More than just a simple remake, “this group effort covers all eight levels of the arcade and NES classic from Konami and was developed by a group of NeoGAF message board-lurking LittleBigPlanet fans over the course of the past month.” Video after the break. The eight levels available for PlayStation 3 owners as of, well, right now, should the trailer for LittleBigContra get you excited enough to download. [via Kotaku ]
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Gamer Recreates Contra in LittleBigPlanet
Built by Logicdustbin of the CGCC forums, the iDream started out as an iMac that was gutted and then stuffed with SEGA Dreamcast hardware. In addition to cramming the Dreamcast inside, this modder also swapped out the original CRT monitor for a much lighter LCD panel. Continue reading for more pictures and a video. Or, you can view the images here in gallery format. (Thanks, Lana )
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Gamer Crams SEGA Dreamcast Inside Apple iMac, Calls it the iCast
Slated for release on the Nintendo DS in March 2009, Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars will let gamers experience a whole new viewpoint, with a rotatable camera angled down at the playing field. Continue reading for the new trailer.
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Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
Lined with “18-carat yellow gold and 6.6 carats of diamonds”, the iPhone 3G Kings Button could be the most expensive handset ever, priced at a whopping $2.5-million. No word yet on availability. Whoever buys it, please call us, fly us to your palace, and let us slap your face. Then, please invite us to a two year vacation in your yacht and we will forgive you. [via Gizmodo ]
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iPhone 3G Kings Button is Most Expensive Ever at $2.5-Million
The Gemballa Mirage GT Carbon Edition builds upon its predecessor and “boosts power from 612 to 670 HP, taking the top speed up to 208 MPH and the 0-60 time down from 3.5 to 3.2 seconds.” Click here for first picture in gallery. Few other specs of the car are currently known, but we’d expect a significant decrease in weight thanks to all the carbon. Or at least we would if we were going to open our wallets for one. [via Jalopnik ]
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Gemballa Mirage GT Carbon Edition
For just $250 on eBay , you could pick up a big chunk of Aerogel , also known as the world’s lightest solid. Put simply, it’s “a low-density solid-state material derived from gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas.” Auction page . Video after the break. Aerogels are produced by extracting the liquid component of a gel through supercritical drying. This allows the liquid to be slowly drawn off without causing the solid matrix in the gel to collapse from capillary action, as would happen with conventional evaporation. [via eBay ]
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eBay Watch: Aerogel World’s Lightest Solid
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the escalator you see above, located at the Kawasaki More’s department store in Japan, is the world’s shortest, measuring just 834mm tall. Video after the break. It was in 1989 and will still retain the record if someone has not built a small and useless automatic staircase in the two decades. [via Newlaunches ]
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World’s Shortest Escalator
Most crosswalks are boring, these are not. To start, we have a creative crosswalk that features a gigantic bottle of correction fluid, promoting a local FedEX Kinko’s store in New York. Click here for more. [via Toxel ]
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Creative Crosswalk Advertisements
Amazon has the HTC Touch Pro for just $149.99 after special offers and with service agreement (Sprint), originally priced at $599.99. This handset “provides a mobile Internet experience that uses the Sprint Mobile Broadband Network (EV-DO Rev. A).” Product page . Business users can choose from several popular platforms to access your corporate e-mail. The Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional platform offers seamless integration with Microsoft Outlook information including email, contacts, calendar and to-do lists. [via Amazon ]
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Deal of the Day: HTC Touch Pro for $149.99 Shipped
According to researchers, development of this jet-mounted laser turret is nearing completion. In the clip, you’ll see that “the plane strapped with a pilot-controlled laser which is able to intercept missiles significantly earlier than other existing anti-missile tech.” Video after the break. The project has plans to continue testing throughout this year, but will also need to be approved by the Obama administration if it is to come to fruition. [via Engadget ]
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Jet-Mounted Laser Turret Closer to Reality
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