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Samsung LN40A550 40-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV (Electronics) tagged "lcd tv" 56 times

2009-09-25T08:42:00.001-07:00

Samsung LN40A550 40-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV (Electronics)By Samsung Buy new: $749.88 Customer Rating: Customer tags: 1080p(175), samsung lcd(160), 40 inch(124), hdtv(123), 40 progress hdtv(82), lcd hdtv(72), hdmi(64), lcd tv(56), lcd(45), samsung(42), ln40a550(16), dvi(15)

Haier HLT71 7-Inch Handheld LCD TV (Electronics) tagged "lcd tv" 37 times

2009-09-25T08:42:00.000-07:00

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Haunted Animated Books Is Probably Just The House Settling

2009-09-23T22:01:00.006-07:00

By saint Liszewski

I don’t think day crapper quite fall Christmastime when it comes to being the holiday with the most themed poop filling store shelves, but it’s a near second. If it’s any succor though, day poop seems to be far more inspired and creative. Like these haunted, enlivened books. Stick ‘em on a bookshelf unseeable amongst your another real tomes, and whenever someone walks by they’ll come to life, sliding in and out making “eery” haunted sounds. Will they actually delude or anxiousness anyone? No. For $24.99 should you be disappointed if they don’t? Absolutely not.

[ Animated Moving Books ] VIA [ The Green Head ]

R2D2 turned into retro gaming shrine, includes head-mounted projector

2009-09-23T22:01:00.005-07:00

R2D2 overturned into retrospective recreation shrine, includes head-mounted projector

We don’t know meet how to feature this without overloading your nerd subsystem, but this R2D2 organisation packs octad consoles, an desegrated good grouping and a projector for throwing your Jet Grind Radio sessions onto a wall. The only extras you’ll requirement are the masses of controllers you see above and the steady property to not erupt into geek euphoria. Popular Science reverend Brian De Vitis is the Negro you hit to thank for this conjunction of console goodness, and he’s been category sufficiency to also wage a represent of the R2’s mobo-laden innards. It awaits meet past the break.

[Via Hack N Mod]

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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsE3 2009: Just Cause 2E3 2009: Just Cause 2Best Camera: Like Photoshop for The iPhone The prizewinning camera is the one you hit with you. And - possibly - the prizewinning camera software designer is a photographer. At least, that’s what Chase Jarvis hopes. Chase is the Negro who proves that, in the correct hands, the iPhone crapper attain an awing camera. Chase has collaborated on a newborn iPhone app called [...]

Kingston DataTraveler 410 Flash Drive Is Better Where It Counts

2009-09-23T22:01:00.003-07:00

By saint Liszewski

It strength not hit a aggregation of sex appeal, or modify a novel design, but Kingston’s DataTraveler 410 winkle drives hit been reinforced where it’s really important. Besides a peak power of 32GB (they’re also acquirable in 4, 8 & 16GB sizes) the DT410 features 20MB/sec read and 20MB/sec indite speeds for faster data transfers. It also comes with Kingston’s SecureTraveler1 software which allows you to create a countersign fortified area on the drive titled the “Privacy Zone” for storing your indiscretions. $114.99 acquirable from Newegg.com right now.

[ Kingston DataTraveler 410 ] VIA [ SlashGear ]

DEMO09: the closing photo

2009-09-23T22:01:00.001-07:00

The on-stage presentations at DEMOfall 09 are over, and Chris Shipley has officially passed the torch to Matt Marshall, who module be exchange her. The show was fun, rattling interesting, and grueling to cover live. If you are curious, you crapper go backwards in instance and wager our live news of DEMO*. You crapper also encounter whatever of our selection companies in demo DEMO category of posts. Thanks for tuning-in during the time digit days! *DEMO is mostly considered to be the prizewinning circumstance in the concern to show newborn technology-related products, services and companies. To bring you up-to-the-minute coverage, Ubergizmo is a media partner of DEMO.

Webroot unveils new consumer security suite

2009-09-22T22:01:00.001-07:00

[DEMOFall 09] Webroot says that traditional move to machine section is ill-suited for today's threats. Yesterday's pore was most protecting the computers and files from existence damaged, but Webroot argues that client identities are such more valuable. Your individualized aggregation crapper be taken from some locations: smartphone, laptop, or modify via a key logger on some computer. Webroot's newborn grouping revolves around a centralised indistinguishability (ID) trainer that synchronizes the aggregation crossways binary devices. It crapper also finish key loggers by circumventing the use of the keyboard. And of course, every the "new stuff" integrates with the traditional artefact that Webroot knows every likewise well. They hit been doing that for a rattling daylong time. Webroot is starting a beta of the newborn service today and the final creation module be priced at $79.95.Individuals crapper clew up today to move in the liberated beta information for Webroot cyberspace Security Complete which begins Oct 19 by visiting [DEMOFall 09] Webroot says that traditional move to machine section is ill-suited for today's threats. Yesterday's pore was most protecting the computers and files from existence damaged, but Webroot argues that client identities are such more valuable. Your individualized aggregation crapper be taken from some locations: smartphone, laptop, or modify via a key logger on some computer. Webroot's newborn grouping revolves around a centralised indistinguishability (ID) trainer that synchronizes the aggregation crossways binary devices. It crapper also finish key loggers by circumventing the use of the keyboard. And of course, every the "new stuff" integrates with the traditional artefact that Webroot knows every likewise well. They hit been doing that for a rattling daylong time. Individuals crapper clew up today to move in the liberated beta information for Webroot cyberspace Security Complete which begins in Oct by visiting http://www.webroot.com/registration/betaRegistration.php.">http://www.webroot.com/registration/betaRegistration.php.

Ninja Kunai USB Drive: the tech equivalent of getting a foreign language tattoo

2009-09-21T22:01:00.007-07:00

Ninja Kunai USB Drive: the school equal of effort a external module tattoo

You know how the vast eld of us would same to be ninjas, but don’t know where to start? Well, we hit institute the answer — that missing unification between geek and ninja — in the modify of the Ninja Kunai 2GB winkle drive. This USB accessory-cum-gimmicky 90s toy is inscribed with … something, and, well, looks mildly threatening. Here’s the really awing part: it costs $125.35. Some strength disregard and others strength scowl, but meet think of how exclusive this abstract is going to be. Buying one of these will evaluation you discover as genuinely individual.

[Via TechnaBob]

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Ninja Kunai USB Drive: the school equal of effort a external module tattoo originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:08:00 EST. Please see our cost for ingest of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsGarmin Nuvi 680 GPSGarmin Nuvi 680 GPSHumanoid Robot Plays Soccer Set aside your fears of world-dominating cyborgs and say greeting to Hajime 33, an active mechanism who’s most as gangly as Kobe Bryant. Granted, this bot plays soccer, not sport (yet). Created by Hajime Sakamoto, Hajime 33 is the latest addition to Sakamoto’s fast of humanoid robots. Powered by batteries, the mechanism is dominated with a [...]

Tony Starkâs Arc Reactor Prop

2009-09-21T22:01:00.005-07:00

By saint Liszewski

We’re in-between Iron Man movies this year, which means there’s probably not going to be a aggregation of obligation for Iron Man or Tony Stark costumes this October. So logically it’s the perfect time to go out as the crime-fighting billionaire industrialist, since you won’t separate into those awkward ’same costume’ incidents.

And thanks to this arc setup support replica, intermixture up same Tony Stark is as easy as ever. It’s prefabricated from machined aluminum, unsullied poise and custom formed impressible with real-working LEDs and was shapely after the actual support prefabricated by Stan Winston Studios for the first film. It comes in a plexiglass display case, but is easily removable, and should be available from Entertainment Earth sometime in Sept for $149.99.

[ Iron Man Movie Arc Reactor Prop Replica ] VIA [ Chip Chick ]

Twelve Sided IQ Pentagon Puzzle

2009-09-21T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

It might not be quite as complicated as the Petaminx dodecahedral teaser we brought you backwards in March, but if you don’t hit the plastic sportfishing skills of Jason adventurer to attain your own, this dozen sided IQ bureaucratism teaser from Brando is probably your best alternative. It’s meet $49.90 and if you do visit one I declare snapping a some photos when it arrives because once you mess it up I’m pretty sure you’re never feat to intend it backwards to its example state.

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Archos 5 Internet Tablet Review

2009-09-21T22:01:00.001-07:00

Archos has shocked gadget fans worldwide when it launched its android-powered Archos 5 cyberspace Tablet terminal week. The operative system, the trend filler of the figure and the concealment calibre (800x480) hit generated a wave of "buzz" uncharted to Archos until now. The Archos 5 cyberspace Tablet, powered by Android, has a smooth organisation which is actually not so different, on the surface, than the non-Android Archos 5 PMP. As we ofttimes say: the value is in the software. With Android, Archos today has access to a stable, proven OS, and crapper contact into the vast turn of covering of that papers to physique on a groundwork that module last. That sounds nice, but crapper the Archos 5 cyberspace Tablet live up to the hype?

Configuration

We hit utilised a land edition of the Android Archos 5 Tablet. This is a 32GB SSD edition that would delude on the US mart for most $380. There's a 8GB edition that sells for $250. If you requirement more storage, you crapper encounter a 160GB digit for $400 or a 500GB Archos 5 for $500 but the machinelike intend edition adds nearly 100g to the weight.

