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Whatever you thought you knew about laser tag has just been completely shattered. Because that game that came after the pizza party and before the present opening at all the best 8th grade birthday parties is long gone. Light Strike, its next-gen replacement, includes fingerprint ID, a range of weapon blasts, a health meter, limited ammo, a built-in target—even a grenade launcher and recoiling machine gun. WITH LASERS. On sale later this year, but hopefully not too much later. More »

Google details some of the Honeycomb features coming to Ice Cream: action bar, ‘hologram’ visual style originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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When we think about Tomb Raider, we think of Lara Croft. And when we see Lara Croft, we see Angelina Jolie and… Well, OK, that’s not really the point here. So, what is you ask? Well, Olivia Wilde, of course!

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There you have it, folks — the exhausting saga of the Xoom‘s pricing has finally been laid to rest by Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha. Reuters reports a $799 levy for the 32GB Honeycomb tablet when bought with 3G (which will be upgraded to 4G) connectivity from Verizon sans subsidies, while Jha is also quoted as saying that a WiFi-only version will set buyers back only $600. The latter price matches the 32GB iPad directly, however the 3G Xoom is $70 more expensive than the Apple alternative. Sanjay failed to say when said pricing or models will become available, but there have been strong indications that pre-orders or reservations will begin tomorrow (at least at Best Buy), with the tablet launching in full on Thursday next week.

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Motorola Xoom price official: $799 unsubsidized on Verizon, $600 for WiFi-only originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The moment you’re semi-sure you’re getting a cold, get some zinc lozenges. That’s the result of a meta-analysis of 15 different scientific studies of the mineral, and cut the length of coughing and sneezing days by 40 percent. More »

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For some of you, many of your memories are based around a place. It could be a cherished family cabin, an iconic landmark or a trip to an exotic locale. In Picasa Web Albums, you can leverage the GPS technology built into many cameras and mobile phones to tag where your images were taken. This makes sharing images of your trip to Yellowstone even more interesting by showing where inside the park they were taken.

Until today, you could manage the visibility of geographical information at the account level – you chose whether to display location information for your entire account. Now, you can control whether or not to include location information for each individual album rather than at the account level. Whenever you add a new album, location information will not display by default. Existing albums will follow your previous selection. You can easily change this setting for existing and new albums by checking or unchecking the box below the map on your album.

This way, you can show your friends the geographical location of the photos in your Yellowstone album, while keeping the location of a favorite beach your secret.

As always, we’d love to hear what you think. Please share your feedback in our forum.

Lithium-ion batteries! They’re in your phone, your laptop and pretty much every consumer electronic device that uses rechargeable batteries these days. How should you take care of them? Old wives tales of charging batteries don’t apply here, so forget everything you thought you knew. According to Ars Technica, this is how you should use your Li-ion battery: More »

Toshiba to release its Windows 7 tablet in the second half of the year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ever wonder what live-action Super Street Fighter IV would look like? No, it doesn’t look like you and your friends pretending to karate the hell out of each other. It looks like this video — or it would if girls wanted to hang out with you and your friends, while you pretend to karate the hell out of each other.

So yeah. Watch this video. You should have gotten all the information necessary from the headline. Oh, I guess they’re doing Ultra Combos, if that weighs on your decision any.

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AMD shares were up 5% yesterday based on a rumor that the company could be up for sale, according to ZDnet. The possibility that AMD would be available for purchase, and that Dell may be the company to make the acquisition, was started by Barrow’s, who said,

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Eric Schmidt didn’t give a ton of details about the future of Android during his MWC 2011 keynote, but he did drop one interesting tidbit: the next version of Android will “start with an I, be named after a dessert” and combine Gingerbread for phones and Honeycomb for tablets into a cohesive whole. We’ll just go out on a limb and say that he’s talking about Ice Cream, and that we’ll see that Fragments UI construct used to bridge the phone / tablet display size gap. Unfortunately, Eric didn’t say anything about timing — just that updates have been happening on a “six month cycle.” Considering that Honeycomb has yet to officially launch on any devices, we’d say that’s not so long to wait — but of course we’re also dying to know more as soon as possible. We’ll let you know if we hear anything good.

Next version of Android will combine Gingerbread and Honeycomb, arrive on a six-month cycle originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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