Hasta La Gadget!

There’s no doubt that smartphone accessories can get expensive, so how about a case that doubles as a gamepad? Billed as “protection with a purpose,” Canopy’s Sensus case aims to do just that. While there are several peripherals that add keyboards and joysticks to smartphones, Sensus goes one step further by adding touch input to a device’s entire outer surface. The case’s sensors recognize an additional ten touch responses, including controls on the sides and back of a device similar to the rear touchpad on a PS Vita. The focus with Sensus is to provide its users with unique touch input combinations that avoid taking up precious screen real estate. Most likely due to its uniformed design, Sensus is currently only being offered for the iPhone 4 and 4S; the outfit is taking pre-orders at $39 a pop, with shipments expected to begin in the first quarter of 2013. If you’d like to get a better feel for what Sensus has to offer (we know, we know), check out its demo video by visiting the source link below.

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Mobile

Canopy’s $39 Sensus gaming case protects your iPhone 4 / 4S, adds plenty of new touch sensors originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Oct 2012 21:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Canopy  | Email this | Comments

The Grand Canyon is one of those natural wonders you have to see in real life to truly appreciate. It’s jaw droppingly gorgeous and looks like another world. Well, that’s what I thought until I saw this time lapse of the Grand Canyon. Using over 80,000 photos, the video is better than an ordinary visit to Grand Canyon. After you watch this, you’d have seen it all. More »

Here’s a look at another upcoming mid-tower PC case from Cooler Master, the CM 690 II Plus Black & White Edition. Coming in a two-tone body color (black & white), this steel case supports for mini-ITX, micro-ATX and ATX motherboards, and features a top-placed I/O panel with 2x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 and 2x audio ports, four 5.25-inch external drive bays, six 3.5-inch shadow bays (including 4 removable), 7+1 rear expansion slots (+1 slot for the vertical position) and has three fans (1x 140mm white LED fan – front, 1x 120mm fan – rear, 1x 120mm fan – top). The CM 690 II Plus Black & White Edition will go on sale from October 19th for around 15,000 Yen (about $192). [Cooler Master]

I-O Data is set to launch their newest wireless LAN extender, the WN-AG300EX. Designed to extend the radio range of the wireless LAN into out-of-reach areas of the home, this compact device comes with dual-band WiFi access point (2.4GHz and 5GHz) and supports for multi-level wireless LAN security including WEP (64/128bit), WP-PSK (TKIP / AES) and WPA2-PSK (TKIP / AES). The WN-AG300EX will start shipping from late October for 8,295 Yen (about $106). [I-O Data]

Analytics firm comScore has delivered its latest search engine rankings, and it probably isn’t going to surprise you at all to hear that, for the month of September, Google remained the reigning king. The big G actually enjoyed a 0.3 percentage increase from August to September, climbing from 66.4% explicit search share to 66.7%. Others enjoyed small gains too, including Ask, which was up 0.3% itself, from 3.5% share to 3.8%.

Even AOL, which is teetering on the brink when it comes to search market share, made the tiniest of gains, rising one-tenth of a percentage point to 1.8%. Microsoft’s Bing, which is Google’s largest competitor, held steady between August and September 15.9%, so while it isn’t a gain, it’s certainly better than a loss. Sadly, the same can’t be said for Yahoo, which was the only engine comScore is showing a loss for.

Between August and September, Yahoo’s market share actually fell 0.6 points, dipping from 12.8% to 12.2%. It isn’t the biggest loss – not by a longshot – but the struggling Yahoo needs all the help it can get in the search department. comScore says that right around 16.53 billion searches were made in September, which is down about 4% from August’s 17.04 billion. Almost all of the search engines that were tracked in comScore’s report suffered a decline as a result of that drop – with Yahoo in particular getting hit the hardest – but interestingly, Ask was the only one to make gains in explicit search queries, gaining 3% over August’s results.

So, even though Ask is a long way away from being able to challenge Google for search share (or Bing for that matter), September was a pretty good month for it. In any case, comScore’s report indicates that Google doesn’t have to worry about having its title taken away any time soon, though the fact that Bing is holding steady while Yahoo is losing a small amount of market share has to be encouraging for Microsoft. Be sure to have a look at our story timeline below for more reports from comScore!

Google makes small gains in latest comScore search rankings is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
© 2005 – 2012, SlashGear. All right reserved.