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Saturday, July 30, 2011

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Dragon Age 2 Pulled From Steam Due To Legacy DLC

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:43 AM PDT

Just as the new DLC Legacy update is released for Dragon Age 2 by EA, the game has unceremoniously  been removed from the Steam games network by Valve, for breaking Steam’s Terms of Service. Rather than being made available via Steam’s own client, EA saw fit to release the new DLC via an in-game store, which has prompted Valve to remove the game from its network.

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Can The Collapsible Shot Glass Save Your Life?

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:42 AM PDT

Unlikely. Unless you drink from it to take medication. Will it be mistaken for a compact telescope? All it takes is some nitwit who’ll pull this out their pocket and exclaim “I can’t see nuthin’!” Right.

Seen below is a shot glass, nothing more. It’s for people who need to lubricate their senses and taste buds every once in a while. But let it be writ that Geeky gadgets doesn’t condone alcoholism. Anyway, the Collapsible Shotglass is self-explanatory, a pocket contraption that can serve as a keychain and is ready for  some drinking anytime, anywhere.

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Alleged iPad Nano Clone Is Quite Impressive Specs-wise

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:33 AM PDT

It’s called the Timesnap, a wrist gadget that’s so packed with features we’re surprised it isn’t a smartphone as well. Fundamentally a well endowed MP3 and MP4 player, the Timesnap packs 4GB of storage space and video playing capabilities. It’s a mean muzack player to boot and has an upgradable SD memory (goes to 8GB). On top of these lovely attractions, the Timesnap–hold your breath–is also an e-reader, though we doubt reading text from such a small screen would be enticing.

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Sony’s Qriocity Video Service Headed To Xperia Smartphones

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:29 AM PDT

Sony has announced that its Qriocity video service will be available on a range of Sony Ericsson branded smartphones form August the 1st and users of the service will be able to buy and rent movies on their Xperia smartphones.

The Qriocity service will be available on a range of Sony Xperia devices at first which include the Xperia Arc, the Xperia Neo, Xperia Play, Xperia Pro and other devices and it will be released as a software update to the devices.

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Ubuntu One Now Offers 5GB Of Cloud Storage For Free

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:26 AM PDT

In celebration of reaching 1 million users Ubuntu One has this week announced it has increased the capacity of its free Ubuntu One online cloud storage from 2GB to 5GB. Ubuntu One Basic will become Ubuntu One Free and users will get 5GB of free storage when they set up an account, and existing users of Ubuntu One Basic will automatically increase to the new 5GB limit.

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Virgin Media To Bundle Spotify With Broadband For Low Price

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:14 AM PDT

Spotify has been available in Europe for a while now, and recently launched in the US, and now Virgin Media’s CEO has announced that the company will offer the music streaming services with their broadband here in the UK, for a low price.

Virgin Media haven’t given any details on how much Spotify will cost with their various broadband plans, but their CEO said that the company would charge a ‘very, very low monthly subscription’.

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Google+ Now Has A What’s New Area (video)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT

Google has today rolled out a new feature to its beta Google+ social networking service, that’s been designed to help you stay up to date with the latest features added to the new Google+ service.

The recently added "What's new in Google+" section enables you to read release notes for new features and developments within Google+ and contains a number of YouTube video’s explaining the features in detail and their purpose. Googler Natalie Villalobos introduces the new area in a video after the break.

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Samsung Galaxy R Gets Official, Full Specifications

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:40 AM PDT

We have already seen some photos and a video of the new Samsung Galaxy R, and now Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy R which will go on sale in Europe at the end of July.

The Samsung Galaxy R will come with Android 2.3 Gingerbread and it features a 4.19 inch Super Clear LCD display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and processing is provided by a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor.

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Motorola Droid Bionic Confirmed For September Launch

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:25 AM PDT

The Motorola Droid Bionic has had so many rumored launch dates that we have been wondering if the device would ever go on sale, and now Motorola’s CEO Sanjay Jha has recently confirmed to Cnet, that the Droid Bionic will finally go on sale in  September.

The Droid Bionic first appeared in January and was expected to launch in the early summer, after a number of delays the last thing we heard was that it would launch in August, and now Motorola have finally confirmed its actual launch date as September.

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Microsoft Mocks Gmail Service Using “Gmail Man” (video)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:07 AM PDT

Microsoft launched its new online Office 365 service last month aimed at professionals and business and of course as a competitor to Google’s online Gmail and documents service.

Well this week Microsoft showed a comic 50′s sitcom styled videos aimed at highlighting a few of the pitfalls of using Google’s Gmail service, using a new character called “Gmail Man” which was shown at the Microsoft Global Experience to Microsoft employees. Watch the leaked video of ”Gmail Man” in action after the jump.

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Swarming Robots Form Landing Pad For Quadcopter (Video)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 05:03 AM PDT

We have featured quite a few different videos of quadcopters here at Geeky Gadgets, and now scientists from the Georgia Robotics and Intelligent Systems Lab have created a mobile landing pad for these quadcopters.

The landing pad is made up of five separate robots, one robot which is the leader and four robots which are following the leader, and each of the four robots communicate individually with the leader robot, have a look a the video of them in action below.

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Wooden iPhone 4 Alarm Clock Dock

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:49 AM PDT

We have featured a few of these iPhone alarm clock docks here at Geeky Gadgets, but I think this may be one of the first wooden ones, and each of of these wooden iPhone 4alarm clock dock’s is made to order from a range of different woods, the one pictured below is made from walnut.

The wooden iPhone 4 alarm clock dock is lined with felt which has been made from recycled water bottles, and it features a charger cable built in to so you hook it up to your PC or Mac.

