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Navigon 7200T GPS With 3D Landmarks & Lane Guidance Navigonhave announced their latest GPS, the 7200T, with real-time Clear Channel Total Traffic updates (and a lifetime subscription), “Reality View Pro”, which instantly creates on-screen lane and sign information to guide you through intersections, and “Landmark View 3D”, which displays 3D landmarks across the US and Canada. The 7200T also accepts voice entry destination setting, has text-to-speech for reading out street names, and can be used as a Bluetooth hands-free kit with your cellphone....

Sony’sPlaystation Blogrevealed today that an upcoming patch in anticipation ofBloodborne’sThe Old Hunters DLCwill feature a brand newCovenantfor players to participate in, calledThe League. From SCE Japan Producer Masaaki Yamagiwa: The League is a band of Hunters who have taken an oath and are bound by a single purpose. By aligning yourself to The League, led by a mysterious figure in a constable’s garb and bucket helmet, you can assist other players online in the game and compete in The League’s online rankings leaderboard....

Nokia Home Control Center Wireless Smart-Home System Announced Nokia has unveiled a cellphone-controlled “smart home” platform that will use Z-Wave and ZigBee enabled devices and a specially adapted WiFi draft-n gateway. NokiaHome Control Centeris being described as an “open platform” combining sensors, CCTV, wireless networks and mobile devices, usable both inside the home as well as remotely via any device with a web browser. The first products will concentrate on home heating management....

Oculus is making some changes to the way users connect with their account. Those changes will require you to log in to the software using a Facebook account in future. This was posted via anupdate on the company’s blog, announcing that the changes will start to happen in October 2020. From that month onwards, anyone using an Oculus device for the first time will be required to log in using a Facebook account....

In the past couple of years,PhilipsTVs, and its OLEDs in particular, have made the move from the underdogs to producing some of the best TVs you can buy - and often at more competitive prices than their rivals. This year, the OLED+907 is looking to continue that run of success. Sitting one step down from the flagship, the OLED+937, it brings great design, solid picture processing and the now long-standing partnership with Bowers & Wilkins to the table – not to mention, of course, Philips’Ambilight technology....

If you’re like me, then you don’t use every single setting that your iPhone comes with, and it would make life easier in the organization department if you could move around yourSettingsapp’s preference cells and hide the ones you don’t use. If this functionality sounds useful to you, thenPreferenceTag3, which is ajailbreak tweakyou can grab from Cydia for $1.99, is going to be your new best friend because it’ll let your organize your Settings app exactly how you like it....

Growing up, I never wanted to be the one stuck with a third-party controller when playing video games with friends. The negative stigma attached to third-party gamepads was impossible to ignore, butRazeris determined to make that feeling a thing of the past. The Wolverine V3 Pro aims to be one of the most innovative and precisely engineered third-partyXboxandPCgamepads on the market. I tested it across various games to see if it raises the bar....

Survival horror has received quite the shot in the arm as of late.The Callisto Protocol, Dead Space remake, and now the Resident Evil 4 remake are all coming out in a relatively quick succession of one. While remakes are a mixed bag, Dead Space has nailed the landing and many are wondering if Resident Evil 4 can do the same. The original is lauded as a classic and the Resident Evil 3 remake wasn’t as warmly received as the Resident Evil 2 remake....

Released back in 2010, Japanese game developer SWERY made his mark as an auteur with Deadly Premonition and what a mark it was. His little survival horror game turned out to be a bizarre beast, a being that was madness incarnate, one that had some critics calling it genius and others calling it other crap. The divide was so big that actually earned a Guinness World Record for “Most Critically Polarizing Survival Horror Game,” the type of extremely odd honor that only an extremely odd game like it could earn....

Visual novel developer Overdrive are well known both in and outside of Japan due to the vast majority of their games being released in English via MangaGamer. This continues with the release of Musicus! on PC (available on Steam and MangaGamer storefronts). Anyone who has ever played an Overdrive game before knows that they’re always extremely high-quality releases from visuals to audio to storyline. The company also adores long-form storytelling. Most of their titles regularly span over thirty hours to complete....

Roku Select TV Roku’s Select TV range is its affordable option. They are available in a healthy range of screen sizes from 24- to 75-inches, with HD and 4K HDR models, so there’s something for everyone. Roku only recently released its first own-branded TVs through exclusive retail partner Best Buy, but they are already available with some stunning discounts. TheRokuSelect and Roku Plus TV ranges include HD and 4K HDR sets in screen sizes from 24- to 75-inches....

The KremlinWikimedia Commons A new Russian law which makes it possible for the government to sever the country’s internet connections to the outside world has the support of less than a quarter of the population, but it’s coming into force anyway. The new “Runet” law is packaged as important for national security, but detractors are concerned that it could see the authorities cut off its citizens’ access to internet sites and services outside of Russia entirely....

Travel sickness is a huge problem for many, preventing reading, usingphones, tablets or laptops when riding in a car or other vehicle. It’s well known that most travel sickness comes from the confusion of looking at one fixed point while your body knows it’s moving around. You lose track of the horizon and your inner ear balance centres get all confused. Tablets, bands and a whole range of other techniques have been deployed to deal with the effects of motion sickness, but Citroën’s cutely-named Seetroën glasses are a pretty novel approach....