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CMK has announced a new figure in 1/35 scale, Bomb Disposal Technician. The figure is depicted wearing a typical explosive ordnance suit and includes a clear resin piece for the helmet visor.

Several Nintendo products were released today. Super Mario 3D World is out now on the Nintendo eShop for Wii U, while both The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and Mario Party: Island Tour have launched in the eShop for Nintendo 3DS. Also arriving today is The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds Nintendo 3DS XL console, which includes a download code for the full game. Which Nintendo items will you be getting today?

The wait is over and the world can once again bask in the cool blue glow of next-generation consoles, as both the Sony (s SNE) Playstation 4 and Microsoft’s (s MSFT) Xbox One were officially released. On this week’s podcast we talk about the Xbox One as a media device, especially in the wake of much cheaper (and admittedly less beefier) streaming devices like the Chromecast, which just got HBO GO. Then we shift gears to talk about a big solar farm Apple (s APPL) built and the heat Tesal (s TSLA) is taking after a few fires broke out in its Model S car.

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If you can imagine a world of connected sensors embedded in walls, roads and consumer goods you probably don’t want to imagine having to change the battery on them every six months or year. Even as we build out more connected products we’re still limited by battery life. But at companies such as Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, ARM and many more, researchers are doing their best to make chips that can generate their own energy and then build out systems that can store and use that precious power.

Without delving into physics, energy is all around us, and the challenge for chip firms is figuring out how to capture enough energy and then to store it for usage later. Sources like solar or kinetic energy aren’t always available. An additional challenge is figuring out how to build sensors that can take advantage of the lower amounts of energy harvested by…