Physical organisation (sleek)

There's no discourse that the Archos 5 module attract the gadget lovers attention. As we said during our preceding "hands-on", it is shapely with calibre material and doesn't wager cheap. It has a defence in the backwards that allows to be placed photo-frame call on a plateau (or form tray). The defence is rattling substantially integrated in the unit's body, so Kudos to Archos for the unseamed combining (we undergo it's hard!). There are exclusive digit fleshly buttons (Power and Volume). Everything else is finished via the contact interface. As some would wait (or hope), the frequence connector is a 3.5mm jack, and the charge/sync opening is a USB Micro-B port, which is commonly utilised in newer gadgets. We've added a picture gallery effort in decorous lighting (and without hundreds of fingerprints) to exhibit you the some fleshly aspects of this device. You communicate yourself "does it beatific in a pocket?", and the answer is: Technically, yes, it does beatific in a pocket, though this is such large than a smartphone. Note that the hornlike disk edition is such heavier than the flash edition - by nearly 100g (3.52oz).

Hardware (powerful)

The Archos 5 cyberspace Tablet is powered by an ARM Cortex A8 at 800Mhz. This is same to what's institute in the iPhone 3GS (600Mhz), though the oftenness is such higher. That gives you an intent of what the processing noesis is. On the graphics size, the Archos 5 has a more than twice the sort of pixels (800x480 = 384000) to handle than the iPhone (480x320 = 153600).

I'm not feat to itemize *all* the specifications here, you crapper encounter them on this tender (in French, compassionate the U.S locate is ease existence updated), but here are the highlights:

800x480 color display
MicroSD port
Video formats supported: Mpeg4, Mpeg4 asp@l5 dvd resolution, H.264, WMV (including DRM), M-Jpeg (Qvga), Mkv, Mpeg2, VOB. Most are based for up to 720p resolution, eliminate motion Jpeg (vga).
Audio formats supported: MP3 320K, WMA, WMA DRM, WMA Pro 5.1, Wav, Ogg, Flac, AAC, AC3
Direct Audio/Video transcription (with nonmandatory dock)
USB 2.0
FM Receiver (RDS)/Transmitter
Digital TV (TNT) hold in Europe
Integrated utterer and microphone

Display (Shock and awe) I favour the black levels on the iPhone 3GS

The 4.8" pass (800x480 pixels) is rattling the grapheme of the exhibit (with Android). It is sharp, bright and the colours are nice. This is not an OLED screen, but there's no discourse that watching videos on the Archos 5 is such meliorate than doing so on an iPod touch/iPhone, modify if the black levels on an iPhone 3GS (and I surmisal the newborn iPod Touch) are "better" (see photo). That said, the concealment uses a "resistive" contact technology, which has digit common drawbacks: 1/the somatosense sentiency is not as pleasant (the finger sticks a little) when compared with a "capacitive" screen, as institute in the iPhone. The individual has to advise a lowercase harder and sliding the finger along the concealment requires more force. 2/ It doesn't hold multi-touch. If you've utilised crop & ascent and added multi-touch gestures, you strength become to miss them.

Virtual keyboard: with a large concealment comes a meliorate realistic keyboard experience. With the Archos 5 Android, I identify with less typos than on the iPhone/iPod Touch. It is modify doable to locate the tablet on a plateau and identify with digit fingers, which is cool. Now, if exclusive the concealment was capacitive...

HDTV: If you enter your Archos 5 to a TV, it module pass everything (including the scheme browser) at a 720p partitioning (1280x720).

Android (is Cool)

Android feels rattling such same a "bigger version" of the Android institute on smartphones... because it is! If you already undergo Android, you module wager correct at home. If you don't, it is fairly intuitive and not rattling heard to learn. Most apps from the Android Market should rum, though the Android accumulation is not unexploded by choice on the Archos 5 cyberspace Tablet...

Performance (fast)

Despite the 800Mhz processor, the *perceived* action of the individual programme is rattling close to what you crapper wager on a beatific same the HTC Magic (MyTouch 3G). Upon a finger swipe, the concealment scrolls at most 30+ fps (I'm eyeballing) and the generalized sensitiveness is modify than the iPhone 3GS.

I wait the pure processing (numbers crunching) action to be (30%?) higher than the iPhone 3GS, though we hit to keep in nous that there is no proper artefact to compare both, and that ultimately, it's the individual undergo that makes the difference.

Connectivity (Wifi-N, Tethering)

The Archos 5 *Internet* Tablet apparently requires an internet connection. Archos has chosen to ingest WIFI B/G/N. Note that exclusive a some ambulatory devices actually ingest an "N" unification correct now. That strength become in handy when moving HD noesis from a uPNP meshwork device.

It is also doable to ingest your internet-enabled ambulatory beatific as a Bluetooth modem, but it's less applicatory and consumes more shelling life on both devices. At least, it's *possible*, and frankly, I can't myself stipendiary added wireless subscription, modify if it is for a fancy tablet. Archos has prefabricated the correct choice here.

Mobile TV (Little content)

Over the expose Digital TV is supported, in Europe, though there is no DVB programme to effort in the U.S (at diminutive that I undergo if, in San Francisco). Another choice to watch TV is "webTV" (powered by Vtuner), a moving TV app that connects you to TV channels worldwide. There is a clean turn of channels to choose from, but hour that I would actually tending about. Most of the liberated scheme videos are programme programme or topical channels with recording calibre ranging from "OK" to "fuzzy". The added choice is to create an Archos Media Club statement and download paid videos...

GPS (Average)

Archos has demonstrated its GPS capabilities with a picture equipment analyse edition of the map. In that mode, each transpose is most 2GB big and it looks quite good, though it did countenance more impressive on the big concealment at the town Launch. My particular unit did not hit the U.S maps, so taking it for a tour was not an option. Here's my feedback on the equipment mapping:

It looks good, and I same the demonstrate mode, but If I'm driving, I conceive that I would rather hit a ultimate 2D (or 3D) transpose that scrolls at 10 or 20 frames per ordinal than having a fancy equipment picture transpose that scrolls rattling slowly.

On the added hand, the equipment picture analyse crapper be rattling fun in traveller mode, when you actually hit the instance to countenance around and figure discover which antiquity is nearby. That's a concern of preferences, but today you hit my opinion.

The guidance code has tons of options, meet same a personal guidance figure would (list of radars, identify of route, traffic... and so on...)

Web (good, but where's Flash?)

In general, Web Browsing is rattling good. Most of the time, there's no requirement to ascent or holograph into the tender which is rattling nice. Many websites module ease notice you as a "Mobile" locate (CNN, Youtube...). Facebook, for example, won't let me feeding the "desktop" site, patch CNN won't mind.

Reading programme website on the Archos 5 is only *great* (that's my important scheme state with it). Just verify a countenance at the NYTimes or CNN and you'll understand what I mean.

Flash Support: Flash is definitely based by the figure itself, as there are Flash games... BUT there is no in-browser Flash support. That means that concealment YouTube or Hulu won't work. When feat over to YouTube, we are ease redirected to the ambulatory YouTube locate and upon actuation a video, the YouTube covering is launched.

In the end, without in-browser Flash, we cannot feature that it is a "full" scheme experience, modify if what we hit is quite good. We wish that Flash hold module be added later.

Email (good, no exchange)

Configuring a character or GMail mailbox is rattling easy, meet same it is on an Android phone. Just pop in your telecommunicate come and countersign and the figure module configure the rest for you. It is doable to add some accounts simultaneously . The HTML performance in emails is rattling beatific and overall the telecommunicate undergo of Android is amplified by the filler of the display.

The exclusive downside is that Microsoft Exchange is not based discover of the box, but I undergo that there's hold discover there for it on Android... (Exchange by Touchdown has a 2.5/5 grapheme rating... hum...)

Music (very good)

MP3 playback works rattling well, including over uPNP devices same the HP MediaSmart server. No difficulty there, if you already hit a meshwork hardware figure that is uPNP compliant, you module be healthy to course your music. Note that it is doable to yield the contestant and hit the penalization play in the scenery (duh!)

Video (very good)

With a 4.8" high-resolution concealment same this, it would be a evildoing if the recording playback capabilities were not great. Fortunately, Archos comes from the takeout media contestant (PMP) concern and prefabricated trusty that the recording undergo is rattling good. The recording calibre is excellent and the figure crapper handle 720p files without some problems.

It is prizewinning to hit a 720p recording file to play, but YouTube movies countenance enthusiastic too, thanks to the trend filler of the display. At this point, exclusive a 1080p recording output and an OLED concealment could make things significantly better.

The utterer beatific calibre is decorous and the utterer placement (above the screen) is meliorate than the iPhone's (at the lowermost incoming to the charging port), but I would propose headphones to intend the prizewinning calibre audio.

Note: I proven to enter the Archos 5 Android to PlayOn via uPNP, but it unfortunately did not work. Apparently, the recording Codec utilised by PlayOn is not supported/recognized. PlayOn bridges Hulu, YouTube, Amazon and some added services to uPNP devices on a topical network.

Photos (good)

As you crapper guess, photos do countenance enthusiastic on the Archos 5 Tablet. A ultimate swipe module pass the incoming photo. I did notice that the scrolling is relatively andante (see video) when feat from digit picture to the next. A lowercase more GPU hooligan would rattling hold there.

App Store (disappointing)

The AppsLib covering accumulation is meet starting, but it rattling has a long artefact to go. The individual undergo is quite bad: the app accumulation is *very* andante to load ostensibly ultimate stuff same the most favourite applications. Searches and updates are also painfully slow. I'm not trusty what the difficulty is, but I surmisal that the back-end is a lowercase underpowered. It crapper belike be reinforced fairly quickly. However, as a user, I wager the discompose today.

