Verizon Wireless Offering Free Motorola Droid Battery Covers
Have you been having problem with a loose battery cover on your Motorola Droid and lose the battery cover as a result? If you need a battery cover, Verizon Wireless is currently offering replacement battery covers with overnight shipping, and it’s free. Normally replacement covers go for about $5, and with “free” being the keyword here, it’s not surprise to see that Verizon has run out of inventory for the item. There isn’t any word as to when there will be another shipment, but you might want to keep an eye on Verizon’s site.
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ZOMM Wireless Leash For Your Handphone
Do you have a bad habit of leaving your phone behind, only to realize it hours later? Well, if that’s the case, you’ll want to thank the folks who came up with ZOMM, which is dubbed the “world’s first wireless leash” for mobile phones. It seems that the device should act as a wireless speakerphone for incoming calls, providing a panic button and one-touch emergency dialing. If you happen to leave your phone behind and walk away, it will automatically trigger an alarm, which should be good enough to remind you of your phone. While there isn’t any official pricing information just yet, word is that it should retail for about $79. Keep an eye for this device at CES, as it will be officially revealed there.
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Developers Involved In Apple Tablet In Cone Of Silence
With Apple’s legendary secrecy, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise for you to hear that those that are involved in the development of the Apple tablet are reportedly in a “cone of silence”, and no information will be coming from those directly involved. Many of the folks involved in the tablet team are supposedly the same who developed the Calendar, Mail and Safari iPhone apps, so they should be more than used to this. As a side note, word is that Mac OS X 10.7 is on track for a developer release at WWDC in June, which isn’t all that far away.
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Wireless HD Streaming For TVs Soon
If you’re into HD video and want to stream HD video content around your house, you’ll want to keep an eye on a technology called AXAR at CES 2010. Created by a British company called ProVision, the technology should be in a range of TVs, set-top boxes and network devices by Christmas 2010. Considering that ProVision has already worked with companies such as Thomson, Pace, ITV, Toshiba and Sky, perhaps AXAR will be used by them. The main difference is that instead of using a wireless network or the Internet to send and receive the signal, AXAR will be sending the signal from either Component or HDMI over the air to a dedicated receiver. Not only that, the current technology supports 2 separate HD streams at the same time, so we’re certainly looking forward to this. Remember to check back here often during CES 2010!
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TV Preview: Doctor Who Season 5
Farewell, Tenth Doctor! I’ve just finished watching the latest and last episode with David Tennant as the Doctor. Sniff. I won’t spoil anything yet for those who haven’t seen it, but it was a nice goodbye to Tennant. Not as great as an episode as I had hoped for (and nothing as spine-tingly exciting as previous finals), but still good (albeit a bit soppy).
I loved David Tennant as the Doctor, and since it was announced that he’d leave the show after the specials, I’ve been really curious to his successor. It was revealed a couple of months ago that the role went to Matt Smith; I wasn’t that impressed by the first photos we saw from him, but looking at the latest trailer and the little tidbit at the end of the final, I’m having more faith as him as the Doctor now.
What do you think? D you like how this new Doctor looks like?
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- Doctor Who: Next Season
- Theorizing about Doctor Who’s Finale
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BPhone Is Netbook And Mobile Phone
It’s certainly not your run-of-the-mill cell phone, but do you think the BPhone has a shot at all? This hybrid gadget will be combining the features of a mobile phone and a netbook. There isn’t any mention of the OS that will be powering the device, but if trends are anything to go by, maybe it will be powered by Google’s Android? Would you get such a device as your main mobile phone, or do you think that netbooks and phones should remain separate?
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33.4GB Per Layer On Your Blu-ray Discs Coming?
While 25GB on a disc a few years back seemed like a lot of data, we might be able to get 33.4GB per DVD layer in the near future. Panasonic and Sony have revealed that a technology, i-MLSE (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation) that can provide a third more space on a Blu-ray disc than existing technology. The benefit of this development is that this is dependent on software, so you won’t need any additional lasers or settings to record the extra capacity. Sony seems rather hopeful that i-MLSE will become popular and will most likely be proposing it to the Blu-ray Disc Association. Will we all be sporting higher capacity Blu-ray discs in the future? It certainly seems possible, doesn’t it?
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Microsoft Looking To Muscle Based Computer Controls
It certainly looks like games of the future will become more interactive, as that’s a subject that many companies are looking into. Now Microsoft has come up with a rather useful idea, which results in a patent for several methods of controlling a computer using Electromyography (EMG). This method will read the electrical activity of muscles and translate those signals into instruction sets, which would control the computer. It kind of gives you an idea of Project Natal or Nintendo’s Wii on steroids. Another practical example of real-world use would be the a driver can interact with the vehicle’s navigation system without taking his hands off the steering wheel.
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Google Nexus One Coming To AT&T?
This is certainly far from confirmed, so we’d suggest you place it firmly in the rumor bin. The folks over at Boy Genius have got wind that there might be an AT&T 3G-compatible version of Google’s highly-anticipated Nexus One phone. There doesn’t seem to be much evidence supporting this at the moment, but we certainly wouldn’t mind AT&T offering the phone either, right? It’s just a few more days till the 5th of Jan, so stay tuned!
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UberReview 2009: Year In Pictures
Happy New Year everyone! I would like to say thanks to all the great readers of this site. A special thanks goes out to anyone who has linked to the site, submitted material to other sites, forums, communities or just happened to stumble upon us. In the past year we have launched 2 sites, We Interrupt early in the year and Really Bad Gift just recently and both have been very successful. If you haven’t checked them out, don’t be shy, drop by and say hello!
To start off the year, I have complied pictures linking to our top 10 posts according to our website statistics.
#1 – Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm Clocks
#2 -Peekvid
#3 – 25 Signs That You Might Be An Apple Fanboy
#4 – Goldfish Memory Myth Debunked by 15-Year-Old
#5 – Memory Stick Comb, Why?
#6 – Cassette Tape Skeleton
#7 – Lambo Gets The Ink Treatment
#8 – Videos: Shipwrecked Submarine Home Theater
#9 – Top 13 Coolest Toys On The Planet
#10 – Wiener Dog Earphones
