Sony S1 Smiles for the Camera

When we directed your attention to a short video of the upcoming S2 tablet with Honeycomb, we overlooked Sony's other Android tablet, the S1, which was also part of golem.de‘s hands-on. So here it is, looking mighty sexy if I do say so myself. If you were wondering how the curved stylings of the S1 tablet would translate to the final product, it looks like Sony managed to pull it off. It definitely evokes the look of a book or magazine folded open while maintaining some pretty sleek lines in a nice glossy, black package.

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Acer Aspire One Happy 2 netbook announced for US market

Netbooks are so 2008 – and with the advent of tablets (especially the all-conquering iPad 2), the netbook market has certainly stopped growing at previously giddy rates. Acer is not going to give up on their netbook range anytime soon, having announced the Aspire One Happy 2 netbook which is heading towards the US market, being powered by a dual-core Atom N570 CPU which is a slight upgrade over the previous generation N450 offering.

Ubergizmo, Acer Aspire One Happy 2 netbook announced for US market

Tron Inspired Concept Phone Of The Future

Are you a huge Tron fan. If you are what do you think of this Tron inspired concept phone. Designed by Raul Galindo, the phone tries to keep to its "futuristic" look by only measuring 7mm in thickness, with a 4-inch touch screen display. Granted that the 4-inch display isn't exactly futuristic (we kind of expected holographic images to pop up), the design is.

Ubergizmo, Tron Inspired Concept Phone Of The Future

Skype 2.0 brings cross-platform video calling to Android

Some big news for sociable people today, with the latest Android update of the Skype app unlocking full video call functionality on Android. It works cross-platform, too, so you'll be able to video chat with people on their PCs, iPhones or even televisions that come with the app pre-loaded. Works over both wi-fi and 3G, too. Lovely. Just keep your webcam pointing at your face, OK, James?

Get it via the Android Market or have a look at a video of some very attractive promotional people using it on YouTube.


Eurodroid, Skype 2.0 brings cross-platform video calling to Android

The Elliptical Machine Office Desk Lets You Exercise While Staying Dapper

In the world where multitasking is king, it would be a god-send if anyone could make a workout out of sitting in front of the office desk for eight hours or so. Hammacher Schlemmer, the store of ridiculously expensive novelty items, may have something that would give us just that. The Elliptical Machine Office Desk is a complete office that just happens to have a semi-recumbant elliptical trainer. It features a desk that can adjust its height from 27 to 47 inches with just a press of a button, enabling you to even swtich to standing mode if you prefer working that way.

Gadget.com, The Elliptical Machine Office Desk Lets You Exercise While Staying Dapper

MSI Introduces “Summery” CX480 Notebook

MSI has formally unveiled the CX480 notebook computer, which features the Intel Core i processor, NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M discrete GPU, 1GB DDR3 memory, Time Stamp recovery software, hard disk shock protection, and up to 8.5 hours of battery life. The company is even excited that this notebook line is released “just in time for summer.”. Its Intel second-gen Core i5 or i3 processor assures superior performance, with an even quicker boot time. You can even turn the notebook on by simply opening the lid, without even touching the power button, thus saving about a second or two.

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Thunderbolt Cable Teardown Reveals Enough Chips to Make a Computer

The 12 chips inside Apple's Thunderbolt cable might justify its high, high price. Photos iFixit. It might not mitigate the ridiculous $50 price-tag, but iFixit's teardown of Apple's “lightning fast” Thunderbolt cable at least goes some way towards showing why it doesn't cost the same as any other dumb cable.
After picking up the new wonder-cable and digging into its “suspicious” looking sturdy plastic sleeve, iFixit's Miroslav Djuric was confronted with a lot of hefty metal shielding.

Gadget Lab, Thunderbolt Cable Teardown Reveals Enough Chips to Make a Computer

HP in Talks About Licensing webOS

HP CEO Leo Apotheker has announced that his company is open to the idea of licensing webOS to others. In an interview in Beijing, he says HP is currently in talks with “a number of companies.” He does not elaborate about the specifics of these potential deals, even saying that “there is no time pressure to do this.”. Bloomberg, however, reports that Samsung in one of the companies HP is holding meetings with. According to its source, Samsung is actually interested in the possibility of using webOS for its Galaxy Tab tablets.

