Aug 30
The rumored Apple trade-in program has gone live. Now you can take your old and tired iPhone and trade it in for a new iPhone. But you have to actually make it to an Apple Store.
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Aug 30
There are some competitions that you lose by winning. Like the Darwin Awards, or an Ignobel, a Razzie, or—in the case of the University College London’s brand new £18m student housing block—a Carbuncle Cup, which is awarded annually to the worst building built in Britain.
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Aug 30
Let the god games begin: 22cans’ Godus beta available on Steam Early Access September 13th (update: iOS and Android release dates)
Posted in: Today's Chili
A collective effort pulled back Curiosity’s curtain early this summer, and now it’s nearly time to play god. On September 13th, 22cans and Peter Molyneux will make the beta release of Godus, the studio’s latest “experiment” in god gaming, available via Steam Early Access for PC and Mac. The early release will cost eager overlords $19.99 and allow them to “sculpt every inch of a beautiful world,” and, of course, destroy those worlds in multiplayer battles with other virtual gods. The Kickstarter-backed nod to Molyneux’s Populous reached its funding goal in December of last year with the promise of PC, Mac and mobile compatibility and continued his focus on the video game as social experiment. Final release details are still under wraps but you can see an updated trailer after the break.
And for more Molyneux, check out our interview from E3 2013.
Update: We had a chance to catch up with Molyneux following his keynote at PAX and, among other things, he revealed release dates for iOS and Android versions of Godus: October 31st (Halloween) and November 14th (Day of the Colombian Woman), respectively.%Gallery-slideshow77099%
Aug 30
For those of us out there who love to pimp out our respective desktop computers to maximize their performance, it will more often than not involve overclocking. Needless to say, overclocking is a highly technical skill, and if you like to push the proverbial envelope always, then surely you would need to figure out just how you would keep that processor cool while working beyond its intended limits. A great cooling solution would come in handy, but just which particular one should you settle for? Digital Storm thinks that they might have a solution in the form of the HydroLux desktop cooling solution.
< !-more-->The HydroLux has been described to be a complete desktop cooling solution which will combine liquid as well as airflow cooling with fully customizable control software. This will not be a cooling solution that you can get anywhere, but rather, it will be available exclusively on Digital Storm desktops, where HydroLux will be able to monitor and automatically adjust the temperature fluctuations in real-time, now how about that for taking a leap in the realm of PC cooling?
The HydroLux will boast of a proprietary Control Center software which will deliver enthusiasts complete control of the cooling system and chassis. This would also include detailed temperature graphs, thermal linked LED lighting as well as automated airflow optimization. A simple click of your mouse button will see the HydroLux transform chassis LED lighting into a powerful tool that will be able to monitor system temperatures. Whenever internal system and fluid temperatures rise, HydroLux will give you a visual representation of the fluctuations by fading LED lighting from a cool blue to a warm red. Enthusiasts too, will be able to get a visual indication of when they have pushed their system to new heights, as the chassis lighting will switch to red every time a maximum temperature recording is exceeded.
Press Release
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Aug 30
Editor’s Letter: Color commentary
Posted in: Today's ChiliIn each issue of Distro, Executive Editor Marc Perton publishes a wrap-up of the week in news.
There’s a very good chance you’re reading this on a tablet. Distro is, after all, first and foremost, a tablet magazine. There’s also a reasonable chance you’re reading this on a computer. Distro works on Windows 8; we have a platform-neutral PDF version; and most of what we publish in Distro also appears on Engadget. There is, however, almost no chance that you’re reading this on a color e-book reader (no, not a color tablet; an e-paper reader). And that’s too bad.
In this week’s Distro, Sean Buckley tells the story of color e-paper, a once-promising technology that simply couldn’t make it in a tablet-centric world. Despite years of development work and the tantalizing promise of high-resolution, daylight-readable, low-power displays, color e-paper was rendered an also-ran once the iPad began gaining popularity and low-cost Android tablets followed suit. Major e-reader makers including Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Kobo, all released their own color tablets — at prices below their $300-plus color e-ink competitors. That strategy wasn’t without its fallout; B&N eventually got out of the tablet market, and Kobo continues to struggle to gain market share in the US. But color e-book readers fared even more poorly, and color e-paper’s future is now tied to other devices, such as smartwatches.
Aug 30
Alejandro learning to drive his wheelchair.
(Credit: Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET)
Most 2-year-olds are toddling around, getting into everything they can reach. A little boy named Alejandro has the same desire to explore as any other kid, but his movements are limited by Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a degenerative genetic disease. He is a bright and social child, but his condition has left him physically very weak.
The foot pedals created for the wheelchair. (Click to enlarge.)
(Credit: Hacking SMA)
Health insurance hasn’t been much help, saying Alejandro will have to wait five years to get a powered wheelchair. That wasn’t acceptable to his parents, so dad Shea took matters into his own maker hands. “Our best option was to for me to try to build something myself,” Shea writes in his Hacking SMA blog documenting his family’s experience.
The project started with an adult-size powered wheelchair purchased on eBay for $800. Shea modified the seat and had to pick up batteries. The biggest challenge was reworking how the wheelchair is controlled.
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Aug 30
Huawei has unveiled the latest Honor branded smartphone. This one has arrived as the Honor 3 and it looks like the initial roll-out will be for those in China. The handset is a mid-level device with specs to include a 4.7-inch display at 1280 x 720 and Huawei’s K3V2 processor. Specifically, this one clocks in […]
Aug 30
We’ve seen the Time Lords many times throughout countless Doctor Who episodes. However we know very little about their culture. What do they like to do for fun? What kind of music do they like? Do Time Lords play the ukulele? Who knows? I do know that if you play this TARDIS ukulele, it should strike a chord with you.
While the body of the uke is clearly the Doctor’s TARDIS, I love how they also snuck the Doctor Who logo into the head stock. It is from Etsy seller celentanowoodworks who makes each one to order. In fact, they will honor any request no matter how weird it is. Just tell them and they will build it – assuming it’s a ukulele, that is.
The TARDIS uke will cost you $700(USD). Sure, that’s a lot of dough, but you will have the geekiest ukulele around. Except maybe this one. Or this one.
Aug 30
Almost 7,000 people entered Red Bull’s third annual Illume sports photography contest this year, making it one of the largest photography competitions ever staged. And finally, at a ceremony in Hong Kong yesterday, the jury announced its winners. Who knew snowboarding could be so moody and artful?
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Aug 30
Well, it looks as if Twitter isn’t the only one announcing something beta-related today. BlackBerry has (quietly) released Beta Zone for BlackBerry 10, an application geared toward folks who are game to try stuff before it’s ready for prime time. The firm’s newly outed app gives members an easy-to-access hub where they can download the latest software arriving on the platform in beta. As you’d expect, Beta Zone for BB10 won’t cost a dime to download, though you will need to have an account before being able to access any of those rough-hewn apps.
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Blackberry
Via: N4BB
Source: BlackBerry World
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