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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Solar Powered Turbine Steampunk Pocket Watch

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 07:01 AM PST

Alchemy Jewellery has created a very unique type of steampunk pocket watch, which is classed as solar powered but not in the way you would think. Rather than using traditional solar panels as you’d expect a solar powered watch to be equipped with.

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Pink Samsung Galaxy S II Goes Up For Pre-order In the UK

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:53 AM PST

Samsung recently launched a pink version of their extremely popular Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone in Korea, and now it looks like the device is headed to the UK as couple of mobile retailers have put the pink Samsung Galaxy S II up for pre-order.

The pink Samsung Galaxy S II shares the same specifications as the original device, which include a 4.3inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels.

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Mass Effect 3 Kinect Demo Arriving On February 14th (video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 06:14 AM PST

Gamers interested in giving BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 game a play before its official launch. Will be pleased to know that a new Mass Effect 3 demo complete with Microsoft Kinect support will be arriving on Xbox Live on February 14th. Just in time as a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day.

The new Kinect controls to be included in the Mass Effect 3 demo will give you a glimpse of what you can expect when the game is officially launched. Providing you with voice commands that enable you to control environmental interactions, together with commands for combat and choosing your conversation options within the game. Watch the Kinect commands in action within the promotional video after the jump for a taste of what to expect.

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Auria 48-Track iPad Recording App Launched By Wavemachine Labs (video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:57 AM PST

Any iPad users serious about music production will be interested to learn that a new 48-track recording application called Auria that will be launched on to the iTunes App Store during the first quarter of 2012 priced at $49.99.

Auri has been developed and launched by Wavemachine Labs, and has been designed specifically for Apple’s iPad device. Being built to provide a professional studio and live tracking application.

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Apple’s iPhone 4S Helps Apple Close The Gap On Android

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:53 AM PST

Research firm Nielsen has released their latest smartphone report, and according to the report, Apple’s new iPhone 4S has helped Apple close the gap on Android in the last quarter of 2011.

The report says that the launch of the iPhone 4S had an enormous impact on smartphone purchases, with 44.5 percent of people surveyed purchasing an iPhone, this compares to 25.1 percent in October before the iPhone 4S was released.

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LG Prada 3.0 Headed To T-Mobile UK

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:25 AM PST

LG and Prada recently announced their latest smartphone, the LG Prada 3.0, which we heard would be headed to the UK in February, and now it looks like the device is also headed to UK mobile carrier T-Mobile.

T-Mobile UK now has the LG Prada 3.0 listed on their coming soon section of their website, although there dont seem to be any details on pricing or availability as yet.

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Whited00r Brings iOS 5 To Older 1st And 2nd Generation iPhones And iPods

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 05:22 AM PST

Owners of older first-generation iPod Touch devices or second-generation iPhones, who are missing the ability to run Apple’s latest iOS 5 operating system. Might be pleased to know that the newly updated software application called Whited00r 5.1 has been released that will allow you to install iOS 5 directly from iTunes onto these older devices.

Whited00r 5.1 provides an unofficial custom version of Apple’s iOS 5 operating system which has been designed to run on all iPod Touch devices and anything except the Apple’s first generation iPhone. Providing users with a variety of features only available in the new iOS 5 software.

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New Skyrim 1.4 Update Brings Hope For PS3 Gamers Experiencing Lag

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:57 AM PST

Bethesda the creators of the awesome Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game has today announced via Twitter that they have been working on a new update for Skyrim that will hopefully bring an end to the lag that many PlayStation 3 gamers have been experiencing within the Skyrim game since its launch last November.

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Genius DX-ECO Battery Free Wirless Mouse For PC And Mac Announced

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:53 AM PST

Genius has launched a new mouse , which the company claims is the worlds first battery free wireless mouse for both PCs and Mac, the Genius DX-ECO, which according to the press release is capable of being fully recharged in just three minutes.

The Genius DX-ECO is designed to work on a range of different surfaces including dusted glass and marble, it features an adjustable dpi of 800/1600 dpi and comes with a 2.4GHz Pico receiver.

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Conurus Launches Sony NEX Smart Adapter For Canon EOS Lenses (video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:46 AM PST

Sony NEX owners who have been longing to be able to use Canon EOS lenses on their Sony’s NEX-VG10, NEX-5, and NEX-3 cameras. Will be pleased to know that today Conurus have launched their new Smart Adapter which now makes it possible for Sony NEX owners to benefit from the Canon EOS lenses.

The new smart adapter integrates a Canon EF mount lens to a Sony NEX camera body. Enabling the electronic aperture to be directly controlled by the camera body and keeping all exposure modes available.

