Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Facebook Interest Lists Turn Your Profile into a Personal Newspaper
Tobii Shows Off Latest Eye Tracking Gear
War of the Roses First Gameplay Trailer Unveiled (video)
Dark Meadow Going Free On iOS And Android Devices (video)
Parrot AR. Drone Controlled By Epson Moverio BT-100 (Video)
Google Fixes Chrome Pwnium Security Flaw In Less Than 24 Hours
Seiko Astron GPS Solar Watch Announced
iPhone Tiltpod Keyring Stand (video)
Sony Ericsson Windows Phone Prototype Appears On eBay
Android Market Terms Prohibits In App Use Of Third Party Payment Services
HTC One X Rooted Ahead Of Release
Dropbox Launches New Minimalist Design With Photo Viewer, Action Bar And More
Apple Releases iPad 3 iSight Camera Sample Photos
Red Bull Capsule Ready For Record Breaking 120,000ft Skydiving Attempt
iPad 3 Features a 70 Percent Larger Battery Than iPad 2?
Xbox 720 To Ditch Optical Disk, Coming In 2013
Clear Stick Atlas WiMAX Dongle Offers Instant 4G Connectivity Without The Need For Software
UK iPad 3 Shipping Changed To 2 – 3 Weeks
Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Solution, Lets You Keep Your Existing Drive
Volvo Unveils Pedestrian Airbag (Video)
CRTouch Glove Project Transforms Old CRT Monitors Into Touchscreens (video)
Ghost Recon: Future Solider Believe in Ghosts Trailer #2 (video)
Samsung Files Galaxy Emerge, Stellar And Halo Smartphone Trademarks
Gyroboard Board Balance Trainer (video)
BioShock Infinite : Heavy Hitters Trailer Released (video)
OnLive’s Windows Virtual Desktop May Violate Microsoft’s Liscensing Agreement
Android 4.0 ICS Update Now Available For Archos 80, 101 G9 Tablets
NCAA March Madness Live App Now Available
Google’s Nexus Tablet, Made By Asus Coming In May (Rumor)
Music Unlimited Arrives On PS Vita, Android App Receives Offline Playback
Future Raspberry PI Shippments May Be Delayed
Comcast Not Keen On Teaming Up With Netflix
Bioshock For PS Vita Going For “Show, Don’t Tell”
Valve Not Making Steam Box Console/PC

Facebook Interest Lists Turn Your Profile into a Personal Newspaper

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 10:48 AM PST

Facebook has announced that it will be launching Interest Lists over the coming weeks. It appears that these Interest Lists will turn up on people’s accounts randomly and some may get them early, while others have to wait a while. This is sort of an expansion to the interests Facebook already allows you to choose.

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Tobii Shows Off Latest Eye Tracking Gear

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 10:23 AM PST

Controlling the mouse and the computer simply by looking where you want to go is already here to some extent thanks to a company called Tobii. Last year the company was showing off its eye-tracking tech and even had the technology inside a Lenovo notebook. This year at CeBIT 2012 the company was showing off its latest eye tracking technology.

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War of the Roses First Gameplay Trailer Unveiled (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 05:43 AM PST

Fatshark and Paradox have just unveiled the first gameplay trailer for the new War Of the Roses game currently being developed by the two companies. War Of the Roses is like a first person shooter but based in the civil war era of 15th century England.

During which two rival branches of the Royal House of Plantagenet: House of Lancaster and House of York battled it out. Watch the video after the jump to see the first glimpse of the what you can expect from the gameplay.

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Dark Meadow Going Free On iOS And Android Devices (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 05:19 AM PST

Phosphor Games’ have announced this week that they will be re-launching their Dark Meadow game as a free title from next week. Allowing gamers to enjoy the atmospheric game without any outlay.

However if you want to play the entire game there will be an “exclusive upgrade” fee to fully unlock it, of $5.99. At GDC 2012 Chip Sineni explained to Joystiq that the reason behind the price shift was because “We just want to get the game in as many hands as possible,”. Watch the trailer after the jump to see it in action.

