Apple has now set its sights on the Israel-based 3d sensor company, Primesense. If you’ve never heard of Primesense, that’s okay. But I guarantee you have heard of their flagship motion sensing product, the Kinect. That’s right, the company behind the technology that Microsoft will be shipping out with all of it’s Xbox One consoles,…
It is entirely possible that the creators of True Blood have finally remembered what made the show so good the first three seasons. Plenty of Lafayette, plenty of Jason doing what Jason does best and actual filling in of back-story. This episode was easily the best episode of the entire season and best of all,…
With the Motorola X, Motorola and Google are focusing more on useful user features on the handset, instead of competing in the specs race. (yet) Another leaked video of the Motorola X Phone shows that the device will always be listening for your voice commands. The always-on voice command feature will allow users to use…
A new Android app has hit the Play Store – one that brings iOS 7’s new Control Center to your Android device. And it’s free. There are ways to replicate many aspects of the iOS 7 experience on an Android device (using Nova Launcher for example). But this app, called ‘Control Center’, brings you just…
Last week, I passed on my top tips for how to start out as an online gamer and survive the dreaded world of being a n00b – a treacherous world of death, crashes and failure. A world where it’s very easy to be driven to such foamy-mouthed anger that expensive keyboards and mice can…
Amar Gopal Bose, the founder of audio company Bose, is no more. The audio pioneer died on 12th July, he was 83. The cause of death is unknown. Bose is best known for founding Bose Corporation, perhaps the most famous name in the world for audio equipment. Dr Bose founded Bose Corporation in 1964, while…
Astro City #2 is finally here and with it comes the start of a new Astro City adventure. In this issue, writer Kurt Busiek introduces us to Marella, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary job. As an operative of a call centre devoted to directing emergency calls to super heroes, Marella’s life takes many wild…
Welcome back anime fans, to this weeks installment of Why Haven’t You Seen It? A weekly segment where Geek Insider brings you a fantastic anime every Monday that you can find and watch for free (legally) online! This week we have the Victorian, “monster of the week” anime, that turns out to be much more…
Despite Judge Dredd and 2000AD being around since 1977, most comic books fans outside of the United Kingdom are likely to have had their first exposure to Mega-City One after watching Sylvester Stallone and Rob Schneider fool around in the 1995 cinematic let down Judge Dredd. But after having the slate wiped clean with the…
While the Steam Summer Sale trucks on, the UK based retailer Green Man Gaming, won’t sit idly by and let them garner all the PC gaming attention (and probably not the cash load of money exchanging hand too). At 7AM Pacific today, GMG launched a new 30% off coupon code GMG30-LY2G6-UKDYY which takes 30% off…
We’ve heard and read a lot of rumors regarding the upcoming Moto X phone. We’ve already learnt that the Moto X phone will allow the users to design the phone themselves. Although, no official images of the phone have been shown so far but now, a Chinese blogging site, Weibo has leaked an image of…
Google has brought back voice calling to its messaging service Hangouts. Gmail and Google+ get the addition as well. In a blogpost, Google announced the addition of voice calling capability after public demand. Hangouts was launched as a unified messaging app by Google at the Google I/O conference in May this year. It is available…
In the late 1990s in the United States, the latest social phenomenon that occupied the disposable income of children was “Pokémon.” With the Nintendo games and the trading cards, we weren’t hurting for products focused on Pikachu and his friends. The cartoon on WB kids was the talk of the playground. But then in 1999,…
Google Glass user Chris Barrett has recorded what seems to be the first arrest filmed using the augmented reality glasses. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4isOSntnpo8] [youtube https://youtu.be/4isOSntnpo8] Chris is an independent film-maker, and founder of PRserve, a “PR for startups”. He was walking down Wildwood, New Jersey on July 4, where he happened to spot a brawl, and the…
With all the distressed damsels out there, it seemed only fair to focus on the women in Geekdom that are much more concerned with saving themselves, that with scoring Prince Charming. This week- Cersei Lannister. Creator: George R.R. Martin, or as we call him in our house “The dude that just needs to finish the…