These mini mushroom chairs are not only cute (as cute as a chair can be) they also encourage a better seating position than slobbing out on the floor. Available in Japan from Strapya World, found via Unique Daily.

Everybody knows that piracy is bad, but until the world is educated that piracy is a form of stealing, this disease will continue. There are always two sides to a coin, and with the issue of piracy, it is no different. Dissatisfied gamers feel that game companies are ripping them off with poor game releases that often feel like a rushed job, and paying a premium for such titles add insult to the injury. Some other people take the piracy route to justify their “try before I buy” policy, but sadly, they more often than not complete the game while “trying” and end up not buying. Whatever the case is, piracy has now reached the shores of the Nintendo Wii with the Wiinja.

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Our sister site Game Addicts has a couple of hardware reviews up, and we will look at them briefly. As everyone knows, the Nintendo DS Lite is one sexy piece of hardware when compared to the DS Phat, but the smooth, shiny surface scratches all too easily and is a prime target for oily fingerprints and other unwanted marks. This is where the Hori Protective Case for the Nintendo DS Lite comes in handy – for just $15, you get to protect your $129 investment, leaving the case to absorb all the nasty scratches, knocks, and prints while maintaining the DS Lite’s original, pristine condition.

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How many of you have actually played Gears of War on a 20″ LCD TV, sipping on a nice, cold beer (the vital drink that sustains all of us at Coolest Gadgets), listening to our favorite tunes on the iPod? I’m sure that many would have answered in the affirmative, but when you realize that one can do all that in the loo, your jaws are guaranteed to drop, just as mine did when I laid eyes on the Pimped Out John from Roto-Rooter.

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You might remember hearing about a wave of wounded people when the Nintendo Wii first came out last November. A combination of physically unfit Wii owners and a weak Wiimote strap was causing people to accidentally do things like punch their dogs or dislocate knees. Well apparently everyone’s wounds have healed and they’re starting to experiment with their new gaming systems.

One ambitious Wii owner even decided to make his own steering wheel and upload a picture of it to GoNintendo.com. The official Wii steering wheel is included with most racing games like GT Pro Series and Monster 4X4: World Circuit; but why pay extra for a game bundled with a wheel when you can just make your own?

While this particular DIY wheel leaves a lot to be desired (especially when it comes to style points), I’ll give this lumpy homemade masterpiece an A+ for effort.

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Very few people, if any, will actually buy one of the Megatouch Gametime machines. Why? Because pretty much everything it has to offer can be achieved with a cheap PC for about 1/5 the price. Still, that doesn’t take away from it’s coolness, which only exists if you have a bar in your house. Everyone has one though, so that shouldn’t be a problem. Anywhere else, it would look more like a TV.
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Virtual Reality has had a chequred history over the years. It’s a technology that has always amazed anybody who’s tried it but the component cost has always kept it out of the hands of most people.

Trimersion are trying to change that with the release of their wireless VR headet. Yes, I did say wireless! The problem with using a headset for first person shooters is that when you’re standing up, blowing away aliens on a virtual spaceship, you can get very disoriented and end up tripping over the cable. Plus the weight of it tugging on you is a constant reminder that you’re still in the real world.

Trimersion have solved this problem by sending the video to the headet via a wireless transmitter. And because we all like to shoot things every once in a while they made a controller shaped like a gun and attached it to the headset. End result? In theory, a scarily effective sense of immersion.

I say in theory because the CES show gremlins are out in force so although I can see the accuracy of the head tracker (by watching it manipulate the game on the TV) and try the headset on for ergonomics, I can’t actually see a picture inside it

Trimersion assure me that this is a show related problem and that they’ve never had any issues running inside people’s houses – time will tell whether that’s going to be a problem or not as the wireless spectrum gets increasingly crowded.

Ergonomically the headset is a good fit even with my glasses on – close fitting but comfortable – and the stereo headphones do a good job of isolating you from reality. The controller is styled like a sawn off shotgun so you can imagine how well it works (or would work if I could try it) on first person shooters. The controller has various buttons and d-pads to replicate the standard controls of your average console controller so plug the unit in and you’re good to go.

The Trimersion comes with connecting cables to plug into Xbox, PS2 and USB for the PC and it’ll be available in it’s wireless form later this year for $395.

So your neighbor thinks he’s cool and all after snagging a spanking new 60GB PlayStation 3, but hardcore gamers know that when it comes to a full-fledged gaming system, nothing comes quite close to the PC, not even Gears of War on the Xbox 360. With that in mind, why not spite the Joneses by picking up the SDXi gaming rig from Shuttle’s XPC 1337 range? You can be sure that you will have the fastest machine around the neighborhood, giving you an edge over your opponents who constantly roam the virtual worlds of World of Warcraft, Counter Strike, Battlefield, and countless others.

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