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- Sony offers New PSP-3000 Value Packs in Japan
- EVE Microtransaction Row Could Cost CCP $1 Million Pounds Or More
- Gameloft Announces 12 Games Headed To All Mobile Platforms Before Christmas
- Mimobot Unveils Transformers USB Flash Drive Line
- You Just Want To Jump On This Millennium Falcon Beanbag Bed
- Apple Starts Refunding Final Cut Pro X For Unhappy Customers
- Tag Heuer Link Smartphone Just $6,700 (video)
- Lego Pancake Robot Makes You Breakfast (Video)
- Apple Xserve Experiences Issues After 10.6.8 Update
- Apple Removes SpyKey Keylogger App From The App Store
- The Light Scythe Creates Cool Digital Art
- Mini Steve Jobs Action Figure Appears Online
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M-570M Cards Unveiled For MSI And Alienware
- Twelve South BookArc For MacBook Pro Announced
- Microsoft Office 365 Goes Live
- Nikon Shows Off Concept And Prototype Cameras
- Apple Unveils New Thunderbolt Cable
- Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Gets Previewed
- Google Activating Over 500,000 Android Devices Per Day
- New Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Coming August 5th, Goes Up For Preorder
- Opera 11.50 Final Released With Speed Dial Extensions (video)
- Apple TV Update Issues For Some
- Wikitude Augmented Reality Browser Now Offers Android Honeycomb Tablet Support
- Motorola Triumph Coming 19th July
- Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Adds TRIM Support, But Only For Apple’s SSDs
- HTC EVO 3D Headed To Vodafone UK
- Gadmei P83, $180 Glasses Free 3D PMP (video)
- AndyPad Budget Gingerbread Tablet Poses For The Camera
- LG DM50D 3D HTDV Monitor Announced
- Adastra Trimaran Super Yacht Looks Like A Space Ship
- Windows 8 RTM Coming April 2012?
- Intel Working On Cloverview Platform For Windows 8
- Activision Registers GoldenEye 007 Reloaded Domains
- HP TouchPad Launching With HP Created Facebook App
- T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide Gets Official
- Mitsubishi 22 Inch TV Includes Blu-ray And 500GB HDD
- Google Rolls Our New What Do You Love? Search Page
- PayPal Reaches 100 Million “Active Users”
- Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Support Arrives Via Free Downloads
- Hauppauge Digital Broadway Box Streams Live TV To Your Mobile Devices
- Olivetti Olipad 110 Caught On Video (video)
- Acer’s AC700 Chromebook Arrives This Month, 3G Model To Follow
- Fring iPad App Provides 4 Way Group Video Calls
- Sony Europe Unveils Vaio Z With External GPU
- Dell Venue Pro Updates Finally Coming
- Samsung Losing Apple’s A6 Business?
- Microsoft Iffy On 3D For Xbox 360
- Supreme Court Rules Games Are Protected Speech
Sony offers New PSP-3000 Value Packs in Japan Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:01 PM PDT We are all expecting the PS Vita to land in November of this year and the PSP-3000 that we have today will disappear. It’s really time for the PSP-3000 to leave; it was never that great a portable console to begin with. Sony needs something that will compete with the Nintendo DS and 3DS. Whether or not the PS Vita will compete we can't say at this point. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
EVE Microtransaction Row Could Cost CCP $1 Million Pounds Or More Posted: 28 Jun 2011 11:47 AM PDT One thing you may know about long time MMO staple Eve Online is that it features a unique blend of spaceships, politics, mining and a player-run economy that may just be unique in video games. On thing you may not know about Eve is exactly how well organized that community can be in reacting when it feels strongly about something. Like developer CCP’s plan to introduce microtransactions, which has elicited something of a reaction. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Gameloft Announces 12 Games Headed To All Mobile Platforms Before Christmas Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:37 AM PDT Gameloft has announced a new range of games that it will be launching on all mobile platforms before Christmas, the list includes titles which are already available on some mobile platforms like Apple iOS as well as some new ones. The 12 games that Gameloft will be launching for mobile devices include Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Lego Batman, Immortals, Wild West Guns, Gangster Rio: City of Saints, Real Football 2012, Asphalt 6: Adrenaline, Midnight Pool 3, Driver San Francisco, Sid Meier’s Civilization V, Where’s Wally and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Mimobot Unveils Transformers USB Flash Drive Line Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:31 AM PDT With Dark of the Moon exploding in theatres tomorrow (are you reading this Michael Bay?) Mimoco have unleashed a special edition Mimobot Transformers USBs. Of course, rather than release an entire horde of swell-headed Autobots and Decepticons, only the respective leaders of each faction are given their due. Seen below are Optimus Prime and arch rival Megatron in their 1980s glory. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
