Have you tried Amazing Alex yet - Amazing Alex (for Android) Review

Have you tried Amazing Alex yet - Amazing Alex (for Android) Review

Rovio, the maker of app "drug" Angry Birds, has actually managed to follow up with an even better game, Amazing Alex (Free or $0.99 for premium). Even though Rovio acquired the game from an indie developer, it's been given the addictive Rovio treatment: lots of short, fast, physics-based challenges that make it difficult to put down. Apple iOS users are already sucked in. According to Apple, Amazing Alex became the number one paid iPhone app in the U.S. on its first day.

But while testing this on Android, I felt the gravitational force too. There's no flinging or violence against animals in this game. In the terribly-named Amazing Alex, you rearrange toys and household items to create a Rube Goldberg machine. As an item drops on your design, it sets off a chain reaction that sends existing objects richoceting off each other; your goal is to collect the three stars located in every challenge board by hitting them with these objects. For $0.99, you get loads of game time and a good mix-up of challenges to keep your noodle flexed.

Fortunately for most of the world's smartphone users, Rovio launched iOS and Android versions of the app at the same time. Sorry, nothing for the less than two percent of you out there using Windows Phone. I tested Amazing Alex on a Galaxy Nexus with Android 4.0, but with all the objects on screen it'd be more fun playing this on a larger screen.

Dull Storyline But Fun Gameplay

It doesn't really detract from gameplay but I wasn't excited about the storyline or simplistic graphics. Amazing Alex puts you in the role of a generic-looking kid named Alex, a "whiz kid with a boundless imagination and a houseful of fun toys" which is far less creative (and controversial) than the violent birds in Angry Birds.

Every new challenge board presents you with a few items: three point-amassing stars, random objects to build your Rube Goldberg device, and a trigger object?like a balloon or magic eight ball?that starts off the chain reaction. Drag objects around your screen to rearrange re-orient them. When you hit the "play" button, the trigger object starts your Domino effect. Unlike in Angry Birds, you can take as many turns as you need to pass each challenge board. It'd be more fun to limit this, however.

What keeps this game interesting is that every level presents different objects with different levels of kinetic energy. ?Furthermore, a dollar buys you more than 100 challenge boards, spread across four levels?classroom, backyard, bedroom, and tree house. But even after you've completed them all, you're not done yet.

After you pass the classroom level (containing 16 challenges), the app unlocks a fifth level, My Levels, where you can create your own challenge boards and share them with the Amazing Alex community.

Once you've created a level, which can take anywhere from 30 seconds to hours depending on how difficult you make it, you can share a download URL for other Amazing Alex players.

Angry Birds was like a comfort-food app and something I could play on a train without straining my eyes. Amazing Alex, not so much. But if your Angry Birds addiction is wearing off, Amazing Alex is a fun, much more challenging alternative.

 

Deceptively Easy

Amazing Alex starts off easy, with arrows showing you exactly how to align objects for your Rube Goldberg effect. But by the ninth frame you're on your own. That when the fun starts.

 

Level Two

For $0.99 you get four levels with more than a hundred challenge boards among them. Every level mixes up the setting and objects, which keeps the game from becoming as monotonous as Angry Birds. Pictured above is Level 2, the bedroom. 

Three Stars

The goal of every Amazing Alex challenge is to collect three stars, by hitting them with your Rube Goldberg machine. You have an endless number of opportunities to capture three stars. 

 

Create Your Own Level

After you finish level 1 the app unlocks a DIY challenge toolkit, where you can easily create and share your own challenge boards. An easy challenge takes minutes to create, though you could probably spend an hour making a very difficult one.

Now you can blur your faces in YouTube videos - YouTube unveils face-blurring tool

YouTube unveils face-blurring tool

Video website YouTube unveiled on Wednesday a way for users to automatically blur human faces in videos they upload, a feature that would help protect the identities of political dissidents, YouTube parent Google Inc said.

Once known more as a repository for fuzzy, home-made cat videos, YouTube has become a growing destination for slick, highly produced entertainment and serious news content. Earlier this week, a study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism said amateur "citizen journalism" footage from events such as the 2011 tsunami in Japan were some of the most-watched clips on YouTube.

In recent months YouTube has hosted dozens of videos from the rebellion in Syria, often uploaded by rebels seeking to publicize their struggle. But the videos have also revealed the identity of rebel fighters.

"Whether you want to share sensitive protest footage without exposing the faces of the activists involved, or share the winning point in your 8-year-old's basketball game without broadcasting the children's faces to the world, our face blurring technology is a first step towards providing visual anonymity for video on YouTube," YouTube said in a blog post Wednesday.

