Scandy: still another meaning of Smartphone

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We are big fans of Kickstarter around here, but for every good project that gets his much deserved financing, there are countless lesser ideas caught in financial uncertainty. What is at stake today: Scandy telescopic clip, which promises to turn your smartphone into a scanner.

The idea is that since Scandy your smartphone a pretty decent camera, mounted on his back, she will do a half-decent scanner, if you managed to hold just right. Instead of leaving the onus on the user, Scandy clips at the nearest table and allows you to adjust the height to get the entire document in a view.

In short, this is absolutely ridiculous. Time required to whip out Scandy, bolt it on the table and the height will be completely Eclipse time would snap a few photos and choose the best of them. Maybe there's some untapped market there really wants to lug around $ 40 set of plastic pipes in order to photograph the paperwork, but only 13 supporters at the time of writing, call it a niche market will be an understatement.

John said that it may be useful for researchers who don't want to spend 10 cents a copy on the old national library, but seriously? Plus it will not ruin finish reading table?

Alas, I could be completely wrong (Note: I'm not), and this could be the next must-have accessory for practise in your life. Scandy is compatible with all smartphones mostly because you should just relax your phone on top of it and get snapping. If the base model for $ 40 not strike your fancy, a limited edition model (plus capacitive stylus!) can be yours if you deposit $ 100, and a donation of $ 500 nabs Edition signature laser engraving.

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Surprise! SanDisk still makes MP3 players

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Amazing someone still makes MP3 players for the mass market. I am pleased to introduce $ Sandisk Sansa clip Zip, tiny, portable media player which comes in 4 GB and 8 GB varieties (4 GB model is $ 50).

Zip clip comes in 7 colors, including red, blue and orange and is compatible with virtually any audio format. It also has a microSD slot, so you can extend the player up to 32 GB. It also has a little tiny LCD screen and simple interface.

Back in the old days, SanDisk was quite well known for his fully featured MP3 players, but those days are long gone. However, if you are looking for a simple player for kid or grandfather this may be the way to go: it's idiot proof, reliable and not as expensive as Zune or iPod.

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Nintendo shareholders still Clamoring for Mario on iPhone

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Nintendo investors grumble of Nintendo's flagship game trends to release only for their own platforms for years. Mario and Zelda in General, spent their entire lives in a sort of Nintendo hardware, ban a few odd versions, released years ago. Why? Because Nintendo have long tried to control all of them part of the game developer, Ecosphere, from licensing the sale of equipment. Unfortunately dark investors don't see Nintendo method in madness, especially given the 3DS slow sales, as well as raising the Smartphone market and now asking giant move to Smartphones.

This is a terrible idea.

Bloomberg has a short piece on the disturbances and quoted one investor who says:

«Smartphones new battlefield for the gaming industry, "said Ohki, Manager of the Fund on the basis of a Tokyo investment management to statistics" Nintendo should try to buy their way in this platform or develop something completely new. "

To make clear Nintendo can allegedly "buy" their way into this market by releasing their own games for the smartphone platform. But why? Mario makes a lot of money in two ways-selling cheap equipment to the masses and by selling expensive software on the same mass. Mario Kart on the iPhone would be a hoot but Mario Kart Wii costs $ 30 and Mario Kart DS costs $ 18. The closest analogue of MK on the App Store is a copy of the $ 4.99 Sega all star Racing, good game of course but hardly caliber Nintendo release ... and the price.

There are two or three companies out there that can, for the most part, write their own ticket on the market of electronics. Sony used to be one of them, but with the slow seepage of the Playstation brand phones, it is clear that they're listening to their shareholders and not after their competence. Nintendo and Apple are the latest "walled garden"-type manufacturers in existence and it will be a long time before they contaminate their brand, deigning to postpone their flagship titles for smartphones.

Can they release a Smartphone? Of course they can, but why? 3DS has Wi-Fi, so they can explicitly add Skype chat or similar devices and their possible cellular radio for some. However, they do not chat company and their audience – children of school age, for the most part – probably cannot be chatting in school security and emerging issues related to the letting of children in the video are enormous. So play Smartphone is out.

So that shareholders really say? To use a sports analogy, they told Nintendo to trade their best player of the season down. Nintendo's real treasure does not per se even software or hardware. This goodwill, brand recognition and nostalgia associated with their best game. Nintendo console has more exclusives than any other manufacturer devices and they will keep it that way for as long as they can, investors (hopefully) be damned.

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Counter-strike: global assault, coming in 2012 franchises to revive an aging but still Awesome

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And for today's news from the left pane, the valve is working on new game counter-strike. So Reverend shooter may soon get updated information. Details does not flow at the moment, but it seems and feels as though this incarnation is going to be in a niche game, to the competitive gaming community. Nevertheless, this new game counter-strike! Get excited!

Counter-strike was released as the half-life mod 12 long years ago. She has since gone on to be their own game and the most popular title on Valve's steam game distribution service. This is and always has been, in short, popular. A whole generation of gamers increased by CS before blew Internet games, counter-strike was LAN party game. (and Starcraft) I had to retake course MSCE because my time was spent tearing up Dust2, instead of studying. It was the FPS, which is defined on the basis of the team of shooters. It was Modern Warfare to modern warfare. The game never really disappeared. He took the valve, making the Team Fortress 2 free games for the game to lose its first place. But it's time to upgrade.

Pro gamers are the ones who spun up mill rumours after tweeting that they actually played the game in valve's headquarters. The game was reported to be released in Q1 2012 and, as mentioned earlier, this is not clear if the CS: global offensive is an updated version of CS: source, or if it is a completely new game. As has been said to be built around the new source engine means that graphics should be from 2012 (or at least 2011). You want to include in the new release is said to have dedicated servers, classic cards and conventional weapons. There will also be new types of weapons, gernades and regimes. Matches apparently 5v5 for eSport scene.

Valve is to issue a statement concerning the upcoming titles something today.

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