Heavy Rain a t-il réussi a garder son titre de jeu consoles le plus vendu de cette semaine 9 de l’année 2010 ? Mystère. Enfin, pas vraiment, puisqu’il s’est fait dépassé par l’ouragan Bad Company 2, qui s’impose à la fois sur Xbox 360, Playstation 3 et PC. Trois à la suite… (enfin quatre si on compte la version collector PC)

TOP 5 CONSOLES
1. Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Playstation 3)
2. Battlefield Bad Company 2 (Xbox 360)
3. Wii Fit Plus + Wii Fit Balance Board (Wii)
4. Heavy Rain (Playstation 3)
5. New Super Mario Bros. (Wii)

TOP 5 PC
1. Battlefield Bad Company 2
2. Battlefield Bad Company 2 : Edition Collector
3. Assassin’s Creed 2
4. Les Sims 3
5. Napoleon Total War

via sell

Peter Graves has passed away at the age of 83, just shy of his 84th birthday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he went out to brunch on Sunday with his wife and kids, and upon returning to the house, collapsed before he could get inside, passing away from an apparent heart attack.

Graves' career started in 1942, with an uncredited role as a bombardier in the Oscar-nominated documentary short Winning Your Wings. And that was only the beginning. Over the next 68 years, he acted in 130 more projects, ending with voice work on this year's video game, Darkstar. His first memorable role came in 1953, when he played Price in the war comedy Stalag 17, but it was his iconic role 14 years later that made him a star -- IMF leader Jim Phelps in Mission: Impossible. But of course, for some of us, there's no better memory of Graves' work than remembering the irreplaceable 1980 spoof Airplane!, where he played the man of strange questions, Captain Clarence Oveur.

THR writes that Graves' stardom never reached that of his brother, Gunsmoke star James Arness. To me, however, the exact opposite is true. While he didn't have a 20-year-long hit show to make him super-popular, his fame transcended a single genre and one major role. He was white-haired man with the match, the goof in the cockpit (hit the jump for his most memorable lines), and I can't imagine Hollywood without him.

Rest in peace, Peter Graves.

Filed under: Obits

Continue reading RIP, Peter Graves

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Between the geolocation wars of Facebook and Twitter and the flux of geolocation-based social networks and mobile apps that have been hitting the market recently, the competition is tough. Today, mobile networking startup NearVerse, is launching a free iPhone app, called LoKast, which allows people to share media between iPhones at super-fast speeds. The kicker: the app connects people in its network based on proximity.

LoKast, which is actually short for “local-casting,” allows you to set up a profile that will list all of your photos, selected contacts, videos, web links and music on your mobile phone. You can select which content you’d like to include to the public and which content you’d like to keep private. When a LoKast user is in proximity (300 feet) of other LoKast users, the app will automatically discover other users nearby and allow the user to view and download their content. For example, you can see the iTunes library of any user who is in close proximity to you. You can choose to download a 30-second clip of any song to your own profile and can also follow the link to the iTunes store to purchase the music (LoKast collects an affiliate fee for this, of course). Similarly, you can download photos, videos and even contacts from other users into your profile. You’ll also soon be able to share apps on your phone with other users.

The beauty of Lokast is that it has its own internal network; eliminating the need for 3G connectivity to run the app, as LoKast works in subways, underground and heavily congested areas such as stadiums, where 3G connectivity is unreliable. The startup’s app is effectively all network based and currently has five patents for its proprietary technology.

LoKast is also partnering with bands to help market their content to users. LoKast has struck deals with music distribution companies including The Orchard, IODA and Monalis 360 to provide users with exclusive content within the LoKast app. And production companies, such as Mark Cuban’s Magnolia Pictures, are also using the service to promote their new films.

LoKast will soon be launching an Android app, and plans to launch integration with Facebook Connect. The app itself is incredibly simple to use and seems like it has potential to be a great way to share content on your mobile phone. Of course, some people may not feel comfortable sharing their personal content to complete strangers, so that may be a barrier for certain users.

CrunchBase InformationNearCastInformation provided by CrunchBase

Samsung avait présenté au MWC le Wave, un smartphone haut de gamme équipé du tout nouveau système d'exploitation Bada et d'un écran tactile AMOLED de qualité supérieure dont voici une explication vidéo.

New research suggests that key Tory constituencies could suffer most from the Conservative policy on super-fast broadband.

