Tobii EyeAsteroids pictures and hands-on
Eye-controlled arcade machine in action
Tobii Technology is a company that is probably best known for its eye tracking and control applications to aid communication for people with special needs, however it has recently left its comfort zone by applying its expertise to the world of gaming. EyeAsteroids is the first of a planned series of [...]
Facebook buys Gowalla, shuts it down
Data not transferring either
Facebook has confirmed that it has bought Foursquare competitor Gowalla on Monday, but in a surprise move doesn’t really want the site.
In a statement issued to Pocket-lint it seems that the social network was after the company’s staff rather than the company’s website:?
“We’re excited to confirm that Gowalla co-founders Josh Williams and [...]
Nest and the Apple-ification of the Thermostat
Erica Ogg on Tony Fadell’s appearance at GigaOm RoadMap last week:
Fadell looked at an industry that was badly in need of innovation.
Not just in the technology under the covers, but in terms of
usability and design. “Thermostats looked like PCs from the 90s:
square, beige, nothing innovative, and very expensive,” he said.
So when he was contemplating home [...]
Mobile Flash Claim Chowder: ‘Why the Apple Crowd’s Completely Wrong About Flash’
JR Raphael, August 2010:
As the Android 2.2 upgrade makes it way to more and more devices
(the Droid Incredible is receiving it as we speak and the Droid X
should follow any day now), those of us who value choice in
technology are getting the opportunity to experience the
Flash-enabled mobile world first hand. Having spent some time
using it [...]
Win a Panasonic 5-blade wet/dry shaver ES-LV61
Comfy cutting
When your team steps out on the pitch, performance is everything.
As a fan you won’t settle for anything less than the best during a match, so why accept anything but the best performance from your shaver?
So Pocket-lint has teamed up with Panasonic to bring you the chance of winning a Panasonic ES-LV61 5-blade shaver.
Panasonic’s [...]
Nokia dabbles with NFC gaming
A bit of a way to go still
Nokia has posted a YouTube video that highlights some of the gaming possibilities that Near Field Communication (NFC) can bring to a Nokia handset, or any mobile for that matter.
Shot at the Nokia offices in Palo Alto, California – see Nokia is cool too – the NFC technology [...]
New Samsung laser printers play the eco card
For the small business
It’s difficult to get excited about printers, but to Samsung’s credit it’s really trying its best to get our pulses racing with two new devices aimed at small businesses.
The ML-4510ND and ML-5015ND are both designed to handle large volume print jobs with a decent pages per minute rate: the ML-4510ND coming in [...]
Apple orders production of 15 million iPhone 5s
Still coming September
Taiwanese production plant Pegatron Technology has reportedly received a manufacturing order from Apple for 15 million iPhone 5s. The plant, which is best known for building notebooks, was a major supplier of iPhone 4s, and if sources are to be believed, production is on schedule for a September launch.
The same sources also re-affirm [...]
Angry Birds catapults in for Windows Phone 7
Popular game arrives on Microsoft mobile
Just as Pocket-lint exclusively told you it would back in February – Angry Birds has made its way to Windows Phone 7.
The move now means that the hugely successful title is now available on six mobile operating systems (it’s already on iOS, Maemo, Palm webOS, Android and Symbian) and it’s [...]
Apple Says Developers Are Licensed for Lodsys Patents
Jim Dalrymple reports:
In a letter sent to Lodsys on Monday, Apple asked that the company
withdraw letters sent to app developers demanding they license the
technology.
“Apple is undisputedly licensed to these patents and the App
Makers are protected by that license,” wrote Bruce Sewell, Apple
Senior Vice President and General Counsel.
No equivocation there.
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