HP Announces New webOS Smartphones, TouchPad
tablet, and Synergy syncing

post from Gizmos for Geeks on 11 February 2011 06:48:00 PM. © Gizmos for Geeks

HP held a large press event this week to announce and show off their new webOS-based devices, in particular their brand new iPad competitor which is due . First remember that HP bought troubled Palm and with it, their relatively new webOS mobile operating system. Now HP has unveiled not only 2 new smartphone products, [...]

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Google To Make $1.3bn From Android Ads In 2012

post from Most Popular Gadget Blog on 11 February 2011 02:06:03 PM. © Most Popular Gadget Blog

An analyst with Piper Jaffray has predicted that Google could be earning around $ 1.3 billion in advertising revenue from Android users in 2012. In a research note Gene Munster anticipates the average revenue per user (ARPU) rate rising from $ 5,90 in 2010, to $ 9.75 in 2012. With the number of Android users anticipated to reach 133 million by then, this would equate to $ 1.3 billion in advertising revenue. Munster also used figures released by google itself to arrive at this projection. “As we noted, we Read Full Article

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Stomp on your enemies with this latest Kinect and
Wiimote hack

post from Ubergizmo on 11 February 2011 01:58:36 PM. © Ubergizmo

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This isn?t the first Kinect hack that uses a Nintendo Wiimote, but it?s definitely a cool hack. The creator of this hack used the FAAST emulator for the Kinect and GlovePIE for the Wiimote, allowing you to have some pretty fun gaming sessions in Dead Space 2. One notable feature of this hack is the ability to stomp on your enemies in the game, turning the game into some sort of digital stress ball stress reliever. Check out the video above and see it for yourself.

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LEGO viewfinder and shutter release added to Sony
NEX-5 camera

post from Ubergizmo on 11 February 2011 01:46:11 PM. © Ubergizmo

Sony?s NEX-5 camera is definitely a looker, but if you want it to stand out even more, LEGO bricks might be able to come to your rescue. Somebody out there decided to create a LEGO viewfinder for the camera and he?s also came up with a LEGO shutter release. The creator of this mod is aptly dubbed ?cubie?, and the shutter release involved soldering a few IR LEDs to a headphone jack and positioning them to sit on top of the camera?s IR sensor. When the right sound is played through the audio patch cable, the picture is then taken. Sounds overly complicated, but it?s hard to object to adding LEGO bricks to items.

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DIY LED dog collar

post from Ubergizmo on 11 February 2011 01:21:02 PM. © Ubergizmo

Some folks seem to think that LEDs make everything better and that?s probably the reason why we?ve discovered this LED dog collar. We probably don?t need to explain what this is to you, but it?ll make it a lot harder for your dog to hide from you at night. The collar sports 5 blue LEDs and is powered by an attiny2313 microcontroller, allowing the light sequences to be changed or added easily. The collar is powered by three AAA batteries and you can check out a video of it in action after the jump. More…

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Google wants to help you plan your wedding

post from Ubergizmo on 11 February 2011 01:14:26 PM. © Ubergizmo

Do you think that Google is trying to integrate itself too much into our lives? Well, you might not want to hear this, but Google has rolled out a dedicated site to help you create your own wedding site, edit photos and plan the wedding using Google?s tools, such as Sites, Docs and Picnik. To get everything running smoothly, the search giant teamed up with wedding planner Michelle Rago for the templates, who also provides tips for the couple. Google is also hosting a wedding sweepstakes and offers the prize of $25,000 and the chance to get Rago help plan your wedding. Would you use this to plan your wedding?

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Yahoo unveils Livestand, its digital newsstand
for tablets

post from Ubergizmo on 11 February 2011 12:34:46 PM. © Ubergizmo

Yahoo has unveiled its latest product, a personalized digital newsstand for tablets, dubbed Livestand. The app is touted as a perpetually active newsstand and offers Android and iPad users a customized selection of news from Yahoo, entertainment news site OMG, and Flickr galleries. The content will be continuously updated depending on the user?s preferences, the location and the time. Other publishers will be able to join in on the fun in the future, allowing them to publish once and have it delivered to more than one platform at the same time. Ads will also be more targeted but will react to user behavior instead of going through personal data. The Android and iPad versions of the app will be ready in the first half of 2011 and there might be a phone-sized version of the app somewhere down the road.

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Stock Android Gingerbread ROM appears for Droid

post from Ubergizmo on 11 February 2011 12:29:50 PM. © Ubergizmo

If you happen to own the original Motorola Droid and have yet to make an upgrade of your smartphone, you would be mighty pleased to know that there is a stock Android 2.3 Gingerbread ROM available from Peter Alfonso (also known as Bugless Beast). While there are tons of ROMs having rolled out that claim to be Gingerbread, most of them are just Froyo with a Gingerbread launcher as well as icons. This new ROM, however, was built right from 2.3.2, and will offer an actual Android 2.3 Gingerbread experience. Hopefully your Droid is still up to the task though, and will it prevent you from making a phone upgrade?

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Turbospoke creates illusion of faster bicycle

You know those rice rockets that terrorize your neighborhood? Well, have you noticed how some of them think that putting a couple of NOS decals on the outside will psychologically provide a speed boost. Well, the same sort of thinking has translated to bicycles, with the Turbospoke – it might just bring back memories of placing a baseball card in the spoke of your bicycle wheel just to make it sound a whole lot cooler than it actually is. Turbospoke will feature a set of strong plastic cards which are positioned between the spokes of your rear tire, where they are connected to a tube that has been shaped to resemble an exhaust pipe. Said faux exhaust pipe functions as an amplifier, creating plenty of sound to turn your bicycle into the coolest on the block. Would you fork out $20 for this?

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Nokia employees walk out in protest of Microsoft
deal

Nokia?s partnership with Microsoft is definitely a big deal and there will be major changes thanks to it. Of course, change isn?t necessarily welcome by everybody and many Nokia employees have made their disapproval of the deal known. Nokia?s staff voiced their dissatisfaction by walking out of Nokia facilities and it?s been said that as many as a thousand workers marched out. Reports say that many of the protestors work on the Symbian platform, so their jobs will likely in jeopardy as Nokia begins to implement Windows Phone 7 on its devices. Nokia will still continue to work on Symbian at the moment, but the axe will probably fall sooner or later. No job cuts have been mentioned just yet, but whispers are going around that the cuts in headcount will be substantial.

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