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The difference between the Wii and Wii U are readily apparent to most contemporary gamers, but some consumers are having trouble telling them apart. “Some have the misunderstanding that the Wii U is just Wii with a pad for games,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Investors last week, “others even consider Wii U GamePad as a peripheral device connectable to Wii.” Nintendo is eager to clear up the confusion, of course, and pushed a notification to internet connected Wii consoles stating it plainly. “Wii U is the all-new home console from Nintendo. It’s not just an upgrade — it’s an entirely new system that will change the way you and your family experience games and entertainment.” The note also assures readers that their Wii accessories will work on the new console, and gives a brief run down of the console’s selling points: the Wii U GamePad, backwards compatibility and HD graphics. The humble message probably isn’t enough to repair the damage done by product’s nearly identical names, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction. Check out the full statement after the break.

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It takes a lot to stand out at a trade convention the size of Mobile Globe Congress. However right here ’ s one device that caught my eye today: an e-ink smartphone. Unlike Yota Phone, the Russian start-up that ’ s using e-ink as a second display to augment the back of a powerful high end smartphone in a bid to stand apart in the uber crowded Android space, this prototype gadget has simply the one screen. A solitary e-ink screen on the front of the device — so it ’ s a true e-ink phone.

It ’ s additionally a true smartphone. There were 2 prototypes on program at Eink‘ s stand, both with a 1GHz chip inside and one (the white one) with a 3G chip in it. The other had Edge connectivity. The phones run Android however, as you ’ d expect, the OS has been streamlined with a customized UI that strips back the functionality to focus on the applications that make good sense for a completely e-ink smartphone — such as a reader app, a dialer and e-mail. The UI additionally consists of a web browser because certain sorts of websites can be seen on an e-ink screen. It won ’ t support video of course but text-based websites can still be read.

The black prototype gadget (visualized below) also includes a backlight for reviewing in the dark. Both screens are capacitive, however as you ’ d expect with e-ink the refresh rate can be a little slow-moving. Ghosting on the screen from previous renders can be eliminated by shaking the device. The modern technology can support both portraiture and landscape positioning so the e-ink smartphone could possibly be switched on its side to change the positioning to more of an e-reader sized width. Both devices felt exceptionally light-weight.

Why do you want an only e-ink phone? Rate for one thing. Battery life for an additional. Not to discuss exposure in bright sunlight. Put all those elements together and this can be the best gadget for some arising markets where electricity is at a premium. The prototypes are proof of concept at this point but Giovanni Mancini, director of item management for E-ink — the business which makes the screen — stated the Chinese OEM which has made the prototypes, Fndroid, is speaking to telcos and might introduce a device this year. So the amount of would this e-ink smartphone expense? Mancini stated the device maker

would set the rate however in his view it would be comparable with a function phone price. A huge style of this year ’ s MWC has been smaller sized mobile players — from open source OSes like Firefox that are looking for to drive openness and accessibility and drive down the expense of gadgets, to mobile veterans like Nokia focusing afresh on building smarter attribute phones to target cost-conscious users in emerging markets. So it ’ s interesting to see business toying with the concept of a totally e-ink smartphone to cut gadget expenses while preserving essential smartphone features such as access to the internet and e-mail. Click to see slideshow.

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Note: Please, try to keep the metal metal band jokes to a minimum.

This is a video of the robotic band Compressorhead practicing in the garage of some human they likely killed. Unfortunately (or is it?), as somebody pointed out in the video’s comments, you can really only hear the drums. You know why? Because robotic sound guys SUCK. Consider that a heads up for any of you bands out there trying to save a couple bucks by hiring a robot — you want a HUMAN sound guy. The longer the ponytail the better.

Hit the jump for the brand practice in action. Admittedly, I did like the little high-hat robot.

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When popular music streaming application Audiogalaxy announced its acquisition by Dropbox earlier this month and closed signups we was afraid the worst, and now it’s been confirmed: the service is closing down completely on January 31st, 2013. It had previously announced subscribers would have access to their combines till the end of this month, but after an additional month they’ll have to relocate to a service like Google Play Popular music, or potentially self hosting with Subsonic or something similar. The original article discussed a desire to bring “wonderful brand-new experiences” to Dropbox’s 100 million plus users so we could see a few of those features again, quickly. As for the service itself, Founder Michael Merhej relaunched it just over 2 years ago after version 1.0– an online popular music file sharing service that eclipsed its rivals throughout its run from 1998 to 2002– was ejected by RIAA pressure, so we figure anything is feasible in the future.

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