Designers create Leica camera case concept that houses and utilizes an iPhone 4. Black DA has come up with an incredible phone case concept that combines the Leica camera’s retro style and lens with the convenience and practicality of the iPhone 4. Called the “dream project”, the designers over at Black have come up with much more than just a simple camera case attachment. Going above and beyond expectations, the Leica I9 concept features an independent camera body that works with its own hardware rather than relying on the iPhone’s processor.

The case itself utilizes the phone’s 30-pin connector to transfer images directly to the phone which would allow for the use of real camera features rather than emulated features from the phone. This means users will be able to use a true optical zoom, complete with shutter dials and dedicated aperture. Of course with a case of this quality, Black DA is estimating that the production would lead to a case cost of around $900-$1,200, unfortunately out of the range of many of the consumers that would love to have it.

Official 2012 BMW M5 images have leaked onto the Internet as the latest iteration of the legendary M model prepares to charge toward showrooms. The F10 M5 is flared and aero-ed up with bodywork that maintains a buttoned-up demeanor even as it radiates aggression. Onlookers can tell the M5 is a special car with its enlarged air intakes in the front fascia, quartet of tailpipes and 20-inch wheels with Z-rated tires, but it doesn’t need to be festooned with wings and bling to make its point.

The 2012 M5 is about more than mere surface beauty, after all. The sonorous V10 of the last M5 has been traded out for a twin-turbocharged V8 fist. Power is up, with 552 horsepower (the V10 produced 507 hp) coming on at 6,000 rpm – 1,750 rpm lower than the V10. Torque is hugely boosted from 383 pound-feet to 501 lb-ft, which will be great for shoving this car to 60 miles per hour in a reported 4.4 seconds. That’ll route to the rear wheels via a standard dual-clutch transmission, though a proper six-speed stick will reportedly be available in the United States.

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Designed by Jacek Holubowicz, this fun-loving sofa bike is an innovative and comfortable new way for two to enjoy a nice bicycle ride together. Equipped with two complete separate 8-gear hubs and hydraulic brakes, this couch has all of the functions you could ask for out of a bicycle. Complete with an innovative dynamic chain steering system, the driver of the couch is able to easily navigate and steer the sofa using a lever attached to the left armrest.

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Nvidia said the PC version of Duke Nukem Forever will support 3D Vision. The company has also teamed up with EVGA to offer a special GeForce GTX 560 bundle.

The long-awaited, highly-anticipated Duke Nukem 3D sequel from 3D Realms, Gearbox Software and 2K Games arrives on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC in North America tomorrow, June 14. But just one day prior to its release, Nvidia has announced that the PC version will feature support for the company’s 3D Vision technology. Read more…

Xbox Live will be integrated into Windows 8, and will likely be similar to the service offered on the console, combining Live Messenger, Zune, Games for Windows Marketplace and more.

During an E3 2011 interview with the Seattle Times, vice president of global marketing at Microsoft’s Interactive Entertainment Business group Mike Delman said that Xbox Live will be integrated into Windows 8. The revelation was made after the paper admitted that it was surprised more wasn’t revealed about the connections between the Xbox 360 and WP7 devices during Microsoft’s press event. Read more…

Before you indulge that sudden, irresistible desire to purchase two recent PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 games, allow us to pass along some helpful information. Best Buy is offering a buy one, get one half-off deal on several PS3 and Xbox 360 games including Dirt 3, Portal 2, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Red Faction: Armageddon, and Crysis 2. Yes, that’s a number of new games indeed.

You could even double up on Duke Nukem Forever and Homefront, if that’s what you’re into for some reason. Regardless of the critical response to the Duke, it’s pretty impressive to get a 50% off deal on a brand new game like that.

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I’m not sure who messed around with the hackers, but it seemed that they have their eyes on the gaming industries lately. Hacker group LulzSec, the same group that’s attacked Sony and Nintendo in the past, has tweeted that it’s committed three distributed denial of service attacks against gaming companies today, bringing down EVE Online’s Tranquility server, Minecraft’s multiplayer services, and the Escapist Magazine’s website.

EVE Online’s CCP has confirmed both the outage and the attack, the Escapist is unreachable at the moment, and Minecraft creator Notch says that things were down, but supposedly service has been restored. LulzSec hasn’t shared a reason for the attacks just yet, but we can only guess it’s, as they say, “for teh lulz.”

When you buy computers, you’ll do research on their hardware specs, but not for consoles. Well at least they’re not famous for their hardware specs. Even if someone tells you that Sony’s PS3 is powered by a vector-type Cell processor, you won’t know what that means.

And so, Nintendo announced their next Wii, which is the Wii U Wii U which sounds like the police’s siren. Apparently Nintendo’s Wii U console will come packing a custom Radeon GPU with a chip similar to the R770, and that the chip is competitively stronger than the GPUs of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but will you care? No…

Anyway, the chip is said to run DirectX 10, and is capable of handling four SD video streams — presumably only one of those streams will be necessary, however, given Shigeru Miyamoto’s statements about the WiiPad. As GAME Watch points out, the Xbox 360 was limited to a variation of DirectX 9, while the PS3 employs OpenGL APIs.

But now we’ve gone right off the deep end — what we’re trying to say is this: the Wii U has a pretty decent graphical processor. Or, more simply, Wii U games will look good, and likely even better than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games. There, that wasn’t so bad!

Last gen… that should be the Radeon Cypress which is considered quite impressive and will easily runs games with high settings on 1080p smoothly, well… almost all games anyway.

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