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- Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed Hits Stores
- Mouse Pad has a Cat Head Tent and USB Heater
- Touchwood Stickers are Perfect for the Superstitious
- WiFi Samsung Galaxy Tab Priced at £299
- SRS iWOW 3D Audio Enhancer For iPad, iPhone
- Hercules Launches New eCAFE Netbooks
- Skype Launches ‘Skype in the Classroom’ Teachers Network
- FTC Charges Google With Deceptive Privacy Practices For Google Buzz
- From Brazil, Banana Fiber For The Car Industry
- Coffee Joulies Are A Golden Delight For Coffee Drinkers
- Battlefield 3 : Fault Line Episode 3 : Get that Wire Cut
- Star Wars Blu-ray Editions Arriving On September 16th 2011
- Silent Mouse By Nexus
- Researchers Develop New Flex Touchscreen Interface (Video)
- MSI Launches New X370 Notebook
- Camera+ iPhone App Updated With Clarity Feature
- Tesla Sues Top Gear And The BBC
- Gigabyte Release 32Bit Utility To Unlock 3TB And Higher Drives
- The Real Price Of A Nintendo 3DS Unveiled By iSuppli
- Awesome Four Player Pong Coffee Table (Video)
- UK Retailer Buys Nintendo 3DS Consoles From Competitor To Sell To Customers
- iPad 2 Radio Teardown Compares WiFi, GSM, And CDMA Versions
- Nintendo Claims 3DS Has Best First Day Handheld Console Sales
- HTC Merge To Feature Pre-loaded Amazon Android App Store
- Crackle Now Streaming Free Movies To PS3, Roku And Sony Devices
- Kyocera Echo Now Available To Pre-order
- iPad 2 Gets 1080p Movie Streaming With Clever Accessory (Video)
- Microsoft Working On NFC Mobile Payment System
- Google Street Trike Adds Historic Landmarks In Italy and France To Google Maps
- Keyglove An Arduino/AVR-Powered Glove Replaces The Keyboard
- Verizon 4G LTE Modem Arriving Tomorrow
- HTC Thunderbolt Overclocked To 1.8GHz
- In App Payments Now Live On Android
- Microsoft To Test Out “Updated Xbox 360 Disc Format”
- Nintendo Not Building Wii 2 Around 3D
| Need for Speed Shift 2 Unleashed Hits Stores Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:52 AM PDT You might recall back in February we got word that NFS Shift 2 Unleashed has been postponed for a week. It turned into more than a week with the official launch in the US coming yesterday. The game is now on store shelves for gamers to purchase.
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| Mouse Pad has a Cat Head Tent and USB Heater Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:37 AM PDT I have seen a lot of strange things come out of Japan and hit the gadget market. A lot of the weird stuff has to do with cats. I blame that on Hello Kitty mostly. A new gadget has surfaced for the computer user that gets a cold mousing hand. It looks like a cats head too.
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| Touchwood Stickers are Perfect for the Superstitious Posted: 30 Mar 2011 10:29 AM PDT Touchwood sounds a lot like the name of an episode of Beavis & Butthead. This is actually a set of stickers for the superstitious among you. If you are the sort that says, “Knock on wood” a lot and really means it you need an $8 set of these.
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| WiFi Samsung Galaxy Tab Priced at £299 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:27 AM PDT Samsung recently announced range of new tablets in the Galaxy Tab range, we saw the new Galaxy Tab 10.1 and the Galaxy Tab 8.9, we were expecting Samsung to launch a WiFi only version of the original Galaxy Tab at the end of last year, and it has now turned up on Amazon and is available to pre-order for £299. The WiFi Galaxy Tab comes with a 7 inch touchscreen display, with Android 2.2 Froyo, there is also a three megapixel camera on the back and a front facing VGA camera for video chat.
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| SRS iWOW 3D Audio Enhancer For iPad, iPhone Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:16 AM PDT If you need to enhance the audio from your iOS device the SRS iWOW 3D Audio Enhancer For iPad, iPhone might be worth a look. Its been created by SRS Labs and the adapter that slots into the iOS devices 30-pin port work in conjunction with a free application iWow iOS app to take the audio from Apple’s devices to the next level. SRS has designed the iWOW 3D to retrieves and restores audio cues that are buried deep within the original source material. The free app allow you to customise the audio settings and select speaker settings such as headphones, car or external speakers.
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| Hercules Launches New eCAFE Netbooks Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:02 AM PDT Hercules has launched a new range of eCAFE netbooks, the eCAFE Slim HD and the eCAFE EX HD, both models are designed to be ultra portable, and the EX HD is designed to provide up to 13 hours of usage. Both models comes with a Cortex A8 processor, and Linux as the OS, you get 512MB of RAM a standard and 8GB of storage in the eCAFE Slim HD or 16GB of storage in the eCAFE EX HD, plus 50GB of online storage.
