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Look at this little guy. It’s just a $20 camcorder that promises to shoot 640×480 video at 30 frames per second. Will you get awesome looking footage out of it? Probably not. Probably absolutely not. Maybe. Probably not, though.

But you could conceal it somewhere to catch nefarious activities taking place. It has a belt clip! Too bad the actual camera would be facing the wrong way. You could turn it around and take your chances with your stomach hitting the record/stop button as you walk around looking for crimes playing out at groin level.

There’s a built-in rechargeable battery good for two hours of recording time and a microSD(HC) slot that’s compatible with cards up to 32GB.

USB Mini Pocket DV [USB Geek]

Know what’s weird about being an adult? Or adult age, for that matter? You really don’t see too many casts any more. In grade school, it was like “Oh, hey, fifteen kids have broken arms and legs.” Now, it’s like, “I hope a broken arm will be enough to get you to admit you have a drinking problem.”

If these Casttoos were around during grade school, every single kid probably would have had one. The “Personal Xray” model shown here starts at $20 and is an actual image of your broken bone.

According to the Casttoo site:

“A picture is worth 1,000 words. Save your breath and explanations by showing the world what’s going on under that cast. Had a really bad break that you want to show off? Send us the digital file of your x-ray, and we’ll send you back your break in print, ready to be applied directly to your cast.”

There are about a skillion other designs to choose from as well: dinosaurs, cars, baseball, flames, holiday themes—you name it.

Casttoo Orthopedic Cast Tattoos [Casttoo via Boing Boing]

Funny thing, isn’t it? That you can watch some little blocks moving on an 8×8 LED matrix and recognize the first level of Super Mario Bros. buried in the squares?

Developed by a Carnegie Mellon student named Chloe for an Arduino class, the project is “a simple version of Super Mario Bros using an 8×8 LED matrix (one color), an Arduino Nano, two buttons for the input (forward and jump), and a piezo sensor hooked to a separate Arduino for the theme song.” Nice work, young lady. I give it an A++, the highest mark known to mankind.

[Vimeo via Make]

Funny thing, isn’t it? That you can watch some little blocks moving on an 8×8 LED matrix and recognize the first level of Super Mario Bros. buried in the squares?

Developed by a Carnegie Mellon student named Chloe for an Arduino class, the project is “a simple version of Super Mario Bros using an 8×8 LED matrix (one color), an Arduino Nano, two buttons for the input (forward and jump), and a piezo sensor hooked to a separate Arduino for the theme song.” Nice work, young lady. I give it an A++, the highest mark known to mankind.

[Vimeo via Make]

Mark Cuban and Bud Mayo have been pushing the current generation of 3D long before the current generation of 3D had even been pitched as the next big thing to consumers by TV manufacturers. Cuban and Mayo (sounds like a delicious sandwich) aren’t trying to get you to watch 3D television in your home, though. They actually want you to leave the house.

And you’ll be able to do just that if you live near one of the Cinedigm-fitted 3D theaters that’ll be showing the semi-finals and championship game for the NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament in early April.

What’s it like to watch a basketball game in 3D? Ask Mark Cuban. In an interview we did with him at CES in 2009 he said, “We did a live Mavs game this past March in 3D and I can just tell you, it’s crazy. It is crazy. It’s the LSD of 2009!”

Granted, he’s probably a teensy, weensy bit biased. And there’s no guarantee that it’ll also be the LSD of 2010 but if you’re into the tournament and 3D, you won’t want to miss it.

No word on which theaters will be participating (Cinedigm has locations all over the US) or how much tickets will cost, but you can sign up for more info on Cinedigm’s site.

LIVE 3D – FINAL FOUR TOURNAMENT [Cinedigm.com via CEPro.com]

Mark Cuban and Bud Mayo have been pushing the current generation of 3D long before the current generation of 3D had even been pitched as the next big thing to consumers by TV manufacturers. Cuban and Mayo (sounds like a delicious sandwich) aren’t trying to get you to watch 3D television in your home, though. They actually want you to leave the house.

And you’ll be able to do just that if you live near one of the Cinedigm-fitted 3D theaters that’ll be showing the semi-finals and championship game for the NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament in early April.

What’s it like to watch a basketball game in 3D? Ask Mark Cuban. In an interview we did with him at CES in 2009 he said, “We did a live Mavs game this past March in 3D and I can just tell you, it’s crazy. It is crazy. It’s the LSD of 2009!”

Granted, he’s probably a teensy, weensy bit biased. And there’s no guarantee that it’ll also be the LSD of 2010 but if you’re into the tournament and 3D, you won’t want to miss it.

No word on which theaters will be participating (Cinedigm has locations all over the US) or how much tickets will cost, but you can sign up for more info on Cinedigm’s site.

LIVE 3D – FINAL FOUR TOURNAMENT [Cinedigm.com via CEPro.com]

Oh boy, I love where EA Sports is going with this. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, due out in June, will feature something called “True View,” which allows you to hit your in-game golf shots from a real-life, top-down point of view. When coupled with the Wii MotionPlus accessory, “It works extremely well,” according to IGN.

