We were worried there, for a minute. After code explorers found that Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 7-inch had both a locked bootloader and extra security measures, there was a brief concern that the pseudo-Android tablet might be very tough to hack. As it turns out, there was no reason to lose faith. Hashcode, Justin Case, Reverend Kyle and Sparklym3 from the XDA and RootzWiki forums have successfully rooted the smaller Kindle Fire HD in a repeatable form, giving anyone courageous enough to load ADB the control they want over the tablet they bought. Just remember the usual caveats if you choose to dive in: while the root isn’t a lengthy process, as you’ll see in the video after the break, there’s still the ever-present risk of bricking the device should something go wrong. Having seen what can be done with the original Kindle Fire after a little tinkering, we’re intrigued as to what happens with its more capable sequel.
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Language Automation, Inc.’s interview with a Mexico City-based game developer regarding the recent launch of the mobile game Mictlan – Phyne Games’ culturally and regionally-rooted game. Part 1 includes an introduction describing the state of the video game industry in Mexico. Part 2 marks the beginning of the interview and Part 3 the second half and conclusion. If you have suggestions for improvements or interest for future participation in a LAI interview, please tweet us @LanguageAutoInc. Language Automation, Inc. (LAI) is a Bay-area based boutique game localization and technical translation company serving the video game industry for nearly 20 years. We translated and localized games for publishers like Konami, Ubisoft, SCEA, Sony, and ngmoco. Our areas of expertise include MMOs, console and mobile games, and span languages in all major markets. Find out more about our organization at www.lai.com and learn more about the specialized field of video game translation and localization at our blog http Our monthly newsletter includes industry information and keeps our readers up-to-date with relevant worldwide conferences. You can sign up at bit.ly Phyne Games is an independent game development company based in Mexico City. Their first game – Mictlan – was released for Windows Phone 7 and is based upon Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead. You can follow their updates @PhyneGames and at www.phynegames.com. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Oh, be still my beating heart.
Boiling down two fanboy-filled worlds into an amalgamation of concentrated glory, a guy evil genius named Jeff Heimbuch has mashed up the demo video of Apple’s new virtual assistant Siri with the voice of Portal’s malevolent machine mistress, GLaDOS.
Comments about the meaningless of one’s activities? Check. Weight insults? Check. The only thing missing is the false promise of cake and a controversial crack about whether or not the end-user is an orphan. (Oh, and for those unfamiliar with the Portal world: yes, she’s this mean to everyone.)
Sadly, such a mashup lives on only in cleverly edited videos (and that special place my consciousness goes to after I’ve drifted off to sleep) for now. While customizable voices are undoubtedly on every iPhone 4S buyer’s Nerdgasm trigger list, it’d be markedly un-Apple-like for Apple to implement any time soon (not to mention incredibly formidable to implement at all, given the complexity of Siri’s speech engine.) Some day!
What do you get when you cross a dj with a “Canadian roboticist?” An almost true-to-fiction Wall-E, that’s what. In this rendition of garbage-bot gone cute, amateur robotics enthusiast DJ Sures (yes, he makes music) hollowed out a U-Command Wall-E toy and fixed him up with some servo guts. The voice-activated, semi-autonomous modjob has a built-in eye camera that recognizes motion, colors and faces, coming the closest we’ve seen to replicating the CG-romantic. The whole AA-battery powered affair runs on the EZ-B Robot Controller software shown off by Sures in the video below. And unlike other past recreations, this little guy knows how to get down without the need for sped up video tricks. Clearly, the Pixar-bred bot’s become the unofficial icon of the homebrew robotics community, so where’s his official counterpart? You listening Disney? Get cracking.
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Ross Rubin contributes Reserve Power, a column focused on personal perspectives and products.
Last week’s Reserve Power took you behind the scenes of technology and infomercials, and this week we’re bringing it to its natural conclusion. Catch up by reading last week’s installment here, and catch the rest just below.
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Oh, look, Mimoco is back with a couple of new USB flash drives. These particular Mimobots come in the likeness of everyone’s second favorite morphing robot rivals — Optimus Prime and Megatron. (Obviously Cy-Kill and Leader-1 take the top slot in our hearts.) Sadly, these Transformer thumb drives don’t actually transform, but they do come preloaded with screensavers, wallpapers, and digital comics… if you’re into that sort of thing. The Autobot and Decepticon leaders are available now, starting at $ 23 for 2GB of storage and reaching $ 60 for the 16GB model. PR is after the break.
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They come from across the country to a conference room at Telebrands, the Fairfield, NJ-based infomercial marketer that serves as the arbiter in the TV show Pitchmen. It was Inventors Day, an event that the company holds around the country about every six weeks. Those who submit the best ideas to inventorsday@telebrands.com are invited to present. At stake, the chance to design Telebrands’ next hit product and become a millionaire. And all that stood between them and fortune was a convincing pitch to the judging panel (made up of CEO A.J. Khubani, his wife Poonam Khubani, and marketing advisor Don Braca) and a permanently installed five-foot long model of a PedEgg — invented by the Telebrands CEO in ’97 — signed by company well-wishers.
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Windows 8 Preview to bring 4 major factors to mobile device industry, says Digitimes Research Microsoft’s display, at Computex 2011, of the touch controls of Windows 8 using the company’s technologies from Windows Phone 7′s Metro UI. Digitimes Research believes Microsoft using such technology and concepts to develop Windows 8 will have four major factors that could affect the mobile device industry. Read more on Digi Times
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We already got a chance to try out OnLive on the HTC Flyer early but now the company has made its plans official at E3, announcing a Player app will bring internet-streamed gaming to the iPad and Android tablets this Autumn. Just as we saw, the apps allow for tablets to be used as the screen and touch / motion controller, touch / motion controller for games on an HDTV, or screen for games being played with the new universal wireless gamepad. The fun isn’t limited to just tablets though, the app will work the same way on smaller Android and iOS mobile devices. We’ll head over to South Hall and get some hands-on experience with the apps for ourselves shortly, until then you can check out an E3 trailer and all the details in the press release and after the break.
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