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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

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3-D Printed Wing and Circuit Could Change Manufacturing

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 10:01 AM PDT

3-D printing is nothing new; manufacturers have been using it for prototyping new products and devices for a long time. A 3-D printer generally uses a laser to heat resin, the heat causes the resin to harden, and a part or device is built layer by layer. Generally anything 3-D printed that needs wiring or circuits to operate has to have those wires installed manually.

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Onkyo Announces TX-NR 717 and TX-NR 818 Mid-range Receivers

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:35 AM PDT

Onkyo has unveiled the 7.2 Channel network AV receivers that offer all kinds of advanced technology inside. The new receivers include the Onkyo TX-NR717 and TX-NR818 and they share many of the same features. The 818 has Audyssey MultiEQ XT32 three-dimensional sound processing inside.

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Watch The Future, Smartphone Wrist Control Concept

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 09:06 AM PDT

A new watch concept has been created by F.Bertrand called the “Watch The Future”, which has been designed to enable you to link to application on your smartphone. Enabling you to control and receive updates directly on your wrist.

The “Watch The Future” concept wrist watch can display the weather, your contacts, stock exchange information, SMS messages, Facebook updates, your GPS location and more. As well as keeping you update-to-date with the current time.

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World Of Darkness In-Game Graphics Revealed (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:45 AM PDT

Over the weekend more details about the new World of Darkness game have been revealed, showing that its far from dead as thought by some before the updates.

World of Darkness is a vampire MMO and is based on the pen and paper RPG ruleset of the same name. To add more to the details released over the weekend a new video has been released showing a little of the ingame footage of World of Darkness, presented at EVE fanfest 2012.

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Handpresso Auto Gives You Espresso On The Go (Video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:39 AM PDT

Handpresso have launched another portable coffee maker which is designed to give you a nice cup of espresso whilst you are out and about, and this one is designed for your car, the Handpresso auto.

The Handpresso auto is powered by your car’s 12Vcigarette lighter, have a look at the video of it in action below, I think I may have to get one of these for my car.

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Digital Storm Unveils Monster Aventum PC Range

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:33 AM PDT

If you are in the market for a new PC and are ready to pull out all the stops on specifications. You might be interested in the new Aventum PC range which has been announced by Digital Storm this week.

Specifications include options to pack in dual six-core Xeon processors, 32GB of RAM, a trio of GTX 680s, and a 180GB SSD/1TB HDD.

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Anatomy of Apple Design Showcased In Just 37 Seconds (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 08:11 AM PDT

3D design and rendering company Transparent House has created a homage to Apple design in a quick 37 second video they have created. Showcasing Apple’s designs over the past 36 years.

The animation took around 10 days to complete and has been created using 3Ds Max and V-Ray render, and only used photo available on the Internet to create the 3D models used within the short animation.

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Black SMS iPhone App Keeps Your SMS Content Safe With Encryption

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:53 AM PDT

iPhone users that would prefer to keep their SMS message content concealed from prying eyes. Might be interested in a new iPhone application that has been created called Black SMS.

Black SMS has been designed to encrypt your SMS messages with a password and hides the encrypted data inside a black chat bubble, shown in the picture below.

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HTC One X And One S Up For Pre-order at Vodafone UK

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:42 AM PDT

The HTC One X is expected to go on sale here in the UK next month, and now UK mobile operator Vodafone has put the HTC One X up for pre-order, plus another of HTC’s new Android devices, the HTC one S.

The HTC One X will be available for free on Vodafone’s £41 per month contract and the HTC One S will be available for free on their £36 per month contract.

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Smartpet Robot iPhone Dog Launched By Bandai (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:40 AM PDT

Bandai makers of the famous Tamagotchi pet, have this week taken the wraps off their new project called Smartpet, which is a robotic dog that uses your iPhone as it processing unit.

Smartpet is controlled via a free iOS application that is installed on to your iPhone, and will react to touch gestures and provides over 100 facial expressions. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition, Dev Diary Trailer (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:20 AM PDT

With the launch of the highly anticipated Xbox 360 version of the fantastic The Witcher 2 game edging ever closer. Its developers CD Projekt have now released a developer diary trailer, detailing a few of the things you can expect in The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition when it arrives.

The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition is being designed to be a cinematic game and will include lots of cut scenes throughout the game. Adding to the games story in and enjoyment. CD Projekt will be releasing the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2 on April 17th.

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HTC Titan II Hits AT&T April The 8th For $199

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:16 AM PDT

We heard earlier that the new Nokia Lumia 900 will land on AT&T on the 8th of April, and now another Windows Phone smartphone will also be available from AT&T in the US on the 8th of April, the HTC Titan II.

