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  • LG’s projector-laden eXpo smartphone gets demonstrated on video

    LG’s projector-laden eXpo smartphone gets demonstrated on video

    Posted on December 6, 2009 | No Comments
    The projector phone mishmash idea has been around (and even demonstrated) for quite some time now, but only recently have we seen one of these two-pronged, hunchbacked monsters land on a major US carrier. LG's eXpo is carrying that crown (or burden, depending on perspective), and while we're itching to get one into our own labs for testing, we'll happily pass along what looks to be the world's first real good look at this handset in action. Make no mistake -- the DLP-based beamer affixed on the back adds quite the bulge, but the actual video performance looks about as good as any dedicated pico projector that we've seen to date. Have a peek past the break to see for yourself.

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  • This 648-megapixel image of the Milky Way will melt your brain

    This 648-megapixel image of the Milky Way will melt your brain

    Posted on November 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Yeah, this 648MP picture really puts it all in perspective. We really are just a small, insignificant speck in the whole scheme of things. The story goes that a physicist, Axel Mellinger from Central Michigan University, pieced together a 648MP image of the Milky Way from 3,000 pictures he took from all over the globe. He [...]

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  • It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law

    It’s brother versus brother in the UK re: that proposed anti-file sharing law

    Posted on September 14, 2009 | No Comments
    It's time for story Eight Million and Six-teen about how the record labels and the musicians they ostensibly represent no longer get on with each other. This time, we have a bit of a row developing over in the UK, where that proposed knock-people-off-the-Internet-for-file-sharing law is currently stirring division amongst the ranks. One on side, of course, you have the record labels who, in the year 2009, are still afraid of piracy destroying the music business (please note: that's destroying the music business that made record label execs fat and happy; music hasn't gone away, it's merely changed, and change is death to the record label middle men), and on the other, the musicians who recognize that, you know, maybe suing the pants off your customers isn't the best thing to do.

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  • Cupcake to be last major update to the Dream/G1?

    Cupcake to be last major update to the Dream/G1?

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Sound the alarm! The limited amount of internal flash on the G1 will be its undoing, says one fear monger. With only 256MB of ROM, the G1 began hemorrhaging after the Cupcake update and it’s a pretty safe bet that Donut and Éclair will both be bloated bastards (from a G1 owner’s perspective) and so goes the rumor. One of the Android devs from Google added flames to the fire with the following statement:

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  • The iPhone’s Competitors Have A Big Problem: Their Games Stink

    The iPhone’s Competitors Have A Big Problem: Their Games Stink

    Posted on July 23, 2009 | No Comments
    It's no secret that gaming on the iPhone has been one of the main keys to the App Store's success. You know it, I know it, and so you have to believe that all the competitors know it too. And yet, their actions would seem to suggest that they don't know it. Because they keep building devices, operating systems and app stores to compete with the iPhone, that simply can't hold a candle to the iPhone when it comes to gaming. At the Casual Connect conference in Seattle today, some numbers were thrown out there, talking about just how big gaming is now on the iPhone. Of the nearly 70,000 apps in the App Store, some 20% are games. Yes, that means there are between 10,000 and 15,000 apps that are games, just for the iPhone alone. To put that in perspective, that is more than the total number of apps that all of the App Store's big competitors (Android Market, Nokia Ovi Store, Palm's App Catalog, BlackBerry's App World) have — combined.

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  • Twitters Enters Meatspace: The End is Nigh

    Twitters Enters Meatspace: The End is Nigh

    Posted on July 8, 2009 | No Comments
    TwittAround is a terrifying new iPhone application which will actually overlay tweets on the world around you. It is an Augmented Reality Twitter Viewer which uses the iPhone 3GS’ location services to pinpoint your position and then queries the built-in compass to see which way you are looking. Finally, it takes location-stamped tweets and overlays them [...]

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  • Quick Review: Mass Effect Galaxy

    Quick Review: Mass Effect Galaxy

    Posted on June 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Have you ever gotten excited about a new title that just came out from a game shop that you admire and love, only to play through the game and think: that’s it?! I got all worked up for THIS?! Well, that just happened to me. It took me all of 3 hours to beat Mass [...]

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  • Dyson DC31 claims to have the fastest motor in the world

    Dyson DC31 claims to have the fastest motor in the world

    Posted on June 25, 2009 | No Comments
    Today in London, Dyson introduced a brand new handheld vacuum, the DC31. It weighs 2.2lb and is essentially an upgrade from the DC16, but this one packs a switched reluctance motor, which Sir James claims is the “fastest motor in the world, by a long stretch.”

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  • Yup, id Software was just bought by Bethesda Softworks’ parent company

    Yup, id Software was just bought by Bethesda Softworks’ parent company

    Posted on June 24, 2009 | No Comments
    This was “breaking news” two hours ago, but now it's just regular news. ZeniMax Media, which is the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, has bought id Software.

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