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BodyGuardz MyKase for iPhone 4/4S is Customizable
Peas Four Port USB Hub Looks Edible
iPad was supposed to Get Intel Atom Originally
Those Annoying Fruit Labels Become Useful With Fruitwash
Still Another Smartphone Geiger Counter: The WikiSensor
Concept Raincoat Makes You Look Like The Grim Reaper
Mysterious Lego Man Found In Florida Beach
Can You Build Your Own Civilization From Scratch? Meet Global Village
Dell Latitude ST Windows Tablet Announced
The Double iPad Case, Will Let You Use Two iPad’s At Once (Video)
HTC Rhyme Lands On O2 UK
Nokia Launching A White Nokia N9
BlackBerry Colt To Be RIM’s First BBX Smartphone?
Nokia Lumia 800 To Cost £440 In The UK
Samsung Galaxy Nexus To Use Fortified Glass
Adobe Carousel Apps For Mac And iOS Devices Announced
The Prop Mobile Laptop Stand (Video)
Google Tests Out Google Voice Search Underwater (Video)
Microsoft’s Windows Phone Companion App For Xbox In Action (Video)
LG DoublePlay Android Smartphone Lands On T-Mobile
RIM To Face Class Action Lawsuit After BlackBerry Outage
Apple’s iTunes Match Launch Imminent?
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (Transformer 2) Poses For The Camera
More Evidence That Google Music Store Is About To Launch
Is The Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone Headed To The US?
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban Appeal In Australia To Get Fast Tracked
Facebook To Build First European Data Center In Sweden
Sony To Buy Ericsson Out Of Sony Ericsson Partnership For $1.47 Billion
Mozilla And Microsoft Team Up To Offer Firefox With Bing
Google Nexus One Won’t Get Android Ice Cream Sandwich
Motorola Droid RAZR Goes Up For Pre-Order For $299.99
Samsung’s Attempt To Ban iPhone 4S In Italy Denied By Judge
Nokia Shows Off Flexible Smartphone Prototype (Video)
Ken Levine On Bioshock Infinite, Bioshock Movie
Epic Looking To Directly Influence Next Generation Console Hardware

BodyGuardz MyKase for iPhone 4/4S is Customizable

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:21 AM PDT

If you have an iPhone 4 or 4S smartphone and you want a cool case that you can customize to your tastes the MyKase might be perfect for you. The case comes with side rails and a back that can be interchanged to make a case with multiple colors that suits your style.

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Peas Four Port USB Hub Looks Edible

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:13 AM PDT

But don’t put it in your mouth, please. This cute USB hub was designed by a pair of Italians who’ve got a flare for organic looks. It’s also the latest from Lexon, a deisgn firm known for its odd take on everyday objects. To be honest it looks utterly bizarre, but hey, that’s how you stand out in an oversaturated market.

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iPad was supposed to Get Intel Atom Originally

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:10 AM PDT

When Steve Jobs and co over at Apple were initially planning the iPad tablet, it had tied up with Intel to provide processors for the Mac line of computers. According to the Jobs biography, Steve originally wanted the iPad to use an Intel Atom processor.

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Those Annoying Fruit Labels Become Useful With Fruitwash

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 10:04 AM PDT

If you’re into fruit (and you should), chances are you buy them at the local grocery where they’re displayed in luscious piles of shiny freshness. In the said pile are individual fruit with a small sticker on their skin. Problem is, removing these sticker soften damages the fruit skin.

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Still Another Smartphone Geiger Counter: The WikiSensor

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:52 AM PDT

But this time it’s exclusive to the iPhone4. Geiger counters seem to be the new trend in smart phones these days, what with the huge Japanese phone market located in an area blighted with radiation. Of course, anyone familiar with Geiger counters must realize that iPhones can never work as good as the real things. The WikiSensor, however, is capable of at least performing to the user’s satisfaction.

