Gadgets and Video Games

Zoo Publishing may already own the rights to Empire Interactive’s IP ( having bought the fallen company’s catalog last month), but it doesn’t own any of the company’s current physical stock. This means there’s a warehouse somewhere in Birmingham, England filled with the defunct company’s retail software (212,000 boxes, to be exact) just sitting idly, collecting dust. KPMG is looking to liquidate these former Empire assets, hoping to sell everything altogether for a 15% premium this week and finally let Empire fade into history

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Empire’s remaining stockpile to be sold off this week

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If there is one fault we’d have to say most chairs possess nowadays, it’s that they’re just too darn stationary. Well, they used to be , anyway, as some ingenious gentlemen have come up with a cool chair mod in what they have affectionately dubbed The Beancat , a labor of love that incorporates the Wii’s Nunchuk controller into a device that not only controls Mario on-screen, but also keeps you from having to get up when you want to grab a drink from the fridge. The chair itself moves a lot faster than we would have imagined, and looks like it isn’t the toughest thing in the world to build, though you should know it isn’t the cheapest mod in the world should you be on the lookout for some bean bag-infused thrills of your own

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The Beancat: Nunchuk brings mobility to a bean bag chair

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Microsoft announced Thursday that it plans to lower the retail prices for several flavors of Windows Vista.

For those in the U.S., Microsoft is cutting prices only on the higher-end versions of Vista, and only for the upgrade version used to move from XP or another copy of Vista. The suggested price for Vista Ultimate drops to $219 from $299, while Home Premium falls to $129, from $159. (continue reading…)

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