Is Laser-Powered HDTV the Highest Def Yet?

"This, my friend, is the Mitsubishi LaserVue-65 in. of blazing, high-definition fury," I said. "Is it a cheap LCD, like the one in your Man Cave? No, it is not. Is it a somewhat better plasma TV, like our neighbor has? Wrong again. The LaserVue is the first HDTV to be powered by lasers!"

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460,000-Brick Lego Tower Breaks World Record [PICS]

At 96.73 feet (29.485 meters) this Lego tower built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna has broken the world record for the tallest Lego construction in the world. It took nearly 460,000 bricks and it was built over four days. The views from the top are quite stunning.

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Barack Obama's $3 Million Overhead Projector

I'm already tired of hearing these guys talk, but that caught my ear. A $3 million dollar projector? What does that even look like? Gearlog did some digging and found out that appropriation was requested by the planetarium to replace an awesome (but obsolete) 40-year old Zeiss Mark VI star projector with a newer model. . .

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Is Laser-Powered HDTV the Highest Def Yet?

"This, my friend, is the Mitsubishi LaserVue-65 in. of blazing, high-definition fury," I said. "Is it a cheap LCD, like the one in your Man Cave? No, it is not. Is it a somewhat better plasma TV, like our neighbor has? Wrong again. The LaserVue is the first HDTV to be powered by lasers!"

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E-Voting Doesn’t Get Computer Scientist’s Vote

Just in time for Halloween and Election Night Fever, a professor at Rice is scaring the crap out of us … well, kind of. Dan Wallach, an associate professor and Director of Rice’s Computer Security Lab, is an e-voting expert who specializes in what-could-go-wrong scenarios.

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Chinese counterfeit chips causing military hardware crashes

Over the past year, US citizens have become increasingly aware of the substandard consumer-level goods flowing out of China, but new reports indicate that the counterfeit products and dubious quality controls are not confined to the consumer sector.

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Army Orders Pain Ray Trucks; Report: 'Potential for Death'

The Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the energy weapon may face new hurdles, before it's shipped off to the battlefield; a new report details how the supposedly non-lethal blaster could be turned into a flesh-frying killer.

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Humans will not evolve further, says geneticist

Human evolution is grinding to a halt, according to a leading genetics expert. The gloomy message from Professor Steve Jones is: this is as good as it gets.

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Super Cells to Power Cyborgs

Cyborgs are moving out of science-fiction and into the real world. With an increasing number of first world citizens suddenly turning up missing limbs, due to some mysterious and definitely non-oil-related reason, and advances in man-machine interface technology it's time to think about how we're going to power artificial additions to the body.

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Canadian Democrats are Pro BitTorrent and Against Throttling

Three days before the Canadian elections, the party leader of the New Democrats has spoken out in favor of BitTorrent sites, calling them “fundamental to democracy.” At the same time, isoHunt, the largest Canadian BitTorrent site advises its users not to vote for the Conservatives, considering their stance on copyright issues.

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Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA's in new MacBooks

Apple will announce as part of its special media event Tuesday a new family of MacBooks that will abandoned Intel's integrated graphics chipsets for those part of NVIDIA's new mobile platform, AppleInsider can confirm.

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Microsoft Sues DHL After Train Dumps 21,600 Xboxes

Microsoft is suing U.S.-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas, according to court documents.

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This week in Apple: New notebooks, new writers, and more Woz

This week's top Apple news revolved, unsurprisingly, around Apple's recently-announced Special Event. Also on top this week were leaked MacBook photos, iPhone security, comments from Woz about the iPod, and a new addition to our team.

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Shiny Mandriva Linux 2009 Walkthrough and First Impressions

The latest and as they say one of the most ground-breaking versions of Mandriva Linux has been released as scheduled. Mandriva Linux 2009 is jam-packed with exciting new features and innovations that will try to cater everyone’s desktop needs. I had fun with Mandriva 2008, so I was really looking forward to this latest release.

