Kinect lets you play poker standing up

post from Ubergizmo on 06 May 2011 11:10:55 PM. © Ubergizmo

Kinect Poker

In this week’s installment of 101 ways to use your Kinect we have the motion gaming controller from Microsoft giving us the ability to play poker. The folks over at Poker Listings made use of the open-source Kinect software available out there, and with the use of some macros, configured the Kinect to recognize the gestures to play online poker. Folding, checking, placing a bet, and even raising can all be done with simple hand motions.

While admittedly it looks silly playing poker standing up, waving your hands like a mad man, it does make the game a lot healthier. After all, instead of sitting in front of the computer and clicking mouse buttons, you’re standing and actually using energy waving your arms all over the place. Last time I checked, it burns a lot more calories than clicking a mouse. If you’re keen on finding out how to set up your own Kinect for poker playing head over to Poker Listings’ website. Hit the break for a video demonstration of how it works:

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AT&T confirms their Android phones will be open
to non-Android Market apps

post from Ubergizmo on 06 May 2011 10:51:31 PM. © Ubergizmo

Android AT&T In an interview with PC Mag yesterday, AT&T talked about their future smartphone plans on their network. One of the most interesting points AT&T’s senior vice president of mobile devices, Jeff Bradley mentioned that AT&T will no longer block non-Android Market apps from being installed onto the device. He was quoted as saying:

“I think we’ll go more open. First and foremost we were genuinely concerned from a network bandwidth standpoint and a customer experience standpoint for not having any mechanism to take down a bad app. And the only way we could do it at the time was relying on Google to leverage what [security] they had in [the] Android Marketplace. We took a lot of negative publicity for doing it, but it was 100 percent driven by a desire to be able to have the ability to support our network and be able to help our customers. It really was.”

This explains a lot about why the upcoming Samsung Infuse 4G has the ability to load apps from unknown sources. It looks like users will finally be able to install the Amazon App Store for Android, and even games from Gameloft and EA who don’t put their games up on the Android Market. Good news for future Android owners on the carrier. Now let’s hope AT&T releases a fix for their current devices as well…unless it’s part of AT&T’s plan to get users to purchase new Android phones. How many of you have rooted your AT&T phone just for this feature?

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Man makes first ever 3G call and tweet from Mount
Everests summit

post from Ubergizmo on 06 May 2011 10:35:43 PM. © Ubergizmo

Samsung Galaxy S II on Mount Everest

In an attempt to prove that 3G radios work at the highest place on Earth, Kenton Cool decided to bring along with him a smartphone on his latest climb up the highest mountain in the world. Did I say latest trip? Yeap. He’s done it previously ? eight times to be exact.

On his ninth trip up to the peak, (obviously sponsored by Samsung), he brought up with him Samsung’s latest flagship Android phone ? the dual-core-wielding Samsung Galaxy S II. But all that processing power and beautiful Super AMOLED Plus display won’t mean a thing the phone can’t be used to do what a phone was originally designed to do: make calls.

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Ultrathin Dell XPS 15z spotted in the wild

post from Ubergizmo on 06 May 2011 10:18:48 PM. © Ubergizmo

Dell XPX 15z

Earlier this week we wrote about rumors of a new ultrathin laptop from Dell that is slated to be released within the next few weeks. Today, some photographs of the rumored laptop have found their way onto the internet, courtesy of Mobile Review. The laptop is supposedly named the XPS 15z, and from the leaked photographs, it sure looks like a beauty.

Featuring an uncommon layout for the laptop’s bottom half – the Dell XPS 15z’s keyboard is flanked by two speakers (the grille does look large, but we can’t tell if it’s the size of the actual speaker or just a design). It also has two USB ports, a FireWire port and an HDMI output. The laptop will have a 15.6″ screen and will be powered by the latest Core i5 and i7 processors. The laptop is also touted to cost less than $1,000 and will be the first of many to come. Hit the break for more images of the XPS 15z:

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Activision to announce Call of Duty Online next
week

post from Ubergizmo on 06 May 2011 10:07:11 PM. © Ubergizmo

Call of Duty

According to some rumors online, Activision will be announcing a new Call of Duty game next week and it won’t be another single player installment to the series. The next CoD game will apparently be an online-only version of Activision’s hit first person shooter franchise. Tentatively called Call of Duty Online, it is also speculated to run on a Free-to-Play business model similar to how Battlefield Play4Free works.

