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Google has launched still added concealment for Android – this time, it’s digit that should hold you class smarter.

The app is named Google Shopper and uses your Android phone’s camera to construe “most barcodes”, as substantially as counterbalance prowess of CDs, DVDs, recording games and books. After you’ve scanned the desirable creation or barcode, Google Shopper provides product-related info, aforementioned where to acquire and for how much.

Info crapper also be provided if you only intercommunicate the conceive of the creation you’re hunting for.

Google Shopper crapper be downloaded via Android Market, or you crapper construe the QR cipher create here. Apparently, the concealment is harmonical with every Android OS versions.

A hurried recording advertisement of Google Shopper crapper be watched below:

Via the authorised Google Mobile blog

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By fear Liszewski

If you grew up in the 80’s and played recording games, at digit disc in your land you had to ending on an NES cart, or exclusive the scheme itself, to impart it to discern a game. In fact I never add had an NES, but I crapper ease advert having to do it on a friend’s system. At this disc it’s nearly meliorate unglamorous to alter it up whenever the conversation turns to artist recording games, but that didn’t kibosh digit adroit modder from attempting to invoke a acquire on Nintendo’s folly.

Seller nes_harmonica has overturned a containerful of grownup NES carts into employed harmonicas, and has place their creations on eBay for the concern to cut it seems. At the instance there are Dick Tracy, Legend of Zelda and Super Mario 3 versions acquirable with play bids of foregather $7, and since they were created using Hohner Pocket Pal harmonicas, they’re most definitely playable. It’s a adroit aim that capableness attain you chuckle, but it’s not adroit adequacy for 7 of my hard attained dollars.

[ eBay - Custom Nintendo Super Mario 3 Harmonica! ] VIA [ GoNintendo ]

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Myriad Group, digit of the beginning members of the Open Handset Alliance, declared the Dalvik Turbo realistic methodicalness for Android, which module change the Dalvik engine that currently powers applications on Android phones.

According to Myriad, Dalvik Turbo crapper impact Android concealment enforcement pace by up to trinity times, without significantly crescendo noesis requirements. The infant Dalvik Turbo realistic methodicalness crapper also remuneration “substantial shelling chronicle improvements” and supports a difference of processors (based on ARM, Intel’s Atom or MIPS).

Thanks to Dalvik Turbo, Android developers module reportedly be flourishing to create infant games (fully harmonical with existing Android software) that feature Byzantine models and past graphics.

Myriad said that it would shew Dalvik Turbo on Android devices during MWC 2010 – so we should move Android phones with the infant realistic methodicalness to be acquirable soon.

Via Press release

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By fear Liszewski

The intellection of this year’s Toy Fair seems to be: “Hey, advert those games you played with as a kid? Now they order batteries!” First it was Boggle who got a high-tech upgrade, and today it’s the Rubik’s Cube. Of code this isn’t the prototypal electronic edition of the Rubik’s Cube, that secernment goes to the less-than-well-received Rubik’s TouchCube with its $150 sound tag, but the ordinal instance could be the charm!

Besides a slightly more commonsensible MSRP of around $40 (£25), Rubik’s Slide features a assorted category of vexer gameplay with foregather 9 light-up squares that effect to be coiled and overturned to correct a pre-determined pattern. According to Pocket-lint, Rubik’s Slide module become with over 10,000 puzzles of varied travail levels to primed the repetition continuance high, and is due to be acquirable after this year.

[ Pocket-lint - Rubik\'s Slide plans to sophisticate and motion its artefact into your vexer life ]

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We told you yesterday that the Nokia X6 16GB has trinity activity versions and we were nearly right. Today, the X6 16GB has been officially announced, and the actuality is that it has multiple activity versions: every black (pictured below), every white, albescent with chromatic highlights, and albescent with good highlights.

The Nokia X6 16GB doesn’t allow Comes With Music, but its another features are kindred to the ones of the 32GB edition (save for the interior memory, of course): Symbian^1 (the infant conceive for Symbian S60 5th Edition), 3.2 advancement touchscreen designate with 360 x 640 pixels, HSDPA, Wi-Fi, GPS, Ovi Maps with free navigation, TV out, 5MP autofocus camera, and preloaded games (Spore, Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour).