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AMD: We're well on our way to Shanghai, 45nm CPUs

After months of saying very little, AMD has finally cracked wall of secrecy surrounding its upcoming Shanghai processor and given us a peek at what's in store. Shanghai is looking pretty good, and hopefully it's good enough.

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Boeing’s Missile Defense Plan: Robots, Mirrors & Lasers!

Ballistic missile defense via airplanes mounted with lasers may seem straight out of science fiction, but add a fleet of UAVs with mirrors to increase the laser's range, and military insiders say the system might just work.

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Chinese counterfeit chips causing military hardware crashes

Over the past year, US citizens have become increasingly aware of the substandard consumer-level goods flowing out of China, but new reports indicate that the counterfeit products and dubious quality controls are not confined to the consumer sector.

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A Man Flew Over the English Channel With a Jet Pack

Seriously. His name is Yves Rossy and he’s a Swiss airline pilot by day and adventurer by night. The 22-mile flight took him only 10 minutes and he had hoped to reach 125 MPH. He started by jumping out of a small, French plane and quickly flipped on the jet pack.

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Solar flashlights providing free light to those in need.

These nifty flashlights charge in the sunlight and then work for 5+ hours of continuous light after dark. Just like the OLPC deal you buy one of these solar powered flashlights and one will be given away to someone in need. You can choose what group gets the free flashlight, it could go to a kid in Africa or even troops in Iraq, it's your choice.

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460,000-Brick Lego Tower Breaks World Record [PICS]

At 96.73 feet (29.485 meters) this Lego tower built in the Rathaus Platz in Vienna has broken the world record for the tallest Lego construction in the world. It took nearly 460,000 bricks and it was built over four days. The views from the top are quite stunning.

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Concept Sneakers Detect Wi-Fi Hotspots On The Go(w/Pictures)

"His Wi-Fi sneakers light up to indicate signal strength whenever you walk near a zone."

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5 cool hacks for your entertainment gadgets

Add external storage to your TiVo, beef up your Xbox 360, rip DVDs to your media player, play your iTunes purchases on any device, and use your standard cable remote to skip commercials

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Halloween Bubble Fogger Brings Fog-Filled Bubbles

Halloween fog machines? Been there, inhaled that. Bubble machines? Still pretty cool, soap in the eye or not. But what if humanity had created a machine that combined the venerable fog machine with bubbles? Interest piqued? Consider it done!

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The Electronic Newspaper From Science Fiction: Coming Soon

The electronic newspaper, a large portable screen that is constantly updated with the latest news, has been a prop in science fiction for ages. While the dream device remains on the drawing board, Plastic Logic will introduce publicly on Monday its version of an electronic newspaper reader: a lightweight plastic screen that mimics the look of paper

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10 Gadgets For Instant Portable Partying

You know, you don't have to wait for the weekend to have fun—you could be partying every day. Not only that, you wouldn't have to waste time planning and getting things set up. Using the following 10 gadgets, you could have a party on demand. That's right—anytime, anywhere. Now all you need is some friends.

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Intel Ready to Announce Six-Core Chip

Intel on September 15 is expected to roll out the Intel Xeon 7400 series Dunnington processor targeted at the server market, the final member of the "Penryn" family of processors, according to sources at server vendors. Penryn will be followed by the Nehalem microarchitecture, due to appear initially as the Core i7 processor in the 4th quarter.

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The fastest Drive storage in the world..

Engineers at in England and California have set a record in storage speed, outperforming the current rate by more than 250 percent. By combining Flash solid-state technology and IBM's storage virtualization technology, the researchers were able to transfer data at more than 1 million Input/Output (I/O) per second.

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Can Steve Jobs save the iPod?

One of the unintended consequences of the success of the iPhone is that it has rendered the classic iPod and its diminutive sisters — the nano and the shuffle — nearly irrelevant. What do you need a second MP3 player for if you’ve already got a few hundred tunes in your pocket?