AT&T will be offering the HTC Titan II for $199.99 when you sign up to a new two year contract with the carrier, and the handset comes Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

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Steampunk Twittertape Machine, Prints Your Tweets Old School Style

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 07:02 AM PDT

If you are looking for a more unique way to stay updated with your Tweets. This fantastically unique steampunk style Twittertape Machine might be just the thing you need.

The Twittertape Machine has been designed by Adam Vaughan, and is a prototype standalone networked device that prints a feed of your tweets and mentions on Twitter.

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Mass Effect 3 Patch Created To Fix Face Import Issues

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:47 AM PDT

BioWare has announced that they now have a fix for the issues that prevented players importing their previous characters face in to the new mass Effect 3 game. The issue on the faces was detected when imported from Mass Effect 1 into Mass Effect 2 and foxed players to have to recreate their characters face with Mass Effect 3.

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Orange UK Samsung Galaxy S II Android 4.0 Update Coming In April

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:44 AM PDT

Last week Samsung released the Android 4.0 update for the Samsung Galaxy S II, and one UK carrier Three announced that the update was being rolled out on their network and now we have some information from another UK carrier.

Orange UK has announced that the Android 4,0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be available for the Samsung Galaxy S II on their network, although we don’t as yet have a specific date.

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Nokia Lumia 900 Confirmed For April 8th Launch

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 06:21 AM PDT

We have been hearing over the last week or so that the new Nokia Lumia 900 would be coming to AT&T between the 8th and 9th of April, although this was not confirmed by AT&T until now.

Whilst there is no official press release out yet, AT&T have confirmed to Cnet that the Nokia Lumia 900 will be available in stores and online from the 8th of April.

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SnapFuse iPad Smart Cover Clips (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:57 AM PDT

A new design has started its journey over on the Kickstarter website called SnapFuse. Which consists of clips which have been designed specifically designed to use with Apple’s iPad Smart Cover, and provide you with a way of attaching and carrying pens, stylus, credit cards or business cards. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Could This Be The Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6?

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:43 AM PDT

We have been hearing rumors for a while now that Samsung are working on a new larger tablet to add to their range of Android tablets, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 11.6.

As the name suggests this new tablet is rumored to feature an 11.6 inch display, and now the guys over at Android and Me have discovered a new tablet which has yet to be released on Samsung’s own website, which you can see in the photos below.

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Firefox 14 Now Fitted With Built In HTML 5 Based PDF Reader

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:38 AM PDT

Mozilla has now started to integrate a native PDF reader into Firefox 14 versions. A new nightly build of Firefox 14 has been released over the weekend, which brings with it a new integrated PDF viewer within Firefox.

When a PDF is now opened in the Firefox 14 a browse tab is created and a toolbar appears at the top enabling you to go to a specific page, change the zoom level, print, download the PDF, or bookmark its current location.

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Original 1984 Mackintosh 128K Computer Appears On eBay

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:27 AM PDT

An original Mackintosh 128k M001, has turned up for sale in eBay, and it was first launched in 1984 with the famous ’1984′ Mackintosh advert that was directed by Ridley Scott.

The Mackintosh 128K M001 is currently listed on eBay for $3,519.84 and it even comes with the original box as well as the manuals and software that came with it at launch.

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Cardboard Framed Tricopter And QuadCopter (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:15 AM PDT

If you would like to own a quad or tricopter but just can’t afford the $300 for a professionally build flying machine such as the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0. You might be interested in these that have been built using cardboard frames rather than the tradition aluminium ones. Details of building both the tricopter and quadcopter have been published over on the Mike Estee website, and can be viewed in flight after the jump.

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Angry Birds Space Hits 10 Million Downloads

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 05:05 AM PDT

Rovio Mobile launched their latest installment in the Angry Birds saga last week, Angry Birds Space, which is available on a number of different platforms which include Android, iOS and the PC and Mac.

We heard on the weekend that Angry Birds Space had made it to the top of the charts on Apple’s app store, and now we get some details on just how popular the game has become since its launch.

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Google Enables Any Number Calling From Google+ Hangouts

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:53 AM PDT

Google has just rolled out a new feature to their Google+ Hangouts area that now allows users to be able to call almost any phone number. Originally Google+ Hangouts enabled video calling between contacts but the addition of the new feature now enables Google+ Hangout users to be able to call almost any phone number worldwide. Allowing them to also join in the Hangout and participate in Hangout.

