Playstation 3 will be hitting store shelves in the United States on Nov. 17, just in time for the busy holiday shopping season.

The machine will be sold with a built-in hard drive and consumers will be able to choose between a 20-gigabyte version for $499 and a 60-gigabyte version that will cost $599.

At a press conference at Sony Picture Studios, the game and electronics giant showed off their biggest surprise: a controller that will likely compete with Nintendo’s Wii.

The new Playstation 3 controller looks virtually identical to the Playstation 2 controller, but gamers can move the controller itself to interact with games… [continue reading @ ABC News]

Yay…I finally got it. I thought I’d never get an invite but I did.
Well here are few screen shots

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Electrical engineer John Parkinson developed the concept for this keyboard in time for last year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but had no prototype to display. At this year’s show, in Las Vegas, he’ll have keyboards on hand that reflect his design, which he says is more efficient than the QWERTY layout.