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When it comes to mobile gaming, you can choose one of two routes – take a smartphone or tablet, or pick from a dedicated handheld console. Atari has decided to jump aboard the smartphone/tablet route this time around, delivering their collection of iOS and Android titles such as RollerCoaster Tycoon­, Dungeons & Dragons: Warbands, Atari Casino, and Outlaw. Outlaw is a totally new take on an original Atari arcade hit, where it will arrive on iOS this coming November, not to mention iOS gamers will also see the first time release of RollerCoaster Tycoon and Dungeons & Dragons: Warbands. Do bear in mind that Android gamers will not be left out for the above mentioned titles, either.

Dungeons & Dragons: Warbands will cost $2.99 for the iPad this coming December, with Steam, Facebook and Android versions on their way as well. We do expect this turn-based strategy game to be quite the hit as you play one of four factions. Atari Casino would be free for iOS as it is released later this year, and folks who have this gambling addiction might just want to give the virtual one-arm bandit a go instead of losing real cash in the real world. Oh yeah, did we mention that Deer Hunter will be coming over to Facebook as well? [Press Release]

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At today’s prices, building a Six Million Dollar Man would cost around $31 million. Of course, being a TV show means the Office of Scientific Intelligence doesn’t have too many bionic employees, but that might not the case in the future. Nicolas Giuseppone and a team at the Université de Strasbourg and CNRS have created thousands of nano-machines to replicate the movement of human muscle fibers. Weaving them all together, the machines are able to make a coordinated contraction movement that stretches and contracts. For the moment, the supramolecular polymers can only stretch a matter of micrometers, but in the future they could be used to create artificial muscles, small robots or even materials that can move. Hopefully it’ll also give us the power to leap tall buildings, so we’ll be outside practicing our sound effects.

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We have our share of specialty bra’s. A large selection in fact, ranging from cleavage enhancing jeweled spectaculars to water-bra’s and nifty little inflatable numbers, that while a bit deceptive, can make you look quite well endowed in a nice form fitting sweater. But this next item trumps them all, because this bra could save your life.

Imagine if you will, a bra that could actually detect the very first signs of breast cancer. First Warning System presents you with a new breast health screening device that is a non-invasive breast screening system that boasts being much more sensitive and much more cost effective than mammography!

Using a non-invasive dynamic temperature analysis of the breast, coupled with the bioinformatics software, the technology may actually be able to detect tissue changes that can occur years before a tumor forms and this miraculous bra may be useful as an in office cancer screening tool or maybe even as an over the counter testing device.

So this 1000 dollar device doesn’t squeeze your breasts between plexiglass plates, it doesn’t subject you to radiation, it’s non-invasive, and non-toxic and can tell me if my breasts are healthy? Sign me up!  Check out the FirstWarningSystems.com website for more information.
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The upcoming LG Nexus 4 should be one of the first of many Nexus-branded devices to be revealed later this year, and it has been known by its codename Mako, having popped up in the GLBenchmark scoreboard. Just how fast is the new Nexus 4 device? Fast enough to cement a top 4 finish, where it is breathing down the Pantech Vega IM-A850’s neck, while the Asus PadFone 2 and the Xiaomi MI-2 remain in front. The reason for the placing of these devices? They are all powered by a Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset that works alongside the Adreno 320 graphics processor.

It is interesting to note that the GLBenchmark website did mention Android 4.2 as the operating system of choice for the Nexus 4, and the only thing left for us to do is to wait for an official name for the Nexus 4. Considering how there aren’t too many rumors out there about the next Android version’s name, chances are it is going to remain at Jelly Bean.

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Sony continues their smartphone march with plans to hit the entry level market with a couple of new models – the Xperia E as well as the Xperia E Dual, and both of them have been spotted over at the Indonesian Postel site. The Sony Xperia E Dual (C160X codenamed NanHu DS), as its name suggests, will have a dual SIM carriage, so it makes perfect sense for the Sony Xperia E (C150X codenamed NanHu SS) to be in every bit the same as the Xperia E Dual, save for the fact that it can only carry one SIM card inside.

Expectations do not run high for these entry-level smartphones, with a single-core 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM7227A processor with Adreno 200 graphics running the show, in addition to a 320 x 480 pixel display and Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich in tow. We do wonder just which carriers Stateside will carry either (or both) when they are finally ready to be revealed to the world.

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