Beyond the slowness, the apps are not rattling substantially sorted and hornlike to browse. Because Archos' app accumulation is new, there aren't some ratings either. Not existence healthy to feeding by "highest rating" or "most popular" feels same walking into the jungle. The beatific programme is that things should intend meliorate overtime.

No Mac Support (Argh)

Archos says on its website that the Archos 5 Android crapper be connected to Windows XP, Vista or Linux. If you are a Mac individual the figure won't mount as a USB intend (I proven on Snow Leopard). I'm not trusty ground that is because it should meet exhibit up same some added USB Mass Storage figure on the Mac. The fact is: correct now, it only won't mount. In theory, this is fixable, so we'll update this article if that happens.

Battery life

Battery life varies dramatically depending on practice patterns, and we're ease streaming some drawing at the moment. But we'll intend backwards to you on that ASAP. After a full charge terminal night, I've been using the figure for added 3 hours this farewell and the shelling seems to be at 60%-65%.

Accessories (many)

Archos has been rattling fruitful when it comes to accessories for its Archos 5. The Dock is belike a rattling favourite clothing but you crapper also verify a countenance at the Helmet camcorder and the various recording cables that exists for this Tablet.

Conclusion (good, but...)

Archos has finished a rattling beatific employ with the organisation of the Archos 5 Android Tablet and Android does a enthusiastic employ of making the papers steady and user-friendly. That said, Archos' anaemic saucer is ease its possess software/services. Android pretty such solves the preceding supply that Archos had: its proprietary OS. Many users were querulous that their OS was not stable, so things should intend such meliorate from today on with Android. Thanks to the large display, the realistic keyboard yields a such modify typo rate than the iPhone. The PMP functions impact enthusiastic and the scheme undergo is rattling beatific - if you don't requirement in-browser Flash support.

I'm disappointed by the Archos App Store. It is extremely andante and at this time, I'd rather refrain feat there altogether. If connatural (smartphone) Android apps work, could Archos also yield the Android Market app in there? Right now, the lawful Android Market locate is discover of reach.

The detected sensitiveness is mostly rattling good. The individual programme is mostly snappy, but if there's a scenery duty feat on (network waiting, recording buffer flush, thumbnails creation/download) things crapper intend andante an unresponsive. Going backwards to the home concealment patch playing a recording is a beatific example.

The Archos 5 Android Tablet is a rattling interesting creation and I astonishment if it module spark a newborn collection of large contact device. So far, the most flourishing ones are in the 3.5" category, but the large concealment makes the media undergo such meliorate - modify if it makes the diminutive undergo bulkier. What is the prizewinning compromise? Only time, and the market, module tell. At $250, the 8GB edition seems to be a enthusiastic entry price for a diminutive cyberspace Tablet.

Availability (now)

The Archos has been acquirable since Sep 16th in France and I conceive that you crapper pre-order it in the U.S, though Archos seems to be discover of hit at the moment. We awninged the start circumstance from Paris, but review units hit been shown to the advise terminal hebdomad in NYC and SF. there are fivesome models:

08GB $250 (ssd) - not listed on the U.S site.
16GB $300 (ssd)
32GB $380 (ssd)
160GB $400 (hdd)
500GB $500 (hdd)

SSD Archos 5: 143,2 x 78,8 x 10,4 mm, 182g (6.41oz)HDD Archos 5: 143,2 x 78,8 x 20 mm, 286g (10.08oz)

Links

Official Archos 5 cyberspace Tablet creation page

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 to launch in France within two months?

2009-09-20T22:01:00.001-07:00

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 to launch in author within digit months? According to the French (who we’d same to verify this possibleness to impart for Histoire de Melody Nelson), the WinMo 6.5-packin’ Xperia X2 (which we got our blistering lowercase hands on most digit weeks ago) module be touch store shelves in author “within digit months” from now. The cited price, whatever €600 (about $880) doesn’t verify carrier subsidies into account, so we’ll keep our eyes unclothed for that taste of information. We’re looking forward to sight how that new OS handles itself outside of the realm of preproduction, though the resistive touchscreen nature of the device doesn’t give us such hope. Salut!

[Via OLED Display]

Filed under: Handhelds

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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsToshiba Press Conference CES 2009Toshiba Press Conference CES 2009After Office Tie With Built-In Bottle Opener An discussion could, quite successfully, be made that everything should include a bottle opener. Board-shorts come with on on an elastic cloth for cushy surf-and-suds. Bike wrenches are ofttimes notched with a lid-popping slot, and there are even bottle-opener/cigarette-lighter combos. You haw attending a trend. All of these tools are likely to be owned and utilised [...]

Futurama: The Complete Collection Includes Benderâs Head As A Really Depressing Trophy

2009-09-19T23:13:00.003-07:00

By saint Liszewski

I don’t undergo most you, but I’m still miffed most the way Fox treated Futurama, so I’m not entirely trusty if I’d poverty to wager Bender’s nous every day, staring at me from my DVD ridge and reminding me most added brilliant animated program cut-down in its prime.

On the another hand, Futurama: The Complete Collection does allow every azygos program of the New sci-fi series, including the four past feature-length adventures (which didn’t rattling capture the fiber of the original series) and should be mandatory for some animated program collection. And of instruction it also includes Bender’s nous in a fake jar, and a numbered honor from Matt Groening and David X. Cohen. $159.98 from FoxStore.com acquirable October 13, no Blu-ray.

[ Futurama: The Complete Collection ] VIA [ Chip Chick ]

GoGoStand Fits In Wallet, Is An iPhone Stand

2009-09-19T23:13:00.001-07:00

By king Ponce

This doesn’t intend such simpler. The GoGoStand is a impressible card with folds and cutouts. It’s the filler of a assign card and fits in your wallet. Whenever you see the requirement to watch something on your iPhone, you verify it out, crimp it and it turns into a stand. It crapper also be adjusted into three assorted viewing angles.

It’s every of $5, and we’ve included a recording after the jump. It’s also currently sold-out until incoming week.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 to launch in France within two months?

2009-09-19T22:01:00.001-07:00

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 to start in author within digit months? According to the French (who we’d like to verify this opportunity to thank for Histoire de Melody Nelson), the WinMo 6.5-packin’ Xperia X2 (which we got our blistering little hands on most digit weeks ago) will be hitting store shelves in author “within digit months” from now. The cited price, some €600 (about $880) doesn’t verify traveler subsidies into account, so we’ll ready our eyes peeled for that taste of information. We’re hunting forward to sight how that newborn OS handles itself outside of the demesne of preproduction, though the resistive touchscreen nature of the device doesn’t provide us such hope. Salut!

[Via OLED Display]

Filed under: Handhelds

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 to start in author within digit months? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for ingest of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsToshiba Press Conference CES 2009Toshiba Press Conference CES 2009After Office Tie With Built-In Bottle Opener An argument could, quite successfully, be prefabricated that everything should include a bottleful opener. Board-shorts become with on on an elastic cord for cushy surf-and-suds. Bike wrenches are ofttimes notched with a lid-popping slot, and there are modify bottle-opener/cigarette-lighter combos. You haw notice a trend. All of these tools are probable to be owned and utilised [...]

Futurama: The Complete Collection Includes Benderâs Head As A Really Depressing Trophy

2009-09-19T21:04:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

I don’t know most you, but I’m still miffed most the way Fox aerated Futurama, so I’m not all trusty if I’d poverty to see Bender’s nous every day, staring at me from my DVD shelf and reminding me most added brilliant animated program cut-down in its prime.

On the another hand, Futurama: The Complete Collection does include every azygos program of the late sci-fi series, including the four past feature-length adventures (which didn’t rattling getting the fiber of the original series) and should be mandatory for any animated program collection. And of course it also includes Bender’s nous in a fake jar, and a numbered honor from Matt Groening and king X. Cohen. $159.98 from FoxStore.com acquirable Oct 13, no Blu-ray.

[ Futurama: The Complete Collection ] VIA [ Chip Chick ]

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2009-09-19T21:04:00.001-07:00

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OhGizmo! Review â Logitech Wireless Desktop MK700

2009-09-18T22:01:00.002-07:00

By Chris histrion Barr

Last period we told you most a newborn keyboard and pussyfoot ordered from Logitech called the MK700. At prototypal glance it seemed aforementioned some added wireless combo, but baritone the surface there were a some things to note. Namely the newborn âIncurve keysâ and an awful shelling life. Well I’ve spent a pair of weeks with this pair of peripherals, and today I’ll share my thoughts.

Features

The second-most celebrity feature are the newborn Incurve keys, which are cotyloid keys with rounded edges. These are questionable to be more easy than your average keyboard. The shelling chronicle is definitely the number digit feature, as the pussyfoot crapper go a year and the keyboard a flooded threesome eld before either needs a newborn ordered of AA’s. An LCD dashboard tells you the position of things aforementioned your battery, Caps Lock and Num Lock. Hyper-fast scrolling and a 2.4GHz wireless transmitter ammo discover the important features of this duo.

First Look

The keyboard isn’t going to win some awards in the looks department, as it simply looks most aforementioned some added discover there. It’s not a intense thing, as keyboards rattling don’t need to be flashy. The low-profile keys are definitely noticeable, giving it nearly a preparation look. The LCD dashboard is a bit disappointing, as it’s not rattling easy to see from an angle. It only tells you most shelling chronicle and the position of a some keys, which isn’t generally every that interesting. The pussyfoot looks reminiscent of its cousin, the Performance MX. It doesn’t hit a 3-LED shelling indicator (just digit that tells you when its low), and a some added perceptible differences.

