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  • Samsung Wave now available in UK, France, and Germany

    Samsung Wave now available in UK, France, and Germany

    Posted on May 24, 2010 | No Comments
    To all those Samsung enthusiasts living in Europe: this one's for you. Samsung today announced that the Bada-powered Wave is now available in the UK and France (it has been available in Germany for about a week). UK Vodafone fans can grab the phone for free on a £25 per month plan, but no outright prices have yet been announced for the UK or France. However, eager Germans can pick it up for €429.

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  • Adidas F50 adiZero: Messi (and others) will wear the lightest soccer boot in human history at the World Cup

    Adidas F50 adiZero: Messi (and others) will wear the lightest soccer boot in human history at the World Cup

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    A little while ago I brought news of the super-duper technology that adidas' kits ("jerseys") will utilize at the World Cup. We all had a good time, yes? Well today there's news of the boot, the F50 adiZero, that the likes of Leo Messi and David Villa (soon to be teammates at FC Barcelona maybe~!) and Jozy Altidore will use to score many goals. Adidas says it's the lightest football boot ever produced by man! At this rate, we'll be zipping around the galaxy using mass relays, knock on wood.

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  • Google working on smartphone software to automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue

    Google working on smartphone software to automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue

    Posted on February 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Check your calendar, friends, for the first time in a long time I was just wowed by a tech story. Google says it's working on smartphone software that would automatically translate foreign languages into your native tongue. So, if you're talking to your Venezuelan pen pal, and he says, "No me gusta el fútbol americano," you can react in horror as you try to explain to him the importance of a game where more time is spent setting up plays than actually executing them is the greatest sport in the world. Porqueria.

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  • New e-reader “txtr”: Germany’s answer to the Kindle

    New e-reader “txtr”: Germany’s answer to the Kindle

    Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
    Deutsche Telekom's e-book reader probably has gone the way of the Dodo, but the Germans are still getting a home-made Kindle competitor. The device, dubbed txtr, was announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair that's happening in Deutschland right now, and it will become available in that country as soon as December 1 (as pre-order). The txtr is the product of a Berlin-based start-up of the same name. It features a 6-inch grayscale e-ink screen, a microSD slot (an 8GB card is included in the package, 1GB flash), an ARM11 CPU (532MHz), 64MB RAM, a micro-USB port and "ultra-long battery life" (company quote). The device is sized at 151×131×12 mm and weighs 281g.

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  • Vhy do all zee Germans speak English in Wolfenstein?

    Vhy do all zee Germans speak English in Wolfenstein?

    Posted on August 22, 2009 | No Comments
    If we slightly alter the definition of the word “whim” from “a sudden desire or change of mind, esp. one that is unusual or unexplained” to “the result of many hours of thought and planning,” then yes, you can say that I bought Wolfenstein on a whim this week. Seeing as though it's a Saturday, and the rules and bylaws governing the Internet are different than they are during the workweek, I present, uncensored and unencumbered, my early reactions to the game—single player mode, that is. I can't be bothered with multi-player modes these days.

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  • Lucky Germans: You can watch every single Bundesliga game live on your T-Mobile cellphone this season

    Lucky Germans: You can watch every single Bundesliga game live on your T-Mobile cellphone this season

    Posted on July 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Good news for German football fans who use T-Mobile. The company's Bundesliga Total service is coming to cellphones. That means you'll be able to watch every single game played in the first and second division from the comfort of your iPhone, G1 and G2. This is all live, by the way, not cheap-o highlights sent to your phone hours after the game has ended.

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