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Retro Atari 2600 iOS Speaker Dock

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:28 AM PST

There are plenty of iOS speaker docks available to choose from, but if you are looking for something a little more retro and original, this modified Atari 2600 might be the perfect iOS speaker dock for you.

This retro iOS dock has been created by Daniel McLeod of Black Mountain Audio. Who has removed the original Atari’s internal electronics and replace them with a pair of computer speakers and subwoofer, together with a modified gaming cartridge which has now being converted into a 30-pin dock, for either your iPhone or iPod Touch device.

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Motorola MOTOLUXE Goes Up For Pre-order In The UK

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:27 AM PST

Motorola recently announced a couple of new smartphones, one of those was the Motorola MOTOLUXE, which is now available to pre-order SIM free in the UK and it looks like it will be available around late February of early March in the UK.

The guys from Clove dropped us an email to let us know that they have a SIM free version of the Motorola MOTOLUXE available to pre-order, and the device will be available for £258 including taxes.

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Asus Transformer Prime TF700 Wont Hit The UK Until June

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:14 AM PST

Asus recently announced a new version of their Transformer Prime tablet, the Asus Transformer Prime TF700, which features a higher resolution display than the existing Transformer Prime tablet.

The new Transformer Prime TF700 features a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels and it is powered by a quad core NVIDA Tegra 3 processor, it looks like it wont be available in the UK until at least June, according to a recent Asus statement.

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Call Of Duty Elite Companion App Arrives On Android Devices

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:10 AM PST

Android users patiently waiting for the launch of the new Call Of Duty Elite Companion App for Google’s Android operating system. Will be pleased to know that the new application is now available to download for free from the Android Market.

Similar to the iOS version of the application, Android users now have the ability to check their rankings, achievements and scores. Together with the ability to customise their loadouts directly from their Android Smartphone, ready for it to be available once they return to their console.

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iConvert Scanner Scans Documents To Your iPad (Video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 04:01 AM PST

There are a number of portable scanner solutions available for both PCs and Macs, but I think this may be the first portable scanning solution for the iPad, the iConvert Scanner.

The iConvert Scanner is basically a dock for your iPad and it is compatible with both the original iPad and the iPad 2, and it comes with an iPad application.

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iON Action Pro Camcorder, Links To Your Smartphone And Easily Shares Movies Via YouTube And Facebook

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:54 AM PST

iON have announced the addition of a new sports camcorder to its range called the iON Action Pro. which has been designed to be specifically compatible with smart phone devices. Allowing you to control and record footage using specially designed applications on your smartphone.

The iON Action Pro is the first Smart phone compatible action camera, says iON, that allows users to shoot HD video and share it in real time via popular social networking sites, such as YouTube and Facebook.

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Fujitsu Stylistic M532 Android Tablet Leaked (Video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:49 AM PST

It looks like Fujitsu is getting ready to release a new Android tablet, called the Fujitsu Stylistic M532, the device comes with a range of high end specifications.

The Fujitsu Stylistic M532 will feature NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 processor, plus a display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, and it also feature 16GB of built in storage.

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Star Trek Online Game Goes Free To Play (video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:21 AM PST

If you are a Star Trek fan and enjoy exploring virtual space, but had second thoughts about signing up for the Star Trek Online game due to its monthly fee. You might be pleased to learn that the game has now joined the freemium model, and is now free to play for all.

Within the Star Trek Online game players are able to captain their own starships as part of the Federation or Klingon Empire’s, in a persistent online universe. With the ability to journey and explore strange and exotic new worlds, enjoying both epic ground and space missions throughout the game. View the new trailer which has been launched to promote the change from paid to free play after the jump.

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Kage 1 Series SATA And USB SSD Drives Unveiled By pureSilicon

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 03:00 AM PST

pureSilicon has this week unveiled their new range of solid state disks in the form of the new Kage 1 Series. The new drives are available as either a USB 3.0 SSD or as a SATA drive.

The Kage K1 SATA SSD is aimed at light enterprise users and workstations and are equipped with eMLC NAND, read speeds of 540 MB/s and writes of 520 MB/s. The Kage 1 SATA SSD will ship in capacities of 100GB, 150GB, 200GB, 300GB and 400GB, ranging in price from $975 to $2575.

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CyanogenMod 9 Alpha 0 For HP TouchPad Released

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:54 AM PST

Last week we saw a video of an early built of CyanogenMod 9 running on the HP TouchPad tablet, and now CyanogenMod Alpha 0 for the HP TouchPad has been released.

The release is accompanied with the full source code and a number of things are still not working on the HP TouchPad, which include the camera and more.