The feature also allows for the original copy of the uploaded video to be deleted. Videos may also be kept private.

"YouTube is proud to be a destination where people worldwide come to share their stories, including activists," YouTube said.

38% Indians don‘t use password on phones

38% Indians don‘t use password on phones

A survey by Norton said that 72 percent of the online population in India possesses at least one mobile phone, which is less than the number of people who own a computer (92 percent).

The company recently released a survey on Indians' mobile phone usage habits, the importance of their personal information, and their level of understanding when it comes to mobile security.

While 90 per cent of respondents access the internet via their computers, almost half of the population (48 percent) use their phones to access the internet, highlighting the evident need for Indians to stay connected. The top online mobile phone activities include social networking (60 percent), reading the news (44 percent) and online messaging (42 percent). These activities are closely followed by mobile banking and payments (34 percent), location-based tasks, including navigation (25 percent) and online shopping (24 percent).

Though 60 percent Indians acknowledge mobile threats are real, almost 38% of the mobile users in India do not use passwords to protect their phones, a very simple action that can help to protect personal information in the event of loss or theft of the device, the survey said. Additionally, 17 percent are not aware if they can remotely track their phone using GPS navigation software. These findings somewhat reflect the lack of mobile security knowledge among Indian mobile users, the survey said.

Will the Facebookers stop doing these Frigging things in Facebook

 If in a public conversation you admit that you are not on Facebook, some people might mistake you for being ultra orthodox or downright naive, one who knows nothing about the virtues of social networking.

Few may even believe you do not wish to do a social tango with them. It is a reality that there is a little bit of Facebook in every connected urbanite's life and everybody seems addicted. Some more than others! 

When was the last you saw your friends discussing thermal dynamics, or the finer aspects of spirituality on Facebook? Blah! Everybody's 'friends' are actually busy doing some downright silly stuff that can put any sane person off in real life. But what the heck, it is a Facebook life, so who cares? 

There are a number of things the idle Facebook users do with their 'friends', on their walls, in their inbox and even in groups. And no, we are not being suggestive. Here is a list of 9 most random things Facebookers do. Read on... 




 Random Friends Requests


Every Facebook user has to brave this. And girls obviously face it far more than guys. The most common sight often noticed by users upon login is "New friend request -- Zero mutual friends?"

In fact, most women would agree that 7 out of 10 requests are from random, unknown people who are not even remotely connected to them either through a common friend, or a mutual friend. No wonder many people like to keep their Facebook content protected from random surfers. 

Facebook is not Twitter

Facebook says "What's on your mind?" It doesn't ask you "What are you doing now?" But come hail, come shine, there are some chronic Facebook addicts who like to use FB as their virtual diary and keep updating their status with minute-by-minute account of what they are doing, or would like to. In short, announcement of their every movement causes a flood of notifications and status updates on other users' Wall. Boredom at its best? 

Unwanted app spam

Real party Invitations can make you feel important but sometimes unnecessary invitations coming your way on Facebook can be annoying. Particularly when you do not want to plant a virtual tree, or adopt a pet from somebody's virtual zoo, or bother if your FB friend has become a mayor of zombie land!

Ranging from Glassdoor connections to becoming a neighbour in Farmville and all the other "Ville" requests can irk you because by sending these requests, your idle friends not just expose you to the third-party app spam leading to a flurry of notifications, but compromise your personal details at times. When you are already "Friends" on Facebook, why do you need to be 'neighbours'? 

Poking, poking, faking

Facebook Pokes follow the law of chain reaction. Someone pokes you and you poke him/her back and it goes on till eternity as nobody wants to not poke back, a bit like a game of ping pong. It is usually followed by messages "I am so beaten black and blue with all your pokes"! Too much of time wasted in virtual poking might at some point make you sit and think just "What is going on?" 





"This will make you cry" photos


A few years ago, when SMS became such a hit phenomena, it has given birth to chain SMS. Every cellphone user got dozens of those text messages that read "Forward this SMS to 20 people and the sun will rise from the west tomorrow, or you'll get through engineering exam..." Such idiots were earlier active on Orkut before SMS became big.

Ranging from random photos evoking sympathy, awe, respect, fear, ugliness, and in most cases, plain vanilla misinformation about something or the other has now made it big on Facebook. "This can make you cry..." Well it almost does with us getting the same spam posted by dozens of people over a period. 





