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Control Your Xbox With Your Kindle Fire

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Kindle Fire and Kindle Fire HD owners can now dive deep into the Xbox experience with SmartGlass, which is now available on the app store for Amazon.

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SmartGlass offers up a variety of cool features including connecting with your Xbox friends to talk and compare achievements along with being able to see your avatar. You can also have complete control over music and videos on your Xbox right from your Kindle Fire.

This is just the first step towards making our consoles more connected then ever. Tablets and consoles can co-exist quite well together and soon we will see more advanced features, like live streaming of video game content, become standard.

You can find full details about SmartGlass and download it though Amazon now.

Coffee With Tim Cook? You Will Need A least Half a Million

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Apple CEO Tim Cook (Source:Apple)

You can have coffee with Tim Cook at Apple headquarters but it will cost you at least $600,000 according to the latest bid on Charitybuzz. All of the money goes to charity, in particular the RFK Center For Justice and Human Rights. This number is pretty incredible considering the original value of the meeting was thought to be worth $50,000. Apparently that number was just a bit off.

What makes all of this even more interesting are some of the other auctions that are up on the site for this particular cause, including getting to act in a scene with Chris Hemsworth in a Michael Mann Film. The current bid for that is just over $3,500. Another auction has you visiting Jay Leno’s car collection and meeting him backstage, that one is just under $8,000

 

Samsung Galaxy S4 Flip Cover

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If there’s one accessory that’s pretty much an essential it’s got to be the case. Our brand new shiny phones are so elegant and sleek but they are vulnerable. They fall out of our pockets when we lean over, they slide across multiple surfaces and just by holding them we are actually causing wear and tear on our phones. It’s very rare that I see anyone using a smart phone these days without some sort of protective case, and that brings us to the Samsung Galaxy S4.

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Samsung Flip Cover without View

The latest and greatest from Samsung has yet to truly arrive, but it’s never too early to scope out some accessories. In fact, one case is just as sleek as the new S4 itself and you know it will fit perfectly because it’s made by Samsung. It’s the Samsung Galaxy S4 Flip Cover.

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Samsung Flip Cover with View

 

The Samsung Flip Cover comes in two flavors, one has a “view cover” that allows you to see important information without opening the cover while the other covers the entire front display for complete protection. Both cases are extremely thin and lightweight, this is nice considering Samsung has spent so much time trying to make the device powerful yet lightweight and comfortable to use. We don’t want to make our phone bulky just by adding a cover to it.

Overall, this case is lightweight, durable and features a brushed metal look on the front of the flip cover and a glossy rear cover the matches the actual phone design. I really like the look of the new S4 and matching the phone’s design was pretty clever. This is a great case for the soon to be available Galaxy S4.

You can pick up either case for $34.99 along with many other great accessories.

Samsung Flip Cover Features:

• Enhanced protection for the Samsung Galaxy S 4
• Available in multiple colors
• Soft felt liner protects against smudges and dirt
• Front cover folds over for easy access to the phone’s screen
• Back cover replaces the phone’s back, maintaining the Galaxy S 4’s sleek design

Sony Shows Off Features of DualShock 4

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Sony has put together a video that gives us a better idea of what the new DualShock 4 is all about. The controller still maintains that classic Playstation look with a few noticeable changes.

The light bar at the top of the controller is one of the more obvious alterations but there are a few more subtle features like a built-in speaker, which is something that turns out to be a pretty cool feature of the Wii U gamepad. The additional speaker on the controller provides an extra dimension in sound and the benefits of that can only really be appreciated when you actually immersed in gameplay.

I think the controller will be a success, but that’s only one factor in a great gaming console. There’s still a lot to be proven.

Iron Man 3 Red Carpet Premiere

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Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit
or does the suit make the man?

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley, “Iron Man 3” is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce & Shane Black and is based on Marvel’s iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of “Tales of Suspense” (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with “The Invincible Iron Man” (#1) in May of 1968.”