Daily Crunch: Fiend Edition

Hot Cool Box: Thanko?s USB Mini Fridge Doubles As Heater Starbucks Merges Their Two iOS Apps, Lets You Gift Your Friends Coffee From Your Phone IBM Takes Another Step Towards Reliable Phase-Change Memory Samsung?s Galaxy Tab 8.9 Hits The FCC How Making Can Help Our Economy, Improve Education, And Make Us Happy

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/07/01/daily-crunch-fiend-edition/

Nicholas Graul Malin Hock Helmut Hölzer Maurice Giese

Learn the alphabet, numbers, shapes, and colors with SmartyMinds Little Ones Suite for iPhone [Kids Corner]

SmartyMinds Little Ones Suite is a children’s educational iPhone app that teaches the alphabet, numbers, colors, and shapes. Each card is complete with images, pronunciation, and an intuitive interface. SmartyMinds Little Ones Suite is a collection of learning modules – Alphabet, Numbers, Colors, Shapes. Alphabet module is included in... More →

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Elsa Alexander Furtmann Siegrid Holstein Michael Vollmar Robin Jones

Desk-It, a Paper Calendar That Sticks to Your Computer

The Desk-It Weekly Calendar looks rather pointless, whether you prefer paper diaries over electronic or not. Scrawling your dates and appointments onto sheafs of dead trees is fine: The Lady prefers it that way because it is light, easy to read and more portable even than her never-used iPad. But the Desk-It is always tied to [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/desk-it-a-paper-calendar-that-sticks-to-your-computer/

Lutz Yalcin Birte Höß Kerstin Klos Dieter Schreiter

CrunchGear Week In Review: Independent Edition

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Weekend Giveaway: Toshiba 47-inch TL515 Series 3D LED TV Starbucks Merges Their Two iOS Apps, Lets You Gift Your Friends Coffee From Your Phone Warn Friends And Foes With These Nine Aperture Science Test Chamber Labels SocialBicycles Bike Sharing Is Now A Kickstarter Project Ricoh [...]

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/07/04/week-in-review-independent/

Hans-Joachim Kammann Antonio Fellberg Emma Knebel Jason Randow

Survival Lab is a fun pixelated game where dying doesn't matter

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In most games, dying is a bad thing. You have to start all over again, or at least revert to the last save point and lose some progress. Not so in Survival Lab: in this pixelated gem you play as a lone individual pitted against ruthless weapons in a sealed chamber. You have to run, jump and duck, collecting little yellow things (I have no idea what they're called).

For each donut-like yellow thing you pick up, you gain a bit of experience. If you manage to collect several in a row without getting hit, this counts as a combo. You can see my mad combo skills in the screenshot, of course. Collecting combos is a good thing, because a ten-point combo gives you for more experience than just collecting ten dounts one by one (getting hit in-between).

Having experience is useful, because once you die, you get to a screen where you can upgrade your skills. You can learn to run faster, double-jump (and then double-jump higher), and duck. You can also gain more armour so that getting hit won't kill you so quickly.

What makes this simple game so addictive is that when you die, your experience doesn't reset. You just go back to the same level, or another level of your choosing, and keep accumulating more and more experience. Lots of fun, especially if you're into the whole retro-gaming thing.

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Maike Beetz Fiona Henschel Joshua Heinlein Markus Wigger

Hey Audiophile! Five Baller Vintage Amps That Are Dirt Cheap [Audio]

A five-year-old surround-sound receiver has all the appeal of a five-year-old banana. But a five-year-old (or even 25-year-old) stereo amplifier might sound and perform every bit as good as one built last month. Much stereo equipment is timeless, which is why so many audio enthusiasts are getting back into vintage gear. And a lot of old stereo gear is also extremely affordable. More »


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Angelika Frey Mika Bernhardt Ingeburg Liebermann Elsa Alexander Furtmann

BattlePaint is an addictive geometric shooter game

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In BattlePaint, you play a cube. In fact, you're not even a cube -- just a square. But boy, are you fast! And you can shoot in all directions. That's important, because there are baddies coming in from all over the place.

The "baddies" are swarms of other squares, in all sorts of pretty colors. They track you all over the screen, and you run around very quickly and just shoot, shoot, and shoot some more. If that doesn't sound very emotionally deep, it's because it isn't. But it's fun!

After you shoot a baddy, it splashes paint as it disappears. You need to skate across this blob of paint and "eat it up" to get points. This game is fast. It clocked in at around 60-70 FPS on my system, and was loads of fun to play. It does tend to insult you when you die, though, but don't be offended -- I don't think it's personal.

BattlePaint is an addictive geometric shooter game originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Franziska Spanier Erna Van den Hout Laura Pauli Janna Löhnig

Rumored Fujifilm X50, A Half-Price X100

Fujifilm is planning on making a cut-down version of its hot retro-style X100 to go up against cameras like the Panasonic LX5 and the Canon G12. Rumors spilling out from a couple of different sources say that the new camera, to be called the X10, will be almost exactly the same as the X100, only [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/08/rumored-fujifilm-x50-a-half-price-x100/

Edith Hupertz Heinrich Peller Viktoria Barz Emma Sauter

New software uses facial recognition to defend against prying eyes

Having the right programs and hardware to keep the information on your display safe from prying eyes is never a bad idea, and new software from Oculis Labs offers a very interesting take on how to do just that. It's called PrivateEye, and it utilizes facial recognition to automatically pixelate the contents of your display when you look away.

If you step away from your system and someone else decides to sit down and poke around, PrivateEye will present a confusing jumble of garbled text. It'll even notify you if someone tries to peek over your shoulder -- and display a picture of your peeping Tom, throw up an alert, or sound an alarm.

Check out the video embed after the break, and share your thoughts in the comments!

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New software uses facial recognition to defend against prying eyes originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Frieda Falkner Hans-Joachim Kammann Antonio Fellberg Emma Knebel