The Chintendo Vii Lives On as Arctic Cooling’s ARCTIC GC PRO

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The Chintendo Vii was one of the first true knock offs of the beloved Nintendo Wii. It had a controller, wands and attachments for all the different “Wii Like” games that it came with. Well, it looks like the folks at Arctic Cooling decided that they wanted a stab at marketing it through more legitimate channels. However, I’m not sure what the fit is for this Swiss company that makes CPU coolers and thermal paste. I guess in tough economic times, you have to diversify a little.

The Chintendo…I mean…the ARCTIC GC PRO comes with 48 built in games and features “High Res 3D 32-bit graphics”. All of this is topped off with a 2 year warranty and a $57.90 US price tag. Full press release and additional photos of this machine is after the break.

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Learning New Things is Hard

My whole life, I’ve heard that as you get older it becomes harder to learn to do things a different way from how you have been, and I’ve always just laughed and thought it’s because old people are set in their ways and aren’t open to new things. Now I am apparently an old person, because I’ve been sitting here for quite some time trying to do a new style of posting and failing miserably. I hate admitting defeat, so I’ll have to work on it some more, and we’ll all have to deal with what I’ve been doing until I get it.

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Futurelooks reports Opera Unite Reinvents Sharing on the Web

TweakTown chills out with the Zalman CNPS10X Extreme CPU Cooler

DriverHeaven goes inside the GMC G-50 Case

TrustedReviews examines the OCZ Throttle eSATA Flash Drive 32GB

Gamepyre checks out the EVGA X58 3X SLI Classified Motherboard

DragonSteelMods takes a look at the ECS Elitegroup Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 PCIE 1024MB DDR3 Video Card NGTS250-1GMU-F

Hardware Canucks spends some time with the OCZ Vertex 120GB SSD

The TechZone gets the picture with the Pure Digital Flip UltraHD Camcorder

bit-tech explains The best way to clean your keyboard

eTeknix gets into some Gelid Solutions GC-2 Thermal Compound

Finally, ThinkComputers rocks the house with the Hercules XPS 2.1 50 2.1 Speakers

Celebrity Deaths

What is the deal lately!?! I mean, I realize people pass away all the time, but we’re having a epidemic! Some expected, some not expected but also not unreasonable, and some just flat shocking. I’m not normally one to follow all the celebrity gossip (my own life is enough of a soap opera, I don’t need to borrow theirs), but lately it’s very hard not to. Hopefully we’re done with this for a while.

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Futurelooks kicks it off with Why You Should Buy a Netbook

TrustedReviews presents Underwater Cameras – Group Test

Bjorn3D examines the Asus HD 4770 Formula Edition

DigitalTrends gets into the Best Software for Netbooks

Overclockers Online chills out with the Evercool Transformer 4

TestFreaks wants you to know about its Weekly Giveaway #8- NZXT Beta and Avatar

TweakTown takes on Terminator Salvation PS3

Guru3D shares its Photo Contest Entries

DragonSteelMods keeps cool with the Noctua NF-S12B FLX 120mm Fan

ModSynergy checks out the Winegard HD-1080M HDTV Antenna and Winegard HDP-269 PreAmplifier

Benchmark Reviews spends some time with the ZOTAC IONITX-A-U Atom N330 WiFi N Motherboard Kit

PureOverclock takes a look at the Samsung SyncMaster T240

The TechZone shares its thoughts on the Epson WorkForce 600 MFP

ThinkComputers gets into the Synology DS-409+ Network Attached Storage Device

And to finish us off, bit-tech reports on CEDIA 2009: Home Automation and more

Yardwork on Saturday

We finally realized that it is never going to cool off again, and the humidity is never going to drop below 75%, so we might as well bite the bullet and just do it. So far today I’ve weeded two planters and watered all the flower beds. After a short break in front of the fan, we’ll be trimming some bushes that are taking over the world and then trying to find and mark where all the poison ivy is growing this year so it can be killed later. I think that’ll probably be plenty enough for one day.

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MetkuMods starts us off with an Introduction to 4D Systems OLED Products

TrustedReviews checks out the Asus Crosshair III Formula

Motherboards.org goes inside the In-Win X-Fighter AL-13 Series Case

bit-tech takes on Overlord II

DigitalTrends rocks out with the VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Internet Radio

ITreviewed spends some time with StarDock WindowBlinds v6.4

TheTechLounge takes a look at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB

techPowerUp chills out with the Spire TherMax II

Hardware Secrets presents its 2 TB Hard Disk Drive Battle: Seagate Barracuda LP vs. Western Digital Caviar Green

Overclockers Online examines the Highpoint RocketRAID 3510 SATA II RAID Controller

TweakTown goes mobile with the Apple iPhone 3GS 16GB Smartphone

TechwareLabs tries on the Monster Turbine Headphones

ThinkComputers gets its hands on the Thrustmaster T.16000M Joystick

Planet3dNow reviews the Sharkoon Silent Storm CM 460 W power-supply

And to finish off this selection, Bjorn3D hooks up with the ICY DOCK MB877SK-B

How Did Friday Happen So Quickly?

The last time I was paying attention, it was the beginning of the week, and here we are at Friday afternoon already! Nice! On a somewhat more serious note, RIP Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. You were great entertainers in your own way, and you will be missed. My condolences to their families and friends left behind.

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Hardware Bistro starts us off with the Synology DS409slim NAS Station

DigitalTrends examines the HIS Radeon HD 4770

TrustedReviews takes a look at the Sony Bravia KDL-32E5500 32in LCD TV

Planet3dNow gets into the Cougar 98R9 Super Tower case

PC World presents Running Windows 7 on a Low-Tech PC

Guru3D spends some time with the OCZ Summit 250GB SSD

ITreviewed gets its hands on the Kingston DataTraveler 200 (128GB)

Phoronix sits down with the System76 Bonobo Professional

TweakTown submits Adaptec Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection Explained

HotHardware has a video review of the Lenovo IdeaCentre A600 All-in-One Desktop PC

GamingHeaven takes on Overlord 2 (PS3 & X360)

TestFreaks props it up with the Xtand

bit-tech checks out the Enermax Liberty Eco 620W PSU

And to get us out the door, eWEEK reports Palm Pre Is Still Behind the iPhone When It Comes to Apps

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