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Parrot AR. Drone Controlled By Epson Moverio BT-100 (Video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 05:11 AM PST

Thomas Sohmers decided to combine a Parrot AR.Drone along with an Epson Moverio BT-100, which is a 3D head mounted display, and it is used to to simultaneously view the AR.Drone and an overlay of its video feed.

The Epson Moverio BT-100 also comes with a handheld controlled which runs Google’s Android OS and this was used to control the AR.Drone, have a look at the video of it in action below.

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Google Fixes Chrome Pwnium Security Flaw In Less Than 24 Hours

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 05:02 AM PST

Less than 24 hours after security flaws which were found and awarded $60,000 by Google at the recent Pwnium event has already been patched up ad fixed. The new security update which has patched the security flaw discovered by Russian student and hacker Sergey Glazunov. Has already been rolled out using Google Chromes automatic update feature.

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Seiko Astron GPS Solar Watch Announced

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:59 AM PST

Seiko has added a new watch to its range with the launch of the Seiko Astron, although this one is a little different than some of their previous timepieces as it is the worlds first GPS solar watch.

The watch will automatically reset to the correct time when you change time zones, and it features a low powered GPS receiver, which wont use up the watches battery.

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iPhone Tiltpod Keyring Stand (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:47 AM PST

Some of you might remember the handy Tiltpod stand for cameras, we featured here on Geeky Gadgets back in September last year. Well the same company that created the keyring sized camera stand have now unveiled a new stand designed for iPhones over on the Kickstarter website.

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Sony Ericsson Windows Phone Prototype Appears On eBay

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:40 AM PST

Sony Mobile Communications, which was previously Sony Ericsson has yet to release a Windows Phone smartphone, but now a Sony Ericsson Windows Phone prototype device has appeared on eBay.

The device is listed as a Sony Ericsson Windows 7 Julie prototype, and it comes with an 8 megapixel camera and a Qwerty keyboard, those seem to be the only main details listed about the device.

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Android Market Terms Prohibits In App Use Of Third Party Payment Services

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:35 AM PST

It has been revealed this week that Google is putting pressure on developers to use its own Google Wallet payment system. Rather than using third party in-app payment options for their creations, such as PayPal, Zong and Boku. Which would violate the Google Market’s terms of use.

The news has been reported by Reuters who where contacted by a number of developers, investors and executives from mobile gaming and payment services revealing the conditions and situation with Google.

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HTC One X Rooted Ahead Of Release

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:32 AM PST

The HTC One X hasn’t even gone on sale yet, the device will be available withing a couple of weeks, but Android developer Paul O’Brien from MoDaCo has already cracked the HTC One X’s software.

He has also released a tool that will let you root the HTC One X, called Superboot which writes a boot image to the device, and that is used to root the handset.

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Dropbox Launches New Minimalist Design With Photo Viewer, Action Bar And More

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:14 AM PST

Dropbox has today rolled out a new update and redesign to its cloud file sharing and storage service software. Bringing with it a new photo viewer and improved file management.

The new redesign has been quietly rolling out over the last couple of weeks. But if you now login to your Dropbox online account the new features and simpler layout are all finished and ready to use.

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Apple Releases iPad 3 iSight Camera Sample Photos

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 04:05 AM PST

Apple’s new iPad, or the iPad 3 comes with a 5 megapixel camera that is capable of recording full high definition video in 1080p, and now Apple has released some photo samples which have been taken with the new iPad’s camera.

You can see a couple of the sample photos below, although they have been re-sized to fit the site, you can see the full resolution versions over at Apple at the link below.

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Red Bull Capsule Ready For Record Breaking 120,000ft Skydiving Attempt

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 03:59 AM PST

Red Bull’s capsule which is part of their recording breaking attempt to set a new skydiving record is now finished and ready to go. The Red Bull Stratos project hopes to carry Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner up to the upper reaches of the stratosphere to 120,000 ft. Where he will then exit the capsule and skydive back down to earth.

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iPad 3 Features a 70 Percent Larger Battery Than iPad 2?

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 03:53 AM PST

When Apple announced the new iPad 3, which comes with 4G LTE, they also announced that it would feature similar battery life to the iPad 2, although the 4G on the iPad 3 will use much more battery power than 3G on the iPad 2.