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10 things we'd like to see in Chrome

So far we're pretty smitten with Google's Chrome

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Robot builders seek a little help from sci-fi

Studying what people know about robots from science fiction may help design real ones that are easier to get along with

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Dolphin Sub Swims Like Flipper Himself [VIDEO]

Man-made flying jellyfish and robotic pack mules are all well and good. But we all know what you really want: a personal sub, that looks (and swims!) like a dolphin!

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Sony Ericsson releases SDK for Xperia X1 Panel Interface

We know what you're thinking -- it's Windows Mobile 6.1 fool, we've got the developers kit already. True, but not the SDK that allows developers to create custom, interactive panels for the touchscreen QWERTY's Panel Interface.

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Five Antisocial Gadgets That Should be Banned

Now that technology is everywhere and ever evolving, people don’t know how to conduct themselves in public. The gizmos themselves are innocent, but the users are not. Here we list five gadgets that should be banned until people learn to use them.

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Iris recognition

Iris recognition is a method of biometric authentication that uses pattern recognition techniques based on high-resolution images of the irides of an individual's eyes. Iris recognition uses camera technology,

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DISINTEGRATOR Rubber Band Gun (2400 rounds per minute)

“Forget the rubber band Gatling gun. The DISINTEGRATOR is the most incredible rubber band gun ever built, capable of firing more than 40 rounds per second (2400 rounds per minute) from its 24 revolving barrels. This is the twin Vulcan cannon of the rubber band gun world!”

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Apple iphone "3G" tips

Unlike IEEE 802.11 (common names Wi-Fi or WLAN) networks, 3G(apple iphone) networks

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Tracking the Nokia phone news: Nokia Symbian Secret Codes

if u looking for the secret codes for Nokia device, find it here. u will found the important secret code for Nokia device.

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YourStreet

Find out whats going on in your community, this application will give you all the latest gossip, good and bad. You'll never be left out of things to talk about when as long as you have YourStreet.

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Nokia N96 available in Europe

One of the most waited phones from Nokia - smartphone Nokia N96, which was announced in February - has finally been put on sale on the European market. Such a long time between the announcements and the start of shipping - isn’t typical for Nokia.

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Third generation Zune pictures leak: 120GB and 16GB

The third generation of Microsoft's Zune portable media player product line has been talked about and speculated for quite a while now, but very little has managed to leak out of Redmond, until now.

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Mobileshop.com launches first FaceBook Application

Mobileshop.com launches their first FirstBook Application. Shout out to the world which mobile phones you love, hate, want, think are brilliant, or whatever, with MyMobilePhones.

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How Was the Telephone Invented?

One of the most important methods of communication these days is the telephone. It is so simple and easy to use the telephone. Just press a few buttons and we are connected to the other person. We really do not realize how much work has gone into inventing the telephone, which is now part and parcel of our life in the home, in factories, and in hos

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Samsung will release Hybrid digital camera System

This Hybrid system will use electronic viewfinders (EVF) as well as video type automatic process. It will has smaller lens than the recent camera and bigger sensor.

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When Was the Parachute Invented?

A parachute refers to any canopied fabric device that is strapped to a person or thing. It is generally umbrella shaped and used to slow down the descent from a high altitude. The parachute resists the movement of air past them, acting as a sort of brake. This results in a soft landing. The person feels no more shock than if he had jumped down from

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Xerox Launches New Range of Printers

Xerox has launched a whole new range of printers for commercial and office purposes and has named the entire series as Color-In-Office Series.

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Very Simple Audio Mastering Guide

"I know impressive musicians, talented pianists and guitarists that consider Digital Audio Workstations like monsters. They had mainly classical academical education and it is difficult to explain them how a compressor works. Now with my ebook they’ll finally understand the basics and won’t see anymore the DAWs like monsters! :)"

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PC Restarting Automatically Continiously - What to Do ?

