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The Sony Ericsson LiveView is a watch-sized micro display, which partners with an Android phone to put your messages, social networks and call alerts at your fingertips. You can wear it as a watch, clip it to your clothes, or attach it to your notepad to keep an eye on your social life while stuck in meetings.
Christmas isn’t Christmas without stocking-fillers. We’re not talking a lump of coal or a satsuma though. If you’re looking for something a bit whizzier, we’ve got three great choices for you, no matter what your budget.
Our gadget stocking fillers will keep everyone in the household entertained before Christmas dinner, stop the kids fighting over who gets to play with the big day’s largest cardboard boxes, and might even encourage a bit of family bonding. No promises though, read on for the full list of stocking filler ideas…
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Three sleeps ’til Christmas! But you don’t have to wait for the 25th to bag yourself a pressie. Open today’s Electricpig Advent Calendar and you could win a brilliant tech prize! We’ve got Advent laptops, Android tablets, gaming PCs, digital photo frames and PC accessories to be won!
Today we’re asking for Christmas films. All you have to do is log in using your Facebook ID (that’s really important, without it we can’t reliably contact you, or check you’re based in the UK) and tell us one in the comments section will win! Once we have a winner, we’ll reveal the prize they’ve scooped.
There’s also a USB port for charging your other gadgets from the Eton Raptor’s internal battery. Sadly, while the snow is here now, the Eton Raptor isn’t out until Q1 2011 and there’s no price tag slapped on it right now. Click the headline and head for the comments to let us know what you make of it.
Out TBC | £TBC | Eton
The Steve Jobs action figure is racking up big bids in eBay auctions (one went for $2500 over the weekend) and Apple is not happy. It seems Apple’s legal team killed a Steve Job figurine auction with a highest bid of $1125 and has its sights trained on the other Steve Jobs action figure sales that have spread across the auction site since the original company received a cease and desist order from Apple. Apple says the Steve Jobs action figures breaches Californian laws on public figures rights to control their own names and likenesses. Hit the headline and let us know: should Apple be shutting down the Steve Jobs action figure sales?Out now | £varies | eBay (via AppleInsider)
Instagram is one of our best iPhone apps and it looks like it could be one of our best Android apps soon too. Instagram has hit 1m users, is going for an extra-funding, has plans for a new API to share its smarts with third party applications and most excitingly an Instagram Android app. Co-founder Kevin Systrom told Techcrunch: “Android is really important to us and we know it’s important to lots of people too.” Are you an Instagram fan? Hit the headline and let us know what you make of the photo-sharing phenomenon.Out now | £free | iTunes (via Techcrunch)
It’s best iPhone apps of the week time and with Christmas looming over us the like a creepy uncle in a Santa suit, we’ve selected five of our favourites from the latest batch of new apps to keep boredom and ennui at bay.
In this week’s best iPhone apps we’ve got the perfect app for planning your Christmas telly watching, a great way of keeping your bookmarks sorted and a magic app for turning your iPhone into a remote control for your Mac. Plus! Our take on Malcolm Tucker’s lost iPhone. Read on to be enthralled, amazed and entertained! (We do hope we haven’t oversold this…)
A Kinect virtual reality hack was pretty inevitable. Nao_u has managed to do just that, creating a game where you inhabit the unfeasibly short-skirted personage of a Harajuku girl. He used Kinect to map his movements to control the virtual character and hooked up a pair of Vuzix VR920 LCD glasses to see what the game chracter sees. You can catch the Kinect VR game in action after the break…