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| Skype Launches ‘Skype in the Classroom’ Teachers Network Posted: 30 Mar 2011 08:01 AM PDT Skype has today unveiled a new networking service dedicated to teachers worldwide called ‘Skype in the Classroom’. The new networking service has been created to help teachers everywhere use Skype to help their students learn. It's a place for teachers to connect with each other, find partner classes and share inspiration. Skype in the classroom is a free global community that was created in response to the growing number of teachers using Skype in their classrooms. To get started all you need do is create a Teacher profile including your interests, specialities and location.
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| FTC Charges Google With Deceptive Privacy Practices For Google Buzz Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:48 AM PDT Google came under quite a bit of criticism for the way they launched their Google Buzz service, and we heard previously that they had settled a lawsuit. Now the FTC has ruled that Google used deceptive privacy practices when Google Buzz was launched. Google and the FTC have come to an agreement and Google has agreed to implement a comprehensive privacy program, and also agreed to regular privacy audits for the next 20 years.
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| From Brazil, Banana Fiber For The Car Industry Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:20 AM PDT Alcides Leao from Sao Paolo State Uni might have the future of the car business in the pal of his hand. That is, if he happened to be holding a banana while he presented his research the 241st National Meeting and Exposition of the American Chemical Society. Hey! That’s also where those Electric Beam guys from Harvard strutted their stuff.
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| Coffee Joulies Are A Golden Delight For Coffee Drinkers Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:14 AM PDT Contrary to whatever it is the title brought to mind, this post has nothing to do with gold. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Those glittering beans on the picture? Polished stainless steal shells. What do they do? Why, keep the coffee experience more satisfying. Warmer, hotter, cooler, richer, longer. Confused? Let the Kickstarter page explain.
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| Battlefield 3 : Fault Line Episode 3 : Get that Wire Cut Posted: 30 Mar 2011 07:09 AM PDT EA has today released the third part of the Fault Line Episodes teaser videos, called ‘Get the Wire Cut’. The video shows a large battle ongoing within the streets and a glimpse of some of the other tasks you are going to be asked to accomplish within the game. In a recent interview DICE GM Karl Troedsson has revealed to a Games.on.net that the new Battlefield 3 campaign when finally released will take roughly 12 hours to complete. Watch a video of the interview and the new Battlefield 3 : Fault Line Episode 3 : Get that Wire Cut after the jump.
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| Star Wars Blu-ray Editions Arriving On September 16th 2011 Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:57 AM PDT Whats looks to be now a firm a date has now been released for the launch of the Star Wars complete saga launch on Blu-ray. It was originally thought to be towards the end of September but now looks to be arriving on the September 16th a few days earlier. For the first time in the films history, all six of George Lucas’ epic films, Episodes I-VI will now be finally combined in to one complete set. Three version of the Star Wars Blu-ray collection will be available. One with all six titles and then two other editions, the first three movies in on and then the final 3 three in another separate box sets. Watch a teaser video after the jump.
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| Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:40 AM PDT If the clicking of a mouse button annoys you either in your work place, where is an busy office is all that you can hear or at home, then this new creation by Nexus might be worth a look. Their new silent mouse creation has been under development for the last 4 years and is now ready to be released to the public. You would think creating a silent clicking mouse would be a fairly simple affair but as Nexus discovered, its not as easy as one thinks. Now with their patented technology Nexus have cracked the problem with the launch of the Nexus Silent Mouse. Watch the video after the break to see and not hear the mouse in action.
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| Researchers Develop New Flex Touchscreen Interface (Video) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:38 AM PDT Researchers at the Osaka University in Japan have developed a new flexible touchscreen interface, and the interface flexes whatever is on the screen when you move you hand or fingers over the display. What this does is make some of the content on the screen distorted, and enables you to scroll and view more content on the display and then zoom into the particular section you want to look at.
The researchers tested this new touchscreen display technology with Google maps, and you can see it in action in the video below. (...) © Roland Hutchinson for Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us |
| MSI Launches New X370 Notebook Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:25 AM PDT MSI has launched a new X370 notebook, and this new X370 notebook features AMD’s E-350 processor which is designed to use less power and it also features what MSI calls its ECO Engine which is designed for power saving. The MSI X370 Notebook is designed to be an ultra thin notebook, measuring less than one inch thick and weighing in at just 1.4KG, and it reported to have battery life of up to 10 hours.
