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Friday, April 20, 2012

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Magic Mushroom USB Drive Costs $37,000

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:31 AM PDT

If you have money to burn, like forty-thousand dollars, this Shawish "Magic Mushroom" USB drive may be for you. It comes from the creators of the world's first 150-carat diamond ring. It’s all mushroom and no storage. For that price you get just 32GB of storage.
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Thief Siphons Gasoline from Police Car, Posts Photo on Facebook

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 11:16 AM PDT

One thing is for sure. You don’t have to be smart to use Facebook. That’s the case with a 20 year old Kentucky coal miner who was arrested this week after he allegedly siphoned gasoline from a police car. He might have gotten away with it, but he put the photo up on Facebook for the world to see.
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Console Firmware Updates Could Cut Energy Usage By More Than Half

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 08:29 AM PDT

Game consoles really suck up the electricity. And in 2010 most of that electricity was used by consoles when they were in idle states. 68% in fact. It turns out simple firmware updates could cut these energy costs dramatically. That would save you a ton of money in energy costs.
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Droid RAZR And Droid RAZR MAXX Updates Are Coming

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:56 AM PDT

This may not be Ice Cream Sandwich, but anything that fixes bugs and other lingering issues that DROID RAZR and DROID RAZR MAXX owners are having is a good thing. It looks like this dual RAZR update is ready to roll out. According to Verizon's support page, this update is version 6.12.181.
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LEGO Star Wars Darth Vader Lamp

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:37 AM PDT

Shed some light in your geek space with the power of the darkside. This 7.5 inch tall Darth Vader LEGO lamp is now available, wielding his lightsaber, which serves as a convenient desk lamp. The lamp has 12 LEDs and the arms and hands are poseable. The legs can also be bent to adjust the lighting.
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Nikon D3200 DSLR 24MP Camera And WU-1a Wireless Adapter Announced

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 07:07 AM PDT

Nikon has today announced the arrival of their new D3200 entry-level DSLR camera, which is equipped with a 24 megapixel sensor, and builds on the features which Nikon included in their D3100 DSLR camera last year.

As well as a larger sensor the Nikon D3200 also includes a high-ISO increase to 6400, and a newer Expeed 3 image processor that adds an extra frame per second, now making it 4 fps, to the D3200′s burst mode feature.

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Environmentally Friendly Waterproof Coating Developed To Protect Electronics (video)

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:45 AM PDT

A new waterproof coating has been developed by Daikin Industries which is both environmentally friendly and will protect your electronics from water damage. We have featured other waterproof coatings here on Geeky Gadgets before but what makes this on a little different in that it dries within a minute at room temperature and once dried creates a layer just 0.1 micron to 1 micron thick over the electronics.

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Samsung Unveils New WiFi Equipped Mirrorless Camera Range NX20, NX210 and NX1000

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:29 AM PDT

Today Samsung has revealed it new line mirror less cameras which are equipped with WiFi, in the form of the new Samsung NX20, NX210 and NX1000. The new range of 2012 cameras replace the existing NX11, NX100, and NX200, and are now equipped with WiFi technology to take advantage of Samsung’s “Smart” features. Which allow you to connect to social networks such as Facebook directly from the camera via a WiFi network to publish photographs.

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Sony PlayStation Suite SDK Beta Now Available To Download

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 06:11 AM PDT

Sony has today opened the doors of its PlayStation Suite SDK beta to developers, allowing them to now use the suite of tools to create games and applications for all PlayStation-certified devices, such as Sony’s new PS Vita portable console to Sony’s PS3, Android smartphones and tablets.

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Pioneer Introduces New Foldable Noise-Cancelling Headphones

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:45 AM PDT

Anyone in the market for a new pair of cans to take with them on their travels, might be interested to know that Pioneer has this week take the wraps off a new line of foldable headphones that might well be worth more investigation. There are two sets in the range the SE-NC21M priced at £90 and the flagship Pioneer SE-MJ591 headphones, which are priced at around £200.

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Fantastic DIY Flight Simulator Made From Old Boeing 737 Cockpit (video)

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 05:18 AM PDT

We have featured a number of flight simulator devices and software over the years here on Geeky Gadgets, but this homemade one by Oakland Air Traffic Control Center in Fremont and a private pilot, is definitely the best DIY version we have seen.

Using the cockpit and nose section of a 1969 Boeing 737 aircraft, James Price of Pleasanton U.S. has constructed his very own fully functional flight simulator in his garage. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Latest Draw Something Update Adds Photos, Sharing and Chat Support

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:59 AM PDT

Draw Something has today rolled out an update for their popular social drawing game, chick brings with a numb roy great new features for users. Including the ability to now undo the last line your have drawn, helping you make that masterpiece look even better.

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Alienware M11x Gaming Laptop To Be Discontinued

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Further to the news that Alienware are launching a new range of larger gaming laptops in the form of the M14x, M17x and M18x. Dell has also revealed today that it will be discontinuing the smaller 11 inch version in the Alienware range, the M11x.

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Barclaycard PayTag NFC Sticker Announced (video)

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:35 AM PDT

Today Barclaycard has unveiled their new NFC payment service called PayTag, which uses a sticky backed plastic square to provide you with the ability to pay for goods via Near Field Communication (NFC).

