My God, I have been waiting years for this. A force feedback vest that lets you know where you have been shot. This could be so useful in first person shooters, you’ll always know where people are shooting from. Here is the websites description:

Video game characters live in a three-dimensional world, but gamers have only been able to experience two dimensions… until now. The 3rdSpace® Vest from TN Games takes gameplay beyond sight and sound, creating spatial awareness of the world your characters inhabit. Unlike traditional force feedback devices that rumble or buzz, the 3rdSpace Vest gives you precise impact where it happens, as it happens. Get pounded with body slams, crushed with G-forces, and blasted with bullet fire.

Buying the vest online includes FPS Gaming Vest, air compressor, USB cable, power supply and 3rd Space Incursion game disc. They come in two sizes and also come in two colours, camo and black. They are currently shipping for US$169 and is only available on pre-order. The current expected shipping date is November 2007. Read more

I’ve recently started using an RSS Reader to stay up to date with all the technology news. Now one thing that I noticed was that I needed to migrate all my live bookmarks to my reader, which could have been one of two ways, manually, or export to an OPML file and then import into your reader. Sounds easy enough, but believe it or not, OPML isn’t inbuilt into Firefox, BUT there is an extension. You can get it from Chris Finke’s website, just read the instructions and install, go to bookmark manager, and export to OPML, ready to be imported into your reader.

Saved me a lot of time. Hopefully it can help you too!

Sony has release a new PS3 for North America, at a discounted price. Their statement is as follows.

FOSTER CITY, Calif., October 18, 2007 – Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) today announced plans to introduce a new 40GB model of its PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system. Beginning November 2nd, to further enhance the HD entertainment experience, the new 40GB PS3 model will come bundled with the blockbuster movie Spider-Man™ 3 Blu-ray Disc™ (BD) from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and will be available in North America for a suggested retail price of $399 (USD/CND). The company also announced that effective immediately, the current 80GB PS3 model will be available in North America for $499 (USD/CND), $100 below the original launch price.

So they’ve release another PS3 with the current one at a discounted price, beginning to fall to affordable levels now. A full list of all the specifications of the new model can be seen on the Press Release from Sony’s website.

A few weeks ago I had a laptop, and all was fine. It had been for over a year now. Then I go to boot my machine and BAM, NTLDR is missing. There were no warning signs. There was nothing I could do. I was in tears. I had stuff on there that I needed, (which I could get off, but it was beside the point), however I needed to rebuild the machine from the ground up. Annoying. Well I jumped on my PC, and low and behold my saviour of so many times before, provided me with a cure:

ntldrismissing.com (if that is down try this).

They provided me with a disc image and steps to repair my windows, it was incredibly painless and highly recommend it.

The microsoft website also has it’s own solution. It also appears quite easy and painless, so that may be worth checking out too.

My favourite video by far.

Being an ex-maccas worker, I woulda loved having these guys come through. Quite a funny vid.

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The Australian and New Zealand governments have reported that China has been trying to infiltrate their classified records in order to gather military secrets.

The Howard government would neither confirm or deny that China has tried to steal the classified information. ” However, a senior government source told The Australian that there had been several attempts to steal confidential information.”

I personally have always felt that there are agendas behind most of the news today, so personally I don’t know what to think about the information given. A more informative article can be found on the ninemsn news site. It is interesting to see espionage in the media though.

Sony has released a world’s first OLED TV, called the XEL-1. OLED stands for organic light-emitting diode, and is the front runner in energy efficient, high quality TV. The OLED display also allows for an ultra thin screen, (3mm at it’s thinnest point), however still maintains a high quality screen quality. The screen “realizes advantages such as high contrast, high peak brightness, color reproduction, rapid response time, all of which combine to deliver unparalleled image quality.” Right now the TV is only 11 inches, however in the future they will be larger.

The features as stated on their press release: Read more