New research suggests that key Tory constituencies could suffer most from the Conservative policy on super-fast broadband.

Ben Cherry has a really nice detailed analysis of the module pattern.

He starts with the simple pattern that Crock-y documented back in the day..... and then goes on to discuss augmentation (loose and strict) and then deeper into some cool patterns:

Cloning and Inheritance

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:

•  
• var MODULE_TWO = (function (old) {
•     var my = {},
•         key;
•      
•     for (key in old) {
•         if (old.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
•             my[key] = old[key];
•         }
•     }
•      
•     var super_moduleMethod = old.moduleMethod;
•     my.moduleMethod = function () {
•         // override method on the clone, access to super through super_moduleMethod
•     };
•      
•     return my;
• }(MODULE));
•  

This pattern is perhaps the least flexible option. It does allow some neat compositions, but that comes at the expense of flexibility. As I've written it, properties which are objects or functions will not be duplicated, they will exist as one object with two references. Changing one will change the other. This could be fixed for objects with a recursive cloning process, but probably cannot be fixed for functions, except perhaps with eval. Nevertheless, I've included it for completeness.

Cross-File Private State

One severe limitation of splitting a module across multiple files is that each file maintains its own private state, and does not get access to the private state of the other files. This can be fixed. Here is an example of a loosely augmented module that will maintain private state across all augmentations:

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:

•  
• var MODULE = (function (my) {
•     var _private = my._private = my._private || {},
•         _seal = my._seal = my._seal || function () {
•             delete my._private;
•             delete my._seal;
•             delete my._unseal;
•         },
•         _unseal = my._unseal = my._unseal || function () {
•             my._private = _private;
•             my._seal = _seal;
•             my._unseal = _unseal;
•         };
•      
•     // permanent access to _private, _seal, and _unseal
•      
•     return my;
• }(MODULE || {}));
•  

Any file can set properties on their local variable _private, and it will be immediately available to the others. Once this module has loaded completely, the application should call MODULE._seal(), which will prevent external access to the internal _private. If this module were to be augmented again, further in the application's lifetime, one of the internal methods, in any file, can call _unseal() before loading the new file, and call _seal() again after it has been executed.

This pattern occurred to me today while I was at work, I have not seen this elsewhere. I think this is a very useful pattern, and would have been worth writing about all on its own.

Sub-modules

Our final advanced pattern is actually the simplest. There are many good cases for creating sub-modules. It is just like creating regular modules:

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:

•  
• MODULE.sub = (function ()) {
•     var my = {};
•     // ...
•      
•     return my;
• }());
•  

While this may have been obvious, I thought it worth including. Sub-modules have all the advanced capabilities of normal modules, including augmentation and private state.

Nice work Ben!

40GB only and slugged performance

Intel is now shipping a cut-down version of its X25-M SSD for less than $150, days after OCZ announced its sub-$100 Onyx SSD....

The power of collaboration within unified communications

40GB only and slugged performance

Intel is now shipping a cut-down version of its X25-M SSD for less than $150, days after OCZ announced its sub-$100 Onyx SSD....

La bibliothèque Denis Diderot de Bondy a connu deux événements majeurs dans son existence : son inauguration par François Mitterrand et l'expo photos de Chou, visible jusqu'au 19 mars. Souvenez-vous, en 2008 à quelques mois des JO de Pékin, notre blogueur bouffeur de chiens a débarqué en Chine comme une fleur, avec sa caméra, son service trois pièces et son couteau. Il nous a offert de supers reportages vidéo, et des articles de voyage d'un très grand niveau. Une aventure humaine financée sur ses fonds propres. Rien que pour voir ce que ça donne un Chinois qui dépense ses sous dans autre chose que l'import-export, ça vaut le déplacement.

Hitphone.fr et Logitech vous proposent de gagner deux super produits pour accompagner votre iPhone ou votre iPod Touch dans vos déplacements ou confortablement installés chez vous. Il s'agit...

Plus discret qu'un Super Street Fighter IV, le prochain gros titre de Rockstar Games n'en oublie pas de se montrer lentement mais sûrement. Quatre images de plus donc pour Red Dead Redemption, en attendant son arrivée pour le 21 mai.

Capcom illustre à nouveaux Hakan, le dernier arrivé de Super Street Fighter 4. Le jeu reste attendu pour fin avril....

