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Microsoft’s Xbox division and Sony aren’t chatting about incorporating Blu-ray into the Microsoft console, despite a Sony executive stating that the two companies are discussing the HD technology.

Sony US’ President, Stan Glasgow, confirmed last week that talks between the two companies had taken place, though he didn’t say that the negotiations centred on the Xbox 360.

Yesterday, Microsoft’s group product manager for Xbox 360, Aaron Greenberg, went on record to say that the two were not discussing bringing Blu-ray to the Xbox 360.

If Microsoft aren’t planning to put Blu-ray into the 360 then where are they intending to go? Games are getting bigger and bigger and DVDs just don’t cut it any more.

If they aren’t going to Blu-ray, maybe Microsoft are thinking about putting all their games online, but noone would have have a hard drive big enough to store more than a handful of games…

Who knows, I’ll keep looking.

Sony usually plugs digicams with titanium shells, exorbitantly high numbers of megapixels and extended battery lives, but that’s not the case with its latest handset. The Japanese electronics giant has designed a prototype camera that doesn’t need batteries and doesn’t even have a display.

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It looks more like a pizza cutter than a cutting-edge snapper: a rubber ringed circle, which sits on the end of a Wii Remote-like handle, just needs to be rolled along a flat surface before sufficient power’s generated to take pictures. Sony claims 15 seconds’ rolling produces enough power to snap one shot.

This process seems simple in practice, because there’s no ISO sensitivity to set, no image mode to choose and no confusing array of buttons. Users simply look through a viewfinder in the centre of the device, line up the shot and then press a button on the stick to grab the image. A lens is hidden within the handle.

This is certainly a camera for people who don’t want to mess around with settings just to get a snap! Look through the hole press a button and get a photo. I am sure I used to have a camera like this when I was a little kid, the only difference was it exposed onto film rather than a CCD…

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