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- New Transformers Arcade Game Rolls Out In Japan
- Lightsaber BBQ Fork: I find your lack of coal disturbing
- UK Retailer Sainsbury’s Use Food Waste To Entire Power Store
- New Apple Patent Suggests iPhone 6 Could Pack 3D Photography
- Foursquare Gets a Facelift, Focuses on Personalization
- The 12 best batman games ever
| New Transformers Arcade Game Rolls Out In Japan Posted: 24 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT  Transformers invade the Japanese arcade scene with a new game from Sega.
The big Transformers event of the summer wasn't the Michael Bay explosion-fest of a movie from a few weeks back, but the news that a new arcade game based on the popular robot franchise has just been released in Japan. Created by Sega, a name I haven't heard mentioned alongside the release of a new arcade title in a super long time, Transformers: Human Alliance is an on-rails shooter where you assist Optimus Prime and the rest of the Autobots as they battle against their long-time “robots in disguise” foes, the Decepticons. Human Alliance features two big, futuristic machine guns as its controllers – pretty much standard for your everyday on-rails shooter. Cabinet wise though, Sega is producing the game in two flavors: one, in your conventional stand-up arcade unit, and the other, an enclosed version that looks like a yellow Hummer. The game does takes place in the Bay-universe of the Transformer's franchise (for better or worse), yet strangely enough Sega seems to have made some interesting creative liberties to the portrayal of Shia LaBeouf's character, Sam Witwicky, who looks and sounds a lot more… uh, different from his big-screen portrayal… Yeah, different is the word I’d use. No info on whether Human Alliance will be brought over to North America, but considering how popular the Transformers franchise is in light of the current blockbuster movies, it does seem like a lock to make the trip across the Pacific. Who knows, it might even show up out-of-the-blue at a Dave & Buster’s near you! Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories at https://www.facebook.com/Walyou and https://twitter.com/walyou.         |
| Lightsaber BBQ Fork: I find your lack of coal disturbing Posted: 24 Jul 2014 06:00 AM PDT  We don’t know if the Sith are vegetarian or not, but it doesn’t make a difference for us, meat-eaters, because we get cool gizmos anyways. Grill & BBQ fans that are not afraid of hovering too close to the dark side should check out what the ThinkGeek came up with: a long metal fork themed after Lord Vader’s very own lightsaber. This officially licensed product has a lightsaber hilt for the fork, which is made of stainless steel. It measures 1.5 inches in diameter and 20 inches long, and can be shipped anywhere in the US and Canada. Are you getting one, Anakin? Via Technabob
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| UK Retailer Sainsbury’s Use Food Waste To Entire Power Store Posted: 24 Jul 2014 05:00 AM PDT  Swapping expensive bills for slightly smelly food waste, one UK supermarket chain has now found a smart solution to paying for power.
Pay your electricity bills folks; you never know when your lights are going to go out or your TV's going to turn itself up right at the cliffhanger of a gripping Game of Thrones episode if you don't. Dreadful stuff. Alternatively, if you've got a bio-engine just sitting around and also about 3 tonnes of gone off, stinky and completely inedible food laying around you could just take a mouldy leaf out of UK retailer Sainsbury's book by using all of that food waste to power your electricity and heat your home. That's what they've now done at one branch in Cannock, West Midlands, upon realising that it's far cheaper (and makes a lot more sense, if you think about it) for them to utilise their leftovers instead of forking out both to dispose of it and not get anything back and to pay for electricity too. The Sainsbury's branch in question happens to be just down the road from Biffa, a food waste specialist company, which is why this plan is so darn clever. Biffa will use microbes to turn Sainsbury's honking food into bio-methane after which that gas is then shuttled back to the store using a 1.5km long cable. The plan is set to be so successful that not only are they going to make good use of that Biffa bio-fuel but the supermarket is also going to go completely off of The National Grid meaning that it won't receive any electricity from the UK's nationwide power source whatsoever. Sainsbury's says that it will allow them to “close the loop on food recycling” but questions remain about what will happen to the rest of the food that isn't turned into the eco-friendly power stuff. Well, proving that they are perhaps the philanthropists (and resourceful merchants) that we'd all like to be, any food that doesn't get sent to Biffa (and that presumably isn't past its use-by date) will be given to charities and food banks, which is in line with what they do already. They currently make enough food stuff waste at the store for it to power 2,500 homes a year and there are likely other branches that make even more so could this be rolled out across the country? Could it even bring British supermarket prices down? We'll keep you posted once we know more. Source: Sainsbury’s Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories,Amazon Prime Price Increase Being "Considered" by Retailer, UK Supermarket Chain Tesco to Use Face Scans to Target Ads    |
