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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Asus Transformer Prime Sleeve Pops Up On Facebook video

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 11:54 AM PST

I am interested to get my hands on the Asus Transformed Prime Tablet. This is being called the best Android tablet out there by some reviewers and it is the most likely to challenge the iPad 2. Amazon recently cancelled some orders for the tablet allegedly due to excessive demand. A new accessory for the tablet has surfaced on Facebook.

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Simplify Android App Mockups With Design Preview (video)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:15 AM PST

A useful utility has been developed which has been designed to provide Android App developers with a utility for Mac, Windows and Linux that will mirror a portion of your desktop screen to your USB-connected Android device.

The new Android Design Preview software is still in its beta development stage but would already provide a great tool for demonstrating mock-up and work in progress. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Toyota Unveils Their Vision Of The Future With The Fun Vii (video)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:53 AM PST

Even though Toyota’s vision of the future may still be a few years away in reality. The presentation they have created featuring their Fun Vii concept car shows just what car manufactures are aiming for in the long run.

The Fun Vii concept car is equipped with three seats, one for the a driver, one for front passenger and on single, centred rear passenger seat. The Fun Vii measures 4 x 1.7 x 1.4 meters LWH and is packed full of technology and augmented reality. Check it out after the jump.

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Asus Padfone Will Be Equipped With Tegra 3 Processor?

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:15 AM PST

Back in November it was thought the new Asus Padfone would be arriving powered by a Quad Core S4 Qualcom processor. But new information revealed by Nicole Scott from The Netbook News website, has informed Engadget that this is incorrect. Stating that the new Asus Padfone will be equipped with Nvidia’s Tegra 3 processor instead.

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Microsoft Flight Now Accepting Beta Applications

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:49 AM PST

If you enjoy flying through virtual skies, you might be interested to know that this week Microsoft has started accepting beta applications for its new Microsoft Flight beta flying simulator software.

Microsoft has designed its new Flight simulator to bring a new perspective to their franchise, with new gameplay elements, an enhanced scenery and terrain, new aircrafts, and an integrated content marketplace. Watch a demo of the new Microsoft Flight software in action after the break.

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Old Tech Plays ‘House Of The Rising Sun’ Retro Style (video)

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:17 AM PST

We have featured a number of different tunes played by older computer equipment. But Canadian YouTube user BD594 has put together a great collect of retro computers and peripherals to create a retro tech orchestra. Which they have then used to play the famous Animals song “House of the Rising Sun”. Watch the results after the jump.

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HP TouchPad Go Appears On Ebay

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 05:10 AM PST

HP never got around to releasing the 7 inch version of their TouchPad tablet, the HP TouchPad Go, after they decided to stop producing webOS tablets and sold the original TouchPad tablet off at a discount.

Now it would appear that one of the 7 inch HP TouchPad Go tablets has appeared on eBay, which you can see in the picture below, although the listing has now been pulled from eBay.

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Tubalr Transforms YouTube Into Your Own Personal Jukebox

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:56 AM PST

YouTube is still not the easiest of services to use for listening to continually music streams from. But if you would like a little more control over YouTube, and transform it in to your very own jukebox, then Tubalr might be worth checking out.

The Tubalr website allows you to make listening to music powered by YouTube easier, and more enjoyable, and has been built by developer Cody Stewart. Other similar services are available to help you organise YouTube music, but the slick minimalist user interface of Tubalr makes it easy and painless to use.

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Sony To Drop Ericsson Brand From Smartphones In 2012

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:52 AM PST

We recently heard that Sony would be buying Ericsson out of the Sony Ericsson partnership for a reported $1.47 billion, and now Sony has confirmed that they will drop the Ericsson brand name from their smartphones next year.

Sony recently told the Times of India that they will drop the Ericsson name from the middle of next year, and future smartphones will be sold under the ‘Sony’ brand instead of the Sony Ericsson brand.

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PlayStation Vita Will Not Support Simultaneous Gaming and Internet Surfing Multitasking

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:40 AM PST

It has been revealed this week that when the new PS Vita arrives worldwide, you will not be able to play games and surf the Internet at the same time. Even though you will be able to multitask other services such as music, Twitter and have the ability to invite friends.

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Fujitsu Arrows ES 6.7mm Thick Smartphone Announced

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:38 AM PST

Fujitsu and Japan’s KDDI au have announced a new Android smartphone, the Fujitsu Arrows ES, which measures just 6.7mm thick at its thinnest point, and the device comes with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread.

Other specifications on the Fujitsu Arrows ES include a 4 inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, there is also a 1.4GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and 512MB of RAM, plus 1GB of RAM.