For your kind attention please

For a religious Facebook user, this is not new. Almost everyday, you are likely to encounter vague or inexplicable messages as status updates from some people. Invariably, these are followed by people commenting and sympathizing "Oh! What happened?" "Are you okay?" but the person would never revert.

These are usually semi-psychotic attention seeking tactics. Once they have them, they are gratified. Other users can go to hell. Mercy lord! 

When private becomes public

When private becomes public, disasters do happen. Facebook has a separate service called "messages" where you can exchange messages privately but many times people start scribbling on each other's Wall which at times become a matter of public ignominy. Why then discuss minutest family detail on Walls, or wash dirty linen in, well full public view? 



I am married. Single again. Actually, complicated!

Just had a breakup? Going through post-breakup depression? Or suddenly realised you had never declared you were married all this while? Worry not, all you need to do is proclaim it via Facebook and the whole world will know.

All you need to do is change your relationship status: from single to married, from married to single again, or 'It's complicated'. In less than 30 minutes, you'll have all sort of advice, sarcastic or congratulatory messages etc pouring in from newly discovered agony aunts and uncles. Anyone can be a relationship counselor because advice is a free commodity. 

She 'Likes' my status, my shirt, my shit...

There are always some people who will "Like" just about everything and anything you put on Facebook and make you feel like a celebrity but one possibility could be that they are stalking you. It's satisfying initially, before turning funny, and then annoying when you find no matter what you do will be LIKED. 

Guess who is Back. It is Galaxy Nexus.

Galaxy Nexus back on Google play after victory over Apple

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is back on Google play after the company scored a partial victory against arch-foe Apple after a U.S. appeals court lifted a freeze on sales of its Galaxy Nexus smartphones.

A report in CNet said that Google, which had pulled off the phone from its online app store ‘Google play’ now had the phones back in stock. “The Google Play listing says the Galaxy Nexus will have Jelly Bean “soon.” So it may be the temporary lifting of the ban that’s responsible for the smartphone’s reappearance in the store”, says the report.

Apple accused its Asian rival, the leader in global mobile device sales, in lawsuits of blatantly copying its hot-selling iPhones and iPads.

The Galaxy Nexus is back on Google Play in the US: Reuters

Last week, a San Jose court granted rare, temporary injunctions against the sale of the Galaxy mobile devices in question, a triumph for Apple, who had asked for the bans until their trial begins July 30.

Apple has waged an international patent war since 2010 as it seeks to limit the growth of Google’s Android system, the world’s most-used mobile operating platform. Opponents of Apple say it is using patents too aggressively in a bid to stamp out competition.

Apple and Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest consumer electronics companies, are waging legal battles in about 10 countries, accusing each other of patent infringement as they vie for supremacy in a fast-growing market for mobile devices.

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would temporarily stay the smartphone injunction while it considers Apple’s arguments, the court said in a brief order. It gave Apple a July 12 deadline to respond.

The decisions are the latest in a long-running battle between Samsung and Apple in U.S. courts but are unlikely to severely depress the Asian tech-power’s bottom line since it is rolling out new tablet and smartphone models. On Friday, Samsung announced that soaring sales of its smartphones helped drive a record $5.9 billion quarterly profit.

Earlier this week, US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected Samsung’s request to lift her June 26 order to halt sales of the tablet, which runs on Google Inc’s Android operating system and goes toe-to-toe with the iPad.

Koh also slapped a pre-trial ban on sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus phone a week ago.

Apple sued Samsung last year, accusing the South Korean electronics maker of “slavishly” copying the iPhone and iPad. Samsung denies the claim and countersued.

Samsung’s Galaxy touchscreen tablets are considered by many industry experts to be the main rival to the iPad, though they are currently a distant second to Apple’s devices.

Apple sold 13.6 million iPads from January through March to control 63 percent of the global tablet market, according to research from Display Search. Samsung sold 1.6 million tablets, giving it 7.5 percent of the market.

With inputs from Reuters

Have you tried the new Firefox 13 yet

Mozilla has released Firefox v13 last month with features that bring it more in line with its contemporaries. At the front-end, Mozilla has redesigned the default home page (start page) to include shortcuts common tasks such as browser settings, syncing, and bookmarks. The New Tab window now opens up with shortcuts to recently or most frequently visited website, much like Opera’s Speed Dial.













