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Saturday, January 19, 2013

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter

Geeky Gadgets - Newsletter


iSpy Tank Has an Onboard Digital Camera

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:29 AM PST

If you’re a fan of remote-controlled toys are controlled using your iPhone or iPad, you’ll get a kick out of the new iSpy Tank. This toy tank is very interesting and different than other remote-controlled toys we’ve seen because it has an integrated wireless camera. That wireless camera stream video to your smart phone allowing you to see what the tank sees.

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Need for Speed Most Wanted hits Nintendo Wii U March 19

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 09:20 AM PST

I’m huge fan of the Need for Speed franchise and have been since the days of the PS2. EA has announced that the video game Need for Speed Most Wanted will be heading to the new Nintendo Wii U on March 19 in North America. Gamers in Europe will have to wait until March 21.

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Legend of Grimrock Studio Celebrates Success, Talks Up New Project

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 07:10 AM PST

Legend of Grimrock has sold 600 000 copies, according to a blog post by developer Almost Human. “We would’ve been happy with just one tenth of the sales numbers, so needless to say we’re very happy and the future of our company is secured for a long time,” the devs wrote.

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Curt Schilling Auctioning Off Baseball Memorabilia To Pay For 38 Studio’s Financial Woes

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 06:52 AM PST

Baseball legend and would-be videogame entrepreneur Curt Schilling has taken to auctioning some of his baseball-related possessions to ease the financial fallout of his studio’s closure. The big ticket items is his famous blood-stained sock, which he wore during the 2004 World Series, which should fetch more than $100 000.

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Codemasters Hit With Redundancies, Up To 80 May Be Affected

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 05:57 AM PST

Codemasters has confirmed it will be jettisoning a number of jobs. While the company maintains its F1 and GRID franchises will not be affected, most of the job cuts will seemingly be made at its Southam headquarters, where its GRID staff are housed, with the Online team hit hardest.

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Sega Launches Kingdom Conquest II

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:32 AM PST

Sega is rolling out Kingdom Conquest II to the app store and Google Play. It is the sequel to the 2010 game Kingdom Conquest, which had more than 3.5 million downloads.
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Sony’s Latest CES Devices Being Made (Video)

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:31 AM PST

Sony announced a number of devices at this years CES, which include the new Sony Xperia Z smartphone and also the new Cybershot RX1, and now they have put together a video of the devices being put together.

The video below shows three devices being put together in a sort of reverse teardown, and as well as the Sony Xperia Z and the Cybershot RX1 it also includes one of their new HD camcorders.

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Russia Destroys Fake iPhones

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:23 AM PST

Russian authorities are not very fond of fake Apple products. That’s why they used a bulldozer to crush a mountain of authentic looking iPhone 4 and 4S handsets after picking up a Chinese man who had attempted to smuggle the handsets into the country.
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Google Cancelling The Nexus Q (Rumor)

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:20 AM PST

Some of our readers will remember the Google Nexus Q that was announced at last years Google I/O, it looks like Google may be cancelling the device as it is now shown as ‘not for sale at this time’ on Google’s Play Store.

Google launched the Nexus Q at last years Google I/O and then shortly after it was launched Google stopped selling the device, although people who pre-ordered it received the Nexus Q.

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Nokia Starts Rolling Out Lumia 920 And 820 Software Update

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:13 AM PST

Nokia has announced that it is starting to roll out a performance update to two of its Windows Phone smartphones, the Nokia Lumia 920 and the Nokia Lumia 820, the update will be rolled out in phases to both devices.

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MediaFire Launches Android App With 50GB Of Free Storage

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:01 AM PST

MediaFire has launched a new app for Google’s Android platform, and the cloud storage service is offering users of the app 50GB of free storage, the app is also available for Apple’s iOS platform.

The MediaFire service is supported by adverts and there is a limit on file sizes of 200mb, and you can send your files stored on the service to other apps and view certain files types from within the app.

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Valve Officially Launches New Steam Game Guides Feature

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 01:00 AM PST

Steam gamers patiently waiting for the arrival of the new Steam Game Guides, first announced back in December, will be pleased to learn that Valve has officailly launched the new features on to Steam.

Steam Game Guides enables players to compile their own guides to games for others to then read and rate accordingly, and where introduced last month to Steam Community Beta users only. From today however they have now rolled out to all.

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Google+ App For iOS Launches In 48 New Countries

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:53 AM PST

Google has announced that their Google+ app for the iPhone and iPad has now launched in 48 more territories and countries around the world, the news was announced on Google+ by Google engineer Frank Petterson.

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LG Optimus G Smartphone Sells Over 1 Million Units

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:50 AM PST

LG has announced today that it has sold more than 1 million of its LG Optimus G smartphones, which rolled out in September to Korea and later to other countries during October 2012.

Although the  LG Optimus G smartphone has yet to arrive in China as yet and will probably significantly add to the already impressive figures. Korean news agency Yonhap also reports that LG sold 7 million smartphones in the third quarter of 2012, and is expected to sell in excess of 45 million smartphones in 2013.

