April, 2011

Kinect Sports Calorie Challenge DLC: battle a giant milk cartoon!

April 20, 2011 11:01 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Gaming Tags: DLC, kinect, Kinect Sports, Kinect Sports Calorie Challenge

Got a Kinect and Kinect Sports? There’s some new DLC for your to grab – the Kinect Sports Calorie Challenge. The point of the add-on is to pit you against food items in events trying to burn off the amount of calories they include.

It’s a nice bit of additional content with an extra 250 points in achievements and new avatars to unlock but it does appear to have been designed by someone with at least a passing awareness of LSD. Grab the Kinect Sports DLC and you’ll find yourself battling a giant milk carton or facing off against a anthopomorphic pizza. Odd.

Out now | 320 MS points | Kinect Sports

Everything you need to know about the HTC ChaCha

April 20, 2011 11:00 am by Stephen Ebert

Categories: Guides Tags: Android, ChaCha, HTC, PP

With its full QWERTY keyboard and advanced social skills, the HTC ChaCha is a phone built for taking on a night out. It’s a social butterfly and proud of that fact – wearing its sociable tendencies like the Facebook-shaped badge of honour located on the HTC ChaCha’s fascia. For everything you need to know about the HTC ChaCha, read on…

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SupaBoy SNES handheld: retro cartridge games in your pocket!

April 20, 2011 10:44 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Gaming Tags: Famicom, Hyperkin, Nintendo, Nintendo 3DS, SNES, SupaBoy

Here’s something a little bit mad and by turns a little bit brilliant: Hyperkin’s SupaBoy looks like a supercharged SNES controller that can accomodate original SNES and Japanese Famicom cartridges. It weighs in at 11.5 ounces, has a 3.5in LCD screen and two ports for plugging in classic SNES controllers. In short, it looks ace. Read on for more…

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The future of cereal boxes? New Autonomy AR app on video

April 20, 2011 10:28 am by Ben Sillis

Categories: Apps & Software, Apps & Software Tags: aurasma, autonomy, iPhone

We’ve seen plenty of fun augmented reality apps for smartphones – hell, we’ve even recommended a few – but rarely do we see ones we could envision using on a daily basis. Enterprise giant Autonomy’s new Aurasma demo uses an iPhone 4‘s camera to detect images on a page, and play related videos in their place. Read on to see it in action…

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iPhone 5: Apple nabs NFC touchscreen patent

April 20, 2011 10:23 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Apple, iPhone, iPhone 5, NFC, patent, rfid

Apple has snagged another NFC patent for an RFID reader incorporated into the screen of a portable touchscreen device which obviously once again points to the potential for an iPhone 5 NFC future.

The new Apple patent, entitled “Touch Screen RFID Tag Reader” lays out a plan for “the efficient incorporation of RFID circuitry within touch sensor panel circuitry”. In layman’s terms? It would allow you to put your phone against a reader to share and retrieve information…

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Sony PSP Go RIP: the experiment did not work

April 20, 2011 10:02 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Gaming Tags: Sony, Sony NGP, Sony PSP Go!

Retailers are reporting that Sony PSP Go stock is not being replenished and word from Japan suggests production has stopped.

Andriasang notes that the PSP Go is no longer listed on Sony Japan’s website. Meanwhile MCV UK says UK stores have received notice that the PSP Go is no more. The PSP Go never took off and Sony retrospectively defined it as an “experiment”. It looks like the experiment didn’t work…

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iPhone 5 in September? Reuters ramps up rumours

April 20, 2011 9:25 am by Mic Wright

Categories: Mobile Phones Tags: Apple, iPhone 4, iPhone 5, Reuters, rumours

Almost everyone has concluded that we won’t see the iPhone 5 in June. Now Reuters claims it has heard from three seperate well-placed sources that September is when we’ll see the next iPhone strutting its stuff.

Like several other rumour-stuffed reports, Reuters suggests that the iPhone 5 will pack a faster processor (well, duh!) and look very similar to the iPhone 4. September definitely seems like a smart time to unleash the iPhone 5, perking up the now slightly stale annual iPod refresh.

Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via Reuters)

Free Facebook calls, Samsung Smart fridge, iPad sales: US Update

April 20, 2011 1:05 am by Nick Marshall

Categories: Gadgets Tags: Bobsled by T-mobile, IOS, iPad, Samsung Smart fridge, Sharp Quattron, US Update

Rise and shine boys and girls, it’s time for your morning dose of tech news. In today’s US Update we take a look at T-mobile’s free voice calling solution for Facebook, check our Twitter status on Samsung’s new Smart fridge and even get a sneak peak at Apple’s iPad sales. Did Apple miss the mark?

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