Here’s more:

The game features a mode called “True View” that lets you swing through the eyes of your golfer. Activate this mode and point the Wii remote downwards, and the game camera will whisk to the perspective of your character. As you look down at your ball, you aim at the “zero point” on the ground to drive, chip or putt using the incredible accuracy of the Wii MotionPlus-enhanced Wii remote. You can see the subtle movements represented on screen as your club follows all the rocking and twisting you’re giving your “club.”

You can play the old fashioned way as well but if you’re a golfer in real life, it’s probably going to be hard to resist using the True View control scheme. I’m already thinking of ways to just lay my TV flat down on the floor. Might as well go all the way, right?

GDC10: Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf 11 Hands-on [IGN.com]

The Vizit photo frame is an interesting twist on conventional photo frames. Forget about setting it up over Wi-Fi or USB—this thing connects to AT&T’s network and pulls in photos sent via e-mail, MMS, browser upload, Photobucket, and Flickr.

I had a chance to play around with a beta version of the frame, so this isn’t so much a review as it is a quick look at what you might expect from the finished retail version that’s set to begin shipping out this month.

Setting up the frame is easy; you plug it in. That’s it. The frame is pretty thin and light and sort of looks like an old school LCD monitor. The 10.4-inch LED-backlit touchscreen has an 800×600 resolution and photos look crisp and bright. No complaints there.

Each frame has a special e-mail address, and photos sent to that address from approved e-mail addresses will show up in a matter of moments. You add approved contacts on Vizitme.com under your account section, which houses all your photos as well.

You associate an e-mail address and cell phone number with each of your contacts and from there on out, photos sent from that e-mail address or as MMS messages from that cell phone number will pop up on the frame. Retail versions will have an SD card slot and working USB port (my beta one didn’t) but the over-the-air features are the main selling point for this product.

The frame will also pull in photos from Photobucket and Flickr accounts. The company, Isabella Products, has a partnership with LIFE.com to pull in a new photo each day as well. It’d be nice to be able to pull in photos from other sites via RSS. Perhaps that’ll get added.

You’ll get a little pop-up notification on the frame when a new photo comes in, and you can reply to whomever sent it directly from the frame itself with one of a few pre-loaded messages: Thanks! Wish I was there! Miss you!—that kind of stuff. You can also share the photo with anyone you’ve added as acceptable senders. So get a photo from mom and forward it on to your sister right from the frame. You can mark certain photos as favorites, rotate them, and delete them directly from the frame as well.

The resistive touchscreen takes a fair amount of direct pressure (the company recommended I use my fingernail to get the best response) in order to select photos and menus, but the overall UI was clean and relatively snappy for a beta product.

Here’s a quick video demo:

And now for the elephant in the room. The frame’s retail price “is $279.99 plus a required basic or premium photo plan.” That’s a spicy meatball for a connected photo frame, especially the “required basic or premium photo plan” part of the equation. On the other hand, well-heeled gift givers will find this frame to be just about the perfect present to give grandma so she can watch all the photos from her kids and grandkids come pouring in automatically. And being able to directly reply to and forward photos is a nice, unique touch as well.

Vizit Photo Frame [Vizitme.com]

My oh my, what have we here? The “NEO SNES/SFC MYTH FLASH CART” is basically a cartridge that you pop into your Super Nintendo (you do still have your Super Nintendo, don’t you?) that’s got 256MB of onboard memory upon which you can load up ROMs. So take a tally of your legally-owned SNES cartridges, download them all in ROM form, and put all the originals in an airtight container for safekeeping.

You’ll then be able to play those games as nature intended—with an actual SNES controller on an actual TV, just like the good old days. It’d be nice if the wizards behind this project would have thrown in support for original NES games but, hey, I don’t want any trouble.

So that’s it. Go ahead and order it without looking at the price tag.

You want to know the price, don’t you? It’s $169. That’s not a typo, either.

NEO SNES/SFC Myth Flash cart + 256M [IC2005 Smart Shop via Wired]

My oh my, what have we here? The “NEO SNES/SFC MYTH FLASH CART” is basically a cartridge that you pop into your Super Nintendo (you do still have your Super Nintendo, don’t you?) that’s got 256MB of onboard memory upon which you can load up ROMs. So take a tally of your legally-owned SNES cartridges, download them all in ROM form, and put all the originals in an airtight container for safekeeping.

You’ll then be able to play those games as nature intended—with an actual SNES controller on an actual TV, just like the good old days. It’d be nice if the wizards behind this project would have thrown in support for original NES games but, hey, I don’t want any trouble.

So that’s it. Go ahead and order it without looking at the price tag.

You want to know the price, don’t you? It’s $169. That’s not a typo, either.

NEO SNES/SFC Myth Flash cart + 256M [IC2005 Smart Shop via Wired]