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| Camera+ iPhone App Updated With Clarity Feature Posted: 30 Mar 2011 06:06 AM PDT The impressive Camera+ iPhone app has today received an update bringing with it a number of new bugs fixes and a new feature called Clarity, together with a temporary sale price of $0.99 cents. The new Clarity feature has been added to help you take perfect photographs every time, by analysing your images and making adjustments to improve its quality. Inventive the creators of the Camera+ application claim that their Clarity feature, can make your photos look truly stunning with just one tap.
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| Tesla Sues Top Gear And The BBC Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:58 AM PDT Tesla has decided to sue the BBC and the motoring program Top Gear, and have issued a press release explaining there reason for suing the BBC. It all comes from a 2008 episode of Top Gear, where Jeremy Clarkson was testing the Tesla Roadster, and he gave it a bit of a hard time. Tesla have said that the claims made in the BBC program were false, and that some of the things featured in the show were actually made up.
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| Gigabyte Release 32Bit Utility To Unlock 3TB And Higher Drives Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:45 AM PDT If you use or have an older 32bit computer system that is currently restricted to using only 2.19 TB of its hard drive capacity. You will be pleased to know if you have a Gigabyte motherboard installed in the system you can now use a new unlocking utility released by Gigabyte to increase the storage capacity to 3TB and above. Saving you the need to upgrade the system to 64bit. The Gigabyte 3TB+ Unlock Utility allows Gigabyte motherboards without Hybrid EFI to recognise and use unallocated space allowing a virtual drive to be created with storage over and above the restrictive 2.19TB.
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| The Real Price Of A Nintendo 3DS Unveiled By iSuppli Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:34 AM PDT Have you wondered how much a Nintendo 3DS actually costs in parts to put together? Well the team over at iSuppli have been kind enough to calculate the component costs of the highly anticipated 3D gaming pocket console. The calculations have been carried out by stripping down a Japanese 3DS device. According to the final total there are $103.25 for parts and production costs, compared to a retail cost of $249.99 in the United States. A breakdown of the costs are listed after the jump.
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| Awesome Four Player Pong Coffee Table (Video) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:34 AM PDT We have featured quite a few different home made gaming consoles, mods and even some video game coffee tables, here is a cool one that will appeal to all the retro gaming fans out there, the Super Pong Table. The Super Pong Table was created by Brad, and he has posted full instructions on how he made it over at Instructables, have a look at the video of it in action below.
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| UK Retailer Buys Nintendo 3DS Consoles From Competitor To Sell To Customers Posted: 30 Mar 2011 05:06 AM PDT The Nintendo 3DS console went on sale in the UK last week, with a number of supermarkets here in the UK selling it at a discounted price, which ended up being cheaper than many specialist game retailers. It seems that one UK retailer, though it was a good idea to send their employees out to the local supermarket to purchase as many 3DS consoles as they could so they could sell them to their customers, according to a leaked internal document obtained by Euro Gamer.
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| iPad 2 Radio Teardown Compares WiFi, GSM, And CDMA Versions Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:54 AM PDT The team over at iFixit has been at it again, and stripped Apple’s new iPad 2 down to its bare bones, to compare the radio technology used in the different version of the iPad 2. Below the main boards are compared each boards looks identical on the right hand side, but the top ones is equipped with a Toshiba chip on the left while the other two use Samsung. The bottom two boards are also CDMA and GSM versions which are equipped with extra chips and technology on the left had side of the boards, to provide the communication from the CDMA and GSM.
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| Nintendo Claims 3DS Has Best First Day Handheld Console Sales Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:43 AM PDT The new Nintendo 3DS went on sale in Europe and the US recently, and now Nintendo is claiming that the first day sales of the 3DS are the highest of any Nintendo handheld system, although they haven’t as yet provided any actual sales figures. Nintendo have said that they will release actual sales figures of the 3DS on April the 14th, when the first week US sales figures will be released by NPD.
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| HTC Merge To Feature Pre-loaded Amazon Android App Store Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:26 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the HTC Merge that was announced a while back, it comes with Android 2.2 Froyo and features a 3.8 inch touchscreen display and a slide out QWERTY keyboard. It looks like the HTC Merge will come pre-loaded with Amazon’s Android app store, with mobile carrier Cellular South, which will make it the first Android smartphone to come with Amazon’s app store built in.
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| Crackle Now Streaming Free Movies To PS3, Roku And Sony Devices Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:16 AM PDT Sony has just announced that its Crackle service which provides a multi-platform video entertainment network, has now received an update that will now allow it to provide a full suite of ad-supported full-length movies and television series to a number of devices. The update now streams content to devices such as the Sony PlayStation 3, Roku streaming players, Sony’s Blu-ray players, BRAVIA televisions and Streaming Player with wifi, together with Google TV which has already been announced a short time ago.