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Roll Up Leather Portable Multi Charger Station

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:23 AM PST

If you are looking for a mobile charging station that will allow you to charge four different devices at the same time. Then this new creation from Restoration Hardware might be worth a look.

The Roll up charger allows you to keep all your charging connectors neatly stored when not in use and then once you reach your destination allows you to connection four gadgets to charge. Providing connectors for, iPhone, Mini USB, Micro USB, and Samsung devices.

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Microsoft To Preview Windows 8 App Store Tomorrow

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:19 AM PST

We have been hearing quite a bit about Microsoft’s Windows 8 app store over the last few months, and now Microsoft has announced that they will preview their new software store tomorrow the 6th of December.

The Microsoft Windows Software Store won’t actually launch until Microsoft’s releases Windows 8 next year, which is rumored to launch around the fall of 2012.

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UK Supermarket Tesco Gets Free WiFi

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:12 AM PST

UK supermarket Tesco has announced that it will be offering free WiFi to its customers in its Tesco Extra stores throughout the UK, and the service has been launched with UK mobile and broadband provider O2.

Users of the Tesco stores will get free unlimited access to WiFi in the stores if they sing in using their Tesco clubcard, and if you don’t have one of these you will get 15 minutes of free WiFi when you are in the store.

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Sony Ericsson Nozomi Press Shots Leaked

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 04:02 AM PST

We have already seen a photo of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming HD smartphone, the Nozomi, and now the guys over at the Xperia Blog have managed to get their hands on some leaked press photos of the device.

What we heard previously that the Sony Ericsson Nozmi will features a 4.3 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, processing will be provided by a dual core 1.5GHz processor, and it will also come with 1GB of RAM and front and rear facing cameras.

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Dell Streak 7 Tablet Discontinued

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:30 AM PST

Just a couple of months after Dell released the Android Honeycomb update for their Dell Streak 7 tablet, it looks like the company has decided to discontinue the device as it has now been removed from their online store.

The news comes a couple of months after Dell discontinued the original Dell Streak 5 tablet, and at the moment Dell doesn’t have any Android tablets for sale in the US.

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Wikistream Visualises Wikipedia Updates In Real Time

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:18 AM PST

Wikipedia is a massive site and without people continually editing the site and its articles the Wikipedia’s content would soon become obsolete for many articles. If you have ever wondered just how many alterations are made on a daily basis a new website has been created which will reveal all for you, called Wikistream.

 

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Amazon Cancelling Asus Transformer Prime Orders Due To High Demand?

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 03:04 AM PST

The Asus Transformer Prime recently went up for pre-order with Amazon, and the device will go on sale in the US later this month, and it looks like there has already been high demand for the tablet.

We heard recently that Amazon sold out of their pre-orders within the first 24 hours, and now a number of people who pre-ordered the device have had their orders cancelled as Amazon has been unable to meet the demand for the tablet.

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EA Online Pass With New Games Can Expire, Reveals EA

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:54 AM PST

Over the weekend a NeoGAF member has revealed the an EA Online Pass can actually expire. The revelation came after the user purchased a new copy of EA’s Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, that contain an Online Pass, which when entered had expired. Stopping him enjoying any of the online content that comes with the game. After posting his findings on the forums a number of other gamers also revealed similar stories. Confirming that ES Online Passes can indeed expire.

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Another Big Battlefield 3 Patch Arriving On Wednesday

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:35 AM PST

In response to the last massive patch rolled out by EA and Dice and new patch is expected to land on Wednesday with a huge list of fixes and tweaks and will be around 2GB in size. But most go the 2GB will be taken up by the Back to Karkand DLC data.

When it arrives on Wednesday the new Back to Karkand will include four maps from previous Battlefield games, all recreated in Battlefield 3′s new Frostbite 2.0 game engine.

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Google Launches Androidland Retail Store In Australia

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 02:01 AM PST

Google has launched its first ever Android themed retail store in Australia, called Androidland, the retail store is a collaboration between Google and Australian mobile carrier Telstra.

The Androidland store has been launched on Melbourne, Australia, and the store sells many of the different smartphones and tablets that run Google’s Android OS.

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Honda Motor Compo Foldable Electric Scooter

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:48 AM PST

Honda has shown off a new electric scooter at the Tokyo Motor Show 2011, called the Motor Compo, this electric scooter can be folded down to make it more portable, and as you can see from the photos it features a unique design.

The Honda Motor Compo is just 3 feet long and 4 feet tall, and it has been designed to fit easily into Honda’s micro commuter concept vehicle, and it features a removable battery that can also be used to power electronic devices.

