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Samsung flips its lid

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

Cheap it isn’t Samsung's much rumoured high-end flip-phone has been unveiled behind the bamboo curtain at a rather silly price of $2961. Dubbed the SM-W2017 the flip smartphone is a follow-up to the previous… Go To Full Article

Xiaomi creates "lego" robot

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

Build it and hunt for Sarah Connor Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Dubbed the Toy Block, it looks a bit… Go To Full Article

Gigabyte expands Aorus brand

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

Gigabyte is stepping up its independent gaming brand Aorus and planning to release new motherboards and graphics cards. At the moment, Aorus-branded products include gaming notebooks, mice, keyboards and peripherals. However, word on the street is that… Go To Full Article

Sainsbury's finally caves to contactless

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

No, you haven't gone back in time. We're almost at the end of 2016, and Sainsbury's is just now confirming it'll soon begin accepting contactless payments in stores -- finally coming good on an old promise (sort of). Most Sainsbury's… Go To Full Article

Intel is getting into VR sports and live events

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

There's a glut of virtual reality headsets on the market now, but not nearly enough VR content. Intel, which just launched the "Project Alloy" mixed reality headset, is addressing that. It acquired a small firm called Voke that produces 360-degree… Go To Full Article

Red Dead Redemption 2 could make its way to the PC in 2018

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

The reaction to Rockstar’s Red Dead Redemption 2 announcement was massive, and although we don’t know a whole lot about the game other than it’ll be launching in the Fall of 2017, there’s considerable excitement over the upcoming title. The… Go To Full Article

Adidas made an ocean plastic shoe you can actually buy

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

Late last year, Adidas teamed up with Parley, an organization raising awareness against ocean pollution, on a partially 3D-printed shoe made out of up-cycled marine plastic. Then, in 2016, the two firms took that partnership one step further with the... Go To Full Article

VR Feels More Real with Leap Motion and This Rotation Sensor

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

You could have said this at any time in the last couple of decades: the world of virtual reality peripherals does not yet feel as though it has fulfilled its potential. From the Amiga-powered Virtuality headsets and nausea-inducing Nintendo Virtual… Go To Full Article

Psychologists figure out the science behind earworms

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

There's a scientific reason why you can't get that one song out of your head, and a team from the American Psychological Association conducted a large scale study to get to the bottom of it. They compared earworms to other… Go To Full Article

Valve is testing DualShock 4 support in Steam's beta channel

@ 2016/11/06 read/post comments(0)

If you never quite got the hang of Valve's weird touch-pad laden game controller, you're in luck: the company is testing out Steam Configuration support for the DualShock 4. Steam beta client users can now customize every button on the… Go To Full Article

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