As reported earlier, the powers that be are trying to strip President-Elect Obama of his beloved BlackBerry. Well, it isn’t gonna go out without a fight. In a recent interview with Barbara Walters, he revealed that he was working to find a solution to the whole surrender-your-cellphones at the door policy.

"One of the things that I’m going to have to work through is how to break through the isolation, the bubble that exists around the president," Obama said. "And I’m in the process of negotiating with the Secret Service, with lawyers, with White House staff … to figure out how can I get information from outside of the 10 or 12 people who surround my office in the White House. Because one of the worst things I think that can happen to a president is losing touch with the struggles that people are going through every day."

No word on how White House officials will take to his insurgence. Maybe he’ll just get a DS and call it a day.

The ad featuring Target’s Black Friday specials has leaked and there are certainly deals to be had. They are offering a 750GB USB 2.0 drive from WD for $88.88, AND AN 8GB iPod Nano with a $15 gift card for just $145. They are also offering a Nintendo DS with a copy of New Super Mario Bros. for Just $150.

There are other deals as well, get to your local Target on Friday to see what is up.

Us techies love to see our favorite gadgets broken apart to help us gleam some understanding. The latest gadget to become naked and humiliated is Nintendo’s forthcoming portable DSi, the followup to the popular DS. The DSi features a camera and MP3 player, and from the looks of it, one nifty motherboard. See below for more pictures.

Nintendo has narrowed the stateside release of it’s DSi handheld to summer of 2009, according to company president Satoru Iwata. Meanwhile, the unit sees release in Japan tomorrow. It will be priced at about ¥18,900 or $192. Nintendo has already shipped 200,000 of the slim, dual-cam handheld device with another 100,000 to follow next week.

The new Nintendo DS camera will help you with "facening." That crazy word refers to the game, Face Training, and it is supposed to help improve your appearance through a series of facial exercises. There do not seem to be any other uses for this camera though. Look for it on August 2nd, selling for $39 and in Japan only.