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2011 MacBook Air Fitted With Weaker Thunderbolt Chip Than iMac, Mini And MacBook Pro

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:42 AM PDT

Its been discovered by Anandtech that the new 2011 MacBook Air recently launched by Apple is fitted with a weaker Thunderbolt chip than other Apple systems such as the iMac, Mac Mini and MacBook Pro.

All systems apart from the MacBook Air use a full sized Thunberbolt controller chip called the Light Ridge, but Anandtech have discovered the new 2011 MacBook Air is equipped with a less powerful and scaled down version of the chip called the Eagle Ridge.

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White Samsung Galaxy S II Officially Confirmed For The UK

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:30 AM PDT

Yesterday we heard that a white version of the Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone would go on sale in the UK from a number of retailers SIM free from the 15th of August, and now Samsung has confirmed that the white Samsung Galaxy S II will hit the UK.

Although it looks like it may launch in the UK from the 1st of September with a range of different mobile carriers and also SIM free from various mobile retailers, and now there is also a photo, although  its a press one of the new white Samsung Galaxy S II.

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Microsoft Enables Mango SkyDrive Music Streaming (video)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 04:15 AM PDT

Its been discovered that Microsoft has quietly enabled music streaming through its new Skydrive cloud service on Mango devices, allowing you to stream music content directly from your Skydrive account to your Zune for example.

The feature has been confirmed by Microsoft via a tweet, who indicated that the service is still unsupported at the moment and that Microsoft’s focus is primarily on photos and document syncing via Skydrive at the current time. Watch the video after the jump to see the new feature in action.

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Skype 5.5 Update Bring Improved Facebook Integration For Windows Users

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:39 AM PDT

This week Skype has rolled out a new update for its Windows users taking their application to version 5.5, and bringing with it new features that provide an improved integration with Facebook.

Now Windows Skype users can view which of their Facebook friends are online without the need to leave the Skype 5.5 application. The new deeper Facebook integration also allows you to now instant message them using the new Skype Facebook Contacts Tab, located between the Skype and Recent Contacts tabs.

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Marvel Digital Mercury 7 Inch Android Tablet Announced

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 03:01 AM PDT

Marvel Digital has added another new Android tablet to their range with the launch of the Marvel Digital Mercury tablet, which features a 7 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 and an ARM Cortex A8 1GHz processor.

Other specifications in the Marvel Digital include 512MB of RAM and a choice of either 4GB, 8GB or 16GB of storage, plus a microSD card slot that can take up to 32GB cards.

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Acer Iconia Tab A100 Finally Arriving Next Month

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:58 AM PDT

If you have been patiently waiting for the the launch of Acer’s new Iconia Tab A100 Android tablet, your wait is now over as it’s expected to land in stores during August for around $300.

Originally the Acer Iconia Tab A100 was expected to launch in April 2011, but rumours surfaced that the 7 inch tablet was experiencing problems with its Honeycomb OS and its launch was pushed back a few months and then again to August.

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Gmail Android Update v2.3.5 Brings Priority Mail Sync And Label Specific Ringtones

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:43 AM PDT

Google have rolled out a new update v2.3.5 to their already impressive Android Gmail application, which adds a few extra features that are well worth upgrading for. In the latest update Google has added new performance improvements and a feature to help save your battery life by allowing you to now only sync your priority mail.

Other new features include, new additions enabling you to use label notifications to mash up filters, labels and ringtones. So you can now set up custom ringtones or vibrations for each label notification and email received, or set it just for the first email to arrive depending on your preference.

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Toshiba Fujitsu IS12T Windows Phone Mango Smartphone In Action (Video)

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 02:35 AM PDT

The other day the world’s first Windows Phone 7 Mango smartphone was unveiled, the Toshiba Fujitsu IS12T which will debut in Japan on mobile carrier KDDI in September.

Now we get our first look at the world’s first Windows Phone 7 Mango smartphone in action, courtesy of the guys over at DigInfo who have put together the video below.

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Hackers Unlock Car Doors Via SMS

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:57 AM PDT

Security researchers at iSec partners, Don Bailey and Mathew Solnik have discovered a way to unlock car doors and even start some car engines remotely using SMS.

The two researchers have managed to intercept the wireless messages that travel between software based systems like OnStar and cars, they were able to crack the protocol behind the systems and then duplicate it with a laptop in around two hours.

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Dell Streak Pro 10 Launched In China

Posted: 29 Jul 2011 12:17 AM PDT

Dell has launched their latest Android tablet in China, the Dell Streak Pro 10, and it is set to go on sale in other markets around the world next month which will include the US and Europe.

The Dell Streak Pro 10 features a 10.1 inch multi-touch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, and it comes with Android Honeycomb and features a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and 1GB of RAM.

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Save Your Dusty Cassettes With The Cassette Capture Player

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:11 PM PDT

Now that we mentioned it you probably remember that old box where you keep those unused cassettes of the Spice Girls and Elton John. Don’t be ashamed as many people share the same unease over their bygone music tastes. But what’s that? You miss listening to old albums? Totally fine. Here comes the perfect gadget to bring them to digital immortality.

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New J!ns Glasses Moisturizes Your Strained Eyeballs

Posted: 28 Jul 2011 03:07 PM PDT

Eye strain sucks. If your schedule leaves you staring at a computer screen all day, followed by a frenzied stretch of off-hours gaming somewhere, then you know what we mean. Thing is, our interconnected dystopian reality demands that we remain in front of monitors all day. This naturally hurts our eyes, no two ways about it.

Renowned glasses maker J!ns—pronounced Jin—have unveiled a couple of new eyeglasses to relieve our ocular assisted visual organs.

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