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Bluetooth Lightsaber Duelling comes to iPhone

by Jay Garrett on March 19, 2010

Everyone that I know that owns an iPhone also has the lightsaber app loaded onto it :)

It goes without saying that the only thing that’s missing is that you can’t really duel amongst your friends.

Well, from next month you will be able to challenge your Sith or Jedi foes to a battle.

Just grab the new Bluetooth-enabled Lightsaber Duel and get ready.

What would be cool is if your wins and failed battles could be shared over Facebook so that you could start a league :)

THQ Wireless has even included 11 new Star Wars characters whose lightsabers you can use!

Remember: “This was the formal weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or random as a blaster. More skill than simple sight was required for its use. An elegant weapon. It was a symbol as well. Anyone can use a blaster or a fusioncutter—but to use a lightsaber well was a mark of someone cut above the ordinary.”

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Commodore 64 Revived with New Powers and Performance

by Jay Garrett on March 19, 2010

Every geek of a certain age will remember the now classic Commodore 64.

It was at the height of 8 bit technology when it appeared in 1982 and over the following 12 years 17 million of the them were sold!

The new C64 will be sporting Intel’s 64-bit quad-core microprocessors and 3D graphics capabilities upto 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. Also included are a DVD-RW drive, a touchpad, four USB ports, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) port to connect monitors – all this is squeezed into the all-in-one’s keyboard that measures 17.5 inches (44 cm) wide and 2 inches (0.5 cm) tall.

Commodore said. “It’s designed to take up far less room — and use far less energy — than any other desktop computer,” Commodore USA said. The PC will run the Linux, Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Commodore USA’s online store is due to open June 1 offering the new edition. Obviously they’re hoping that trading on the licensed Commodore name will envoke all those fond memories.

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Victorinox Challenges UK Hackers to Win £100,000 and Prove They’re Better Than USA

March 18, 2010 Click to read more →
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Victorinox, makers of the Swiss Army Knife, have a gadgety challenge for all you hackers and programmers.
They are launching a unique gadget specifically designed to keep your valuable and confidential documents private, The Victorinox Secure Pro and they’re boasting that it’s “completely un-hackable”.
Victorinox are so sure of themselves that they’re waving a £100,000 prize in [...]

Windows Phone 7 Can’t Multitask or Cut and Paste – Sound Familiar?

March 17, 2010 Click to read more →
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More news from the Mix10 developer conference – and this may wipe the smugness from the new Microsoft Phone brigade after flashing the gaming possibilities the other day!
Apparently Windows Phone 7 Series won’t support full multi-tasking, copy and paste functionality, microSD cards or Windows Phone apps. Hmmm……..
Before I get a load of angry [...]

T3 Push Tablet PC Design Forwards with Medion and The Alloy

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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It can’t have passed you by that Tablet puters seem to becoming de rigueur recently with the likes of iPad, Courier, Streak and even PSP Tablet, etc
Well, those gadgety lovers over at T3 have had a chat with The Alloy and Medion and together have come up with their own rather nice spin on the [...]

XBox 360 Games on iPhone Before Windows Mobile 7

March 15, 2010 Click to read more →
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Do you get twitchy when you’re away from your Xbox 360 for more than an hour?
Do you happen to own an iPhone?
Well, you could get Xbox 360 games on your iPhone soon – and it may hit the Appley hand-held before landing on Windows Phone 7.
Odd as it may sound but then this isn’t [...]

Fancy Self-Winding Clockwork Phone: CELSIUS X VI II Micro-Mechanical Remontage Papillon Tourbillon Mobile Phone

March 14, 2010 Click to read more →
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I’m not a huge fan of garish, overly expensive mobile phones – I just don’t see the point unless you’re a Z-List ‘celeb’ and lack the imagination as to what to spend your fee for embarrassing yourself on the latest reality TV show.
Thing is, I do love mechanical watches (RADO especially if anyone wants to [...]

iPhone 4G Leaked Pics or Return to Render?

March 12, 2010 Click to read more →
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Now leaks are one thing and, being the untrusting fellow that I am, even though I want these shots of the iPhone 4G to be real I can’t help but shout ‘render!’.
True; plenty of work has gone into this and the exposed brickwork setting is very tasteful but something isn’t sitting right.
I like the idea [...]

Sharp Aquos Quattron TV Brings in Yellow Fourth Pixel – RGBY

March 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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I was 31 floors up in Centre Point on Tuesday to witness Sharp’s new line of televisions which, for the first time in tele history, is rocking a fourth, yellow, sub pixel joining its red, green, and blue buddies.
Sharp is waiting before joining the possible ‘fad’ of 3D and is instead looking to make large [...]

