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Laser Pitch Detector System Kills Latency for MIDI Guitar Recording

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:01 PM PDT

I can't play the guitar but if I ever decide to try you can bet that I am springing for the guitar with lasers on it. I don't even know how to record music onto a computer from a live instrument, but just to say a guitar has lasers is worth it to me. This system is called the Laser Pitch Detector or LPD and it can determine the pitch of a string before you pluck it.

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Bite These Bullets Made Of Jell-O

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:17 AM PDT

Mmmmmm, bullets. Really puts a fresh spin on the phrase bite the bullet, except when you do, they’re quite flavorful. Apparently there exists an arcane gathering in New York called the Jell-O Mould Competition where variousculinary  sorcerers congregate to exhibit their magicry. Amongst the many displays were these glittering golden bullets that were bereft of a proper gelatinous firearm. But who needs a gn when you can just pop these in your mouth?

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Indestructible Titanium Straw Will Survive The Apocalypse (Video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 09:09 AM PDT

If you’re half divine like Perseus or made of superior DNA ala Master Chief, then mayhaps it’s high time you learned about the Titanium Straw. It’s a beverage straw—made of Titanium. Made for immortals. If you think this sounds nutty, the rationale behind the indestructible product is even more bizarre. it’s purpose is to finally suck every type of drink encase in a container. Ambitious? Of course. We have no idea why the plastic straw even needs to be upgraded though. It has already done wonders for humanity.

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Nexus S Arriving On AT&T July 24th

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:23 AM PDT

Google has today announced that their Nexus S Android smartphone will be arriving on the AT&T network later this week on July 24th. Samsung & Google’s Nexus S smartphone is equipped with a Android 2.3 and features a 4" Super AMOLED screen, a 1 GHz processor for showing 3D graphics, front and rear facing cameras and support for NFC.

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Fake Apple Store Employee Speaks Out

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 08:02 AM PDT

Yesterday we told you about the fake Apple store in Kunming China, which was discovered by expatriate blogger the BirdAbroad, the store looks exactly like a real Apple store, with fake apple signs, product displays, and even employees wearing fake Apple t-shirts.

The guys over at the Wall Street Journal have been doing some investigation into the fake Apple store, and whilst the owners of the store refused to speak to the WSJ, the did manage to talk to one of the stores employees.

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Leaked Battlefield 3 Multiplayer Gameplay Footage (videos)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:51 AM PDT

If you are looking forward to the launch of the new Battlefield 3 game later this year, you might be interested to view some alpha gameplay footage of the multiplayer side of the game which has leaked out into the open.

Battlefield 3 will feature the maximalist combined arms battles that made the series popular across single-player, co-operative and multiplayer modes, and will features the return of class-based game play. With four classes: Assault, Support, Engineer and Recon, but unlike previous versions, the class, Assault, will be able to equip defibrillators and medkits. Watch the videos after the jump, but remember its is alpha release quality so might not resemble the final product. Enjoy!

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OS X Lion Disables Flash Player Hardware Acceleration

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:28 AM PDT

If you are enjoying playing with your newly installed Apple OS X Lion you might have already noticed a few changes while playing Flash based products or movies, together with other issues in most of Adobe’s software.

Whilst playing anything in Flash Player you might have also noticed an increase in CPU activity when watching a YouTube video or similar, this is thought to be related to the issue OS X Lion has with Flash Player and the disabled hardware acceleration.

 

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Sid Meier’s Pirates Game Lands On The iPad

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 07:07 AM PDT

If you enjoy a good Pirate game, you will be pleased to know that Sid Meier's Pirates game has been refashioned has just landed on the iPad and iPad 2 and is now available to download from the iTunes App Store.

Within the game you get to captain one of 27 fully customisable ships as you descend upon unsuspecting ports to amass a motley crew of seafaring pirates. Once you have sorted your crew you can then set sail for adventures collecting hidden treasure maps, undertake daring missions and courageous rescues using the included minigames, such as Sword Fighting, Ship Combat and Dancing.

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Apple Is Now The Worlds Leading Smartphone Manufacturer, Ahead Of Nokia

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 06:56 AM PDT

According to a recent report by the Financial Times, Apple is now the world’s leading smartphone manufacturer, the news comes as Nokia announces losses for its last quarter.