You Just Want To Jump On This Millennium Falcon Beanbag Bed Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:24 AM PDT The revered Millennium Falcon has a solid track record here at GG. So far, there’s been a cake, a scale model, and a good sized bed. Seen below is a cushy extra large beanbag fashioned after the speediest ship in the galaxy. The measurements are 260x200x50 and judging by the woman in the picture, it’s awful comfy too. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Apple Starts Refunding Final Cut Pro X For Unhappy Customers Posted: 28 Jun 2011 09:04 AM PDT Apple recently launched the latest version of its Final Cut Pro video editing suite, Final Cut Pro X, the reviews of the software haven’t been that amazing as many users don’t seem happy with the changes over the previous version of Final Cut Pro. Now according to The Next Web Apple has started issuing refunds to customers who were unhappy with the software, who have filed a request to Apple through the Mac App Store customer service. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Tag Heuer Link Smartphone Just $6,700 (video) Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:36 AM PDT If you prefer a smartphone with a little more bling stuck to outside and less features on the inside, then the new Tag Heuer Link smartphone might well be worth a look. Underneath the leather, alligator, lizard-skin and diamonds is a smartphone powered by a dual-core processor supported by 1GB of memory running Android Froyo with 16GB of storage, and a 4G radio. Watch a promotional video of the Tag Heuer Link smartphone after the jump. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Lego Pancake Robot Makes You Breakfast (Video) Posted: 28 Jun 2011 08:31 AM PDT We have featured quite a few different robots here at Geeky Gadgets, including some awesome robots that have been constructed using Lego, the latest one is designed to make pancakes. The Pancake robot can make pancakes in a range of different shapes which can be pre-programmed into the robot have a look at the video of it in action below. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Apple Xserve Experiences Issues After 10.6.8 Update Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:59 AM PDT Its not just Apple’s TV that seems to be experiencing problems with updates from Apple this week. Reports are not surfacing that users of Apple’s Xserves are also experiencing a few issues after the latest 10.6.8 update. Even though Apple has discontinued the Xserve line of systems updates are still being rolled out the same as other Apples OS X devices. But users seems to be experiencing problems with the Mac OS X Server-exclusive hardware monitoring daemon called hwmond. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Apple Removes SpyKey Keylogger App From The App Store Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:54 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the SpyKey keylogger app that we talked about last week, which Apple had approved and it was available to download from the App store. Gizmodo first spotted the app last week, and they weren’t they only ones who were surprised to see this sort of app approved by Apple, it looks like it has now been removed from the app store, according to one of our readers, and I just checked for it myself and cant seem to find it anywhere. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
The Light Scythe Creates Cool Digital Art Posted: 28 Jun 2011 07:39 AM PDT The Light Scythe is a 2 metre POV staff which was created to make digital light paintings, the results are pretty impressive as you can see from the photos below, and it was made using a 2 metre programmable LED strip, and a range of other hardware plus some open source software. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Mini Steve Jobs Action Figure Appears Online Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:54 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the Steve Jobs action figure that Apple stopped from being sold, now it looks like another company is attempting to sell another Steve Jobs action figure, and unless this one has Apple’s blessing we can’t really see it going into production. The Mini Steve Jobs action figure is apparently 1/6th scale of Apple’s CEO, at it even come with a range of Apple products which include a miniature iMac, magic Mouse, Bluetooth keyboard and an iPhone 4. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Nvidia GeForce GTX 580M-570M Cards Unveiled For MSI And Alienware Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:51 AM PDT Nvidia has today unveiled their new upgraded GeForce GTX line of mobile graphics cards in the form of the GeForce GTX 580M and 570M which have been created to be fitted into select OEM systems. The first being the MSI GT780R gaming laptop and the Alienware M18X which are ready to order from today and will be shipping within the next couple of weeks. View their full specifications in the table after the jump to compare the GeForce GTX 580M and 570M graphics cards. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Twelve South BookArc For MacBook Pro Announced Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:35 AM PDT Twelve South has added another desktop stand to its range, this one if for the new uni-body MacBook Pro’s, the Twelve South Book Arc for MacBook Pro, and it is designed to let you easily use your MacBook Pro on your desktop with an external monitor. The BookArc for MacBook Pro features two hidden cable managers, which are designed to hold your USB, power and monitor cables, and it features a similar design to the previous versions we have seen for the iPad. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Microsoft Office 365 Goes Live Posted: 28 Jun 2011 06:00 AM PDT Microsoft has today officially launched its new Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and now made the site live to all and ready to accept your work. Microsoft is offering a free 30 day trial of their new Office 365 service if you haven’t already used it. Microsoft Office 365 for professionals and small businesses is a £4 per user/per month subscription service that lets you access your email, important documents, contacts, and calendar from virtually anywhere on almost any device such as your PC, Mac, Windows Phone, iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Nikon Shows Off Concept And Prototype Cameras Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:56 AM PDT Nikon has displayed a range of concept and prototype cameras that haven’t made it into production at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris as part of the Hello Demain (hello tomorrow) exhibition. As you can see from the photos below there are a number of unique prototypes, including the first one, which is some sort of multi ball camera that is capable of capturing photos from multiple angles. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Apple Unveils New Thunderbolt Cable Posted: 28 Jun 2011 05:21 AM PDT Apple has to added new Thunderbolt cables to its online store to compliment the ever growing list of Mac systems equipped with Thunderbolt ports. The new Thunderbolt cables are 2 metres long and are available to purchase for $49 or £39 in the UK. Even though new peripherals are still a little scarce at the moment couple of cool things you can do with your new cable, if you own a new iMac and Mac Pro both equipped with Thunderbolt ports. Is to connect them together and mount one computer as an external drive on the other, in Target Disk Mode or to use a new iMac as a display for a MacBook Pro equipped with Thunderbolt. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Gets Previewed Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:59 AM PDT We have already heard about the major new features that will be coming to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 with the Mango update, which include a new music and video hub, multitasking, a new games hub, and many more with a total of 500 new features being added in the update. Now the guys over at Engadget have put together a hands on preview of Windows Phone 7 Mango, along with some videos and lots of photos which show us how the major new features will look in Windows Phone 7 Mango. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Google Activating Over 500,000 Android Devices Per Day Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:24 AM PDT Google’s Andy Rubin has just announced on Twitter that Google are now activating over half a million Android devices each day, and according to the Tweet, this is increasing by about 4.4% each week. The news comes just over a month after Google announced that they were activating 400,00 Android devices per day, Google also announced back in may that they had hit 100 million Android devices activated, obviously this number will have increased quite a bit since then. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
New Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro Coming August 5th, Goes Up For Preorder Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:13 AM PDT Sony Ericsson recently announced a new version of its Xperia Mini Pro, and now it is available to pre-order for £239.99 SIM free in the UK with online retailer Play listing it with a shipping date of August the 5th. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro features a 3 inch touch screen display with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, it comes with android 2.3 Gingerbread, plus a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a 5 megapixel camera which can record HD video in 720p. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Opera 11.50 Final Released With Speed Dial Extensions (video) Posted: 28 Jun 2011 04:06 AM PDT Today Opera has released a new version of its browser in the form of Opera 11.50 which has been coded named “Swordfish” while under development. The new release brings with it a new lightweight look, password synchronisation and speed dial extensions, together with plenty of other tweaks and enhancements. Rather than simply adding links to your top sites, Speed Dial now allows you to add various extensions, like mini web app. That have been designed to keep you updated, instantly on what is happening around the Web, and there are already more than 50 available to use. Watch a brief video showing Opera’s new speed dial feature after the jump.
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Apple TV Update Issues For Some Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:42 AM PDT Recently it seems a number of second generation Apple TV users have experienced problems updating their Apple TVs with the latest firmware. With some users reporting that on installing the update their Apple TV has become “bricked” and totally unusable.
