Brad Nelson, aka my hero for the day, created this amazing homebrew HUD system that provides pretty much all the functionality you’d find in a first-person shooter video game, but for real-life games of capture the flag or paintball. Thanks to a GPS and XBee RF module, as well as a small LCD display, each ZephyrEye unit allows a player to not only see the boundaries of the game field including base stations and flag locations, but also the other players, the direction each one is headed and whether they’re friend or foe. It even

After Dell bought Alienware in 2006, three execs decided to quit so that they could create their own company, Origin, and make high end gaming PCs like Alienware. Their first endeavor is finally here and is dubbed Eon 18. It’s a stylish and highly customizable gaming laptop with an 18.4″ full HD widescreen display, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 208M GPUs, 7.1 high-def audio, and up to three 250GB SSDs.

It sure looks like Alienware, just without the alien logo. Right now it has a Core 2 Extreme Quad QX9300, but on Monday it will get a

Want yourself a laptop that looks like it was torn out of a Stealth Fighter? The recently announced Asus G73JH 17.3-inch G Series gaming laptop is now available in the US.

There’s only one configuration available right now. Some specs include the Intel Core i7 720QM quad core processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1GB graphics, 8GB of DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD burner, an 8-cell battery and Windows 7 Home Premium OS.

Price is $1,430.

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It’s no surprise that liquid cooling is growing in popularity, as your computer can realize greater potential while generally running much quieter than with traditional air cooling. We’ve seen a number of offerings from CoolIT, who have really shaken things up with their simple all-in-one CPU cooling systems. These have been great because not only are they simple to setup, but they tend to be compatible with most CPU platforms that are still in use today. Unfortunately if you want to apply the same great cooling solutions to your graphics card,

ASUS today rolled out the G73JH-X1 17.3-inch gaming laptop in the US market via Newegg. The laptop is powered by an Intel Core i7 720QM quad core processor with a 1GB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics, an 8GB of DDR3 memory, a 500GB hard drive, a DVD burner, an 8-cell battery and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium OS. The G73JH-X1 features a 17.3-inch (1920 x 1080) LED backlight display. Additional specs include built-in stereo speakers, a 2.0MP webcam, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, an Ethernet LAN port, HDMI and VGA outputs, four USB ports, and an 8-in-1 media card

Even after all this time Sony's hand-held wand bent on bringing some of that interactive Wii game play to the PS3 still doesn't have a name. Announced at E3, Sony as recently as January 20th was still calling its PS3 Motion Controller, well, "Motion Controller" in its official communications with a footnote that the name was still tentative. Of course, we've heard whispers that it'll be called Arc -- and we're not alone. THQ boss Brian Farrell has either been reading the same sites as us or (more likely) is privy to some inside information. During an investor

Tetris, which has been doing encore after encore, has now garnered a rare milestone. With 100 million paid mobile phone downloads, the video game is now relishing its rule at the top. It has been a dream run ever since Tetris arrived on to the gaming scene for home PCs.

Launched way back in 1989 on the Nintendo game Boy, Tetris then waded its way on to mobile phones in Japan after a gap of a decade and then on to mobile handsets in the US by 2001. All through these years, Tetris also managed to rope in dedicated gamers on to its platform and

This one's pretty cute (or evidence of a completely uncreative healthcare industry). Researchers at the University of Melbourne and Singapore General Hospital's Department of Physiotherapy have run a battery of tests on the Wii's Balance Board, and found it to be somewhat useful in testing patient's balance and equilibrium, medically speaking. Current medical equipment used to test these skills is very expensive, heavy, and in short supply. The Balance Board, on the other hand, runs about $99. The Wii accessory was tested on 30 patients, and found to be about

Ever had the urge to crank out some nasty riffs in the kitchen, record them, and then watch as millions of Xbox 360 owners rush to download your jam(s)? Don't lie. In a move that marks the next logical step of the Rock Band journey, Harmonix has confirmed that an open beta registration of the Rock Band Network will open up later today for Xbox 360 users, enabling amateur (or professional... or novice!) musicians to record, convert and upload tracks to a network where gamers can judge how awesome / not awesome any given song is. Reportedly, those seen as "good

With the popularity of the iPhone and iPod Touch growing so rapidly and their gaming capabilities becoming more and more obvious, it’s only natural that some of the greatest gaming franchises would eventually make their way to the devices.

Not everyone is willing to pay for games without trying them though, and if you’re of this type, you’re in luck – the iPhone Call of Duty and Rock Band get free to play demos, thanks to EA and Activision, their respective publishers.

The games themselves cost