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Ex-RockStar Employee Leaks GTA 5 Details

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:40 AM PDT

If you have been wondering what the new Grand Theft Auto Five (GTA V) game might have in store for you once its launched later this year. An ex-Rockstar employee who recently got sacked from RockStar North for general misconduct, has now revealed plenty of details about the new GTA 5 game and what you can expect.

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Mystery Samsung Event Planned For March 30th In The UK

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:26 AM PDT

Samsung has a special event planned here in the UK for March the 30th and the event will take place at the Oxford Street Phones 4U store in London, the company previously had the exclusive launch of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus here in the UK.

We don’t as yet have any information on what Samsung plans to launch at this event, although there has been speculation that it could possibly be the Samsung Galaxy S III.

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Rolex Deepsea Challenge Watch Can Dive To 12,000 Meters

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:23 AM PDT

52 years on since Rolex created the first Deep Sea Special to accompany Jacques Piccard and Lt. Don Walsh on their record-breaking descent to the bottom of Challenger Deep.

Rolex have introduced a new addition to their range in the form of the Rolex Deepsea Challenge. Which has accompanied James Cameron on his latest deep sea dive to the bottom of Challenger Deep.

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Logitech Announces BCC950 ConferenceCam (Video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 04:05 AM PDT

Logitech has launched a new video camera designed to be used for video conferencing, the Logitech BCC950 , which is a all in one pan, tilt and zoom full HD web camera.

The Logitech BCC950 features a wide range of functions, which include a full-duplex omni-directional speakerphone, and it is designed to work with a range of different applications, have a look at the video below.

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Facebook May Take Legal Action Against Employers Who Ask Staff For Passwords

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:56 AM PDT

There have been a number of reports over the last few weeks that certain companies and even some colleges have been asking their employees for their Facebook password details.

And now Facebook has released a statement on the matter, which could mean some sort of legal action against the companies that ask for these details in the future.

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Massive Battlefield 3 Patch And Dedicated Servers Arriving On PS3 Consoles Tomorrow

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:54 AM PDT

Over the weekend DICE the developers of Battlefield 3 revealed that the massive highly anticipated patch will be arriving on PS3 consoles tomorrow. Bringing with it a number of new features including the ability to rent your own dedicated Battlefield 3 server.

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RIM To Give Developers New BlackBerry Prototypes In May

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:45 AM PDT

It looks like RIM is getting closed to the release of its new BlackBerry 10 platform, as according to a recent report, the company will be giving prototype BlackBerry 10 devices to devel0pers in May.

According to Bloomberg, RIM will be giving out 2,000 BlackBerry 10 test devices to developers at RIM’s BlackBerry Jam conference, which takes place in Orlando, Florida in May.

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James Cameron Successfully Descends To The Deepest Point On Earth (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:41 AM PDT

Last week James Cameron was preparing to his Deepsea Challenger one-man mini submarine to to dive down over 36,000ft, to the deepest point on earth. Well now James Cameron has completed the descent and successfully returned front the bottom of the 7 mile Marianas Trench. Around three times as deep as the resting place of the Titanic.

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Apple Offering Royalty Free Liscense On Its New Nano SIM Cards

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:36 AM PDT

Apple obviously wants its new nano SIM card to become popular, as it would give the company more room inside its iPhone by using a much smaller and thinner SIM card.

According to a recent report by Foss Patents, Apple has the support of most of the European carriers for its new SIM card standard, but some companies seem to be worried about using the new SIM card as Apple owns the patents to it.

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HTC One X With Snapdragon S4 Gets Benchmarked

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:22 AM PDT

AT&T’s version of the HTC One X won’t come with the NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor that is featured in the international version, instead the device will come with Qualcomm’s dual core Snapdragon S4 processor.

Now it looks like we have the first benchmarks on the S4 version of the HTC One X, thanks to Phonegeek from the Android central forums, which you can see below.

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New Max Payne 3 Trailer Intros Games Machine Gun Weapons (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 03:07 AM PDT

Rockstar Games has released a new video trailer this weekend for its upcoming Max Payne 3 game. Which reveals the range of submachine gun weapons that will be available and at your disposal to use whilst playing.

The video after the break includes a glimpse of the Micro 9mm, SAF .40, MPK, M972, and M10 which you will be able to use in Max Payne 3. Together with the return of bullet-time in action sequences, and over-the-shoulder zoom aiming and cover mechanics.

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EVE Inferno Expansion Arriving May 22nd (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:49 AM PDT

During the EVE Fanfest 2012 its been revealed over the weekend that CCP will be releasing a precursor patch on April 24th in preparation for the release of their latest expansion, EVE Inferno which is expected to be arriving on May 22nd.

