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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Entertainment Software Association said on Monday it will pare down and refocus its Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3Expo) trade show at the urging of game publishers who are moving to new video game consoles.

As the old saying goes, when you smell smoke there’s probably a fire. In a Singaporian man’s case, he smelled smoke, heard popping noises, and knew it was fire when he saw flames bursting coming out of his Dell laptop. He quickly plopped his machine into a sink put out the blaze. Are these…

What happens when a Microsoft employee demos the speech recognition in Windows Vista before it’s ready? Check it out for yourselves. It’s not a pretty sight. Our buddies at Jalopnik pointed us to the flakey Windows Vista voice recognition demo shown at a recent event. We tried to record it off of CNBC but…

Yes, that’s August’s issue of Wired Magazine, where Stephen Colbert is on the cover, MURDERING an iPod video with a hack saw. If you can get past the painful imagery up front, and open the book, you’ll find tips and tricks for getting more mileage out of your gadgetry. Bits like how to watch…

The chaps at the British Egg Information Service (what the?) got tired of telling people how to properly cook an egg that they made a new self-timing egg that tells informs the “chef” when it’s done. The egg has heat-sensitive ink that displays only when the correct temperature is reached, meaning when your egg…

James Glickenhaus, Hollywood Somebody, is so rich, he didn’t just buy one of the first Ferrari Enzos. He had Ferrari build a whole new car for him based off of it. His main reason for tweaking the million dollar car was that he thought it was fugly compared to the Italian classics in his…

Is the HTC phone with the codename Excalibur this phone? Smartphone thoughts thinks it is, and says it’s only a few millimeters thicker than the Samsung i320 and 2 millimeters shorter. The keyboard on the front makes this a Motorola Q/Samsung i320 contender, and the Quad-band and WiFi connectivity makes GSM users (Cingular, T-Mobile)…

Gizmodo Japan is live, with Moko Imada helming our far East sister site with the help of a small staff, and hundreds of Gundam reporters. Sure, it’s in Japanese, so it’s a little hard to read for us foreign dogs. But a little bit of Google Translate magic, and you’ve got an easy way…

The Segway Centaur is the newer, younger brother of the Segway that just about nobody—unless you’re Steve Wozniak or a Chicago beat cop—is riding. This four-wheeled Segway looks more stable than the previous one, even when it’s up on its hind wheels. The Centaur features a seat, handlebars, and the same type of engineering…

When the old dogs at PC Magazine call something “perfect”, it actually means something. They’ve been reviewing PCs since the Eisenhower administration, so for a HTPC to get a 4.5 out of 5 on their scale it has to be good. The WinBook Jiv Mini will run you £650, but comes loaded with a…