Archive for January 2011
Mindflex Duel Lets You Challenge Your Friends to a Battle of Brainpower
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Games are better when you can beat someone at them, right? That Mindflex game that came out a couple of years ago looked pretty cool, right? I mean, who doesn’t want to play a game that uses the power of your thoughts? Heck, there was even a Star Wars… version, |
January 10th, 2011
Viewdle Facial Recognition Phone App Tags Faces, Spits on Privacy in Real Time
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A start-up company called Viewdle showed off some interesting smartphone software at CES. Their app can recognize faces in real time and automatically tag them, using either data from social networks or a user-created database from videos and photos on the phone itself. Obviously it’ll take care of the hassle… |
January 10th, 2011
Goscam Light Force DVR Flashlight Perfect for Recording in the Dark
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My favorite thing to do at CES is dig around the smaller booths for the more unusual gadgets out there. With thousands of booths, it takes some serious legwork, but occasionally I find something worthy of a mention. Here’s one of those things. It’s a flashlight that can actually record… |
January 9th, 2011
iCade Turns iPads into Arcade Cabinet
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A while back, the guys at ThinkGeek made an April Fools joke where they turned an iPad into an arcade cabinet. Now, the guys over at ION have taken the concept and made it real.… |
January 9th, 2011
Angry Birds for Blackberry
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We’ve seen Angry Birds migrate from iOS devices to Android, as well as to the PC and consoles. There’s even a board game version coming out. What about the poor BlackBerry owners? They could use the distraction from time to time… although this might not be what they have in… |
January 9th, 2011
Samsung Super Thin AMOLED Display Makes Us Look Forward to a Screen-Filled Future
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At CES 2011, Samsung showed off a prototype of a media player that made use of an AMOLED display that’s only 0.3mm thick:… |
January 9th, 2011
Touch UI Back Touch Adds Second Touchpad to iPhone
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Here’s an unusual add-on I stumbled onto at CES earlier today. It’s made by a Korean outfit called Touch UI, and the case is called the Back Touch. It does exactly what it sounds like – it gives you a second touch surface on the back of the iPhone 4.… |
January 8th, 2011
GM EN-V Goes for a Spin at CES
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I’m not quite sure how I missed this thing at CES. It must have been shown behind closed doors, or maybe some doors I just didn’t bother to peek through. At least the guys at Mashable shot some footage of this goofy looking two-seater, the GM EN-V. They titled the… |
January 8th, 2011
Samson Meteor Mic is Retro Cool
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There are all kinds of uses for a good USB microphone connected to your computer. You can use it to play games with speakers rather than having to use a headset with a mic, for making podcasts, and you can even use it to record your own music. Samson has… |
January 7th, 2011
JVC Everio Camera Shoots 3D in Full HD, Empties Bank Accounts
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If you are the early adopter sort, you know being the first to get your hands on a gadget that is the world’s first this-or-that is never cheap, and often that stuff you pay out the nose for just doesn’t work like you expect. JVC has announced a new and… |
January 7th, 2011
