Samsung Mobile Up, LCD Business Under Pressure

Samsung has published its quarterly results, and overall, the mobile division is lifting the whole company as the LCD business remains under enormous price pressure. Overall, mobile telephony is still a growing segment of the market, with more than 11% growth year over year. Samsung is the #2 just behind Nokia in terms of unit shipped  (70M versus 88M).

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Electric Bike Becomes Stationary Bike, Charges Itself

If Rube Goldberg had been a theoretician, he'd have come up with the OneBike. Here's pretty much the weirdest electric bike idea I have ever seen. It's called the OneBike, and it combines an exercise bike and an electric bike into one. If that sounds ass-backward, read on: it gets worse.

It works like this. At home, the bike folds and fits into a base-station, turning it into a stationary bike. You pedal away and the usual monitoring options tell you how your heart and calories are doing.

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PlayStation Vita to be launched October 28th?

Were you excited by the unveiling of the PlayStation Vita during E3 2011. If you were then you were probably a bit frustrated with Sony's vague release date of during "holiday season" which could have easily meant summer or Christmas. As it turns out if the above photo is true, we could very well be seeing the PlayStation Vita in a couple of months.

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Google's Music Beta gives users two invites

I'm sure you have plenty friends who are so butthurt that you have a Google Music Beta invite (or have you?). Well, if you do, then maybe you'll have to be the evil guy and pick two of thousands of bagger friends. You can now be the bearer of good news for those troubled souls, as we discovered through a fellow music enthusiast. Members of the cloud-based service are now the proud owners of two invites handed down from Google, to be passed out. Perhaps you do have the power to make two of your friends, or soon-to-be friends, pretty happy.

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RZA of Wu Tang Introduces Own Line of Headphones

It's a trendy thing among rappers nowadays: Having their own line of headphones. It has become apparent as RZA of Wu Tang has joined the ranks of Dr. Dre, Ludacris, ad 50 Cent, and unveils his own set of headphones. Also known by his other stage name, Bobby Digital, RZA has teamed up with WESC to introduce Chambers, a new line of over-ear headphones that feature LEDS that light up in time with your music. According to official release, Chambers will come in two versions: one for consumers and another targetting the pros.

The Chambers is set to launch on August 26.

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Crytek's Timesplitters 4 to be announced soon?

Fans of Crytek's Timesplitters series have been waiting for a good 6 years for a possible sequel to third installment of the Timesplitters series, Future Perfect. Granted 6 years probably isn't as long as the 12 years that fans of Starcraft had to wait for Starcraft II, but either way it seems that the rumors are now saying that Timesplitters 4 not only exists, but is scheduled to be announced soon. The rumor came from the Official PlayStation Magazine UK who stated in their "Rumor Machine" section, "Gun-wielding monkeys are finally making a comeback.

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Robots that can learn and think for themselves

Do you live in constant fear, preparing for the day that robots will take over the world. If you do, you won't be too pleased to learn about what the folks over at the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have been up to. The group has managed to create robots that are capable of thinking and learning by themselves. The robots make use of a technology called SOINN (Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network) lets it think like humans when it encounters tasks that it has never done before. The robot makes educated guesses and decisions based on its past experiences and knowledge.



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