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“Normally this is the space where we would make some clever jokes and tell you why you might like to purchase this fine product. But in the case of this amazing GP2X Wiz pocket size gaming system we’re cutting straight to the chase. If you are into retro gaming and have paid your rent this month you NEED to buy the GP2X Wiz now… like immediately… we’re not joking. Because no where else will you find a handheld gaming system with emulators for so many game systems, computer platforms and consoles. Incredible MAME emulation allows you to run all your favorite arcade video game classics, even vector games. Amiga game emulation is rock solid. You can run Atari ST games, Commodore 64, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NeoGeo, Flash Games and more too numerous to mention. Of course you’ll need to find yourself some game roms… but we have a feeling that’s no problem for you and Google. The Wiz can do a host of other useful things besides gaming. It can play video files including MPEG4, Xvid and DIVX. You get a built in e-book reader, calendar, voice recorder… etc… you know the drill. 1GB of storage is built-in and you can expand on this with the SD (SDHC) card slot. The high-res touchscreen makes navigation easy and the gaming controls feature a d-pad on the left with buttons/d-pad on the right and two shoulder buttons on the top. It’s plenty good for anything a retro game can dish out. There is an active development community for the GP2X Wiz and with a respectable ARM9 533MHz Processor overclockable to 800Mhz you’ve got plenty of power to play with if you’re interested to write your own applications. Important Note The Wiz does not come with any emulator software or game roms pre-installed. Out of the box you can play some built in Flash games, but that’s it. You’ll need to download the freeware emulator for the console or computer system you want to emulate. Then you’ll need to unzip the emulator software, and copy it to an SD card along with some game roms you’ve downloaded. Then start-up the Wiz, go into the “”launcher”" option and run the emulator. Inside the emulator you’ll choose the rom you want to load and then the game can begin. Each emulator software interface is a bit different and most give you the option to overclock the Wiz to get the best performance. Remember you are running emulator software… most games work perfectly, but some may run slow or be glitchy. You may have to configure the controls to work well with the game you want to play. Documentation is not always the best, so you might need to put in a bit of effort to figure things out. If any of this scares you, then you may want to reconsider your purchase. Here is a great site where you can download all the emulators available for the Wiz as well as other homebrew software. Please take a look at this before you buy. http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi”
GP2X Wiz MAME/Amiga/Console Emulator
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ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

“One of the main characters of Firefly is Serenity herself, with all her quirks and surprises. Here are a couple of facts you might not have considered before. The ship could fit on a football field, hanging over the sidelines 5 ft. each way, which probably wouldn’t even knock over the Gatorade cooler. The cargo capacity is 164,900 pounds, which is just over 7000 black-market beagles. Also, we would like to point out that we think it’s really cool that Google has astronomical units to lightyears as one of their default conversions from the search box. This shirt features Serenity against a sunburst and a field of stars on a babydoll (fitted) black t-shirt, along with the four Chinese characters which represent the phrase “”Never Give Up”" down the right side. Note: This product runs larger than our normal babydolls. Please reference the table below to choose your size. S M L XL XXL Chest 36 in. 40 in. 44 in. 48 in. 52 in. Length 25 in. 26 in. 27 in. 28 in. 29 in.”
Serenity in Flight Babydoll
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ThinkGeek :: Stuff for Smart Masses

“The date is 1974. The place? Budapest, Hungary. Erno Rubik, a passionate lecturer and admirer of geometry and 3D forms creates the world’s most addictive and perfect puzzle – the Rubik’s cube. It’s now thirty years later and it’s still the best selling puzzle in the Universe. If you grew up when the Rubik’s cube made it’s debut – you probably remember that every kid had one. Whether it was the full size or the keychain version they were as common in school as cell phones and GBAs are these days. Elementary school kids could be seen solving them with their feet on ‘That’s Incredible!’ and conspiracists believed the puzzle was an Eastern block tactic to distract American youth from their educations. In 1980 Cubaholics Anonymous was formally established. The eighties simply enjoyed RubikMania! Here we are in the 21st century and it’s still just as addictive as it was thirty years ago. Think you can solve it? Think you have what it takes to beat the reigning world record for solving the Rubik’s cube? The first world champion was an American high school student who took the Budapest World Championship in 1982 by solving the puzzle in just 22.95 seconds! The latest 2003 winner was Dan Knights of San Francisco who used the ‘Fridrich’ system to beat the cube in just 20 seconds. Best of luck if you choose to delve into the realm of competitive speedcubing- you’re gonna need it! How complex can it really be ThinkGeek? There are 43 quintillion possible combinations with your Rubik’s cube. That’s 43 million million millions. There are about 30 million seconds in a year. You would need over a thousand million years assuming you could look at a thousand patterns every second just to see all the possible combinations. So if you are interested, we recommend you get started now and hope that cryonics becomes true science. Ages 8 and up Dimensions: 3″” cubed Comes complete with a hint and game suggestion book If you really want, you can easily find solutions on Google and Youtube”
Rubik’s Cube
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At a quick glance, without any background information, your eyes might tell you that the HTC Thunderbolt is little more than a Verizon remake of Sprint's EVO 4G and AT&T's Inspire 4G. After all -- like its contemporaries -- the Thunderbolt features a spacious 4.3-inch WVGA display, 8 megapixel camera, and dual-LED flash. In reality, though, the Thunderbolt is something more: from the Inspire, it borrows a better, crisper display with a wider viewing angle and a newer-generation (though still single-core) Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. From the EVO 4G, meanwhile, it borrows a cool integrated kickstand and the addition of a second "4G" radio, making this a spec Frankenstein of sorts -- the best of both worlds. Of course, instead of Sprint's WiMAX for that 4G radio, the Thunderbolt grants you access to Verizon's LTE network -- a network so fresh, it still has that new-network smell. There's a lot of horsepower here.

In other words, the Thunderbolt has a very real opportunity to be the finest 4.3-inch device HTC has ever made -- for the moment, anyway. Let's see how it fares.

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HTC Thunderbolt review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google guesstimates release dates for movies and games originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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