Apple has seen incredible growth in the iPhone ever since the first iPhone launched back in 2007, and to come from nowhere to overtake Nokia in under four years is pretty impressive.

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Quma: 3D Motion-Capture Figure (video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 06:34 AM PDT

An innovative 3D motion capture figure has been developed by SoftEther in Japan, and has been designed to provide a more intuitive method of creating computer generated animations in real-time.

Called Quma, the human-like doll has sensors linked to its joints, simply pose and move the figures limbs and watch the animation carried out in realtime on your computer screen. Watch the video after the jump to see Quma in action.

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Fantastic Live Action Deus Ex Human Revolution Trailer (video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:58 AM PDT

If you are looking forward to the immanent release of the new Deus Ex Human Revolution game arriving for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 on August 26th. You will enjoy this new trailer that has been released to promote the game together with a website for SarifIndustries. The new Deus Ex Human Revolution game will be available in either a standard edition $60 or an augmented reality version $70.

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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Hits The Xperia Play (Video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:44 AM PDT

The guys over at Sony Ericsson just dropped us an email to let us know that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is now available on the Xperia Play, and the game features a total of 5 different battle zones and 14 single player missions.

Sony Ericsson have also released a video which shows the game play in action, you seen can this in the video below.

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Google+ Windows Phone 7 App Launching Soon

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:27 AM PDT

Google+ has already been a success for Google, with reports that Google+ will reach 20 million users by the end of this week, Google is obviously working quickly to get Google+ on as many platforms as possible, it is already available on Google’s own Android OS, and Apple’s iPhone, and now it looks like it is also headed to Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.

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Acer Developing Acer Cloud After iGware Acquisition

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 05:22 AM PDT

After the acquisition of iGware by Acer this week for $320 million, the Taiwanese hardware vendor is now looking to develop its own Acer Cloud that would be used as a web based service designed to pull their PC’s, laptops and tablets devices together.

Acer has explained that their new Acer Cloud will be built on an open platform with hardware and software design integration set to begin in late September 2011. The fully finished Acer Cloud is then expected to launch products during 2012.

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SwiftKey X Android Goes Free On Amazon Appstore

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:53 AM PDT

Some of our readers will remember the new SwiftKey X Android app that was launched last week, the app was available for $3.99, and it has now appeared on the Amazon Appstore as today’s free Android app.

Switkey X is a replacement keyboard app for your Android smartphone and tablet, and it comes with a range of different personalization options and it is also designed to accurately predict what you are typing.

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Netflix Android App Updated For Tablets And Now Supports 24 Smartphones

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:32 AM PDT

Netflix has rolled out a new updated to its Android application this week that now provides support for tablets and brings the application to the Android Droid 3 and Galaxy S smartphone as well as others increasing the support list to 24 smartphones.

The new Netflix update now allows the application to stream natively from HDMI equipped tablets and the application will now also work on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom.

 

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Lenovo’s Android Tablets Hit The UK In August, Prices Start At £369

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:08 AM PDT

When Lenovo announced their two new Android tablets yesterday, The Lenovo ThinkPad and the Lenovo IdeaPad K1, they also announced pricing for the US, but didn’t give us any details on how much these new Android tablets would cost here in the UK.

It looks like Lenovo has priced both models competitively, as the base model of the IdeaPad K1 will go on sale for £369 whilst the base model of the ThinkPad tablet will go on sale for £399.

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iSheetMusic Apps Provide Extensive Sheet Music Library To iOS Users (video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 04:04 AM PDT

A new application called iSheetMusic is looking to revolutionise the sheet music industry with the launch of its free app that uses true note technology to bring sheet music to life on your iOS device.

The creators of iSheetmusic have partnered with the largest sheet music publishers in the world to provide users with a continually growing library of sheet music with unparalleled access to the most extensive digital musical libraries available. Watch the video after the jump to see the application in action.

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Pioneer Lego DJ Turntable

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:57 AM PDT

The Pioneer Lego DJ Turntable was created by Jesse ‘Dean’ Graves as part of the Pioneer DJ’s Art Mix project, and this fully functional turntable was created used Lego, and a pioneer CDJ-2000.

