Yoshi’s Woolly World (Nintendo Wii U)

Embark on a new Yoshi adventure in a world made from yarn, cloth and textiles. Explore the world by using yarn to weave wool platforms and warp pipes to reach new areas, and gleefully unravel its secrets and puzzles by pulling yarn walls apart. Add a little color to Yoshi s life with a spectrum of yarn balls. Then team up with a friend to have a ball together in this wild and woolly world. Features Players tangle, pull and stitch yarn to explore Yoshi s world in creative new ways. Yoshi has never been more adorable than as a toy knit from yarn. His entire environment is made from materials like felt, yarn, cloth and cotton, creating a gorgeous HD world that looks good enough to touch. Instead of eggs, Yoshi tosses yarn balls at enemies. He can incapacitate a Piranha Plant by muzzling it with a piece of colored string. Or he can even use the yarn to knit together background elements. Gobble friends and turn them into eggs. Then toss them into hard-to-reach heights and secret depths to
http://bit.ly/1xxbVEd

Funky Barn (Nintendo Wii U)

Funky Barn Game Wii U is not your ordinary farm It s your farm and it s like no farm you ve seen before! Slap on your straw hat and grubbiest coveralls and take hold of your Wii U GamePad it s time to get your hands dirty! Devote yourself to your own slice of lush countryside and take up the challenge of creating a beautiful farmland full of animals, crops, trees and more then develop it into the craziest, most offbeat farm imaginable, overflowing with the whackiest contraptions and goofiest gizmos you and your animals have ever seen! This is not your ordinary farm It s your farm and it s like no farm you ve seen before! Key Features: Use the WiiU GamePad in all-new ways! Touch, shake, tilt, even speak to manage your farm, or go old-school with button-and-stick Get Hands-on with your Animals! Without a doubt, the stars of this quirky, offbeat farm simulation are the animals, each one unique and alive with personality! Take the time to pay individual attention to your animals and reap
http://bit.ly/1xxbauQ

Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games: Sochi 2014 (Nintendo Wii U)

Join Mario, Sonic, and the rest of your favourite characters as they team up and compete in events at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Experience realistic events from the Winter Games, including curling, skiing, figure skating pairs, and snowboard slopestyle, which made its Olympic Games debut in Sochi, Russia. In addition to these realistic events, the game also includes Dream Events set in the worlds of Sonic and Mario that let players perform dynamic moves not possible in real life. For example, experience the adrenaline rush of Winter Sports Champion Race, a mixed event that combines skiing, snowboarding, skating, and bobsleigh in a single race. The Wii U GamePad controller and the first use of Wii Remote Plus functionality in the series offers greater depth of control and intuitive game play that immerses players in each event.
http://bit.ly/1xxabuF

Noke Bluetooth Padlock Pairs With Your iPhone [Video]

Noke is a Bluetooth padlock that pairs with your iPhone and lets you easily share access to your possessions. The padlock by FŪZ Designs was just successfully funded on Kickstarter.

Once you’ve downloaded our iOS or Android app, Noke automatically finds and pairs to your Bluetooth 4.0 enabled smartphone. You can name your Noke and even give it a photo if you like. That’s it.

To unlock Noke, simply press the shank. Noke wakes up and searches for your phone or a shared phone. If the phone is within 10 feet, Noke will instantly unlock so you can be on your way. No need to launch an app or remove your phone from your pocket or purse.

Noke can also be outfitted with a custom chain and bike mount that lets you securely attach it to your seat post.

In case you forget your phone or your battery dies, Noke lets you create a custom access code that can be used to unlock the padlock. To enter the code you press down the shackle.

When it’s time to replace your Noke’s battery, you will receive a notification through the app. To replace the battery, you just unlock Noke and twist off the back cover. The battery can also be replaced while the Noke is locked by inserting a small pin.

The padlock has already surpassed its $100,000 goal in just a day. You can pledge $59 to get one of the first ones at the link below.

 

Source: Kickstarter.com
Via: iClarified.com

 

Noke Bluetooth Padlock Pairs With Your iPhone [Video]

Sony DVPSR170 DVD Player Review

The Sony DVPSR170 is a top branded DVD player, giving you quality sound and vision for less.

CRISP AND SHARP PICTURE QUALITY

Using a 12 bit video DAC, the Sony DVPSR170 offers a superb picture quality with deep blacks and natural colour. Added to this, Custom Picture Mode and Picture Sharpness control ensure you not only get a crisp picture quality but also get to adapt the picture to your exact requirements.

FLEXIBLE DISC PLAYBACK

The Sony DVP-SR170 is also a flexible performer when it comes to playback. In addition to being able to play SVCD, DVD+R DL and pretty much any other blank disc format you care to throw at it, this Sony DVD player will also play the popular Xivd format. It also offers Text information on CD playback.

COMPACT ENOUGH FOR ALMOST ANY SPACE

With dimensions of just 270 x 207 x 39, this cute and compact Sony DVD player takes up very little space. Featuring Sony’s typically slick styling, it also looks a world apart from the very basic “supermarket specials” more usually available at this price.