Gadget.com, HP in Talks About Licensing webOS

Game Gear modded to become Handy Gear

If you happen to see the Handy Gear somewhere, hold your horses before accusing it of being a cheap rip-off model of the original Sega Game Gear. This is actually lovablechevy's project over at Ben Heck's forum, where it sports a custom case that was created using the famous Sega Game Gear, a Master Gear converter, a PSOne display, in addition to other odds and ends to complete the portable console.

Ubergizmo, Game Gear modded to become Handy Gear

Buffalo unveils expandable DVR-T, records up to 81h on native disk

It's small, it's powerful and easy operable, it's something people can actually use. Buffalo Japan just unveiled the DVR-1C/500G, a 500GB hard disk recorder with expanding possibilities. The digital video recorder can record up to 81 hours of digital terrestrial broadcasting. With a USB port for connecting an external hard drive recording time can be expanded any time you wish, for as much as you like! The default box will also ship in a native 1TB edition next to the 500GB model.






Akihabara News, Buffalo unveils expandable DVR-T, records up to 81h on native disk

Alesis iO Dock turns your iPad into a powerful recording device

Sure, we all know that the iPad is a great tool especially when it comes to creating music. When you have a famous band on a major label creating an album using only the iPad - you don't need to look any further than that. While it is great for creating music using software, the tablet struggles when it comes to recording real-life instruments. Not because the tablet's powerful processor or software can't handle it - the iPad just lacks the necessary ports.
The folks over at Alesis realize this and have come up with a simple solution to the problem called the iO Dock.



Ubergizmo, Alesis iO Dock turns your iPad into a powerful recording device

ZTE has sold two million Blade/Orange San Francisco Android smartphones so far

If you're in the UK, the ZTE Blade probably is by far the most successful smartphone you've never heard of. That's because this is one device that you may know as the Orange San Francisco, the budget Android smartphone that made quite a few waves with its price/features ratio a few months ago. Orange is already busy preparing yet another cheap Android smartphone from ZTE, the ZTE Skate which you'll know as the Orange Monte Carlo. In the mean time, ZTE has put out a press release saying that it has sold 2 million Blade units so far worldwide.

Unwired View, ZTE has sold two million Blade/Orange San Francisco Android smartphones so far

Operation Star Wars Puts R2D2 On The Slab

Watch as C3PO finally gets R2D2 where he wants him. The classic game of Operation is fun and all, but even in its sanitized card, plastic and metal form, digging into the faux-flesh of the human body is kind of gross. As somebody so squeamish he can barely cut his nails without feeling nauseous (don't get into a slap fight with me unless you want to get sliced), it's a game I'd love to play but sadly never will.
Or will I? Operation Star Wars has you playing a surgeon C3PO, operating on your little blue and white lover, R2D2.

Gadget Lab, Operation Star Wars Puts R2D2 On The Slab

Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 get a browser and navigation update

Nowadays taking care of its latest smartphones is mandatory for every manufacturer with any kind of long term ambitions. However releasing an update for three-year old smartphones, ranging from entry level phones to former high-enders, and showing their owners that they aren't forgotten should certainly earn Nokia some bonus points. The Finnish company just announced through their blog that they will be releasing an update for their Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 platforms.

GSM Arena, Symbian 3.2 and 5.0 get a browser and navigation update

Dark side of movie tie-ins with Razer Transformers 3 Death Adder mouse

[Major spoiler alert after the jump if you haven't watched the movie yet] Are you rushing to get movie tickets for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon. Well, I've already watched it at the midnight premiere, and you can be sure that it will still be ringing in the dough for Michael Bay and company, although don't expect to have a storyline which is worthy of an Oscar. I personally find the loopholes in the story as large as Optimus Prime's mechanical gonads. Razer, the gaming peripheral company, has a tie in with the Transformers franchise, churning out a Transformers version of their best-selling Death Adder mouse.