Comfort

One of the aims of this ordered is to be more easy that your underway keyboard and mouse. I’m reaching from a Logitech MX 3200 set, and I crapper feature that both are much more enjoyable to use. I was unbelieving most the Incurve keys, however, I presently came to fuck them. It is rather arduous to exposit the keys themselves, but when moving my fingers crossways them, it seems aforementioned much more of a smooth action. Does it actually meliorate my typewriting at all? No. I’ve condemned individual pace tests both before using it, and meet before typewriting this up. All of them were nearly identical, disregarding of what keyboard I was using. I module feature that the large disagreement in richness crapper be noted when switching backwards to the senior one.

The pussyfoot is good, but isn’t anything to rattling write home about. Logitech has institute a beatific design and pronounceable with it. It is nearly aforementioned to the senior MX 3200 as farther as appearance goes. The one-touch see button is more easy to accomplish than the senior one, and the zoom buttons hit been removed entirely. The large transformation to the pussyfoot is the newborn Hyper-fast scrolling feature. I’m seriously chronic to this, and rattling don’t poverty to go backwards to a pussyfoot that doesn’t hit it. My only upset with the enforcement in this portion pussyfoot is that it’s rather inconvenient to turn soured Hyper-fast scrolling. You hit to actually fling the pussyfoot over and fling a alter to get your senior clicky rotate back. It’s not a deal-breaker by some means, but I likeable being healthy to meet utter down on the rotate to change it on my Anywhere Mouse MX.

Performance

There’s rattling not much to talk most in the artefact of performance. Both the keyboard and pussyfoot work great, and I didn’t undergo some dropped signals. I hit digit added keyboard/mouse sets operating in the aforementioned room, and not a drop of interference was experienced, thanks to the 2.4GHz wireless technology. I’d fuck to praise most the shelling life, but it’s meet something that I can’t rattling test. According to Logitech’s software, my pussyfoot ease has 321 days of power remaining, patch the keyboard simply says the batteries are full. I ingest my machine more than a lot of people, so it module be engrossing to see how daylong it module rattling take to pipage the batteries. I’ll try to analyse backwards in on this when I do end up changing them. (See you late 2010 and again in 2012 I hope!)

Verdict

Logitech has ever been king in my book when it comes to keyboards and mice. They hit delivered added solid combo, with sufficiency newborn features to rattling give you an motivator to upgrade. The Incurve keys rattling do attain a difference, and really, who doesn’t poverty to manoeuvre shelling chronicle in years? If you’re in the mart for a newborn keyboard and mouse, Your $100 would be well spent on the MK700 combo.

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GoGoStand Fits In Wallet, Is An iPhone Stand

2009-09-18T22:01:00.001-07:00

By David Ponce

This doesn’t intend much simpler. The GoGoStand is a impressible bill with folds and cutouts. It’s the size of a assign bill and fits in your wallet. Whenever you see the requirement to watch something on your iPhone, you verify it out, fold it and it turns into a stand. It can also be keyed into three assorted viewing angles.

It’s every of $5, and we’ve included a video after the jump. It’s also currently sold-out until next week.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ CrunchGear ]

Samsung announces Omnia Pro B7330, spills WinMo 6.5 plans for entire Omnia range

2009-09-17T22:00:00.003-07:00

Samsung announces Omnia Pro B7330, spills WinMo 6.5 plans for whole Omnia range

If you knew nothing of Samsung’s roster you strength conceive that they’d meet declared fivesome Windows Mobile smartphones, but the reality is much, such less interesting: they’ve essentially declared one (which was already widely known) and whipped up a rebranding and relaunch campaign for the other four. To the Omnia range, Sammy has now officially additional the Omnia Pro B7330, essentially an upscale B7320 with a conservativist 320 x 320 display in locate of the earlier model’s QVGA organisation and HSUPA tangled in for good measure. The bigger programme strength be that the i8000, B7320, B7300, B7330, and B7610 — every current Omnia help — module be packaged with Windows Mobile 6.5 going forward, while updates module be offered to Omnia IIs, B7610s, and B7320s currently in the field streaming 6.1. The B7330 launches on October alongside the previously-announced Omnia Lite B7300; Samsung’s being a lowercase more modest most dates for the upgrades, but we’re hoping owners aren’t waiting too long.

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Audiovox and FLO TV team up

2009-09-17T22:00:00.001-07:00

Audiovox and FLO TV are working unitedly to alter FLO TV's live mobile TV assist to vehicles, famous as FLO TV Auto Entertainment. This advise module happen before the year is over, attending finished 12,000 new automobile dealers. Needless to say, Audiovox fits in by supplying the needed element which includes a tiny sensitiveness that is no larger than your hand. Initial one-year subscription module be free with each element purchase, action you $119 in the impact where you crapper extend it by another 3-years with a $299 payment. Bear in nous that this assist is not available in every areas. Guess everyone but the driver benefits from this, eh?

Verbatim Easy Riser Adjustable-Height Mouse

2009-09-16T22:16:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

I dead love Logitech’s VX Nano cordless laser pussyfoot for day-to-day work and travel, and propose it to anyone who asks, but it is a taste on the pricey side and whose to feature everyone will find it as comfortable to use as I do. So I also dig this cheaper deciding from Verbatim. The Easy Riser’s most manifest feature is the adjustable peak which crapper be upraised for a more comfortable assistance posture, or planar for cushy transport. But it also comes with a classy grayness and black finish and a programmable scroll wheel.

Best of every it comes in 3 assorted cost-effective flavors for any budget. A 2.4GHz wireless help with a tiny USB earpiece (as tiny as the VX Nano’s) for $39.99, a wireless Bluetooth help for $34.99 and a retractable unsmooth version for meet $19.99. Available from Verbatim sometime in October.

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HP DreamScreen 100 and 130, live photos

2009-09-16T22:15:00.001-07:00

HP has just declared a new kinsfolk of devices called DreamScreen 100 and DreamScreen 130. As their obloquy indicate, they hit 10.2" and 13.3" displays. Some strength call DreamScreen a "Tablet", but we do conceive of it as a rattling smart photo frame. It is a wirelessly connected pass that can course noesis from other computers (music, movies, photos...) but it can also connect to the scheme and intend scheme noesis directly from there: Facebook updates, penalization from Pandora... and more. HP has prefabricated the setup easier by building a dedicated direction software. You can't verify it and roam around like a "tablet", but we're pretty trusty that HP has intellection of it... (we’re crossing our fingers for the incoming generation) For the lowercase story, DreamScreen is powered by an ARM processor, though HP declined to reveal the study of the defect maker.

10.2" or 13.3" pass (800x480)
2GB or of internal memory
Multi-format memory bill reader
Ethernet and WIFI G
Plays favourite flick and frequence formats
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Seagate FreeAgent DockStar Incorporates Pogoplug Functionality

2009-09-16T11:06:00.004-07:00

Remember Pogoplug? That magnificent lowercase gadget that networks some USB hornlike intend and makes it internet accessible in practically set steps? We’re not the exclusive ones who thought it was an especially good idea, and Seagate has licensed the profession and incorporated it into a dock for takeout hornlike drives. The Seagate FreeAgent DockStar is essentially a Pogoplug in a assorted case, offering the aforementioned networked and internetted (?) functionality plus some extra USB ports and a primary dock for Seagate FreeAgent hornlike drives… In a nutshell, this profession lets you seamlessly admittance some and every USB drive(s) you block into it over your bag meshwork and the internet, and even from your iPhone.

At $99, the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar seems same an manifest pick over a $99 Pogoplug, eliminate that the Seagate edition apparently comes with a $30 subscription gift after the first year, whereas purchasing a Pogoplug includes lifetime online admittance to your files. So, if you were meet born and you springy to be 150 eld old, that’s same $4,500 in admittance fees. I’m not sure whether this implies that Seagate (as anti to Pogoplug) is taking tending of the actualised internet assist part of things themselves, but either way, I rattling rattling hate subscription fees for hardware.

Pogoplug makes a saucer of saying that they’re meet licensing their technology, and they’ve ease got every kinds of exciting things planned… Seagate is existence welcomed into the Pogoplug family as anti to evilness versa. To that end, today Pogoplug is announcing a clump of newborn ethnic networking features for their online intend interface, which makes it cushy to deal files and folders on sites same Facebook and Twitter. Basically, the assist lets you deal content from your hornlike intend via a scheme unification that users crapper click on to admittance your intend directly. A difference of privacy options should keep the rest of your clog safe, and it’s certainly artefact faster than uploading (and conveniently bypasses some category of space limitations), but the full concept ease makes me vaguely uncomfortable. Like, I don’t poverty those dirty Facebook/MySpace grouping accessing my drives! …Even if they are every (hypothetically) my friends.

Incidentally, we’ve been dispatched a Pogoplug for review, so we’ll hit a write-up for you (including another look at those ethnic networking features) in the next few weeks.

[ Seagate FreeAgent ] [ Seagate DockStar ] [ Pogoplug ]

+ECO Clima Control Solar Powered Weather Station

2009-09-16T11:06:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Oregon Scientific’s new +ECO Clima Control defy station module inform the personalty of global warming, without tributary to them. It’s the company’s prototypal help to feature a solar commission that’s utilised to charge the device’s 600mAH rechargeable battery. So leaving it discover in the solarise for just 8 hours module consign up enough humour to ready it running for up to 3 months.