Recently a friend at college had a problem with his laptop. It was restarting Automatically and Continiously... So I thought of writing this Solution after reading various similar Articles on various blogs.You can disable the automatic restart behavior. Follow the given steps:

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Sony DSC-T500 met HD video

De Sony DSC-T500 is de eerste digitale camera van Sony, die naast haarscherpe foto’s, ook HD video met stereogeluid maakt. Deze nieuwe Cyber-shot beschikt over 10,1 megapixels en is voorzien van Face Detection

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The Land of Bad Servers

People these days do say that there will be satellite downlinks all over India in the next 2 years, and India would be the next server farm, and that you will find one in every home. If BSNL doesnt improve its service, people will start hosting their servers on BSNL, and that would come down as another black mark for India.

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DFI LP DK X48 T2RSB Motherboard Review

First x48 t2rsb+ motherboard review from DFI,

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Coming Soon: PC-as-a-Service over Broadband

Indeed, the idea of a service provider offering a PC as a Service (PCaaS), essentially a PC in the cloud, may be coming to your broadband connection sooner than you might think.Here is how a virtual desktop would work: You’d have an access device at your location, called a thin client, which would connect your keyboard, video screen and mouse.

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Motorolla RAZR2 V9 Phone

Newest version of iconic clamshell phone with stainless steel frame and large 2-inch, glass-housed 262K color display.Operates on AT&T's 3G and EDGE networks for fast AT&T music/video downloads and streaming; quad-band connectivity for global roaming.2.2-inch internal LCD; 2.0 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom; handsfree.

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Dell Vastro 1510 laptops and 1710 notebooks

hi have you ever heard about dell vastro series laptops or have you experienced these vastro laptops if not then read more about it and know what dell offer to their customers.

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Thermalright HR-03 GTX - the monster GPU cooler

6 quality nickel plated heat pipes offers maximum amount of heat transfer from copper base to aluminium fins where a 92mm fan removes the thermal load quietly and effectively.

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SmartVM Announced new features for USB Extender and HDMI Ext

SmartVM now offers wide range of new USB extender products ideal for extending devices like USB cameras, printers, and scanners. This USB Extender over Cat5 breaks the 15 feet USB extension limitation. The USB 2.0 Extender Cat5 will allow you to extend from 1 to 4 USB peripheral devices up to 330 feet via Cat5 / Cat5e / Cat6 UTP cable. The USB sta

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Nvidia strikes back: 9500GT, 9800GT and 9800GTX+ released!

During the last few days, Nvidia released three new desktop video cards: The 9500 GT, the 9800 GT and the 9800 GTX+. The first one is to challenge ATI in the lower-end market, while the latters are facing ATI's R700 series. Specs, prices and my opinion on thoses cards are all in the article!

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Building 'The Matrix'

Using quantum physics, rather than using data kept in a classical computer, the new device demonstrates a technique that could enable physicists to create, in the virtual world, materials that don't yet exist in nature.

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AMD Fusion details leaked

It appears that AMD’s engineers in Dresden, Markham and Sunnyvale have been making lots of trips to little island of Formosa lately - the home of contract manufacturer TSMC, which will be producing Fusion CPUs. Our sources indicated that both companies are quite busy laying out the productions scenarios of AMD’s first CPU+GPU chip.

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Intel Plans to End the "MHZ Game" with a "many core" Game

To keep up with the demands of the increasingly digital world, the "multi-core" or "many core" approach is necessary because by 2015, running chips at faster and faster frequencies could have yielded products like laptop or desktop computers that create as much heat as a nuclear reactor, engineers said.

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Forget the '$100 Laptop' ... Try $12!

As the prices of educational laptops for children in developing countries creep upward, a group of researchers attempts to create a new, even lower-tech computer that would cost as little as $12.

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25 Awe Inspiring Custom Computer Case Mods

If you’ve thought of it, chances are there is a computer case mod inspired by it. This year, the modders have really outdone themselves with even more drool-worthy designs! Check out these crazy pics and more.

