This past summer, Foursquare announced a soft rollout of a new real-time recommendation feature for Android users. And now, it’s headed to iOS. As part of a new software update, a “small batch” of users will begin to see the push notifications appear on their iPhones, suggesting places or items of …
Six weeks after its release, the Moto X is already half price.
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Now is the time for not-quite-so-early adopters to strike if you’re looking for a top-flight Android smartphone, namely the Moto X or LG G2.
Both phones were first unveiled in August to hype and positive reviews, with at least one reporter traversing a continent and back in a day to get his hands on the Moto X.
But the price of Motorola’s first phone fully conceived as a Google company started to fall just a few weeks after its release, and now Amazon has taken the cost (with a new two-year contract or upgrade on AT&T or Verizon) all the way down to $99.
Now that is futuristic.
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Gadgets are sometimes substitutes for other sorts of stimulus.
So when Jimmy Kimmel spotted the fairly vast, beautifully balanced new Windows tablets in Fox News’ new so-called Deck of a newsroom, he was reminded of going where no man has gone before, into a stratosphere of exactitude, where truth defeats all.
Um, no. I might have got my analogies in a twist there.
What he actually said was: “It looks like what happens when a guy gets divorced and then goes nuts at Best Buy.”
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Avengers, Assemble! That could very well be the rallying cry of MIT’s M-Blocks, which so happen to be a new class of robotic cubes which are aware of one another, and are fully capable of a self assembling process. This is the premise that was explored by the T-1000 in the movie Terminator 2, except that such a cyborg from the future was made out of liquid metal. Well, there is also the Transformers in the science fiction realm as well, where they are a race of humanoid robots that can transform into machines – vehicles especially. Just how far along is humankind to achieving such wonders? MIT’s John Romanishin, Daniela Rus, and Kyle Gilpin could have taken a wee step closer with the M-Blocks self assembling robotic cubes.
These simple yet independent modules are able to separate and recombine at will, letting you have the freedom to design a robot that will sport flexible functionality. The M-Blocks’ movement are self contained, which means there are no external moving parts. This is made possible thanks to a 20,000 RPM flywheel that will impart angular momentum to each cube, letting them make their way across the floor, roll over one another, and even have the ability to leap around. Hence, you get a system that will be able to join together to develop a shape, before breaking apart and assembling into a different shape altogether. Pretty neat, no?
MIT M-Blocks Are Self Assembling Robots original content from Ubergizmo. 
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BlackBerry 10‘s designers The Astonishing Tribe (TAT), acquired by BlackBerry in late 2010 and renamed BlackBerry Sweden, have quietly abandoned the struggling Canadian company, with seven of the top talent founding a new company, TOPP. The startup studio will “craft new products and breathe life into innovative ideas through design, prototyping, and technology”, across mobile, […]
The ARCHOS GamePad 2 has appeared officially as the Archos team behind the original GamePad return for a more refined experience. You’ll find this machine appearing with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 chip under the hood – unknown at this point as far as manufacturer goes – with a 7-inch 1280 x 800 pixel display up […]
Now this is called a major mistake – apparently, a robot whose sole purpose is to remove them nasty jellyfish from our waters could end up doing the exact opposite, that is, by ending up with more jellyfish than before. What you see above happens to be JEROS, also known as the Jellyfish Elimination Robotic Swarm, which is currently being tested before it is commercially released. A team of engineers over at South Korea has come up with JEROS, where it was designed to get rid of jellyfish swarms. Making use of a camera and GPS system in order to determine where the jellyfish swarms are underwater, it will then make a move in the right direction, where a huge net underneath it gathers the jellyfish before a special propeller is meant to make short work of them.
Unfortunately, according to Robert Condon, a research scientist with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab who studies jellyfish, he claims that the JEROS the jellyfish-destruction robot could eventually end up creating additional jellyfish. It might kill the jellyfish, but it does not do a good enough job to destroy the jellyfish’s eggs and sperm. Rather, it mixes it all up in one spot, which in turn increases the chance of them discovering each other. Talk about returning with a vengeance!
Anti-Jellyfish Robot Could Worsen Situation original content from Ubergizmo. 
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All you iPhone users may have thought you were safe from getting a million Foursquare tips and suggestions, but no longer: they’ve just rolled out the feature to iOS after releasing it to Android users
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There’s no shortage of devices that allow you to play Android games. The NVIDIA Shield, Ouya and the yet to be released Mad Catz M.O.J.O are just some of the major offerings in this arena. Archos released a similar Android gaming device last year, it was called the GamePad. Archos has now launched the successor, GamePad 2, which brings a number of updates and improvements. Its also a fully functional Android tablet, so users get the best of both worlds.
The Archos GamePad 2 has a 7 inch 1,280×800 IPS display, a quadcore Mali 400 graphics processing unit, a 1.6GHz quadcore A9 processor backed up by 2GB of RAM. The GamePad 2 will be available in 8GB and 16GB flavours with both being able to facilitate external expansion through microSD cards. There’s a front facing camera as well and the entire contraption is powered by Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. Archos GamePad 2 also has the company’s button mapping software, which basically means that Android games can take advantage of its hardware controls. The GamePad 2 is going to be launched towards the end of October for roughly $250. It is priced almost the same as the upcoming M.O.J.O Android gaming console, though it releases quite a while before it, the M.O.J.O comes out December 10th and that too in “limited numbers.”
Archos GamePad 2 Announced original content from Ubergizmo. 
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In case you weren’t already concerned enough about the wacky (re: highly dangerous) antics going over at the Fukushima power plant, maybe this will do the trick. Six workers attempting to clean up the increasingly unruly mess have accidentally doused themselves with highly radioactive water.
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