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These apps track allies and enemies using GPS, super-secure 3G, and augmented reality. At this year’s Association of the U.S. Army gathering, developers showed off a handful of new military-focused apps (using consumer hardware, mostly) that bring a new level of seriousness to our gadgets. Sure, you may be an expert tower defense game player, but what about defending actual [...]

With the mildly-tweaked Palm Pre 2 leaving a less than pleasant taste in our collective mouths, the news that there are 5-6 new devices in the pipeline for 2011 is like a blast of cool, refreshing seltzer to the face.  According to CENS, Palm has inked contracts with Foxconn, who will provide four to five new devices, and Compal, who [...]

HTC may have just dished out the first Over the Air (OTA) update for the Desire HD in Europe, but it looks like the device is heading into a bit more international waters soon enough. HTC Australia has announced (technically, yesterday), that the Desire HD will be heading to their region in the near future. The Desire HD features HTC's [...]

Escort has been making radar detectors almost as long as police have been using radar to catch speeders. Escort has announced a new device that it claims to be the world's first fully integrated driving accessory with a radar detector and GPS navigation. The device is called the Passport iQ and it looks like a normal GPS device that mounts [...]

India has been slowly, yet consistently, been getting a trickle of Android-based smartphones into their market over the last several months. And, even if people might expect that these handsets would be lesser than the ones found in other markets, it looks like the region isn't slacking all that much. Sure, it may not be as powerful as a handset [...]

As if being laid up in the hospital wasn't traumatic enough already, imagine having a humanoid robot coming to visit you and eerily mimicking your facial expressions – its pink-sleeved arms resting primly in its lap, its hair pinned back with a bobby pin (as if having hair in its face would bother it), its head movements just jerky enough [...]