While there are plenty of apps available for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, the most popular — and consequently the most innovative — continue to be the wild and quirky games that thrive in its indie-style ecosystem. MusiGames, a new developer of iPhone Apps is hoping to break through with that sort of innovation by introducing the “Throat Detonator,” a game where player’s use the power of their voice to defeat enemies. According to the press release introducing the game, Throat Detonator will use the players voice vibrating at the proper sequence to destroy bad guys, culminating in a “Boss Battle” where players will need impressive control of the vocal capabilities to beat the bad guys. It remains to be seen whether the actual game is any good, but one can certainly applaud the ingenuity.
Everybody knew it was successful but it takes this sort of a milestone to really appreciate just how successful Apple’s iPhone is. Apple announced today that two billion plus and counting iPhone apps had been downloaded on it’s ingenious iPhone and new iPod touch systems. This milestone becomes even more significant when the considering the hockey-stick shaped acquisition curve the downloadable numbers take. Apple announced that the system had passed the 1 billion mark just this April. Next month the system launches in China, a country that has become notorious for gobbling down the latest and greatest techno-gadgets. With that kind of a head start, is it even possible for competitors in either the phone or the gaming space to catch up?
PlayStation 3 owners who have been wandering the wastelands of Fallout 3 unable to break that dreaded “level 30″ barrier are finally getting some relief in the form of “Broken Steel.” The downloadable content for Bethesda’s hit post-apocalyptic RPG fixes the ending of the game so players can continue to wander the wasteland after finishing the main quest line and a semi-prerequisite for all of the downloadable content available for the game. The good news there is that PS3 owners get that stuff next week. Operation: Anchorage and the Pitt will be available starting next week with Point Lookout and Mothership: Zeta available the week after. It’ll be an expensive week to be sure, but goven the critical raves all the Fallout 3 content has received, probably well worth the money.
Just in case that monster home theater system in you house isn;t cutting it, you might want to check out Sony’s Uncharted 2 on the silver screen. Sony announced on their official blog that they’d bringing Uncharted 2: Among Thieves to a special screening of the game being played on a full-sized movie theater screen. The event is being held on Monday, October 5 in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle and tickets are being given away on a first-come-first-served basis. If you’re interested, the blog offers a list of locations and numbers to call to get tickets. Move fast, though, these should go quick.
Chicago/Rosemont Area
MUVICO Rosemont
9701 Bryn Mawr Ave.
Rosemont, IL 60018
(847) 447-1030
LA/Thousand Oaks Area SOLD OUT!
MUVICO Thousand Oaks 14
166 W. Hillcrest Drive
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
(805) 496-5487
Seattle/Bellevue Area
Lincoln Square Cinemas
700 Bellevue Way NE
Bellevue, WA 98004-5046
(425) 450-9100
San Francisco
Landmark Embarcadero
One Embarcadero Center, Ste PL-1
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 267-4893
If you’ve been following the news about Sony’s upgraded version of it’s handheld game player, the PSP Go, last week was not a good week for you. Sony scrapped its plans to allow a UMD-to-digital transfer protocol which would have allowed existing PSP owners to upgrade their old PS software to play on the new system. With that down the tubes, though, there is a sort of consolation prize — some 16,000 pieces of digital content available for the system on Day 1.
While it is true that the vast majority of those 16,000 pieces of content will be movies and TV shows, there will be 225 games available for the system along with an option to download complete titles via the PlayStation Game Network. This will also require a seperate purchase of a network card, but does offer access to some terrific titles such as Gran Turismo and God of War: Chains of Olympus.
Intel is now launching into the mobile market its Nehalem micro-architecture, introducing its latest Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor plus Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition. The new mobile processors include two-channel DDR3 1333 MHz memory support plus full 1 x16 or 2 x8 PCI Express 2.0 graphics. These processors are catered for intense gaming, digital media, photos, music, business applications plus other multi-threaded software
The fifth annual Solar Energy Week will be held at Liberty Station, followed by an all-day conference, bus tour of commercial sites plus self-guided tour of homes powered by the sun.
The Michigan Center for Sustainable Energy is sponsoring the events aimed at showing consumers plus companies the latest in solar energy technology.
The event will include special activities for kids.
There used to be a great divide between a smart phone and a cell phone. Now, with the continuing improvement of cell phones, there is a thin difference between them. Usually a smartphone is a gadget that is handled from a centralized service such as a blackberry.
Here is the THE list of the hottest electronics for 2010.
1- XBox – Enough said. The hottest video game console, except for the Nintendo Wii? Write your comments on which video game system is the best.
2- Ford’s MyKey – Ford will have a developed a special chip so drivers will not be able to drive more than 80 miles an hour. Will this help mitigate accidents on highways?
3- Dual Touch Screen Laptop – V12 Designers will now offer dual touch screens, not just one screen.
4- 4G Phones – This is the latest and greatest cell phones. Speed, speed, speed, here it comes to the cell phone world. A 4G network can allow people to download whole movies within a few minutes. Hold on to your seatbelt, cell phones will be driving in the high speed lane in 2010. Imagine being able to streamline videos, transfer huge files, watch movies.
Verizon Wireless today announced that the company plans to launch a 4G network in 2010, for better speed and a superior technology platform. Currently, Verizon covers over 80 percent of the U.S. population with its high-speed 3G network, according to the company.
If you’re wondering what fourth-generation wireless deployments and services mean to you, you’re not alone.
There’s plenty of talk about 4G, particularly since Sprint Nextel last year announced its $3 billion plan to build a 4G, mobile WiMAX network.
But it’s not always clear what all the fuss is about. In a nutshell, users can expect wireless services that support data-transmission speeds as high as, and in excess of, 100Mbps, with the promise of QoS and even traffic prioritization, industry experts say. With such features, it becomes possible to imagine a mobile employee using a cell phone to participate in a video conference or tune into high-quality streaming video.
It won’t come cheap for carriers, however. According to the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), carriers in the United States are expected to spend $4.4 billion on WiMAX infrastructure equipment in 2008. Considering that WiMAX is only one potential 4G standard, industry watchers are expecting carriers to drop a lot of dough on 4G gear.
5- Hydrogen Rulz- Hydrogen powered cell phones will be the key,
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Google gadgets are made from users like you and me, not from Google. The calculator, Wikipedia tool, translator, news and blogs are the gadgets they have.
I love the Google calendar is so useful. I also like checking every so often with the Google Weather gadget.
The virtual flower pot and the video games are really cool, they stop me from getting bored when I am on the computer.
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