Ideal for a second room or when space is tight, this top value Sony DVD player brings quality for less.

Sony DVPSR170 DVD Player Review

Transcendence: movie review

HAL has come a long way.

First, we had Scarlett Johansson as a human-like operating system. Now, Johnny Depp has been uploaded. If the singularity — when artificial intelligence surpasses human smarts — is indeed coming, at least it has decent taste in movie star avatars.

First-time director Wally Pfister’s Transcendence isn’t so much the “Him” to Spike Jonze’s Her as it’s a more dystopian vision of the meeting of human consciousness and computer intelligence. It turns out that when computers get sophisticated, worse things can happen than Joaquin Phoenix getting his feelings hurt.

But whereas Her was playful and personal about familiar futuristic concepts, Transcendence is clunky and lifeless. It’s like the movie version of a paranoid TED talk.

Cast:Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara

Director: Wally Pfister

Writer: Jack Paglen

In the early scenes of Transcendence, Dr. Will Caster (a disappointingly sleepy Depp) is a TED-style master of the universe, speaking confidently in front of large video screens to eager listeners about neurology and artificial intelligence. But there are also protesters to his potentially all-powerful invention: the Physically Independent Neural Network (PINN), an early artificial intelligence propelled by a room full of computers that Caster believes could, among other things, cure cancer.

An assassination attempt with a radiation-laced bullet leaves Caster with weeks to live. Desperate to keep his mind alive, his loyal, sycophantic wife and fellow researcher Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) uploads Caster’s brain to a PC with PINN hardware. Helping her is their good friend and colleague Max (Paul Bettany, serving as narrator).

But as anyone with an iPhone knows, software updates can be tragic. The transfer is finished just as Caster dies. Soon enough, the screen flickers to life, first with a few typed words and then seemingly Caster’s full personality, in voice and pixel form.

Alert to their plan, anti-tech activists (led by Kate Mara) are simultaneously descending. In the chaos, Max begins to realize they’ve created a high-speed Frankenstein — an epiphany lost on the mourning Evelyn, who flees after uploading Caster to the Internet. He immediately spreads across the Web (he calls Evelyn on her phone) and begins seeking more computing power.

It takes a long time for Transcendence to build to this moment, when perhaps it should have begun here in the first place. But it feels like a suddenly intriguing crossroads. Where will this terrifyingly digital Depp go?

Transcendence [Blu-ray]

Current Price: £11.72

Price Disclaimer

If you answered: to a desert town to build an underground data center for development of radical tissue regeneration techniques, guarded by a creepy army of network-connected, superhuman zombies — then your algorithms are more advanced than mine.

Yet the urgency and intelligence of Transcendence isn’t artificial. It feels sincerely animated by the frightful questions it poses about computing power and interconnectedness.

Pfister, making his directorial debut after years as a cinematographer often teamed with director Christopher Nolan (a Transcendence producer), doesn’t exhibit a sure hand with dialogue or a feel for the rhythm of his narrative. Neither does the film have the distinctive form of his prior photography work, most notably The Dark Knight. (In imagery, Transcendence pales in comparison to the sumptuous sci-fi of the recent Under the Skin.)

But, as in Nolan’s Inception, Pfister, working from a script by first-time screenwriter Jack Paglen, shows an instinct to drive the genre elements toward a more personal story. Transcendence ultimately hinges on the relationship of Caster and Evelyn. The excellent Hall, looking a bit confused by what she’s gotten herself into, does her best to emotionally ground Pfister’s increasingly unfocused and heavy-handed story.

Just as in science, noble intentions can lead talented artistic minds astray, too.

Read more movie review By [JAKE COYLE]

Transcendence: movie review

Logitech X100 Mobile Speaker Review

X100 Mobile Speaker

The Go Anywhere Portable Speaker that Delivers Rocking Sound

The Logitech X100 Mobile Wireless Speaker is simple and intuitive, and you can wirelessly stream music from any Bluetooth-enabled device up to 10m (30ft) away*. The wireless speaker can keep going for up to 5 hours** with the long-life battery.

Works With

Compatible with popular smartphones and tablets. Some functions may not be supported depending upon your phone, tablet and/or application.

Rocking Sound

Crystal-clear sound from a very compact speaker. Pump up the volume and enjoy.

Connect and Play

The Logitech X100 Mobile Wireless Speaker is easy to connect and use.

Wirelessly stream music from your Bluetooth-enabled device from up to 10m (30ft) away.

Manage phone calls and volume control from your mobile phone.

Take it Anywhere

A portable speaker that’s ideal for life on the go. Take it on the road or relax and listen at home.

Design

Available in 5 bold colours — green, orange, grey, red and yellow — the X100’s design is sure to turn heads.

Up To 5-hour Battery Life

Enjoy up to 5 hours of continuous rocking sound without recharging.

Built-in lithium-ion battery.

Convenient micro-USB charging.

Logitech X100 Mobile Speaker Review