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Wikitude Augmented Reality Browser Now Offers Android Honeycomb Tablet Support Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:28 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the Wikitude augmented reality browser for Android, we just got an email from the developers to let us know that the app has been updated and it now supports Android Honeycomb tablets. The Wikitude World Browser is now compatible with all Android Honeycomb devices, and this includes tablets running Honeycomb 3.0 and Honeycomb 3.1, which include the LG Optimus Pad, Samsung P4, Motorola Xoom and Asus Eee Pad Transformer. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Motorola Triumph Coming 19th July Posted: 28 Jun 2011 03:04 AM PDT Motorola and Virgin Mobile recently announced the new Motorola Triumph for the US and now it looks like it will be available in the US from Best Buy from the 19th of July. Specifications wise the Motorola Triumph features a 4.1 inch WVGA touch screen display, plus a 1GHz processor and Android 2.2 Froyo, there is also a five megapixel camera on the back which is capable of recording HD video in 720p plus a VGA camera up front for video chat. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Adds TRIM Support, But Only For Apple’s SSDs Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:35 AM PDT Apple’s latest OS X update 10.6.8 has brought with it TRIM an great new feature for Mac’s fitted with solid state drives. TRIM support enables your SSD to write data on top of deleted data without the need for another cycle first speeding up your machine considerable and stopping it becoming progressively more sluggish. Unfortunately though if you have added your own personal SSD to your Mac system the new update will not add the TRIM feature and support to your SSD. As Apple has rolled out the update to only support official SSDs, rather than third party SSDs. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
HTC EVO 3D Headed To Vodafone UK Posted: 28 Jun 2011 02:31 AM PDT The guys over at Vodafone UK just dropped us an email to let us know that they will start selling the New HTC EVO 3D shortly, whilst they didn’t give us an exact date it should be available some time in July as HTC announced yesterday that it would be available in Europe in July. The HTC EVO 3D features a dual core 1.2GHz processor, plus a 4.3 inch qHD display that has a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, and it is capable of displaying 3D content without any 3D glasses. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Gadmei P83, $180 Glasses Free 3D PMP (video) Posted: 28 Jun 2011 01:53 AM PDT Last week we featured the Archos Arnova 7 Barebones Android Tablet priced at just $99 and this week a Gadmei P83 portable media player has been spotted over on Brando equipped with a glasses-free 3D display for just $180. The unbranded Gadmei P83 PMP Player uses a naked eye 3D display and has an 8″ LCD backlit display with a resolution of 1280 x 768 supporting both 2D/3D videos and photography. It has an internal 4GB storage capacity that can be increased using MMC, SD, SDHC to a maximum of 32GB. Watch a four minute video after the break of the device in action. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
AndyPad Budget Gingerbread Tablet Poses For The Camera Posted: 28 Jun 2011 01:45 AM PDT Some of our readers will remember the AndyPad Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet that we featured on Geeky Gadgets recently, it is a budget Android tablet that will retail for £129. We have been trying to get some actual photos of the tablet from the makers for a while now, but they don’t seem to have any available, and now one has appeared on the web. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
LG DM50D 3D HTDV Monitor Announced Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:56 AM PDT LG has added a new monitor to its range with the launch of the LG DM50D, although it seems it comes with a few more features than your standard computer monitor and according to LG the DM50D has all the features of LG’s Cinema 3D TVs. The LG DM50D apparently has Full HDTV picture quality and it comes with a built in DTV tuner that offers support for MPEG4, DVBC, DVBT, and it also comes with HDMI so you can hook it up to your 3D Blu-Ray player or games console. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Adastra Trimaran Super Yacht Looks Like A Space Ship Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:41 AM PDT We haven’t featured many boats here at Geeky Gadgets, but this one is definitely worth a mention, called the Adastra, this super yacht looks like some sort of alien space ship. The Adastra is a high speed trimaran which was designed by John Shuttleworth, and it is currently being built in China for a Hong Kong couple, Anton and Elaine Marden. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Windows 8 RTM Coming April 2012? Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:25 AM PDT We are expecting Microsoft to launch Windows 8 in the second part of 2012, probably around September October time, but now according to a recent report by ZDNet, Microsoft may deliver Windows 8 RTM (Release To manufacturing) in April of 2012. The report also says that Microsoft will release the first beta of Windows 8 in September of this year, at the Build Conference 2011, which takes place from the 13th to the 16th of September. