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CES 2013: Boogie Board SYNC

When we consider upgrading tablets, we generally like to look forward and future-proof ourselves as much as possible to ensure that we don’t have to buy another tablet in the near future. If you don’t, you usually end up with a out-of-date tablet in only a month or two. One of the features that really enjoyed with the Note 10.1 was the ability to write with excellent precision and the feeling that you are actually writing with pen and paper. Improv Electronics has created a way for you to take notes and precision handwriting, while keeping any device that you might already own.

A Better Way To Take Notes

     While I’ve always liked the idea of the Boogie Board, I rarely have found an occasion that I personally would really use one. The ability to take notes and have them permanently stay on screen is neat, but you quickly run out of room and have no backup or digital way to save them – until now. The new Boogie Board SYNC from Improv Electronics fills in that hole by providing a method of both backing up and syncing with nearly any device.

     The new Boogie Board saves all data and entries directly to an SD card, meaning that you can take notes on the go then connect them to any of your devices later on (both wired and wirelessly) and sync them all up. The booth had some early prototypes of the unit (as well as the desktop and mobile applications) all showing the syncing across all devices, almost real-time with each stroke. The new SYNC could allow many users to write, draw, and take notes all with a realistic pen and paper feel – without needing a new tablet or stylus optimized screen. Improv stated that the product will likely be available late 2013 to the public.

CES 2013: Extreme Reality – Turning Any Camera-Enabled Device Into A Kinect

“Turns any platform with a 2D camera into a 3D motion device” – a bold statement by Extreme Reality to bring the 3D motion world into a tablet and smartphone dominated market. Extreme Reality wants to close the gap between smartphones, consoles, and PCs by erasing the hardware restrictions of owning a product such as the Kinect by enabling any 2D front or rear facing camera of generating a 3D motion end-product.

Having the power of a Kinect, right inside your pocket

     Extreme Reality’s (XTR3D) new program enables any developer full access to an open SDK which provides the tools necessary to create and port many 3D motion controlled games over to various platforms. What all does this mean? Developers can take existing games that were previously exclusive to motion controlled systems like the Xbox Kinect, among others, and with little effort port them over to mobile devices and PCs featuring the simple limitation of a front or rear facing camera (which is available on most if not all devices nowadays).

     The real excitement makes its way onto the stage when seeing new games adopt the technology and bring new titles (and port previous ones) to phones, tablets, and PCs alike. Some of the games they were demoing included various racing, sports, and dance related games all controlled with the front facing camera of a Laptop and the software provided by the company.

     Hopefully we’ll see some aspiring developers porting and bringing plenty of games for us to test out in front of a TV. See how many devices support a form of video out, software like this could allow us to turn any of our phones or tablet into a console. Be sure to check out the video embedded above and read up on Extreme Reality’s site for more information.

Game Review – Hanger for Android

We’ve all wasted countless hours on flash games – whether it’s been on a PC during a work break, or when you’re supposed to be studying for an upcoming exam. They’ve all provided loads of fun and I’m always excited to see some make their way to Android with a revamped design and interface. Today we’re going to check our “Hanger” and it’s new Android variant brought to us by A Small Game: [Read more...]

Indie Apps of the Week – Simple Scale

Looking for a quick and easy way to keep track of your weight/progress to losing weight? Small time studio Kaikishoku Software has you covered; our second Indie App this week is a simple weight-tracking application which allows you to record current weight , set goals, and keep track of the weight over time to help track your progress towards maintaining the weight you desire. The application is named accordingly and provides exactly what you’re looking for. [Read more...]

Indie Apps of the Week – Price Compare

When given the opportunity to save money on a product, I always hunt for the best deal. Whether it is digitally with games, or physically with groceries, electronic devices, etc. Using an application which looks up online prices can be nice, but doesn’t offer the same benefit as one which uses your feedback and pricing for future reference. Developer Cryptopone has created yet another helpful application which allows you to track the prices of products at the price per-pound/per-unit level to ensure that you find the best deal across all of your local stores. [Read more...]

The Musubo Mummy Case Review for the Galaxy S III

MUSUBO, known for their iSeries cases, have started their expansion into the Android world with their first cases being created for the Galaxy Note and the Galaxy S III. While making your way into the manufacturing world can prove to be difficult, we want to know if they are able to keep up with some of the other companies in both quality and price. This isn’t their first time designing and shipping cases, so they should have a pretty solid lead to work with. [Read more...]

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 LTE On It’s Way to The UK

Today, everyone in the UK can go grab themselves a new Samsung Galaxy Note 2 for carriers offering the new Android device, but not North America. Good news is, everyone and their brother has announced that they will be carrying the phone starting October 15th. [Read more...]

5 Floating Apps Which Make Multitasking On Android Even More Impressive


There are times when I’m using an Android tablet that I wish I was able to use more desktop oriented features on the device – specifically when using a 10″ tablet. Many applications don’t take full advantage of larger screens and leave us feeling a little shafted when it comes to viewing a single pane of content on such a large screen; thankfully, a few developers have created a collection of extremely useful floating applications to cover all of your multitasking needs. [Read more...]

Jetpack Joyride Has Landed


The long awaited Halfbrick endless runner, Jetpack Joyride, has finally found its’ way onto the Google Play Store. Endless runners have spewed out constantly over the years and some say the genre has been pretty much beat to death. Halfbrick is known for producing quality and completely addictive games; their most famous being Fruit Ninja. Has Halfbrick actually brought something new to the table or is this the same endless runner we’ve seen over the years again and again with a different background.

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Indie Apps of the Week – Smartswitcher

While multitasking on Android has never been an issue, there are points in time when we would like to make it a little easier for ourselves. Developer ‘ssspeg’ has created a very small but useful application that will allow you to multitask without having to touch any buttons, let alone the device itself. Using hand gestures detected by the proximity sensor on your device, Smartswitcher allows you to multitask between applications, utilize media buttons, and much more. [Read more...]