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Steven Norris is a born writer, living in Claremont, Cape Town and educated in the ways of graphic design but destined to follow in the footsteps of the worlds greatest authors. He has had many years of experience as an SEO copywriter, learning the ropes the hard way before utterly mastering them. He loves training others to write, how to create stories from nothing and how to deliver them to a wider audience. His passion is gadgets, video games and 'klapping it' at gym.
At Google I/O 2013, the search company showed off its wearable PC/hipster accessory Google Glass and it’s potential for hacking. In a video called "Google I/O 2013 - Voiding Your Warranty: Hacking Glass”, two Google employees guide developers through the steps it takes to hack into Glass and bend it to your evil ways, if you’re a mad scientist or disgruntled Microsoft employee. We suppose Google Glass can be hacked for good as well, as demonstrated by this impressive facial ...
Gran Turismo 6, the Playstation’s most revered driving game is officially coming for Playstation 3 "Holiday 2013" says series creator Kazunori Yamauchi. There are a bunch of new changes to GT 6: the user interface has been revised, the new game engine will "improve operation and increase the flexibility to expand it with downloadable content,” and as it is with most new games, GT6 will now offer social media sharing options.
Update: the official trailer is live. Watch below.
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For US$139, Western Digital has given me 2TB of USB 3.0 goodness. The WD My Passport 2TB Portable External Hard Drive is good and chunky, it’s super-quick and it’s a Western Digital drive, so there’s a hardware heritage that practically ensures a longer-lasting drive. There’s almost nothing to complain about, outside of the lame first-party software companies still insist on bundling with its products. Here though, is why I recommend the 2TB My Passport drive.
Random access
USB 3.0 will go ...
Nokia’s Lumia 925 is official. While Nokia plans to launch the Lumia 928 today, it’s one-upped itself with the surprise release of the 925, a 4.5-inch Windows Phone with an all-new aluminum body and an 8.7-megapixel PureView camera. The Lumia 925 isn’t going to set the world on fire and for €469 (US$616), it also costs too much.
Priced to move
Here’s the full tech specs for the Lumia 925:
Networks: GSM 850, 900, 1800, 1900, WCDMA, 2100, 1900, 850, 900, LTE 2100, 1800, ...
Google Glass is exciting. It’s the first real step towards hands-free computing and one day, Star Trek-style interaction. Recently though, one user's gone and squeezed facial recognition into Google Glass, with fairly accurate results.
His project is called MedRef for Google Glass and it adds extra cards (same as Google Now) to the Glass timeline. Or as Lance Nanek, the developer of MedRef, calls it “cool medical stuff and facial recognition.”
Users would need to first install the Glassware. The MedRef cards pop ...
Here’s a list of tech innovations coming out this year. Only one is real:
A bluetooth fork that buzzes if you eat too quickly
An eye-controlled TV
A massager that plugs into your iPhone for social “happiness”
A Blackberry-like keyboard that slides over your iPhone
A scent add-on for the iPhone
So which one is the odd one out? Try none of them. Every gadget is real, and coming very soon. But today we’re talking about the Scentee, a plug-in for the iPhone 4S that wirelessly ...
Good news for hearing-impared film fans: Regal Cinemas will ready closed-caption glasses to well over 6 000 cinemas by month end, says NPR.org. Think of the glasses as 3D lenses for the ears -- captions are displayed on the glasses and will look as if they are floating ten feet away from the user. The video below neatly demonstrates the power of the Sony-powered caption glasses.
The lightweight (but very large) glasses produce “private” closed caption text for both 3D and ...
Half Life 2, undoubtedly the finest first person shooter of all time, is the latest game to receive support from the Oculus Rift VR headset. The Oculus Rift developer forums posted this update Thursday evening.
We just shipped a beta for Half-Life 2 that includes Oculus Rift support. To get it, open the properties for HL2 in Steam, set your command line to "-vr", and opt-in to the SteamPipe beta. This should ship to everybody in a few weeks.
This port is ...
Nokia’s Asha range, an affordable line of feature phones pretending to be smartphones, has cranked out the 501, a US$99 full touch device. Nokia calls it “next generation”, we call it overenthusiastic marketing. What the Asha 501 represents though, thanks to its sleek design and candy-coated colours - bright red, bright green, cyan, yellow, white and black.
It’s a first for Nokia too, as the Asha 501 is a micro-SIM phone with “Easy Swap SIM technology” (change SIM cards without ...
Nokia’s Lumia 928, the latest smartphone to support PureView technology, was outed earlier this week with a single ad. Now, Nokia’s released a demo video that shows off the imaging chops of the Lumia 928. The Lumia 928 pairs off against Apple's iPhone 5 and Samsung’s Galaxy S III in a video demo that seems a little biased towards Nokia’s Carl Zeiss lense-equipped smartphone.
After the Lumia rides “The Hurricane" (an insane-looking roller coaster) and after a minute, the view ...
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