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Samsung Petrochemical, the materials wing of Samsung, has formed a partnership with SGL Group to invest in developing composite materials. Samsung’s plasticky phones may be a thing of the past! Carbon based products firm, SGL Group, has formed a 50/50 joint venture with Samsung to develop electronics that use carbon composite. Carbon fiber is commonly…
Anyone with both a smartphone and a car knows the perils the car charger. Whether it ends up wrapped around the shifter, the parking break, or your passenger’s leg, the long, thin cable snaking from beneath your radio is always getting in the way, and tangling itself in knots. Now TYLT has come up with…
Sony’s Playstation Network will be offline for maintenance tomorrow, beginning 9:30 am PST and ending 4:00 pm PST. Sony made the announcement in a post on the Playstation Blog today. While there’s no mention of it, it seems likely that this maintenance might have something to do with the problems some PS3 users have had…
Microsoft announced its Games with Gold program during its recent E3 event. Amidst all the hype and next-gen visuals, it was sort of lost in the shuffle. But starting this month with a free download of Fable 3, Games with Gold has quietly started delivering free copies of classic titles to Xbox Live Gold subscribers.…
NPR’s Science Friday welcomed Mike Cassidey, the head of Google’s “Project Loon”, on today’s episode. Project Loon is Google’s experimental effort to provide 3G internet service to the most remote regions of the earth using helium balloons. Cassidy and his team are working on the prototype of the system in New Zealand. Interesting stuff! Click…
Nokia capitalizes on the zombie craze in its latest ad for the Lumia 925, targeting the iPhone 5 and its camera. You can watch the clever ad below. It seems like the diss ads are piling up lately, making the mobile phone market look like the United States during election season. Microsoft has had some…
Several PS3 users have experienced major problems with Sony’s recent PS3 firmware update (version 4.45), with some folks’ systems effectively bricked. Now Sony’s announced a new update, due June 27th that should clear up the problem. The announcement was made on the Playstation forums today: Hi all, Here is the latest on this issue: We…
Attendees of London’s Fringe Festival were in for a major treat. They got to play Katamari Damacy using a life-sized rolling controller! The whole thing was documented by creator Chris McInnis on the blog Uber Cool Stuff (very fitting name!). It’s a great piece of DIY nerdistry and it looks like a blast! Be sure to…
In honor of Sonic’s 23rd birthday, Sega has dropped the price of all its Android Sonic titles to a buck! It’s a great time to load your device up with tons of spiky, blue content. These prices are for Sonic’s bday only, and should go back to normal tomorrow. So you better act fast. Check…
The Wall Street Journal reported today that WhatsApp‘s monthly users have surpassed 250 Million. The free messaging platform only uses data to send and receive messages without SMS charges. It’s worldwide popularity has skyrocketed since its release back in 2009. Now, hard numbers prove that WhatsApp is not only here to stay, but is muscling…