on your DS,  theoratically  you can also play battle card games on the network with users  all over the world. The game demonstrated was Jushinten (rough ...

So what will Nintendo do now that the Wii has been released and the initial flow of new games has stopped? Well, besides selling more and more Wiis, they are leveraging their Virtual Console platform to launch new (old) games. Having just released Wario Ware: Smooth Moves, Mario Kart 64 is set to be available next week on VC. Why ...

Everybody, it’s time to take a break from hacking your Xbox 360 to do things that make Microsoft want to cry. Take a break from adding that new HDTV tuner and gather around. Look at these shoes! Run Athletics is making an attempt at broadening its target market with these awesome Nintendo gaming shoes. These sweet kicks have a very ...

Line Rider has wasted more man hours than anything thinkable. Just doing a simple youtube search for linerider gives you some pathetic attempts and some amazing accomplishments of line rider, all of which are wastes of people’s time. There is no doubt about that. Luckily, for all of us, Line Rider will soon be available for us to waste our ...