Ubergizmo, Dark side of movie tie-ins with Razer Transformers 3 Death Adder mouse

WakeMate sleep helper comes with new wristband, revamped mobile apps

For those of you who find it difficult to wake up on time, especially when you have had a particularly rough night out, the WakeMate sleep helper might just be the thing to assist you in rolling out of bed. This device is not exactly new, but the manufacturer has taken a look at early problems plaguing it, hoping that with the introduction of new software features, it will offer a far improved performance level. The company behind the WakeMate sleep helper has reported better accuracy for the wristband battery meter, in addition to the ability of providing a deeper level of sleep analytics.

Ubergizmo, WakeMate sleep helper comes with new wristband, revamped mobile apps

NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 580M and 570M, ready to melt your lap

NVIDIA's gone and refreshed its high-end line of GeForce GTX cards yet again. The GTX 580M takes the place of the GTX 485M, and NVIDIA's bragging that it's the “fastest notebook GPU ever,” capable, we're told, of besting the Radeon HD 6970M's tessellation performance by a factor of six. The new GTX 570M, meanwhile, promises a 20 percent speed boost over the last-generation 470M. Both 40-nanometer cards support DirectX11, OpenCL, PhysX, CUDA, 3D Vision, Verde drivers, Optimus, SLI, and 3DTV Play.


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Apple Thunderbolt cable, Promise RAIDs now available to get your 10Gbps interconnect on

Four months ago, Intel and Apple debut their awesomely fast Thunderbolt I/O with 10Gbps transfer speed, and boy, that four months sure pass by fast without any sound. The MacBook Pro and iMac lines have since been refreshed with the new inter-connect, but early adopters haven't had much more than a fancy port to stare at. Thankfully, Apple's $49 T-bolt cable is finally available as your ticket to the 10Gbps superhighway.

2DayBlog.com, Apple Thunderbolt cable, Promise RAIDs now available to get your 10Gbps interconnect on

Orange Monte Carlo With Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS

Orange UK will release the Orange Monte Carlo, which is actually a re-branded ZTE Skate. Powered by the Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS, the phone features a 4.3-inch WVGA display, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, 5MP autofocus camera, a 512MB of RAM, and an 800MHz processor. No word on pricing at this time.

TechFresh, Orange Monte Carlo With Android 2.3 Gingerbread OS

HP Envy 14-2050SE Beats Edition Notebook

Finding yourself a new notebook. Why don't you check out this newly launched HP Envy 14-2050SE Beats Edition. Powered by a 2.30GHz Intel Core i5-2410M processor, the system is equipped with a 14.5-inch 1366 x 768 LED-backlit display, a Radeon HD 6630 1GB graphics card, a 6GB DDR3 RAM, a 750GB hard drive, an HP TrueVision HD webcam, a DVD burner, a 2-in-1 card reader, WiFi, Bluetooth, an HDMI port and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit OS. The HP Envy 14-2050SE Beats Edition is now available for purchase via Amazon for $1,049.99.

TechFresh, HP Envy 14-2050SE Beats Edition Notebook

Call of Duty: Black Ops Is The Best Selling Game In The UK

Just over half a year after its release, Call Of Duty: Black Ops has taken the crown of best-selling game of all time in the UK. For your info, the previous record-holder, Modern Warfare 2, sold 3,702,410 copies in the UK to date. Black Ops has officially surpassed it with a total of 3,722,411 cumulative sales as of June 25, 2011. With the release of new map packs such as First Strike, Escalation and Annihilation, Call of Duty: Black Ops is set to keep on growing. Stay tuned for more updates.

TechFresh, Call of Duty: Black Ops Is The Best Selling Game In The UK

Fring for iPad 2 With Four-Way Video Calls

With friends this good looking, you might want to video chat all day long. Fring, the cross-platform mobile VoIP app, has issued an update that brings native four-way video-calling to the iPad, before Skype has even released an iPad app of any kind.

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Counter industrial espionage with biscuit tins

It is said that sometimes, the simplest solution is sitting right there in front of you without you realizing it – until much later, that is. Take for instance, the world of industrial espionage where modern day “ninjas” armed not with deadly poison laced shurikens and have the ability to disappear in a puff of smoke, but rather, holding phones with cameras, capturing sensitive information of upcoming devices, or even eavesdropping on a meeting by planting bugs or some other devious methods. Apart from banning employees from using phones with cameras, what other ways are there to prevent industrial espionage.

