You have to admit that apps that get rejected on Apple’s AppStore tend to get quite a bit of publicity, and the Bobble Rep-111th Congress Edition app is no difference. The app has 540 caricatured heads, which will bobble around when the iPhone is shaken and costs 99 cents. Apple initially rejected it because it supposedly violated the developer license agreement due to it containing content that ridicules public figures. Fortunately Apple has relented; after all, caricatures aren’t that bad, right? You can now bobble the heads of senators for $0.99.
By Roland Hutchinson On March 10, 2010Comments Off
Just a quick reminder to all our readers, there is still time to enter this weeks Geeky Gadgets giveaway. This weeks prize is a brand new 24 inch LG W2486L Gaming Monitor.
The contest is free to enter, and open to Geeky Gadgets readers from anywhere in the world, full instructions on how to enter can be found on the contest entry page at the link below.
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The contest will close on Sunday the 14th of March 2010. Good luck everyone.
You might want to take a different approach when shopping for a 3D TV than a standard HDTV. Instead of just looking at the picture quality, you should also take a serious look at the brand’s 3D glasses. Some show some clear advantages to purchase that brand’s 3D TV and until there’s a standard format for 3D glasses, each brand requires its own unique glasses, thereby locking you into that manufacturer’s products. Yeah, it’s a bit messy right now. Click through for details on all of them.
Samsung
There are three different models currently available. $150 gets you the SSG-2100AB with a user-replaceable battery, while the $200 set is rechargeable. (SSG-2200AR) There is a rechargeable pair for children priced at $180. (SSG-2200KR)Samsung 3D TVs come bundled with two glasses and a 3D Blu-ray movie.
Sony
Sony hasn’t official announced its US 3D TV accessories, but it’s probably safe to say that the Japanese-market versions will be available here, too. The standard size TDG-BR100 gray model, along with the smaller blue and pink TDG-BR50 glasses will sell for 12,000 yen in Japan. That translates to $132 USD. The glasses also require the TMR-BR100 IR emitter, too. (5,000 yen, $55 USD) Only the LX900, which retails for 290,000 yen or $3,204 USD, comes with glasses — two, in fact.
Panasonic
The Panasonic TY-EW3D10U glasses clearly win the “most radical” award. Each Panasonic 3D TV comes with a set and they retail for $149.99.
Nvidia
3D content can also be seen on computers with the right gear from Nvidia. The $199 Nvidia 3D Vision kit includes one pair of glasses, IR emitter, and connection cables. Additional glasses can be purchased for $149 each. Keep in mind, though, that a 3D-ready monitor/projector, GPU, and operating system like Vista or Win7 is also required.
The convergence of sportand technology! I don’t know, I think it’s cool. So, here’s another. This is the Finale Madrid, and it will be used at the UEFA Champions League final in Madrid this May. In a perfect world, the game will be played between Real Madrid and Barcelona—I will lose my mind if that happens.
Like other soccer balls (the Adidas Jabulani and the Nike T90 Ascente), there’s a lot going on in here. You see the stars? Somehow, Adidas has managed to make that completely inseparable from the ball itself—it’s not just painted on there. That helps ensure the ball’s flight is as unobstructed as possible. The ball keeps the PSC Texture as seen in previous balls. It’s the golf ball effect: golf balls have dimples in order to steady the flight, and so does the Finale Madrid.
Again, the UEFA Champions League final will be played in Madrid (Real Madrid’s home stadium, the Santiago Bernabéu, to be exact) on May 22. I will be completely unreachable during the game.
Funny thing, isn’t it? That you can watch some little blocks moving on an 8×8 LED matrix and recognize the first level of Super Mario Bros. buried in the squares?
Developed by a Carnegie Mellon student named Chloe for an Arduino class, the project is “a simple version of Super Mario Bros using an 8×8 LED matrix (one color), an Arduino Nano, two buttons for the input (forward and jump), and a piezo sensor hooked to a separate Arduino for the theme song.” Nice work, young lady. I give it an A++, the highest mark known to mankind.
I have been running across a bunch of strange and cool watches recently. The coolest, and most expensive, has to be the 4N watch that I ran across this week with mechanical operation and limited to only 16 pieces. A new watch today isn’t expensive and isn’t handmade. The thing is called the Happy Hour Watch.
If you like to drink adult beverages that need a bottle opener this is the watch for you. The face of the watch has a digital display for time, the day, and an analog display that has normal hands and operation with red markings for 5p.m., also known as happy hour.
The buckle on the band of the watch is the unique bit here. It is designed to allow you to open a bottle without hunting for a bottle opener or using your teeth. The watch is available now for $49.95 on sale with the normal price being $69.95.
Lian Li the aluminium PC case manufacture has just released images of its latest creation the the Lian Li PC-T1R case which resembles a nasty looking bug. But dont be fooled this is a production case that will be available to purchase.
Complete with On/Off switch the new case can accept a mATX mainboard, hard drive, optical drive, PSU and everything you would find on a traditional PC case.
Unfortunately theres not planned release date for the PC-T1R at the moment but the case will retail at €150 around $204
A t-shirt-stuffed Linux store has opened for business, the proceeds from which support the Linux Foundation. But since Linux users are such penny-pinchers, $18 is probably more than they’ll pay for a single garment of clothing. [LinuxStore via CrunchGear]
Active Media Products has all sorts of SSDs and storage devices, but most of them are aimed at use in laptops and desktops using SATA connectivity. The company has announced a new SSD product called the SaberTooth ZT Turbo ZIF SSD.
The SSD fits into devices that use a 1.8-inch IDE/PATA drive. The little SSD is 5mm thick and uses the 40-pin ZIF interface. It can be had in 32GB or 64GB capacities and promises 100MB/sec read speed and up to 85MB/sec write speeds.
The SSD uses MLC NAND and supports SMART and ECC. The drive uses bad block management to map bad bits to prevent data errors. The drive ships with a small screwdriver and install instructions and supports Windows, Linux, and Mac operating systems.
A t-shirt-stuffed Linux store has opened for business, the proceeds from which support the Linux Foundation. But since Linux users are such penny-pinchers, $18 is probably more than they’ll pay for a single garment of clothing. [
Active Media Products has all sorts of SSDs and storage devices, but most of them are aimed at use in laptops and desktops using SATA connectivity. The company has announced a new SSD product called the 