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BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981 Review

, Feb 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

At first glance, Porsche Design and BlackBerry might not make obvious bed-fellows. Still, the car firm’s aesthetically-obsessed arm has taken up with Canada’s finest, and the Porsche Design P’9981 is the result: maple syrup by way of Stuttgart. The less forgiving might draw comparisons between Porsche’s legendary reluctance to diverge from its original 1963 car design, and BlackBerry’s struggle to break free of its old OS. The frugal will likely be too busy gaping at the $2,350 price tag. So, Porsche or Pinto? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.

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Laser liquid scanner could rescue water bottles from pre-flight trash

, Feb 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

Having to dump your bottled liquids as you go through airport security has become a frustrating addition to flying headaches in recent years, but the awesome power of lasers could soon ensure your flask contains Evian not napalm. Cobalt Light Systems has cooked up the INSIGHT100, a laser scanning system that can differentiate dangerous substances from safe ones while they're still in their container, opening the aircraft doors to water bottles, perfume and toothpaste. Read The Full Story

Scalado Remove promises photobomb rescue

, Feb 14th 2012 Discuss [0]

Photo tech firm Scalado has revealed its latest smartphone camera app, Remove, capable of automatically identifying and removing objects in-frame, and perfect for deleting an unwanted uncle from your family gathering. Remove, billed as the world's first optical removal software for smartphones, builds a composite shot from multiple frames captured in swift succession, picking out possible flaws - such as passing cars or people - and letting you delete them with a tap of the screen. Read The Full Story

Nokia N9 Ice Cream Sandwich port gets video demo

, Feb 12th 2012 Discuss [0]

After last week's proof-of-concept shots of Android 4.0 running on Nokia's N9, port-meister Alexey Roslyakov has returned with a video demo of Ice Cream Sandwich on the ordinarily MeeGo smartphone. Roklyakov's hack turns the N9 into a dual-booting device; hitting the volume key during boot stops MeeGo from running and instead brings up Android 4.0.3. Read The Full Story

Video claims to show long extinct woolly mammoth crossing a Siberian river

, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

A very strange video has surfaced this week that claims to show an extinct woolly mammoth wading through a river. There are several obvious issues, the biggest of which is the fact that the mammoth has been extinct for thousands of years. Apparently, the other issue is the man the posted the video has been tied to other videos believed to be hoaxes. Read The Full Story

Tesla Model X: Forget “falcon-wings”, the touchscreen dash is geek cred enough

, Feb 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

Tesla's new Model X SUV is already dividing opinion over its external design, with some loving the "falcon-wing" rear doors and others arguing the crossover looks like a chubby, yawning hamster, but it's the interior tech that really has us drooling. Like the Model S before it, the Tesla Model X offers a huge 17-inch touchscreen as its center console, as Jalopnik's photos show, with a fully digital drivers binnacle. Read The Full Story

Lenovo V370 promotions begin with Bruce Lee, Angry Birds, and Zombies

, Feb 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Behold the first absolutely wacky advertisement spot for the Lenovo slim notebook V370, complete with no less than Plants vs Zombies characters, Angry Birds, and an epic battle to the death with Bruce Lee! The point this particular spot appears to be trying to get across is that the V370 is both strong and slim, but you wouldn't know it was a commercial for a laptop if you didn't see the first and last 5 seconds of the video. Thus is the way laptops must be promoted in the fact of Ultrabooks, we suppose, now that strength beats down the traditional size and shape of a standard laptop. Read The Full Story

Google+ Hangouts presents bold threat to Skype

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

The social network known as Google+ has once again shown another tiny improvement set to make big waves, and it’s got us all thinking that Skype may be on its way out alongside all over enterprise conferencing systems. Google+ Hangouts (the On Air version) now has a Full Screen button, this allowing you to turn your entire monitor into your conferencing station. While Skype and other conferencing systems have had similar functionality to this for a while now, Hangouts ability to use virtual whiteboards and screen sharing have the potential to put the competition out of business.

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Swann HD PenCam and PenCam 4GB revealed and detailed

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

For the spies out there amongst you and those of you wishing to keep up with the professors speaking at a million words per minute there's the brand new Swann HD PenCam. This PenCam is one of two, the first being HD and the second having a "4GB" attached to the name. These units both work as ink pens and are able to capture high definition AVI videos as well as JPEG images, both able to do so in complete silence and without the person you're recording knowing that the recording is going on. Read The Full Story

Motorola MOTOLUXE Preview

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Motorola has been pushing the high-end in Android phones for a while now, coaxing early-adopters out of their shells with LTE marvels like the DROID RAZR and the DROID 4, but the MOTOLUXE shows it hasn’t forgotten the entry-level market. Solid and middle-of-the-road is usually the route for affordable devices; still, Motorola hasn’t been able to resist slapping a great big lamp on the front, just for some eye-candy. Is this the best budget Android phone around, or just a wannabe RAZR with a bad case of bloat? Check out our preview after the cut.

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PS Vita 3G priced for February 22 UK launch

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

Sony's PS Vita 3G will hit the UK on February 22, carrier Vodafone has confirmed, on a pre-pay data plan which - when topped up for the first time - will unlock a free download of WipEout 2048. Set to hit the US in 3G form on AT&T also on February 22, the Vita will be priced at £279 ($444) in the UK and come with a 4GB memory card and a pre-pay data SIM. Read The Full Story

LG Optimus Vu teased: 5-inch odd-scale Android smartphone

, Feb 8th 2012 Discuss [0]

LG has begun teasing a new 5-inch Android handset, the LG Optimus Vu, presumably ahead of a Mobile World Congress launch later this month. The oversized smartphone features an unusual 4:3 aspect ratio display, which LG argues is a better fit for the human hand, while inside is tipped to be a 1.5GHz Qualcomm WPQ8060 dual-core paired with 1GB of RAM.

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