Real Tron Lightcycle Still Available

Way back at the end of June some really awesome and street legal full replicas of the Tron Lightcyclesfrom the new flick surfaced on eBay. At the time, the things were going for $35,000 each and there were five up for sale. It seems only one of the bikes sold at $35,000 on eBay.

The other four bikes are still available and the price has gone up to $55,000 each. If you still want one you can get one of them now and a video of the thing being ridden has surfaced along with the bikes. I can say from watching the video that not only does the music suck, but the sound from the V-Twin engine used is all wrong for the thing.

The bikes also look like they are very hard to ride despite being street legal. It appears that the bike won’t lean very far. Maybe it’s just the video. I still want one and I am going to buy a lottery ticket right now. If I win, I want the one with the hot chick on it.

Via Like Cool

Wheelsurf Monocycle Is One Expensive Ride

How much do you think it costs? It isn’t the product of a luxury brand nor does it target the upscale market. But it will set you back a considerable amount of money.

As indicated in the picture above, the passenger rides inside and leans toward the direction he/she wishes to go. There’s a handle brake too but the passenger can also lean back for a quick screeching stop.

If you’re wondering how the Wheelsurf runs it’s pretty simple—three smaller gears attached to the engine propel the giant blade that runs the vehicle. As you may have noticed the blade is designed in such a way that its width doesn’t obstruct the passenger’s view.

The Wheelsurf runs on a 21-cc Honda engine and can reach 25mph. That doesn’t put it on the same league as your favorite superbike but we’re thinking the Wheelsurf is better put to use somewhere fun and relaxing, like a park.

Having laid down the facts, the awful truth is this awesome ride will set you back $7,000 plus another grand for shipping.

Nokia Lumia 710 Appears On T-Mobile’s Website

The Nokia Lumia 710 is Nokia’s first Windows Phone smartphone to launch in the US, and it would appear that the device is getting closer to release as it has now been listed on the T-Mobile website.

Although T-Mobile haven’t listed an exact launch date as yet, as it is just listed as coming soon on their website, and the handset will be available for $50 after rebates when you sign up to a new two year contract.

As a reminder, the T-Mobile Nokia Lumia 800 features a 3.7 inch WVGA touchscreen display with an 800 x 480- pixel resolution, there is also 8GB of built in storage and a single core 1.4GHz processor, plus Windows Phone 7.5 Mango.

Other specifications include 512MB of RAM, plus a 5 megapixel camera with an LED flash and it can record HD video in 720p there is also a 1,300 mAh battery and it comes with Bluetooth 2.1, A-GPS, 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and a micro USB port.

Source Gadgetsteria

Cloud Backups Headed To Windows Phone?

It would appear that Microsoft is planning something new for their Windows Phone platform for 2012, according to a recent job listing for Microsoft, it looks like the company may bring some sort of backupand restore service to Windows Phone devices.

Come join the Windows Phone Backup, Migrate, and Restore team. Our goal is to ensure that no matter if someone loses their phone, drops their phone in a lake, buys a new windows phone, or just has their toddler wipe their phone by entering the wrong PIN over and over, a user can quickly and seamlessly get their phone back to a good state. The features we are producing will be new for the next version of Windows Phone and will help ensure Microsoft stays ahead of the competition when it comes to disasterrecovery. Come be a part of defining this area.

It is possible that Microsoft could use their existing Skydrive feature to bring backup and restore to Windows Phone smartphones, and the service could possibly launch with the next version of Windows Phone.

Google’s Nexus Android Tablet Coming In Six Months

We recently heard that Google are working on their own Android tablet, which is expected to be part of their Nexus range, the news was revealed by Google’s Eric Schmidt.

Now Schmidt has revealed that we will probably see the new Google Nexus tablet launch within the next six months, and he has described the device as the ‘highest quality.

It will be interesting to see what the Google Nexus tablet is like, Google is obviously hoping that their newAndroid tablet will be able to take on the Apple iPad which is currently dominating the tablet market.

Google Activates 3.7 Million Android Devices Over Christmas

Google’s Andy Rubin has announced that the company has activated over 3.7 million Android devices over Christmas, which include Christmas Eve and Christmas day.