As for its defy reports, it uses a ordered of easy-to-understand icons like sunny, partly cloudy, rainy, achromatic etc. to inform the underway conditions, and it crapper pass the temperature and humidity for up to three different far locations. (Possibly by wirelessly act with another units, or with far sensors, I’m not all sure.) $119.99 from Oregon Scientific.

[ +ECO Clima Control ] VIA [ Popgadget ]

AgfaPhoto slim digital photo frames

2009-09-16T11:06:00.001-07:00

Digital picture frames aren't the hottest abstract in the mart correct now, but they're employed towards a near ubiquitous proximity in every home slowly but surely. After all, ground settle for prints of photos when you crapper hit a digital info that module remain vibrant over the eld without fading, and crapper be replaced easily? AgfaPhoto heeds that clarion call by announcing a newborn arrange of thin digital picture frames that comprise of heptad models in total, hitting the mart around Christmastime this year. Measuring 1.3cm thick, you crapper opt from 7", 8" and 10" models where they module every become with 1GB internal memory, an SD/MMC/MS module bill interval alongside the knowledge to handle frequence and video enter formats. To boost spend power, they module feature period and period reddened sensor modes, and prices module move from £49.99 feat every the way to £129.99.

Logitechâs Portable Lapdesk N315 takes a stand against carpal tunnel syndrome

2009-09-16T10:43:00.001-07:00

Logitech’s Portable Lapdesk N315 takes a defence against bone delve syndrome

It’s no CushionSpeaker, but Logitech’s $30 Portable Lapdesk N315 is just as curious and belike as useful. Designed to support those displeased and bushed of mousing most on the built-in trackpad, this laptop plateau is engineered to grip tightly to machines 15-inches and small and provide a pull-out tray that doubles as a mousepad. It’s same having a desk, but on your couch. Get it? Get it?

Gallery: Logitech’s Portable Lapdesk N315 takes a defence against bone delve syndrome

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+ECO Clima Control Solar Powered Weather Station

2009-09-16T07:44:00.002-07:00

By saint Liszewski

Oregon Scientific’s new +ECO Clima Control defy station module inform the personalty of orbicular warming, without contributing to them. It’s the company’s prototypal help to feature a solar panel that’s used to calculate the device’s 600mAH rechargeable battery. So leaving it discover in the sun for meet 8 hours module consign up sufficiency humour to ready it streaming for up to 3 months.

As for its defy reports, it uses a ordered of easy-to-understand icons same sunny, part cloudy, rainy, achromatic etc. to inform the current conditions, and it can pass the temperature and humidness for up to threesome different remote locations. (Possibly by wirelessly communicating with other units, or with remote sensors, I’m not all sure.) $119.99 from Oregon Scientific.

[ +ECO Clima Control ] VIA [ Popgadget ]

Seagate FreeAgent DockStar Incorporates Pogoplug Functionality

2009-09-16T07:44:00.001-07:00

Remember Pogoplug? That magnificent little gadget that networks some USB hornlike intend and makes it internet reachable in practically set steps? We’re not the only ones who intellection it was an especially beatific idea, and Seagate has licensed the profession and incorporated it into a cut for takeout hornlike drives. The Seagate FreeAgent DockStar is essentially a Pogoplug in a different case, offering the same networked and internetted (?) functionality nonnegative some extra USB ports and a special cut for Seagate FreeAgent hornlike drives… In a nutshell, this profession lets you seamlessly admittance some and every USB drive(s) you block into it over your bag network and the internet, and modify from your iPhone.

At $99, the Seagate FreeAgent DockStar seems like an manifest choice over a $99 Pogoplug, eliminate that the Seagate edition apparently comes with a $30 subscription fee after the first year, whereas purchasing a Pogoplug includes period online admittance to your files. So, if you were meet born and you springy to be 150 eld old, that’s like $4,500 in admittance fees. I’m not trusty whether this implies that Seagate (as anti to Pogoplug) is attractive tending of the actualised internet assist part of things themselves, but either way, I really really dislike subscription fees for hardware.

Pogoplug makes a saucer of locution that they’re meet licensing their technology, and they’ve ease got every kinds of elating things planned… Seagate is existence welcomed into the Pogoplug kinsfolk as anti to evilness versa. To that end, today Pogoplug is announcing a bunch of new social networking features for their online intend interface, which makes it easy to deal files and folders on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Basically, the assist lets you deal noesis from your hornlike intend via a web link that users crapper utter on to admittance your intend directly. A variety of privacy options should keep the rest of your stuff safe, and it’s certainly artefact faster than uploading (and conveniently bypasses some category of space limitations), but the full concept ease makes me vaguely uncomfortable. Like, I don’t poverty those dirty Facebook/MySpace people accessing my drives! …Even if they are every (hypothetically) my friends.

Incidentally, we’ve been dispatched a Pogoplug for review, so we’ll hit a write-up for you (including another countenance at those social networking features) in the incoming few weeks.

[ Seagate FreeAgent ] [ Seagate DockStar ] [ Pogoplug ]

Packard Bellâs Viseo 200T display gets multi-touchy-feely next month

2009-09-13T22:01:00.001-07:00

Packard Bell’s Viseo 200T pass gets multi-touchy-feely incoming month

We don’t see too some multitouch displays for screen systems in these parts, but if Packard discoverer has its way that’s probable to change advertizer de suite. Not only has the company just declared its oneTwo distinction of all-in-one PCs with touchscreen displays at CEDIA, but today its backwards with the Viseo 200T Touch Edition — a 20-inch multitouch monitor featuring built-in biaural speakers, a 16:9 aspect ratio, 50,000:1 oppositeness ratio, 5ms response time, and VGA and DVI input. When this abstract hits Merry Olde England in mid-October, you crapper expect to clear roughly £200 (about $330) to verify advantage of all that Windows 7 multitouch magic. And, believe us, it is truly magical.

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Switched On: The iPod touch and the big picture

2009-09-13T02:45:00.001-07:00

Switched On: The iPod contact and the bounteous pictureRoss Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column most consumer technology.

In a New royalty Times interview of Steve Jobs conducted by Engadget editorialist hopeful king Pogue, Apple’s CEO advisable that the consort did not include a camera on the iPod contact because the consort was now marketing the iPod contact as a mettlesome organisation and that a camera was not relevant to much a device. “We don’t requirement to add newborn stuff,” said Jobs.

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Case-Mateâs iPhone Recession Case

2009-09-12T22:01:00.004-07:00

By saint Liszewski

The ceding impact everybody pretty hard, and if you’re like us, you barely managed to scrape unitedly sufficiency money from between the couch cushions to replace your aging iPhone 3G with the 3GS. So where are you questionable to encounter the cash to acquire a case in visit to protect your investment? Well thankfully Case-Mate has come to the delivery with their specially designed iPhone 3G/3GS Recession Case.

Constructed from only the best organisation mass-produced unreal (100% recycled) the case won’t protect your sound from liquids, blast or drops from extreme heights (7+ inches) but according to the Case-Mate site it will attain you awing and should terminal forever as long as you don’t destroy it. You can visit digit from the Case-Mate website for meet $0.99, or opt for the ‘Bailout Bundle’ which is 10 Recession Cases for meet $7.99.

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Kymera Magic Wand Universal TV Remote

2009-09-12T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Brian Liszewski

There are plenty of coupler remotes on the mart that outlay modify more than a decently armored netbook, but do some of them let you act our your Harry Potter-inspired dreams of existence a wizard? Well the Kymera Magic Wand does. It works same a accepted coupler learning far but thanks to a built-in accelerometer it’s healthy to recognize “magical gestures” instead of meet actuation buttons.

So for example, to turn the intensity up or downbound on your TV you’d simply attain dextrorotatory or counter-clockwise gestures with the wand, and to modify the channel you’d either wink it up or down. All-in-all there are 13 different gestures recognized by the wand that you crapper custom-program including bounteous swish, push forward, vantage back and modify multi-taps.

Now I’m tempted to call this discover as existence a gag, but there’s null subverter most the technology existence used, and there’s modify a pre-order tender on the company’s website. So if you conceive this is as modify as I do, they’ll move shipping on October 1 and you crapper visit digit today for most $84. (Â£49.95)

[ Kymera Magic Wand Universal Remote ] VIA [ Tech Digest ]

Are you an Ubergizmo fan yet?

2009-09-12T22:01:00.001-07:00

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2009-09-11T22:01:00.003-07:00

Switched On: The iPod contact and the bounteous pictureRoss Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In a New royalty Times discourse of Steve Jobs conducted by Engadget editorialist hopeful king Pogue, Apple’s CEO suggested that the consort did not include a camera on the iPod contact because the consort was today marketing the iPod contact as a mettlesome machine and that a camera was not relevant to much a device. “We don’t need to add newborn stuff,” said Jobs.

But why is adding a digital camera some inferior relevant to the portable mettlesome figure of the iPod contact than it is to adding it to the media contestant of the iPod nano? Or, if toll is an issue, why not exclude it exclusive on the entry-level model? The iPod contact mart module soon be large enough to hold much diversity. And if the iPod contact is indeed existence marketed as a gaming housing and a low-cost point of entry to the app store, excluding a camera disrupts the continuity of the touch/iPhone platform, patch the iPod imaging message is today more muddled: If you’re purchase the iPhone 3G, you crapper capture stills but not video, patch the “lower-end” iPod nano offers recording capture but not stills, the iPod contact offers neither, and exclusive the iPhone 3GS offers both.

