January, 2011

End of the day. Yay! Before you leave though, check out what’s been going on in gadgetry this afternoon in our quickstop news roundup.

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Our PlayStation Move winner is…

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Last month we gave you the chance to win a PlayStation Move, as well as the five best PS3 Move games as rated by our games gurus. All you had to do was tell us what your most moving gaming experience was – we’ve now got a winner, so read on to see who it is.

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Forget fumbling for the right characters to drop a smiley at the end of your email. This ingenious Emoticon Keyboard will do it for you! There are few details about its inception, save for its USB connection and ability to automatically spit out the correct character combo as soon as an emoticon is prodded. Tempted? You know you are ;)

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Apple fans, admit it. You love a good bit of iMerchandise. Whether it’s those white Apple stickers that come bundled with every product from Cupertino, or a special T-shirt given out at the opening of a new Apple Store. If it’s got the Apple stamp on it, you can guarantee you’ll go ga-ga for it.

But the really cool Apple merchandise? The rare stuff? You’ll have to hunt hard for it. Or read on, where we’ve rounded it all up for you. Yeah, you know it makes sense…

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Yesterday we asked you if you would pay for an ad-free version of Angry Birds on Android.The answers were split almost straight down the middle, with 52.5% of Electricpig voters saying no, they would not pay for an ad-free version of Angry Birds for Android. 47.5% of voters said yes, they would pay for an ad-free version of Angry Birds.

Where does that leave Angry Birds devs Rovio?There’s potentially some hard cash, and some happier fans, in moving to a freemium set up on Android, but if somewhere in the region of half your users don’t care, and won’t pay, is it worth losing out on advertising by reducing the number of eyes watching the ad version?

If you were Rovio, would you set up two versions of Angry Birds for Android, one free with ads, the other a paid ad-free Angry Birds? Click through and holler in the comments!

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Ricoh has announced the Ricoh CX5 today, the successor in the CX series. It’s a sleek, tidy compact with a 10.7x optical zoom, 10MP sensor and ramped up autofocus speed for faster snapping. Read more

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This raised an eyebrow, and got a few cheers when it hit the Electricpig inbox: Royal Mail has released an app, through which you can create your own stamps from your iPhone’s camera roll. Awesome.

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Using Kinect tech, a company called KinEmote have hacked Windows 7 software to play Angry Birds using a wireless controller and your Kinect. It’s not quite full gesture control, more like a substitute Wii, whee you use a wireless controller like a powerpoint clicker or wireless mouse to play Angry Birds. Click through for full video.

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