Lookalike Leia buns replicate Star Wars fashion for Druish princesses everywhere

Princess Vespa did it first - wore removable hair bun headphones, that is. And now those swirls of synthetic locks are coming to a cosplayer near you via e-artisan site Etsy. The Star Wars-style ear warmers stop short of functioning as actual cans, but you can glue'em over your own pair to achieve that "desired" Leia look. While it's true that fanboys may prefer brooding, scifi-obsessed brunettes, blondes and gingers don't have to be left out of this geek fantasy: alternatively hued coiffures can also be made to order.

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Airtight brings Apple's Airplay to your Google TV, makes Cupertino and Mountain View play nice

We've seen Airplay work its way into Android phones thanks to apps before, but what if you to reverse the equation. What if you want to stream not from, but to a desert-flavored player. Well, it's little more than a proof of concept at the moment, but Airtight does just that - turns your Google TV into an Airplay-compatible receiver. You'll obviously have to be running the latest OS update to enable Market access, and the you'll pay $0.99 for the privilege of tinkering with the still rather rough app. For the moment there is no support for streaming music (only videos), anything with DRM is wont play and mirroring is but a dream.

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Transformers Blu-ray 3D comes home January 31st in Ultimate and Collector's editions

After a quickie Blu-ray dropped in the fall sans-extras, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is getting a full fledged release January 31st complete with 3D and four hours of bonus features. There's actually two versions coming, first up is the $39.99 four disc Ultimate Edition with a 2D copy on one disc, a Blu-ray full of extras, a Blu-ray 3D copy, and a DVD with the film in standard def plus iTunes / Windows Media Player compatible digital copies.


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Smartphones Dominate Christmas with Activations Up 353% from December Norm

This Christmas the smartphone was the must-have gift and Flurry has the analytics data to back it up. According to their research, an average 1.5 million Android and iOS devices were activated daily between December 1st and 20th. For December 25th the number rose to an estimated 6.8 million, a 353 percent increase. The number is more than double the 2.8 million devices activated on Christmas in 2010.
After all of those Android and iOS devices were activated their new owners got to downloading apps right away with a record number 242 million apps downloaded between the two operating systems.

Android Phone, Smartphones Dominate Christmas with Activations Up 353% from December Norm

Samsung Projected to Sell 150 Million Smartphones in 2012

Korea Economic Daily is raising their sales forecast for Samsung by 15 percent, bringing total projected handset sales to 374 million. Of those handsets, 150 million are expected to be smartphones. To put the figure into perspective, Samsung was projected to move 300 million units this year, a figure that was easily surpassed thanks to strong sales of their Android-based Galaxy S lineup. Samsung continues to close the gap with the world's current leading handset manufacturer, Nokia.

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iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak released

Just in time for the holidays, the iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak which was demonstrated on video over the past few weeks is now available to the public. pod2g announced today on his blog that the Chronic Dev Team and the iPhone Dev Team have released the A4 untethered for 5.0.1 based on his work. Both files are exactly the same and are distributed as Cydia packages or already tethered jailbroken users, and a redsn0w bundle for new users. Unfortunately for iPhone 4S/iPad 2 users the jailbreak is not for you, in the meantime you'll just have to keep waiting.

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Today's the Last Day to Take Advantage of Best Buy's After Christmas Sale

I've always said the best sales can be had AFTER Christmas day (New Years is one hot day in that department) and Best Buy believes so as well. Their after Christmas sale is set to wrap up today so it's your last chance to get in on some of these great deals. Verizon's Samsung Stratosphere and DROID Incredible 2, Sprint's LG Marquee, AT&T's Sony Ericsson Xperia Play, HTC Wildfire S and HTC Inspire 4G, and T-Mobile's LG MyTouch 4G are all on sale for the low cost of free. Head over to their site to take advantage before it's too late.

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