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Live within the United State’s borders? Fingers itching to spend some quality with Sony’s latest portable gaming sensation before the First Edition Bundle lands on February 15th?
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Sony PS Vita demo hardware drops in at US GameStop locations, lets you go hands-on
Pardon us Americans as we act surprised, but it turns out that we have one more thing in common with our Euro brethren: a growing number of us dislike shopping in stores. According to Kelkoo estimates, online spending in the European Union is projected to continue its upward trend, which is said to reach somewhere in the neighborhood of €232 billion before year’s end.
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EU online spending estimated to grow 16 percent, reach €232 billion in 2012
There are those out there that laugh at the idea of a 10-inch multitouch screen, and even some chuckle the thought of settling for a mere 40 inches .
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VantagePoint delivers 132 inches of multitouch to HP’s business customers
Target this week confirmed rumors that it will be adding Apple mini-stores to a handful of its retail locations. A representative for the bullseye store told The New York Times that 25 locations will be getting what it describes as “extended displays.” The mega-retailer refused to go into details, so far as what the areas will stock, but it will likely contain, at the very least, the iPads and iPhones the store already carries. Not word on an exact date, either, but the areas should be open before year’s end
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Target confirms Apple center openings, talk to Geniuses where you buy your socks
What’s a company to do once it grabs a million merchants ? Grab a million more, naturally. Following an online rollout and a wider spread to Apple Stores, Jack Dorsey’s own Square is expanding to OfficeMax and UPS locations
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Square’s perimeter gets larger, now sold at UPS and OfficeMax locations
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