It looks like the iPad 3 features a battery which is 70 percent bigger than that of the iPad 2, which would explain why the device is capable of running for almost the same amount of time over 4G as the iPad 2 over 3G.

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Xbox 720 To Ditch Optical Disk, Coming In 2013

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 03:42 AM PST

We have heard a number of rumors about Microsoft’s next generation Xbox gaming console, which may be called the Xbox 720, and now according to a recent report, the Xbox 720 may lose the optical disk.

According to the guys over at MCV, Microsoft has been telling its partners that the new Xbox console will not include a disc drive, and instead the device will offer compatibility with some sort of interchangeable solid state card storage.

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Clear Stick Atlas WiMAX Dongle Offers Instant 4G Connectivity Without The Need For Software

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PST

Clearwire has today launched their new USB dongle called the Clear Altas Stick. Which has been been created to provide users with instant 4G connectivity without the need to install extra software or set it up.

The new dongle has been designed to enable almost any computer or device equipped with a USB port to access 4G mobile broadband in cities with CLEAR coverage.

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UK iPad 3 Shipping Changed To 2 – 3 Weeks

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 03:18 AM PST

It looks like Apple m,ay have sold out of its initial pre-orders of the iPad 3 for delivery on launch day, next Friday the 16th of March, as if you now orders an iPad 3 from Apple’s website here in the UK the shipping estimate has been changed to 2 – 3 weeks.

In the US there are still some models up for pre-order with a delivery date of the 16th of March, although some AT&T models are showing a date of the 19th of March as we mentioned yesterday.

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Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Solution, Lets You Keep Your Existing Drive

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 02:59 AM PST

Crucial has just announced the arrival of its new Crucial Adrenaline Solid State Cache Solution. Which is equipped with a 50GB Crucial m4 SSD and the NVELO Dataplex caching software which has been designed to be easy to work with. Unlike other data cache software which can be tricky to setup and use.

Enabling users to be able to keep their existing hard drive intact within their system. Providing users with the best of both worlds with solid state drive (SSD) like performance with the high capacity storage of a traditional hard drive.

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Volvo Unveils Pedestrian Airbag (Video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 02:50 AM PST

Volvo is well known for making safe cars, and now the company has come up with a pedestrian airbag for its vehicles, which is designed to protect pedestrians when they are hit by a vehicle.

The video below shows the pedestrian airbag in action, and as you can see when a pedestrian is hit by the vehicle, the airbag is deployed to cover the vehicles windscreen.

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CRTouch Glove Project Transforms Old CRT Monitors Into Touchscreens (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 02:43 AM PST

A new system called CRTouch has been developed by three students from the University of Hasselt in Belgium, Dieter Meeus, Miel Truyen and Nand Truyen. The CRTouch system allows touchscreen capabilities to be added to a old CRT monitor.

The CRTouch concept uses a Altera DE2-70 board and a few phototransistors in the fingertips of a glove to detect the electron beam created by the CRT monitor, to create the touchscreen.

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Ghost Recon: Future Solider Believe in Ghosts Trailer #2 (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 02:28 AM PST

Ubisoft has today release the second in the series of the new Ghost Recon:Future Solider game which is currently under development. The new Future Solider trailer shows you how you will be able to customise in game weapons to your exact requirements using the new editing feature called “Gunsmith”, offering you over 20 million different weapon combinations to choose from.

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Samsung Files Galaxy Emerge, Stellar And Halo Smartphone Trademarks

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 02:16 AM PST

It looks like Samsung has a few more smartphones in the works to add to its Galaxy range, as a number of new trademarks which have recently been filed by Samsung have been revealed.

The trademarks were filed with the USPTO on the 2nd of March 2012, and the filings are related to mobile phones and smartphones and were for three separate devices.

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Gyroboard Board Balance Trainer (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 02:10 AM PST

Anyone looking to improve their surfing or skateboarding balance skills when away from the beach, park or off season. Might be interested in this new Gyroboard which has been developed by New Zealand company Gyro Enterprises.