CCP has also released a new trailer, announcing the arrival of new missiles and turret effects within EVE. You can watch it after the jump, but art shown is currently work in progress, and may not necessarily be representative of the final product, says CCP.

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Permoveh Personal Mobile Vehicle, Allows Sideways Movement (video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:33 AM PDT

Researchers have unveiled a new style of personal mobile vehicle they have developed called the Permoveh, that will allow users to move in a sideways direct as well as the traditional forward and backward directions.

The sideways directional movement is possible, due to a new style of wheel which has been created by the team. The research team’s leader Masaharu Komori, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Kyoto University,can be seen demonstrating the new design in the video after the jump.

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Microsoft And Nokia Launch $24 Million AppCampus Developer Center

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 02:25 AM PDT

Microsoft and Nokia have announced the launch of a new app development center, which will be based in Finland, and will be called the AppCampus, and the two companies are investing $24 million in it.

The AppCampus will launch in May, and it will be managed by Finland’s Aalto University, in an attempt to attract students, developers and entrepreneurs to the Windows Phone platform and also the Symbian platform.

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Swedish Magicians Use 7 New iPads For Cool Magic Show (Video)

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:43 AM PDT

We have already seen a couple of videos of some magicians using Apple’s iPad in their magic shows, and now a couple of magicians have taken it to the next level using a total of seven of Apple’s new iPad for their magic show.

The video below shows magicians Charlie Caper and Erik Rosales using 7 iPads for a video that was put together to promote the city of Stockholm.

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Android 4.0 ICS Update For Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Leaked

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:25 AM PDT

AT&T’s version of the Samsung Galaxy S II, which is called the Galaxy S II Skyrocket has yet to receive the official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, but now it would appear that the update has been leaked.

The guys over at RooztWiki have discovered the leaked ROM, which has a build date of the 14th of March, and it can be used to update you Galaxy S II Skyrocket to ICS.

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Nokia Paying AT&T To Give Employees Lumia 900 Smartphone

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 01:12 AM PDT

The Nokia Lumia 900 is expected to go on sale in AT&T stores in the US on the 9th of April, and according to a recent report the Nokia Lumia 900 will be a ‘hero’ device for AT&T.

What this means is that AT&T will heavily promote the Nokia Lumia 900 and one way of doing this is giving the devices to all the sales reps at AT&T stores.

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Next iPhone To Feature 3.5 Inch Display And 4G LTE

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:59 AM PDT

There have been a number of rumors over the last week that this years iPhone will come with a 4.6 inch display, the rumor originally came from Reuters, who had said that the sixth generation iPhone would launch in the second quarter of 2012.

Well it looks like the report was nothing but a rumor, as we suspect, as there are now conflicting reports saying that this years iPhone will come with the same 3.5 inch display which is featured in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S.

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Microsoft And US Marshals Try To Shut Down Botnet With Raids

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:34 AM PDT

Microsoft and US Marshals have raided some offices in Pennsylvania and Illinois, inside the offices were web  servers which has been used to infect computers and steal personal data.

The raid was not one organized by the police, instead it was part of a civil lawsuit which Microsoft had brought in an attempt to shut down a range of botnets.

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Decorate Your Door Peephole With A Robot

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:03 AM PDT

For safety purposes, it's now a requisite for an establishment or even a mere home to be an adjunct to reliable ogle devices. Closed-circuit television cameras or CCTVs in particular, however, are a few of the strategies to go on and somehow, be protected.

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Pocket-Friendly Montie Gear Slingshot Allows You to Have a 16-Pound Pull at Hand

Posted: 26 Mar 2012 12:03 AM PDT

The ever popular slingshot stuff among kids during old days is still on the mode of burning desires at present. In fact, previously released slingshot versions have been known to be the hit market concrete evidences in contributing to public sport vibrancy.
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Child’s Play Fundraising Effort To Change Mass Effect 3 Ending Shut Down

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 12:34 PM PDT

Penny Arcade and Child’s Play founders Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik are probably used to influencing the industry via their webcomic, not have it done for them through their charity. “Retake Mass Effect”, a fan effort to have the ending of the game changed has been using Child’s Play donations as a means of drawing attention to their cause. Suffices to say, there were problems.

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EVE Online Developer Details Vampire MMO World of Darkness

Posted: 25 Mar 2012 12:21 PM PDT

More details have emerged about CCP’s vampire-themed MMO, World of Darkness, chief among them the revelation that the game is far from cancelled, despite rumors suggesting otherwise. Following CCP’s merger with White Wolf, the new property will apparently be taking a lot of its cues from Vampire: The Masquerade, which instantly propels it to the top of my list of games to watch.

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