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OnLive’s Cloud Gaming Service Becoming Available In UK On 22nd September

OnLive, the pioneer of cloud gaming announced its breakthrough instant-play video game service becoming available from September 22nd, just in time for the 2011 Eurogamer Expo in London. They also offering over 100 games, including top titles released the same second as consoles and PCs, available for great deals under a range of pricing plans for play via almost any broadband Internet connection throughout the UK on HDTV, PC, Mac, and iPad and Android tablets. So you have just over a month to ready yourself for gaming-anywhere awesomeness. OnLive membership is free, providing free instant demos of any game. Checkout more details bellow in the press release to sign up.

UCLA Engineers Invent Photovoltaic Polarizers, Now Devices Could Be Powered By It Self

Photovoltaic polarizers could make self-charging that makes the dreams come true. UCLA engineers allows LCDs to recycle energy, with photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight. This is most worse thing to losing the charge of smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access to an electrical outlet. But the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science could finally help solve the problem. According to the researchers, the traditional LCD polarization process loses as much as 75 percent of light energy something that eats around 80 to 90 percent of the device’s power. By using polarizing organic photovoltaic cells, the LCD-packing gizmo can recycle its own lost backlight energy, keeping itself charged for longer. Checkout more details in the press release bellow.

PS3 System Software Update v3.70 Adds Auto-Save Cloud Storage

The new version 3.70 update for PlayStation 3 is not one of those times, particularly if you’re a PlayStation Plus member or 3D television owner and the major update in the new firmware has to do with the Automatic Download feature that’s available only to Plus members. It’s been renamed Automatic Update and now does more than grab updates for recently played games and also it will automatically sync your trophies with PSN and upload game saves to your online storage. The firmware also packs a few additional features for non-paid users, adding a recommendation function to items in the PlayStation store and a new TV / Video Services XMB category for Netflix, Hulu PLUS and VUDU apps……………..

Cablevision Optimum App For iPhone And iPod touch

Cablevision has rolled out an updated version of their Optimum app for iOS and the pdate includes the iPad version as well as the iPhone and iPod touch version. The apps both climb to version 2.0 and perhaps a bit more important, they both include worthwhile improvements and cablevision customers can now experience hundreds of channels of live television, thousands of titles of video on demand and other features on all three devices……………

Vizio Costco Tablet Now Available For Shipping

Vizio has now rolled out in the US its 8-inch Android tablet which and be used to enjoy the web, movies, TV shows, music and to control home theater devices thanks to the built-in IR blaster. Keep entertainment freedom at your fingertips with the Vizio 8-inch Tablet with WiFi and it features V.I.A. Plus interface, an 1024 x 768-pixel capacitive touchscreen, a 1GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of internal storage (2GB are available), a microSD slot, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, an ambient Light Sensor, an accelerometer, a front-facing VGA camera, three speakers and a battery enabling up to 10 hours of operation. This Android tablet costs $299 and is available through Amazon, Sam’s Club, Walmart, Costco and others…………

Dell XPS 15 X15L-1024ELS Laptop

The Dell XPS 15 laptop has what it takes to take you to new levels of performance. Movies, games, music and Web chat come to life with amazing visuals and incredible sound – all powered by the latest Intel processors. Its top-of-the-line adaptable speed and responsiveness make the 2nd-generation Intel Core processors the ideal choice for visibly smart performance. Get new, faster 2nd-generation Intel processors. Experience leading-edge NVIDIA performance graphics that bring your media to life. Get high-fidelity JBL speakers with Waves MaxxAudio.

Panasonic, Samsung, Sony And XpanD To Collaborate For Setting Up New 3D Glasses Standard

Panasonic, Sony, Samsung and XpanD finally team up for an active 3D glasses standard and CEA is playing catch up on the IR glasses problem, but many of the new HDTVs for 2011 are using Bluetooth technology to keep their glasses in sync, again without any promise of cross-manufacturer compatibility. The companies are announcing the Full HD Glasses Initiative, which should lay down a standard for consumer active shutter glasses to communicate over Bluetooth or IR and the new glasses should be backwards compatible with this year’s TVs, although early adopters from 2010 have no such guarantee……………

Apple Releases iOS 5 Beta 5 With New Features

Apple has just released the iOS 5 beta 5 firmware for developers and it is now available to download for iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and also this update brings the obvious bug fixes and stability improvements. Just like the iOS 5 beta 4 firmware update you can update to the iOS 5 beta 5 firmware Over-The-Air and if you do decide to update to the iOS 5 beta 5 firmware over-the-air. Apple has also improved the Camera app, Photo app,mobile Safari browser, Mail and Calendar app in iOS 5 and Apple is recommending developers to first erase all content and settings on the iOS device……………..