Microsoft has announced that it will stop supporting Outlook.com linked accounts in the next couple of months. Linked accounts were introduced back in 2006, they offered an easy way of switching between multiple e-mail addresses from Outlook.com.
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There’s been a lot of talk and controversy over used games recently. They’ve been a huge factor in the gaming industry, and frugal gamers rely on used games in order to fulfill their entertainment needs. However, many people have come forward and said that if games were actually good, there would be less of them
Maybe you should wait on building that 3D-printed house.
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We’ve been hearing about the possibility of 3D-printed, full-size houses for some time. We may even get our first one sometime this year, thanks to the efforts of a couple of different architectural firms. Now you can get an idea of what it would take to create your own home from 3D-printed blocks.
Real estate blog Movoto has created a “3D Print your House” calculator to give you the daunting numbers involved with using a 3D printer to make your abode. The numbers are based on the time and cost of materials of using a MakerBot Replicator 2 to print out plastic bricks.
The calculations involved working out how long and at what cost it would take the Replicator 2 to produce a brick measuring 8 inches by 3.5 inches by 2.75 inches. It would also cost $12 in plastic to make each of these theoretical bricks. The rest is about determining how many bricks it would take to build a house.
Nowadays, we can’t help but be skeptical of products that claim to be a smartwatch. In fact, what is a smartwatch, anyway? Perhaps GEAK, a Shanghai-based subsidiary of content giant Shanda, has a somewhat convincing answer. Simply dubbed the GEAK Watch, this wearable device packs a surprising number of components, with the most notable one being the 802.11b/g/n WiFi module. This lets the Android 4.1 system download apps directly or even receive OTA updates, but you can also create a wireless ad hoc network to do instant messaging with fellow users nearby — the watch can apparently do voice-to-text input. There’s also Bluetooth 4.0 and NFC for device pairing, along with GPS and FM radio — yes, there’s a headphone jack, too.
In terms of sensory features, the GEAK Watch offers to monitor the user’s sleeping pattern, pulse, blood pressure, body temperature, mood and number of steps walked. The components that take care of all these are somehow tucked into the 8mm-thick body of the watch, with the brain being the rare 1GHz Ingenic JZ4774 that’s based on MIPS architecture. The chip’s accompanied by 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage and a suspiciously minuscule 500mAh lithium polymer cell — no word on the battery life just yet, though. There’s a 1.55-inch, 240 x 240 multi-touch OGS display to seal the device, and overall the watch is certified for a reasonable IPX3 water resistance.
Honestly, this smartwatch sounds too good to be true, and it’s only priced at just ¥1,999 or about $330. It’ll be up for pre-ordering in China from July 3rd, so it shouldn’t be long before we find out if the GEAK Watch is worthy of the “world’s first true smartwatch” title.
Filed under: Wearables
Via: Engadget Chinese
Source: GEAK (Chinese)
Payphones may be essential to pop culture, Supermen, and Matrix-escapees everywhere, but try to remember the last time you actually saw someone using a payphone for its intended purpose. What about the last time you just saw one… anywhere?
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Oh, the tales FCC employees could tell — if they were allowed to discuss them. A Nokia device, known only as the RM-877, has passed the agency’s approval process. This mystery unit contains AT&T-compatible LTE bands (2, 4, 5 and 17, to be specific), pentaband HSPA+ / WCDMA (though AWS appears to be disabled in this particular variant) and quad-band GSM / EDGE. Additionally, it also sports NFC, Bluetooth and dual-band WiFi. According to the above diagram, the handset measures 130.35mm tall and 71.4mm wide, which makes it a millimeter taller and wider than the Lumia 925. We’re still combing the documents for any more clues, but we’ve already seen reports that appear to match this model number with the EOS that we’re expecting to see on July 11th.
Update: As we continue to look through the documents, we’ve noticed mention of the device being tested with a “camera grip” (model PD-95G). It definitely gives us more reason to believe this is the EOS. Additionally, we’ve also noticed that a wireless charging cover was involved in testing, which means it’s likely optional, much like the Lumia 925.
Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless, Mobile, Nokia, AT&T
Source: FCC
Predictions that 3D movies would be the wave of the future are even older than the talkies
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Microsoft announced last week at E3 that they would be selling the Xbox One for $499, which isn’t a bad price at all. However, when it was Sony‘s turn to deliver a price tag for the PS4, they ended up undercutting Microsoft by a whole $100, selling their console for only $399. This raised a
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