Dell Mini 5 Streak Tablet comes with Amazon Kindle Love

March 10, 2010 Click to read more →
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Dell’s Mini 5 tablet, or rather the Dell Streak, seems to be squaring up to join Microsoft’s Courier and Apple’s iPad in the ring. With it’s regular tablety form I reckon Apple should be the more concerned.
The Dell Mini 5 leak reveals the ‘Streak’ moniker and as it seems to have been used since [...]

LEGO Green Toy Story Mini-Fig Soldiers – Prepare to Want

March 9, 2010 Click to read more →
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You’ve probably seen Toy Story right?
Even if you’ve somehow managed to avoid the computer generated animated flick you may have played with those cheap green plastic soldiers – if you happen to be a certain cousin of mine you probably also set fire to them at some point too!
Well, the genii at LEGO have only [...]

Sony ICG-CL75iP Dream Machine – Hands on Review

March 5, 2010 Click to read more →
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I’m a fan of gadgety convergence – especially when it makes sense. Just look at the Tefal Toast n Egg
So when I was told that I could have a test run of a clock radio I was a bit like ‘wow – that’s never been done before! I bet it doesn’t [...]

Porsche 918 Spyder – Powerful Plug-in Porker

March 3, 2010 Click to read more →
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We’re all starting to realise that Hybrid doesn’t always have to mean boring.
But Crave have brought to my knowledge a truly droolworthy hybrid motor.
They’re at the Geneva Motor Show and got up close and personal with the gorgeous 918 Spyder.
Instead of getting some hippies to chill out around the Stuttgart factory chatting about mother [...]

Gold Coffin Comes Complete With Mobile Phone

March 2, 2010 Click to read more →
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If you want to make a big exit then a top, no holds-barred funeral would not be complete without a totally bling coffin.
Gold, of course, can be the only way forward but then what else?
Well, just in case you need to place some pizza orders in the after life, this crass casket comes compete with [...]

Sony MDR-NC300D Noise Cancelling Earphones – Ears on Review

March 1, 2010 Click to read more →
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I feel that I should be fair and state at the start of this review that I’m a headphones not an earphones man.
So, when I received a package containing Sony’s catchily named MDR-NC300D noise cancelling earphones I couldn’t help but pity the little mite.
I’ve never bothered with noise cancelling cans as I generally go for [...]

Assassin’s Creed II Multiplayer – Download FREE For 48 Hours

March 1, 2010 Click to read more →
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Yup – I’m downloading as I type.
Ubisoft has released the multiplayer edition of Assassin’s Creed II for iPhone, and it’s completely free to download for the first two days! Beautiful!
Don’t be expecting a friend frenzy version of the original Assassin’s Creed II iPhone game though.
This is a birds-eye view sneak fest and not the [...]

10 Billion iTunes Downloads! Bands Missing in Mass Music Market.

February 25, 2010 Click to read more →
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It’s happened!
10,000,000,000 songs have been sold through iTunes.
So, who’s top of the iPops then?
Guitarists, look away now as there’s not much evidence of axe-weilding amongst the 20 most-downloaded iTunes songs of all time.
The only ‘real’ bands spotted in the charts are Coldplay (in at 5 with Vida la Vida) and Plain White Ts (in [...]

iPad Preorders Start on Thursday

February 23, 2010 Click to read more →
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Love it or question its point – you can’t ignore the Apple iPad.
No matter which side of the fence you stand you can’t argue the fact that it will sell millions.
If you are jonesing for some fruity tablet time the joyous day may almost be at hand!
Rumours have surfaced that the Apple iPad pre-orders will [...]

Origin Eon: Ex-Alienware Execs 18 Inches of Gaming Greatness

February 19, 2010 Click to read more →
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When Dell grabbed Alienware for itself four years ago three key execs decided to say thanks, but no thanks.
Instead they formed ‘Origin‘ and went about building things the way Alienware originally did and created the Eon18 laptop.
The Eon18 has a distinct Alienwareness about it and, as you’d expect, this lappy is quite the customisable puter. [...]

GorillaPod Magnetic – Guess What’s New?

February 18, 2010 Click to read more →
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Everybody’s favourite go-anywhere tripod, the GorillaPod, has just gotten even more versatile!
The bendy tripod has now got magnetic feet meaning that no metallic surface is safe from being mounted by a camera – so to speak.
GorillaPod Magnetic is still the same posable marvel that we all know and love from the ankles up; but should [...]

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