Monthly Archive: January 2012

The Kinect hack mangoes to move Ice Cream Sandwich out of its 4.65-inch confines and onto the big wall. The inventive and involved mod, borne from hacker Recursive Penguins desire to demo in development apps at business meetings, allows for gestures made on projected interface to be deciphered by MS famous add-on, results in real-time responses. While the particular pico-friendly looks simple, its actually big daunting: ASOP ROMs, TUIO protocol and multi-touch software. Dont forget to look at the videos.

Sony continues the addition of Walkman series. The E-Series includes a 1.4-inch color LCD display, and 30 hours of music playback per package. It is 9.1mm thinner and 37g lighter than its predecessor. The NW-E060 model (9,000 yen, $116), the NW-E060K (11,000yen, $142) got a plug-in speaker. Both of them offers noise cancellation features and promise to cut surrounding noise by around 98 percent, with train, flight, and indoor models able to absorb most audio irritations.

The XDA developers user verygreen came across the pleas of an user obsessed with attaching an external USB keyboard to an eReader, he did what good hacker would create and workable solution. Using a loaned Nook Simple Touch, this self-styled Make-A-Hack was able to patch Barnes & Nobles existing kernel, which already supports the USB host mode, and send commands over ADB to enable connection. It is not a fool proof workaround, as only low-power devices will function without additional juice even so, at a cost to greyscale devices battery life. This may not excite you much, but its certainly made for one very satisfied forum dweller out there in net. Dont forget to look at the video. Hit on the source link to download.

An image appeared at Xperia Blog that purports to be of the ST25i Kumquat, if you have been paying attention is the cheapest of the three phones due in April listed on the leaked road-map from a few days ago. The design language matches the Nozomi and the Xperia S we seen at CES, but on-screen icons are really bigger, pointing us in the direction of this having cheaper display. Dont let that Sony Ericsson logo fool you either, the company is aiming versions both branding, at least for this set of releases.

AT&T variant of Samsungs Galaxy Note passes through the FCC. It is not advertised as such, but test documents reveal that a model SGH-i717 device packs UTMS/HSPA+ (21Mbps) and GSM/EDGE world radios, and Ma Bell friendly bands 4 and 17 LTE has passed the FCCs emissions tests with flying colors. Its now got the governmental stamp of approval, all left is to find out when we can make the S pen action on AT&T newly minted high speed network.

The Nike+ Sports band, changes today with the introduction of the far sleeker Nike+ FuelBand. Its much in the vein of the original, boasts a more attractive 20 LED dot-matrix display and can measure activity in a new unit the company calls NikeFuel. The latter is a bit normalized score that unlike calories awards the same point for equal activities regardless of physical makeup. It got a good design and the row of colorful LEDs that progressively fill as one gets closer to reaching their intended goal. It is priced at $149 pre-orders go live online store by today itself. Dont forget to see the video of it, for more details read the press release.