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Toy Fair 2012 Gadget Round-up – Gears of War Meccano, Star Wars Scalextric, Doctor Who SmartSafe & More!
As well as keeping up with all the serious news and usual points of interest this week, we’ve also been keeping an eye on the happenings of the London Toy Fair 2012. We’ve put together a selection of some of the best tech related toy announcements from the show which ran from January 24th to 26th. These are based on things we discuss here on the blog, ranging from Tablets, Apps and Augmented Reality and popular franchises such as Gears of War and Star Wars. Here’s the Gadget Helpline’s Toy Fair 2012 Round-Up! Gears of War Meccano: The current Gears of War ...
App of the Week: Evi, a Siri Alternative for iPhone and Android
Are you jealous of your iPhone 4S-toting mate? Got an older iPhone and want Siri functionality but don’t want to install jailbroken apps, or perhaps you have an Android phone and want to try a new AI app? Let us introduce you to Evi, an impressive Siri alternative for iPhone and Android lovers alike. Evi has been developed by a company called True Knowledge, with the voice recognition aspect powered by Nuance. You might have heard of Nuance before – that’s because it’s the company Apple acquired in order to build Siri in the first place. Nuance’s tech is behind some ...
Only in Japan! Tokyo Scientists Developing Butt Recognition Tech for Anti-Vehicle Theft!
Forget fingerprint scanning, retina recognition and that face unlock business as seen on fancy smartphones such as Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus – the future of personal identification is actually behind us. So say the Japanese who are currently working to ready buttock recognition technology for the consumer market within the next three years. Dr. Shigeomi Koshimizu of the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Shinagawa, Tokyo (graciously abbreviated as AIIT) and his crack team of scientists are probing into the research of our rumps to benefit future identification and theft-proofing for vehicles. A super-sensitive pressure sheet on the driver’s seat is used ...
UPDATE: SOPA Stopped After Web-wide Protests – The Internet is Free (..For Now)
SOPA – the impending “Stop Online Piracy Act”, which led to a global online protest last week by web-users and many respected websites, has been stopped in its tracks by the US law makers. SOPA, if enforced, threatened to blackout the internet, blocking and restricting the sharing of copyrighted files, data and free information both hosting and third party “trafficking” which would affect our use of everything from YouTube to Facebook. It looked to be a very dark time for the web, so in retaliation a number of information and file-sharing sites, even Google itself went “dark” censoring its logo as ...
Untethered Jailbreak Finally Available for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 via Absinthe A5 Tool
After months of waiting, an untethered jailbreak tool has finally been released for Apple devices containing the dual-core A5 processor, offering a software unlock for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2. The tool is called Absinthe A5 and can be downloaded to either Windows or Mac and used to install custom software on both of Apple’s latest gadgets, thus unlocking a world of possibilities unavailable on a standard Apple product. It will jailbreak an iPhone 4S running either iOS 5.0 or 5.0.1 or an iPad running 5.0.1, and install the Cydia store. A collection of the world’s best iOS hackers and developers, ...
The SOPA blackout – 2.4M Tweets and Google’s 4.5 Million Anti-SOPA Signatures
The 24hr Internet protest against SOPA has now passed, with big name websites such as Google and Wikipedia showing their support against the SOPA and PIPA acts. One of the key factors of this is the usage of social media throughout the U.S and the world. Twitter has reported that due to yesterday’s 24 hour blackout, there was more than 2.4 million SOPA-related tweets posted in one day. Some of the top terms surrounding the twittersphere were SOPA, Stop SOPA, PIPA, Tell Congress, and the hashtag #factswithoutwikipedia which is in reference to Wikipidia's full website blackout. 2.4 million is a huge amount ...
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