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Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


Noctua NF-F12 RotoSub Noise Canceling PC Fan Unveiled (video)

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:27 AM PDT

You have probably heard of noise cancelling headphones, but now Noctua has created a new type of noise cancelling fan in the form of the Noctua NF-F12.

Noctua's NF-F12 noise cancelling fan uses a technique that modulates the rotating speed of the fans blades allowing the sound of the rotating fans to be reduced. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

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Japanese PS Plus subscribers to get 5 free games on the PS Vita

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:15 AM PDT

Japan always seems to get all of the cool extras when it comes to video games and now Japanese PS Plus subscribers will be getting some free games on the Sony PlayStation Vita. Five free games on June 21st in fact. Don’t get mad at the Japanese just yet. These games aren't the best games around.
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OtterBox HTC One X Defender And Commuter Cases Unveiled

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:08 AM PDT

OtterBox has this week unveiled to cases for the HTC One X, which are called the Defender and Commuter Series. As you can imagine the Defender is a tougher case protection your smartphone with three layers of protection.

The Defender is described by OtterBox as the "most rugged protection on the market," and includes a screen protector. Together with a two layer polycarbonate shell, and an outer made of shock-absorbing silicone.

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Nokia’s PureView Headed To Future Lumia Windows Phones

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:04 AM PDT

Nokia first announced their PureView technology with the launch of the Nokia 808 PureView smartphone, which comes with a 41 megapixel camera and now it looks like the technology is headed to future Lumia Windows Phone devices from Nokia.

Nokia’s Chris Webber, who spoke to HowardForums has said that Microsoft is working to make sure that their Windows Phone platform supports Nokia’s PureView technology.

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Rugbeer Beer Vending Machine Has To Be Hit to Get Your Drink

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 07:03 AM PDT

Generally, the machine manufacturers really frown on shaking the machines. I bet most of us have done this at one point or another when we put in our quarters, and no drink came out. A beer company called Cerveza Salta has a cool new beer vending machine that you have to hit if you want your drink.

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Epson Unveils Expression XP-400 Small-in-One Printer

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:53 AM PDT

If you’re in the market for a new printer that will scan, copy, and print while taking up as little space as possible, Epson’s new XP-400 might be perfect. This printer is smaller than most all-in-one units are and features a 2.5-inch LCD touchscreen.

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Amazon Launches Cloud Player App For iOS

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:48 AM PDT

Today Amazon has launched a new Cloud Player application for iOS devices. Enabling users to stream, download, and manage their music in the cloud.The new Cloud Player app also eliminates the need for users to download files before playing them.

Providing full access to users Cloud Player music libraries, as well as seamlessly adding playlists currently on iPhone or iPod touch devices, and can be  access from your  PC or Mac and allows you to upload your music collection from iTunes or your other folders.

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Max Payne Mobile coming to Android on June 14th

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:45 AM PDT

iOS users have had Rockstar's Max Payne for mobile for a while, but where is Android’s version? Here’s the good news, Android users. If you’ve been yearning to experience bullet time on your mobile device, Rockstar has announced that Max Payne Mobile will be arriving on Android devices on June 14th, which is just two days from now.
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Fujitsu LifeBook Ultrabooks Arriving For $999

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:19 AM PDT

Fujitsu has announced this week that their Fujitsu LifeBook Ultrabooks will be arriving in the U.S. soon starting at around $999. Two models will be arriving the Fujitsu LifeBook U722 and the Fujitsu LifeBook UH572.

The LifeBook U722 is the higher spec model priced at $1,149, with a 14-inch, 1,280×768-pixel with edge-to-edge screen, and comes equipped with Intel’s i7 Chip, and providing 7 hours of battery life.

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Facebook Camera App For iOS Gets Updated

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 06:15 AM PDT

Facebook has released a new version of their Camera app for Apple’s iOS platform, the new app is called ‘Camera.’, and it comes with a number of performance improvements.

The new Facebook Camera. app is designed to provide more reliable uploads, and also a number of bug fixes, you can see a full list of the updates to the app below.

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Mozilla Marketplace Now Live For Testing

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:13 AM PDT

Mozilla has opened up its new Mozilla Marketplace for testing purposes allowing you to to register and take a look at its new offerings, before the site officially goes live.

Currently there are over 200 applications available to download and Mozilla’s Marketplace goes a little further than Google’s Chrome Web Store. By installing your applications into the operating system’s application menu and desktop as quick-access shortcuts.

