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Amalur developer’s MMO "Project Copernicus" release date outed by Governor
Posted by author on May 18th, 2012
Infinity Blade: Dungeons gameplay trailer revealed
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
When Apple launched the new iPad a couple of months ago, one of the games that supposedly will make full use of the new Retina display would be the upcoming Infinity Blade: Dungeons. If you’re wondering why the name sounds familiar, it is bec…
Sprint to offer $100 credit iPhone trade-in promotion?
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
It wasn’t too long ago that Sprint’s Dan Hesse remarked that while getting the iPhone onto their network did cost the carrier a pretty penny, he believed that they would be able to start profiting from it in a few years’ time. Perhaps look…
Amazon reportedly looking to sell ad space on the Kindle Fire’s home screen [Rumor]
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
If you’re looking to get your hands on an Amazon Kindle Fire, you could be looking at advertisements on your home screen in the future. According to reports (via Adage), it seems that Amazon has approached several ad agencies and has offered t…
Game of Thrones theme song performed by floppy drives
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
Floppy drives are amazing things, not only can they read the data stored on our floppy disks (back in the day), it seems that they have found a new lease on life as potential musical instruments! From what we’ve seen so far, users have manage…
iHelicopters unveils BMW and Audi iPhone remote controlled cars
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
iHelicopters has released several remote-controlled toys in the past and it looks like they’re back, this time with more remote-controlled goodies in the form of BMW and Audi toy cars. This toy car lineup will include the BMW 5 F10, the BMW X…
The Friday Game: Zoom
Posted by Chris Donlan on May 18th, 2012
Wanderlands is back with a geometry-warping puzzler inspired by Peter Molydeux. Wanderlands is a Melbourne-based indie studio that I’ve written about a couple of times before. The small team has a habit of making ludicrously smart Fl…
Telltale’s The Walking Dead sells one million
Posted by Ben Maxwell on May 18th, 2012
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Comments OffDead Island dev releases info on Mad Riders downloadable title
Posted by author on May 18th, 2012
The latest title from the developer of Dead Island is not another zombie-chomping romp, but an arcade racing title. No zombies unfortunately…
Old iMac G4 base transformed into an iPad stand
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
We’re not sure how many of you guys actually still remember older Apple products like the iMac G4, but if you do, then you could be forgiven for thinking that the photo above is it. If you take a closer look, it’s actually an iMac G4 base th…
IK Multimedia’s iRig Mix has been released, available for purchase for $100
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
Earlier this year at CES, IK Multimedia revealed the iRig Mix, a portable mixer that allowed for iOS devices to be hooked up to it, thus providing musicians on the go a physical controller on which they will be able to mix their tracks. Granted …
Court orders Apple and HTC to attend settlement talks
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
Apple is currently looking to settle their legal disputes with both Samsung and Proview, and now you might be able to add HTC to that list. As you guys are probably painfully aware by now, some HTC devices have been held up at the US Customs ove…
Brian Fargo: "I’ve never felt more pressure in my life"
Posted by Nathan Brown on May 18th, 2012
But InXile founder is loving his direct relationship with fans in development of Kickstarter success Wasteland 2. Brian Fargo, founder of InXile Entertainment, is clearly enjoying development of Kickstarter success Wasteland 2, but admits …
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ZTE confirms security hole in U.S. phone
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
Chinese telecommunications equipment and systems company ZTE said that one of its mobile phone models sold in the U.S. has a vulnerability that, according to researchers, could allow others to control the device. Reuters said that the hole affe…
Windows Phone marketshare has reportedly overtaken the iPhone in China
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
With China on the rise, safe to say there are many companies looking to break into the market. Microsoft is one of them and they have since launched their Windows Phone platform, along with the accompanying hardware, back in March. Given that Wi…
Blizzard apologizes for Diablo 3 launch issues, real money auction house launch date pushed back as a result
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
When Diablo 3 launched, safe to say that the game was chock full of bugs, ranging from the mildly annoying to the potentially game breaking. Either way kudos to Blizzard for acting on it promptly and getting the servers up to speed, which I can …
