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The HomeStar Spa turns your bathroom into a planetarium

By Abby McVay on Tuesday, Jun 24th 2008 1 Comment

HomeStar Spa If you enjoy your baths but candlelight isn’t quite the right mood for you, this cool little planetarium is definitely great for those that are in need of mood lighting. With this you can lay back as it casts pretty starry skies onto your walls.

It makes me wish I could sit still long enough to soak in the tub, however, I just tend to enjoy showers way more. For those that aren’t as squirmy as I am, you can also flip the planetarium over and have it cast different colors and designs into the water itself.

The Homestar Spa from SEGA Toys is being sold for $70. It might also be cool for those with hot tubs to give different lighting than the boring colored bulbs that are usually featured in hot tubs.

[via geekologie]

DIY Sega Arcade Cabinet – Lindberg is making a comeback

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Mar 28th 2008 No Comments

In a world where arcade games have seemingly gone to the wayside, knocked out of the way by their console and cell phone based brethren there is still hope. It can be found in the new Sega Lindberg arcade cabinets, and I hope they aren’t making fun of my buddy Charles.

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Sega describes the iPod as “flawless” for gaming

By Chris on Tuesday, Feb 19th 2008 No Comments

Many people have an almost unnatural obsession with their iPod. I’ve got one and it’s great, I just don’t see what all of the fuss is about. Then again some people would make similar remarks about my DS, so I understand. Lately the tiny music player has grown beyond simply playing music and videos, venturing into the realm of gaming. Recently Sega described the iPod as “flawless” when it comes to gaming.

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Sega Toys Yume Neko Smile robot cat gets vocal upgrade

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 16th 2008 No Comments

Colour me smitten, Sega Toys have updated their awesome Yume Neko Smile robotic cat. Its name translating as “Dream Cat Smile”, I fell hopelessly in love with the animatronic kitty back in 2006, tested the furry white masterpiece in February last year, and now the company has launched a new, talking version at the Tokyo Toy Forum this week.

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Check out a video of the new Yume Neko Smile after the cut!

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DIY Portable Sega Dreamcast mod

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 10th 2008 1 Comment

Once again I’m ashamed of my lack of Dremel skills. The product of a feverish desire to take the Sega Dreamcast out on the move, this mod is a custom vacuum casing containing not only the guts of the console but a set of two 7.2V 3Ah R/C car batteries. Rather intimidatingly, the game CD simply clips onto the spindle at the back with no door or cover to protect your soft, delicate fingers.

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Sonic and Sega are back, portable and familiar

By Christina Crouch on Wednesday, Jan 2nd 2008 2 Comments

Yet another blast from the past is making its way into the new generation wrapped in a shiny new package (which looks like this one but cheaper). Nothing gets a kids attention quite like a portable game system. I doubt the AtGames Mega Drive Portable will be much of a contender to the DS and PSP but it’s sure to make some old schoolers happy.

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Sega and NeuroSky looking to steal the user interface spotlight from the Wii

By James Allan Brady on Wednesday, Dec 12th 2007 No Comments

So you think the Wii is cool because you can wave around a controller and that’s how you play the games, that’s crap compared to what Sega is working on with NeuroSky. They are working on making it possible to play games with your brain, that’s right, your thoughts.

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Tec Toy offers up portable Sega Genesis again

By James Allan Brady on Sunday, Nov 18th 2007 No Comments

Personally, I think Sega did a good job of this a good number of years ago with the GameGear, but if you weren’t lucky enough to latch onto one of those (I have 2, they’re great) then you can pick up one of Tec Toy’s offerings. Their system appears to offer a slightly improved button layout over the GameGear.

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But, their system comes with 20 games pre-loaded, and that’s it, there’s no way to add more. So there’s that, however the Tec Toy version is by far more power efficient, using 3 AAA batteries compared to my GameGear’s 6 AA batteries that last, at best, a couple of hours.

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Mint Tin RPG

By James Allan Brady on Friday, Aug 3rd 2007 No Comments

Do you know how hard it is to come up with a headline explaining a device that is a mint tin with one game only installed in it? Don’t forget to mention the fact that said self-contained RPG has only three things protruding from the tin, a DB9 connector, a switch, and a video jack?

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Sega arcade slaps virtual zombie guts in your motion-sick face

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, May 8th 2007 No Comments

Holy crap, what happened to pinball and Pac-Man? It may have been some time since I last stepped into an arcade, and to be frank it’s going to be a whole lot longer still if they insist on putting vomit-rockets like this Sega House of the Dead 4 Special machine into them! Strap yourself into the full-motion, vibrating chair and prepare for two 100-inch XGA projector screens to throw you bodily into the action.

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