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Sure, Apple’s been stealing most of the blog headlines this afternoon, but Microsoft has some pretty big news of their own. Today, Windows Phone 7 was officially released to manufacturing — and the boys in Redmond are pretty stoked about it.

Microsoft’s Terry Myerson certainly sounds pumped in the official blog post. “We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready.”

As the Engadget crew points out, devices are unquestionably on their way — but we’re more interested in seeing some kick-butt apps and games… Which are also no doubt just around the corner.

Give your iPhone 4 a fall makeover with a new Incase Monochrome Slider Case ($35). Featuring Incase’s signature two-piece construction, the Monochrome Slider Case provides protection to your iPhone 4 in a fashionable tonal design. Each Monochrome Slider Case for iPhone 4 has a metallic, soft-touch coated top and a high-gloss, chrome bottom piece in coordinating hues. Available now in Metallic Ink, Grape and Blueberry.

SocialDeck has become the latest addition to Google’s Hall of Acquisitions. The creators of the popular iPhone game Shake and Spell have also produced Spark, which allows mobile gamers to challenge or chat with friends, recommend games, save games in the cloud, and more.

In their own words, SocialDeck are “super excited to announce that someone found our social games as fun as you have – in this case, that “someone” is Google.” They’ll even have a nice group of friends with common interests to play with now that they’re part of the Google collective.

Earlier this month, Google acquired Jambool — who created the Social Gold virtual currency platform. Back in April they picked up Lab Pixies, who specialize in social and casual gaming widgets. And let’s not forget Google is also a major investor in casual game maker Zynga — the demons behind the game you love to hate, Farmville.

What does it all mean? Clearly Google sees gaming (and social gaming in particular) to be an area worth getting involved in. With Android picking up momentum and Google TV and Chrome OS both on the way, there are going to be a whole lot more Google hardware users looking to kill some time destroying pixelated zombies or spelling their way to a high score.

That means money spent on games, on virtual goods, and, of course, delicious, delicious ad impressions.

[via Inside Social Games]

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Researcher Mark Micire at the UMass-Lowell Robotics Lab developed a custom interface that enables utilizes Microsoft Surface technology for commanding and controlling robots. In the first video, you’ll see him use “Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio to simulate his soldiers and environment.”

The researchers use multitouch to send the robots scurrying around to execute commands, but also to pan and zoom a map of where they’re operating, create virtual subcontrollers, and display text and video data, all within the same interface.

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Mark M a friend of Overclocks.com.au member Phi built the creative PlayStation controller table you see above, and it just might take the crown of world’s geekiest. This table “took 20 weeks of on and off labor to finish and the result pretty much speaks for itself.” Here’s a little more information on what materials were used during its construction:

I made the whole controller out of plywood, MDF and veneer on veneer. I used white gloss for the whole controller and the black gloss for the buttons.

CloudMagic is a Google Chrome and Firefox extension which indexes your email locally on your computer, and provides ridiculously fast results when you search. The extension provides a CloudMagic search field right in Gmail with a shortcut key of Ctrl-/ (rather than just / for Gmail’s regular search field). It features search-as-you-type that seems to react instantly to your keystrokes, and uses many of the same search operators that Gmail already uses, so you don’t need to re-learn how to search.

From a privacy standpoint, CloudMagic creates the index locally on your machine, so there’s no risk of someone snooping through your messages. It also stores your password locally, much like a regular email client does.

Unlike other iPad cases, the ZooGue Smart Case is “adjustable to any angle, with its special velcro design, while also providing an extremely sturdy and stable stand no matter where you go.” More information.