Adidas launched a new piece of equipment called the Speed Cell which attach’s to your shoe to keep track of your workouts or fitness level. Nike has a similar device, which is most likely why Adidas also now has a device targeting the same thing. The Adidas Speed Cell keeps track of your foot speed, acceleration, and distance traveled. It has the ability to work with running and multiple sports. Unlike Nike’s device which is more targeted on running, the Speed Cell targets many different sports.
The Jolicloud started back in 2010 as an underground project, but they have made a lot of progress on it. The company behind Jolicloud have been working hard on the Joli OS, and now we hear about the “Jolicloud platform”.
League of Legends is a popular game for PC which is taking the gaming community by storm. The first season of League of Legends is done, but Riot games who created “LoL” (League of Legends) is planning for a second season. Throughout the year, players all over the world will compete competitively against each other for a prize pool of 5 million dollars! The Final championship tournament will be worth 2 million dollars!
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Riot games is constantly updating League of Legends, one new mode they are adding is called “Spectator” which is exactly as it sounds.
The new Mario Kart 7 is due to release in December for Nintendo 3DS, just in time for the holiday season. A new accessory from Hori is also being released at about the same time as Mario Kart 7, it is a 3DS compatible steering wheel. It’s priced at ¥1,280 (about $17). Very similar concept to the Wii Steering wheel often used with the Wii remote and Mario Kart Wii.
Anyone who has a Playbook from RIM the same creators as BlackBerry, may have wanted OS 2.0 which was said to be released soon but that won’t be happening for a few more months. The Vice President David Smith for the Playbook said that the new OS will be delayed until February of 2012.
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Microsoft will again have multiple holiday bundles with their Xbox 360 for sale. The bundles are both trying to target to different age groups and audiences. One bundle includes a Kinect system, which will target younger kids and the second bundle will have “M” rated games for the older gamers.
Lets talk about what you get in the bundle, as the picture shows above the first bundle will have a Kinect sensor with a 250GB Hard Drive in Xbox 360 itself. It’ll also come with two games: “Kinect Adventures”, and “Carnival Games: Monkey See Monkey Do”.
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Research in Motion “RIM” is offering Blackberry users free premium applications from the Blackberry App World after a couple days of service interruptions. Many Blackberry users were unable to receive or send emails or contact people using Blackberry Messenger for a couple days. RIM held press conferences addressing the matter of downtime and is now offering some compensation by allowing free download of premium applications and games.