The most significant update at the back-end is the use to Google’s SPDY protocol that was introduced in the previous Firefox releases, but it was disabled by default. SPDY is Google’s attempt at improving on HTTP in security and speed, and it has been gradually gaining popularity with Twitter being the larger and more recent operation to serve web-pages over SPDY. Firefox 13 release adds some features for web developers, fixes bugs, introduces tweaks and adds support for Khmer language.

Samsung Galaxy S III smart phone is said to have caught fire - reason : careless and stupid act by the User

Samsung Electronics have cited a report by fire investigators as saying an external energy source had caused one of its flagship Galaxy S III smart phones to catch fire in Ireland last month.

The world’s top smart phone maker said an investigation by Fire Investigations (UK) had stated that the Samsung device was not responsible for the cause of the fire, and that an “external energy source was responsible for generating the heat”.

The new Galaxy S series, the strongest rival for Apple’s iPhone, was launched in Europe in late May and in the United States last month.

A Dublin-based consumer posted comments and photos on a web site in June, saying his Galaxy phone had “exploded” while mounted on his car dashboard.


Samsung quoted a report that said it was not to blame for the explosion of one of its phones in Ireland: AP

He wrote that while he was driving, “suddenly a white flame, sparks and a bang came out of the phone.

The South Korean electronics giant said it had contracted FI-UK, an independent British provider of consultancy services into fires and explosions, to determine the cause of the fire.

Samsung added it had provided FI-UK with several Galaxy S III phones, including the burnt smart phone, for a series of tests.

“Additionally, the investigation results state, ‘The only way it was possible to produce damage similarly to the damage recorded within the owner’s damaged device was to place the devices or component parts with a domestic microwave,’” Samsung said on its official global blog.

It also showed the unnamed user’s latest comments posted on a web site, saying the phone had been recovered from water and the damage “occurred due to a large amount of external energy” which apparently was used to dry out the device.

“This was not a deliberate act but a stupid mistake,” the user added, according to the Samsung blog.

There have been other reports of Samsung smart phones overheating. In March, a Korean schoolboy reported that a spare battery for his Galaxy S II exploded in his back pocket. Samsung said then that the cause was massive external pressure or force.

Heat issues have been reported with other devices. In March, influential consumer watchdog Consumer Reports said Apple’s latest iPad tablet threw off a lot more heat than the previous version, lending weight to complaints on Internet forums that the device could get uncomfortably warm after heavy use.

- Reuters

We can expect Intel to cut down on its i3 processor price which will result in lowering of Ultrabook costs

Intel May Cut Core i3 Price to Reduce Ultrabook Costs

According to an analyst report, Intel officials are seeing greater pressure from such rivals as AMD and Apple, and need to cut the price of Ultrabooks.

Intel officials may be considering cutting the price of particular low-power chips in hopes of driving down the cost of Ultrabooks, which are competing with such devices as Apple’s MacBook Air, tablets and new systems coming out powered by processors from Advanced Micro Devices.

The move would be the latest effort by Intel to drive down the price of Ultrabooks, which has been a key challenge for the chip maker since introducing the very light and thin notebook form factor in 2011. Intel executives initially said they wanted Ultrabooks to come in at under $1,000 to compete with the MacBook Air. However, tablets—with prices of many at less than $500—continue eating into notebook sales.

At the same time, rival AMD is pushing some if its new Trinity accelerated processing units (APUs) for low-cost and low-power notebooks, which officials are calling “ultrathins,” some of which they expect to be priced at less than $500.

Systems makers have found it difficult to get Ultrabook prices to less than $1,000, though a few have come in at about $800. In addition, OEMs and component makers, citing already-thin margins, have been reluctant to cut the prices on their products much more to accommodate Intel’s price demands.

Intel has made some efforts to drive down Ultrabook prices, including creating a $300 million fund to help companies making hardware and software for the form factor. In June, Intel officials said they have created a concept plastic chassis for Ultrabooks that is just as strong as the current machined aluminum and die-cast metal currently used to make Ultrabooks, and comes in at a fraction of the cost.

However, until now, Intel has resisted cutting the prices of its own processors. According to Cody Acree, an analyst with Williams Financial Group, a report in Chinese newspaper the Commercial Times indicates that Intel may cut the price of one its ultra-low-voltage Core i3 chips by $25 to $27—a reduction of about 11 percent from its current price of $225—to lower the cost of Ultrabooks.

Acree suggested that growing competition from AMD may have helped precipitate Intel’s move, noting Hewlett-Packard’s introduction of its new Sleekbooks powered by AMD chips, rather than Intel products.

