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During my stay in Indonesia, Ro and I went to TimeZone a couple of times to shoot up zombies and other baddies in House of the Dead 4 and Time Crisis 4.
Short of buying myself the whole game (does someone have a few k’s lying around that I could have?), there isn’t a whole lot I can do other than go down to the game arcade to get my fix.

Now the one thing I always thought was lacking on my Wii was exactly that, a gun thingie that’d allow me to shoot things. Like zombies. Or swarms!

Too bad the news had to come from the PS3 field.

Thanks Engadget… Now I’ve got a big longing for TC4 again.

PS: No, no one is allowed to comment about my DDR mat. Yes, it needs to be reinstalled on my new laptop. Yes, I have been to lazy to do it myself. *whine* Ro, can you do it for me? *kitty eyes*

PPS: Shut up, Curg… I don’t want to hear that I don’t know jack about consoles The Wii is my first console. PCs rule forever!

It seems that all the big names of the digital arena are trying to rope in wannabe fashionistas and non-geeks (read: many, many women) by offering girly accessories that will tempt them into buying the wares.

Sometimes, the brands will deliver the goods in an intelligent way: Prada-branded phones offer touchscreen technology, laptops decorated often have decent spec that make them a worthy buy for a fashion conscious individual looking to equip. Unfortunatly, the vast majority of those so-called fashionable technological items are standard at best, made fashion-y by outer design, taking fashion lovers for brainless cash cows.

The latest the Unhinged has heard of?

Philips and Swarovski are collaborating on a range of headphones and USB keys adorned with crystals called Active Crystals.

The first thing that comes to mind is how on Earth are these USB keys going to connect with my computer? Their volume is HUGE. Either they’ll take up multiple spaces -not a particularly welcome idea, or will actually be too bulky to fit in the minute space. Either way, there is the remote possibility of damaging both key and computer at first use.
Overall, absolutely impractical and not even remotely enhanced -other than visually.

Particularly those heart shaped pendants. For the sake of the computers, I sure hope those comes with a USB extender. Now seeing the USB symbol enhanced with crystals would be cool. I admit that they are cute, especially the ones that mimick galuchat with the arrangement of stones but for the price, I would have expected something more.

Priced at 150 euros, it’ll be a resounding pass from yours truly.

It doesn’t help either that the official site’s splash page features an underfed, unhealthy looking model-clone with a dumb expression on her face.

I still have my Wii.

In the wake of most of the people I know selling their precious, hard-acquired Wiis, I was going to go down that route myself.

One thing stopped me. I love the Wii-mote.

Currently, it is being baby-sat by Exar.

Second Life is definitely the talk of the town these days, with no less than 3 articles devoted to it in print magazines and scores of online articles.

Neojobmeeting is a recruitment initiative on behalf five large companies in France (Consulting firms Unilog & Cap Gemini, cosmetics giant L’Oréal, Alstom, Areva) to branch out into Second Life for their real life recruitment.

Potential candidates are invited to join Second Life and visit the Unilog pavillion on the game and explore career opportunities, much like in any real life trade show.

This comes hot in the footsteps of the French electoral campaign where, after having exhausted all other multimedia venues, some candidates attempted to gain popular approval by hosting events on the game.

It seems that France is definitely starting to take Second Life seriously enough for major economical players to take notice of it.

[Via Unilog recruitment newsletter]

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I know, the photoshopping is disgusting on the top but hey, I was doing it with a touchpad (insert bad pun here).

You shouldn’t have mocked my mad photoshopping skillz, Ro.