Here’s something to brighten up your tuesday morning. Type the words ‘Atari Breakout’ into google images to launch the old school game ‘Atari Breakout’ right in your browser. Smash up the results with the your bat and ball. How cool 
Google are celebrating the 37th birthday of the Atari Game ‘Breakout’ Created by Nolan Bushnell and Steve Bristow in 1976. It was based on the 1972 game, Pong.
Careful, you could easily lose a day playing this! What’s your score?
We have some amazing news from Andrew Bell and Dead Zebra today, a brand new series of Mini Collectibles has been announced and will be available very soon at the My Gadget Tree Store.
Designer Shane Jessup has joined forces with Dead Zebra to create the new series ‘Lucky Cat’. The series features 12 different cats in 9 different colors, each with its own accessory and a swinging arm. Bring wealth, prosperity and protection into your home or business by collecting ‘Lucky Cats’. Stay tuned for a full review of this collection.
The lucky cat has its place in history, there are a number of interpretations of the colors, styles and arms of the ‘Maneki Neko‘ (Lucky Cat). See below some suggestions:
Gold (right arm up, with collar coin) : Luck in Wealth, Good Fortune
White (right arm up, with collar coin) : General Good Luck / Purity
Black (right arm up, with collar coin) : Safety, Protection from Evil
Purple (right arm up, with collar bell) : Luck in Health, Beauty
Pink (left arm up, with collar bell) : Luck in Relationship
Red (left arm up, with collar bell) : Protection from Illness
Green (right arm up, with notebook) : Luck in Studies
Yellow (right arm up, with red envelope) : Luck in Marriage
Blue (left arm up, with notebook) : Luck in Career
Gold (left arm up, with Koban coin) : Business Prosperity
White (left arm up, with Koban coin) : General Good Luck in Business
Black (left arm up, with Koban coin) : Business Protection
Check out some sneak peak pics below:
OK it can be a little frustrating purchasing an Android Mini Collectables Series 3 Blind Box, only to find that you already have the design in the box. Before now you would have to keep purchasing sealed blind boxes in the hope that you will get the design that you require. We at My Gadget Tree decided to open up a ton of blind boxes for you so that you can pick and choose your designs at will
Looking for 8 Ball Hustler, or Google Nexus? or how about the rarer than a rocking horse Agent Argh Orange Chase Figure by Scott Tolleson? We’ve got them all, mosey on down to the My Gadget Tree Store and GET YOURS NOW!
So the Phillips Hue ipad/iphone controlled LED light bulbs were released today and are now availabe in the Apple Store for $199. So this got me thinking, you could have some great fun with these over halloween. Stick a horror movie on and change the colour to red – even better if your feeling cruel, change the bulbs in the house without telling anyone. Then on halloween, give them a fright and change the bulb colours remotely!!
For those of you that love all things #android your gonna love this android mini collectable with a unique halloween design by Andrew Bell. If you were an 80′s kid then you will likely remember the film ‘teen wolf’ right? Check this out:
So this Special Edition Android Mini Collectable will go on sale at 11pm EDT (3am GMT) tonight (30th Oct) at the Dead Zebra Store and then again on Halloween morning October 31st at llam EDT (3.00pm GMT).
As you likely already know these little critters get snapped up very quickly so if you want one you will need to be quick!
If you love this little fella don’t forget we have limited stock left of the third series of Android Mini Collectables available at the My Gadget Tree Store
Apple have just posted up it’s so called ‘apology‘ to Samsung as forced to do so after a UK court ruling following apple’s recent case against Samsung. This cheeky statement is not even remotely apologetic and cleverly manages to slate Samsung and its Galaxy Tab by quoting a remark from the judge that the Galaxy Tab is ‘Not Cool’!
The Samsung Galaxy Tab
The Apple Ipad
The post itself is titled ‘Samsung/Apple UK Judgement’ and begins by summarising the result of the appeal with the court ruling in favour of the Galaxy Tab which does ‘ not infringe Apple’s registered design …’.
The statement then goes on to quote the judge firstly stating the design of the Ipad:
“The extreme simplicity of the Apple Design is striking”
Again to quote the judge:
“It’s a cool design”
Apple then cleverly quote the judge in reference to the Galaxy Tab vs the Ipad:
“Samsung Products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back. They do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design.”
“They are not as cool”
Those are direct references from the judge that ruled in favour of Samsung.
Apple finally go on to emphasise the fact that cases in Germany and the US ruled in favour of Apple resulting in over 1 billion US Dollars in damages to Apple.
The closing statement summarises apples remaining stance on the matter:
“So while the U.K. court did not find Samsung guilty of infringement, other courts have recognized that in the course of creating its Galaxy tablet, Samsung willfully copied Apple’s far more popular iPad.”
It will be interesting to see if Samsung respond to this cheeky statement by Apple. Samsung’s original response to the ruling is below:
“We continue to believe that Apple was not the first to design a tablet with a rectangular shape and rounded corners and that the origins of Apple’s registered design features can be found in numerous examples of prior art.”
Scott Tolleson Rare Chaser Model - "Agent Argh" Orange
So we had lots of cases of these Android Collectables piled up in the office just staring at us, we couldn’t resist opening a case and taking a peak at what’s inside. It really is true you are guaranteed to receive 12 unique Android collectables in case of 16, we even found an ultra rare orange chase design by Scott Tolleson in our box!
Check out the vid now on youtube:
The My Gadget Tree Office is literally filling up with stock, we are literally surrounded by boxes at the moment. We’re expecting a busy Christmas this year if last year is anything to go by! Keep an eye on the store and the blog over the next few weeks for our christmas specials. You can order GummyLamps and Android Collectables at the My Gadget Tree store now.
The third series of the ever popular Android Toys from Dead Zebra and Andrew Bell are on the way to the My Gadget Tree store, we’ve had lot’s of pre-orders already and are expecting stock to sell out very very quickly. Expected arrival date is now 12/10/12 so get your pre-orders in now to secure your toys. There will only be one single production run making this the most collectable set so far!
The guys over at DKE Toys have also posted nice round up of all the designs available from artists such as Google, Andrew Bell, Gary Ham, Huck Gee, KaNO, MAD, KRONK, Kelly Denato, Scott Tolleson and Sket One.
Pre order Android Toys Series 3 Now for just £10.99
Also at My Gadget Tree in our Android Collectables section you will find the latest Android Foundry Mouse Mats available in 3 different designs, along with some cool hexagonal display cases store your Android Collectables plus any other vinyl toys. If you are thinking of buying for christmas please don’t leave it too late we only have limited stock!
Android Foundry Cloth Mouse Mats
Android Foundry Plastic Mouse Mats
As per our previous post ‘Android Toys Series 3 – Taking Pre-Orders Now‘, we are indeed now taking orders for the latest series of the Android Mini Collectables. Approx 500 pcs are winging their way over to us from DKE Toys but they will sell fast, Pre-Order Android Toys S3 Now. We are really excited about these, check out some of the fantastic designs over at the dyzplastic blog ‘Meet the Androids.’
Also spotted is this cool little fella, an android inside an android, how cool!:
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