Ubergizmo, Counter industrial espionage with biscuit tins

Sony Vaio Z Puts Graphics Card in Thunderbolt-Connected Box

Sony's Vaio Z comes with the world's biggest dongle. While it is deemed acceptable to connect a subwoofer to your stereo, and external battery or speaker to your phone or a giant external monitor to your laptop, putting normally essential — and internal — laptop components in external boxes is kind of taboo. It harks back to the dark days of the 90s, when carrying a laptop meant carrying a black nylon bag containing a heavy Dell notebook, an external DVD burner, a few spare batteries and a power-brick the size of a modern netbook.

Gadget Lab, Sony Vaio Z Puts Graphics Card in Thunderbolt-Connected Box

HAMDAS-R robot debones 500 pork ham thighs per hour with X-rays

Robots are slowly but surely creeping into various aspects of our everyday life, including the workspace. Well, it seems that soon the job of deboning raw meat in freezing temperatures might be handed over to robots – after all, the HAMDAS-R has been rather successful in trials, capable of deboning up to 500 pork ham thighs each hour using the help of X-rays. The HAMDAS-R will sport a knife on the end of an extremely maneuverable robotic arm, where springs on either side of the blade will mimic the suppleness of human wrist movement.

Ubergizmo, HAMDAS-R robot debones 500 pork ham thighs per hour with X-rays

Practical-Looking Concept Electric Bike Actually Exists

Yes, this is another concept bicycle project, but this time there's a difference. The designer, Vojtěch Sojka, has actually made a working prototype, and it looks pretty sweet. Working at the University of Technology in Brno, Czech Republic, Sojka developed the electric bike with Czech bike company Superior. From a distance, it looks like a cross between the Specialized Stumpjumper and a BMX. Step a little closer and you see the usual additions beloved of concept-bike designers.

The brakes are disk brakes, the handlebars and stem are annoyingly melded into one hard-to-replace unit and the battery is hidden away inside the seat tube.




Gadget Lab, Practical-Looking Concept Electric Bike Actually Exists

Microsoft Exec Admits Xbox 360 Will Not have a Handheld Counterpart

Dennis Durkin (pictured), COO and CFO of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business (the maker of Xbox 360), expresses that the company will not be making any dedicated handheld gaming device. In an interview with Industry Gamers, he explains that the mobile gaming market is too crowded, making it extremely difficult to successfully launch Microsoft's own handheld gaming device. Durkin even compares the market to “a very, very red ocean,” with the blood of Nintendo 3DS soiling those waters, as marked with its reasonable success although its lofty expectations from fans were not reached.

Gadget.com, Microsoft Exec Admits Xbox 360 Will Not have a Handheld Counterpart

HP Envy 14 Beats Edition now comes with Sandy processors, and a premium pricetag

HP's Envy 14 is quite the looker of a laptop, with its etched aluminum skin beckoning you to explore the capabilities of the Sandy Bridge CPU that lies beneath. For those who prefer the murdered-out look, the HP Envy Beats Edition is the preferable PC, but until now it lacked the upgraded Intel innards of its showy stablemate. That's right, Amazon's offering a second-gen Intel Core i5-2410M chip clocked at 2.3 GHz to go with those dark Dr. Dre aesthetics you crave.

2DayBlog.com, HP Envy 14 Beats Edition now comes with Sandy processors, and a premium pricetag

iOS 5 makes life harder for jailbreakers

It looks like previous reports about iOS 5 being just as easy to muck around with as iOS 4 were but a short lived reality. According to the latest reports from the Dev-Team (one of the groups that works on iPhone jailbreaks), iOS 5 will make life harder for jailbreakers. Starting with iOS 5, once you've upgraded your firmware to the latest version of iOS, you won't be able to downgrade the device to an older version of the operating system. What this means is that if you update your iOS device to a newer version, and find out that it is un-jailbreakable you won't be able to rollback to an older version to jailbreak it.

Ubergizmo, iOS 5 makes life harder for jailbreakers

MagicPrefs Brings About More Options Over Your Multitouch Trackpad

The nice thing about MacBooks would be the multitouch trackpad, which pretty much functions like how the touch screen on the iPhone/iPod toch/iPad does. It incorporates various multitouch gestures, such as swiping and pinching. As cool as the concept is, one bad thing about it is that it's limited to what Apple allows you do to do, which is where MagicPrefs comes in. MagicPrefs is actually a software that allows the user to assign different actions to the multitouch gestures, something which could not be done before.