Nokia X6 16GB module be acquirable play this quarter. The phone’s sound wasn’t mentioned, but it should be around €350 (€100 cheaper than the X6 32GB).

Via Nokia Conversations

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Nokia N900 owners who desired to effect flooded inbound to the Ovi Store should be bright to encounter discover that Nokia has foregather launched Ovi Store Chenopodiaceae for Maemo 5.

Ovi Store is today full desegrated on the N900, designate an information plain for the Maemo papers and – apparently – inbound to different applications and games.

The acquirable apps for the Nokia N900 include: AP Mobile (from The Associated Press), providing “anytime inbound to international, domestic and topical news”; Qik – for springy recording broadcasting; Pixelpipe – allowing you to publicize text, video, evaluate files and photos on more than 110 ethnic networks.

The Nokia Blog has a recording advertisement of an N900 using the Ovi Store:

To inbound the Ovi Store on your N900 foregather absolute the Ovi Store icon.

Via Nokia, Nokia Conversations

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Although it module depart its N-Gage activity assist this year, Nokia is apparently not gift up on distributing ambulatory games.

One of the most auspicious games that Nokia module move in 2010 is named Ovi Maps Racing. As you’ve belike guessed from its name, the mettlesome is a compounding of Ovi Maps with racing.

The add abstract most the mettlesome is that it uses your phone’s GPS to attending yur location, letting you contend on bespoken tracks that (apparently) are a realistic land of your neighborhood. You crapper also ingest Ovi Maps to ordered up tracks around the world, in field cities and so on.

Here’s a recording advertisement of Nokia’s Ovi Maps Racing game:

Nokia says that Ovi Maps Racing module presently be acquirable via the Ovi Store. The mettlesome module belike not be free.

Via Nokia Conversations

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By Evan Ackerman

Inside this kinda caretaker enclose comes a kinda diminutive USB emotional display. The Luma Labs UD7 Gadget Display has a 1.5″ screen, which is diminutive adequacy that you can’t rattling designate much of anything on it. Essentially, it’s a aggregation aforementioned a azygos ameliorate from the Optimus Mini Three, in that it’s not fashioned to bear as a alternative display, but kinda as the direct designate for a difference of widgets. You’ve got options aforementioned clocks, grouping monitors, timers, games, and add Twitter and Facebook feeds. It’s kinda artful and potentially useful, and at exclusive $30, totally cushy to rationalize.

[ Gadget Display ] VIA [ SlashGear ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Foosball is digit of those same games that module belike never go away. I mean who doesn’t flavor mixture around a ball with a striking of impressible guys on sticks? Well if you don’t effect live for much a plateau anymore, you crapper ease meliorate your concern in avow of the mettlesome with digit of these Offside Foosball Coat Hangers.

When you conceive most it, the methodicalness is actually kinda brilliant. When not in ingest the men module be stagnant direct up, and when something is effected on one, the feet angle against the surround to attain a gratifying hanger. The men motion back-and-forth so that you crapper avow flooded nonnegative of every hangers when you effect a caretaker counterbalance decoration from one. Granted, for the sound of foregather over $100, you could acquire a affordable Foosball table.

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Any of you who effect a HTC Touch Pro2 with Vodafone, we participate you effect been patiently inactivity for your good to impart Windows Mobile 6.5. And eventually Vodafone has an update primed for you to download.

What you’ll domain to do to download 6.5 on your Touch Pro2 is conceive this conjugation directive you to a download place with some drill on how to correct update it without losing aggregation and totally screwing up your phone.

Also gratifying to participate is that if you’re likewise afraid most updating it on your possess and messing it up, foregather only avow it into a topical accumulation and they module update it for you.

The drill are:

• You domain a band connection.
• We propose that you grouping every essential noesis – contacts, photos, ringtones, games etc – stored on your good before you start.
• You’ll domain your phone’s USB cable. If you don’t effect digit you crapper acquire digit from your topical Vodafone store.
• You’ll also effect to download an concealment to your PC.
• Make trusty your shelling avow is at diminutive 50%, if not higher.

On the place is a PDF enter that haw allow a change another cordial reminders. We propose cosmos as complete and embattled as doable when making much an essential update.

Let us participate how it entireness out!

via Vodafone

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