If CoD’s massive fanbase is anything to go by, the online version of the game should be a hit from the get go ? provided that Activation pulls it off correctly. After all, EA has publicly challenged CoD by saying that Battlefield 3 is superior in every way ? it’s only fair if EA brings the battle onto their turf. Well like all rumors, take it with a pinch of salt. Next week is on its way anyway, and we shouldn’t have to wait too long if it turns out to be true. What do you think of a Free-to-Play online version of CoD? Would you play it?

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Innovative Uses for Your iPad

post from Gizmos for Geeks on 06 May 2011 09:47:59 PM. © Gizmos for Geeks

We all know that your iPad is a great tool for surfing the web, reading e-books, checking e-mail, playing games and more. And, of course, there?s an app for just about everything. With customization, you can use your iPad to balance your checkbook, find out how fast your car is traveling, log your daily food [...]

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VideoZoom10x payload turns the Aeryon Scout into
an awesome spycopter

post from Ubergizmo on 06 May 2011 09:20:43 PM. © Ubergizmo

Gone are the days when you can easily tell if anybody’s watching you from a distance or not. The folks over at Aeryon Labs have built a spy camera designed to be attached to their lightweight quadrocopter, the Aeryon Scout.

Called the VideoZoom10x, this add-on to the Aeryon Scout turns the quadrocopter into a nightmare for people who are hiding out or on the run. Well how powerful is this camera? How does being able to look at something from 300m away sound to you?

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Google and Sprint speak up about Google Voice
integration issues

When Google Voice and Sprint’s integration launched earlier this week, a lot of folks were happy with the functionality they got without having to change their Sprint numbers (some were happy they could change it) but a whole bunch of users were stuck, unable to use the service or even get it to work they way they wanted it to. A whole bunch of people complained, and the folks over at engadget came in to save the day, compiling a list of problems and contacting Google about the problem since nobody was responding in the forums.

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The Ringbow gives you a d-pad for your tablet

Ringbow When touchscreen tablets were introduced to the world, people had to get used to a totally new method of computing, with the use of different multi-touch gestures to recreate certain functionalities that were normally done by a mouse and/or keyboard. While some functions were easier to perform with gestures, people still pined for the mouse as an additional input device.

Well the folks at Cnet recently got a demonstration of a prototype of an upcoming tablet accessory called The Ringbow: a ring-mounted, wireless pointing stick. It is basically a mini d-pad joystick that’s attached to a ring mount which you wear on your finger. Using your thumb to operate the joystick, you can easily use additional functions in an app by pressing the controller in one of four directions (up, down, left, right).

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AT&T Samsung Infuse 4G allows installation of
non-Market apps

Samsung Infuse 4G Some folks who managed to get their hands on Samsung’s upcoming 4G Android phone for AT&T, the Infuse 4G, before everyone has some good news to report. While playing around with the Application settings of the phone, they’ve discovered that the phone has the ability to enable the installation of apps from unknown sources ? apps not download from the Android Market.

This is great news for users looking forward to purchase the phone because this restriction that is present on previous AT&T phones didn’t let users install apps if they weren’t available on the market. And the only way to bypass this restriction was to root the phone, which is a task too daunting for most smartphone users out there.

Seeing how the Android Market distributes malicious apps anyway, disabling the option wasn’t going to make the Android experience any safer for AT&T users. No word on when this feature will roll out to all existing phones (if at all), but when it does, unrooted users will finally get to install all the apps they previously couldn?t due to the restriction. And that includes the Amazon App Store for Android.

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