The Gyroboard has been created to allow you to hone your skills at anytime, and help you to improve your core strength, balance and coordination. Watch the video after the jump to see it the Gyroboard in action.

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BioShock Infinite : Heavy Hitters Trailer Released (video)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:54 AM PST

Irrational Games has this week released the first in series of new videos that will provide an insight into some of the bigger foes you will meet within their upcoming BioShock Infinite game which is expected to launch in October 2012. The new video shows a glimpse of a “clockwork terminator” style big hitter within BioShock Infinite called the motorizied patriot.

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OnLive’s Windows Virtual Desktop May Violate Microsoft’s Liscensing Agreement

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:43 AM PST

OnLive recently launched a new app for the iPad that would let you use a virtual Windows desktop on your tablet, and now it would appear that Microsoft and OnLive are in discussions on whether the use of Windows in the app violates Microsoft’s licensing agreement.

Microsoft has posted on their blog about the issue, and have said they are in discussions with OnLive regarding their Desktop and Desktop plus applications.

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Android 4.0 ICS Update Now Available For Archos 80, 101 G9 Tablets

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:38 AM PST

If you are the proud owner of either a Archos 80 or 101 G9 tablet, you will be pleased to learn that Archos has now made available Google’s latest Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system, which is now available to download and install.

As well as the latest Android 4.0 ICS update, Archos has also rolled out a few of their very own customisation for users in the form of a custom file manager and a video player.

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NCAA March Madness Live App Now Available

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:37 AM PST

NCAA March Madness is nearing tip-off and NCAA and Turner Sports are making sure you get all the action right on your device with the launch of its app for iOS. Android users will also have the app available for download once the action begins.

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Google’s Nexus Tablet, Made By Asus Coming In May (Rumor)

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:33 AM PST

We recently heard a rumor that Asus may be building the first Google branded Android tablet, and now according to a recent report from Digitimes, the Google Nexus tablet could launch as soon as may of this year.

According to the report Asus and Google are working on a 7 inch Android tablet, which is aimed at taking on the Amazon Kindle Fire, and the device is expected to retail for between $199 and $249.

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Music Unlimited Arrives On PS Vita, Android App Receives Offline Playback

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:18 AM PST

This week Sony have launched their Music Unlimited on the new PS Vita gaming console via an application that can now be downloaded from the UK PlayStation Store.

As well as launching the new app for Muisc Unlimited Sony have also announced that their Android Music unlimited application how includes a new feature that will enable users to playback music offline.

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Future Raspberry PI Shippments May Be Delayed

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:15 AM PST

The first Raspberry PI computers went on sale recently, and the first batch of computers was sold out within a few hours, and now the Raspberry PI Foundation has announced that there may be a slight delay in future batches of the device due to a manufacturing hiccup.

The suffered a minor problem in manufacturing which has now been fixed, and the existing orders are expected to ship on time, but there could be a slight delay in the next back as they need to source some more parts.

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Comcast Not Keen On Teaming Up With Netflix

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 01:03 AM PST

Netflix said it is willing to have its service linked with cable and satellite providers but it seems it will need to be more convincing if it wants to make it a reality. Cable operator Comcast has turned down the idea, preferring to work on its own rather than exploring a possibility of teaming up with Netflix.

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Bioshock For PS Vita Going For “Show, Don’t Tell”

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:56 PM PST

Sony wants you to know that Bioshock for the PlayStation Vita is being worked on. They asked Ken Levine, the driving force behind the series if he would kindly tell everyone about it. “We’re trying to figure that [announcement timing] out. I ideally wouldn’t have talked about the Vita game when I did. It was understandably important that, you know, Sony wanted us to share that information,” he told Joystiq.

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Valve Not Making Steam Box Console/PC

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 04:04 PM PST

As much as the gaming public would love to see Valve try their hand at fixing PC gaming hardware, it seems the Steam Box rumours are just that: rumours. Valve has apparently built Steam Box prototypes, but only to test the upcoming Steam Big Picture mode designed for PCs hooked up to TVs. At least according to Valve’s Doug Lombardi.

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