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Hyperkin SupaBoy SNES Handheld Arrives

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:48 AM PST

We first featured the Hyperkin SupaBoy SNES Handheld back in April of this year, when it was still under development. But if you have been patiently wating for its arrival you will be pleased to know your wait is now over.

The Hyperkin SupaBoy SNES Handheld has now arrived and is available to purchase for $80 from Amazon. Allowing you to play original SNES cartridges on a portable gaming console, equipped with a 3.5 inch LCD screen.

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Verizon Galaxy Nexus Appears In Samsung Store

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:38 AM PST

We are hoping that Verizon Wireless will launch the Samsung Galaxy Nexus some time this week, and now the 4G LTE version of the Galaxy Nexus has turned up at the Samsung Experience store in New York.

Whilst the device is on display in the Samsung store, it doesn’t look like you can actually buy it as yet, and we still don;’t have any pricing or an official launch date for Verizon.

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Google Release Galaxy Nexus Factory Image, For Easy Stock Restore

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:31 AM PST

Google has this week released a new factory image for Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus smartphone running, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The new image now allows anyone to reset and easily restore their locked/bricked Galaxy Nexus smartphone, back to its original stock factory settings.

So if you have been tweaking and developing apps and mods for your Galaxy Nexus smartphone, and pushed it a little far, resulting in a bricked device. There is now an easy way for you to return it to a working smartphone.

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Google Employees Testing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:24 AM PST

It looks like Google’s employees who own a Nexus S smartphone are getting to test out the latest version of Google’s mobile OS, as employees who own the Google Nexus S have received Android 4.0 as an OTA update.

The news was posted on Google+ and Twitter by a Google employee, although it appears that the posts have now been deleted, the messages that were posted are listed below.

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Xbox Companion App For Windows Phone 7 Arriving Tomorrow

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 01:12 AM PST

Tomorrow Microsoft will officially launch their new Xbox 360 Dashboard, an with it will also arrive their new Xbox Windows Phone 7 Companion App. The new Xbox Windows Phone 7 Companion App has been designed to be used in conjunction with your Xbox Live account, and allows users to search, movies, games and all content that's available on XBLMP, directly from your WP7 smartphone. With instant access to the Microsoft Marketplace to make on the go purchases.

 

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Motorola Droid 4 Revealed, Coming December 8th

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:48 AM PST

We have already seen some leaked photos of the Motorola Droid 4, and now the device has been confirmed by Verizon, and it will go on sale in the US on the 8th of December, as we had previously heard.

Motorola hasn’t revealed any more specifications about the new Droid 4, but we recently saw a leaked specifications sheet, which revealed it will come with a 4 inch touchscreen display and a slide out QWERTY keyboard.

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Evidence Of New Mac Pro’s Found In OS X 10.7.3 Beta

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:34 AM PST

Apple hasn’t updated it Mac pro range of desktop computers for quite some time, the last revision came in July of 20102, and now it would appear that evidence has been discovered in OS X 10.7.3 Beta which may have revealed a new Apple Mac Pro is on the way.

A reference in OS X 10.7.3 Beta relating to AMD’s new 28nm desktop graphics cards, codenamed Tahiti, which are due to be released in January of 2012, has been discovered, and this could mean that Apple has some new Mac Pro’s in the works.

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LG Nitro HD Android Smartphone Lands On AT&T

Posted: 05 Dec 2011 12:19 AM PST

LG’s latest Android smartphone, the LG Nitro is now available from US mobile carrier AT&T, and the device features a 4.5 inch HD IPS display with a 1280 x 720 pixel resolution, plus a dual core 1.5GHz processor.

The LG Nitro HD comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread, has 1GB of RAM, 4GB of built in storage and a microSD card slot that can take up to 32GB cards, it comes bundled with a 16GB microSD card.

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Fastest RC Car In The World Can Go 100mph (Video)

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 11:00 PM PST

Traxxas is to RC cars what Ferrari is to the auto-industry. They’re exclusive, innovative, and a little brash. Small wonder then that Traxxas have grabbed a lot of attention with their latest, an RC that can zoom at a 100mph. The best part is the police won’t bother you when you’re raising hell in the sidewalk with this beast. Check out the video after the jump.

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Italian Designer Reveals Super Modular Housing Scheme

Posted: 04 Dec 2011 10:00 PM PST

Simply put, seen below is just one combination of the Sliding Hub system in action. It’s supposed to be the ultimate answer to instant, portable home building for any location. The really incredible part is the designer Gabriel Aramu imprinted a little timeless genius into his Sliding Hub: the combinations are endless, though available references claim only 64 ‘structures’ are possible with the Sliding Hub system. It’s pretty much like Lego, except you can live inside the blocks.

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