Tag: physical
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Amazon to Open Real Life Store for Xmas
The festive season sees a massive spike in online orders from all your favorite internet retailers, and Amazon is no exception, being quite possibly the biggest store in the world, well, at least the biggest online. In what has been lauded as one of the coolest moves of all time, Amazon has decided to go…
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Will Still Feature ‘Physical’ Home Button
A Korean web source suggests that the Samsung Galaxy S4 will come with home button and no-touch gesturing – but no S-Pen stylus.
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Countdown to E3 2012: Sony Playstation 4 Won’t Be Download-only – Will We Get the Facts at the Expo?
New rumours suggests that a previous rumour regarding disc-less gaming on Sony’s PS4 was incorrect.
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Future Xbox 360 Dashboard Update Lets You Monitor Fitness While Playing Any Kinect Game
A new rumour relating to a future update for the Xbox 360 Dashboard suggests that we’ll soon be able to monitor and record fitness information as we play those physically active Kinect games. As you will know, playing most Kinect games such as Kinect Sports and Kinect Star Wars (especially the dance-off mode!) can leave…
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LEGO Makes Minecraft Game a Reality With New Construction Toy Range
After recently announcing that its partnership with Minecraft would bring a new online construction game our way in the next year, Danish brick-maker LEGO has revealed its first in a range of physical building sets based on the world of Minecraft which will become available in “all good toy shops” and through LEGO’s online outlet…
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NYC Toy Fair 2012: Apptivity for iPad Mixes Physical & Digital Play – Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja & WWE Licenses Announced
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The New York Toy Fair is well under way with a whole host of licensed movie and TV cash-ins making parents everywhere nervously anticipate the new wave of summer blockbuster fads, must-own action figures, gadgets and games set to empty wallets with a relentless fury. If, on the other hand, you have no kids and are like…
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NYC Toy Fair 2012: Apptivity for iPad Mixes Physical & Digital Play – Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja & WWE Licenses Announced
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The New York Toy Fair is well under way with a whole host of licensed movie and TV cash-ins making parents everywhere nervously anticipate the new wave of summer blockbuster fads, must-own action figures, gadgets and games set to empty wallets with a relentless fury. If, on the other hand, you have no kids and are like…
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Microsoft’s Xbox 720 Could Block Pre-Owned Games – Trade-in Market to Suffer
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The pre-owned games market could take a kill shot if plans to bring a second-hand blocking system to Microsoft’s next Xbox, currently referred to as “Xbox 720”. This would be one of the first steps towards phasing out disc-based games, introducing digital-only content and would reinvent the gaming market. But this would come at much…
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The Pirate Bay Sets Sail into New Dimension – Bootleg Site Now Offers 3D Printable Downloads!
Those troublers of the copyright high seas may have recently run aground, but that hasn’t stopped The Pirate Bay from taking their illegitimate bounty sharing to the next level. Or more appropriately – the next dimension – with a new selection of downloadable and printable 3D objects. Last week we told of how the creators…
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Nokia HumanForm – Flexible and “humanized” smartphone concept revealed
Following Nokia’s discussion regarding flexible and physical kinetic devices, the Finnish mobile communication company has now unveiled a concept video, detailing a truly fantastic view of future smartphones called the HumanForm – the premise of which is “a visionary solution between touch screen and voice communication where technology becomes invisible and intuition takes over.” –…
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Microsoft begin research on Star Trek style Holodeck tech
Okay.. it’s not really the Holodeck. But it is the Holodesk. The closest we’ve got to the reality replicating gadgetry featured in Gene Roddenberry’s sci-fi vision of the future Star Trek. And one of the tech world’s leaders in motion control and interactivity – Microsoft – is on it right now! The Holodesk uses…
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LEGO’s ‘Life of George’ – Innovative digital-to-physical game for Apple gadgets
Childhood fads would come and go – but LEGO has outlasted them all as the most creative and innovative toy created, it all started with a humble block in the nineteen forties and now it’s come full circle and incorporating twenty-first century tech toys into playtime – namely the iPad and iPhone. LEGO’s Life of…