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Intel Working On Cloverview Platform For Windows 8 Posted: 28 Jun 2011 12:14 AM PDT We are expecting Microsoft to launch Windows 8 in the autumn of 2012, their new OS is designed to be touch screen and tablet friendly and now it looks like Intel is working on a new Atom platform called Cloverview which is designed for Windows 8 tablets and touch screen devices. According to a recent report by Liliputing, Intel is hoping to have its Cloverview platform ready for the launch of Windows 8, and the platform is designed to replace Intel’s current Oak Trail platform. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Activision Registers GoldenEye 007 Reloaded Domains Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:56 PM PDT It has been discovered by Twitter user @supererogatory that Activision has been busy registering domain names containing the words “GoldenEye 007 Reloaded” which hint at a re-release of the popular 2010 Wii exclusive game GoldenEye 007. The new domain registrations could indicate a sequel might be under development and gamers have longed for a remake of the GoldenEye 007 game launched on the N64. However due to the developers of that game, Rare now being owned by Microsoft that route to remake the game might be a little trickier. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
HP TouchPad Launching With HP Created Facebook App Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:44 PM PDT It was originally thought earlier today that the HP TouchPad had been chosen by Facebook and beaten Apple’s iPad to become the first tablet with an official Facebook application installed when it launches this Friday. But the Facebook application installed on the HP tablet has been developed in house by HP and is the not the official highly anticipated Facebook application everyone is waiting to see. After clarification was sent to Tech Crunch by Facebook to clear up the confusion. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide Gets Official Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:37 PM PDT Some of our readers will remember the photos of the new T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide that we featured on the site last week, T-Mobile has now made the MyTouch 4G slide official. The T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide features a 3.7 inch SLCD multi-touch display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, processing is in the form of a dual core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and it will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Mitsubishi 22 Inch TV Includes Blu-ray And 500GB HDD Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:15 PM PDT Mitsubishi have launched a new Real LCD-22BLR500 TV in Japan this week which includes both a Blu-ray player with AVREC support and 500GB of hard disk drive storage onboard. The 22 inch TV has a LED-backlit 1,366×768 resolution screen together with a variety of ports on its rear including: 2 x HDMI slots, i.LINK, Ethernet (VOD support), 1 x USB port and an SD card slot for media transfer and viewing. The compact footprint and added features make the Real LCD-22BLR500 TV a perfect portable system. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Google Rolls Our New What Do You Love? Search Page Posted: 27 Jun 2011 11:03 PM PDT This morning Google without any great hype or fanfare has rolled out a new search service called, What Do You Love?. The new What Do You Love? search service has been setup to help users search multiple channels using broader more vague search terms and returns a multitude of different resources from videos to translation, using Google range of products. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
PayPal Reaches 100 Million “Active Users” Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:42 PM PDT Paypal has now reached the 100 million their “active user” milestone, reports PayPal who have confirmed the news with technology news website Tech Crunch. Since the end of the last year PayPal has around 94.4 million active users and every month since then has been added users at a staggering rate with an estimates one million new active accounts every month. One thing that hasn’t been confirmed by PayPal as yet is what they deem to be an “active user”, as this still remains a little unclear at the moment. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Crysis 2 DirectX 11 Support Arrives Via Free Downloads Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:22 PM PDT If you have been left a little underwhelmed by Crysis 2′s graphics on your PC and a little disappointed that on release Crysis 2 didn’t support DirectX 11. You will be pleased to know that Crytek has today officially released two new free updates to correct the omissions and restore order to the world of Crysis 2. The two new updates bring with them features like tessellation, displacement mapping and realistic shadows designed to now push your PC graphics card to its limit, download links after the jump. