Next generation iPhone front panel on video

Over the past few days we’ve seen pictures of what are supposed to be next generation iPhone parts and schematics of the front panel. Today we have a video posted by Japanese blog Macotakara showing off alleged front panel for the next-generation iPhone. Check the video after the break.

Controversial Carmageddon coming to Android and iOS soon

In the history of video games that are some titles that hit the headlines for a number of reasons that wasn’t always positive ones, and today we have news that the controversial Carmageddon is coming to iOS and Android soon.

The original Carmageddon that was banned in a number of countries because the game encouraged players to run down pedestrians in an attempt to gain bonus points, and according an article on Pocket Gamer the game will be coming available on both the Android and iOS platforms in the summer. The game was originally released on the PC in 1997 but due to its content was quickly banned in some countries, and it will be the complete version of the original game but with some changes.

MIT students manage to turn bananas into touchpads

If you believe keyboards are too old-school for you and you also don’t like touchscreens, then two MIT students might have a solution for you. They have invented the MaKey MaKey, a kit which allows you to turn virtually every object into a touchpad.

The two final-year MIT PhD students have launched the project on Kickstarter, with the goal of raising $25,000 in funding. While Kickstarted is a very popular website for launching new concept ideas, along with the fact that their is really unique and out of the box, they managed to raised already $360,895 and they still have 11 days remaining. Until now over 7,500 people pledged their concept.

If you are a geek curious to know how this thing works, then you should probably head over to their page where they explain accordingly. But, in short, they use a printed circuit board with an ATMega32u4 microcontroller running Arduino Leonardo bootloader and it uses a HID to communicate with your PC.