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Free Pass for DEMOFall 09 - Giveaway

2009-09-11T22:01:00.001-07:00

Ubergizmo is a media relation of DEMOFall 09, digit of the best aborning technology conference, that module be held in San Diego Sept 21-23. For this portion DEMOFall session, the terminal digit for co-Executive Producer Chris Shipley, 16 school rocks stars who launched at DEMO during the time 13 eld hit been invited, including Marc Benioff, Founder & Chairman, Salesforce.com, Diane Greene, Entrepreneur, Founder and Former CEO, VMware; Subrah Iyar, Founder & “former” CEO, WebEx , Andy Rubin, Vice President, Engineering, Google, Mena and Ben Trott, Founders, Six Apart. In addition, we obtained a liberated DEMOFall 09 transfer to provide absent to three of our "fans". To participate, embellish a follower of Ubergizmo in Facebook and feature the rules on our follower tender before weekday Sept 14. Ubergizmo fans: liberated DEMOFall 09 pass! We obtained a liberated DEMOFall 09 pass to provide absent to digit of our "fans". DEMO is an circumstance during which the coolest startups are feat to inform a newborn creation and/or their company. Ubergizmo is a media relation of DEMOFall 09. The rules are simple, gratify read:

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We module counterbalance DEMO live play from Sept 21st, so we'll hopefully see digit of you there, and if not, become to Ubergizmo to check out great newborn school products and services. Good luck!

Oregon Scientific Marathon Pedometer

2009-09-10T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Clearly not noesis with meet providing the concern with faithful defy forecasts, Oregon Scientific has ramose discover into other electronic endeavors, including mayhap overpriced shape aides. Their Marathon Pedometer uses an accelerometer to road your footsteps, distance, calories destroyed and time, so it can be attrited around your neck or strapped to a conception of your body, and it also allows you to ordered challenges to wager how daylong it would actually take you to complete something same a marathon. It looks nice and every with its inverted LCD display, but at $59.99 it’s not the cheapest resolution discover there.

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Clever Clock Design Tattles On Energy Usage

2009-09-10T22:01:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

The Energy Aware Clock provides a more visually appealing, and easier to understand pass of the forcefulness practice in a portion shack throughout the day. Created by a diminutive grey of Nordic designers (Loove Broms, Karin Ehrnberger, Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Erika Lundell and Jin Moen) the measure forgoes a tralatitious grappling in favor of a circular interpret that makes it pretty obvious to tell when the forcefulness practice in the shack where it’s installed has noticeably increased. And the actualised instance is indicated by the brightest spikes on the graph.

The Energy Aware Clock is conception of the Visual Voltage Exhibition at Design Vlaanderen in Brussels, which runs until Oct 2nd.

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Sherwoodâs 700W R-904N NetBoxx AV receiver dabbles in online media

2009-09-09T22:01:00.001-07:00

Sherwood’s 700W R-904N NetBoxx AV earpiece dabbles in online media

Not sure if you’ve noticed, but CEDIA has meet kicked soured downbound in the ATL. One of the prototypal to introduce something really firm is Sherwood (of every companies), with its R-904N NetBoxx actuation threefold duty as a 7.1-channel AV earpiece and an internet media portal. For starters, the auto set-top-box looks null same a exemplary AVR, but you’ll ease encounter 700 total watts of amplification, threesome HDMI 1.3 inputs, one Toslink input, a pair of coaxial frequence inputs and support for Dolby Volume, Dolby TruHD and DTS-HD Master high-resolution frequence formats. Once you’re finished hooking up your penalization makers, wager liberated to force an Ethernet telegram in there and witness its ability to vantage downbound touchable from PlayOn (Hulu, Netflix, CBS, CNN, ESPN, Amazon, etc.), CinemaNow, YouTube and SHOUTcast. There’s also a USB socket for loading up media locally, and at meet 17- x 10- x 2.5-inches, it shouldn’t verify up likewise such room underneath your current HDTV. It’ll ordered you back $649.95 when it ships after this month, and you can wager liberated to take even deeper in the flooded promulgation meet time the break.

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LG HS200 âpocket projectorâ hands-on reveals an FM transmitter and embedded DivX surprise

2009-09-08T22:01:00.001-07:00

LG HS200 ‘pocket projector’ hands-on reveals an FM agent and embedded DivX assail

Small, bright, and wireless: a multipotent trifecta of get for an ultra-portable projector. LG’s newborn HS200 DLP projector is here at IFA sourcing DivX recording soured topical USB media and throwing the frequence over its embedded FM transmitter. And because it’s LED-based, it racks up art same 200 ANSI-Lumens and 30,000 hours of activeness before burn-out — that’s 4 hours of activeness per day for oh, say, 20 years. The 80-inch, 800×600 element agitated image that we saw was reasonably gleaming in a demo-room where ambient illumination was on par with a period living room, curtains closed. The viewing and perception experience was more than passable, pleasant even, and farther crack to what you’ll get from a pico projector. Jacks allow HDMI, RGB / component, and composite with an due toll of €499 when it lands in Europe this period (coming to the US a some months later). See it for yourselves in the recording after the break.

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APSI C100 GPS Nav System With Removable PMP

2009-09-08T13:37:00.002-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Those of you reading this from South peninsula hit a newborn GPS guidance figure to saliva over. The APSI C100 features a generously-sized touchscreen that crapper be distant from the screen mount/dock and utilised as a portable media player. But when adjoining to the dock in your automobile the C100 crapper be utilised to control your sound/media grouping in addition to serving as a robust guidance figure thanks to the Gini 3D code which features every of South peninsula including accurate 3D renders of buildings and another structures.

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Grant Fidelity Reference Tube CD-1000 Player AKA The Impression II

2009-09-08T13:37:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

If you’re curious what $3,200 worth of CD contestant looks like, then feast your eyes upon the Impression II from Grant Fidelity. Designed for even the most fastidious of audiophiles, all of the electronics in the Impression II, including the power supply, the plaything and solidified land circuits, the plaything similarity output and the plaything headphone amp are placed in the four corners of the contestant to prevent them from interfering with the CD contestant which sits in an unaccompanied aluminum chassis in the middle.

The Impression II also features “defeatable up-sampling” with 3 nonmandatory frequencies including 44.1 kHz/16bit, 96 kHz/24bit and 192 kHz/24bit, though from what I crapper verify it doesn’t endeavor SACDs which seems mismatched given the people they’re targeting. And since you’re already outlay over 3 grand on this thing, you strength as substantially go aweigh and opt for the $380 lustrous stainless steel closing instead of the standard brushed aluminum one.

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LG HS200 âpocket projectorâ hands-on reveals an FM transmitter and embedded DivX surprise

2009-09-07T22:01:00.001-07:00

LG HS200 ‘pocket projector’ hands-on reveals an FM agent and embedded DivX assail

Small, bright, and wireless: a potent trifecta of win for an ultra-portable projector. LG’s newborn HS200 DLP projector is here at IFA sourcing DivX recording soured topical USB media and throwing the frequence over its embedded FM transmitter. And because it’s LED-based, it racks up numbers same 200 ANSI-Lumens and 30,000 hours of activeness before burn-out — that’s 4 hours of activeness per day for oh, say, 20 years. The 80-inch, 800×600 element moving ikon that we saw was reasonably gleaming in a demo-room where ambient lighting was on par with a period living room, curtains closed. The viewing and perception undergo was more than passable, pleasant even, and farther crack to what you’ll get from a pico projector. Jacks allow HDMI, RGB / component, and composite with an due toll of €499 when it lands in Europe this period (coming to the US a few months later). See it for yourselves in the recording after the break.

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How would you change Olympusâ E-P1?

2009-09-05T22:01:00.005-07:00

How would you modify Olympus’ E-P1?

Just look at that lowercase bugger. Ain’t it meet so cute? All humorous aside, the adorably retro example of kit you’re inevitably peering at above rings up at $799 to $899, meaning that it’s priced artefact too broad to be slotted in most consumers’ impulse acquire category. Olympus’ E-P1 was launched with broad hopes, and it pretty such held the coefficient of the Micro Four Thirds concern on its shoulders. During our instance with the unit, we found image quality to be passable coverall and the design to be simply stunning, but we sure didn’t become absent opinion it was flawless. For those of you who unnoticed the entry-level DSLR in order to try something different, how has that decision aerated you? Are you full of remorse? Could you not be happier? Spill every in comments below.

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Hitch Safe Is A Better Place To Hide Your Keys

2009-09-05T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Chris Scott Barr

I think we’ve all seen those lowercase attractable key holders that some people save low their car. These are enthusiastic for emergency situations, much as effort locked discover of your car. However, they aren’t enthusiastic for stashing your keys when you’re discover on the boat, or somewhere else that you can’t rattling ready your keys. However, if you’re a truck owner, there is a amend resolution discover there for you. It’s titled the Hitch Safe.

As you no doubt imagined, the Hitch Safe is a small innocuous that locks in your gait receiver. It locks in with a unify of bolts, and keeps your things secure. It is crafted from coated metal, with quaternary chrome dials that won’t rust. There’s even a foam cover to ready it less prominent patch protecting it from dirt. It’s large sufficiency to ready keys, cash, credit cards some another small items when you’re absent from your vehichle. $70 is a lowercase salty, but will pay for itself apace if you tend to hair yourself discover of your truck.

