I was surprised to be picked to share a user-review for the Yamaha NeoHD. I had no idea what NeoHD was, and just thought that it was one of those average things that just makes an entertainment system look good. For a hefty price of US$500-US$800 I said “this has got to be a jokeâ€� because there are universal remote controls for under US$20 at RadioShack, Walmart and even Walgreens. I soon found out that it wasn’t just a remote, not even a super-remote, but a high tech entertainment system that doesn’t only look good but ACTUALLY MAKES my entertainment system work a whole lot better! And silly me to think that Yamaha will join the average tech product line. Silly silly me.

Four days after being picked, the UPS van parks in front of our home, the NeoHD delivery. Thinking it was just a small package I motioned the UPS guy to come in. He says “no… I need to get my dolly, you’re getting a box.â€�
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The PSP has seen worst days, in the past few months it has been dominating the Japanese charts and having similar results in other countries. So what better to do than to exploit this newly found fame but to release a brand new color for the device.

This time the color is metal blue, and it does (in my opinion) suit the hand held console quite well.

Unfortunately, like most new PSP models nowadays, there is a catch. You will only be able to acquire this model if you purchase the upcoming “Madden bundle” that comes with Madden 09, “NFL: In Just One Play” UMD video, 1gb memory stick and a coupon to download Beats from the online store, for $200.

It’s not a bad deal, but I don’t think I’d ever play Madden more than once to try it out so I wouldn’t be picking this one up.

It’s not every weekend that the movie-going public and fat cat studio execs get to go home happy.  Thanks to a $100 million opening weekend take and a believable performance from Robert Downey Jr., there was a smile so wide that it stretched all the way from Hollywood to Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.

What’s great about the flick is that geeks are easily able to convince their “cooler” friends and significant others to accompany them.  This is made simple because of a slick trailer, an A-list actor and lots of begging.

Iron Man falls in line as a close second – behind Spiderman – for a comic book debut at the movies.

Fans, Marvel and the studios can remain happy; all of the main players signed a three-picture deal.  Isn’t it nice when something actually lives up to the hype?

Box office competition will continue to be weak in the coming weeks, except for Speed Racer (which I’m just not feeling).  Look for Iron Man’s repulsor rays to keep him on top for quite a while.

In the land of the rising sun, releasing a gadget with different colors is (usually) a sign of how successful that product has become. Just look at the Nintendo DS, the PSP, most consoles, Sony Vaios (yes, Japanese ones sell quite well) and etc.

The three new colors, baby blue, lime green, and light pink, are all very light and bright, which might make them more appellative to women than friends, but overall, they don’t make or break the product’s image.

If you are interested in seeing the other two colors you can do so in the original article.

Smash Bros is probably the only famous Nintendo video-game franchise I’ve never had the pleasure of owning. I’ve played it a couple of times before, the action is “crazy” and it takes little more than random button mashing to achieve good, or decent, results. In that aspect Smash Bros is no different from most other beat-em-ups.

This week Yatzee, who is possibly the world’s funniest game reviewer, decided to pick up the latest version of Brawl and review it, giving a lot of focus to the multiplayer part, which, should be the most important part of this game, but ends up being not as fun when they realize they had to previously unlock a lot of the game content.

Personally I don’t think that the game is bad, but there are some really wrong aspects about some multiplayer games, like this one, which Yatzee bluntly put out. Still, I think he could have mentioned the soundtrack, which is probably the most varied one yet (in terms of different musicians) and is what I was looking to forward to hear, or hear about.

I somehow managed to miss one of the most elaborate April’s Fools I’ve ever seen on the internet. A very well made (though slightly rough-around-the-edges) trailer for Legend of Zelda the movie. 

If they had gone the extra mile to remove some of the less polished scenes, like the ones with Ganondorf for instance, I could have certainly passed as the “real deal”.

The idea is great, and I’m certain that the fan-base alone would be alone to support this idea.Let’s hope Nintendo takes the hint and brings this to the next (real) level. If they did it, although terribly, for Mario, it shouldn’t be much harder to do it for Zelda. They can probably even get some of the old props from Lord of the Rings on discount.

Your eVites are all responded to. Your Roomba is charged up to take care of the messy aftermath.  And you’re ready to go on and on about the importance of 1,080 lines of interlaced vertical resolution.

It must be Super Bowl Sunday.

The funny part is, you couldn’t give a crap about the game.  You have two things on your mind.  1) You pray that everyone is impressed with your fried mayonnaise concoction. 2) You are looking forward to getting a sneak peek into the underground garage of billionaire industrialist Tony Stark and his armored and bulletproof suit.

The latest Marvel/Stan Lee superhero adaptation will be unveiled in a trailer during the Super Bowl, giving both geeks and sports fans something to look forward to.  There have already been some images and clips leaked, so we’re unsure if this trailer will offer anything startlingly new.  Either way, we’re psyched.

You see, sports fans and geeks are often thought of as being at opposite ends of the nerd spectrum.  However, let’s not forget that baseball cards are often sold where they have comic books and vice versa.  We’re all closer on the evolution chart than we’d like to admit.

Today the New England Patriots aren’t the enemy.  It’s Obadiah Stane, played by Jeff Bridges who becomes Iron Monger, Iron Man’s nemesis.

There’s something about repulsor beams and Gwyneth Paltrow that has me particularly psyched for this flick.

In case you didn’t notice, we are big fans of Lego and related technology products, like the Shuffle Lego Case and the Lego Penguin.

With that being said, the latest lego tech product is actually a dock for your iPod. It is hard to believe, but inside that small lego block there are tiny speakers. I doubt the sound will be anything good, but in this case the “looks” are worth more than the “features”.

Priced at approximately $16, the Lego iPod Dock is available at 10×10 from Korea.

PS – I wonder why companies do bad photoshop jobs instead of taking a photo of the product?

[Via - technabob]

As if the cow hadn’t been milked already, LucasArts has decided to grab the two relatively popular LEGO Star Wars titles, put them together, add some new characters, “revamp some levels” and charge you a full price for a product that is already mostly developed.

This new title will be available on all major consoles except for the PSP, and the 360 and PS3 versions will have an online cooperative mode which might prove to be a bit of fun, although I didn’t find any of the previous games challenging enough to require the aid of another player.

TechEBlog has brought together a great collection of some of, what they consider, strange Lego creations, that I find simply astonishing.

Here are my top 3 favorites from the list, though most of them are all amazing.

I did find it however “strange” that they didn’t include this lego creation (at least in honorable mention) and included this one.

I loved to play with my legos when I was younger, but never did build anything cool. I stuck with very simple jets and high-rise buildings. Seeing these types of things makes me wonder how do you even plan something like this?

And where the hell are my legos now?