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Apple Announces New iPad Smart Case

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:10 AM PDT

Apple has announced the launch of a new accessory for the iPad, the iPad Smart Case, which is basically a new version of their iPad Smart Cover that is design to offer your tablet extra protection.

The iPad Smart Case features the Smart Cover, which is used for the front of your device, although the Smart Case also features a case for the back of your iPad which is designed to protect the casing from knocks and scratches.

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Gigabyte S1081 Windows 7 Tablet Arrives At The FCC

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Anyone interested in purchasing the new Gigabyte S1081 Windows tablet, which was first unveiled back in CES earlier this year. Will be pleased to know that the Windows tablet has now arrived at the FCC.

The S1081 Windows tablet runs Windows 7 operating system, with support for 4GB of memory, and comes with optional 29.6Whr battery and 20.25Whr extended battery.

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No New Apple iMacs Until Next Year?

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:58 AM PDT

Yesterday Apple updated a number of its Mac computers, we saw the new Retina MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and also some updated MacBook Pro’s, Apple also provided a minor update in terms of faster processors to their Mac Pro range.

One thing that was missing from the announcement was a new range of iMacs, and now according to a recent report by David Pogue from the NYT we may not see any new iMacs until next year.

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HTC Investigating WiFi Issues On The HTC One X

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:48 AM PDT

It would appear that a number of owners of HTC’s latest flagship Android smartphone, the HTC One X are experiencing some WiFi issues with the device.

According to recent reports the HTC One X is suffering from a WiFi issue when the device is held a certain way, this sounds familiar to Apple’s problem when the iPhone 4 was launched.

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Diablo 3 Updated To Accommodate New Retina Macbook Pro Display

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:33 AM PDT

It looks like Apple has learned to live with and even embrace its accidental gaming empire, to the point where it’s actually being proactive in going after the core gamer demographic. The big announcements at WWDC this year were certainly iOS 6 and the Macbook Pro refresh, but one of the first applications to be shown off taking advantage of the vaunted Retina display was none other than one of PC gaming’s strongest franchises.

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Real Life Portal Gun Antics With Friends (video)

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:21 AM PDT

Within the P0rtal series of games created by Valve you can have some real fun moving items around and creating entrance and exits portals to jump through within the game.

But using a real P0rtal gun in real-life is sometimes not such a great idea.Watch the video after the jump to see how things can quickly going wrong, using a Portal gun with friends in your house.

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Spotify Launches New Android App With Support For Android 4.0

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:19 AM PDT

Spotify just dropped us an email to let us know that their new Spotify for Android 4.0 app is now available from the Google Play store, and the app comes with a wide range if new features which you can see below.

The Spotify for Android app has had a complete redesign, and according to Spotify this is their best mobile app to date, we had a quick look at the app previously when Spotify released a preview of it back in April.

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Seagate Backup Plus Storage Unveiled

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 04:01 AM PDT

Seagate has unveiled a new addition to their range of storage devices, with the launch of their new Backup Plus family of drives. The new range of Seagate Backup Plus storage drives is now available to purchase in capacities of 500GB, 750GB, and 1TB for mobile storage.

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Apple’s iOS 6 In Action (Video)

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:55 AM PDT

Yesterday Apple announced the latest version of their mobile OS, iOS 6 which will launch this fall, they also released an iOS 6 beta to developers and now we have a video of iOS 6 beta in action.

In the video below, which was put together by iAppleTech2, we get a look at Apple’s new maps software, also the new Facebook integration with Apple’s notification center and more.

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Google Chrome Metro Windows 8 Browser Released

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:49 AM PDT

Its has been known for sometime that Google’s been working on a Chrome Metro style browser. But this week Google has released a version of its Chrome Browser, that can be used with the Windows 8 Release Preview for all to see and use.

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Amazon Getting Ready To Launch Appstore In Europe

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:42 AM PDT

Amazon’s Appstore has been available in the US for a while now, and it looks like Amazon may be getting ready to launch their app store in Europe some time this summer.

According to a recent report by All Things D, Amazon will apparently announce next week that it will start accepting submissions for the European version of their app store from developers.

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VIA $49 APC Android Mini PC Sells Out In Less Than 24 Hours

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:16 AM PDT

Via Technologies only put its new APC Android PC system up for pre-order in the last 24 hours and its already sold out. Just three weeks ago Via took the wraps off their new barebones Android mini PC

Which is capable of running Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system, and just like the popular Raspberry Pi mini computer, has now sold out in the first day of being available.

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T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II Gets Android 4.0 ICS Update

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:03 AM PDT

We recently heard that T-Mobile would be releasing the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy S II on their network, good news if you have been waiting for the update as it is now available to download.

The Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Samsung Galaxy S II on T-Mobile is now available to download from Samsung’s Kies software and it looks like it will not be available as an OTA update.

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VIA $49 Android Barebones PC Launching Next Month

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 03:01 AM PDT

Three weeks ago Via Technologies took the wraps off their new barebones Android mini PC, and now the VIA APC Android PC system is built on a tiny Neo-ITX board, is expected to start shipping in July and is already available to pre-order for $49.

The barebones system is cable of running Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system, and comes with a VIA WonderMedia ARM 11 SoC at 800 MHz processor.

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Nextbook Premium 8SE $169 Android 4.0 Tablet Unveiled

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:41 AM PDT

E Fun has this week unveiled a new addition to the range in the form of the Nextbook Premium 8SE. Which is priced $230 at around and comes running, Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) operating system.

The Nextbook Premium 8SE is equipped with an 8 inch display sporting a resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. It’s powered by a 1GHz processor which is supported by 512 MB of RAM.

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Slacker Starts Streaming Six ESPN Stations

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:29 AM PDT

Slacker Radio has today announced the arrival of 6 new Live ESPN Stations on to the Slacker Radio service. Enabling all Slacker users to be able to listen to the new ESPN stations for the next 30 days.

After which the new stations will only be available to Slacker Radio Plus and Slacker Premium Radio subscribers. However Slacker has stated that the previously released interactive ESPN Radio station will remain free and available to all Slacker users.

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TomTom Signs Deal With Apple For Maps In iOS 6

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:27 AM PDT

Yesterday Apple announced their new maps software for iOS, which will come with turn by turn navigation, and now it looks like the navigation software may be provided by TomTom.

TomTom has issued a press release which says that they are it has signed a global agreement with Apple, and Apple will license TomTom’s content, although not much information was provided, you can see the very short press release below.

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Leaked Slides Reveal Sprints Rumoured NFC Digital Wallet App

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:20 AM PDT

Rumours have been circulating that Sprint is currently developing its own NFC-based digital wallet for mobile devices. Now the presentation slides have revealed have confirmed that the new digital wallet from Sprint is actually in development.

The leaked slides reveal that McDonald’s, Barnes and Noble, Macy’s, Target, Best Buy together with other financial partners are looking to become part of the new digital wallet scheme. By either accepting full payments or providing loyalty card services.

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Verizon Galaxy S III Will Launch By July 9th

Posted: 12 Jun 2012 02:14 AM PDT

Verizon has recently put the new Samsung Galaxy S III up for pre-order and whilst they have not given an exact launch date, their pre-order page says that the handset will ship by the 9th of July.

So whilst we don’t have an exact launch date for the new Samsung Galaxy S III on Verizon, we do know that the latest the handset will be available will be the 9th of July 2012.

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Apple Announces iOS 6, With New Maps, Facebook Integration And More

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 11:33 PM PDT

Apple has announced the next major version of their mobile OS, iOS 6 which will be released in the fall and it comes with a wide range of new features, which include Apple’s new Maps software that we have been hearing about over the last few weeks.

As well as the new Maps, iOS 6 also comes with some new features for Siri, including support for additional languages, and Facebook integration into iOS for Contacts and Calendar, you will also be able to post direct to Facebook from Apple’s Notification Center in iOS.

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Apple Announces New Mac Pro

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 11:16 PM PDT

If you have been waiting for them to introduce an update version of the Mac Pro the wait is now over as Apple unveiled their 2012 Mac Pro at this years WWDC.

There are three models of the 2012 Mac Pro to choose from, and entry level quad core version with a single quad core 3.2GHz processor, 6GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive, this version retails for $2,499 and also comes with ATI Radeon HD5770 with 1GB of GDDR5 RAM.

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Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC Info Leaked

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:20 PM PDT

Although the controversy surrounding the original Mass Effect 3 has gone down to a simmer, Bioware seems to be moving forward with its plan to expand the ending of the trilogy using new DLC, as well as new multiplayer content in the form of an expansion. Product descriptions for both have been leaked to the press.

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Call Of Duty Black Ops 2 Getting Wii U Release

Posted: 11 Jun 2012 05:11 PM PDT

According to Nintendo Gamer, the next entry in Activision’s blockbuster Call of Duty series will find a home on Nintendo’s upcoming console. Although the franchise might seem an unlikely fit for Nintendo’s audience, this is far from the first Call of Duty to grace a Nintendo console, as both the original Modern Warfare and the first Black Ops saw relatively successful Wii releases.

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