Ubergizmo, MagicPrefs Brings About More Options Over Your Multitouch Trackpad

BEST DEALS: Unlocked LG Optimus 2X for £329 at Expansys

If you're in need of an unlocked Optimus 2X and don't mind LG's rather odd approach to Android customisations, there's a decent deal on offer over at Expansys. The SIM-free retailer is doing the Optimus 2X for £329 – for ONE DAY ONLY. And that day is today. It's the same price Play.com was doing it for a month or so ago, so if you missed out on it then…

…here's another chance. Poor old Optimus 2X.

Eurodroid, BEST DEALS: Unlocked LG Optimus 2X for £329 at Expansys

A-Team posts details of LulzSec

We all know LulzSec have decided to throw in the towel and give up its hacking activities but that doesn't mean all the groups wrongdoings in the past have been absolved. And unfortunately for them, the authorities have been given a massive tip off on the identities of the hackers. Another hacking group, A-Team, has released into the wild the personal details of the members that make up LulzSec, obviously with the intention of having them caught and brought to justice.

Ubergizmo, A-Team posts details of LulzSec

Voltaic Spark Tablet Case powers your pad with the Sun's rays

Voltaic makes tons of solar-charging gear, from laptop bags to backpacks, but what are those living in a post-PC world to do. Well, the company just unveiled its Spark Tablet Case — a thin, padded tote designed for your iPad or other slate that can generate 8-watts of power in sunlight. In addition to directly charging your iPad in about 10 hours, it can also bank the Sun's rays in a universal battery pack, for use when those fluffy things in the sky don't cooperate with your outdoor computing schedule. Optionally, the included V39 USB Battery can be charged (as you may have guessed) via USB, for extra insurance.


2DayBlog.com, Voltaic Spark Tablet Case powers your pad with the Sun's rays

New Time Capsule opened, no server-grade HDD found

Apple updated their Time Capsule to a bigger size reservoir last week, which now comes with 2TB-3TB. They also listed these as “Serial ATA server-grade hard disk”, standard equipment on the device's official spec sheet. And well, HardMac opened it up to find something else. It's generally assumed that for a drive model to be qualified as “enterprise,” it must sustain a mean time between failures — MTBF for short — in excess of one million hours. So what's the MTBF for the Western Digital's WD20EARS (Caviar Green) in HardMac's Time Capsule?

Conveniently, the hard drive maker wouldn't say.


2DayBlog.com, New Time Capsule opened, no server-grade HDD found

Voltaic Spark Case Powers Tablets With the Sun

Ten hours of sunlight is enough to fully juice your iPad. Solar-powered laptop chargers always seemed a little mis-matched. Using a trickle of Sun-power to juice a thirsty computer is a little like running you big-screen TV from a trunk full of AAA cells. But tablets, which spend much longer away from power outlets, are perfect for solar power.

And the Spark Tablet Case is just the thing. The case, made from PET (recycled soda bottles), has a compartment inside for your tablet plus a bunch of mesh pockets for cables and other sundries.

Gadget Lab

Motorola Defy Android 2.2. update for T-Mobile at the “start of July”

Following the exciting release of Android 2.2 for the impressive Motorola Defy Android phone a couple of weeks ago, UK network T-Mobile has announced it'll be bringing the update to users who bought branded versions of the mobile through its network. The update will be ready in July. It's even pinned down the bit of July to the “start” of the month. Good to see.

The Motorola Defy's another phone we're planning to buy, just for fun, once it enters its end-of-life, crazy-discount price bracket.

Eurodroid

HTC Salsa and ChaCha on their way to Vodafone Australia

If you live in Australia and have a desire to get your hands on either of HTC's ‘Facebook phones', the Salsa and ChaCha, you're in luck. The two devices that have a dedicated Facebook button and Facebook integration throughout the UI are headed down under, where Vodafone Australia will launch them. The information comes via Ausdroid, although unfortunately there are no details about which plans you'll be able to get the smartphones with.

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