Max Payne 3 receives free Gorilla Warfare DLC
Posted by Tyler Lee on May 18th, 2012
Heads up gamers, if you’ve gotten your hands on Rockstar’s Max Payne 3 on the PlayStation 3 or the Xbox 360, well the good news is that Rockstar has officially announced the game’s first DLC – the Gorilla Warfare Pack and well, if yo…
38 Studios fails to pay employees and loan
Posted by Ben Maxwell on May 18th, 2012
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Posted by author on May 18th, 2012
Ubisoft featured the game prominently at E3 2012, but nobody has heard much since. And now it looks like they just abandoned the trademark…
Electric Imp promises to connect all consumer electronics wirelessly
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
In 1999, British technology pioneer Kevin Ashton co-founded the Auto-ID Center at MIT, a global standard system for RFID and other sensors. His vision – to create the “Internet of Things“, a concept of a system where the…
T-800 bust does more than look nasty
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
Do you remember the first time you watched Terminator at the cinema (or in the comfort of your own home, for those who were not yet born when the first movie was released)? The T-800 certainly sent chills down the spines of many, and we were lef…
One Street Tweeter prints tweets on pavement
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
If you are one who cannot get enough of Twitter, then here is something that you might want to check out – the One Street Tweeter, which is actually a special machine that was constructed with one – just one purpose in life. Basicall…
Osaka Station City uses water to tell the time
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
Fountains as well as sprays of water are definitely a thing of beauty, and for those who have been to Las Vegas, surely the fountains of Bellagio have mesmerized you with their nightly performance? Well, halfway around the world is another inter…
Loop shower lets you shower in a circle
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
I know that the Dornbracht horizontal shower is something rather out of the ordinary, and here we are with yet another iteration on how one should take a shower. Things have gotten very different these days, and standing under a steady stream of…
Microsoft reminds users to update to Windows Phone 7.5 before it’s too late
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
Today, Microsoft is reminding its Windows Phone users to update to Windows Phone 7.5. Microsoft said that users might soon need Windows Phone 7.5 in order to update, download, and buy apps from its Marketplace. “We’re now doing the fina…
LG Eclipse 4G LTE caught with removable battery and NFC capability
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
Remember the LG LS970 that we talked about last week, where it came with a quad-core processor as well as a 4.7″ display? Well, it seems that additional details concerning the LG LS970, also known as the LG Eclipse 4G LTE, has surfaced, wh…
RIM and Motorola arrive at a nano-SIM compromise
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
The folks over at The Verge have brought us a nano-SIM compromise that RIM and Motorola promised Apple, where both the Canada-based company as well as Motorola made updates to their design proposal in order to come to a solution which Cupertino …
Amber Android development tablet
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
For those who are curious to know how the inner workings of a tablet is supposed to go, then you might want to take a step back from all the usual tablet news and check out the Amber from Liquidware, where the Amber in reality is an Android deve…
Sony PSN ready for digital download pre-orders
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
When it comes to placing a pre-order for software or hardware, there is nothing new about the situation, but here we are with word that Sony’s PlayStation Network will be ready to accept digital download pre-orders, allowing gamers to purc…
Samsung Galaxy S3 pre-orders hit 9 million units worldwide
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
The Samsung Galaxy S3 definitely looks set to be a surefire winner in terms of hardware sales by the time it is officially released to the mass market, simply because it managed to rack up a whopping 9 million units in pre-orders globally, takin…
One-armed robot juggles two balls in a spectacular manner
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
When we first spotted the servo-driven mechanical juggling robot last year, we were amazed by its accuracy to juggle all those balls with ease. But today’s robots are getting better. The robot that you are seeing now uses one hand to jugg…
NTT DoCoMo to launch waterproof security phone for kids
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
Two days ago, NTT DoCoMo, predominant Japanese mobile phone operator, revealed its 19 new mobile devices that will be launching sometime in June. DoCoMo also announced that it will be launching an Android-powered mobile phone for kids. The said…
