"Radioactivity-Meter" Turns Smartphones into Geiger Counters

Hmm.. here’s a way to turn your camera into a Geiger counter. Imagine that you can use your camera to detect radiation. The app uses the fact, that the camera chip of a smartphone is influenced by several kinds of noise, e.g., thermal noise etc. The radioactive radiation (primarily gamma radiation, and to a certain … Read more

Google and Bing on the Ropes: McHammer’s Search Engine is Coming

McHammer refuses to quit and in his latest attempt at the spotlight he’s announced that he has a search engine in the works. Seriously, this is CNN reporting this: The project, called WireDoo, has been two years in the making, said Hammer (real name Stanley Burrell) Wednesday at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. … Read more

Ice Cream Sandwich Announcement Shows Some Greatness And Some Typical Android Crashes

Man it’s like the same old record. The Ice Cream Sandwich announcement really has some incredible things going for it. The photography apps are particularly stunning with real time photo stitching and some awesome built-in editing all while shooting photos with zero lag. There was dictation in real time that was pretty damn accurate (not … Read more

Let’s See What Breaks: iPhone 4S vs Samsung Galaxy S II Drop Tests

Just in case you missed this video, SquareTrade (which provides warranties for devices) dropped the iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy S II from waist, shoulder and then face down to see how they fared. here’s the video, but a spoiler: the iPhone gets destroyed and the Galaxy gets scratched. Interesting that even face down the … Read more

Android Is Finally On Twitter

Wow I didn’t realize they didn’t have their own Twitter handle. Only two tweets so far though with the second one being: Something delicious is coming: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX4btquQzUE I’m following. Always have to know what that robot is up to so I can defend myself against it…

Grand Theft Auto III Coming to Android and iOS

There’s real date as to when this is going to be released, just a coming soon in the fall. Personally I’ve never played the GTA games and I don’t know why, I just never bought them I guess. I will have to grab it for my Android tablet I guess to give it a go … Read more

MetroPCS Teams With tokidoki for Special Edition Android Phone

This is one unusual looking phone for sure, and I’ve never heard of tokidoki, I guess you have to live in LA to know them as they are a apparel and accessory brand based there. The phone is actually the Huawei M835 Android phone. Today MetroPCS Communications, Inc. in partnership with SA Studios Global, introduced … Read more

Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’ is Now Available for Free as an eBook Comic

‘The Art of War’ by Sun Tzu has been transformed by SmarterComics into a comic-book style format for iPhone download. This is a book I can highly recommend that everyone read, it can help with all aspects of life. Not sure how it works in comic book format, but at least it might get people … Read more

GameFly Social Media App for Android Now Available

GameFly comes to Android, sort of…  The GameFly social network app is here so you can find new games and just be social with fellow gamers.  It’s available now on the Android market or via the GameFly website if you want to get involved.   GameFly today unleashed its popular social network for gamers via … Read more