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Amazing advancements in Invisible Cloak Technology: See pic

Long the stuff of fantasy, practical invisibility shields have been brought a step closer to reality by researchers who say they have engineered materials that can hide an object by bending ordinary light like balloon animals at a circus. Includes a stunning picture in which the technology is put to use!

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Guy builds Massive folding farm with 51 nVidia Video Cards

A person over at the overclock.net forums and their folding@home team has put together an amazing folding farm, Consisting of 51 nVidia 8800 series GPU's and 13 MSI P6N Diamond motherboards which each have 4 PCI Express slots for 4 video cards per board, based on calculations this folding Juggernaut can put out about 265,200PPD.

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USB 3.0 ready!

In the has put the final piece for USB 3.0 hardware development in place.

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How GPS Helped Convict Murderer of Killing 4 Family Members

Eric Hanson's trial was among recent criminal cases around the country in which authorities used GPS navigation devices to help establish a defendant's whereabouts; Garmin GPS units, similar to this one can be used in court cases to pinpoint for jurors the places defendants have been.

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TED Prototype: Scope, a camera for kids

Inspired by James Nachtwey's TED Prize wish, designer Bas Groenendaal shares this prototype camera with TED. The Scope camera has a fresh look and a singular purpose, he says:to be used as a therapeutic instrument for underprivileged children, e.g. children living in (former) warzones.

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HTC Dream / Googlephone first pics!

We've gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory.

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MySpace's Tom Anderson Was A Real Life “WarGames” Hacker

In 1985, when he was fourteen and in high school in Escondido, California, Anderson was subject to one of the largest FBI raids in California history after hacking into a Chase Manhattan Bank computer system and subsequently showing his friends how to do it.

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The era of the American Internet is ending

Andrew M. Odlyzko, a professor at the University of Minnesota who tracks the growth of the global Internet, added, “We discovered the Internet, but we couldn’t keep it a secret.” While the United States carried 70 percent of the world’s Internet traffic a decade ago, he estimates that portion has fallen to about 25 percent.

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Random Acts of Kindness: A Social Site I’d Love to See

I don’t think anything like this exists yet, so if you’re looking for an idea for a website/service, I’ve got one for you:

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100 Best and Top Classic Website of 2008

An awesome list of some of the best and most noteworthy sites

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Google stretching underwater cable

google admitted that it was partnering with five Far Eastern outfits to stretch a cable from the US to Japan.

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Woman Called Yoda Blocked From Facebook

A woman claims she was blocked from joining Facebook because she has the same name as a famous Star Wars character.

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250 GB Challenge & 5 Tools To Monitor Your Bandwidth

With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those caps.

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250 GB Challenge & 5 Tools To Monitor Your Bandwidth

With Comcast announcing a 250 GB cap on its broadband service and Time Warner trialling a tiered service with limits that range from 5 GB to 40 GB, we’ve decided to challenge people to break those caps.

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NASA - The Eagle Prepares to Land (Image)

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Eagle, in a landing configuration was photographed in lunar orbit from the Command and Service Module Columbia. Inside the module were Commander Neil A. Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin. The long rod-like protrusions under the landing pods are lunar surface sensing probes. Upon contact with the lunar surface,

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New Milky Way map reveals a complicated outer galaxy

The halo of stars that envelops the Milky Way galaxy is like a river delta criss-crossed by stellar streams large and small, according to new data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-II). While the largest rivers of this delta have been mapped out over the last decade, analysis of the new SDSS-II map shows that smaller streams can be found thro

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Integral locates origin of high emission, from Crab Nebula

Thanks to data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory, scientists have been able to locate where particles in the vicinity of the rotating neutron-star in the Crab Nebula are accelerated to immense energies.

