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HTC One VX unboxing and video walkthrough

December 22, 2012
HTC One VX

Behold, the HTC One VX on AT&T. More than a One V, less than a One X, and dancing right around the noble One S without giving it as much as a mention in its already convoluted name. We've gone hands-on with the One VX a couple times since it was announced in early October, [...]

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Back to the Future DeLorean reaches Lego form in mid-2013, likely won’t reach 88MPH (video)

December 22, 2012
Back to the Future DeLorean reaches Lego form in mid2013, probably won

Team BTTF has been pushing for months to get a Lego rendition of Back to the Future‘s AMC DeLorean as an official kit. Persistence pays off: Lego’s Summer Review has approved the two-person group’s project as its next Cuusoo set, both for its realistically affordable design and in response to the “massive appeal” fostered when [...]

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Google Offers Some Android-Centric Holiday Cheer With ‘Happy Holidays’ Video, Digital Cards

December 22, 2012
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If you aren’t quite feeling the holiday spirit yet, Google has decided to lend a hand with a few holiday-oriented offerings focused on our favorite green robot. The official Nexus page on Google+ shared a few “Happy Holiday Cards” this evening, depicting Bugdroid hanging out with some arctic pals sitting by a fire, having a [...]

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Google not-so-subtly reveals Nexus 10 dock in holiday video

December 21, 2012
Nexus 10 dock

That "Happy Holidays from Android" video was adorable, wasn't it? Well if you weren't taken back by the Android meeting up with all of his bugdroid friends for a holiday get-together, you may have noticed a Nexus 10 being put in a dock on a desk. Alongside a Nexus 4 and a couple of Nexus [...]

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North Korea’s first video game: A boring version of ‘Crazy Taxi’ that nitpicks your bad driving

December 21, 2012
North Korea Driving Game

In theory, a driving game set in North Korea could be fun — it could revolve around delivering kidnapped movie stars from the airport to Dear Leader’s headquarters, for instance. In reality, though, it looks as though playing a driving game set in North Korea is about as much fun as actually living in North [...]

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Aptina intros 8MP sensors that bring 60FPS, pro-grade video to phones, action cameras

December 21, 2012
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Smartphones and action cameras are no strangers to high-speed video: devices like the HTC One X make it a selling point. They’ve usually had to crop the frame from a much larger sensor, however, cutting into the final image quality and the field of view. Aptina’s new AR0835 and AR0835HS sensors might be the ticket [...]

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LG uploads first Nexus 4 commercial – Shows off cool features, lacks emotion [VIDEO]

December 20, 2012
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Still waiting on your Nexus 4 to arrive? Call it a tease, or simply cruel and unusual punishment, but LG uploaded their first Nexus 4 video to their YouTube channel today, knowing damn well you can’t go into the Google Play store and buy one. Okay, to be fair, it’s possible they have their factories [...]

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NC State builds stretchable wires from liquid metal, keeps headphones humming (video)

December 19, 2012
NC State builds stretchable wires from liquid metal, keeps headphones humming video

More than a few of us have had that moment of panic when our headphone cords catch on an object and cut the listening short — sometimes permanently. Researchers at North Carolina State University could help mitigate those minor musical catastrophes with wiring that stretches up to eight times its normal length. The method fills [...]

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Facebook prepares to bombard News Feeds with video ads by April 2013

December 19, 2012
Facebook Video Ads

Your Facebook (FB) News Feed is about to get more annoying. The social network is getting ready to populate feeds with video ads according to AdAge. Why now? To “attract big swaths of ad dollars from TV advertisers.” By April, Facebook will reportedly have video ads airing on its desktop site and smartphone and tablet apps. Each ad [...]

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