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Trism is a new game for the iPhone and iPod touch by Steve Demeter. It looks to be one of the better game implementations of of both touch and tilt. Check out the video demo below.

There is also an interview with the developer over at GameSetWatch.

According to Eurogamer, the Playstation 3 DVR device (PlayTV) will record television in standard MPEG-2 format with no annoying DRM. The recorded videos will be allowed to be moved to other devices without restrictions.

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A group of PhD students from the Computing Science Department of the University of Glasgow, Scotland have created a method for creating tactile feedback for button clicks on the iPhone’s touchscreen. By default the only feedback for button clicks on the iPhone’s screen is visual, and being visual, the click feedback is often obscured by the user’s finger. What this group has created is an interaction between button clicks and the iPhone’s built-in rotational motor.

It has been shown that tactile feedback can be added to button presses using standard mobile phone vibrotactile actuators and can be beneficial to mobile device users, increasing typing speeds and reducing errors.

The iphone-haptics project can be downloaded from their Google code page. Installation requires a jailbroken 1.1.3 iPhone.

Apple is planning “an iPhone software roadmap” event at Apple’s Cupertino campus on Thursday, March 6th at 10:00 a.m. PST. Attendees should expect some new “enterprise” features for the iPhone.

This is an invitation only event.

(via ars)