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24 Core, 48GB Linux Render Cluster built inside IKEA Cabinet

This amazing Linux Cluster consists of 6 Intel Core 2 Quad(2.4GHZ) Processors, 48GB of RAM spread across 6 GIGABYTE GA-G33M-DS2R Micro ATX motherboards and put inside an IKEA Helmer cabinet, WHY YOU ASK? 3D computer rendering is very CPU intensive and the best way so speed up slow render problems, are usually to distribute them on to more computers

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IBM Tests 4-Terabyte Solid-State Drive

First it was Intel. Now, Big Blue is keen on solid-state drives. IBM said Thursday it is testing a 4-terabyte, high-speed solid-state drive array targeted at the enterprise, as the technology giant gives its imprimatur to flash-memory-based storage.

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15 Astonishing Real-Life Applications of Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is already used in more ways than even science fiction authors could have dreamed up a decade ago. From helping paralyzed patients move and feel limbs again to creating real-life cloaking devices here are 15 amazing real-life applications of nanotechnology.

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First Android Phone Just Approved By FCC

The first handset to run Android (aka "the Google Phone") has been approved by the FCC. In the documents provided, it appears that we have now a release date for this highly anticipated phone: November 10th, 2008. So what will the HTC Dream offer? We take a look at some of the details and unknowns surrounding this device.

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Solar plane makes night flights

The Zephyr-6, as it is known, stayed aloft for more than three days, running through the night on batteries it had recharged in sunlight. The flight was a demonstration for the US military, which is looking for new types of technology to support its troops on the ground.

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Shapeways Allows Materializes Any 3D Object, Star Trek Style

Imagine being able to create any 3D object you want—a World of Warcraft avatar, a chess set, a lamp, a Lego piece you are missing, a house for a train model, or a fully articulated astromech droid—, print it remotely, and have it delivered to your house in just ten days, even without knowing any 3D software. This is exactly what Shapeways does.

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Official: First Google Android Phone Design Image

The first design image of the HTC Dream AKA T-Mobile G1 better known as the first Google Android OS powered phone is out via the AndroidGuys. The phone seems inspired by HTC's Sidekick in its QWERTY keyboard, buttons layout and slide out screen. It also seems to have a slim form factor, which should help it compete with Apple's iPhone or the new Bl

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The rise of the all-conquering Liliputer

The number of models of "Liliputer" - low-cost ultraportable PCs running Windows or Linux - has exploded to more than 100 in less than a year,

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1 GB 20 years ago "It Was Memory Box Not Memory Card" [PIC]

The storage device which was used to store data of 1 before 20 years. What will you say Memory card??? or Memory Box??? LOL...

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Half of world's population has a mobile phone

The number of mobile phone users world soared to over 3.3 billion by the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 percent, the International Telecommunications Union has said in a report.

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Your Xbox 360's Summer of Dreams

Did anyone know that so many good games were coming out this summer for the Xbox 360? Well there is, and they look pretty damn good. Soul Calibur IV, UT3, Mercenaries 2...all coming out this year. Finally a great summer for gaming.

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Touch Screen Turntables

The ATTIGO TT was created by Scott Hobbs, a student at Dundee University studying innovative product design. For his final year project he’s created a touch screen turntable that lets DJ’s loop, sample and scratch wave forms just as you would a record. The size of the touchtable is approximately the same as a standard turntable, making the physical interaction nearly the same. Where this takes off is in the flexibility and features included right at your fingertips, no longer locked up on a computer screen. The ATTIGO TT is currently a working prototype, and Scott is looking for manufacturers to partner with.

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Hydraulic Computer from the 1950s

Created in 1949 by the New Zealand economist Bill Phillips, The Moniac is an analog computer which used hydraulics to model the workings of an economy, with the flow of money illustrated by colored water. (Image is from Fortune Magazine 1952)

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A brief history of the x86 microprocessor

Here's a peek at the events and technologies that led to the development of Intel's x86 architecture, plus milestones in its 30-year reign.

