Motorola Xoom User Guide Download Now Available
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Update: Manual taken down for TOS violation. The Motorola Xoom could be described as the main competitor to the Apple iPad.
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Video: Real Life Mario Kart
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What can you do if you live in in provincial Nara in Japan, if you”re a 57-year old Japanese entrepreneur with a penchant for cars, and if you need a cool hobby?
BlackBerry Bold Touch, aka Dakota / Montana images appear
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Section: Communications, Smartphones, Mobile It seems as if it has been a few days of BlackBerry. Over the weekend we saw the details on the Storm 3 (Monaco) which came in the form of a video and now we have some live style images of the Bold Touch (Dakota and/or Montana).
Garmin GTU10 James Bond Style Tracking Device
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Garmin have unveiled a new tracking device they have added to their line-up called the GTU 10. The GTU 10 is a small, lightweight and waterproof tracker that can be attached to practically anything you would like to know the whereabouts of.Once enabled and attached to your bag or pet you can view...
7.7mm NEC MEDIAS E-04C Android smartphone bests chubby Arc and Galaxy S II
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How skinny is too skinny? NEC obviously reckons Android smartphones aren’t quite slender enough, since the new NEC MEDIAS E-04C is a waifish 7.7mm at its slimmest point.
Garmin intros GTU 10 GPS tracking device
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Garmin has introduced the GTU 10 GPS tracking device. The small gadget is lightweight (48.5g) and waterproof making it useful for numerous applications. Among its suggested uses include tagging it to luggage, pet collars and even children so that a parent can note their childís location.
Android Gets a 3rd Party Windowed Interface
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Ixonos is a Finnish company that is in the process of designing and building an interface for Android 3.0 tablets.
iPad 2 Case is Smaller: Original iPad Wont Fit
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We've been hearing that the new iPad 2 will be a bit smaller than the original although it will still retain the same 9.7 inch screen.
Rolls-Royce Develop Electric Powered Prototype 102EX
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Luxury car manufacturer Rolls Royce has announced they have created their first electric powered prototype vehicle dubbed the Rolls Royce 102EX, which was rumoured back in November 2009.Rolls-Royce, a unit of German auto giant BMW AG has created the new electric car in the form of its flagship...
Apple Extending MacBook Pro Shipping Dates, Could Indicate New Model Arriving Soon?
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Shipping dates on Apples website for their MacBook Pro have now slipped back to 3-5 days,which could indicate a imminent update to Apple’s MacBook Pro lineup, which has been rumoured for some time.The longer shipping dates have also been accompanied with Apple issuing strict warnings to...
MIT develops biomedical sensors which diagnoses diseases with UV light
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Northeastern University is back again with some interesting stuff - microworm biomedical sensors that detect medical status through a glowy UV light. Reading the conditions can be very simple as shining the light on the skin and seeing the glowy tattoos .
Microsoft FlashStore promises HDD/SSD-beating performance for Xbox LIVE & more
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Microsoft is looking to boost Xbox LIVE online gaming speed, server farms and cloud apps using an injection of flash memory.
New Toshiba Android Honeycomb Tablet Could be the Antares
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At CES earlier this year, Toshiba unveiled a new Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. When it was first unveiled, it ran Android 2.2 as no Android 3.0 OS was available for demonstration.We know a lot of the specs on this device such as it having an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core CPU along with a 10.1 inch...
First Pics Of The World’s Thinnest Smartphone, The NEC Medias, Leak
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NEC is apparently to unveil the "world's thinnest smartphone" (7.7mm) on Thursday, if a "leak" covered on a Japanese blog today is to be believed. That leak, reported today by Akihabara News, is actually a few days old (see this Japanese blog post, for example). Read the rest on MobileCrunch.
Roberts Expression DAB & FM Radio
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From my observations the retro gadgets are very trendy. Roberts Expression DAB & FM Radio is an interesting combination of modern meets retro.
Ixonos Demo’s It’s Windowed Tablet Android OS User Interface (video)
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Ixonos unveiled its new windowed Android user interface at MWC last week. The new user interface system has been built on top of Froyo and allows apps to continue running in the background without them going into suspend mode. Allowing you to truly multitask on the same screen.
Twitter Restores Banned UberSocial And Twidroyd Applications
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Twitter suspended three applications created by UberMedia, on Friday, including the popular BlackBerry and Android Twitter apps, UberTwitter and Twidroyd together with others.
Playable Angry Birds Cake
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We have featured a few different Angry Bird cakes here on Geeky Gadgets but never one that could actually be played.
Missing Motorola XOOM Flash leaves Honeycomb at a disadvantage until Spring 2011?
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Android’s Flash advantage over the iPad will be missing in action from the launch of the Motorola XOOM, with Flash Player support not expected until Spring 2011.
Review: My New iPad: A User’s Guide – No Starch Press
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Wallace Wang, best seller of My New Mac and My New iPhone for the No Starch Press publisher has written a new book detailing everything you need to know about the iPad in a book called “My New iPad: A User’s Guide.”
Kinect Space Invaders Hack
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One of the earliest classic arcade games released back in 1978 has now been combined with the latest gaming technology to create a Kinect powered Space Invader game.However it does look a little more energetic than the early joystick version.
Rolls Royce 102EX goes all-electric [Video]
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Rolls Royce is dipping a wheel into electric vehicles, with the debut of the Rolls Royce 102EX. Described as a “working test-bed” for alternative drive-train technologies, the 102EX is based on the existing Phantom but switches the 6.75-liter engine for an unspecified all-electric...
TUAW’s Daily App: Full Deck Solitaire
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A solitaire game? That's what you're probably asking out loud right now, since a) there are a ton of solitaire games on the App Store, and b) I haven't had a lot of luck picking your favorites in the past. But there's a reason Full Deck Solitaire is here, and his name is Graeme Devine.
Lenovo challenging Apple in all-in-one PCs
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Lenovo is growing quickly enough to be a challenger to Apple's long-held dominance in all-in-one computers, a mixture of unofficial sources and estimates claimed on Monday.
12 More File Types Added to Google Docs Viewer
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Google has updated Google Docs Viewer to now include 12 more file types.For those not familiar with Google Docs Viewer, it is the system that Google uses to allow you to read documents found in emails without downloading the attachments, or at least thats one way to use it.
Huawei offers London Underground cellular network for 2012 Olympics
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Huawei has offered to outfit London’s Underground train system with blanket cellular access in time for the 2012 Olympics, as a so-called gift “from one Olympic host nation to another.” According to the Sunday Times [subscription required], Huawei would make money on the deal in…
