May 2009 - Posts - Play Things

May 2009 - Posts

Gasp! News and pics leaks of a new PSP. To be shown at E3.

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
The Guardian , Ars Technica and Eurogamer are abuzz with news of the new PSP called the PSP GO. There are pictures galore and it appears that there was even a demo video on YouTube which was later taken down. This is, of course, great news for Sony fanboys. The PSP has been overdue an overhaul for a while now and this is could mean good things for both...

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Scandal?: Blogger discovers old designs remarkably similar to Zoozoos

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Ok I won't go all India TV all over this, but blogger Priyank Sharma has a post on his blog that goes like this: But yesterday, I came across an interesting link which changed my lookout on these Zoozoos completely. I stumbled upon a series of graphics on popular stock imagery website stockxpert by user Huebi (real name: Alexander Hübert from Wuppertal...

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Asking without really asking

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
I will let master statistician Stanley L. Warner begin this blog post. From the first few paragraphs of his landmark 1965 paper "Randomized Response: A Survey Technique for Eliminating Evasive Answer Bias": "For reasons of modesty ... or merely a reluctance to confide secrets to strangers, many individuals attempt to evade certain questions...

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CSI Dwarka: What WAS Rahul Gandhi reading?

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Merely moments ago my dear friend and colleague Samanth Subramaniam blogged about the reading habits of politicians , Indian and otherwise. His post is plenty fun to read. So please do. (You must understand that more web traffic to the livemint blogs leads to happier bosses, leads to pleasanter top-level meetings, leads to bonuses. I am just saying...

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The new Amazon Kindle is bigger and better. Pictured leaked.

Posted by Sidin Vadukut at 
Normal 0 Nobody really thought that Amazon would make people want to drool over a boring old e-book reader when the first Kindle was unveiled in November 2007. But like other quirky successes such as the Flip video recorder and the original series of Asus netbooks, the Kindle has been a success sales wise and geek-craving wise. Tomorrow’s unveiling...

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