That works out at around 1.85 million Android devices activated per day, which is quite an increase over the normal 700,000 devices that are normally activated every day.

UPDATE: There were 3.7M Android devices activated on 12/24 and 12/25.

It would be interesting to find out how many of those activations were for smartphones and how many were for tablets.

iPhone 5 Concept Design

We have been hearing rumors over the past few months of what features will be included in the newiPhone 5, now designer Michal Bonikowski has put together some of the rumors into a concept design of what he thinks the iPhone 5 may look like.

As you can see from the photos below, this concept design features a larger wider touchscreen display, something that has been rumored for a while, and also instead of the glass back on the iPhone 4, this has been replaced with an aluminum back cover similar to the iPad 2.

Of course the photos are just one person’s interpretation of what the iPhone 5 may look like, whether or not Apple’s design for the iPhone 5 will look anything like thos one remains to be seen.

Amazon Sold Over 4 Million Kindle Devices In December

It looks like the release of Amazon’s first Android tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire has helped the company boost sales of Kindle devices considerably for December, as Amazon has announced that they sold over 4 million Kindle devices in December.

Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch and Kindle were on the top three spots on Amazon’s best seller list for December, with the new Kindle Fire holding the top spot.

Unfortunately Amazon hasn’t split the sales of devices down, so we don’t know the actual number of Kindle Fire devices sold in December, we wonder if Amazon will have sold over the 5 million Kindle Fire devices by he end of the year that many analysts had predicted.

HP TouchPad Go Gets Reviewed (Video)

The last time we heard about HP’s unreleased webOS tablet, the HP TouchPad Go, the device had appeared on eBay, and now the guys from webOS Nation have released a video review of the tablet, which you can see below.

You can find out more details about the HP TouchPad Go review over at webOS Nation, and from the looks of it , the TouchPad go wasn’t a bad tablet.

Source Dvice

DIY 9V Battery USB Charger

If your looking for a neat DIY project this weekend then this DIY 9V Battery USB charger could be a fun gadgets to create, with only using a few components including a 9V battery, female USB port from an old PC and a small 5v regulator.

With some simple soldering viola you have a purpose built tiny portable USB charger for when you on the move which can be instantly recharged with an easily available  new 9v battery.

For full instruction on how to make the useful gadget pop over to Unplugged.

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Vintage Blade Runner Concept Sketches Made Public

Warning: They will blow your mind. If you think Syd Mead is the most badass concept artist to ever consult for Hollywood productions, get a load of Ridley Scott’s own contributions (plus a few others). Mr. Scott of Alien and Gladiator fame is legend for his detailed storyboarding. In fact, he’s right up there with James Cameron when it comes to mad drawing skills. Not kidding—the spaceships on Aliens and the nude sketch of Kate Winslet on Titanic? James Cameron’s work. No wonder both directors have a proclivity for epic films. Though Mr. Scott’s oeuvre is a bit more eclectic.

Above is the drab cover for the book where the vaunted sketches are found; it has been out of print for ages now.

Anyway, back in 1982 when Blade Runner was released to negative acclaim ( a condition that usually certifies a cult movie), a sketchbook was outed to promote the films lavish take on sci-fi noir. The resulting selection of drawings are wonderfully retrogressive portraits of the human imagination circa three decades ago. Rally, it’s Syd Mead who’s the real winner here. Along with H.R. Giger, he’s the only other artist whose career was boosted by an association with Ridley Scott.

View them thru a slideshow. It’s worth several minutes awesomeness.

i+Case Aluminum iPhone 4S Case Looks Awesome

We have featured quite a few different cases for the iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 here at Geeky Gadgets, the latest one is called the i+Case and it was designed by Jason Valalik and Chungming Ying.

The i+Case is similar in design to Apple’s iPhone 4 bumper case, but what we can see from the photos it looks a lot better, and each one is machined from a single block of aluminum.

The i+Case is a Kickstarter project, but it looks like the designers have already raised twice as much as they needed to put it into production, when it goes on sale it will be available for $65 on a range of colors.