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Concept Raincoat Makes You Look Like The Grim Reaper

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 09:41 AM PDT

That’s when you’ve got the umbrella hood on. When you don’t, this innovative coat turns you into neo from the Matrix. Anyway, seen below is another odd fashion creature dreamed by some designer named Athanasia Leivaditou. The whole idea is an all-purpose ugly weather suit perfect for any kind of downpour. Just don’t walk around in pouring rain holding a scythe because it might scare the life out of people.

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Mysterious Lego Man Found In Florida Beach

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:46 AM PDT

Turns out it’s part of some strange online campaign whose intentions are a little too opaque for comfort. The eight foot curiosity that was ‘washed up’ in a Florida beach is named Ego Leonard (says so on his t-shirt) and is supposed to be on a grand tour of our reality. But wait, it gets weirder.

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Can You Build Your Own Civilization From Scratch? Meet Global Village

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:31 AM PDT

It’s possible and one non-profit company are at its cutting edge. Called Open Source Ecology, the loose-knit group of volunteers from different walks of life are launching a civilization from scratch. At the moment the organization have a Kickstarter funding drive going full blast. The aim is to raise enough money ($40,000) for the production of no less than 50 essential machines, including an open-source car and a 3D printer.

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Dell Latitude ST Windows Tablet Announced

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:13 AM PDT

Dell has launched another new tablet, although this one is designed for the business market, the Dell Latitude ST, which features a 10 inch display and comes with Windows 7 Professional.

The Dell Latitude ST features a 10.1 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, processing is provided by a single core 1.5GHz Intel Atom Z670 processor and it also comes with 2GB of RAM.

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The Double iPad Case, Will Let You Use Two iPad’s At Once (Video)

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 06:05 AM PDT

We have featured a number of different cases for the iPad here at Geeky Gadgets, although I think this one is a first, the Double iPad Case, and as the name suggests the case is designed to let you use two iPads at once.

The video below shows the Double iPad case in action, and it will apparently go on sale tomorrow, although there are no details on pricing as yet, we suspect the people who own two iPads ans want the case will be able to afford it.

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HTC Rhyme Lands On O2 UK

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:57 AM PDT

The HTC Rhyme was announced last month, and now it is available here in the UK from mobile operator O2, who are offering the device on a range of their monthly contracts.

The HTC Rhyme features a 3.7 inch multi-touch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, it will come with Android Gingerbread and HTC's Sense 3.5 user interface.

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Nokia Launching A White Nokia N9

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:50 AM PDT

The Nokia N9 is one the of the coolest designed smartphones we have seen, and luckily the new Nokia Lumia 800 shares a similar design. Nokia has announced that they will be releasing a white version of the Nokia N9.

As well as releasing the white Nokia N9, Nokia will also be releasing a software update for the N9 to bring a range of new features to the device, which include a number of improvements.

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BlackBerry Colt To Be RIM’s First BBX Smartphone?

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:36 AM PDT

RIM recently announced its new BBX platform, and now we have some details on the first smartphone that will use the BBX platform, according to the guys over at n4bb, the BlackBerry Colt will be the first BBX device.

The BlackBerry Colt will come with a 4 inch display and is also rumored to feature a dual core processor, plus front and rear cameras, and the device is expected to be launched early next year.

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Nokia Lumia 800 To Cost £440 In The UK

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:30 AM PDT

Yesterday the Nokia Lumia went up for pre-order in the UK, through Nokia’s own website, although it was only available to order if you sign up to a new contract with one of Three mobile providers, Vodafone, Orange and Three.

Now UK mobile retailer Clove has listed a SIM free version of the Nokia Lumia 800 on their website and it will retail for £442.80 including taxes, although Clove haven’t listed a release date for Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone device.

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus To Use Fortified Glass

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:21 AM PDT

The majority of new smartphones on the market today use Gorilla Glass, and when the Samsung Galaxy Nexus was announced we were expecting it to come with Gorilla Glass, but it would appear that it will use something else instead.

According to Samsung, the Galaxy Nexus will us ‘Fortified Glass’, although Samsung hasn’t released any details about the glass and whether it will be as strong and scratch resistant as the Gorilla Glass.

