Hasta La Gadget!

The best part of the GTA games is the mayhem that you can cause as you drive and run and gun throughout the city. Some of the mods for the game are pretty cool too. You know what’s really awesome? A mod that lets you wreck havoc across the city as a giraffe.

There is nothing better than seeing a giraffe riding a motorbike, firing an RPG and pushing cars so they go flying like Superman sneezed. This Grand Theft Auto IV giraffe mod by indirivacua is some hardcore giraffe action for zoo fans everywhere.

Just make sure that you watch the video all the way through to the end, you’ll be happy you did. It is some funny stuff. To me at least. Who doesn’t love a giraffe on a rampage? But how about elephant?

[via Geek]

Once again, the list of places where you can buy one of Amazon’s Kindles has gotten shorter. According to a new report from Reuters, low-cost retail titan Walmart has completely dropped Amazon’s full line of Kindle e-readers from its online and brick-and-mortar stores.

Don’t hold your breath for your local Wally World to stock new models like Kindle Fire HD or the Kindle Paperwhite either — it seems Walmart is making a clean break here.

It’s not the first time a major national retailer has opted to drop Amazon’s popular line of e-readers and tablets — Target made a similar decision back in May after “evaluating” its product assortment, though the company was quick to note in its clipped statement that it would still sell rival e-readers like Barnes & Noble’s Nook.

Unlike Target, which forecasted the Kindle’s exit from its inventory in advance, Walmart already seems to have done the deed. A quick search for “Kindle” on the Walmart site doesn’t yield much more than a slew of Android tablets, and a bit more digging reveals that the retailer may have been clearing out Kindle stock as early as last month.

The natural question to ask at this point is, well, why? If Walmart’s party line is to be believed, it’s simply because the company carries enough tablets and e-readers to make the Kindle unnecessary. The real reason may be more nuanced than that — the moves made by Walmart and Target seem more like the sign of a deepening schism between strictly online retailers and those with brick-and-mortar businesses to maintain.

Amazon has historically been pretty happy to drive wedges into that gap, too. Right at the peak of 2011′s holiday buying frenzy for instance, Amazon kicked off a new promotion for users of its mobile Price Check app — anyone who used it to price check a product in a brick-and-mortar retailer would receive a 5% discount off of that same product if purchased on Amazon. The fact that those discounts topped out at $5 (and Amazon never brought up how successful the promotion was) meant that its swaying power was questionable, but it clearly illustrated that Amazon was more than happy to reinforce the notion of physical retailers as showrooms while it laughed all the way to the bank.

If you happen to be rocking to a smartphone that relies on the Android operating system, then I am quite sure that there is this particular browser which you have a soft spot for. Some folks might settle for the stock browser that came with the operating system, others would immediately head on to Google Play and download their favorite third party browser. For fans of Opera Mini, you will be glad to hear that Opera Mini for Android 7.5 is now available for download, and its biggest claim to fame this time around is the “Smart Page” from Opera that allows you to have a quick and easy glance of what is happening in your social network, in addition to the slew of personalized news updates and a section that carries suggested links after the algorithm goes through your current location. To put it in a nutshell, the Smart Page intends to provide you with “a birds-eye view of what’s happening.”

The social tab will display updates from your list of friends across Facebook, Twitter and vKontakte, while the news section pays close attention to your browsing habits, showing off relevant headlines to you, doing so while continuing to operate in Opera’s Turbo Mode that compresses all sites you are viewing on Opera’s servers in order to save you both time and money, something that is in short supply these days.

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When it comes to gaming audio, you know for sure that the name Turtle Beach has been right there from the early days when sound cards were considered to be a luxury on your computer, and many folks (such as yours truly) who lacked the kind of monetary resources would just have to make do with the standard PC speaker which frankly, had a far less vocal range compared to even R2-D2. Well, Turtle Beach does seem to be still around these days, and no longer are they producing sound cards for computers, but rather, still being involved in the audio arena. The Nintendo Wii U, a next generation console from Nintendo, has yet to be introduced, but Turtle Beach has already announced their officially licensed headsets, the Ear Force NLa and Ear Force N11.

The two pairs of headsets were specially created in collaboration with Nintendo of Japan, where they intend to deliver to Wii U gamers a pair of solid entry level headsets without breaking the bank. Steve Singer, Vice President of Licensing, Nintendo of America Inc., said, “We are very excited to be working with Turtle Beach to launch the N11 and NLa for the new Wii U. We look forward to fans having a high quality audio experience with our newest console.”

Unlike your Nokia handsets, however, these will not come in a bunch of merry colors. Instead, they will be available in both black and white shades only, presumably to go along with what the Wii U will be launched in.

The Ear Force NLa is the ideal headset for Nintendo gamers who want high-fidelity audio and superior comfort, where it merges high-fidelity stereo game audio and crystal-clear communication in a sleek, lightweight and durable design. Other features include in-line volume control and noise-isolating ear cushions, while those who tend to be on-the-go will find that the NLa’s 4-pole connector can be easily disconnected from the Wii U GamePad and hook up to portable devices such as the Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo DS in a jiffy.

The Ear Force NLa and Ear Force N11 will retail for $34.95 and $49.95, respectively, as they arrive in the market later in the fourth quarter of this year.

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[ Turtle Beach has new headsets for the Nintendo Wii U copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

There’s no denying the fact that I’m always looking for a really good iPad case. It looks like the Portuguese design studio pomm has created a pretty cool iPad case, made up entirely of cork. I wonder if it will float if dropped into water, or if you can stick pushpins into it.

The iPadCorkCase is designed to protect your iPad (which is good I guess, because it sort of defeats the purpose to have a case that doesn’t do this.) They chose to use cork because it’s durable, versatile, has a high resistance to daily wear and tear, as well as its shock absorption and water resistant properties.

The case isn’t slim, but I guess that it needed to be this thick to do its job. While I don’t think that this case revolutionize the case industry, it is a cool looking case. The first 500 preorders can get it for €55 (~$72 USD) at pomm. Prices go up to  €60/$75 USD after that.

[via MoCo Loco]