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Last week Twitter opened up the Twitter fire hose to two apps, TweetDeck and Echofon. As soon as I heard about it, I signed up to give TweetDeck's user stream preview implementation a run for its money.
Read MoreIn an interesting twist on the concept of tactile gaming, TN Games has come out with a "Physical 3D" vest; the 3RD Space FPS Gaming Vest. The idea is that you'd feel events in the game, rather than relying solely on your eyes and ears. The vest uses 8 air-powered "active zones" to generate impact force when it's fed data from your game. "Sense the direction and force of bullet fire, crushing explosions, and fear-inducing finger taps, perfectly synced with the on-screen action," the product page claims.
Read MoreApple has new products up today, and Cali has the scoop on them in her post. While we discussed the Magic Trackpad, I mentioned that I had a somewhat negative take on it. (Her response: “Oh… what’s wrong with you?” Thanks Cali!) I’ve always been a big trackball fan. Maybe that’s what’s wrong with me. I’m not crazy about mice; I’d take a mouse over a trackpad any day.
Read MoreThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was granted three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)’s anti-circumvention provisions today. For the gadget-hungry among us, the most critical of these includes the ruling that jailbreaking (or rooting) your mobile phone to run apps from any source is now no longer a grey area; it’s firmly on the legal side of the fence. Take note though that distribution of the means to jailbreak phones is not covered by the ruling, and Apple fans can rest assured that Apple has plenty of ways to discourage jail-breakers. They (and other phone manufacturers) are not required to stop implementing protection against jailbreaking, they just can’t sue you if you bypass those restrictions.
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