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| Kyocera Echo Now Available To Pre-order Posted: 30 Mar 2011 04:02 AM PDT Some of our reader will remember the Kyocera Echo, which will be available from Sprint from the 17th of April, good news as it is now available to pre-order, and will start shipping on the 17th of April. As a reminder the Kyocera Echo is a dual screen Android smartphone, that comes with Android 2.2 Froyo and features two displays which can either act as one large display or two independent displays.
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| iPad 2 Gets 1080p Movie Streaming With Clever Accessory (Video) Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:40 AM PDT The new iPad 2 and the existing first generation iPad can stream movies to your Apple TV in 720p, unfortunately it cant do it in Full HD at 1080p, that was until Erice Govoruhk and Kelly McAteer developed their own HDMI accessory for the iPad 2. As you will see in the video below, this custom accessory for the iPad 2 lets you display everything on your iPad screen on your HDTV, and it was put together using a wireless HDMI transmitter and a USB battery pack.
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| Microsoft Working On NFC Mobile Payment System Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:25 AM PDT We have heard recently that both Apple and Google are working on their own mobile payment systems, which use Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and now it seems that Microsoft may also be working on a new mobile payment system. According to a recent report by Bloomberg, Microsoft intends to offer a new mobile payment system in its Windows Phone 7 software, which means we could see a range of new devices launching with NFC capabilities.
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| Google Street Trike Adds Historic Landmarks In Italy and France To Google Maps Posted: 30 Mar 2011 03:04 AM PDT If you have ever wanted to visit historic landmarks In Italy and France all within a could of minutes from the comfort of your arm chair Google Maps has now made it possible. The Google Street Trike has been business visiting the historic locations around Europe and snapping glorious high resolution imagery of UNESCO sites in Rome, the center of Florence and stunning chateaux’s in the French countryside to name a few.
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| Keyglove An Arduino/AVR-Powered Glove Replaces The Keyboard Posted: 30 Mar 2011 02:53 AM PDT Keyglove is a new concept currently looking to make the jump from conceptual idea into production on the Kickstarter website. It consists of a open-source portable Arduino/AVR-powered glove that uses touch combinations (for keys) and an accelerometer (for the mouse). Removing the need to use the traditional QWERTY keyboard and mouse combination. The basic concept of the Keyglove is to generate input signals by touching conductive sensors together in unique combinations to create the characters required. The sensors are mounted on the fingers and palm of the glove which is thin and light, and has been designed to allow the user to preform other activities, such as writing without being in the way.
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| Verizon 4G LTE Modem Arriving Tomorrow Posted: 30 Mar 2011 01:22 AM PDT Tomorrow Verizon will be shipping their new Verizon 4G LTE Modem USB551L to both their high street stores and from their online shop. The Verizon 4G LTE Modem can provide download speeds from 5 – 12 Mbps with uploads between 2-5 Mbps. Created by Novatel the USB551L modem is reportedly the smallest LTE USB modem currently available, according to its makers, and is around 50 percent smaller than other LTE modems on the market.
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| HTC Thunderbolt Overclocked To 1.8GHz Posted: 30 Mar 2011 12:35 AM PDT The HTC Thunderbolt went on sale in the US recently, it features a 1GHz processor, which has been overclocked to a massive 1.8GHz by Derek Rodriguez, with a kernel he put together which enables the Thundebolt to be overclocked. TheRealBeesley ran the kernel through quadrant, and the results turned out to be pretty impressive, you can see the results in the photo below.
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| In App Payments Now Live On Android Posted: 29 Mar 2011 11:41 PM PDT Last week we heard that Google had started to let Android developers test their new in app payment system, and they have just announced that in app billing is now live in the Android Market. Developers can now publish applications which feature in app payments to the Android Market, and users can now make purchases from within a range of applications.
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| Microsoft To Test Out “Updated Xbox 360 Disc Format” Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:41 PM PDT Hey now, what’s this we hear about Microsoft finally acting on the long-running storage-envy it has going of the PS3? According to Major Nelson, Microsoft is poised to try out a new Xbox 360 disc format and is asking for beta testers. Of course, this raises a whole fleet of questions, many of them containing the words “Blu-Ray”, as well as some painful memories for people who still wipe the dust off their HD-DVD players every day because they just didn’t have the heart to unplug that thing and sell it for the 50p it’s worth.
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| Nintendo Not Building Wii 2 Around 3D Posted: 29 Mar 2011 05:29 PM PDT For some reason, speculation about Nintendo’s killer feature for its next home console is still running rampant even though it’s fairly obvious it’s going to be holograms all the way. But Nintendo’s handheld push into 3D still has people wondering whether they’re planning the same sort of strategy for the living room.
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