June 19, 2013

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Kinect and Wii hack; makes a change in playing “Call of Duty”

Are you bored of playing Call of Duty using Keyboard on your PC?, then check out this to make a change in it. Just interconnect your PC up to Microsoft’s Kinect and Nintendo’s Wii Remote for some added FPS awesomeness, and configure your PC to support those controllers, load up Call of Duty. One keen [...]

Facebook reportedly to be shut down by the mid of March 2011

Facebook reportedly to be shut down by the mid of March 2011

Several reports say that the Facebook is going to end, several blogs reporting that the Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declared the end of the social networking site. According to reports, Mark Zuckerberg has got enough with managing the social network and says ruined his life. “Facebook has gotten out of control,” said [...]

PSP Phone Gingerbread Leaked Video From Greece

Sony Ericsosn PlayStation Phone Image

According to Engadget, the movie was filmed in Greece and shows the full motion – and low quality – debut of Sony Ericsson’s crossover device, an Android smartphone with portable gaming capabilities. The PlayStation Phone, one half portable gaming console, one half Android smartphone. Unfortunately, we never see it flexing out its slider to reveal that [...]

More destructive cyber attacks could be made by 2015 : Gartner

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World’s leading IT research and advisory firm Gartner has forecast that by 2015, online sabotages will become multi-modal and very damaging and that even a G-20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by such cyber attacks . “By 2015, a G20 nation’s critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage. Online [...]

EU Carriers force,Apple to abandone “Embedded iPhone SIM” plan

Apple has reportedly gave up plans to put an embedded SIM card in the next-gen iPhone. According to The Telegraph, Apple has given up on its plans to bypass carriers. One source told the U.K. publication that Apple was “sent back to the drawing board with their tails between their legs.” While Apple has reportedly [...]

Apple’s Embedded SIM card-Europian carriers go on “war”

Apple Embedded sim Image

While Apple hasn’t officially announced intentions to use an embedded SIM in its iPhone, some European carriers are already such a move could put too much control in Apple’s hands. Apple recently started working with the wireless security company Gemalto, whose programmable over the air SIM card solutions are used in big pilot projects for [...]

Xbox Kinect Headed to Japan

Microsoft finally launching XBox Kinect in Japan this weekend, and Takashi Sensui(MS Japanese Home & Entertainment division general manager) can hardly believe it, in a way. “It’s been two or three years since I first became aware of the Kinect project, but it seems a lot quicker than that,” he told Famitsu magazine in this [...]

Microsoft Kinect Hacked?

xbox Kinect

Microsoft’s Kinect controller has been hacked  a few days after its release Late last week it was reported that a New-York based company; Adafruit Industries were offering $2000 to any individual or group that could develop an open source Kinect driver hack that could bring the technology to other platforms outside of Xbox360. Code to [...]

Microsoft Announced New Xbox 360 D-Pad Controller

new xbox 360 d-pad controller

Microsoft announced a new Xbox 360 controller to release in November that features a transforming D-pad, the company announced Tuesday. The silver controller includes a “transforming D-pad” that allows players to alter the way the directional pad is used. Players can use the standard plus format as they would with any Xbox 360 controller, or [...]

German Company Intuitfocus has Released the First Hands-Free Follow-Focus System for DSLRs Dubbed Intuitfocus HF-IF1

intuitfocus hf if1

German manufacturer Intuitfocus has released what it calls the first hands-free follow-focus system for DSLRs. The Intuitfocus HF-IF1 is built a motorized belt-drive system that attaches around the lens and is remotely controlled by scroll wheel. Aimed at videographers who shoot movies with HD enabled DSLRs, this system is designed to offer smooth and shake-free [...]

WowWee’s Roboscooper – Sweeper Robot Inspired by Wall-E

WowWee roboscooper robot

Most children would love to have a robot to do their chores, like cleaning their room. WowWee, makers of all sorts of cool toy robots and other electronics, has granted this wish with the Roboscooper, which is able to pick up things in a child’s room automatically. The six-wheeled robot is like a cross between [...]