It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Refurbished Xbox 360 Kinect: $100 at MidnightBox.com (today only)
If you’re looking to see what all the Kinect fuss is about but you’re not willing to drop $150 for the privilege of doing so, MidnightBox.com has a one-day deal on a refurbished Kinect unit for $100 with a 30-day
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You’ve probably heard all about Watson, the IBM computer that’s capable of understanding natural language. The advanced technology will be competing in Jeopardy against two of the world’s quickest minds from February 14 -16, and there’s a lot at stake with $1 million going to the first place winner, $300,000 going to second place and …
Plenty of us spend hours using our laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles and other gadgets. They come with us everywhere, and when they malfunction or break, it’s often hard to go on without replacing them immediately. But can you actually be in love with a possession? Researchers at Arizona State University say it’s possible.
It’s …
Samsung has added a 10-inch form factor to its line of “Galaxy Tab” Android tablets. The Galaxy Tab 10.1, as it’s called, features a 10-inch 1280×800-resolution screen, dual-core processor, and two cameras.
The tablet runs Google’s new made-for-tablets operating system, Android 3.0—also known as Honeycomb—and measures 0.4 inches …
Marvel vs. Capcom 3
Publisher: Capcom
Developer: Capcom
Systems it’s available on: PS3, Xbox 360
ESRB rating: Teen
System reviewed on: Xbox 360
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3’s biggest achievement doesn’t come in the graphics department, though the visuals are stunning. Nor is it in gameplay, despite the fact that it sports a sharp and …
We’ve got more fuel to add to the “iPhone Nano” rumors that caught fire late last week. The Wall Street Journal adds to Bloomberg‘s report of a smaller, less-expensive iPhone model that may hit the market as early as this summer. Both stories come from unnamed sources, so continue to take all this news with a grain of salt unless …
Last night, at video games’ equivalent to the Oscars, ‘Red Dead Redemption’ racked up the most wins, but ‘Mass Effect 2′ walked away with Game of the Year. It came down to epic space opera vs. lonesome Western drama at the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences’ annual Interactive Achievement Awards ceremony, and Commander Shepard …
Good morning! Here are some of today’s top tech stories so far. We’ll cover a few of these throughout the day but feel free to get a head start.
Samsung Galaxy S II and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: Hands On
Link: PCMag.com
Samsung has announced a new 10.1-inch Android tablet and 4.3-inch Galaxy S-series Android phone. PCMag‘s …
There’s nothing strange about creating a focus group to learn about your product even if you chose people outside the target demographic. Letting them sample the product fits within the paradigms of normal research. Recording their reactions still isn’t out of the ordinary.
However, the minds behind EA Games, communications agency …
Brands that want a little piece of that sweet Twitter action are going to have to pay a little extra in the future, if rumors about Twitter increasing the cost of “promoted trend” ads by tens of thousands of dollars are true.
According to the All Things Digital blog, Twitter has started telling buyers that the price of a one-day stint …
Next week brings the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona and Samsung is apparently looking to kick things off on Sunday night by unveiling the successor to the Galaxy Tab, according to Pocket-lint. This information is all from unnamed sources, though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Unlike the 7-inch Galaxy Tab that’s …
Osborn #3 arrived this week with no particular fanfare: the middle episode of a five-issue miniseries that spins out of Amazing Spider-Man, it’s the kind of secondary superhero comic book that doesn’t tend to get a lot of attention. Still, it’s one of the most entertaining comics of the week, a tightly condensed, intensely creepy little …