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Big retro gamer? Emulators no fun? The wife upset because you have 8 consoles hooked up to the family TV? Well then the Super Genintari is just right for you. The Super Genintari combines 4 classic arcade systems into one unit. An Atari 2600, NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis are rolled into one package.

You can have all 4 system cartridges plugged in at once and it only requires a single AV cable, which makes switching between Sonic and Super Mario Brothers a breeze.

The whole box measures about 14″x10″x5″ and is made entirely of transparent bronze acrylic, formed and shaped on a homemade strip heater. All of the openings for the buttons, cartridges and controller ports were carefully cut with a cordless Dremel. The face buttons are clear acrylic domes with each system’s logo epoxy glued in place and back-lit with orange LEDs when pressed. The entire system is incredibly easy to hook up, consisting of only one standard power cord and one A/V cable. It’s a little on the large size considering the room needed for all the boards, cartridge connectors and built-in transformer, and there’s also the fact that I refused to use clone systems since I wanted 100% compatibility and faithful reproduction. (No Yobos, Super Joys, etc.)

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The claim to have created the world’s smallest PC has
frequently been touted by companies small and sundry. But this little
device really takes the cake, and it at least seems worthy of its
claim. CompuLab has introduced a tiny fanless PC dubbed the Fit-PC
Slim.

This tiny PC measures 4.3×3.9×1.2-inches and weighs just 380 grams.
It uses 4-6 Watts of power and is equipped with a 500MHz AMD Geode
LX800 processor, an Ethernet port, 3 USB ports, a VGA output, WiFi, and
a 2.5-inch hard drive option. It is also capable of running both
Windows XP and Linux.

We want one.

Features and Specifications:

Processor — 500MHz AMD Geode LX800

Memory — 256MB or 512MB of soldered-on RAM

Display — VGA output

Storage — Accepts 2.5-inch hard drive internally; factory offers pre-installed 60GB version

Networking:

LAN — 10/100 Ethernet with RJ45 connector

WLAN — 802.11b/g (optional)

Other I/O:

3 x USB 2.0 (2 front-panel, 1 rear)

1 x serial (with proprietary connector)

Dimensions — 4.3 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches (110 x 100 x 30mm)

Weight — 13 ounces (380g)

The Fit-PC Slim with basic 256MB configuration without WiFi is
priced at $220, while the one with 512MB and WiFi but no hard drive is
priced at $245. Meanwhile, the one equipped with a 60MB hard drive
(yes, you read that right — a bizzare capacity, for sure), 512MB of
RAM, and offering an option to choose either Linux or Windows XP Home
would cost $295 and $335, respectively.

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Despite the fact that it ships with a DVD drive, for whatever godforsaken reason, the Nintendo Wii doesn’t support DVD playback—until last week, that is, when a homebrew hacker released a tool that enables DVD playback on your Wii. The best part? You don’t have to crack open your Wii or disturb your hardware in any way to install it. Let’s take a detailed look at how to softmod your Wii with the Twilight hack to run homebrew apps. Then I’ll show you how to install the Wii port of the open source media player, mplayer, to turn your Wii into a DVD (or should I say WiiVD?) player.

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While Intel Corp. scrapped plans to introduce its Pentium 4 processors with 4.00GHz clock-speed, enthusiasts keep on pushing the clock-speeds of Intel?s chips to rather brutal frequencies beyond any bold expectations. On Saturday Charles Wirth, also known as Fugger by the overclocking community, managed to push his Intel Pentium 4 processor to extreme 7.20GHz.

In order to conduct the extreme overclocking Fugger of XtremeSystems web-site used DFI 925XE-T2V mainboard based on Intel?s i925XE core-logic, OCZ Technology PC4200 EB R2 Platinum memory modules as well as Intel Pentium 4 570J processor with stock speed of 3.80GHz. Processor system bus was overclocked nearly to the factor of two ? to 1520MHz; processor?s voltage was pumped up to 1.95V, tremendously higher than default 1.287V-1.400V voltage; memory latency settings were CL4 2-2-8, memory voltage was set to 2.3V from stock 1.9V.

The system could boot Microsoft Windows XP operating system and perform memory testing at 6.60GHz with 1400MHz processor system bus. With PSB exceeding 1400MHz range the computer could not boot because of HDD controller issues. With 7.20GHz the machine worked stably in BIOS setup.

It is unknown which cooling system was used in particular case, but usually such extreme overclocking experiences are performed with nitrogen cooling.

Get ready for the rumor frenzy. According to EDGE,
analyst Michael Pachter is telling investors that, with DS sales taking
a dive in Japan and PSP on the rise, Nintendo may release a new
handheld game console by year’s end:

We think that the timing of a new product introduction will depend
upon the sales profile for the DS, and believe that lower than expected
DS hardware sales could trigger an earlier launch for the new device.
DS sales are solid worldwide, but are weak in Japan, leading us to
expect an introduction of a new device in Japan before the end of the
calendar year. We think that Nintendo has a new handheld device ready
for launch in [Japan] before the end of the calendar year.

We don’t know if this is going to be the Nintendo DS 2, but that’s the most probable scenario, as Iwata is not very optimistic about new breakthroughs, and the DS touch concept works quite well. On the other side, it could be something that combines the DS with another device.

Or maybe Michael has eaten one too many magic mushrooms and his report stinks worse than Bowser’s dung.

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