The end of the week is near, so stop what you’re doing and settle back for a few minutes to catch up with all the tech news from this morning right here. Or maybe a few hours. Whatever, it’s Friday!
January, 2011
The next six months will see internet connected and so-called “smart” TVs hit big on the high street. Most of the major manufacturers have already rolled out app portals and the like, meaning you can watch YouTube and iPlayer and other online content direct through your TV. But are you an early adopter? Do you have an internet TV? Click and tell, and drop a line in the comments if your telly is locked online by other means…
Boom! Virtua Fighter 2 iPhone has kicked its way into the iTunes App Store. The game is a port of the old Mega Drive game so expect rough and ready 2D visuals rather than the 3D of the Sega Saturn-era. There’s eight playable characters in the game and single player tournament mode but the best feature is Bluetooth battle mode which means you can engage in vs. fights with iOS-device-packing friends. Virtua Fighter 2 iPhone is in the iTunes App Store now.
Out now | £1.19 | iTunes
The Samsung Wave 2 has just washed up at our door, so we’ve down the only fitting thing and unboxed it for you. We’ll have a full review for you next week of course, but in the meantime, come and see the pictures of it right here, and right now!
We love to celebrate truly fantastic gadgets, so as well as awarding review scores to every bit of kit to cross our desks, we’re also now dishing out special awards for the gadgets that warrant extra praise. You can see them above, and they’re now appearing across our reviews pages too. What does a product need to qualify for a special award? Read on, and we’ll break it down.
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It’s Kinect hack time again and this one is a doozy: a Kinect Street Fighter IV hack! The same YouTube genius who brought us the Call of Duty Kinect collission, the video after the break shows Kinect controlling all the kicks, punches and fireballs we’re used to with gestures. Click through to marvel at Kinect + Street Fighter IV:
Google tried to buy GroupOn. It offered the deals service $6bn and GroupOn said no. Looks like that was a silly move as Google’s own deals plans have been revealed with Google Offers in its testing phase.
Google Offers was revealed in a cache of leaked documents but has been confirmed by Google. The service will send one local deal-of-the-day via email to users and those deals will be time limited and require a certain number of users to snap them up before they’re activated.