KegDroid dispenses beer with the help of a Xoom tablet and an Arduino board
Here’s an instance of NFC technology that’s more exciting than yet another tap-to-pay scenario. Google employee Paul Carff combined a Motorola Xoom running ICS with an Arduino microcontroller to create KegDroid, a friendly green beer dispenser. The Xoom acts as a gatekeeper to that brewed goodness, only letting [Read More...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7-inch gets clockwork and root
Samsung’s newest tablet in the Galaxy Tab 2 has been getting some attention from developers the past couple of weeks. Over the weekend it received root access and now Clockworkmod recovery is also available. Hopefully next on the list is CyanogenMod 9, then we’ll be set. Details and links are [Read More...]
Verizon’s Droid Does Campaign Back With a More Cozy Vibe
You remember back in 2009 when we started seeing the Droid Does commercial campaign? Remember how it called out the iPhone in what it couldn’t do? Remember how we just stopped seeing the Droid Does commercials? Well the point to this line of questioning is that the Droid Does Campaign [Read More...]
Samsung Canada begins rollout of ICS today
Let’s not speak of the several months it took for Ice Cream Sandwich to finally begin showing up on Samsung devices. Rather, the fine mobile-loving folks in Canada should just take a brief moment to embrace the present and not-too-distant future, because Samsung is now officially rolling out its [Read More...]
Huawei MediaPad ICS update available for download
Huawei’s first quality Android tablet was their MediaPad, also known as the T-Mobile Springboard here stateside. While it was the first 7-inch tablet to come with Android 3.2 Honeycomb, it wasn’t the first to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich although they’ve beat most to the upgrade. Huawei has recently released [Read More...]
Google Engineer Designs KegDroid, an Adruino-Powered Kegerator Activated by NFC
Many times when people are bored they turn to activities that can be rather uneventful or sometimes even deviant. In the case of Google engineer Paul Carff, his bout of boredom lead to a project that is neither deviant or uneventful and the term bad-ass definitely comes to mind. Meet [Read More...]
Verizon Sony Ericsson Xperia Play update headed to gamers soon
Verizon has just outed the details on an impending update to the not so popular Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. The update will bring the gaming smartphone to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread (no ICS here) and will fix a few bugs and even add a screenshot feature. More details are available from [Read More...]
Verizon Announces New Prepaid Unlimited Talk and Text Plan that Comes with 1GB of Data for $80
There is a new 3G prepaid plan arriving tomorrow that Verizon will be offering. It looks to be pretty good as it will feature unlimited talk and text with the added benefit of 1GB of data thrown in. You can get this all for $80 per month and no contract. [Read More...]
Oven Break – Don’t get baked
Help the Ginger man break out of the witch’s magic oven in the adventure game, Oven Break for Android. Run for your life to avoid getting baked. Jump over holes, slide under traps and hook objects with your cane.
Features:
Super easy controls
Various Modes (easy to hard, infinite)
Collect a variety of Jellabeans [Read More...]
Angry Birds Space hits 50 million milestone, smashes it, crushes pigs in the process
It helps to be free on the fastest-growing mobile platform, but that shouldn’t draw all the attention away from Rovio’s latest announcement. It’s space-based reinvention of Angry Birds has now topped 50 million downloads in under 35 days, breaking its (and presumably everyone else’s) record for mobile game [Read More...]