“This move has allowed HP to offer Sleekbooks for $700 versus Ultrabooks at about $1,000,” he wrote in a report. “Whether the Commercial Times is absolutely correct is less important than the pricing trend that we believe is beginning to become more evident.”

AMD over the past few years has not been tremendously competitive against Intel, Acree wrote. That appears to be changing with Trinity. When they released the first of the Trinity chips in May, AMD officials said that while the ultrathin notebooks they were aiming for might be slightly bigger than the Ultrabooks, they also would cost as much as $200 less, making them more attractive to mainstream consumers.

“We’re taking a different tack from Intel,” Leslie Sobon, corporate vice president for desktop product line management at AMD, told eWEEK at the time. “You should not necessarily have to pay a premium for thinness.”

Intel executives have said that there are almost two-dozen Ultrabooks on the market now powered by last year’s 32-nanometer Sandy Bridge Core processors. However, with the rollout of chips based on the new 22nm Ivy Bridge architecture—which promises greater performance and significant energy-efficiency gains over Sandy Bridge processors—Intel officials have said there are more than 100 Ultrabook designs in the works and that they expect prices to drop to under $700 this year.

However, despite concerns over pricing, there is evidence that Ultrabooks are gaining a foothold among notebook buyers. In a June 28 report, market research firm NPD Group noted that Ultrabooks are giving a much-needed boost to the struggling Windows notebook market, particularly in the high end, where Ultrabooks now account for 11 percent of sales of Windows notebooks that cost more than $700.

Overall sales of Windows notebooks fell 17 percent in the first five months of 2012, but the decline was only 3 percent for those priced at more than $700. Meanwhile, sales of systems costing $900 or more jumped 39 percent.

“Ultrabooks have helped establish a market for more premium-priced Windows notebooks at retail,” Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at the NPD Group, said in a statement, noting that because of Ultrabook adoption, sales of $700-plus notebooks accounted for almost 14 percent of all Windows notebook sales so far this year, compared with 12 percent in 2011. “Consumers continue to respond positively to finally being offered stylish, thinner, and more premium device offerings than ever before within the Windows ecosystem.”

Telescopes in NASA to sport the finest mirrors ever

NASA solar telescope has finest mirrors ever made

Washington: NASA scientists will be launching the highest resolution solar telescope ever to observe the solar corona, the million degree outer solar atmosphere, into space on 11th July. 

 

The instrument, called HI-C for High Resolution Coronal Imager, will fly aboard a Black Brant sounding rocket to be launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. 

The mission will have just 620 seconds for its flight, spending about half of that time high enough that Earth’s atmosphere will not block ultraviolet rays from the Sun. 

By looking at a specific range of UV light, HI-C scientists hope to observe fundamental structures on the Sun, as narrow as 100 miles across. 

“Other instruments in space can’t resolve things that small, but they do suggest -- after detailed computer analysis of the amount of light in any given pixel -- that structures in the Sun’s atmosphere are about 100 miles across,” Jonathan Cirtain, the project scientist for HI-C, said. 

“And we also have theories about the shapes of structures in the atmosphere, or corona, that expect that size. HI-C will be the first chance we have to see them,” he said. 

The spatial resolution on HI-C is some five times more detailed than the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) instrument on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), that can resolve structures down to 600 miles and currently sends back some of our most stunning and scientifically useful images of the Sun. 

Of course, AIA can see the entire Sun at this resolution, while HI-C will focus on an area just one-sixth the width of the Sun or 135,000 miles across. Also, AIA observes the Sun in ten different wavelengths, while HI-C will observe just one: 193 angstroms. 

This wavelength of UV light corresponds to material in the Sun at temperatures of 1.5 million Kelvin and that wavelength is typically used to observe material in the corona. 

During its ten-minute journey, HI-C will focus on the centre of the Sun, where a large sunspot is predicted to be -- a prediction based on what the Sun looked like 27 days previously, since it takes 27 days for the Sun to complete a full rotation. 

“We will start acquiring data at 69 seconds after launch, at a rate of roughly an image a second,” Cirtain said. 

“We will be able to look through a secondary H-alpha telescope on the instrument in real time and re-point the main telescope as needed,” he said. 

In addition to seeing the finest structures yet seen in the Sun’s corona, the launch of HI-C will serve as a test bed for this high-resolution telescope. Often one improves telescope resolution simply by building bigger mirrors, but this is not possible when constraining a telescope to the size of a sounding rocket, or even a long-term satellite. 

So HI-C’s mirror is only about nine and a half inches across, no bigger than that of AIA. However, the HI-C mirrors, made by a team at Marshall, are some of the finest ever made, says Cirtain. 

