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Metro UI for rooted Android tablets appears →  April 13, 2012

Have you been looking for a new style for your Android tablet? Well, if you’re running Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich and you’re a fan of Microsoft’s Metro UI, then developer BroBot175 has something over at the XDA forums for you to see. It’s a fully functional Metro UI theme for Android tablets. The custom [...]

Asus VP Confirms Android 5.0 Jelly Bean →  March 4, 2012

We’ve been hearing for some time that the next version of Android will be called Jelly Bean. It would make sense, as it follows the alphabetised treat naming scheme that started with Donut (and continued to Eclair, Fro(zen)Yo(gurt), Gingerbread, Honeycomb and now Ice Cream Sandwich). Google even had a bowl of the treats at their [...]

Acer Set To Unveil Quad-Core Retina Display A700 Tablet at CES →  January 3, 2012

The tablet world is really kicking it into overdrive this year. We’ve already heard about the Asus Transformer Prime, the first quad-core tablet which was released to critical acclaim late December last year. We’ve already heard the rumours about the forthcoming iPad 3, with tales of its impressive ‘Retina Display’ pixel count. Now we’ve got [...]

The Aakash Tablet a.k.a Ubislate Preview – Be Wary of Battery life, GPRS and its Data plan →  November 22, 2011

The Aakash Tablet, lovingly named the Ubislate, is surely on it’s way to becoming a household name among the billions of middle class people in our world. A tablet this cheap is irresistible, especially when it comes with Froyo. Obviously it’s not the best tablet around – it’s specs are outgunned in every category by [...]

FXI Cotton candy: dual core Android PC on a USB stick →  November 21, 2011

These days the functionality of a device is often limited by the size of the screen it comes with, sooner or later an invention of a device that would eliminate the screen and deliver the power of a pc and web to any screen was inevitable.  A Norwegian hardware and software startup  called FXI Technologies [...]

Arduino and TouchPad let’s you play YouTube perfectly time synced with your MicroWave →  November 21, 2011

Named the μWave, this project uses the Arduino to send data from the microwave’s seven-segment display to a web server, which finds a highly-rated YouTube video of the exact length. It was built in under 40 hours by Kevin Conley, Ben Shyong, Varun Sampath, Teddy Zhang for PennApps. The browser within the TouchPad treats you to a video clip that ends right [...]

A robotic ball that can be controlled by your Smartphone →  November 18, 2011

Orbotix has developed a ball called Sphero, this not one of those ordinary passive balls which only moves either if you kick, throw or hit them. This ball is more of a gadget, to be more precise a robot, yes a robot ball which can control the path of its roll with the use of [...]

Superphones with 8-core GPU to dwarf Smartphones →  November 16, 2011

ARM revealed a GPU with a whopping 8-core made for hi-performance devices such smart TVs, tablets and Superphones. Their latest GPU is called MALI-T658, which is ARM’s latest addition to the Midgard architecture-base GPU family. ARM promises their new GPU will cater up to ten times the graphics performance of it predecessor Mali-400 MP GPU [...]

Cloud gaming has arrived and is here to stay →  November 4, 2011

Its about time to throw your gaming consoles and those over priced and heffty gaming computer out your window. Cloud gaming has arrived to give rise to a new generation of gaming experience. The path taken by music and movies have been adopted by gaming as well but this time around there is gonna be more thrills [...]

Free Apps for your Android →  October 22, 2011

AVG Antivirus AVG Antivirus has been protecting PCs for years with it’s free yet somewhat effective antivirus solution. Though it does not have the caliber to completely annihilate security problems it does a pretty good job considering that it is freeware. Now that Android devices are all the craze, AVG has launched their free antivirus for [...]