The new PayTag service has been created by barclaycard to bring the NFC technology and payments to the masses, by allowing them to transform any handset into a NFC device by simply applying the NFC sticker to the back of their smartphone. Watch the video after the jump to see PayTag in action.

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Awesome Slo-Mo Footage Captured With $100K Phantom Flex Camera

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 04:23 AM PDT

Some of you might remember when we first featured the super slo-mo Phantom Flex $100,000 camera back in April last year. The Phantom Flex camera has been designed to capture and record video at an amazingly high frames per second slowing the world to a crawl.

This slo-mo features has been put to great use before but the footage captured for the Danish TV show “Dumt & Farligt”, is awesome and definitely worth a viewing if you have the time. Check them out after the jump.

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Spotify Android App Receives Major Redesign

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:22 AM PDT

Spotify has unveiled a major redesign to its Android application today, providing users with a much cleaner and more visually pleasing application to use, more inline with Spotify’s excellent Windows Phone app.

The new Spotify design incorporates a new slide-out navigation system, which is accessible from the top left corner of the app, and provides easy navigation to all areas of the overhauled Spotify application.

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iPhone Boom Mic

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 03:06 AM PDT

If you are looking to add a little more professional audio to your iPhone videos. You might be interested in this new Boom Mic which has been created specifically for Apple’s iPhone.

The Boom Mic measure just 4 inches long and is super lightweight. It attaches to the iPhone’s headphone jack and adjusts to hold on to the back of your iPhone, and can be used over a case if required.

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Audi RS Q3 Concept

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Audi has released a new image of its RS Q3 concept, which its prepared to showcase at the upcoming Beijing Motor Show. The RS Q3 is equipped with a 360 hp engine and is capable of zipping from 0-62 in just 5.2 seconds.

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God of War: Ascension Teaser Trailer Leaked (video)

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:38 AM PDT

Even before Sony has been able to officially announce that a new God of War 4 game is actually arriving. Amazon has this week leaked not only a teaser trailer video, but also put the game up for pre-order. Enjoy the leaked teaser trailer for God of War: Ascension after the jump.

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Worlds First Intel Powered Smartphone The Lava Xolo X900 Arriving April 23rd

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:25 AM PDT

Intel and Lava, one of India's fastest-growing mobile handset companies, have this week announced that their new Lava Xolo X900, the worlds first smartphone powered by an Intel processor will be arriving in India on April 23rd.

The Lava Xolo X900 smartphone is powered by a 1.6 GHz Atom processor with Hyper Threading Technology, together with a 400 MHz graphics clock and the full HD 1080p video recording and playback capabilities.

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Alienware M14x, M17x and M18x Laptops Updated

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 02:13 AM PDT

Alienware has today released details about its new range of gaming laptops, and their updated components. The refreshed 2012 range of Alienware laptops will include the M14x, M17x, and M18x which Alienware has now made even more flexible providing 4x graphics choices, 2 x single core, 2 x dual-core, 23 x storage options, 7 x memory choices, 2 x optical drives, and 3 x wireless card to choose from. Enabling you to create your perfect system.

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Facebook Plans To Go Public On May 17th 2012

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:46 AM PDT

It now looks like Facebook has finally penciled in a date for the company to go public. According to sources close to Facebook has now planned the date for its IPO as  May 17th 2012. As long as Facebook can ready all the necessary paperwork for both its IPO and its recent purchase of Instagram for a cool $1 billion, ealier this month.

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Handmade Particle Accelerator Unveiled At Milan Design Week

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:27 AM PDT

During the Milan Design Week this month, Super/collider and designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating, have created a handmade Particle Accelerator kit to promote science through the creative industries.

The project was commissioned by Hacked, and comprises of a series of organically shaped hand blown glass bulb with tubing attached, creating a vacuum inside which then enables a stream of electrons to zoom from one side of the glass bulb to the other.

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Microsoft SkyDrive Update Adds ODF Support, 300MB File Uploads And More

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:16 AM PDT

Microsoft has this week released a new update for its SkyDrive product, that allows you to host and share files within a cloud based infrastructure, and access them from your web browser.

The new update has now enable the ability for the service to support Open Document Format (ODF), which is an XML-based file format for spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents.

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Barnes & Noble NOOK Audio Headphones Unveiled

Posted: 19 Apr 2012 01:03 AM PDT

Barnes & Noble has today unveiled a new addition to their line of products in the surprising form of a new range of headphones in the form of the NOOK Audio OE250, and a new pair of in-ear phones the NOOK Audio IE250.

Earlier in the month rumours were circulating that Barnes & Noble would be entering into the music business, but the release of the new headphone range if definitely a surprise for most.

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Ubisoft Sued Over Assassin’s Creed By Disgruntled Writer

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 03:37 PM PDT

Writer John Beiswenger has filed a suit accusing Ubisoft of lifting concepts like the Animus and an assassin war being fought over it from his novel Link. His book reportedly details “the conception and creation of a link device and process whereby ancestral memories can be accessed, recalled, relived, and re-experienced by the user.”

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