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Acer Chromebox Under Development Codenamed “Kiev”?

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:37 AM PST

Lenovo doesn’t seem to be the old company looking to launch a new Chrome device it seems, as information has been discovered pointing to a new Chromebox currently being developed by Acer called the Kiev.

Developer François Beaufort discovered details about Acer's unannounced Chrome OS desktop code-named "Kiev." and released the details.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 To Launch At MWC 2013 (Rumor)

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:26 AM PST

It would appear that Samsung will be adding a new dev8ice to their Galaxy Note family at Mobile World Congress, which takes place next month, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0.

According to the guys over at Sammobile, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 will come with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, and the device will feature a 8 inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels.

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Microsoft Switching Off Halo 2 PC Multiplayer Next Week

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:26 AM PST

Halo 2 multiplayers will be disappointed to learn that Microsoft has announced it will be closing the doors on its servers next month. With 15th February marking the end date for the Halo 2 PC multiplayer service.

As well as announcing then end of the Halo 2 Multiplayer service next month Microsoft also revealed more information on new Spartan Ops episodes of which the second  half of Season One launches next Monday.

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Google To Build £1 Billion HQ In London

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:19 AM PST

Google is building a new headquarters here in the UK, the search giant has purchased a 2.4 acre site which is situated between Kings Cross and St Pancras Stations in London.

Google will be building a seven and eleven story building on the site, and the total cost of the build plus the land is expected to be around £1 billion, and the project is expected to be finished by some time in 2016.

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Corsair Unveils Hydro Series H110 and H90 Liquid Coolers

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:16 AM PST

Corsair has this week unveiled new addition to its liquid cooling range with the launch of the Hydro Series liquid CPU coolers H110 equipped dual fans and the single-fan H90 pictured below.

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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Will Offer 50GB Of Free Storage

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:08 AM PST

Kim Dotcom has announced on Twitter that his new Mega service will offer users 50GB of free storage, which is a massive amount compared to what is offered by companies like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft;s SkyDrive.

Dotcom also announced he is working to brings users files from Megaupload over to Mega, although how he will actually do this remains to be seen because of his current legal battle with the US Government.

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HP Launches First Monitors Equipped With Beats Audio

Posted: 18 Jan 2013 12:01 AM PST

HP has this week announced that is will be launching a new line of monitors on February 3rd 2013 that will come equipped with Beats audio technology.

The new range of HP Beats monitors will feature IPS displays, and were unveiled at CS 2013 last week, and have been created as part of a collaboration between HP and Dr. Dre.

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Sony Xperia Z To Get Android 4.2 Shortly After Release

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:59 PM PST

Sony recently announced their new flagship Android smartphone, the Sony Xperia Z which will come with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean when it goes on sale shortly, and now Sony has confirmed that the device will get Android 4.2 Jelly Bean.

Sony has revealed in a Q&A session on their Sony Mobile Blog, that the Xperia Z will be getting the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update shortly after the handset goes on sale.

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Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Official Rom For Motorola Atrix 2 Leaked

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:53 PM PST

Motorola had previously said that they would be updating the Atrix 2 to Android Jelly Bean, Motorola changed their minds on this last year and instead offered owners of the device a $100 credit towards the purchase of a new Motorola device.

Motorola were obviously working on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the Atrix 2, but decided not to release it, however there is good news for owners of the device as the official Android 4.1 Jelly Bean ROM for the Atrix 2 has been leaked.

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Jailbroken Windows RT Devices Running Ported Windows Desktop Apps

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:51 PM PST

If you own a Windows RT device you might be interested to know that there is a way to be able to run ported Windows applications on Microsoft’s new Windows RT devices.

When Microsoft created their Windows RT operating system, they basically used the Windows 8 OS but cut it down to run on devices equipped with ARM-based chips instead of x86 processors, and will only run apps installed from the Windows Store, until now.

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Blackberry 10 Camera App Quick Hands-on (video)

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:40 PM PST

If you are looking forward to the launch of the new Blackberry 10 range of smartphones or are just interested in the features they will be equipped with.

A new very quick 1 minute hands-on video with a Blackberry 10 device takes a look at their new camera application and shows you what you can expect. Watch the video after the jump to learn more about the Blackberry 10 camera app and see it in action.

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Yamaha iOS Mini Audio Systems Announced

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:28 PM PST

Yamaha has this week announced new additions to its range of audio systems with the unveiling of its new TSX-132 and TSX-B232 desktop, and the  MCR-042 and MCR-B142 micro audio systems.

The Yamaha MCR-B142 and MCR-042 both put out 30W of sound via connections made by USB, aux-in and Apple’s older 30 pin devices, together with CDs if preferred.

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Sony Selling NY Headquarters For $1.1 Billion, Renting Back From New Owners

Posted: 17 Jan 2013 11:17 PM PST

As rumoured earlier this month Sony has now announced that they will be selling their NY headquarters for $1.1 billion, and it is expected that the transaction will close in March 2013.

After repaying debt related to the building and other transaction costs, Sony is expected to receive will receive approximately $770 million net cash, which is can then use for future growth of the company, says Sony.

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