It is with great pleasure I introduce our newest member to the team, Shiny. Shiny will be posting all things gadgets including news, reviews and previews for Gaming Generation.

Shiny’s own blog Coffee Geek is a hit with developers and gadget fans across New Zealand and has high praisers from Wellington Blog Reviewers.

Shiny is the creator/director for Super Happy Dev House within New Zealand. Shiny also helps to organise Linuxchix New Zealand and helps maintain the Linuxchix International website. As well she has been a major organiser in bringing Girl Geek Dinners to Wellington, New Zealand.

If that’s not enough she’s a coder/hacker of many formats. We’re enthusiastic to welcome Shiny to our Gaming Generation team!

We have imported previous posts of Shiny’s from gadgets.geek.nz which you can find here.

I’ve been through alotta universal remotes, and this is the first one that i actually really really like.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/remotes/universal_remotes/devices/376

The clever thing about this remote, it remembers what state everything is in - so i can switch from xbox mode to the apple airportexpress through to the hard drive recorder to … a gazillion other combo for all the different modes the home theatre needs to be in. It knows what state it left the tv, amp, wii and everything else in, so i knows all the signals to beam to get to the new mode.

continue reading "Logitech Harmony 525"

I have a new laptop, and it’s finally small enough to be called a gadget.

This is the ASUS EeePc. Today you can buy the Linux version for $500, and the Windows version for $600 at DSE.

Continue on ‘More’ for the rest of the review.

When I bought mine 3 months ago they had sold out almost everywhere, so I got the last black eeePc in Wellington, the display model at Vivian street DSE. I had to walk through a crowd of fat men in sparkly pyjamas and cowboys hats to get it (there was a fire alarm at a brothel in vivian street.). It was worth it.

It’s an ultra-portable laptop, with 7 inch screen. It’s completely solid state, looks like it could be dropped a few times, and so light/small I take it nearly everwhere. It fits in some really tiny bags, so i don’t need my “please mug me I have a laptop” bags.

These gizmos are rather wonderful, especially the price tag, and passing the $100 savings from not buying windows directly onto the buyer.

continue reading "eeePc, the laptop that’s actually a gadget"

So just to give you a little background, the team at GG have been trying to hit 50 users before the 1st of December. We have done that tonight and would like to thank Griever who is our 50th user.

To celebrate this we have a prize for Griever. Congratulations you have won a Xbox 360 Lanyard & the full boxset of the Anime “King of Bandit Jing”.

Read more about it on our forums !

Break out the bubbly, balloons & streamers. Let off the fireworks & let your hair down.

Gaming Generation Lives !!

Covering all your favourite gaming mediums, we bring you the news, gossip and information relevant to you and your games of choice.
We provide a community, downloads, game servers and some free services soon to be revealed (keep watching for the reveal !).

This site has been a long time in works & there are some people that need thanks. Big shout outs to Akia, Loose_Unit, Zypher & Loose Networks. Oh and i’ll take a pat on the back too Without this group of individuals we would not be here today. Thanks guys !

Well now that is out the way, let the games begin !!