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Develop An App For NETGEAR'S Million Dollar App Contest & Win Up To $1,000,000!

develop networking app for Netgear, win one million dollars! by Arnold Carreiro
If you’re a master of creating networking apps, you’ve got a great chance to score up to one million dollars in Las Vegas for your innovative development skills.

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$16,000 Up For Grabs Via The 2013 Mobile Dev Challenge For Best Mobile App!

Develop mobile app, win cash prizes! by Arnold Carreiro
Are you a stellar mobile app innovator who needs a good excuse to show off your work? Any sort of mobile app can be thrown into the running, as long as it’s excellent!

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Ekoore Python S3 Convertible Tablet Juggles Windows 8, Android, Ubuntu Linux

by Rey M.L.

The unique Python S3 hybrid tablet computer from Ekoore appears to be the only example of its kind that can be factory shipped with three switchable operating systems.


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MIT Shows Off Robot Cheetah

by Katie Gatto
A look at a new cheetah robot that came from the Biomimetic Robotics Lab at MIT. The researchers, who showed off the robot at the  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation this year have managed to create the second fastest robot in the world. The bot tops speeds of about 14 MHP by using electric motors, instead of hydraulics.

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BrickPi: Making Robots Out of Raspberry Pi

by Katie Gatto
The Raspberry Pi project is getting a new twist. The newest add on, dubbed BrickPi, is a sensation of Kickstarter. The project, which has raised more than $20,000 offeres users the chance to use the setup to make and control robots. The only other thing neeeded is a Lego Mindstorm set. The project is set to ship to donators in August of this month. There is still time to get your's if you want one.

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Gecko Robot Can Climb

by Katie Gatto
New work from researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology had prouced a light weight robot that is modeled after the high climbing gecko robot. The mostly plastic robot is set up with a low melting goo on its feet that allows the robot to climb vertical surfaces.

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Roll 20 is Bringing the Spirit of D&D to the Silicon Screen

by Nicholas.Greene

Although this isn't necessarily my regular fare (if indeed I can be said to have anything of the sort), I'd argue that it's close enough to video games that it qualifies for this blog. After all, a great many video games could very well be said to owe their roots to table-top roleplaying; D&D is considered the grandfather of all RPGs by many. But we're getting a touch off track, dear readers. Today, I'd like to discuss an innovative new tool known as Roll 20. 


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Let The Soundwagon Drive Your Music

Soundwagon Portable Record Player by Laurie Kay Olson
Back in the day our tunes only came on vinyl and there are those afficionados who say that vinyl is the only true and pure way to listen to music. If you can still find vinyl albums this is great. What can be even harder to find is something to play them on. Well, how about something to play on them? The Soundwagon will drive your music right to your ears.

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Lytro-style Camera Technology On Smartphones Soon

Array camera on smartphone by Arturo Rubio
Pelican Imaging, inventor of array camera technology for mobile devices,  recently announced a $20M investment by cellphone manufacturer Nokia. A representative of Nokia Growth Partners noted, "Pelican Imaging's computational camera solutions are at the cutting edge of mobile camera technologies. We believe they're positioned to lead the next wave in video and image capture; they're a great addition to our portfolio of innovators in the imaging space." If this is any indication, we may see Lytro-style camera technology on smartphones in the very near future.

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Is The OUYA Worth Buying?

by Nicholas.Greene
The OUYA looked incredibly promising when it first debuted on Kickstarter. Since then, a series of unfortunate revelations have made it look less and less impressive. At this point, one can't help but question if it's even worth the purchase.

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