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It’s looking more and more like a quick-bits news day today. We don’t necessarily have a problem with that, but when it’s something as juicy as this, we’d like to have just a bit more information to give you. Either way, it looks like Nintendo is indeed hard at work at creating a new piece of gaming hardware bliss for everyone out there. It was confirmed by Shigeryu Miyamoto himself, along with the fact that there are more MotionPlus titles coming out soon. The big question is: mobile console, or home-based console? Who knows. Hopefully we find out sooner than later.

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Just a quick update: the nook is finally funneling into stores this week. You can also finally start ordering it from Barnes and Noble’s website, and expect a realistic delivery date from this point on. Now that the hardware and software are up to par, after some heavily-needed updates, it seems manufacturing is finally meeting expectation. Of course, it has to deal with the iPad’s announcement, but for those looking for a lofty eBook reader, this is the way to go.

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There isn’t much to go on here, other than the fact that this real-life shot of the Legend from HTC looks exactly like the render everyone saw a few months back. The optical mouse at the bottom is positioned right where the trackball of yester-year would have been placed, with what looks like touch-sensitive buttons right above that. There aren’t any real surprises in store for anyone who picks up the successor to the Hero, but we’re sure we’re not the only ones who think this thing is attractive.

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January 27th marked the date of Apple’s first keynote of the year. It was designed specifically for the launch of one product, and one product alone: the iPad. For a company transfixed on developing the world’s best in mobile technology, integrating a tablet into their stream of products made the most sense. Everyone had been waiting for it, with rumors rising and falling all the way back to 2006. It wasn’t until Apple threw themselves into the mobile phone industry, that everyone realized it was possible. It was suddenly possible that Apple could indeed develop something that everyone wanted.

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Considering how fast things get passed around on the Internet, we’re surprised that it took this long before anyone got a chance to see what the myTouch Slide would look like. When it was first rumored to exist last week, we half expected to see shots of the device the same day. But alas, we had to wait a bit longer, and while we realize it may not be the flashiest handset to get released this year, it doesn’t look half bad, either.

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As we mentioned earlier in the month, Apple is announcing something today. The rumors are still flying about what that thing, or things, may be, but everyone is pretty certain Steve Jobs is going to be on stage long enough to tell us that a revolution in tablet computing, along with printed media, is just around the corner. We also mentioned that we would be bringing you the latest intel from that event, and we plan to do just that.

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Maybe you’re one of the millions of owners of a Wii. And maybe you love standing up in the middle of your living room, with the Wii-mote and nunchuk in your hands, or on the Wii’s balance board, and going to town for a half hour. Or maybe you love your Wii, but you wish that you could just sit down on the couch and play some classic games on a classic controller. Well, you don’t have to wait much longer.

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First and foremost, this image came up over at GSM Help Desk, and they were very quick to point it out as being the HTC Obsession we’ve all been waiting to see. There’s a reason we’ve all been waiting to see it: Windows Mobile 7. And right there, should give you all the information you need to see why this device is not the future HTC Obsession, or Diamond3.

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It may not necessarily be Motorola who wants you to check out this crazy concoction of a phone and keyboard, but perhaps someone at Motorola. These blurry-cam shots of a render of a future phone are pretty fantastic, and by that, we mean out of this world. Sure, the MOTOSPLIT may not be the craziest phone we’ve ever seen rendered, but it’s pretty close. And that may not be a bad thing.

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On slow news days like today, we like to present you with something a bit out of the ordinary. The soap light from designers Jieun Kim and Jiyeon Ahn may not be the next item on your want list right away, but if you’re anything like us, the longer you look at it, the more you want to touch it. But please don’t be confused: this soap light will not make you clean.

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