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Ah, remember the PowerGlove? It was a great idea that didn’t work too well for Nintendo. Austin Weber has performed a very nice modification of the vintage device that interfaces the glove with his computer as a mouse. Austin shows off the glove brilliantly playing Unreal Tournament 2004.

The video and instructions on how you can perform the modification yourself are available at Zerosign.net.

“He mapped the in game controls so that his thumb controls forward motion, his pointer finger controls the trigger and his arm motion controls the camera view.”

Could this be a peek at what the future of gaming will be like with the Revolution controller? Or will the new controller flop like its early predecessor?

In either case, if you play UT2k4, watch out for Austin Weber because he just might pwn you with this thing.

Watch demo [Zerosign]

• Officers who played Wii during drug raid get disciplined, sort of
• Gamertell Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Last Window, the sequel to Hotel Dusk, will debut January 2010 in Japan

Nintendo’s First-to-Play Sweepstakes has officially launched. You can be one of three finalists who will enjoy a special seat at Nintendo’s media briefing in Hollywood. The winner will be selected at random from the bunch while the others watch in bitter-sweet agony as he or she becomes the first to play Nintendo Revolution.

“No consumer has ever played this new Nintendo system before,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “But more importantly, no one has ever interacted with video games in this way before. Our next home console will revolutionize how people play and experience video games.”

Oh yeah, besides being 18 or older there is also this little condition about having to play on stage in front of the thousands at the briefing awaiting a gaming revolution. Just thought I would give you a heads up.

So hurry up and enter! Don’t tell anyone else about this either. That way I have a better chance at winning!

Wait. Aww man.

Read [Go Nintendo]
Enter contest [AOL.com]

• Officers who played Wii during drug raid get disciplined, sort of
• Gamertell Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Last Window, the sequel to Hotel Dusk, will debut January 2010 in Japan

Early Thursday, viewers of Seagate’s website were shocked and exited to find the details for a 750GB 7200.10 Barracuda hard drive in an innocent looking PDF document.

Many of these details cannot be confirmed from Seagate’s website now, but the PDF which can be found at DailyTech, talks of buffers of 16MB and 8MB, 7200RPM spindles and an average seek time of 4.16ms.

“Seagate representatives have told us that the information posted was ‘very premature’ and was not be posted on the website for several weeks.”

Read [DailyTech]

• Officers who played Wii during drug raid get disciplined, sort of
• Gamertell Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Last Window, the sequel to Hotel Dusk, will debut January 2010 in Japan

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Firefox for Dummies is a new book by co-creator Blake Ross. Whether your new to Firefox or you just want to learn a little more about the hottest browser out there, then this is the book for you.

Buy [Shopperchoice.com]

• Officers who played Wii during drug raid get disciplined, sort of
• Gamertell Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Last Window, the sequel to Hotel Dusk, will debut January 2010 in Japan

Gadgetell would like to welcome Chris to the gadge. He is a computer wiz who loves to talk and write about tech. Watch out, his posts may go all crazy digital 0101010101110000 on us.

Ever get that eerie feeling that the furniture in your room is alive and moving around? No? I am really the only one? Well you will after watching this Dynamic Art project.

Max Dean, Raffaello D’Andrea and Matt Donovan have created a chair that breaks apart and then reassembles itself. Though not much information can be gathered from the video as to whether the chair is being controlled by remote or using artificial intelligence to get back together, it’s still cool.

Via [Make]
Watch video [D’Andrea Group Interactive & Dynamic Art]

• Officers who played Wii during drug raid get disciplined, sort of
• Gamertell Review: New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Last Window, the sequel to Hotel Dusk, will debut January 2010 in Japan