Have you ever wanted to access your PSN friends list on the go? See who’s online and see who’s got the most trophies whilst arguing in the pub? Well now you can with myPSN.

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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.

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Today, Sony live demoed how two people could play Little Big Planet with the new Playstation Move controller.  One person would be a Sack person while the other uses the Move as a mouse pointer.  In each level would be certain pink “hotspots” (hehe, yea, I giggled too) that the person with the Move can point to and interact with to help the Sack person continue through the level. Pretty cute idea in my opinion.

After hearing about the new Playstation Move controller, the one and only thought that went into my mind is what I have written in the headline of this post. But, I will say it once again. GIVE ME A FUCKING LIGHTSABER.  Nintendo tried to do it with Red Steel 2, but during my demo with it at last year’s E3, it still didn’t feel right.  So, come on Sony.  Make this boy happy and work with LucasArts to create a real Star Wars game with a 1:1 lightsaber battle. Let me block lasers. Let me “make.believe” that I have the force. Let me be a Jedi or Sith.

You guys already have a fighter type game where you can controller the height and angle of your weapon, do the same for a lightsaber.

Thanks.

During today’s GDC 2010 Press Conference, Sony has revealed the name of their motion controller. “Move.”  There has been many speculations about what the controller would look like and be named, but today is a day of official announcements. So, will this bring more casual wiggle waggle type games to the  Playstation 3? How will this new controller do in the already saturated Wiimote genre of games? I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

Playstation move comes out Fall 2010.

UPDATED: Official Trailer from Playstation Blog

Users turning on their original (fat) PS3s last night and today have been hit with a clock bug, reminiscent of the Y2K bug, that causes PSN connectivity issues, date resetting and most annoying of all, data loss. The official word on from Sony is: Don’t turn on your PS3 for the next 24 hours if you’ve got anything other than a PS3 slim. Dire words indeed from a company that should be basking in the glory of Hard Rain, a Playstation exclusive, conquering the all formats chart.

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[UPDATE] Seems like it’s fixed, either that or Sony just waited out the bug and it’s OK on the other side. It’s not apparent what they did to fix it and they’re not telling us either. Chock this one up to Y2K10 and hope it doesn’t happen again.

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In the history of gaming, there have always been accessories to help us game better. Some of them have been good, like arcade sticks for fighting games, rumble paks, and wireless controllers. Others, however, have been absolute garbage. These are my top 12 WORST Video Game Accessories.

12) Xbox 360 HDD

Sony had the right idea this generation, allowing users to upgrade their consoles with bigger 2.5” SATA HDDs. However, Microsoft opted to use its own proprietary format, which may not seem like a big deal. But when you can purchase a 320 GB HDD for a PS3 on Amazon for about $70, paying $100 for a 60 GB hard drive seems like a big rip off. Way to milk it, Microsoft.

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So, here’s the deal. A couple of days ago on twitter, @EA gave away 50 beta codes for the US beta on the PS3 of Battlefield: Bad Company 2. I jumped on it and got one for my friend, but he wasn’t interested in it. Most of my other friends don’t use PS3, so I’ll give it out here. Following EA’s method, first to comment on this post gets it. :)

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UPDATE: It’s gone, thanks for entering. Don’t forget to drop by and let us know how BC2 handles.

Another week in Tech has come and gone but what have we got to show for it? Well we’ve got the launch of the worlds first driverless taxis at London’s Heathrow Airport. We’ve talked about the tiny little automated pods that transport you from the business car park into Terminal 5 in only five minutes before, but now, if you happen to live in or around London, you too can go have a play in them. Pity they’re not in central London, maybe they would be a cheaper and safer alternative to the dodgy mini cabs on the way home from a night out.

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It’s that time again, time to review some of my cherry picked smaller stories of the week for those that might have missed them. This time round we’ve got an Adobe Flash update that doesn’t suck. OK, sucks a little less. Flash 10.1 beta was unleashed to the willing public with GPU video acceleration for certain Nvidia cards on Windows, but perhaps more importantly reduced CPU usage across all platforms. What does this mean? YouTube that doesn’t make your Mac or PC red-line that’s what. A step in the right direction Adobe, maybe Flash isn’t a lost cause after all. I’ve certainly seen some improvements on my netbook and Mac.

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