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In the past couple of years I have seen a large number of solar solutions tied to simple products that charge a cell phone to ones that can charge an entire battery array. The folks Waka Waka have come up with a pocket sized solar charger with two LED lamps, which can charges phones or shine 40 hrs of light on
We do not often review toys here at Geek News Central so when the Swann SkyDuel Remote Helicopter pair showed up.. I turned it loose to my two teenagers and then had them write up the review. The following is the write up of their experience. The Swann Sky Duel is a fun product for the price point of $70.00.
When I read the most recent news from Google I had to check my calendar -- sure enough it is not April 1st. However, what the search giant announced sounds fantastical. What more can you say about getting internet from a high altitude balloon? Well, that is the dream the company has announced. "But for 2 out of every 3 people
Dropbox is perhaps the most widely-known and popular cloud storage service on the market though it is far from the only option. It faces stiff competition from the likes of Box, SkyDrive, Google, Amazon and others. In an effort to stay in front, the company has been releasing regular feature updates, and today brings the latest of those. The new
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When MySpace had its most recent makeover (that one that included the addition of Justin Timberlake's involvement), it created a problem for itself. New users were able to create MySpace accounts in the new system. However, for quite some time, MySpace couldn't figure out how to get the previously existing user accounts (that were now on the “old” MySpace) to
Rovio can do no wrong these days, it seems. Th Finnish game maker is behind the Angry Birds franchise, as well as newer games such as Bad Piggies, Amazing Alex and The Croods. After recently launch Angry Birds Friends for Android -- a game that was previously on Facebook only. THe games presents users with several new levels each week, levels
I purchased the Sony NEX-F3K/B camera through Amazon recently and have been using it for a couple of weeks now. The camera comes with a removable 18–55 F3.5–5.6 OSS Zoom lens kit, a battery along with a charging cable, charger and a camera strap. The Sony NEX-F3 is a mirrorless camera with an exchangeable lens. It is small and without
If you are a fan of the Angry Birds series, then you know about Bad Piggies - a sequel to the popular bird game. Security company F-Secure detected there was a faux app in the Play store that looked and felt like the Bad Piggies by Rovio. However, this app had a slight alteration to the name (Bad Pigs) and
Facebook has launched a new feature that will help users to quickly get a larger view of what is happening in the world or of what topics people are currently talking about. The social media giant has decided to make use of the hashtag. According to Reuters Facebook has rolled out the ability to use hashtags to about 20% of
Avid readers who have been enjoying the Nook app on their PC or Mac are in for some disappointment. According to The Digital Reader Barnes & Noble has officially ended its support for the Nook app for PC and the Nook app for Mac. More specifically, this is in regards to the Nook for PC for Windows 2000, Windows XP,
After much rumor and speculation Google seems to have won the bidding war with Facebook (if there really was one) and pulled the trigger on a purchase of beloved mapping program Waze. If you have never used Waze then you are missing out. The service takes what Google Maps already offers and adds a bit of social to it. There
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