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Super Speed Slot Car Race Track (video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:45 AM PST

If you enjoy a good slot car race you will already know that part of the skill is being able to race around the track as fast as possible without your car flying off at the corners. Something I still haven’t mastered to this day. But even trying to keep your eyes on your own car whilst racing this slot car track would prove a problem in itself.

Slot car enthusiasts from Finland have built their own super speed slot car racing track, which allows specially designed custom slot cars to travel at amazing speeds. Watch the video after the jump to see if you can keep up and follow a car doing a full circuit.

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Ideum Unveils 65 Inch 3D HD Multi-touch Display

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:44 AM PST

We have seen a couple of multi-touch displays from Ideum previously at Geeky Gadgets, which include their 100 inch multi-touch table, and now the company has announced a new 65 inch 3D HD wall mounted multi-touch display.

This new 65 inch multi-touch display is called the Ideum MT65 Presenter, and it is capable of registering a total of 32 simultaneous touch points, as well as displaying full HD content in 1080p and also 3D content.

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Kindle Fire 6.2.2 Update Brings Full Screen Browsing, But Locks Root Acccess

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:26 AM PST

Amazon has today rolled out a new update for its Kindle Fire Android tablet. The new Kindle Fire 6.2.2 update is very small and brings with it a new button which allows users to enable full-screen browsing on Amazon’s Silk web browser.

In the same vein as previous updates from Amazon the new software version 6.2.2, also removes root access to the device. Amazon is rolling out the new update over-the-air so most Kindle Fire devices will automatically download and install the update.

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Motorola Xoom WiFi Gets Android ICS Update

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 02:12 AM PST

It looks like owners of the Motorola Xoom WiFi are getting an update to the latest version of Google mobile OS, Android Ice Cream Sandwich, and the update is Android 4.0.3.

A number of users are reporting that they have received the Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Motorola Xoom WiFi as an OTA update, although it does appear that the update is being rolled out in stages.

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Samsung Promises All Day Battery Life For Its 2012 Smartphones

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:53 AM PST

Many of the latest smartphones, with their larger higher resolution displays, faster processors and high end specifications don’t exactly have the best battery life and if you are a heavy user on some devices your battery may not last all day.

Samsung has announced that they intend to change this with their 2012 smartphones, and have promised to deliver new devices with batteries that are capable of lasting all day.

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Alienware X51 Small Form Factor Gaming PC Unveiled

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:42 AM PST

Today Dell has unveiled a new addition to their Alienware range of gaming PCs, announcing the arrival of the new Alienware X51 small form factor performance gaming PC. The new Alienware X51 is the smallest gaming desktop Alienware has ever produced and packs in enough power to provide gamers with a powerful portable gaming solution.

The new Alienware X51 is equipped with Intel's powerful second generation Core I processors, NVIDIA GeForce GT or GTX class graphics cards with GDDR5 memory options. Enabling you to customise your system to your exact requirements.

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iPad 3 To Be Announced In Early February?

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 01:33 AM PST

Apple’s third generation iPad, the iPad 3 is expected to go on sale some time in March, and now it would appear that we may get some sort of official announcement from Apple on the iPad 3 early next month.

According to the guys from Macotakara, Apple will announce the iPad 3, along with the launch of iOS 5.1 in early February, although this has yet to be confirmed by Apple.

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Wikipedia, Reddit, Craigslist And More Protest Against SOPA

Posted: 18 Jan 2012 12:39 AM PST

Wikipedia and many other sites, which include Reddit, Boing Boing and many other sites around the web are today protesting against the controversial proposed SOPA and PIPA anit-piracy bills, which if passed could basically ruin the Internet.

Wikipedia has blacked out its English language site today and will continue to do so for 24 hours, Reddit will black out their site for 12 hours and many more website are also following throughout the day, a full list of sites can be found at SOPAstrike.

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LG Optimus Pad LTE Now Official

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:26 PM PST

The LG Optimus Pad LTE, with sightings reported last year, has now been made official by LG.  The Android powered tablet will be made available first in South Korea.

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Android, iOS Get Winter X Games App

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 09:55 PM PST

There’s a new app worth checking out for iOS and Android. The Winter X Games 2012 has been released by ESPN, bringing with it a horde of new features, including an integration with GroupMe, an SMS style chatroom that allows users to interact more with their friends.

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Violet: Karotz Rabbit Thingy Monitors Social Networks

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 11:05 AM PST

If you are big on social networking and strange gadgets, you will get a kick out of the Violet: Karotz device. This thing was seen at CES 2012 and it is a rabbit that has ears that move along with different colors to alert you of things. It has voice activation software for easy interaction and it can read emails to you.

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