Kinect’s ability to so accurately capture full-body 3D motion shouldn’t just be limited to petting pets in Kinectimals or dancing like a girl in Dance Central: For the amazing technology packed into Kinect can be used in a lot of non-gamey ways.
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This is starting to look like one of those classic cat and mouse games that passionate hackers and manufacturers often like to play: Sony keeps patching holes in its firmware that allow jailbreaking, while the jailbreaking community finds new ones to thwart Sony’s plans.
Just a couple of days ago, we posted the news that developer Chris Walshie from Australia was successful in getting root access to Windows Phone 7. Today, he tweeted to inform us all that he now has registry and file-system access as well!
Could it be possible one day that we can play iPhone / iPod touch / iPad games on our TV? While the idea is pointless, considering how all it you’re really going to be playing relatively archaic casual games on an expensive set up, it is expected to become a reality real soon.
It’s only been a few weeks since Microsoft’s completely overhauled Windows Phone 7 OS was launched around the world, and we are now hearing the first reports of WP7 being rooted and “jailbreaked”.
If you thought $200,000 earnings on first day were big, get this: Call of Duty Black Ops has made a mind-blowing $360 million in retail sales in its first 24 hours in US and UK alone.
Jay Freeman aka saurik aka the guy behind Cydia recently gave a rather interesting TED talk at TEDxAmericanRiviera where he talked about Apple’s “closed” App Store vs. the relatively open Cydia store.
iOS 4.2, at least from what information we have so far, is slated for release this Friday and it’s going to be a significant update for iPad (not so much for iPhone / iPod touch, though). And of course, there’s going to be a jailbreak to accompany the new iOS version. Here’s all you need to know.
Although iOS alerts you when the device’s battery drops below 20%, you might want to change that to something higher or lower depending on your preference and you can do that with PowerAlerter.
Epic Games - the studio behind Xbox 360 hits like Gears of Wars 2 and Unreal Tournament 3 - has released the first trailer for their Unreal Engine 3 based iOS game Infinity Blade… and it looks amazing.
