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With clever gizmos like that one, Zojirushi has fashioned itself as the Nintendo of kitchen gadgetry. Both companies have crushed much larger competitors in narrow markets where their engineering talent has yielded marketable product improvements. And both have remained lean - with about 5,000 employees between them and small, stable management teams. Both have leaned heavily on slick industrial design. And just as Nintendo has become hip again with its underdog approach to video-game design, Zojirushi has been brewing up its own cult following with its sleekly crafted gizmos...
...Undoubtedly, many people will question moot's worthiness of the title World's Most Influential Person. TIME.com managing editor Josh Tyrangiel says moot is no less deserving than previous title holders like Nintendo video-game designer Shigeru Miyamoto (2007) and Korean pop star Rain (2006). "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll," he says. "Doubting the results is kind of the point...
...thought of this recently when I got hold of Nintendo's new DSi ($169.99) handheld video-game player. My feeling of letdown was every bit as acute - perhaps because my anticipation had been unrealistically high. (See the top 10 video games...
...come to expect great things from Nintendo, which aims its handhelds at everyone, from young children to adults. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the release in Japan of Nintendo's Game Boy, which sold more than 118 million units worldwide, making it the best-selling gaming system in those days. By 2004, Game Boy had evolved into the DS (short for dual screen), a handheld hinged like a makeup compact, with two LCD displays and wi-fi so players could compete wirelessly. The top-selling handheld, it trounces Sony's PlayStation Portable. Rounding out Nintendo's clever lineup...
...Nintendo claims it improved on the DS's Internet browser, but the DSi didn't have enough memory to load my Gmail page. As a game player, the DSi is compatible with Nintendo's popular library of DS cartridges. A few DSi-specific games can be wirelessly downloaded from an online store, but they were mostly disappointing. For example, WarioWare: Snapped! has you move in response to onscreen cues, but the motion-detecting game required a very well-lit room and still behaved erratically. Nintendo will add more games over time, and motion detection could someday make...