If one could see the surface at an atomic level, it would show no greater valleys or peaks than two atoms in either direction. 

In addition, the team created a longer focal length – they increased the distance the light travels from its primary mirror to its secondary mirror, another trick to improve resolution by creating a precise inner maze for the light to travel from mirror to mirror, rather than a simple, shorter straight line. 

Twitter is all set to provide better search results soon. It includes Auto-complete and spell-check.

Twitter said on Friday it was upgrading its search functions to include "autocomplete" and spelling correction features.

The new Twitter search will also anticipate when users are looking for posts by people they follow, and offer related suggestions.

The move by the popular social media group is similar to search functions offered by Google and other engines.

"We're constantly working to make Twitter search the simplest way to discover what's happening in real time," said Twitter engineer Frost Li in a blog post.

"To that end, today we're introducing search autocomplete and 'People you follow' search results to twitter.com. In addition to recent improvements like related query suggestions, spelling corrections and more relevant search results, these updates make it even easier to immediately get closer to the things you care about."

The "search autocomplete" shows the most likely terms for a query. So a user who types "Jeremy" might get a suggestion for basketball star Jeremy Lin before finishing the full name.

Twitter will also allow users to see tweets about a given topic from only the people they follow if they select that option.

"Viewing tweets about a topic from just the people you follow is a great way to find useful information and join the conversation," Li said.

Twitter, which allows its members to post brief comments, links or pictures, claims to have more than 140 million active users, with the largest number being in the United States.

A recent survey found one in seven Americans who go online use Twitter and eight percent do so every day.

Number of devices online will be 15 billion by 2015

Devices connected to internet set to reach 15 billion by 2015 -

Devices connected to theinternet will reach 15 billion by 2015 and later to 50 billion by 2020, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Director Professor U B Desai said here today. 


"Coming together of web technologies, mobile computer and communication technologies have greatly enhanced the capabilities of global reach even for the common man, opening several opportunities and possibilities for better living," he added, at a two-day national conference on 'Advanced Communication and Computer Technologies, organised by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Visakhapatnam centre at the National Science and Technological Laboratory (NSTL) here today. 

IETE president R K Gupta highlighted the role played by his organisation in reducing the digital divide by bringing together students, practicing professionals and industry. 

IETE chairman, Visakhpatnam centre and Director NSTL S V Ranga Rajan said that 110 papers were shortlisted out of 160 papers presented by delegates in the area of communication technologies, image processing, microwaves and antennas, embedded systems, radar and sonar signal processing and others.

Rovio Releases Amazing Alex - Another Game based on Physics

Rovio has planned for the release of its next game based on Physics. Rovio is the developer of Infamous Angry Birds. It has already released the teaser for this new game Amazing Alex. 


Called  Alex, the new game will feature 100 levels and will again be based on physics, though the mechanics are said to be quite different from those of Angry Birds. 


The protagonist of the game, Alex, is a 'whiz kid' and users will have to create chain reactions using a set of objects to complete tasks that he assigns. Each task may have more than one solution. 

Users will even have the option to create new levels using 35 interactive objects. Rovio believes that players will be able to challenge others by generating new levels on their own. Users can share the levels they create, along with their solutions, with other players. The upcoming game will be played across four locations and receive free updates from Rovio regularly. 

Amazing Alex is expected to arrive in Apple App Store and Google Play Store in July 2012. However, the developer has not disclosed any dates or prices as of now.

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 Meet Amazing Alex, star of Rovio’s newest game! This whiz kid has a boundless imagination and a houseful of fun toys that can turn anything into a great adventure! From cleaning up his room to playing in his backyard, Alex creates amazing chain reactions to get the job done with the maximum amount of fun. 

CREATE YOUR OWN SOLUTIONSSet the objects up to bounce, pop, ricochet, bash, and crash into each other and create an elaborate Rube Goldberg device! With a houseful of toys to play with, there’s more than one right answer! Share your most creative solutions with your friends and see what they came up with!

BUILD AND SHARE LEVELSGot a great idea for a level? Design intriguing new levels using 35 interactive objects and share them -- with friends or with the whole world! With other fans constantly creating and uploading new levels, there are always new challenges to check out!
COMING SOON TO A DEVICE NEAR YOU
We’re excited for you to meet Amazing Alex and step into his incredible world -- a space to create, experiment, and have fun!
So take a look at the video, download the exclusive Amazing Alex wallpapers below, and get ready for something amazing!

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