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...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...
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...
...chance to get to know each other - virtually, that is. In addition to their audition, each winner posted an introductory video. Dressed in a kimono, Maki Takafuji, who lives in Kyoto, Japan, plays a brief marimba solo and talks about her music education. Jim Moffat, a horn player who works in technology marketing in the U.K., introduces himself with London Bridge in the background. Nina Perlove, a flutist from Cincinnati, Ohio, begins her video aspirationally, by playing the song "New York, New York." David France, a violinist who teaches at the Bermuda School of Music, greets viewers from a sandy...
...solitary win in the Ivies coming in its season opener against Penn. However, Harvard knows it will need maximum concentration to win Friday’s clash. The Princeton team has climbed as high as No. 73 nationally this season and boasts the abilities of the 2008 Ivy League Player of the Year, senior Peter Capkovic. “[Capkovic] and [Clayton] have had battles, between a couple of the top players in the region, getting to the semi-finals of the regional championships,” Fish said. “It’s going to be tough...
...deal with. There’s the distance from home, new foods, a new academic environment, and for some, fellow classmates who say, “O.M.G. I love your accent!”But for freshman tennis star and proud Aussie Holly Cao, the No. 4 singles player on the Crimson women’s tennis team, the biggest challenge came in the form of white fluff.“I mean I’ve never seen snow before I came [to Harvard],” Cao explained. “I’m from Sydney...