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Top 10 Xbox 360 Games For Your Girlfriend

Perhaps Brodie Bruce put it best when he said “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for Sega”. Indeed, there is a social stigma that goes along with being a gamer that seems to be at its worst when dealing with the fairer sex. It’s clear that there are female gamers out there, but unfortunately the majority of them just don’t have a spot in their life for a 360. When dating, the videogame topic is one that’s often avoided until absolutely necessary. Girls often turn up their noses at the thought of playing a videogame, and refuse flat out to have any part of it. So with that in mind, I present to you...The Top Ten 360 Games for your Girlfriend10. Viva Pinata – A great game for serious gamers with a cute and cuddly disguise, this game may have been tailor made for the good old bait and switch tactic. Even the most reticent girlfriend will at least admit that a Bunnycomb is pretty adorable. The upcoming Trouble in Paradise makes this even more appealing, with a newly added cooperative mode.9. Dead or Alive 4 – Sure, the ladies of Dead or Alive are horribly stereotyped sex objects. That doesn’t mean your girlfriend won’t be thrilled when she kicks the crap out of your Bayman with her Ayane. Hotseat through the story mode once so she can get the feel of the game and then jump into some competition. With a pretty even spread of male and female characters to play, a Battle of the Sexes tournament can be a lot of fun.8. The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion – Taking on the role of a personally created character can be enough to get anyone hooked. Customization and the ability to make choices that affect the game are a big selling point, and a rich and immersive story adds to what may be seen as an unlikely choice for a way to introduce your girlfriend to the 360.7. Halo 3 – Or for that matter Army of Two, or Kane & Lynch. Sure they’re all shooters, but they have one important thing in common - cooperative play. Cooperative play is not only a great way to build upon a relationship, but it’s also a good way to keep a new player from getting discouraged.6. Dance Dance Revolution Universe – The old standby. Sure, it’s not the most hardcore game, but everyone gets their start somewhere. Many girl gamers bought their first console for the DDR series, and why not? It’s exercise, it’s dancing, and it’s great fun.5. Rock Band – A favorite game of non-gamers, Rock Band provides plenty of options. Even a girl unwilling to pick up a controller may be willing to grab the mic and belt out her favorite tunes. The ability to adjust the difficulty separately for each player means that it can be challenging for you without being frustrating for her. A karaoke experience in the house can be a compelling reason to turn on the Xbox, especially if there are a few friends singing too.4. Marvel Ultimate Alliance – With a wide array of characters to choose from, and a simple, easy to grasp game mechanic, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is a great way to kill two birds with one stone. Not only is it a wonderful introduction to what the Xbox 360 has to offer, it’s a fantastic way to start that comic addiction too. With a cast of very strong characters, both male and female, a light leveling system and a pretty interesting story, Ultimate Alliance is a fantastic introduction to gaming.3. The Simpsons Game – Funny and familiar, The Simpsons Game is a great way to transition into games. The drop-in drop-out coop in the game is a great way to invite her to play. Start up the game, show her some of the cinematics, and coax her into joining in for a bit. The gameplay isn’t the best, but the laughs are there, and that may be enough.2. Lego Star Wars / Indiana Jones – Familiarity plays an important role when introducing someone to games. While Gears of War may be too much to grasp all at once, the Star Wars and Indiana Jones stories are already well known. Combine that with Pixar like humor, virtually no death penalty, and places where the 2nd player is almost necessary, the Lego series are great ‘couple’ games.And number 1.....1. The Orange Box: Portal – A personal favorite and a great introduction to the First Person Shooter, Portal is the perfect game to introduce a girlfriend to. The overhead voice of GLaDOS provides the laughs and the puzzles ramp up at a slow but steady pace. Of course, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4 are simply applications of the same shooting mechanics as in Portal, so moving on to one of the hardcore Xbox FPS titles afterwards is simple. Get your lady friend started on this one and prepare to see fuzzy companion cubes start cropping up around the house in no time.

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