Hey! easy on the goofy, toothy white people, these pictures are cleary taken in the Netherlands. So frankly i'm a bit upset about that remark!

;)


Anyways.....
I could see this replacing regular board games and beeing an alternative to consoles.
They should relaese games like Monopoly, Catan, Risk, Stratego, Chess, Checkers etc... and it would be a cool high-tech-bringing-the-family-back-togheter device.

@ JohnS

I believe this _free_ program:
http://www.freewareppc.com/utilities/totalinput.shtml

Does what you what, google is your friend.

As i said on engadget, this already exists:

http://shop.psiloc.com/en/Application,65575,Mobile+Mouse,UserGuide

There already is an app that does this!

Its from http://www.psiloc.com details can be found here: http://my-symbian.com/s60/software/applications.php?fldAuto=1328&faq=2

you can use the d-pad or move the phone around when in cam mode...

Happy Birthday Engadget!
It's hard to pick one favorite post, because I read engadget every day. My most recent favorite post is the microsoft origami story.

@Matt Smith

Yes, the first 6 months its free after that its about $3 extra a month, but its just marketing. Customers are just "renting" the set-top box and the cable company will start advertising with extra channels and such to make money. And "free digital television" is not that good in the netherlands, most channels are still the same quality and changing channels takes forever...

The statement that analog broadcasting in the Netherlands will cease in 2006 (april 1st). Only counts for antenna receivers. I guess less then 1% of the people in the Netherlands use a analog antenna (only 3 channels and cable access almost everywhere). Analog broadcasting will remain to continue on cable.

However some cable companies are providing free set-top boxes for digital television. The downside is that it will only work for 1 television (most homes have more).