ElectroHub Universal Wireless Charging

Wireless charging products have been around for sometime now in the form of Powermat and similar devices. However the trouble with these wireless chargers is that the batteries in the devices you would like to charge need to use the same wireless charging standard. Thus restricting them to just being able to charge a few of your gadgets.

However ElectroHub is a new wireless charging system that provides its own battery to use in your devices in the form of AA and AAA sizes.

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Micron ClearNAND Embedded Error Correction In Flash Memory

Micron has released details about its new ClearNAND chips that have been designed with a built-in 24-bit error correction engine. The new development will allow a SSD drive’s host controller not have to concentrate on calculations and simply process the transfer of data.

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T-Mobile Subsidised iPad Pricing Revealed

T-Mobile has now released detail of their pricing for the Apple iPad on monthly data plans, following on from Orange and Three, and the monthly plans will cost £27 a month for 1GB of data for new customers and £25 for existing customers.

We could only find the 16GB WiFi and 3G Apple iPad for sale on the T-Mobile website, no mention of the 32GB or the 62GB models.

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New York Professor Installs Camera In The Back Of His Head (Video)

A New York Professor, Wafaa Bilal has installed a camera mount in the back of his head, and intends to attach a camera to it to take pictures over the next 12 months.

The camera mount was installed by a body artist, and the camera will take one photo a minute for the next year, the project is called ‘The 3rd I’.

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Kinect Quadrocopter Autonomous AR.Drone Hack (video)

We have written about a number of Kinect hacks here on Geeky Gadgets over the past weeks since the Kinects launch. But this Autonomous AR.Drone Hack by the team over at Hybrid Systems lab in the University of California has to be my favorite to date.

The team has added a Kinect motion controllers and a 1.6GHz Atom Ubuntu computer to a Quadrocopter to allow it to now calculate its surroundings and fly without human intervention. Watch the video after the jump to see the hack in action.

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Dell Inspiron Duo Gets Cloned

The Dell Inspiron Duo convertible netbook and tablet has only recently gone one sale, and it seems this new gadget has already been cloned by a manufacturer in Shenzen.

As you can see in the photo below, this tablet and netbook looks very similar to the Dell Inspiron DUO, and it comes with an Intel N450 processor and Intel GMA 3150 graphics.

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500 Hours Of Extra iPad Standby Juice With Veho’s Pebble Smartskin

If you are an iPad power user and always needing more juice when you are out and about, Veho’s new Pebble Smartskin might be worth a look. The new battery pack for your iPad will add a whooping 500 of standby to your device from its 6000mah together with 50 hrs audio and 7 hours video playback.

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Sprint Epic 4G Gets Android 2.2 Froyo

It looks like Sprint has finally started rolling out the latest version of Google’s Android OS, Android 2.2 to the Epic 4G, as a number of users are reporting that they have received an OTA update.

If you havent received the OTA update, you can manually download and install the update yourself, there are full details on how to do this over at Phandroid.

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Beezz First WP7 Twitter Client To Support Push Notifications

A newly developed Twitter client called Beezz for the new Windows Phone 7 OS. Will be the first Titter app on the OS to offer a push notification feature.

In fact Beezz will be releasing two much needed features, Live Tile support and support for toast notifications. Both of the new features will support Mentions and Direct Messages from users’ Twitter feeds.

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Apple Confirms White iPhone 4 Available Spring 2011

The white iPhone 4 has been something of a mystery since the iPhone 4 went on sale earlier this year, we kept hearing from Apple that it had been delayed and then we were told it would be available next year.

It looks like the white iPhone 4 will be available in spring 2011, as the guys over at 9 to 5 Mac spotted some signage in Apple stores showing the launch date as spring 2011.

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Kite UI For Android Looks Amazing (Video)

The Kite UI or Android is just in the concept stages at the moment, although from the video below it looks amazing, and it is currently being developed by some of the guys over at the XDA forum.

As you will see in the video below, it has a lot of similarities with the HTC Sense UI, but has a different look, with similar functions.

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Did Groupon Just Turn Down $6 Billion From Google?

We heard a rumor last week that Groupon was in talks with Google, and the deal was reported to be worth a total of $6 Billion, with a reported  payment of $5.3 billion up front and $700 million in earn outs.

Now according to Bloomberg, Groupon may has just turned down the $6 billion offer from Google, and the reasons for this according to the report as because Groupon’s CEO was worried about how the deal would effect his employees and also his business clients.

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