Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Exergaming The Wall Street Journal reports that Nintendo's highly anticipated and equally exhausting balancercise board and game, Wii Fit, will arrive arrive beneath American feet on May 19th. The exercise program and peripheral, a result of designer Shigeru Miyamoto's habitual monitoring of his own weight, has sold over a million units in Japan following its launch in December.The article, which predicts an official an
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Actor Ryan Reynolds and Black Eyed Peas singer will.i.am are to appear in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, according to reports.

Filed under: Star CatcherTMZ.com: TMZ caught Reba McEntire exiting Koi in West Hollywood last night. The southern songstress doesn't think her photo is worth a measly $15 dollars ... that must be Oklahoma money!Also in L.A., a hooded Wilmer Valderrama ditches his chick on the... Read more

Filed under: Accessories, iPod Family, iPhoneThe speaker on the iPhone isn't too shabby, but that's not to say that users don't want to blast their music, right? Well, you can always buy some iPod/iPhone friendly external spears to plug your iPhone into, but some of us want portability! Erik Groset, the 23 year-old creator of the LiveSpeakR, thinks he has the device that will have iPhone users raving. The LiveSpeakR is unlike most iPhone speakers
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iDontbelieveit! The BBC is considering ditching Adobe's Flash system for its iPlayer streams to improve the video quality of the on-demand service, it said on Tuesday.?

Now you see it, now you don't Microsoft has suspended distribution of one of the updates required for Vista service pack one (SP1), after customers complained that their PCs wouldn?t boot up properly after KB937287 had been applied.?

Restaurant service without a smile NSFW A group of chums who were less than impressed with the service at a Staffordshire restaurant learned the hard way that you don't mess with England's waiting staff and walk away unscathed.?

The Soylent wing of the Green movement examined The enviroloonies seem to have found their way out of the asylum again: this time to tell us that 70 per cent of Britons should die for the sake of Gaia. That's not quite the way they put it, of course. Rather, the Optimum Population Trust (there's a pedantic part of me that wants to tell them it's Optimal) tells us that the maximum sustainable population of the UK is 17 million: given that there ar
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Last August the Australian Prime Minister announced plans to spend many millions of dollars to offer free internet filters that parents could use to keep their kids from surfing porn. The filters were cracked by kids in a matter of days. While we noted that this should have made politicians realize what a waste the program was, instead they just said it explained why they needed to spend even more. Reader Stack writes in to let us know that th
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Blist, a browser-based database management application, has raised $6.5M in Series A from Frazier Technology Ventures and Morgenthaler Ventures. The company launched in private beta at DEMO this year, although we first covered them this past November. In addition to this funding announcement, Blist is also rolling out data importing, sharing, and charting features. The new charting [...]

The Rockets handled the Cavs 93-85 on Tuesday to stretch their road winning streak to nine games, matching the franchise record set in 1993.

Anti-Semitic death threats have been sent to Chelsea manager Avram Grant, police have confirmed

Move comes amid increasing impatience at failure to achieve progress in power-sharing talks with government

From Havana to Beijing, via George Bush in Rwanda, how the announcement of Fidel Castro's resignation was greeted

Japanese company Fukui has unveiled twelve gym machines with finger-vein readers, which adjust the settings of the fitness equipment automatically for regular users. Costing around $17,000 each, the gear can be hooked up to a remote server to update gym bunnies' stats—calorie consumption and current exercise regime—with the info then displayed on a touchscreen. Go for the burn, fingers. [Pink Tentacle]

For all of you whose Wii sensor bar has broken (are you listening, J. Diaz?) CYBER Gadget's wireless version has the added benefit of a clock tacked on to it. It's also looks good—it's been so long since we had a Wii session that I can't remember what the original looked like, but the words "prehistoric" and "windscreen wiper" do spring to mind. This one costs $18 and runs on four AA batteries, but you can plug it into a USB port if you wan
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Billed as a way of acclimatizing kids with airport security checks, the Scan-It X-Ray machine detects the presence of metal in objects and is, let's face it, a scary addition to your child's toy box. Stick Barbie on the conveyor belt, pass her through the Scan-It and you will be able to see if her IUD is in place or not. It costs $29.95, but I'm going to hang on for the Crazy CIA Waterboarding Kit. Seriously. [OhGizmo]