Have a look at the photos of this cool Pioneer Lego turntable below, and comes with all the functions of the standard Pioneer CDJ-2000, which include CD, DVD, SD card and USB compatibility.

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2011 MacBook Air Benchmark Tests Show Impressive Improvement Over 2010 Models

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:40 AM PDT

New benchmark tests on Apple’s latest 2011 Macbook AIr notebooks show a very impressive increase on performance when compared with last years 2010 models. Benchmark tests carried out by the Laptop website show the Apple Macbook Air 13-inch, 2011 model hitting 5,860 on the processor and memory performance test, that when compared to the 2010 models score of 3,003 show a great performance improvement.

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Libratone Live And Lounge AirPlay Speakers Announced

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:26 AM PDT

Denmark based Libratone has announced two new speaker systems for your home that are designed to be used with Apple’s AirPlay, the Libratone Live and the Libratone Lounge.

Both of these new AirPlay enabled speakers will let you stream music direct from AirPlay enabled devices which include the iPhone,iPad, iPod Touch, and Mac computers.

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Lego, Marvel & DC Join Forces to Create New Lego Super Heroes Range (video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 03:03 AM PDT

Lego has announced a new partnership between themselves, Marvel and DC Comics that will launch a whole new range of Lego Super Hero characters in 2012. The new range will bring an extension to the Batman line of Lego products, featuring an extended cast of DC heroes and villains, together with a new lineup of Marvel toys as well.

In celebration of both the announcement and the start of this years Comic Con, Lego is giving away 3,000 Batman and Green Lantern Lego characters at Comic Con to enable fans to enter their new LEGO Super Heroes Challenge film and photo contest.

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Lenovo’s New Android Tablets In Action (Video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:53 AM PDT

Yesterday Lenovo announced two new Android tablets, the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet and the Lenovo IdeaPad K1 tablet, and now Lenovo has released a couple of unboxing videos which gives us our first look at these two new Android Honeycomb tablets in action.

Both the Lenovo ThinkPad and Lenovo IdeaPad K1 will come with Android Honeycomb 3.1, and they both feature a 10.1 inch multi-touch display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels, plus dual core processors, have a look at the videos of both tablets in action below.

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Cisco Unveils Dual-Band Wireless Entertainment Bridge

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:43 AM PDT

Cisco have unveiled details of their new Dual-Band Wireless Entertainment Bridge this week, which has been designed to aid you connect all your home entertainment gear to your wireless network with the minimum of fuss.

The new Wireless Entertainment Bridge is equipped with a three-antenna bridge that supports Wireless-N on both 2.4 or 5 GHz to minimise interference issues with other Wi-Fi devices. There is a 4 port 10/100 Fast Ethernet switch to which you attach your entertainment gear, that could include your: Xbox 360, PS3, Slingbox, Roku, Boxee or anything else you might have that requires an Internet connection to function.

 

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Windows Phone 7 Mango Won’t Get In App Purchasing

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:37 AM PDT

We had heard previously that when Windows Phone 7 Mango was released it would bring in app purchasing to Windows Phone 7, unfortunately it looks like developers may have to wait to a later date for in app purchasing to be available on Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft’s Todd Brix recently confirmed in a comment on the Windows Team Blog, that Microsoft is working on bringing in app purchasing to Windows Phone 7 apps, but developers will have to wait until after Mango for the feature to be available.

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Panasonic Introduces Lumix FZ47

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 02:16 AM PDT

Panasonic have unveiled new images and specifications for its latest camera creation the Panasonic Lumix FZ47 which features a 24x optical zoom together with 1080i video recording capabilities.

The new Lumix FZ47 is also equipped with a 12.1-megapixel high-speed CCD sensor, a Venus Engine FHD processor which allows the camera to continuously shoot at 3.8 fps on full resolution and up to 10 fps at 3-megapixel resolution. The new FZ47 is also fitted with Panasonic’s Sonic Speed Auto Focus (AF) system with auto-tracking capability that provides the camera with a quick startup time, which Panasonic say is 35 percent faster than Panasonic’s previous FZ40.