Nouvelle semaine et nouvelle fournée d'images pour Super Street Fighter IV. Une routine dira-t-on, surtout que c'est encore le personne de Hakan qui fait son beau en usant de son corps huilé pour se défaire de ses adversaires.

The concept is this - I tell you things that I'd have done in certain comics!!

But don't worry, I'm not talking about simple 20/20 hindsight things like pick a famous bad storyline and just say, "I wouldn't have done that."

No, I mean more like tweaks and nudges, stuff like that.

You can check out past years' I'ds to see what I'm talking about, or just read on (I've decided to consolidate them all into one big post this year to better center the discussion)!

I'd Have Silver Surfer Be Out on His Own Again

To put it simply, if Jack Kirby and Stan Lee think a character set-up is a good one, it's probably worth following their general lead.

They thought it was a great idea to have Silver Surfer be spurned by his former master, Galactus, and travel the world experiencing new things every day. You can expand that from the Earth to the universe and still get the same basic feel of their plans for the character, but making him go back to being Galactus' herald?

I don't think it works - he's too interesting of a character to have him stuck as Galactus' herald again.

Free the Surfer!

I'd Have Kept a Certain Character Killed in Cry For Justice Alive.

Spoilers for Cry For Justice!!!!

Okay, like Cry for Justice or hate it, the death of Lian Harper is pretty necessary to the plot of Cry for Justice. It doesn't mean that it was well-told or a GOOD plot or anything like that, but Green Arrow's granddaughter pretty much HAD to die (or someone of equivalent importance to him, like Speedy or Dinah or Hal) to get the reaction from Green Arrow that James Robinson wanted in the series. So I don't think it is fair for me (or anyone else) to say "I'd have kept Lian Harper alive," because that's not a tweak or a nudge - it would drastically change the story.

However, having one of the very few gay superheroes (and one of the coolest ones, at that) killed off IN A FLASHBACK did not seem to be a particularly important plot point, and the same gag (showing the big bad guy using the hero's hide as a rug) could have been achieved through any number of truly unremarkable characters (or even a new character), so I'd have kept Tasmanian Devil alive.

I'd Make the Red Hulk be Thunderbolt Ross

I know that Ross was sort of the "obvious" choice for the alter-ego of the Red Hulk, but just because it's the obvious choice doesn't mean that it is a BAD choice!

Having Ross turn into the very thing that he's been trying to chase down for years, and then finding out that he LIKED it?

That's a great twist on the old Ross/Banner dynamic, particularly for a character like Ross who wasn't exactly getting a lot of screen time anyways.

I find it hard to believe that the Red Hulk's actual identity will be cooler than Ross (maybe somehow it IS Ross! But it's most likely going to be Clay Quartermain).

I'd Have the Lead of Haunt Have a Different Job When the Series Began.

The main character of Haunt (about a guy who merges with the ghost of his dead brother to form a super powered being) was a priest when the series began. For, like, no reason that I can see so far (and he no longer IS a priest anymore). It's a distracting plot point in that it really doesn't seem to have a purpose, we never really get to see any sort of guilt (or hell, even any real response from other characters) over his role as a priest mixing with his several vices of his, and now he's no longer a priest - so what was the point? It was basically worth one fairly cheap gag in #1 (look, he went to a hooker but he's a priest!!) then never really used again - I'd have just dropped that aspect of the character period.

I'd Bring the X-Men Down to a Consistent, Moderately-sized Team.

I really think that, while the whole "Every mutant in the same area" concept is an interesting one in general, when it comes to a regular title it is better to have a consistent main cast of characters. There were a lot of characters in Grant Morrison's New X-Men run, but he had a main cast, and it was relatively small.

Joss Whedon continued in this vein, and Warren Ellis after him.

But I think based on a good idea (at the time) of "Why shouldn't Uncanny X-Men get to use cool characters like Cyclops and Emma Frost TOO?," we got this gigantic cast of X-Men, and I think the book works best with a small, consistent, moderately-sized team.

It can even use the same characters who are in Astonishing if you'd like to keep using Cyclops and Emma Frost and Wolverine, just get a regular team!

I'd Have Brian K. Vaughan Write Another Comic!

Come on, Brian, we're dying here! You're too awesome not to write any new comics!

I'd Make the Masters of Evil a Major Avengers Foe Again

So it's been, what, twenty years since the Avengers fought the Masters of Evil in the pages of the Avengers?

