Apple is working on a video game console

Apple is working on a video game console

According to a rumor posted on the page Cult of Mac, Apple would be trying to return to the video game market as it would be working on a home console with a help of people from Valve.

As reported by this site Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, visited the Valve offices located in Bellevue, Washington last week. The reason for this visit would be that Cook is looking for advice to launch a TV device to be launched later this year under the Apple brand and would be a "game console type Kinect  .According to the news system would be based on touch and motion controls, possibly via a touch screen that would come with the TV and is supplemented by the use of voice controls Siri style.

These rumors are in addition to reports that Valve is trying to enter the console market, after the company posted a job on your site looking for hardware engineers. According to the announcement Valve is looking to create "fully play experiences new ", and we have also reported the company attempts to investigate the field of augmented reality and computers to clothing. Nor Valve or Apple or have confirmed these rumors so far.

This would not be Apple's first attempt to enter the market for video game consoles. The company teamed up in 1995 to launch Bandai Pippin, a multimedia console based on the Macintosh operating system including Internet connection, something totally innovative for its time. However, the system was a complete failure as due to its high cost (600 dollars) less than 50,000 units sold so Bandai decided to withdraw from the market. But Pippin had one merit: it ranked 22 in the list of "worst tech products of history" of the magazine PC World. Looking for be ranked 21??

Top 3 PS Vita free applications

Top 3 PS Vita free applications

After the good response to previous applications at the launch of PS Vita . Sony has announced via its official blog three new free applications that will help further leverage the unique capabilities of the portable system.

The first one will be available for download this week: called Paint Park, which become system touch screen in a blank canvas to unleash our inner artist.  The work that we draw, or simply using a pen garabateemos neutral background or a photo we make. This app also has aspects of social connectedness, as users can share their artwork and even compete with up to five friends in online multiplayer mode via Ad Hoc.

Later, and in summer, Sony will release Treasury Square, an app that will allow us to create your own puzzles and challenge other users. Where we can use the 'near' and the 3G connection to search puzzles to play them and share them anywhere.

Finally, the third application will be Wake Up Club, which will make the Sony handheld in an alarm clock can also synchronize with other users Vitas having set his alarm for the same time as us.

Indeed, it seems that Sony is betting on integrating new applications go to your laptop at the moment are not much, but if we give them away, we can not hold them all and if it serve us hang out, the better

VIDEO - Monkeys playing Angry birds reaching 3 stars

Monkeys are able to play Angry birds.

Sasha and Thor are two capuchin monkeys showing a YouTube video that even the simplest mind can pick up the mechanics of the game Rovio: drag the bird in the slingshot and launch.

 Someone in the furniture store Gallery Furniture in Houston, Texas (USA), has left an iPad 3 apes to prove their expertise in Angry Birds Space.

The truth is that the two dominant enough mechanics and even Thor gets three stars on one level.  The people of Gallery Furniture has seen this as a promotional strategy and encourage people to visit to see the video to see it live.

Sasha and Thor are two capuchin monkeys showing a YouTube video that even the simplest mind can pick up the mechanics of the game Rovio: drag the bird in the slingshot and launch.

 Someone in the furniture store Gallery Furniture in Houston, Texas (USA), has left an iPad 3 apes to prove their expertise in Angry Birds Space.

The truth is that the two dominant enough mechanics and even Thor gets three stars on one level.  The people of Gallery Furniture has seen this as a promotional strategy and encourage people to visit to see the video to see it live.