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I literally just said “Wow!” out loud looking at these screenshots of Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade. There’s a few more screenshots on Rare’s Web site, but only the ones here have before and after comparison shots: While I’m all of a sudden looking forward to playing the game again, it’s sorta depressing to think that this will never happen to GoldenEye

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You will be impressed by the latest Perfect Dark for Xbox Live Arcade screenshots

Video conferencing company Vidyo has announced its Microsoft Office Communicator (MOC) plug-in, which allows MOC client users to initiate Vidyo conferences with people on their contact lists. Users can start a Vidyo conference from a pull-down menu on a given contact, which automatically invites them to the user’s meeting room and a guest link for contacts not registered as a Vidyo users. Vidyo’s patented video conferencing technology promises to deliver low-latency multipoint conferencing that feels more naturally interactive, without the higher cost of a microcontroller unit.

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Vidyo’s Low-Latency Video Conferencing Service Supports Microsoft Office Communicator

If HTC’s trying to keep their device releases top-secret, they’re not doin’ a very good job. While individual leaks seem to be rare, they seem to be making a habit out of bundling up all their upcoming releases into one big presentation, which in turn leaks all over the internet. It happened right at the beginning of 2009 and, sure enough, it looks like the first half of 2010 has already been locked down and leaked out.

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Leaked: HTC’s handset releases for the first half of 2010

Fans of the Legend of Zelda games who happen to leave the house once in awhile don’t need to be told that today marks the newest installment of portable Zelda games, as The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks hits store shelves for the Nintendo DS and DSi for $34.99. Our favorite protagonist, Link, will have a traveling companion this time around. Princess Zelda, herself, will accompany Link “on an original quest to save Hyrule from ruin.” What’s not really talked about is that this is also a test of their relationship.

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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks available today on Nintendo DS/DSi

Whenever companies do something inexplicable, the nerd in me always comes back to that scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind when Richard Dreyfus keeps building models of a mountain, culminating in a huge, muddy mess in his kitchen. Throughout it all he keeps saying “This means something.” Well, the latest molehill into a mountain is the move by Time Inc

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“This means something:” Why the magazine industry is suddenly crowing about tablets

This particular issue is far from settled, since it is a fact that certain levels of radiation lead to transcription errors and such, but at the very least, studies like this one reinforce the idea that we’re not all of us going to drop dead in a couple years. The study, performed by the Danish Cancer Society and documented in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, studied brain cancer rates in Scandinavian countries over a period of 30 years. It is likely ongoing, but they have issued the results of the 30-year analysis, not having found “any clear change in the long-term time trends in the incidence of brain tumours.” The critical period in the mid-nineties when cellular use really spiked was the focal point for their study, and they found that while there has been a constant increase in glioma diagnosis since the 70s, and any deviations from the slow increase are explainable by other means than mobile use

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Huge Scandinavian study suggests no link between mobiles and brain cancer (so relax)

The folks over at Astro Gaming wanted to share some holiday cheer and are giving us one of their new Astro A40 BxR SE Audio Systems to hand out to one lucky CrunchGear enthusiast. The new BxR system comes with a headset, in either red, blue or military green (we’re giving the green one away), and a MixAmp. This headset comes with 5.1 Dolby Digital Sound, allowing you to hear everything around you in any game that supports it, and a noise-canceling microphone.

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Weekend Giveaway: Astro A40 BxR Special Edition Audio System

What you’re looking at is an installation by Gebhard Sengmüller called “A Parallel Image.” Technically, it’s art, but it’s more of an interesting deconstruction of technology than anything else. Instead of transmitting a video signal digitally via HDMI or VGA, this contraption does it in analog: 2500 photoconductors in an array, individually wired to 2500 bulbs on the other side. The result is that anything shone on one side appears on the other by a simple and entirely physical process.

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“A Parallel Image”: a novel way of transmitting a video signal

TeamViewer GmbH has just launched the latest version of their video conferencing solution called TeamViewer 5. This version now includes VoIP so users can converse with clients right through the software, and live video through webcam streams allowing collaborators to interact visually in realtime. The TeamViewer Manager session reporting and documentation tool is also revamped to allow users to synchronize their TeamViewer 5 partner lists (including contacts and remote machines) so client data can be stored and managed anywhere

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Video Conferencing with VoIP and Synchronized Databases

AT&T and Lenovo have announced AT&T Tech Support 360 , a new SMB-focused tech support plan for small and medium-sized businesses with select Lenovo PCs. The bundle gives businesses access to live, 24/7 technical support with a single purchase along with the PCs. The models in question include the Lenovo ThinkPad SL510 and T400 laptops, and the ThinkCentre A58 small form factor desktops–all of which are available with up to $200 in savings through February 2010 when compared to buying the PCs and plans individually

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Lenovo, AT&T Unveil PCs with SMB Tech Support Plan

‘Tis the season for building systems — well, ’tis always that season, but right now you’ve got a pretty nice spread of components to pick from, whether you’re into the AMD or Intel flavor of things. Of course, if you’re feeling really spendy, or just want to have a different top-end processor from the guy next to you at the LAN party, then sometimes you have to get creative.