Doesn't that just sound WRONG to you? They used to fight the Masters of Evil a lot! Like, a dozen times in the first twenty years of the Avengers, but just the one time in the twenty years since, and that time wasn't even in their own title, but rather in the early issues of the Thunderbolts when the Masters were passing themselves off as heroes.

I guess The Hood's league of super-villains is BASICALLY the Masters of Evil, but I'd prefer the "real" thing.

I'd Have Kept One Couple Apart at the End of Y the Last Man

Spoilers for the end of Y the Last Man!

I really didn't like that Hero and Beth got together at the end of Y the Last Man. It seemed way too "cutesy" in a sort of "hey, guess what, everyone you knew ended up with everyone else you knew!" way. I'm glad Yorick didn't end up with Beth, and I guess Vaughan figured it would save space in the final issue by having the two characters together (so he wouldn't have to do two separate "wrap up" visits), but it really took me out of the moment to see how two basically random characters (who both happened to be major cast members of the title) end up together at the end.

I'd Have Roger Stern and John Byrne do Their Red Skull Three-Parter as a Prestige Format Series

Whether an extra-long one-shot (or hell, a three-issue mini-series), I'd bring Roger Stern and John Byrne back to finish the story that they were prepared to do before they left Captain America almost thirty years ago.

They were willing to do it in the past, so it's up to Marvel (well, okay, I guess it's also up to Byrne to work for Marvel again, which might not be a possibility)! This needs to happen!

I'd Give Kieron Gillen SOME Major Book to Write

I get that the thought of having Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker handling the ongoing titles of the Big Three (two for Fraction one for Brubaker) is too cool of an option to pass up, so I don't blame Marvel for not letting Gillen write Thor regularly, but he's surely shown that he's not just capable of writing a major character, but that he would THRIVE on such a title - so someone really ought to find a major book he could write! If not at Marvel, maybe DC?

I'd Have Not Killed Stealth

I really don't understand the concept behind killing off Stealth in REBELS, especially off-panel!! Her relationship with Vril Dox was fascinating - there had to be a better way to set up an adversarial position between Vril and Querl than to kill off Stealth (NOTE: If she returns to life due to Blackest Night, then, well, my apologies for even bringing this up as a complaint).

I'd Reveal That the Time Displaced Alpha Flight Died in The New Avengers' Collective Storyline

Or that the Time Displaced Alpha Flight (from Scott Lobdell's Alpha Flight run) are still alive - either or.

In either event, I'd use the gaping loophole Lobdell left for everyone at the end of that series and bring back Alpha Flight.

You don't even have to use them right away - just establish that they're alive out there and if someone EVENTUALLY wants to use them, have the option be there.

Open the door, basically.

I'd Bring Wesley Back Into the Pages of Angel

Angel spoilers ahead!

While Wesley did, indeed, die in the last episode of Angel, Joss Whedon made a point of saying that, had the show been renewed for Season 6, Wesley would be back, so now that Angel continues as a comic book, I don't see the point in keeping Wesley out of the comic. He was a strong part of the After the Fall storyline, and he'd be a great addition to the current cast (which, otherwise, IS a pretty interesting cast, a nice mix of established characters and characters introduced in the comic).

I'd Have Wally West's Parents Show Up Once in Awhile

While I can understand why people would not be interested in using some of Bill Loebs' Flash supporting cast like Chunk (although I like him a lot), I really don't understand why the fact that Wally's parents are both alive is not more of a plot point in any Flash comic. I mean, Wally's dad hasn't appeared in a comic in over ten years! Basically, since Bill Loebs last wrote a Flash (or Flash-related) comic, Wally's parents have been no-shows.

I think that's a shame - Bill Loebs did strong work with Wally's mother, Mary, and his father, Rudolph, and I'd like to see them show up once in awhile.

I'd Give Nick Fury and His Old SHIELD Allies Their Own Book

I LOVE the parts of Secret Warriors spotlighting Nick Fury, Ex-Agent of SHIELD.

I don't MIND the third-generation superhero characters, but I don't like them as much in a book that would be near-perfect if it was just Nick Fury, Ex-Agent of SHIELD.

So, well, I suppose I'd like a Nick Fury, Ex-Agent of SHIELD comic, basically.

Those are MY I'ds for this year - now share yours, too!

Just two weeks ago, we gave you m-synchy and m-neony, two super-advanced baby humanoids developed by a Japanese research institution. While those two robots were weird but looked rather harmless, baby robot Yotaro [JP], made by the University of Tsukuba in Japan, is really looking scary – just look at those pictures.

