Hey All, This is what is up. I’ve wanted to do a daily news show about the new in the world of games, tv, tech, and nerdy nerd stuff. So Nelson and I took some time on Sunday and made a rough  a “Special edition unedited” Pilot episode of it. Watch it on the right side of every page on this site.

Now, if you are reading this you A) need to watch it and then B) write what you want to see done with the show in the comments or shoot me an e-mail at justin@pixelatedgeek.com. This is important because I want to make a show that you the audience would really enjoy and if I don’t know what you want to see I can’t bring it to you. So all comments positive or negative will be thanked. So start clicking them keys!

Another week in Tech has flown by, but what have we got to show for it?

Look Ma', I'm flying!

Well, have you ever wished you could fly? Not in a plane I mean, fly like Superman? Yeah, I have too. Well I’m afraid that’s impossible, but you can have the next best thing, the Martin jetpack. The jetpack in question is destined to be the first commercially available later this year, and at $86000 it’s not even as much as a fully specced Lambo. This personal flying marvel is powered by a 2L V4 two-stroke engine spinning two carbon-kevlar composite rotors, running on bog standard petrol with a flight time of 30mins. It’s technically not a ‘jetpack’ because there’s no actual jets, but if that doesn’t beat the pants off your mate’s crappy sports car, I don’t know what will. (more…)

Doritos is the last company that would come to mind when making an iPad parody video.  But then again, we should have seen this coming since Doritos is known for their viral commercials.

Can’t blame Doritos for trying to be as technologically advanced as Apple by just creating a bigger version of their original product.

To promote their new ST550 digital camera, Samsung has released a video that teaches kids how to take those sexy, gangster, cool, or emo photos.  Even if your hideous looking, you too can use these same tricks that MySpacer’s have been using since they learned how to take pics of themselves.

I’ve always called my big camera lens a thermos. I guess its a standard joke among photographers.  During this year’s Winter Olympics, media personnel were given this cool piece of swag.  A Canon photo lens that is actually a thermal mug. Today, Vistek is letting us regular non Olympic media folk pre-order these cool mugs for $29.99.  They start shipping out on April 16th.

[via Vistek]

Street Fighter IV for iPhone went live last night at the GDC Capcom Fight Club in San Francisco and is in the App Store for all you budding pocket fighters. First impressions are, it’s a fantastic representation of Street Fighter IV on the iPhone, but playing it without buttons is a bit of a mission.

Check it out for yourselves [iTunes Link] for the not so little £5.99/$9.99.

“VIacom CEO and President Philippe Dauman has confirmed that Harmonix is working on Rock Band 3, for release Holiday 2010! WOOO!” are the words which John Drake (Action hero name) the Communications Manager of Harmonix has told the twitterverse about the newest Rock Band. Assuming that he is telling the truth this should rock and band. He has also confirmed that it will be “AWESOME”. Also, if there is a retweet about EA distributing, but I kinda figured that already.

Thank you twitter for making all our journalistic lives easy.

All of this is almost exciting as Lady Gaga’s DLC. But, not for me. I love Lady Gaga and will challenge all that oppose me.

Yesterday, in my hometown of San Diego (“it means Whales Vagina”), a 61 year old man was driving his Prius along the road. Then suddenly his car’s accelerator was stuck.

“I was on the brakes pretty healthy,” Sikes said. “It wasn’t stopping, it wasn’t doing anything to it, just kept speeding up, just kept going, and I called 911 right away, and they were trying to tell me what to do, but I couldn’t hold the phone and the steering wheel properly at the same time, so I just kept trying my methods, dropped the phone and it just kept going faster. I just stayed on the brakes as much as I could until finally they started smelling really bad and I had metal sounds coming in the car.”

I, myself, am an owner of a 2007 Prius.  When first hearing about these incidents, I googled for ways to stop th car if this should ever happen to me. So, here’s a PSA for all you Prius owners. HOLD DOWN THE POWER BUTTON FOR 3 SECONDS. It will shut off your car and put it into neutral.  From there, you can hold your brakes down and stop the car. Need an actual video example of this? Go past the break. (more…)

I’d like to preface this review with the admission that I have zero artistic talent and that the best I can do is something a 5 year old manages with crayons. With that out of the way, lets get down to business with the Wacom Bamboo Pen.

Wacom is known for it’s high quality, precision pen tablets like the Intous4 which come with an equally high price tag with the smallest of the bunch weighing in at €225. The Bamboo line of tablets is Wacom’s way of introducing those who don’t need a pen tablet for work, but would like a little more control over photoshop, hand writing recognition or just want something to digitally sign away their life on. The Bamboo range includes finger touch pads, pen and finger touch pads, as well as a range of pen only tablets in varying sizes and kick off at a retail price of €50. Certainly a more palatable proposition if you’re just starting out in your tablet using life. (more…)