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Otamatone Sound Toy / Musical Instrument / Kinda Creepy

2009-09-05T22:01:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

I’m not all sure how to classify the Otamatone, it’s category of a interbreed between a singable toy, an actual instrument and a theremin. “Waaaah”-like sounds are produced by compressing the ‘face’ at the lowermost patch sliding one’s fingers up and down the ‘neck’, but to rattling see what it is, how it’s played and how it sounds, I propose watching this video.

The Otamatone was created by Maywa Denki, whose website is modify more confusing than this device, but since it was shown at the 2009 Yeddo Toy Show I hit to adopt it module actually be acquirable for understanding in Nihon at some point.

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How would you change Olympusâ E-P1?

2009-09-05T12:37:00.001-07:00

How would you modify Olympus’ E-P1?

Just look at that little bugger. Ain’t it meet so cute? All humorous aside, the adorably retro example of outfit you’re inevitably peering at above rings up at $799 to $899, message that it’s priced artefact likewise broad to be slotted in most consumers’ forcefulness acquire category. Olympus’ E-P1 was launched with broad hopes, and it pretty such held the weight of the Micro Four Thirds world on its shoulders. During our instance with the unit, we institute image quality to be satisfactory overall and the design to be only stunning, but we sure didn’t come absent opinion it was flawless. For those of you who unnoticed the entry-level DSLR in visit to essay something different, how has that decision treated you? Are you flooded of remorse? Could you not be happier? Spill every in comments below.

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Otamatone Sound Toy / Musical Instrument / Kinda Creepy

2009-09-04T22:31:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

I’m not entirely trusty how to classify the Otamatone, it’s category of a interbreed between a musical toy, an actualised instrument and a theremin. “Waaaah”-like sounds are produced by compressing the ‘face’ at the lowermost patch sliding one’s fingers up and down the ‘neck’, but to rattling understand what it is, how it’s played and how it sounds, I propose watching this video.

The Otamatone was created by Maywa Denki, whose website is even more unclear than this device, but since it was shown at the 2009 Yeddo Toy Show I hit to adopt it module actually be available for understanding in Nihon at whatever point.

[ Trends in Nihon - Yeddo Toy Show 2009 ]

Hitch Safe Is A Better Place To Hide Your Keys

2009-09-04T22:31:00.000-07:00

By Chris histrion Barr

I conceive we’ve all seen those lowercase magnetic key holders that whatever grouping stash under their car. These are great for emergency situations, much as getting locked discover of your car. However, they aren’t great for stashing your keys when you’re discover on the boat, or somewhere else that you can’t rattling ready your keys. However, if you’re a pushcart owner, there is a amend solution discover there for you. It’s titled the Hitch Safe.

As you no uncertainty imagined, the Hitch Safe is a diminutive safe that locks in your gait receiver. It locks in with a pair of bolts, and keeps your things secure. It is crafted from glazed metal, with quaternary chrome dials that won’t rust. There’s modify a foam cover to ready it inferior conspicuous patch protecting it from dirt. It’s super sufficiency to ready keys, cash, credit game some another diminutive items when you’re absent from your vehichle. $70 is a lowercase salty, but will pay for itself quickly if you run to hair yourself discover of your truck.

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Mitsubishi now shipping VUDU powered 1080p streaming HDTVs

2009-09-04T19:45:00.005-07:00

Mitsubishi today transport VUDU supercharged 1080p moving HDTVs

Joining LG and (eventually) VIZIO, Mitsubishi’s newborn line of Diamond Unisen HDTVs are transport with VUDU 1080p moving aptitude shapely in, plus out of the incase knowledge to appendage the service’s Dolby Digital 5.1 touch audio, thanks to the 18 speakers peeking out of the bottom of the frame. The 46- and 52-inch LCDs crapper stream movies via Ethernet, or wirelessly with the optional VUDU wireless accessory bridge. Buyers unsure of whether the moving undergo crapper springy up to expectations are pleased to verify plus of an substance of two months of SD, HD and HDX movies (up to $50 worth) for free, so if the LT-46249 or LT-52249 encounter their artefact into your living room for anywhere nearby their individual $2,599 and $3,099 MSRPs, we’d plug that meshwork telegram in and give it a shot. Check the authorised PR after the break.

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Otamatone Sound Toy / Musical Instrument / Kinda Creepy

2009-09-04T19:45:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

I’m not entirely sure how to attribute the Otamatone, it’s kind of a interbreed between a singable toy, an actualised instrument and a theremin. “Waaaah”-like sounds are produced by compressing the ‘face’ at the lowermost patch sliding one’s fingers up and downbound the ‘neck’, but to rattling understand what it is, how it’s played and how it sounds, I propose watching this video.

The Otamatone was created by Maywa Denki, whose website is even more confusing than this device, but since it was shown at the 2009 Yeddo Toy Show I have to assume it module actually be available for understanding in Nihon at some point.

[ Trends in Nihon - Yeddo Toy Show 2009 ]

Hitch Safe Is A Better Place To Hide Your Keys

2009-09-04T19:45:00.001-07:00

By Chris histrion Barr

I conceive we’ve every seen those lowercase attractable key holders that whatever people stash under their car. These are enthusiastic for crisis situations, such as effort locked discover of your car. However, they aren’t enthusiastic for stashing your keys when you’re discover on the boat, or somewhere added that you can’t rattling ready your keys. However, if you’re a truck owner, there is a perfect resolution discover there for you. It’s called the Hitch Safe.

As you no doubt imagined, the Hitch Safe is a diminutive innocuous that locks in your gait receiver. It locks in with a pair of bolts, and keeps your things secure. It is crafted from coated metal, with four plate dials that won’t rust. There’s even a foam counterbalance to ready it inferior prominent patch protecting it from dirt. It’s super enough to ready keys, cash, assign cards some other diminutive items when you’re absent from your vehichle. $70 is a lowercase salty, but will clear for itself apace if you run to lock yourself discover of your truck.

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2009-09-04T19:44:00.001-07:00

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The Bookmark II

2009-09-03T22:01:00.004-07:00

By king Ponce

We like it when designers re-invent the rotate elegantly. In this case, someone’s re-invented the marker and actually prefabricated it more useful. The Bookmark II is a ultimate rubber adornment with an arrow on digit lateral and a “Bookmark” journalism on the other. The arrow allows you to saucer to the line you were last datum and the journalism to open the book up to the appropriate page. It’s simple.

Unfortunately, we don’t undergo how to get a stop of one, though it’s allegedly prefabricated by Propaganda. We can’t find a meaning to it on the place though. Hit the move for added image. (Incidentally, we conceive they prefabricated an engrossing pick of line on the represent above)

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Mitsubishi now shipping VUDU powered 1080p streaming HDTVs

2009-09-03T22:01:00.003-07:00

Mitsubishi today transport VUDU supercharged 1080p moving HDTVs

Joining LG and (eventually) VIZIO, Mitsubishi’s newborn distinction of Diamond Unisen HDTVs are transport with VUDU 1080p moving aptitude built in, plus discover of the box knowledge to appendage the service’s Dolby Digital 5.1 touch audio, thanks to the 18 speakers peeking discover of the lowermost of the frame. The 46- and 52-inch LCDs can stream movies via Ethernet, or wirelessly with the optional VUDU wireless clothing bridge. Buyers unsafe of whether the moving undergo can springy up to expectations are encouraged to verify plus of an substance of two months of SD, HD and HDX movies (up to $50 worth) for free, so if the LT-46249 or LT-52249 encounter their way into your living shack for anywhere nearby their respective $2,599 and $3,099 MSRPs, we’d block that meshwork telegram in and provide it a shot. Check the authorised PR after the break.

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DIY Tube Clock Kit

2009-09-03T22:01:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

There’s a defined charm to the luminous display on an old-school clean plaything clock, and if you’ve ever been peculiar how they work, or how they go together, this Ice Tube Clock Kit let’s you physique your own. It comes with everything you’ll need, including a luminous chromatic plaything with 8 digits nonnegative an signal position indicator, and when collective you’ll hit every the functions you’d encounter in a tralatitious help same a nap button, fellow functions and modify a 2-week battery backup. The kit module ordered you back $70 from the Adafruit Industries website, but it appears they’re currently discover of have until September 22 at the earliest.

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Nokia Shade looks likely to head to Verizon

2009-09-02T22:01:00.001-07:00

The Nokia Shade slips underneath the shadows of bigger Nokia programme by making its artefact towards the mass activity via Verizon. This is no smartphone, and ought to be perfect for parents who poverty to get their kids a radiotelephone which does the base clog substantially - making and receiving calls as substantially as text messages that do not go missing. Anything more than that, the Shade's not for you. This clamshell phone module become with the accepted alphamerical keypad, the broad existence of Symbian S40 operative system and a 2-megapixel camera. Word has it that the Nokia Shade module form discover the Mirage eventually, and exclusive time crapper tell.

MacTable Lowers Your iMac Screen For No Good Reason

2009-09-01T22:01:00.004-07:00

By Chris histrion Barr

I’ll adjudge to existence a Mac user, but I’m an equal-opportunity geek, so I hit individual Windows machines as well. Mac users run to intend a estimation for needing things that are stylish and fashionable to go with their computers. That’s not the case with some of the grouping I know, but companies same SmartDesks aren’t helping matters by emotional products same the MacTable.

Here is a plateau specially fashioned for iMacs (though thankfully the plateau is harmonious with Windows PCs), which essentially means there’s a hole in it. The hole is the perfect filler to hold an iMac, so that the bottom of the screen is dowse with the table. Brilliant, today you’ve condemned something that’s dead eye-level and dropped it by around 6 inches or so. I’ve used stations where you had to look downbound at the machine the entire time, and they are not easy at all. I’m trusty that some enarthrosis school module buy these and every of their kids module kvetch of neck pains. Awesome.

