Sony has dropped yet another teaser for the Xperia Z1 Honami. This time around the teasing has come in video form, however it will likely look a bit familiar to those who had been following those #bestofSony images. For those who missed those, Sony had released a series of images for the Xperia Z1 over […]
GameStop’s annual GameStop Expo is currently underway in Las Vegas, which means thousands of you who are attending have probably gotten your dirty little mitts all over the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One enough to make an educated decision as to which console you’ll be purchasing later this year. Fortunately for GameStop managers, they won’t have to worry about making that tough decision as they’ll be getting a free PlayStation 4 and seven games at launch. (more…)
GameStop Managers To Receive A Free PS4, Seven Games On Nov. 15 original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Google Africa is asking volunteers to judge the quality of beta translations for African languages Hausa, Igbo, Somali, Yoruba and Zulu. That means it’s likely only a matter of time before they’re added to the 71 current Google Translate lingos. Users on a Google+ page who speak one of the languages were asked to rate the translation of passages to and from English on a scale of ‘poor’ to ‘excellent.’ While it still seems a bit buggy, it looks to be a great start — though users in isolated areas might need to wait for Facebook’s internet.org initiative.
Filed under: Internet, Software, Google
Source: Google Africa (Google+)
Dell‘s popular Latitude line of laptops are getting a makeover as the company is announcing a number of new models that are much thinner and lighter that previous Latitude models starting at $599. The Latitude 3000, 5000 and 7000 series laptops will feature Intel’s latest Haswell processors and are expected to be released in the coming weeks. (more…)
Dell Introduces Improved Latitude Line Of Ultrabooks, Notebooks original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Yesterday, Google upset lots of folks by pulling the plug on the most awesome aspect of Chromecast, the ability to play local content
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Science is awesome. And thanks to the internet age, it’s easy to be witness to that fact. For example? This beautiful image of the photomultiplier tubes in the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment detectors, which mesmerized millions when it started circulating online this week.
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Robert Morris and Daniel McDuff are currently studying for their doctorate degrees at MIT. But even geniuses get addicted to Facebook. Robert and Dan confessed that they collectively spend about 50 hours a week on the social networking site. To get rid of their bad habit, they decided to undergo a literal shock treatment.
Named after the famous physiologist Ivan Pavlov, the Pavlov Poke is an Arduino-based system that connects to a computer via USB. It works with a program on the computer that monitors application usage; Robert and Dan used the UI Inspector in OS X. If it detects that you’re visiting a specified site or sites – in this case it’s Facebook – too frequently, it will flash an alert on screen and send a current to a couple of conducting strips that are stuck on a keyboard rest.
If being electrocuted won’t be enough to stop you from checking your feed, you can try the outsourced equivalent of Pavlov Poke. It still uses an application monitor, but this time it uses a Python script that asks people on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to call you whenever you’re slacking off.
I think the second one’s more effective. Not only is it more annoying, the cost for the calls alone may be enough to reform you. Head to Robert’s website to learn more about Pavlov Poke, but only if you’re done working.
[via C|NET]
There is nothing quite like thinking back of the good old days, especially when you are a whole lot younger and life was simpler then. In fact, the summers in your day tend to be a whole lot longer, don’t you think so? Of course, on the flipside, it would also feel as though your school years were stretched pretty long as well, with each day passing by all too slowly. I am quite sure that many of us too have had fond memories of a gumball machine by the side of a road, or outside a convenience store. Why not bring home a tinge of nostalgia with the $129.99 Gumball Machine?
Needless to say, there has been variations made to the classic gumball machine as we have seen in the past, but this particular Gumball Machine intends to remain true to its calling, sporting a 7.5″ cast metal base, a large 7.5″ clear glass globe and a matching cast metal floor stand. All you need to do is provide it with gumballs of your favorite flavor, and you are good to go. Needless to say, you can also opt to settle for candy or other kinds of small treats, and you hold the power in adjusting the dispensing mechanism so that the amount of goodies dispensed can be varied. If guests whom you do not like happen to drop by but have no choice other than to welcome them in (the in-laws sound familiar to you?), why not ensure it will only accept coins?
[ Gumball Machine brings home some nostalgia copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]
We caught the first Windows 8.1 (aka Blue) news back in March, and after several betas and a preview, it’s been bundled off to manufacturers. That’s a mere five months from alpha code to gold master, a feat that Microsoft trumpeted as “an unparalleled level of collaboration” between customers and Windows product teams. Now, manufacturers will be able to ramp up their production lines with the new version in time for the holidays, as Redmond emphasized in its Blogging Windows post. Current Windows 8 owners will get the update for free, but all end users will have to hang on until the official October 18th release date. With a month and change left, though, it looks like all the ducks are in a row to herald the return of the tech world’s most infamous button.
Filed under: Software, Microsoft
Source: Blogging Windows
The road to the long-awaited Title Update 12 for the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has been a long one. Earlier this month, 4J Studios announced they were putting the final touches on the update, even going as far as announcing the official changelog for the game just a week later. This lead many to believe the update was coming extremely soon, but unfortunately, the update never came. Those of you who have been looking forward to Title Update 12 can rest easy as it’s now available for you to download. (more…)
Minecraft Xbox 360 Title Update 12 Now Available original content from Ubergizmo. 
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