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I always liked playing car simulators, i think it’s fun, challenging and most of all, helps developing your coordination. To make it educational for teenagers, Chrysler has decided to create the Road Ready StreetWise, a nice “behind the wheel” game, pretends to teach them some road rules, without the need to go out and seat inside the vehicle. This nice, playable online game, helps your children mastering their skills and contributes to the noble cause of fight against road accidents. If you want to test your skills or educate your youngsters, you can play it for free in here.

[via slashgear]

For all of you, lazybones, who hate bending down to activate your computer, Sharkoon has created the wired remote PC Jumpstart, helping you to turn on/off your desktop conveniently. To do so, you’d have to connect the remote to your PC via USB, and to hook it to the motherboard with a supplied slot aperture and a cable. In addition, the remote is equipped with 2 USB hubs, a microphone input and a headset output. Available in black or gray, the Wired Remote Control can be yours for $22, as long as you’re not one of those technophobic folks.

[via gizmodo]

PlayStation3 “Movies Package” is heading to Europe, bundled with three blue-ray titles, including Casino Royale, 300, and Spider Man 3. The box is expected to go live on March 19th, along with a 40GB PS3, for the old fixed €399. For those of you who can hold their breath and wait until March 29th, Sony is prepping a Gran Turismo 5 Prologue package, for the same price. Either way, i like both packs and look forward to snap one. Mind you, the bundles do not include HD cables, so this one is on your expenses.

 [via PS3 Fanboy]

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Logitec Japan (not related to Logitech) unveils the LDE-SX010U, a new USB to DVI cable, allowing you to connect 2 monitors into one single PC, delivering multi-display environment to your desktop, simultaneously. The USB adapter enables displaying different applications on each of the screens, making your work more efficient, or showing the same content, on both screens, using the “Mirroring” technology. The dongle is compatible with wide-screen, Windows Vista Aero and high-definition technologies. It will be available in Japan around March but we have no details concerning the price.

[via akihabaranews]

Now it’s official, Apple rolls out the iPhone software roadmap in a Town Hall event on Cupertino campus on March 6th. The company has sent invitations for the launch of the iPhone SDK, along with some Enterprise features, and Software updates. It should be very interesting to figure out what “enterprise features” stand for, maybe a 3G iPhone declaration?

[via slashgear]

To those of you who collect Mickey Mouse artefacts, A-DATA provides its share, introducing the T703 Mickey Flash Drive with a place to slide your favorite image, after all, it suppose to sit in your keyring. The USB connector was design as part of the left ear, while the right one holds your keychain. The drive features 1GB to 8GB storage size and price range starts from 20$. No word on availability.

[via gizmodo]

Sony has announced that the DualShock 3 game controller will go live in the US in April 2008. The SIXAXIS version was first released in Japan, a few months ago, and now it’s heading stateside. If you don’t have any plans to visit Tokyo with in a month, the DualShock 3 will be yours for $54.99.

[via kotaku]

Celrun TV HD multimedia player is an all-in-one box with outstanding capabilities. This top-notch device features Ethernet, WiFi 802.11 b/g, 2 USB ports, a USB host, digital and analog TV tuners, IPTV support, and a PVR function. The box houses HDMI, RGB, S-VIDEO, component and optical audio outputs, storage size climbs up to 320GB internal HDD. The Celrun TV premium HD player can handle almost any format on earth, including H.264, WMV, AVI, Xvid, MOV, VOB, MPEG1/2/4 and many more. No word on price or availability, but I’d like to have one without a question.

[via akihabaranews]

Sony intros a new PSP console, bundled with God Of War entertainment pack. The box includes various titles like Chains of Olympus, Superbad and a free voucher to download Syphon Filter: Combat Ops from the PlayStation Store game. The shiny reddish PSP is expected to go live in June for 199$.

[via kotaku]

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Creative wants to increase the competition, the company has decided to cut down the prices of the Zen 4GB and 8GB models, in order to place an alternative to the costly players, and when we say “costly” we refer to iPods. The 4GB model is now $99, and the 8GB model drops to $149. That’s an impressive move that might influence other manufacturers to go all the way down with their prices.

[via creative]

Apple releases a new firmware update for the iPhone and the iPod Touch devices. Version 1.1.4 seems to be a “Bug fixer” and not the big and awaited SDK application. It is hard to spot  substantial changes, and we barely can find any visible modification, but those who had no patient, report no damages, even with a jailbroaken phones. My advice is to skip this one and wait for the “real deal”. If you can’t hold yourself, you can download the 162.1MB file via iTunes 7.6.1.9.

[via engadget]

Tuesday is here and new reports are coming from Cupertino’s direction, as Apple has just updated its online store, coming up with a new MacBook and MacBook Pro lineup, equipped with mighty Penryn CPUs and the famous multi-touch technology, as seen on the new MacBook Air. Other specs include 2.4GHz - 2.6GHz with 200GB or 250GB storage for the pros, and 2.1GHz - 2.4GHz with 120GB - 250GB for the Macbooks. The 17-inch model gets 1,920 x 1,200 pixels with LED backlighting and a powerful NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphic card, up to 512MB GDDR3. The rest seems to resemble to the old models.

Update: Apple says that both MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery life has improved, compared to the old models. Check out the table [via gizmodo] :

[via apple]

If you enjoy playing games on your iPhone or iPod Touch units, this is your moment, as both devices get 2 new 3D interface games, enabling landscape or portrait playing mode. iPac3D and Yeti3D bring old PC games experience to your jailbroken handset, providing hours of playable adventures with built-in virtual keys or by swiveling accelerometers. The iPac3D is a three-dimensional Pac-Man and the Yeti3D is more or less a Doom game. To add them to your devices, just follow the instructions: goto Installer > Sources > Add http://www.marcogiorgini.com/iPhone/plist.xml

Update: You can find more new games in here.

[via gmp3]

Sony has finally learned the new global marketing rules, by deciding to follow the growing trend of third party widgets development for multimedia devices. The company announces, for the first time, a new online platform for all of you, enthusiastic developers, who want to contribute to the Mylo 2 widgets evolvement. Sony plans to give full access to technical data resources, in order to let developers build their own widgets and to expand the Mylo community, worldwide. The company expects to launch the platform around March, but we have already spotted some widgets on Sony’s website.

[Sony via gmp3]

Creative unveils 4 new Plug n Play webcams for your notebooks, with built-in microphones and a sleeky design. The new Live! Cam series includes the Notebook Pro VF0400, Notebook Pro VF0250, Notebook, and the Notebook Ultra models. The one that has captured our eyes was the Live! Cam Notebook Ultra with a true 1.3 megapixel resolution and up to 5 megapixel image capture still. The Live! Cam Notebook Ultra supports a Wide-Angle Precision Lens, smooth full-motion 30fps digital video streams, a Smart Face Tracking function, 240 degrees swivel rotation, a strong PowerGrip to fit your lappy, a special effects add-on, and a hands-free stereo headset in the bundle, to speak with your friends on Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger and other compatible messaging services. If you like the new Live! Cam Notebook Ultra, like we do, you can get yours for merely $120.

[via Creative]