Adobe Photoshop CS6 Sneak Peak: Content Aware Move Tool (video)

Adobe has released another sneak peak at its new Photoshop CS6 software, with the launch of a video demonstrating the softwares new content-aware move feature. In addition to a new Patch Tool for selecting where you want to Content Aware Fill from, Photoshop CS6 will also come with a new feature called a Content Aware Move tool that lets you easily move portions of your photographs around and extend them intelligently. Watch the video after the jump to see it in action.

Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes, has created a video to demonstrate the new feature, and shares how to seamlessly move or remove an object from an image.

Adobe still has yet to announce a release date for their new Photoshop CS6 software, but the new features being showcased by Adobe will also be available in the new Adobe Creative Cloud service that will roll out later this year.

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Genius Cavimanus Virtual 7.1 Vibrating Gaming Headset Announced (video)

Genius has announced the addition of a new headset to its range in the form of the Cavimanus, a virtual 7.1 professional gaming headset.The virtual 7.1 channel system is equipped with 40mm neodymium driver units, together with a unique vibration function. 

Specifications include: microphone sensitivity of -39+/-3 dB, and speaker frequency response: 20Hz~20KHz, impedance: 32ohm and sensitivity: 96dB.

The Genius Cavimanus virtual 7.1 professional gaming headset is also fitted with a handy easy to reach volume control on the ear cup and a fold-away microphone which can be moved out of the way when not in use, and is uni-directional to capture voice audio without any background noise.

The Genius Cavimanus virtual 7.1 gaming headset is now available to purchase for around $80 and comes complete with a anti-corrosive gold-plated USB jack on a 2.5m cable, to provide a high quality connection. You can also view the range of other pro gaming peripherals created by Genius in the video below.

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Android Market Now Installs Apps On Officially Unsupported Devices

Google has this week rolled out a new update for its Android Market place, which has added support for additional unofficially supported devices. The new devices to now be included within the Android Market for applications to be installed on them include : HP TouchPad, Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, and Amazon Kindle Fire.

So if you have loaded Android on to any devices that didn’t originally ship with Android, you can now enjoy a simple install process directly from the Android Market.

But be aware the Android Market will also recognise some apps you might have installed from non-Android Market sources, and will try to update them but will fail.

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SanDisk X100 SSD Promises Speed and Storage Capacity

Earlier today, we talked about the new SanDisk Extreme SSD that debuted and briefly mentioned the X100. I am going to talk a little bit more about the X100 now. The new SSD will be offered in capacities from 32GB to 512GB and uses MLC technology inside. The drives plugin to various ports depending on the model.

SanDisk will offer the new X100 in several form factors, including designs for the desktop, netbook, and notebook user. The drives are very power efficient needing 150mW when active and 75mW when on standby. The drives are rated for up to 2 million hours mean time between failure.

Performance is up to 500 MB per second sequential read and up to 420 MB per second sequential write. It appears that the drive will be offered to PC makers in volume shipments only, no retail pricing is offered.

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Sky Go UK Arriving On Android February 22nd

If you are looking forward to the launch of Sky Go in the UK for Android devices, you will be pleased to learn that you will not have to wait much longer. The Sky Go app will let you watch on demand content from Sky on your Android smartphone or tablet and will be arriving next week.

Sources close to the launch of the new Sky Go Android application in the UK have now revealed to the Tech Radar website. That the new Sky Go application will be arriving in the Android Market on or slightly before the 22nd February.

Sky have said that the application will be available for a number of different devices at launch which include the HTC Desire, Desire S, Desire HD, Incredible S, the HTC Sensation, Samsung Galaxy S and the Samsung Galaxy S II, with other device being added after launch.

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LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series Storage Now Available

LaCie has today started shipping their new LaCie 2big Thunderbolt storage solutions with the 4TB LaCie costing $650, and the larger 6TB costing a hefty $800. Originally announced during CES 2012 back in January, the LaCie 2big offer speeds up to 327MB/s, together with hot-swappable disks, RAID security, and of course the ability to daisy chain them together using the new Thunderbolt ports.

To offer a comparison the LaCie 2big offers speeds up to three times faster than FireWire 800, and daisy chaining multiple 2bigs can can provide you with up to 676MB/s. Meaning 1TB of data – equivalent to nearly 235,000 MP3′s, 750 iTunes movies, or more than 450,000 photos, can be transferred in less than an hour.

The LaCie 2big Thunderbolt storage solutions feature two Thunderbolt ports and will sport dual cooling methods, one of which will be achieved through its heat-dispersing aluminium shell, and the other using a fan.

The LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series is now available to purchase at the LaCie Online Store and LaCie Storage Partners, worldwide, and an 8Tb version is currently being developed by LaCie and will be available soon they say.

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