Gamers interested in giving BioWare’s Mass Effect 3 game a play before its official launch. Will be pleased to know that a new Mass Effect 3 demo complete with Microsoft Kinect support will be arriving on Xbox Live on February 14th. Just in time as a perfect gift for Valentine’s Day.

The new Kinect controls to be included in the Mass Effect 3 demo will give you a glimpse of what you can expect when the game is officially launched. Providing you with voice commands that enable you to control environmental interactions, together with commands for combat and choosing your conversation options within the game. Watch the Kinect commands in action within the promotional video after the jump for a taste of wha ... Read more »

Motorola recently announced a couple of new smartphones, one of those was the Motorola MOTOLUXE, which is now available to pre-order SIM free in the UK and it looks like it will be available around late February of early March in the UK.

The guys from Clove dropped us an email to let us know that they have a SIM free version of the Motorola MOTOLUXE available to pre-order, and the device will be available for £258 including taxes.

The Motorola MOTOLUXE will come with Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread and it features a 4 inch touchscreen display with a resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, processing is provided by a single cor ... Read more »

Owners of older first-generation iPod Touch devices or second-generation iPhones, who are missing the ability to run Apple’s latest iOS 5 operating system. Might be pleased to know that the newly updated software application called Whited00r 5.1 has been released that will allow you to install iOS 5 directly from iTunes onto these older devices.

Whited00r 5.1 provides an unofficial custom version of Apple’s iOS 5 operating system which has been designed to run on all iPod Touch devices and anything except the Apple’s first generation iPhone. Providing users with a variety of features only available in the new iOS 5 software.

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Sega has announced the release date for its official Olympic 2012 video game today, that will support both Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Kinect device and Sony’s PlayStation 3 motion controllers.

The new motion controls will be available to use in a number of sporting events within the game including 110m Hurdles, Beach Volleyball (Kinect only) and 25m Rapid Fire Pistol (Move only).

The new Olympic 2012 game developed by Sega includes over 30 Olympic events which have been authentically recreated in their official O ... Read more »

Today Google has rolled out a new fun feature to its Google+ social network that now allows users to add text to images. Enabling them to create their very own Memes directly within Google+.

Google has made it extremely easy to add text to a images. Simply drop an image in to the "Sharebox” on Google+, then click the "Add text” and your away. If you a Google+ user brace yourself for a tidal wave of images covered in text trying to be the next global meme.

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Huawei recently announced their latest Android smartphone, the Huawei Ascend P1, and now according to a recent report the company may be about to release an LTE enable version of the P1 along with a larger capacity battery.

The new comes from the guys over at Blog of Mobile who have managed to get their hands on a leaked image of the new LTE enabled P1, which you can see in the second photograph[h below, the first photo is of the Huawei P1 that was announced recently.

Apart from the addition of LTE and a larger capacity battery, the new Huawei P1 LTE is expected to feature the same specifications as the P1, which include ... Read more »

We have featured a number of new technologies here  started to incorporate transparent displays, Such as the Samsung Smart Window. Now designers Shaocheng Huang & Yuyin Huang have imagined what it would be like to have a transparent screen on your smartphone.

Then you concept smartphone called the Brick, is equipped with a large transparent screen which can be used for a number of different applications. Including being able to translate or magnify text. Together with allowing the user to be able to take photographs and view video.  Watch a brief video after the jump to see the concept applied to a few new applications.

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The first Indie funded game called Q.U.B.E developed by Toxic Games has announce that in just its first four days, its been able to sell over 12,000 copies and pay back the full investment amount back to Indie Fund.

Toxic GAmes first introduced Indie Fund to heir Q.U.B.E. game in late August of 2010 with an estimated budget of $42k. Indie Fund approved the game for funding about 2 months later. Last week the new Q.U.B.E game was launched on to Steam and has had an impressive start.

Toxic games is now looking to take their new Q.U.B.E ga ... Read more »

Samsung has launched a HD version of their Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone in other countries around the world, we are yet to see one launch here in the UK although that may be about to change.

One online retailer, MobiCity has a listing on their website for a Samsung Galaxy S II HD, it looks like the listing has now been removed, but you can see the second photo below which was taken from their website by the guys from MoDaCo.

The Samsung Galaxy S II HD was announced with LTE in South Korea back in October of 2011, and the device has become available in different countries and it is currently available in the US. ... Read more »

TRAKTOR has this week unveiled a new DJ station which it says shows a glimpse of the future products that you can expect from TRAKTOR. The new DJ station provides a unique solution tying together both digital and analog mixing. Watch a sneak peek of the new device which has been created by TRAKTOR after the jump to get a better understanding of how the new mixer combines both analogue and digital together.

The new DJ station uses multicoloured pants to trigger loops and samples allowing for on-the-fly mixing. TRAKTOR explains:

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Google is currently testing a new login feature for their Gmail users which now allows you to login to your Gmail account using a QR code rather than typing in your username and password.

The new logging feature is currently being tested by Google to make their Gmail service more secure for users who need to login to their mail account via public or potentially insecure Wi-Fi networks. The use of a QR code is hoped to help keep your login details safe from possible malicious hackers who could use it to access your account using key logging software that will record what you type while on public networks.

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Any Apple device owners in the UK now have the chance to recycle their old and unwanted Apple electronic equipment using Apple’s Reuse and Recycling Program which has now arrived in the UK.

The Reuse And Recycle scheme has already been running in the US and Canada and has been very successful in recycling old and unwanted Apple devices, and even allows the owner to receive money for any devices that can be reused.

To recycle unwanted devices simply visit the Apple website and answering ... Read more »