Man, that is one great Bowie album...

Might be kinda cool to leave in front of the kitchen window. But 2W speakers, really?

So...they have USB ports? That's not exactly anything new.

Sounds like marketing babble to me.

My car stereo has a USB port, but I wouldn't call it slotMusic-friendly. Because if I did, I'd have to chuck it out the window on principle...

Or you could, maybe, pick up a class 4 PNY 32GB card for around $125.

And I don't know why Kingston is inflating their own retail prices, but NewEgg seems to already have this for sale for $209.

Seems Engadget is getting a little sloppy, swallowing PR emails like candy.

This has indeed been out (and in my PC) for about a year. It does look nice, and works well. But I'm not a fan of the blue LED fan. Throws the red and black theme of my case all out of whack...

Is this review from the future? I could swear he says "It's Friday, June 20th" at the beginning of the vid. Either he's somehow on the other side of the intergalactic week line, or he forgot to check his calendar this morning...

OK, here's a crazy idea that might make sense all the way around.

Instead of lowering the price and pissing people off, include more in the box. A second set of controllers seems to make the most sense. The social aspect of the Wii is one of its strongest selling points, so ho about making it possible right out of the box, instead of making every Wii buyer who isn't stranded on a desert island fork over extra cash for another controller.

Seems to me that facilitating more two-player play would also help Nintendo sell more product, so long as they could actually keep it on the shelf.

Same goes for the DS. You know, including a game like Mario Bros. in-box wouldn't add much to Nintendo's cost, and might make more parents consider buying a DS, knowing their kid can actually do something with that hefty $150 purchase, other than plugging it in to charge and whining about getting a game.

And if Nintendo is still worried about a backlash, they could offer a mail-in program where providing proof of a console purchase going back x-amount of months can get you the game or controller new purchasers get.

The kind of PR that kind of generous program would get would also likely help sell more product, giving Nintendo the kind of brand reputation that parents and kids both could get behind.

Of course, there's no real reason why the big N needs to do something like this. They're once again riding high on two immensely successful consoles. To me, though, this seems like it might be a smart investment in the future profitability of the company beyond the current generation of consoles, in case their next console is another Virtual Boy.

Just a thought.

-Matt

Looks like someone snapped the top half off a DS, and added a some hastily placed buttons. I'd say at best, this is one (small) step above some cheap educational toy.

I know it's for elementary schools and all, but I'd say without a keyboard or some more complex method of data entry, this is a waste of time and money.

I see someone likes them some Skinny Puppy. Not sure I dig the green fans, though.

Right. I have a Transcend 8GB flash drive that's the slowest USB drive I've ever used. I'd rather have a good 8GB flash drive from someone like Corsair, Sandisk, etc, than a 32GB drive from Transcend. It'd take like 24 hours to fill it up...