Free sex toys offered to women who aren’t getting enough sex because all the men are playing Diablo 3
Posted by author on May 18th, 2012
Diablo 3 sex toy stunt is cheap grab for publicity that we can’t resist writing about…
Clothbot is a creepy climbing robot that wants to explore your clothes
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
You can probably relate to the creepy feeling of a spider crawling up your pants. You just go nuts, right? But how about a robot climbing up your pants? Does that sound better? This week at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and…
Cel-Factor technology claims to protect humans from EMF radiation
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
At the CTIA Wireless event last week, bio-resonance technology company von Hoffmann & Partner Technologies together with CeL-Factor introduced its new line of EMF radiation protection devices. The CeL-Factor technology uses its own Energeti…
Google’s new Project Glass patent details gestures controlled with wearable markers
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
According to Intellectual Property centric blog Patentbolt, Google has just been granted three design patents this week with one highlighting how its Project Glass could work with hand gestures. Patentbolt added that the associated hand gesturi…
Sega readies retro bundles for XBLA, including lost RPG Monster World IV
Posted by author on May 18th, 2012
Streets of Rage pack, Golden Axe Pack, Wonder Boy Pack… all these and more are heading to XBLA in the near future (and separately on PSN). But they’re not all games you’ve played before. At least not outside of Japan…
Iran to sue Google in Gulf naming dispute
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
I have met a fair number of Persians who are not too happy with the current government in power whom they claim is corrupted to the core alongside rigged elections, but very little can be done about the situation back home in order to improve. I…
LG Optimus 4X HD arrives at the FCC
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
Just a couple of days ago, we took a look at how the LG Optimus 4X HD is all set to arrive on the continent of Europe next month, complete with a quad-core processor inside. Well, there was no mention about a Stateside release then, but I guess …
VIA AMOS-3002 is one small computer
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
I know, the AllWinner A10 Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich PC can be considered to be one of the smallest computers in the market, as it is small enough to fit into your pocket, but you know for sure it will not have enough processing firepower to…
Project Glass to receive controls?
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
Patent is the new intellectual ammunition of companies, and here we are with one of Google’s patents for their upcoming Project Glass that has every intention to make augmented reality an everyday occurrence in our lives. Touted to be one …
Sony Xperia GX goes international?
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
When the Sony Xperia GX was announced just slightly more than a week ago, it seemed destined to be made available in the Land of the Rising Sun only, and no where else, which is a shame actually when you take the hardware specifications into co…
Robot bird perches on a human hand
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 18th, 2012
You know what they say, a bird in hand is worth two in the bush. I guess that is only meant for those who do not have the skills to trap a couple of our avian friends who are frolicking in a nearby bush. Well, here is a first in the world ̵…
AllWinner A10 Android 4.0 PC is Lilliputian
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 18th, 2012
If you find the Raspberry Pi and FXI Cotton Candy fascinating, then check out this tad that packs a 1.5G Hz ARM CPU and 512 MB of RAM. Chinese retailers are now selling the AllWinner A10 Android 4.0 Mini PC a.k.a. MK802, a small computer that i…
Radio Tactics’ ACESO Kiosk mobile data extraction to be used by London Police
Posted by Gene Ryan Briones on May 17th, 2012
The Metropolitan Police, the police force responsible for Greater London, has announced that it will begin using a mobile device data extraction system that will give its officers the ability to extract data from a mobile device in a matter of …
Survey: Most Americans play games on phones to kill time
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 17th, 2012
There is a new ‘Y U Play?’ survey from MocoSpace that shows the number 1 reason for Americans spending time on their mobile phones would be to “kill time”, while another third play for entertainment’s sake. Out of the sampl…
iHOME iP76 LED Color Changing Speaker Tower
Posted by Edwin Kee on May 17th, 2012
What makes the iHOME iP76 LED Color Changing Speaker Tower so special? So, it has LEDs that will change color to suit the mood, soothing things down after a long, hard day at the office, but apart from that, it is also full well capable of conne…