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Adobe Carousel Apps For Mac And iOS Devices Announced

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:12 AM PDT

Adobe has launched a new photo app for the Mac, iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, called Adobe Carousel and the app will let you store your photos online and you can then access them from your Mac or any of your iOS devices.

The Adobe Carousel app works with Adobe’s online storage, which is a paid service where you can store your photos online, and Adobe will charge $9.99 a month for the service of $99.99 a year.

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The Prop Mobile Laptop Stand (Video)

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 05:03 AM PDT

We have featured a number of different laptop stands here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is called the Prop, and it was designed by Justin Brouillette & Nicholas Pajerski from Make Collaboration, and the designers are trying to raise $18,000 on Kickstarter to put the Prop into production.

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Google Tests Out Google Voice Search Underwater (Video)

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 04:46 AM PDT

Google has been testing out Google Voice Search in Australia, and as well as testing it out in the desert, Google thought it would be a good idea to test it out underwater at the Great Barrier Reef.

Google used a special device for communicating underwater, the device is made up with microphone in the divers mask, which was then connected to some other equipment on a boat where the Android device with Google Voice was located, have a look at the video below.

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone Companion App For Xbox In Action (Video)

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:55 AM PDT

At yesterday’s Nokia World, Microsoft revealed some more details about the integration between their Windows Phone and the Xbox 360, the video below shows the new Companion app for the Xbox running on a Nokia Lumia 800.

As you can see from the video the app can be used as a remote for the Xbox including navigation of Microsoft’s various video offering and it can also provide additional content on the smartphone.

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LG DoublePlay Android Smartphone Lands On T-Mobile

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:42 AM PDT

The last thing we heard about the LG DoublePlay was that it was due to go on sale with T-Mobile on the 2nd of November, but now it would appear that the DoublePlay is available from the T-Mobile website.

The LG DoublePlay is available for $99.99 after rebates when you sign up to a new two year contract with T-Mobile or you can purchase it off contract for $399.99.

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RIM To Face Class Action Lawsuit After BlackBerry Outage

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 03:23 AM PDT

More bad news for RIM this morning, as BlackBerry users are filing a class action lawsuit against the company after the recent BlackBerry outage, which left BlackBerry users around the world unable to access BBM and other BlackBerry services for almost four days.

The lawsuit has officially been filed in the Quebec Superior Court by the Consumer Law Group, on behalf of BlackBerry users who pay for a monthly data plan that were unable to access their email during the outage.

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Apple’s iTunes Match Launch Imminent?

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:44 AM PDT

It looks like Apple is getting ready to launch its new iTunes Match music service, which Apple has previously said would launch in November, as Apple has told developers who are using the iTunes Match Beta that it will be reset today, the 27th of October.

Apple’s iTunes Match service will launch in the US next month, and the service will cost you $24.99 per year, and it will basically let you stream all the music you own but don’t have on your iOS device from the cloud.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime (Transformer 2) Poses For The Camera

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:34 AM PDT

Last week Asus announced its second generation Transformer tablet, which will be called the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, and Asus will officially show it off and release details on its specifications on the 9th of November.

Now we have our first decent photos of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, with its keyboard dock, which you can see below, and it will come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

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More Evidence That Google Music Store Is About To Launch

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:24 AM PDT

We have been hearing rumors over the last few weeks that Google is getting ready to launch its new Google Music Store, and now more evidence has been revealed which could hint at an imminent release of the Google Music Store.

If you go to music.google.com from your Android device, you will see a landing page which gives you the option to download the Google Music app, but there is now something new on the page, a link back to the Android Market, which shows that you can purchase music from it.

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Is The Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone Headed To The US?

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 02:13 AM PDT

Yesterday Nokia announced their first Windows Phone smartphones, and the one that everyone is interested in is the new Nokia Lumia 800, which shares a similar design to the Nokia N9.

When Nokia announced the Lumia 800 it said it would be available in Europe next month, but Nokia didn’t mention anything specific about a US launch of the Lumia 800.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Ban Appeal In Australia To Get Fast Tracked

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:45 AM PDT

Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is currently banned in Australia, after an Australian court ruled that Samsung had infringed on Apple’s patents, and Samsung has been trying to appeal the decision so it can start selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.

