Fingerprint sensors are so yesterday. Let's use palm and vein detection to unlock your iPhone

Fingerprint sensors on smartphones aren't even mainstream yet, but they're about to be obsoleted nevertheless. Bigtime. Softbank, one of Japan's biggest carriers, and Universal Robot have co-developed software that will allow you to unlock your smartphone with your palm pattern and veins. No, really.

How it works is easy enough, like the image above shows. You just hold your hand in view of your device's camera (could be either rear or front-facing camera, we presume, but the latter has been demoed). Using the aforementioned software, your smartphone then checks if the palm and veins it sees really do belong to you.

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Apple says Lightning to HDMI and Lightning to VGA adapters are on the way

There's been some confusion as to what Apple's new all-digital Lightning connector will be capable of, but the company has just cleared some of that up. An Apple spokesperson told The Verge that Lightning to HDMI and Lightning to VGA cables “will be available in the coming months.”. Originally, the fact that the $29 Lightning to 30-pin adapter doesn't support video output led to worries that the Lightning connector itself was to blame, and that Apple would steer customers who wanted to share audio and video towards wireless technologies like AirPlay.

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Wii U May Hit The Shelves In Mid-November

Nintendo hasn't revealed the official release data of its upcoming Wii U console so far. However, a few hints from GameStop, an eminent accessory maker for game console, seem to suggest that the console will be released during the third week of November. In the past, Nintendo has often scheduled many of its big release on Sundays. Interestingly, GameStop is planning the release of Wii U peripherals of the Nintendo console on Sunday, November 18th.

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Were HTC One X+ specs just leaked anonymously by an XDA developer's tweet?

For the second time, we're seeing specs leak out from what would no doubt be HTC's flagship phone, the One X+, but this time there's a lot more detail. An anonymous XDA developer called @Football4PDA, who has shown reliable form in the past by outing the HTC Accord Windows Phone, has tweeted the impressive specs for the possible HTC One X successor. He claims that the phone will be about 134 x 70 x 9.3 mm in size, weight in at 129 grams and pack the new Tegra 3+ AP37 1.6GHz quad-core / 1.7GHz single-core processor with 1GB of RAM and a 32GB ROM.

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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria countdown begins

If you guys can recall, or for those who might be hearing this for the first time, well, the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, Mists of Pandaria, will be launching on the 25th of September. If that is a date you're looking forward to, then every passing day is probably an agonizing one. Well the good news is that Blizzard has launched a Twelve-Day Journey Into the Mists of Pandaria program where they will be updating their World of Warcraft Facebook Timeline with exclusive content, cover photos (like the image pictured above) and what not.

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T-Mobile prepares to do battle with the iPhone 5

. As AT&T (T), Verizon Wireless (VZ) and Sprint (S) prepare to sell as many iPhones as they can manage to get their hands on in the coming weeks, T-Mobile will once again be forced to sit on the sidelines and watch from the bench. With no LTE network to support the next-generation iPhone's new 4G connectivity and an incompatible (for the most part) 3G network, T-Mobile will once again miss out on the biggest smartphone launch of the year.



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Amazon Kindle Paperwhite hands-on (Update: video)

Of course, today's event wasn't just about the Fires. Amazon's still got a dog in the devoted e-reader race as well. The big news here, of course, is the company's entry into the world of lighted E Ink readers - coming several months after the release of Barnes & Noble's own Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight. The front-lit technology here is proprietary, of course. Amazon mentioned some four years in R&D on glowing alone. And the difference is pretty immediately clear: it's all about distribution.






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