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Blackberry PlayBook Tablet Gets Price Cut, Now Just $300 Each

Blackberry PlayBook Tablet Gets Price Cut, Now Just $300 Each

Research in Motion on Monday took a drastic step when the company cut the price of its 64GB BlackBerry PlayBook to just $300. We're assuming this is a "while supplies last" type of deal given the sharp decline in ... Read >
Apple TV Hacked to Run iOS Apps [Video]

Apple TV Hacked to Run iOS Apps [Video]

An enterprising hacker has managed to coax the $99 Apple TV set-top box into running full screen iOS apps. Steve Troughton-Smith's hack lets users run iPhone and iPad apps on a big-screen TV at an eye-massagingly lovely 720p ... Read >
Sony Tablet S Models Receive $100 Price Drops

Sony Tablet S Models Receive $100 Price Drops

Sony on Sunday dropped the price of  their Sony Table S models by $100 each, signalling the companies attempt to clear out old inventory. Under the price reduction buyers can now grab the 16GB version for $400 while ... Read >
Acer Iconia A700 Tab Gets Outed Before CES

Acer Iconia A700 Tab Gets Outed Before CES

Several days ago Acer put their long awaited Iconia Tab A700 tablet up for pre-sale in the United Kingdom and now the A700 model has surfaced in Russia. According to Russian tech site Nomobile.ru the Iconia Tab A700 is ... Read >
Japanese Vending Machines Begin Offering Free WiFi

Japanese Vending Machines Begin Offering Free WiFi

Here's a novel idea to expand your company's vending machine marketability, offer free WiFi to customers and potential customers. That's what the Asahi soft drinks company of Japan decided to do this month and their test machines have ... Read >
Bionic Exoskeleton, Meant For Military, Helping Paralyzed Walk

Bionic Exoskeleton, Meant For Military, Helping Paralyzed Walk

It seems as if people in wheelchairs may be getting a little help from the military these day.  A Defense Department program to develop super-human soldiers has led private company Ekso Bionics to create a wearable robot ... Read >
iPad 3 Rumors Circulate, Two Models Surface, One With 14,000 mAh Battery, 8MP Camera

iPad 3 Rumors Circulate, Two Models Surface, One With 14,000 mAh Battery, 8MP Camera

Forget rumors of a 7.85 inch mini iPad the newest talk from the Apple rumor mill points to two iPad 3 models that will be released in January 2012 with plenty of new features. Among the rumors are ... Read >
Raspberry Pi Credit Card Sized Computer Will Handle 1080p Video for $25, Due Out Next Month

Raspberry Pi Credit Card Sized Computer Will Handle 1080p Video for $25, Due Out Next Month

Amid all the hype, the product is getting ready to launch.  Hardware developers the Raspberry Pi Foundation are making a small credit card sized device that will run Linux, be able to do most "everyday" computing tasks ... Read >
Wi-Fi Pin Vulnerability Discovered By Research Team

Wi-Fi Pin Vulnerability Discovered By Research Team

Researchers for the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) have issued a warning regarding a Wi-Fi router vulnerability for users of the Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) PINs Researcher Stefan Viehbock found that the hack allows users to easily gain access to ... Read >
M-Case Sues Amazon, Says Company Squeezed Them For Profits, Stole Patented Design

M-Case Sues Amazon, Says Company Squeezed Them For Profits, Stole Patented Design

Amazon Kindle case designer M-Edge has filed a lawsuit against Amazon for what they claim is anti-competitive attempts to silence a rival. The company claims in the filing that Amazon used unfair competition and false advertising along with ... Read >
Amazon being called a corporate bully by Kindle case maker

Amazon being called a corporate bully by Kindle case maker

The sale of the Kindle might be on fire but that doesn't mean that Amazon has any plans on being nice to anyone whop wants to make third party accessories for it; or so it would seem ... Read >
Siri Added to Jailbroken iOS5 Through Spire Hack

Siri Added to Jailbroken iOS5 Through Spire Hack

Siri, the digital executive assistant which was released by Apple on the iPhone 4s, is reportedly being made available to those outside the 4s world.  There have been attempts before, but this is the closest we can ... Read >
Google Nexus Tablet, Dubbed the “iPad Killer” Coming in Six Months [Video]

Google Nexus Tablet, Dubbed the “iPad Killer” Coming in Six Months [Video]

Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt has a bold claim he is making in the Italian Press, that in 6 months Google will be releasing an Android based tablet called the Google Nexus Tablet that will truly be ... Read >
Kansas UFO Explained, Was It an Alien?

Kansas UFO Explained, Was It an Alien?

Kansans can rest easier tonight.  After the sight of a huge flying saucer on the back of an 18 wheeler had people in the Sunflower State asking if they had been visited form another planet.  Truth be ... Read >
Future Crowd Control Shields Will Suffocate People With Sound

Future Crowd Control Shields Will Suffocate People With Sound

Gizmodo is reporting that recent patents filed with the US Patent office by Raytheon's show a new type of riot shield that uses low frequency sound pulses to disrupt breathing and render someone unconscious. There are already loud ... Read >
Samsung Rolls Out YouTube 3D Support For Smart TV Line

Samsung Rolls Out YouTube 3D Support For Smart TV Line

Earlier this year at IFA Samsung announced that their Smart TVs  would soon receive support for YouTube videos in 3D and now that exclusive access (for the short term) has finally become a reality with the company ... Read >
iPad 3 Rumor: New iPad Will be Transparent, Available in Three Months [Video]

iPad 3 Rumor: New iPad Will be Transparent, Available in Three Months [Video]

What will the iPad 3 look like? If the most recent rumors are true, it won't look much like anything. The next generation of Apple's tablet will be transparent... The concept video (below) predicts that the iPad 3 ... Read >
Amazon Kindle Fire Comes Under Attack By Users, Amazon Promises Fixes

Amazon Kindle Fire Comes Under Attack By Users, Amazon Promises Fixes

The Amazon Kindle Fire has created quite the headache for Amazon recently as customers and silicon valley experts alike have cried foul on the company's newest tablet creation. Among some of the biggest customer complains is the lack ... Read >
ThinkGeek Unveils T-Shirt With Electronic Drum Machine Built-In

ThinkGeek Unveils T-Shirt With Electronic Drum Machine Built-In

The workers at ThinkGeek are always coming up with new and exciting gadgets that are outside the bounds of typical electronics and this time they have one-upped themselves with an electronic drum machine that's literally built into ... Read >
Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Reaches One Million Production Units

Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet Reaches One Million Production Units

Barnes & Noble is now rumored to have produced their one millionth Nook Tablet. While the company has not yet confirmed that production number unnamed sources for Nook manufacturer Inventec and several upstream parts providers tell DigiTimes that the components ... Read >
$99 Tablet With Ice Cream Sandwich: It’s Real and It’s Fabulous?

$99 Tablet With Ice Cream Sandwich: It’s Real and It’s Fabulous?

First there was the iPad, at a relatively inexpensive but not chump change-y $500 starting price. Then came Kindle Fire, at a shockingly low $199. Now there's the Novo7, which undercuts even the low-priced Amazon effort at a ... Read >
Memo Touch Tablet Delivers Technology That Makes Sense To Senior Citizens

Memo Touch Tablet Delivers Technology That Makes Sense To Senior Citizens

While the likelihood that you'll get grandma and grandpa to use an iPad on a regular basis is probably fairly low, you might be able to convince them that the Memo Touch tablet can actually make their ... Read >