Now an Australian judge has decided to fast Track Samsung’s appeal to have the ban uplifted, although no specific date for the hearing has been set as yet.

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Facebook To Build First European Data Center In Sweden

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:34 AM PDT

Facebook has announced that it will build a new data center in Sweden, in Lulea, which is close to the Artic Circle, and this will be Facebook’s first European data center, and it is designed to handle all the European traffic for Facebook.

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Sony To Buy Ericsson Out Of Sony Ericsson Partnership For $1.47 Billion

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:24 AM PDT

We heard a rumor recently that Sony was looking to buy Ericsson out of their Sony Ericsson partnership, with Sony taking full control of its smartphone business which has been a joint project between the two companies over the last 10 years.

Sony will pay Ericsson 1.05 billion Euros, which works out at $1.47 billion US, and this will allow Sony to incorporate its mobile devices into other Sony products like PCs, tablets and more.

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Mozilla And Microsoft Team Up To Offer Firefox With Bing

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 01:01 AM PDT

Mozilla has teamed up with Microsoft and the company will be offering a custom version of Firefox that will come with Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine, the standard version comes with Google.

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Google Nexus One Won’t Get Android Ice Cream Sandwich

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:51 AM PDT

Google recently announced their latest Nexus smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which is the first device that will come with the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.

Google recently confirmed that the Google Nexus S would be getting the Android Ice Cream Sandwich update, but what about the earlier Google Nexus One? It would appear that the Google Nexus One won’t be getting Android Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Motorola Droid RAZR Goes Up For Pre-Order For $299.99

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:41 AM PDT

Motorola’s latest smartphone the Droid RAZR will be available to pre-order from Verizon Wireless later today for $299.99 when you sign up to a new two year contract with Verizon.

The Motorola Droid Razr features a Super AMOLED qHD display with a resolution of 540 x 960 pixels, processing is provided by a dual core 1.2GHz processor and there is also an 8 megapixel camera which can record full HD video in 1080p.

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Samsung’s Attempt To Ban iPhone 4S In Italy Denied By Judge

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:31 AM PDT

Samsung and Apple are involved in more than twenty different lawsuits around the world, Apple managed to get the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in Australia, and Samsung has been trying to get Apple’s new iPhone 4S banned in a number of countries.

One of those countries is Italy, and an Italian judge has denied Samsung’s initial request to have the iPhone 4S banned in Italy, and has scheduled a new hearing for the 16th of December where both Apple and Samsung will have to submit evidence to the court.

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Nokia Shows Off Flexible Smartphone Prototype (Video)

Posted: 27 Oct 2011 12:24 AM PDT

Yesterday we got to see the first Windows Phone smartphones from Nokia, the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Nokia Lumia 710, but not it would appear that Nokia has been showing off something much for interesting at Nokia World 2011, a Flexible smartphone prototype.

The guys from Cnet spotted the flexible smartphone prototype at Nokia World, and you can see it in action in the video below, and Nokia calls it the Nokia Kinetic Device.

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Ken Levine On Bioshock Infinite, Bioshock Movie

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 01:35 PM PDT

Ken Levine is the man at the helm of the good ship Bioshock, but he sees himself as more the “editor of a magazine … but I’m also a writer for the magazine.” Not because of any particular beef with the auteur approach to game making, it’s more of a semantic disagreement. “I believe more in editorship. Auteur sounds like you do everything,” he went on. We completely agree, Ken Levine, everything sounds more arrogant in French. But what of the movie based on the game he auteured?

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Epic Looking To Directly Influence Next Generation Console Hardware

Posted: 26 Oct 2011 12:39 PM PDT

When the owner of the biggest name in AAA game engines, the one responsible in some way, shape or form for the majority of blockbuster releases on every HD console speaks, hardware makers stand up and take notice. Especially when it also has a stunning demo showing the future of the industry to set the tone.

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