Yotaro has been around for some time now, but the University apparently showed the latest version to the international press recently. The purpose of the robot is to simulate the behavior of a real human child, and it has an arsenal of gimmicks to make it happen: a touch-sensitive face, artificial tear ducts (when Yotaro is “weeping”, warm water flows down his oversized cheeks), speakers (he can cry and giggle), motors for his feet and hands (so he can move realistically) etc.

Yotaro is able to change his facial expressions, “sleep”, run a fever and fall into good or bad mood, depending on how often you touch his face. But he’s not designed to be cute, which is a mystery as Japan normally loves to make literally everything as cute as possible – so why not babies?

Here’s a video made by the University of Tsukuba (in English):

Via The Straits Times

Un des problèmes les plus ordinaires des ordinateurs est le manque de ports USB. Il y a probablement un milliard de hub USB sur le marché de nos jours, mais le Super Hub USB 16 Ports sort vraiment des sentiers battus, non seulement parce qu"il a 16 ports USB, mais également pour son prix de 160$. Si vous faites le calcul, c'est 10$ par port USB. Pour justifier le prix, il y a aussi un switch sur le hub, vous permettant de brancher deux ordinateurs dessus simultanément, et de basculer entre eux. Pas mal, hein ?

Permalink: Super Hub USB 16 Ports d'Ubergizmo FR. Aussi en Anglais

Super Mario Bros Played on an 8 x 8 LED Video, Carnegie Mellon student Chloe Fan wired an 8 x 8 LED matrix to play a 64 pixel version of Super Mario Brothers.

Hakan est en ce moment la coqueluche des foules. Malgré un look déjanté et des coups souvent hilarants, le dernier personnage dévoilé de Super Street Fighter IV propose plusieurs subtilités de…

Croyez-le ou non nobles internautes de l'impossible, mais sachez que Gran Turismo 5 pourrait bel et bien être compatible avec le PS Move. Enfin, si l'on en croit les indications du site officiel de…

Nick Thatcher's compact coilgun uses a coil of copper wire along the barrel to launch its projectile. It's powered by 15 photoflash capacitors juiced up by 2 AAAs. Of course the power of this gun is very much in question, the super dark video on the site doesn't show a whole lot. It appears, however, to be able to punch through cardboard at a very close range.

Regardless, this is a nicely executed design with a beautiful finished product.

More:

• Camera flash coil gun
• Camera Coil-Gun
• Nifty low-voltage coil gun
• MV CoilMaster Mark1 Coil Gun
• CoilOsapien - Robosapien robot with a coil gun

Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in DIY Projects | Digg this!

Asks industry for input

A host of new, short domain names will be made available under the body responsible for domain names ending in .uk, Nominet. It plans to allow the registration of previously-banned domain names consisting of one or two characters....

What is your recession sales strategy?

Here are some stories featured on CrunchGear last week:

Disney turns its Monorail into huge Tron light cycles
Even as tiny blocks, you’ll recognize Super Mario Bros. in this Arduino project
Inverted, ocean-bound “seascrapers”: aqua-communes for the future?
Magnetic quantum dots
Fantasy gadgets: in-line A/V switch

[Casque] B&W P5 : dites le avec des photos Un test du modèle P5 (présenté ici, ici et là) de la très design marque Bowers & Wilkins n’est pas encore pour tout de suite sur le site

[Casque] Freedom Of Creation: le casque fashion ultime Vous trouvez que les Wesc sont des petits joueurs ? Qu’à cela ne tienne, Freedom Of Creation (pas du tout une marque de casque) a laissé le soin au designer Brian Garret Schuur d’imaginer un casque. 

[Mobile] Nouveaux clichés du BlackBerry slider
Le fameux BlackBerry avec clavier coulissant continue de faire les gorges chaudes d’internet, avec aujourd’hui une nouvelle livraison de photos du smartphone, mais cette fois sans le clavier. AUSSI DANS L’ACTUALITÉ [Mobile] L’Eston N97 dans la vraie vie [Mobile] MAG Digital/iMito IM7 : caractéristiques technique... [MP3] Odroid, maintenant sous Android 2.1 Suivez GMP3 sur Facebook !
Suivez GMP3 sur Twitter !

Des goodies FFXIII, des photos, des avis

A la rédac on a toujours pas Final Fantasy XIII, alors on écoute l’OST de 85 musiques qui traine dans notre bibliothèque musicale.