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Core i7 not hot enough for you? Pick up your prototype Core i9 on eBay

I’m sure you’ve heard that song from that play called “ The Internet is for Porn .” Turns out, it is! Researchers from the University of Montreal were trying to determine to habits of men in their 20s vis-à-vis pornography , but they ran into a problem: they couldn’t find enough men who said they didn’t watch porn! Men are dogs, et cetera et cetera. So what were the results, seeing as though they couldn’t find anyone who didn’t watch porn?

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Yes, Virginia, the Internet is for porn

EA announced that the demo to their much anticipated game, Dante’s Inferno would be available before the Holidays for your gaming enjoyment. The “Gates of Hell” demo lets users play through the entire first level of the game, introducing us all to the horrors abound in the Nine Circles of Hell. The demo opens with the protagonist returning from the crusades only to find that the love of his life has been murdered, and her spirit stolen by Lucifer.

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Spend Christmas In Hell: Dante’s Inferno Demo Comes Just In Time For The Holidays

Yamaha Japan today announced the YSP-5100 [JP], a digital sound projector for your home theater. Sized at 1,200×90×212mm and weighing 11kg, Yamaha says the device is suitable for 50-inch TVs or video projectors. It supports 7.1 surround sound and is compatible with dts-HD, dts ES and Dolby TruHD/Digital Plus/Digital/ Digital EX/Pro Logic and Pro LogicⅡ/x.

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Yamaha Japan announces new digital sound projector for home theater systems

There’s a bit of a tizzy this week about Sprint allowing police officials to read up to 8 million “pings” on its network in order to track felons. Sprint made it considerably easier for police to do this by adding a special “portal,” probably a phone number-based dump of GPS data for phones over time, to the service they offer upon receiving a court order or a subpoena. I wonder, however, if this 8 million number isn’t far too high to be within the realm of sanity and/or if this number should make us concerned.

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Is Sprint letting the police follow us around?

Tokyo-based Kenko-Tokina , normally known for its camera accessories, has announced a cute Disney-themed digital camera [JP] for the Japanese market today. Spec-wise, this 8MP point-and-shoot camera isn’t anything special, but that’s what you’d expect from a camera whose case shows Mickey Mouse giving Minnie a bucket of hearts. You’ll get a 1/2.5 CMOS sensor, 4x digital zoom, 16MB of internal memory, an SDHC/SD memory card slot (up to 8GB), a USB 2.0 port and a 2.36-inch TFT screen

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Kenko-Tokina’s super-cute Mickey Mouse camera

A friend of mine just asked me a few minutes ago whether she should spring for an SSD in her new laptop. No way, I told her — SSDs are improving far too quickly for a consumer to invest hundreds of dollars in something guaranteed to be superseded almost instantly. And lo and behold, almost as I was texting her, I noticed this post over at Giz about the newest Microns breaking speed records that were probably set within the last couple months.

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New Micron SSDs fastest in the world – but for how long?

After watching Generation Kill , my anxiety for our troops went up quite a bit. War is an ugly business to begin with, but when you’re driving around a battlefield in an unarmored Humvee with electrical problems, it tends to look even uglier. Afghanistan is still an extremely hairy theater, and the vehicles they’ve had over there over the years ( years , people) just weren’t cutting it

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New off-road military vehicle for Afghanistan looks solid as hell

AT&T is just plan awful in parts of NYC, but yet Tyler, from the ABC show V , managed to get reception on his iPhone high above NYC in a gigantic spaceship. How is that possible when I know for a fact that the iPhone is basically useless in most parts of the city? Rubbish.  Maybe, just maybe, we’ll find out in a later episode that each V spaceship is actually part of an evil AT&T plan, but a side effect is that each ship actually improves cellular reception

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Apparently the writers of V have never used an iPhone in NYC

Acer, no stranger to netbooks with Google-backed operating systems , is hoping to have the first Chrome OS netbook on the market by the second half of next year, according to DigiTimes. The company has apparently been developing the machine since the middle of this year. Acer’s JT Wang “expressed his confidence that the company will be the first vendor to launch [a] Chrome-based netbook in the market during a recent interview with Digitimes.” The second half of 2010 is light years away as far as technology development is concerned but, hey, now you have something to talk about at your next dinner party

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Acer aims to be first to market with Google Chrome OS netbook