Fujifilm shows off foldable, flexible speaker

Fujifilm shows off foldable, flexible speaker “Electroacoustic film” from the camera-maker could be used for future tablets and smartphones We may have been getting all hot and bothered aboutflexible screensrecently – but what about flexible speakers? Fujifilm’s research boffins have come up with just that: electroacoustic film. It’s a material that can be used to make ultra-thin speakers that can be rolled up or even folded (check out the fan and origami examples in the video below)....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 345 words · Sandra Edwards

Game Stick – the console in a thumb drive

Game Stick – the console in a thumb drive Ouya will be quaking in its case as this tiny Android console gets its 1-Up from Kickstarter If you ever lugged your console round to a mate’s house for multiplayer shenanigans, back in the days before online fragging, you’ll love the Game Stick console. It’s a full-fledged Android console packed into the dinky dimensions of a thumb drive – and it’s raised US$75,000 onKickstarter, with 29 days still to go on its funding drive....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 403 words · Daniel Soto

Get 25 Android games for 49p each in new Google Play app market

Get 25 Android games for 49p each in new Google Play app market All this iPad talk make you want to dress up as the Android robot and mow down Apple gadgets? Download these cheap apps instead Google’s chosen today to rebrand the Android Market asGoogle Play– and to celebrate, 25 big-name apps and games are just 49p. Take that, Apple. No, seriously – head over toGoogle Play(it’s the same app/ e-book and movie store under a different moniker) to snap up Android apps and games like popular puzzler World of Goo, Shadowgun, the brilliant, ambient eat ’em-up Osmos and Asphalt 6: Adrenaline....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 320 words · Susan Cisneros

Get a 16-core Parallella supercomputer for £60

Get a 16-core Parallella supercomputer for £60 This open source parallel processing system hopes to do for the future of hardware what the App Store did for software development Computer processing is about to hit a wall. We’ve seen dual and quad-core mobiles but they’re not enough to breach that procesing-power-to-juice-consumtion barrier. Adapteva, the folks behind the Parallella supercomputer project, says more cores while using an open source hardware platform is the key to a faster future....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 391 words · George Chambers

Gibbs Quadski carries you speedily on both land and water

Gibbs Quadski carries you speedily on both land and water Amphibious vehicle almost 20 years in the making to go on sale in mid-November The Gibbs Quadski is an all-terrain vehicle of whichJames Bondhimself would be proud: powered by a 1.3-litre BMW engine, it can travel at up to 45mph on either land or water, and its design means the transition from one to the other is near seamless: when the fibreglass hull enters the water, the wheels are raised in five seconds....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 347 words · Nancy Ross

Godus multiplayer video revealed ahead of KickStarter finish

Godus multiplayer video revealed ahead of KickStarter finish Populous creator Peter Molyneux shows off the multiplayer features in his return to the god game genre Populous creator Peter Molyneux promised to release the first proper gaming footage of his return to the god game genre, Godus – and with two days left to go on the game’sKickStarterfunding drive, the gaming figurehead has done just that. Godus may still be an early prototype but you can guage some idea of what the finished game will look like – assuming the £450,000 target is reached within the next two days....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 286 words · Angela Coleman

Google celebrates Winsor McCay anniversary with Little Nemo doodle

Google celebrates Winsor McCay anniversary with Little Nemo doodle The anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland comic strip creator Winsor McCay is celebrated with an interactive Google Doodle Google has chosen to celebrate the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay, the cartoonist and animator behind Little Nemo in Slumberland, with a rather cool interactive doodle. Titled “Little Nemo in Google-Land,” the charming comic strip allows you to watch one of Nemo’s nightly dreams unfold on the Google homepage in the style of the original Little Nemo outings....

September 13, 2021 · 2 min · 318 words · Ashley Bartlett
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