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Hauppauge Digital Broadway Box Streams Live TV To Your Mobile Devices Posted: 27 Jun 2011 10:01 PM PDT Hauppauge have this week launched their new Digital Broadway Box which has been designed to provide an easy way to watch live TV on your mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets whilst on your home network or while travelling. All you need is access to a Wifi connection. The new system is compatible with Android phones and tablets plus the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, PC and Mac sending live TV to non-Apple mobile devices using Flash. The Broadway Box determines which device you are trying to stream video to and will adjust the video format to suit using its a built-in high quality H.264 HD video encoder. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Olivetti Olipad 110 Caught On Video (video) Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:44 PM PDT A new preview featuring the Olivetti Olipad 110 has been published to YouTube, but be warned if you speak Italian it will definitely make more sense to you. The new Olipad 110 now features Android 3.1 Honeycomb and has a 10 inch 1280 x 800 resolution screen powered byNvidia dual-core Tegra 2 1 Ghz CPU with 1GB ram and 16GB of internal storage. If you just fancy a look at the new Olipad 110 in action the video can be viewed after the jump. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Acer’s AC700 Chromebook Arrives This Month, 3G Model To Follow Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:24 PM PDT Today Acer has announced that their new AC700 Chromebook will be arriving in the US this month for $350 and will be followed by the release of a 3G version during the summer months. Acer’s AC700 Chromebook is the first in a planned line of products designed to run Google Chrome OS and is powered by a Atom N570 processor supported by 2GB of DDR3 memory. Local storage on the AC700 Chromebook is provided by a small 16GB SSD drive, with most of your documents residing in the cloud, eliminating the need for a large hard drive and helping to protect your data against loss. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Fring iPad App Provides 4 Way Group Video Calls Posted: 27 Jun 2011 09:07 PM PDT Fring has just rolled out a new update to its iOS application which now has added support of group video calls via your iPad with up to four other friends and now allows you to make calls with both 3G and Wifi connections. The new update now makes Fring the first group video calling app for the iPad and expands its compatible devices to include chat on 3G and WiFi to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android and other smartphones. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Sony Europe Unveils Vaio Z With External GPU Posted: 27 Jun 2011 08:32 PM PDT Sony Europe has just unveiled its new Vaio Z notebook, equipped with an external graphic card provided by a AMD Radeon HD 6650M with 1GB of VRAM and an optical drive, which are contained within the external Power Media Dock as Sony calls it, pictured below on the right. The Vaio Z notebook is fitted with a 13.1 inch 1600 x 900 resolution screen, powered by a dual-core 2.7GHz Core i7 processor which can be supported by up to 8GB of RAM. Ultra fast storage is provided by dual 128 SSD drives configured in a RAID stripe, creating a combined 256GB drive. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Dell Venue Pro Updates Finally Coming Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:43 PM PDT We understand Dell Venue Pro users have been having a rough time of it, what with a spate of issue, including stability and WiFi problems, as well as a common microSD card mishap. Fear not, though, six months later, Dell has heard your cries and is announcing an announcement of a solution. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Samsung Losing Apple’s A6 Business? Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:32 PM PDT Don’t you just hate it when a huge corporation does something that looks designed to spite one of its bitterest rivals (and stalwart chip suppliers at the same time), only to find out it was actually a business-minded decision that had little to nothing to do with the current bickering? How am I supposed to care about where your chips are coming from without the drama, Apple? (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Microsoft Iffy On 3D For Xbox 360 Posted: 27 Jun 2011 04:10 PM PDT Well, the gaming public isn’t really crazy about the thing either, so it’s kind of nice seeing Microsoft keeping a cool head. Not that making people buy a $250 console and turn off its main feature , train themselves to power through headaches or sacrifice a decade of graphical advancement so they can play with bulky plastic glasses on doesn’t mean 3D isn’t wildly successful. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
Supreme Court Rules Games Are Protected Speech Posted: 27 Jun 2011 03:45 PM PDT A law criminalizing the sale of M-rated games to children in the state of California has been overturned by the US Supreme Court, with a frankly astounding 7 to 2 vote. Not only that, but even the two who voted for the legislation were against it in principle, they just thought that given the current legislation against selling pornography to minors, not supporting this bill would show a double standard. And they were right. Sort of. (...) © Geeky Gadgets, 2011. | Permalink | Unauthorized duplication and or distribution of our content is strictly forbidden © Geeky Gadgets, 2011 |
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