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Apple To Release OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive In August For $69

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:38 AM PDT

Yesterday Apple released its latest version of its Mac operating system, OS X Lion, and Lion is already the top download in the Mac App Store, and it is only available as a digital download from the Mac App Store at the moment.

The OS X lion download is around 3.7GB in size, which is fine for people with fast connections, Apple has now confirmed that they will sell a version of OS X Lion from August on a USB thumb drive.

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Notion Ink Adam 2 Android Tablet Coming In December

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:23 AM PDT

It looks like Notion Ink has a follow up to their Adam tablet in the works, and according to Notion Ink’s CEO Rohan Shravan, who recently spoke to Light Reading India, the Adam 2 tablet will be unveiled in December of 2011.

Shravan hasn’t released an specifications as yet on the Notion Ink Adam 2 Tablet, but as Slashgear points out we can expect it to feature an NVIDIA processor like the first version and it may even come with NVIDIA’s new Kal-El processor and may also feature a display from Pixel QI.

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Gmail Voice, Now Supports Multiple Calls

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 01:18 AM PDT

Google has rolled out a new update to its Gmail Voice service today, which now enables users to make and receive multiple calls at the same time, on just one Gmail account. The new feature works across all call types: voice, video, and phone but only two calls to physical phones can be made at any one time.

The new feature now allows you to make a second call whilst already in a call. Once you initiate the second call the first call will automatically be put on hold while you use and talk on your second call.

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Sony A77 Images Leaked

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:53 AM PDT

We heard about Sony’s replacement for the A700 back in February, the A77, and now some new photos have been leaked as well as some more information on the Sony A 77.

The Sony A 77 is reported to come with a 24 megapixel sensor, and it will be capable of recording HD video, so we presume that will be Full HD in 1080p, and it will come with a new semi transparent mirror, with something that Sony calls ‘Translucent Mirror Technology”.

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Astroclip Lets You Photograph The Cosmos With The iPhone 4 (Video)

Posted: 21 Jul 2011 12:32 AM PDT

We have featured quite a few different accessories for the iPhone 4 here at Geeky Gadgets, I think this is the first one that is designed to let you photograph the moon and galaxy, the Astroclip.

The Astroclip was created by designer Matthew Geyster from Base One Labs in Boston, and it is an add on for your iPhone 4 that lets you hook up your iPhone to a telescope, you can then take pictures of the cosmos using the camera on your iPhone 4, you can see some photos taken with the Astroclip below.

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Google+ Close To 20 Million Users

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 11:37 PM PDT

Google’s social networking service, Google+ has been incredibly popular since it launched just over two weeks ago, and according to Paul Allen, the founder of Ancestry.com, who has been researching how many users Google+ has, Google+ is getting close to 20 million members.

Just last Friday, Google officially confirmed that Google+ had reached 10 million users, and according to Paul Allen, Google+ will hit 20 million users by the end of this week.

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Google Labs To Be Wound Down

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 10:46 PM PDT

Google has announced that it will be winding down Google Labs, the move comes as part of the companies efforts to prioritize their various products, and the announcement came in a blog post titled ‘more wood behind fewer arrows’, which refers to Google’s CEO Larry Page’s statement that he made during Google’s recent earnings calls.

Google has said that this will mean that many of the Google Labs experiments will come to an end although they did state that they don’t have any plans to change in product experiment channels for Maps Labs and Gmail Labs.

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Microsoft: New Xbox Is Old Xbox With New Services

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 05:12 PM PDT

Despite what you might have heard, the new Xbox is probably not going to be at E3 2012 except maybe in announcement form only, but that apparently doesn’t stop people from speculating and asking about it. And when you run one of Microsoft’s better known first party studios, like the one responsible for the Xbox avatars and Kinect Sports, you probably tend to get asked about it a lot.

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Activision: Guitar Hero Ripe For A Comeback

Posted: 20 Jul 2011 04:49 PM PDT

The timing seems a bit arbitrary, but what with Child of Eden gathering praise from all corners, Activision probably feels the need to strike while the iron is still hot. Which is precisely what it’s doing, according to CEO Bobby Kotick, who revealed that the franchise is currently being revived in a recent interview. He also took the opportunity to assess some past rhythm game mistakes.

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