| New Apple Patent Suggests iPhone 6 Could Pack 3D Photography Posted: 23 Jul 2014 01:57 PM PDT  The 46 newly acquired patents hint at the things Apple might have in store for us in the future. Knowing how fast this company implements its technologies, however, it’s not a certainty that the next iPhone will sport 3D photography. The patent portfolio of the Cupertino company just got bigger, but the sad news is that Apple does not always use the technologies it patents. In some cases, it just patents some concepts just to make sure that other manufacturers don’t implement them in their products. This news comes just a couple of days after Apple obtained a patent for the three year-old design of its iTime smartwatch. Come to think of it, they might have made the right choice by naming their smartwatch so, as Swatch was ready to sue them, had they picked iWatch instead. Back to Apple’s 3D photography patents, though, the company intends to implement that technology using a single camera. How’s that important? In the past, both smartphone (HTC) and standalone camera (Fujifilm) manufacturers played with the idea of 3D photography, but their approach implied using two stereoscopic cameras. The results weren’t always satisfying, fact that prompted Apple to look for an alternative. iPhone’s 3D camera, assuming we’ll get to see one in the next iteration of Apple’s smartphone, will shoot in 3D by shifting the perspective while capturing the image. Not exactly a mind-blowing concept, but it should get the job done, assuming the patented technology is implemented correctly. The company has been fooling around with this concept in the past, as it submitted patents for 3D goggles and glasses-free 3D displays (two things that mutually exclude each other, if you ask me). The concept behind Apple’s perspective shifting camera is terribly simple and easy to implement, so the company should really get to it if it really means to differentiate somehow from such competitors as Google and Amazon. The Project Tango and the Fire smartphones each tackle 3D in a completely different manner, and ultimately serve different purposes. iPhone users could have a chance for once to have a somehow original feature in their overpriced smartphones. It remains to be seen what Apple plans to do with its newly acquired patents. Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories about the Apple patent that suggests curved screen for next iPhone, and the Apple patent that makes texting while driving less dangerous.    |
| Foursquare Gets a Facelift, Focuses on Personalization Posted: 23 Jul 2014 01:24 PM PDT  A couple of months ago, Foursquare decided to create the Swarm app for checking-in and displaying nearby friends. The most recent update removes the check-in functionality of the main app and concentrates on making Foursquare a more personal experience. Foursquare started in 2009 as a game. You could let the entire world (or just your friends) know where you are at a particular moment, and the more places you checked-in, the more points you obtained. Racing with friends to obtain supremacy week after week, or becoming the mayor of a particular spot was very fun, and actually encouraged you to visit more places or to become a regular in a location of your choice. This year, in May, Foursquare decided to focus on reviews, and created another app for checking-in, while still retaining some of that functionality in the main app. The new Foursquare, however, has none of that functionality, comes with a new logo, and made a goal from providing personalized recommendations of places you might like. With the new update, the recommendations are tailored according to each user’s taste. As soon as the users “add tastes, follow experts, or even just walk around for a few days,” the app starts getting an idea about what other places they would like to visit. Foursquare and Swarm now complement each other perfectly, but can be used independently, as well. Foursquare is also proud of its ever increasing userbase. In its most recent blog post, the company announced that it went past the 50 million user threshold, which is pretty impressive, considering the somehow limited functionality that this app used to have prior to the split. Locations used to be the most important aspect about being a Foursquare user, but now communities have a lot more emphasis. It’s important what others think of a place, and it’s equally important who you’re tagging while checking-in. What some users don’t realize is that Foursquare is an ideal tool for keeping track of the places you’ve visited, especially if you’re in a foreign city or country that you might visit again in the future. Knowing where you felt good or bad will definitely help you make better decisions in the future. Be social! Follow Walyou on Facebook and Twitter, and read more related stories about Foursquare’s Swarm app that shows nearby friends and lets you check-in, and how Microsoft invested $15M in Foursquare to get a slice of mobile data.    |
| Posted: 23 Jul 2014 12:14 PM PDT  DC Entertainment deemed that the 23rd of July would be Batman Day, so here we are, expecting to celebrate it. Batman has turned 75 years old this year, as DC celebrates his first appearance in the 27th issue of Detective Comics in 1939. Batman fans get to enjoy the comics, TV shows (both animated and live-action), movies, and even games. Although there is a lot of them out there, it’s hard to know before hand if they’re any good or not before you actually try them. So, here is our list of the most memorable ones ever since that first game from 1986 to the upcoming (in 2015) Arkham Knight. Click to view slideshow.    |
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