Augmented Reality is a technology that I really can’t get enough of, combine that with Lego and I think that we’ve got a winner! Sadly the demo shown at IDF wasn’t as cool as the Lego dragon that breaths fire or the Sesame Street AR…
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ASUS Jonney Shih Announces ‘Total’ Cloud Computing Solution for Computex – iCloud Competitor For Everyone
At a Business Next event in Taiwan Jonney Shih, Chairman of ASUS, took the stage to give his vision of the future of technology. During his talk he discussed the importance of social, location and mobile and of course the ubiquitous cloud. During his wrap…
Microsoft’s Response to Google Glasses
Alright so it this isn’t an official Microsoft promotional video for their own Augmented Reality solution to compete against Google Goggles, but it is a pretty funny one! The spoof pretends to challenge Google’s recently unveiled a prototype of AR ‘goggles’ that create a world…
Scam 23GB of Extra Storage from Dropbox? Busted! Prepare to Loose it
We all love Dropbox and getting 23GB of free storage is even better, so we don’t blame you if you used the APK file floating around that tricked Dropbox servers into thinking you had a HTC One series device. For users who actually picked up…
Qualcomm to Early on Smartbooks but S4 Ultra-Thin Laptops Could be Right On Time
You can have a great idea but if you’re too early to market then no one will care and actually mock your product, that seems to be the case with Qualcomm and their Smartbook concept. Back in 2009 Qualcomm pushed an ultrathin ARM based laptop…
RIM: We are Still Committed to Consumer Products
After the news of RIM’s $125m loss in Q4 prompting a spree of executive lay-offs and co-founder Jim Balsillie resigning from the RIM board the internet has been full of speculation that BlackBerry would be abandoning their consumer line up. The news was based on…
iPad Gets a Trojan All Apple Devices Could be Next
One of the reasons that I like to recommend Apple computers is that they work and that they don’t get viruses. A pair of Trojans have been identified on computers of multiple Pro-Tibetan NGOs, the sinister code appears to be infiltrating Macs using the same…
ASUS Transformer Prime About the Get a Whole Bunch of Updates
If you’ve got the ASUS Transformer Prime you’re in for a treat, especially if you’re living in a country that loves ethernet over WiFi. ASUS US teased “awesome new features” which the Italians promptly detailed, including a March 29 expected release date for a new…
Why Magazines Look So Bad On the new iPad
One of the main selling features of Apple’s new iPad… is it’s brilliant 2048 x 1536 display, however when you lead the pack you risk leaving others behind. This may not seem like a negative but when you’re in the tablet game it’s your content
Android 5.0 Jelly Bean Arrives in Q3?
Google has barely shipped Android 4.0 or Ice Cream Sandwich and there are already rumors that we’re going to be seeing Android 5.0 or Jelly Bean launch in Q3 of 2012. We’re still waiting on Android 4.0 to resolve some of the fragmentation issues in…
Angry Birds & Ad Supported Apps Drain Your Battery Unnecessarily
Even if an App uses more battery than it has to I’m not going to stop going after those pigs! But it is interesting to know that 75 percent of the energy used by certain free Android apps is spent as an aggregate result of…
Top 10 iPad Retina Display Apps – Video
Pick up a new iPad…? I’m sure you’re keen to pick up some of Apps that really show of every pixel of your 2048 x 1536 Retina display. Andjez from TabletBlog.de shot a video showing off the Top 10 Apps which are optimized for
Tizen Caught on Video with a 3D UI That Will Make You Look Twice
If you’re not familiar with Tizen you’re in the majority. What we have here is an open source operating system that has experieced several iterations, the last was Meego which was a failed alliance between Intel and Nokia. The new Tizen project is being head…
Marvel Comics Augmented Reality App Brings You Behind the Scenes
Marvel Comics is keeping current as they have launched an Augmented Reality app called Marvel AR at South by Southwest Interactive. The app is being launched along side a line of comics called Marvel Infinite Comics, which will be available to readers from the standard…
webCM9 Gives webOS-Styled App Switching to CM9-Running HP TouchPad
While it is very cool to run Android 4.0 on my HP TouchPad, I do miss a lot of webOS features (though I see a lot of webOS in parts of Ice Cream Sandwich, like being able to swipe individual notifications from the list to…
