You’ll be hard pressed to find an iPhone or Android phone owner who hasn’t indulged in a sadistic game of some furious birds that act like a bomb. Some people just loves using birds as catapult bombs shooting at plague ridden piggy. Well if you’re in Guangzhou, China, you’ll be able to take your unhealthy obsession offline, literally.

Grab your three stars in style with only a Red bird to slaughter those pigs. Unfortunately you won’t be able to use special birds like the green boomerang, blue splitting one or everyone’s favourite: the fat red bugger. Wonder what the mighty eagle would do on this version. Sadly the pigs are not portrait with real pigs. There are also no history lines, and no falling tents.

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Here’s another phone by Motorola after announcing Bionic. It’s called the CLIQ 2, and apparently it’s a slide out keypad smartphone with a very odd honeycomb design QWERTY keyboard. This set packs a 1GHz processor, 5MP shooter with dual-LED, WiFi calling, a hotspot for up to 5 devices, and a 3.7-inch FWVGA (854×480) display. Currently it’s loaded with Froyo, but do expect Gingerbread to be available soon. Look for these on T-Mobile shelves on January 19th, but no price is given at the moment.

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LG’s main show at CES might be their smartphones the Optimus 2X and Optimus Black, but that’s not the only thing that they brought along to Vegas. It’s a trio of Pico projectors. The HW300T is the most intriguing of the lot, as it boasts a built-in ATSC tuner and wireless DLNA for streaming content from your PC, all with a 1200 x 800 WXGA resolution. It’s powered by the new TI DLP Pico HD chipset, which translates to great than 100-inch HD video projection and the brightest pico projection to date.

The trio is also made up of the slightly older HX350T, which also has a built-in ATSC tuner, but nixes the DLNA support, as well as the HS200(G), which holds up the lower end of the spectrum with its SVGA res. However, calling these projectors Pico is kinda overrated, as they don’t look very Pico to me. We’ve seen a number of Pico projectors and they do fit in my pocket, but not these. I’ll need a bag at least.

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It seemed that Android 3.0 might be exclusively for tablets, as the video below comes with the word “Entirely for tablet”. The UI seemed to be fun, and very much hard cored to large touchscreen panels like tablets. Customized YouTube app and Gmail app are a plus feature to me.

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It seemed that Angry Birds will be like Starbucks, they’re everywhere. From iOS to Android to Windows Phone, now they’re invading our typical desktop, the Microsoft Windows! Thanks to Intel’s AppUp centre, you can get Angry Birds right on your PC. But lo and behold, don’t be too happy yet. Unlike on the Android platform where it’s available for free or the iOS version available for a mere USD$0.99, Angry Birds on your PC will cost a whopping USD$9.99, rather expensive if you ask me for only 195 levels (initially). But don’t worry, there’ll be a special promotional price of USD$4.99, still expensive, but at least you get to shave off half the price.

Compatible with Windows 7 and XP operating systems, Angry Birds PC version will be available at www.appup.com. Yes the price is outrageous compared to their ‘mobile’ version, but you do get free updates and additional levels to the game in the future and in addition, there will be unique enhancements not found in the mobile version and yes, it’ll be free. Hopefully that’s worth the ten bucks paid. It seems like the company who developed the game, Rovio, is also working on a Mac version of Angry Birds for Apple Mac Store, which should be live now.

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Parrot may seem to be a very noisy bird to some outside of US, but here in the States it’s a company that has its core in range of automotive connectivity devices. This time, like everybody is doing it, they’ve stuffed an Android into the company’s latest stereo head unit. Fancy Android Apps in your car’s audio headunit? Probably not.

Anyway, the Parrot Asteroid comes with a 3.2-inch screen, jog wheel as usual, mic and SD card slot (which is rare), but also standard Android buttons for menu and back. What’s more intriguing are the pre-installed apps and what’s on the back. The rear sports four USB inputs, one dedicated to an iDevice and another ready to accept a portable data card to connect to the internet. But more importantly, Parrot will be releasing an SDK to developers so they can create their own apps and sell them through a yet-to-be-established Parrot Asteroid store. Very ambitious right? No price announced yet by the singing Parrot, but they’re expecting a Q2 release in this year. Now that’s what I call Android in everything. Now all we need is Android in your microwave and kitchen sink.

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Microsoft has officially announced Avatar Kinect for their highly popular console Xbox 360. Thus far, this service is only available for Xbox Live Gold members only. The idea about Avatar Kinect is to let you virtually hang out with your “friends” at home, something like video conference but with an animated you in the cyberspace of your television. But the important part here is that Kinect will be able to detect facial gestures like eyebrows, smiles, and laughs. Not that I’m super surprised, but we do see quite a huge amount of impressive Kinect hacks from the public.

Just like when Samsung launch their Galaxy Tab, Motorola is also following the same footsteps of offering lots of accessories for their upcoming Xoom Honeycomb tablets so that the market can be moved forward without any problem. Well, accessories are an important thing for a gadget. If there’s no accessory for a certain specific gadget, that means the market for it is cold, and retailers will not like that.

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