Tag Archives: handhelds

Nothing is ever concrete until you see it in this world of Photoshop renderings. Now that we can see the recently announced Xbox 360 QWERTY Controller in the wild, we can offer a full confirmation on Microsoft’s announcement. This is the first public viewing of the QWERTY text input device for Xbox. The announcement coincides with Microsoft’s announcement that MSN ...

With the announcement that MSN Messenger will now be integrated into the Xbox 360 dashboard, Microsoft has also announced a QWERTY controller for hassle-free text input for the chat program. The 47-keyed controller plugs into the normal controller via the headphone jack. While it might be a little clunky looking, it sure as hell beats having to lug a full ...

Remember when blinging out your cellphone with crystal art was all the rage? Now the same thing is being done for Nintendo DS Lites. The Nintendo World Store in NYC featured some of these Swarovski crystal DS Lites with crystal covers. If the appearance of your console is important to you, there’s nothing more fashionable right now then using Swarovski ...

What’s the difference between WM5 and WM6 phones? WM6 looks a hell of a lot cooler. Adopting some of the sleekness of Vista, Windows Mobile 6 is smoother designed than Windows Mobile 5. But never fear! With a few simple hacks, you can have your WM5 looking a lot like the WM6 Crossbow OS. This hack will show you how ...

Sardines aren’t only for train squatting drifters anymore. Made entirely out of a sardine can, “The classic” is a homemade pocket piano. The classic is available for sale over at Etsy for $120 with only 1 in stock. That’s right, this thing is EXCLUSIVE to the max. If you’ve been looking for a homemade instrument or are just a really ...

Pixel art is one of those things that will never be given the credit it deserves. We’ve seen some crazy pixel art in our time and we hope we see more. While The Dot Creator probably wont lead to you making a pixel-ized masterpiece, it’s a good starting point for the budding pixel artist within. The Dot Creator’s 21 x ...

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 ...

After almost 2 monthes without a firmware upgrade, the PSP finally decided to release 3.30, an upgrade from the previous 3.11. Speculation for the long wait has been pointed at several reasons. One being that 3.11 kept the PSP handheld console secure through the long time period, despite the quick decryption, and also that compatibility issues weren’t popping up over ...

Fans of the Japanese form of graphic art have become a world wide occurrence. In Japan, it’s more than just a hobby, it’s life. A new service called ComCom, also known as Com2, by Japanese publisher Shinchosha, will deliver around 200 pages a month of the best in Japanese graphic art, directly to subscriber’s cellphones. These art publications are not ...

Nokia and Motorola are only two of the companies which have been rumored to be buying out Palm later this week for up to a cool $2 Billion. The acquisition of Palm would not only put the company purchaser ahead in the game with smartphone production, but would also wipe out a signifigant competitor, while gaining rights in using the ...