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LG G3 Impressions!

This is my video, LG G3 Impressions!, from the Techicist YouTube channel. I hope you enjoy it! Please consider subscribing if you enjoyed the video, for more great content.  

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Flappy Bird’s Goose is Cooked

This will be a rather short article, but the recently popular app, “Flappy Bird”, will be gone tomorrow (February 9th, 2014). The indie game developer Dong Nguyen who lives in Hanoi, Vietnam stated that 22 hours from now, he will take the game down. He went on to state that, “it’s not for legal reasons”, and, “I just can’t keep it anymore.” Multiple people have tried to get in touch with…

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Google Sells Motorola for $2.9 Billion

Google has just closed a $2.9 billion dollar deal with Lenovo, giving up it’s rights to the Motorola brand, current and future Motorola products, over 2,000 patents, and Motorola’s trademark portfolio. The near $3 billion sale consists of $660 million in cash, $750 million of Lenovo stock, and $1.5 billion in a promissory note. This move to opt-out of the smartphone manufacturing business may have been Google’s plan all along…

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Google Glass Due to Launch to Consumers in 2014?

It appears as something straight out of a Science-Fiction movie yet internet giant, Google, are actually attempting to make it a reality. In Mid-2012 Google gave the world its first glimpse of what they are hoping to be a revolutionary product, a wearable computer called Glass. The concept is to allow users to experience a completely hands-free smartphone through Augmented Reality. Google Glass will allow users to do pretty much…

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Google Places Patents For a Neck Tattoo

Google and Motorola are teaming up to tat you up. Google’s latest patent application is for an electromagnetic throat tattoo-like product that contains a power supply, a built in microphone and a wireless transceiver. This product can connect to a smartphone, smartwatch or Google Glass. Now you may think that it would be extremely painful to embed a microphone chip thingy into your throat (which in reality could be the…

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Nexus 5, The Flagship Android?

Take a look at the Nexus 5 hands on video above from our friend Chris at LockerGnome. The Nexus 5 might just be the new crowned King of Androids. I think the HTC One and the Galaxy S4 have been fighting over a spot for a while that doesn’t belong to them! Last Thursday, Google released the Nexus 5, which comes souped up with the brand spankin’ new version of…

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