Suivez JeuxVideo.org sur Facebook !

Preview - Super Mario Galaxy 2 : on y a joué Le Nintendo Gamer Summit 2010 qui s’est déroulé à Londres il y a quelques jours a été l’occasion d’un premier contact avec Super Mario Galaxy 2.

Suivez JeuxVideo.org sur Twitter !

Copyright L8RMEDIA 1998-2009 - Tous droits réservés - L'intégralité des articles est à consulter sur generationmp3.com

CMU's Chloe Fan hacked an Arduino controlled 8x8 pixelboard to play a wicked side-scrolling game of Super Mario. What a fun and creative use of the board! Someone needs to start an Arduino summer-camp; I went to Logo camp when I was 11 or 12 and it was life-changing. I expect there's a kid or two out there waiting to have their minds blown with Arduino. (If you know of such a summer camp, post to the comments; if you're looking for such a summer camp, check the comments!). Mario Goes Open-Source with Arduino (via /.) Previously:Mario and Luigi: warrior plumbers tee Mario takes the Metropolis Custom Mario levels used as rhythm section for anime theme medley ... Super Mario vs NYC -- street art Super Mario Bros theme performed by an RC car on a row of liquid ... Hand-painted Mario shoes Mario recreation on India's Got Talent Make's gift guide to Arduino Learn how to use the Arduino microcontroller with Make's tutorial ... Massive Arduino-and-solenoid percussion array controlled by a ... Arduino starter project video Text on an Arduino-based Monome clone Gadgets...

Avec l'interdiction des ravitaillements, la meilleure stratégie est désormais de faire un seul arrêt, en économisant les pneus au maximum. Les pilotes qui étaient en Q3 avaient choisi les pneus les plus tendres, qu'ils ont dû garder pour le départ, mais le meilleur choix pour le début de course était visiblement les plus durs. ; Pilote ; Relais 1 ; Tour ; Relais 2 ; Tour ; Relais 3 ; 1 ; Alonso ; Super Tendre ; 16 ; Medium ; 2 ; Massa ; Super Tendre ; 17 ; Medium ; 3 ; Hamilton ; Super Tendre ; 15 ; Medium ; 4 ; (...)

Avec l'interdiction des ravitaillements, la meilleure stratégie est désormais de faire un seul arrêt, en économisant les pneus au maximum. Les pilotes qui étaient en Q3 avaient choisi les pneus les plus tendres, qu'ils ont dû garder pour le départ, mais le meilleur choix pour le début de course était visiblement les plus durs.
; Pilote ; Relais 1 ; Tour ; Relais 2 ; Tour ; Relais 3 ; 1 ; Alonso ; Super Tendre ; 16 ; Medium ; 2 ; Massa ; Super Tendre ; 17 ; Medium ; 3 ; Hamilton ; Super Tendre ; 15 ; Medium ; 4 ; (...) - Bahreïn 2010 / Fiche Sakhir

One of the most common problems with computers today is the lack of USB ports. Well, there are probably a billion different USB hubs in the market today, but the USB Super 16 Port Hub stands out from the pack, not just because of its 16 USB ports, but also due to its $160 price tag. When you do the math, that’s roughly $10 per USB port. To further justify the price, there’s also a physical switch on the hub, allowing you to connect two computers to it at the same time, and switch between them. Would you shell out $160 for this USB hub, or would you take the $160 and buy a bunch of cheap USB hubs instead?

Permalink: USB Super 16 Port Hub from Ubergizmo | RSS Sponsor: Win a Fellowes Microshred Paper Shredder!

Ebay seller nes_harmonica is offering three of these old Nintendo cartridges that have been modded to contain working harmonicas. Why the heck would you do that? Turns out it's kind of a retro in-joke for NES enthusiasts. OhGizmo's Andrew Liszewski explains:

If you grew up in the 80's and played video games, at one point in your childhood you had to blow on an NES cart, or inside the console itself, to get it to recognize a game. In fact I never even had an NES, but I can still remember having to do it on a friend's system. At this point it's almost become cliche to bring it up whenever the conversation turns to classic video games, but that didn't stop one clever modder from attempting to turn a profit on Nintendo's folly.

Right now Super Mario 3, Dick Tracy, and Legend of Zelda models are available. [via Geekologie]

Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Mods | Digg this!