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The BBC’s popular iPlayer app for Android provides streaming for tons of BBC shows. Now the latest update adds a load of new features including the ability to download shows to watch offline and support for Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. Get ready to consume all the Doctor Who you can on your Nexus 7 or other…
The Monocle is the latest from accessory maker Native Union. The company’s made its business catering to the hipster crowd with its line of pseudo vintage peripherals, most famously the “Pop Phone” old timey telephone handset. But the Monocle serves more than just a kitschy purpose, it’s actually kind of neat. Up to 10 Monocles…
For gamers of a certain age, Konami’s Contra is burned into our brains. Whether we played it on the NES or in our local pizza parlor’s game room, the marriage of run and gun action with unforgiving difficulty proved to be the perfect combination to keep the sauce-covered quarters flying into arcade boxes and NES…
The Oculus Rift Virtual Reality headset has been wowing everyone who’s had a chance to try it. Creator Palmer Lucky and co are being courted by several companies with interest in buying the start up. But Oculus might not be the only VR game in town. A recent rumor suggests that Sony has a VR…
Neil Young may be an old man, but take a look at his life and you’ll see he’s a devoted audiophile. He’s supported several high-end audio formats over the years, including DVD Audio and Blu Ray Audio. His latest venture is the Pono music player, a dedicated audio player for an extremely high quality audio…
The carriers are all chiming in after Samsung’s announcement of its hot new devices today, and Sprint is no different. Today David Owens, Sprint’s Vice President of Product Development released a statement announcing that the newly unveiled Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will be coming to the carrier. The statement points out that Sprint will be…
Samsung unveiled its Galaxy Gear smartwatch and Note 3 phablet earlier today at the company’s “Unpacked” event. Now the carriers are scrambling to send out statements letting us know the hot new devices will be available. While no date was given in AT&T‘s short statement, Samsung announced at its event that both the Galaxy Gear and…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s reports that the Xbox One had gone into “full production” Microsoft has finally announced the “worldwide” release date for its console. The Xbox One will be released on November 22nd in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and New Zealand. That…
At last weekend’s GameStop Expo Sony Computer Entertainment America, exec Sean Coleman fired off another barb against Microsoft’s Xbox One. Coleman claimed, once again, that Sony’s PS4 has more graphical power than Microsoft’s Xbox One. Touting Sony’s new console onstage at the event Coleman gloated, “Not only do games play better, but if you compare…
Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb announced September’s line up of Xbox Live releases and deals today on his blog. It looks like it will be a good week for first person shooter fans since all the Call of Duty games are discounted through September 9th! The Xbox Live downloads of Call of Duty 2, Call of…