Happy Tuesday lunchtime, readers! Okay, so the white stuff has fallen and many of you are stuck indoors after a failed attempt to get to the office due to an inch of snow bringing the roads to a near standstill – but there’s plenty of gadget news to keep you feeling all warm and snuggly. Read on for the best of the day so far.
November, 2010
The iPad 2 doesn’t officially exist. Still, every Apple watcher in the world knows that somewhere in Cupertino, under the kind of security that makes Mi5’s London HQ Thames House look like a nursery school, the iPad 2 is waiting to be unveiled. And while Steve Jobs will keep his lips sealed until January/February time when we expect iPad 2 to make its public debut, there are a few things we know already…
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Nintendo’s primary primate is back. Yes, Donkey Kong has returned in the appropriately named Donkey Kong Country Returns, a 21st century update of the SNES classic side-scrolling platformer. Is this Wii title a welcome update of the franchise or a lazy retread of past glories? We’ve trawled the web to bring you some expert opinions in our Donkey Kong Country Returns review roundup.
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Bored by Blackberry? The Blackberry Empathy concept could get you excited again. It ties a crystal-like handset with a Green Lantern-style biometric mood ring. We want one now. Come on RIM, get designers Kiki Tang and Daniel Yoon on the payroll…
A Windows Phone 7 jailbreak? Not something that Microsoft is all to worried about. Unlike Apple which comes out in a painful rash whenever someone uses an iPhone 4 jailbreak, Microsoft says you can go ahead and mess with your Windows Phone 7 but don’t expect them to support it when you do…
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Got a hankering for some free gadgets? Beside yourself at the prospect of Christmas being less than a month away? You need to get stuck in to the Electricpig Advent Calendar. We’ve partnered with the generous folks at PC World to give away a fantastic high tech prize every day until Christmas day, starting tomorrow.
There are Advent laptops, gaming PCs and Android tablets up for grabs, as well as digital photo frames and accessories from new keyboard and mice sets to thumping new speaker sets. Take a look at the gallery above, and you’ll see the goods on offer. We’ve got over £3,000 worth of goodies to give away, and all you have to do to win them is look out for an advent calendar post on the homepage of Electricpig, dive inside and comment to win!
Good news grot fans! Playboy is releasing the entire archive of the dirty mag on a harddrive (avoiding puns becoming very difficult). The 250GB harddrive will cost you $300 and includes every issue ever released including the early Marilyn Monroe spreads – alright so we know a little bit more about Playboy history than we should admit. We only read it for the articles!
It’s that time of the week when we reveal to you the best Android apps currently available for download to your treasured Googlephone. This time around we’ve got a couple of time-sapping games, a painless way to organise your next train trip and even a chuckle-inducing Meme generator. No need to thank us – the pleasure is all ours.