Today in Engadget: May 8, 2006

E3

• Microsoft confirms USB HD DVD for Xbox 360
• TIME gets hands-on with the Nintendo Wii
• Sony's PlayStation 3 event pre-game coverage!
• Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Sony's PlayStation 3 E3 event
• Sony Playstation 3 launch details
• Sony shows off the real PS3 controller
• $500 PS3 to lack HDMI, WiFi, card reader

News

• Take home MovieBeam for $80 less
• Hybrid hard drive due for this month?
• The Robotic Action Painter
• Fake DVD sniffing dogs
• Apple Computer prevails over Beatles' Apple Corps
• Patoh's external P2P client / NAS
• Ricoh Caplio 500G 8 megapixel ruggedized wide-angle digicam
• Sony expands 4x6 printer line with DPP-FP55 and DPP-FP35
• TiVo Product Watch gives you commercials on your schedule
• Asustek PW201 20-inch widescreen display with 1.3 megapixel webcam
• Power tool drag racing -- why didn't we think of this?
• ATI sued for misleading HDCP claims
• Samsung unveils "world's thinnest" 6.9mm phone
• French protest proposed DRM law
• Silicon Graphics files for Chapter 11
• Electricity may cause cancer, leukaemia, depression, etc.
• Gadget vs Dynamizer in robot grudgematch

Rumors

• Apple to show off "new iBook" this Wednesday
• Author claims 360 team working on portable Xbox

Joystiq @ E3

This is our second day covering E3 2006 in Los Angeles, and it has been a helluva hectic Monday. Our coverage on the Sony coverage has been huge, and we have officially launched the "E3 everything page" located here. Thanks again to Scott Johnson for his wonderful E3 Joystiq logos. While we consider taking a second job to pay for our PlayStation 3, here is our E3 coverage for the day:

• Joystiq's E3 everything page
• Last call: E3 predictions

Conferences

• Square Enix conference
• Sony's PlayStation 3 event pre-game coverage!
• Engadget & Joystiq's live coverage of Sony's PlayStation 3 E3 event

Announcements

• Desperate times call for desperate measures
• Final Fantasy XIII announced for PS3
• MS releases E3 content on XBLM
• The real PlayStation 3 controller revealed
• E3: PS3 launch details
• PlayStation 3 in its final form

Random Joystiquery

• The Gears of War mural, day 2
• Rogue building boasts PlayStation symbols?
• Nintendo's E3 booth in the making
• Clash of the Consoles: a sneak peek!

Today in Engadget Mobile

News

• SoonR Talk lets you Skype from your cell
• Qtek 8500 / HTC Star Trek gets UK price, launch date, new name
• Samsung unviels "world's thinnest" 6.9mm phone
• Parisian billboards enabled for interactive advertising
• In Mobile Assassins, cameraphones do the shooting
• Dexa, the new Hispanic MVNO, launches in LA
• Vodafone Germany to offer Samsung's HSDPA-enabled SGH-ZV50
• Big Brother producer launches reality show for UK mobiles