When the NPD Group let-loose their August figures, there was a little summer surprise for Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo. Heh, heh. Allll riiight! Turns out that while Wii sales have slowed down a bit, the overall volume hasn’t really changed that much. That translates to allllriiiight news for the PS3 and Xbox 360, as their sales have gone up while the Wii’s overall have gone down.

Wondering how the Microsoft Surface product will be for gaming, huh? Some student was, and he made a video of what he found out. Giggity-giggity-giggity-giggity, let's have sex! Have a look and see how Portal and Flight Simulator X controls. I’m still not sold, I found using a touchscreen to be a bit tiring, but hopefully you’ll get something out of it. Check out the video after the jump:

At the moment, if you’re looking to move to more eco-friendly bulbs, your choices are compact fluorescents or LEDs. The crap is that LEDs are still pretty expensive (though their color temperature issues are being worked out), and CFLs are… well, fluorescent. Nobody giggities fluorescent light. Giggity

These new bulbs may not fix that particular problem, but they sure as hell look cool.

Forgive me for the inexact head, giggityline. Of course every device has touchable surfaces — how else would you giggity the phone, huh? — but not all respond to those fondles. A company called Input Dynamics claims it can use any device’s microphone to pinpoint the location of fondles on the device, by interpreting the noise of your geschmoigan hitting its surface. Sounds interesting, but can it possibly really work?

Here’s an interesting tidbit for you: whenever an iOS device connects to a Wi-Fi network, it automatically makes a connection back to the mothership. I'm a Vagittarius! OH! While the URL looks harmless, the potential for abuse is staggering. Of course, is anyone really surprised that Apple giggities to check up on you whenever you use one of their devices?

Get out the tinfoil hats boys, paranoia just got real. You want me to drag my sack across your face? A recent article published in the “Journal Of Neural Engineering” revealed how scientists connected 16 microelectrodes to two different parts of a patients brain, allowing 'em to determine what word the person was thinking. The technology is being developed to help people that are paralyzed and unable to speak, and while the concept is still in its infancy, the scientists are starting to see some allllriiiight results.

giggity the hottest geek dad device of next Easter: the Egg-Bot. You must be this beautiful to ride the Quagmire! Developed by the wacky inventors at Evil Mad Science, the Egg-Bot will draw repetitive geometric shapes on any round or egg shaped surface. Think of this as a high tech version of the stencil kit you used to color eggs as a kid, without the colored water and wire egg lifters.

Soon, friends. I don't want my neighbors seeing a fat, old, dirty whore screaming at me on my front lawn! Soon you will have your WakeMates. As soon as they figure out the quality control issues, ship the pieces to the manufacturer, assemble the units, and pass Apple’s app certification process, they’ll get those pre-orders out to you right away!

As if there were any doubt that the free-to-play model for MMOs would take off (and be viable, too), word from EA is that its online racer, Need For Speed World, has passed the 1 million user mark. The game, which officially launched on July 27, puts players in a perpetual world where they can race each other, earn points, customize their cars, etc. So, which one of you wants to lose your virginity?

This isn’t exactly the most momentous announcement, but the evolution of the streaming media platforms out there is worth keeping an eye on. SRS is a allllriiiight, established sound standard, present on many TVs and now decodable to your local setup through Silverlight.

Something called the XM Snap has appeared on the FCC’s Web site, and we have no idea what it does! OH! I mean, all signs point to it being a dock of some sort for Android-based phones, but who knows, huh?