Owners of Sony’s Tablet S who have been patiently waiting for a developer with the skills to root their new Sony tablet and open a door of new possibilities. Will be pleased to know that security researcher Dan Rosenberg has found a way to root the Sony Tablet S using the USB debugging system.

Rosenberg has unveiled a method of rooting the Sony Tablet S tablet by enabling USB debugging plug it into a Windows computer, and running a Windows utility created by Rosenberg.

Once rooted the tablet will then enable you to have access to files and settings that would have not otherwise been available to you. But as always rooting your Tablet might cause problems and void your warranty, and Geeky Gadgets is not responsible for your device. Rosenberg explains:

“After getting a taste of rooting tablets with the Lenovo Thinkpad tablet, I decided to turn my attention to the Sony Tablet S. It turned out to be a tough device to root.

The Sony Tablet S has a logging service running as root named nfx_log_service. This service maintains on-disk backups of the Android logcat buffers in the /log directory. This directory is group-writable and group “log”, which is granted to the ADB shell, so we can modify files in this directory.”

For more information on the Sony Tablet S rooting method jump over to Rosenberg’s website, for details.

Source: Lilputing : Android Police

We have already seen a number of leaked smartphones that are reported to use NVIDIA’s new quad core Tegra 3 processor, and now NVIDIA has sent out its press invite for Mobile World Congress 2012.

The invite hints that we will see some ‘NVIDIA quad core firsts’ at MWC 2012, and as we have already seen some tablets we suspect they mean smartphones.

Some of the rumored devices that may use the new NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor include the LG X3, the Asus PadFone, as well as a couple of rumored devices from HTC and other manufacturers.

It will be interesting to see what the first quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 smartphones are like, and we suspect we will see more than just a few unveiled at MWC 2012 later this month.

As soon as we get some more information on what manufacturers will be launching Tegra 3 smartphones at MWC we will let you guys know.

Source Cnet

Image Credit Jessica Dolcourt/CNET

HP first unveiled their new HP Envy 14 Spectre just over a month ago, with a few sneak peaks before CES. But now their new HP Envy 14 Spectre Ultrabook is now available to purchase, with prices starting from $1400 for the base system with Core i5 processor, 4GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD. With the price rising depending on the options you would like to include in your system.

Intel Core i5 2467M processor supported by 4GB of DDR3-1333 memory, with a 128GB solid state drive. The HP Envy 14 Spectre is fitted with a 14-inch 1,600 x 900-pixel display in a 13.3-inch form factor and equipped with a web camera, backlit keyboard and connectivity provided by 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

The system is also equipped with HP Touch to Share technology, a unique NFC feature, that enables users to share data between the laptop and other supported NFC-enabled smartphones.

The Envy 14 Spectre also features a USB 3.0 port, 2-in-1 memory card reader, mini-DisplayPort, HDMI port, and HP’s Beats Audio technology. Its 20mm thickness and weight (just under 1.8kg) are around average for a 14-inch Ultrabook.

Source: Hot Hardware

It would appear that Google is close to getting approval for one of the final parts of its takeover of Motorola, according to a recent report from the WSJ, the deal is close to receiving approval from the US Justice Department.

The report says that Google could receive the approval needed as early as next week, which would be one of the final parts needed for the $12.5 billion deal to go ahead.

Google has come under scrutiny recently from regulators in the US and Europe, on whether they will license various Motorola patents on fair terms, although Google recently announced that this is their intention.

There are a couple of court cases ongoing at the moment between Motorola and Apple andMotorola and Microsoft, where Google are attempting to claim royalties from both companies on certain patents, although both Apple and Microsoft are claiming that these patents should be licensed under fair terms.

It isn’t clear as yet on whether these two ongoing cases will have any bearing on the takeover of Motorola by Google.

Source Android Community, Talk Android

WASD Keyboards has started a new service that will allow anyone to create their very own custom keyboard layout. Unfortunately you can’t change the shape of keyboard but you can arrange the keys in any configuration you would like.

Using the WASD Custom Keyboard designer tool to create and customise your keyboard. Create your own design by picking your own key cap colours and text, and you can either start from scratch or use a preset design to help you along.

The WASD custom keyboards are priced from $140 and are mechanical keyboards that feature Cherry MX switches. As you add more and more fancy artwork and custom combinations the price will increase accordingly. But if you prefer to do your own artwork a blank keyboard is available for $130.

WASD V1 Custom Keyboards are available with engraved or etched legends. For more details and to try out the custom keyboard creation application jump over to the WASD website.

Source: WASD : Ubergizmo

If you are looking for something a little more unique in a pair of speakers, then these glassKenwood ODELIC speakers might be perfect for you. They have been custom designed out of optical glass which has specially created by Kenwood to not shatter or break during playback.

However don’t expect the Kenwood ODELIC speakers to come cheap the stands for the speakers will set you back a rice $275 and the speakers themselves around $1400.

Kenwood has encased its 2 way speaker in optical grade glass providing clean and industrial lines. Combined with a set of Odelic LED light. The Kenwood ODELIC speakers max out at 80dB, with a playback frequency range of 80Hz ~ 25kHz to help deliver those chest pounding lows and those wine glass breaking highs.

Source: Ubergizmo