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There’s no shortage of clocks and timers for the iPad . One of the most complete is Clock Pro for the iPad, which is on sale this weekend for US$1.99. Clock Pro is an alarm clock and uses notifications so you can get that important wake-up alert without leaving the app running. There is both an analog and digital clock design, a chess clock, a world clock, sunrise, sunset and tide clocks, a sleep timer, an egg timer and a countdown clock. Most clocks can run full screen and are beautifully rendered. We took a brief look at this app last year when it was $5.99 and gave it a positive review. Now it supports multi-tasking, and it’s 4 bucks cheaper. A couple of caveats. The app can’t wake you to your own iPod music if it is not running, but the app does allow you to choose among several different sound options if you are using notifications. Not all the clocks work in full screen, …
Most of us have at least one pet peeve about the keyboard we use, so this touchpad keyboard concept from Fujitsu lets you change just about anything to fit your exact requirements.
Nobody likes being bothered while they’re really getting into a movie, and as we all know you can’t really get into a movie unless it’s in 3D. Right? Sir Ian McKellen took things a step further, not only watching a screening of The Hobbit in the third dimension but doing it in character, and looking ever so slightly perturbed at having his viewing session interrupted by a rogue photographer. The guy in the back doesn’t seem to mind, though. Thomas : “Galadriel, is that new shampoo?” Tim : “These glasses may be passive but I you may find me getting very aggressive if you use that flash one more time.” Brian : “I’ll tell you what, you’re making me Gandalf the Red right now.” Joe : “Would ‘one standard to rule them all’ be asking too much?” Michael : “ZZ Top called, they want their roadie back” Terrence : “Even Gandalf the Grey is powerless against the magic of these glasses which make any man look like a 90-year-old blind woman.” Richard Lai : “Ha, no 3D for that flaming cyclops in Mordor…
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It seems like every other week Serious Sam is on sale on Steam, and this weekend is no different. If you’ve yet to pounce on one of the preceding deals, then know you can get 75% off the game this weekend — whether you want to snag the games piecemeal or all together in one bundle. Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter and Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter are marked down to $3.74 and $4.99, respectively. The Serious Sam Gold Edition, which includes both HD remakes and the original PC games, is $9.99. If you’re looking for just the HD remakes, then you can snag them both in a bundle for $7.49.
Some researchers over at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have managed to come up with a super advanced arm that is tougher than it looks. At first glance, all the exposed joints and electronics make the look arm fragile, especially when you find out it can perform pretty human-like movements. But that’s where we’re wrong – it only looks fragile. As shown in the demonstration video after the break, the scientists over there are constantly pushing the their testing to the limits, and in one video we see the researcher using a bat to hit the robot arm. After the attack, it still functions just as well as it did before, a testament to the German engineering that went through the creation of it. If we’re any step closer to creating Iron Man or Terminators, I’d say we’re heading in the right direction. Video of the robot arm in action, and being hit by a baseball bat after the break: DLR Hand Arm System is super strong , By Ubergizmo . Top Stories : Blackberry Playbook Review , HTC Thunderbolt Review ,
If anyone was on the fence about whether or not to trade in their PS3, the last few weeks seem to have caused them to make up their minds. The continuing PSN outage and security breaches are causing trade-ins of Sony’s console to blow up, say a number of retailers interviewed by Edge . PS3 trade-ins have doubled, and more people are going straight to a 360 instead of getting cash. Twice as many people are buying FIFA 11 for 360 as for PS3, a pattern that likely extends to other games on both consoles. While PS3 sales are still hovering around a healthy 200,000 per month, this security disaster is costing companies like EA and Capcom millions upon millions in lost business , and while Sony’s loss of face is difficult to calculate monetarily, you better believe it’s worth a buck or two. It’s not exactly a mass exodus, but in the console wars, a flesh wound like this hurts a lot more down the road, since it affects things like third party support and customer perceptions of reliability.
Publishers of ebooks are meeting this week at the World e-Reading Congress, and a site called the Bookseller has an interesting writeup of one of the issues being discussed there: Whether the book market can compete with, of all things, Angry Birds. Apple’s iPad has become, publishers say, a “one-screen” device, and that’s led to a one-screen problem. Ebooks and other traditional media are now competing, on a 1:1 ratio, for time that could also be spent using apps and games. Book publishing, one of the panelists says, finds itself “competing vertically and horizontally against all other media.” That’s an interesting take on the subject, and sure, you could argue that since your books and video games are now basically running on the same devices, the competition could be a little more direct than it’s been before. But to some extent, this is much ado over little to nothing — books have always “competed” with other forms of entertainment, and in many cases they’ve not only survived but come out on top. Just because opening…