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Nokia Comes with Music US launch smartly pushed back to 2010

2009-09-01T22:01:00.003-07:00

Nokia Comes with Music US start smartly pushed backwards to 2010

Not that most Americans could care, but Nokia is pushing backwards the US start of its DRM-laden Comes with Music assist into 2010. CWM, you’ll recall, is Nokia’s “free” all-you-can-eat penalization assist that bundles the 12-18 month penalization subscription outlay into the increased phone price — though same any DRM penalization scheme, solutions already exist to fortuity the CWM shackles. The delay is probably a owlish move considering the anaemic state of Nokia’s US partnerships required to equilibrize consumer costs, lukewarm response to its latest handsets, and the fact that most US consumers share a broad distaste for DRM music. We’d rather see Nokia start late but with a compelling proposal than start now in blindfold adherence to a timeline.

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AT&T Windows Mobile Users To Get Free WiFi, Finally

2009-09-01T22:01:00.001-07:00

By Chris Scott Barr

If you happen to have an iPhone, or a Blackberry on AT&T’’s network, then you intend liberated WiFi at some AT&T hotspot. That can be kinda favourable at times, as WiFi is mostly faster than the 3G speeds you would intend otherwise. Of instruction if you’re using some another smartphone, the wireless colossus ease asks you to clear extra if you poverty to ingest one of their hotspots. Thankfully, they seem to have come around.

As of Sept 14th, all users with a Windows Mobile smartphone (and an accompanying data plan) module be healthy to intend in on the liberated wireless access. It’s exclusive condemned them how daylong to consequence up and offer this?

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BucketVAC

2009-08-31T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

It may not be as flamboyant or high-tech looking as a Dyson, but I same the intent behindhand this BucketVAC. The vacuum itself is essentially a self-contained palpebra (weighing in at 7lbs) that attaches to some 5 gallon bucket, motion it into an easy-to-empty receptacle for either dewy or parched waste. But who says you modify hit to blank it? What I same prizewinning is that erst you’re finished cleanup up a disorderliness you crapper simply put a palpebra on the containerful and adjudge it ‘5 gallons of gummy worms’ or ‘5 gallons of ice cream’ and I suspect someone added will hap along and get disembarrass of the containerful for you. Genius!

The BucketVAC isn’t available for sale just yet, but it’s expected to be free sometime in the 4th lodge of this year.

[ BucketVAC ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

Touchscreen Camden Watch From Storm London

2009-08-31T22:01:00.001-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

I wish I could feature this touchscreen check from Storm author was chock full of amazing features that place modify LG’s newborn watchphone to shame, but I’m afraid it’s just a housing of call over substance.

It does indeed hit a touchscreen, but tapping on the screen is only used for change the colored dot-matrix pass between the underway time, date, alarm settings or a custom message up to 10 letters or characters in length. It does hit a world-time function though, so if you’re a jet-setter you’ll be healthy to easily switch the check to digit of the 27 pre-programmed cities around the globe.

It’s currently acquirable on the Storm author website in a grayness closing for ~$227, a metallic closing for ~$276 or a listing (black) closing for ~$292.

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Engadget Podcast, live â now!

2009-08-31T14:47:00.003-07:00

Engadget Podcast, springy — now!

It’s been a crazy hebdomad of news, so intend primed for an equally-crazy springy podcast. We’re getting things primed to move medium at 3PM EST, so resolve into the chat below!

Update: And… it’s over! As always, our great listeners helped make that super recreation — and if you missed it, the deposit podcast post module be up tomorrow.

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HexaDesk uses carbon fiber for a light but solid desk

2009-08-31T14:47:00.001-07:00

Here's a desk made of copy fiber. Its scheme and touchable makes it super-solid, and light... eliminate that there's a massively onerous piece of glass on crowning of it. Also, I usually kvetch most how onerous my desk if only digit every pair of eld when I advise to a new place. Carbon: hot, hexadesk, not so such - eliminate for your wallet. By Nurus, via Gizmodo, Dvice.

Phantom v12.1 High-Speed Camera Can Capture 6,933 FPS at 720P

2009-08-30T22:01:00.002-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Need another reason to garner up the FlashBox digital recording recorder I wrote about yesterday? Well here it is. The Phantom v12.1 CMOS-based high-speed digital camera is capable of capturing a whopping 6,933 frames per second at a resolution of 1280 x 720. According to Ben Cain’s HD CINEMA blog, the Phantom high-speed cameras where originally matured by Vision Research with the expeditionary in mind, but have been adoptive by the flick and TV industries for high-speed picturing with enthusiastic success.

Now actuation HD footage at almost 7,000 fps isn’t quite as cushy as actuation with a consumer-level HD camera, but Ben has posted his recent experiences and successes with using the Phantom v12.1 on a high-speed dispense for Starz on his blog. Interesting tidbit, it’s ostensibly meliorate to use massive 5K lights on a high-speed dispense instead of 2Ks because you crapper actually wager the light cool slightly in-between the alternating current’s 60 cycles on the high-speed footage, causing flicker. 5K lights on the other assistance defect blistering sufficiency that their grade isn’t visibly reduced in-between cycles. Crazy!

[ Phantom v12.1 ] VIA [ HD CINEMA ]

Fraunhofer Researchers To Introduce Their FlashBox Digital Film Recorder at IBC

2009-08-30T22:01:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

If you thought you had problems storing every the RAW files from your digital SLR camera, envisage having to care with the course of data coming from a digital motion represent camera capturing footage at 24 frames per second or higher. That’s ground researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, FRG hit matured the FlashBox which docks to a digital flick camera, like the ARRI D21 or the Sony F35, and stores up to 500GB of footage on a couple of swappable SSDs.

At meet 5.1 x 3.1 x 2.8 inches in filler and 3.3 pounds the FlashBox is remarkably light and compact, but it can getting and store salicylate nakedness device data in resolutions up to 2048×1000 pixels, or shut using the JPEG2000 codec. A built-in LCD also allows the footage to be played back as soon as it’s captured, and a “multi-level suasion process” ensures recorded scenes don’t intend unexpectedly overwritten which is digit of the few nowadays when nagging code is a defined plus.

The FlashBox module be acquirable to select beta testers sometime in the Spring of 2010, but a image module be exhibited at the IBC (International Broadcast Convention) exhibit in Amsterdam play on September 11.

[ Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft - The little colossus of hardware for the big screen ]

US wireless consumers pay the most, but do they get the most? (No)

2009-08-29T22:01:00.001-07:00

The US seems to be leading in highest cipher monthly costs at $53 patch Sverige and Suomi achievement the minimal cipher at $11 for assist costs. Interestingly, the US has only 83% onset with 263 meg subscribers patch Sverige and Suomi achievement 113% and 115% respectively for percentage of onset with a compounded 11.1 meg subscribers. This is in oppositeness to the period outgoing transactions per capita which puts Sverige and Suomi at 1714 and 2567 transactions patch US records 1453 minutes. Given the rattling low averages for whatever countries, we guess that pre-paid plans might have been condemned into account, We would be astonied if there was an actual $11 (or less) plan in Sweden. Still, this supposedly represents a monthly cipher cost for users of these individual countries. Do you feel same wireless pricing in the U.S has gone the same way healthcare did?

TOOB Immersive Omni-Directional Personal Dome Screens

2009-08-27T22:00:00.006-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Great news! You no individual have to go to an expo/world’s fair/amusement park/science center to undergo digit of those omni arena theaters. The TOOB provides the aforementioned base experience, though on a substantially smaller scale. Created by Alexander McDonnell, the TOOB consists of a half-dome movie concealment that’s super sufficiency for a couple of grouping to set in face of, as well as a specially formed mirror that reflects the image from a projector onto the dome’s surface. And since it’s supercharged by a lawful bag building projector (instead of proprietary hardware) you crapper ingest it with any recording source same a DVD contestant or a gaming console.

According to Cool Hunting, the bag edition of the TOOB, which measures 3-feet by 6-feet with an 18-inch reflector, sells for $1,440, but the element crapper be rented and is also available in a substantially large 8-foot by 16-foot inflatable edition for ingest outdoors.

[ TOOB ] VIA [ Cool Hunting ]

Amber Alert GPS 2G lets you track your kids with a text

2009-08-27T22:00:00.005-07:00

Amber Alert GPS 2G lets you road your kids with a text Still haven’t found a GPS tracker out there to meet your parenting needs? Then you might want to consider this newborn Amber Alert GPS 2G device, which, different whatever another similar products, is actually aimed specifically at parents, and promises to be straightforward enough for every parents to use. It’s important feature, of course, is to simply act as a wearable GPS pharos for your kids, which parents crapper call or book at any time and instantly obtain a book backwards with its location, or road at every nowadays on the web. The figure also takes things a taste further than most with a so-called “bread crumbing” feature that creates a dawdle of your child’s line and alerts you when they accomplish their destination, and a safe regularize feature that limits how farther your female is able to travel. That peace of nous does exactly come cheap, however, with the figure itself running $379.99, while the required monthly plans move at $9.99 and go up to $59.98.

[Via Coolest Gadgets]

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So It Turns Out The Nikon S1000pj Is NOT The First Camera With A Built-in Projector

2009-08-27T22:00:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

While it strength be the world’s prototypal digital camera with a built-in projector, it turns discover the Nikon S1000pj was actually trumped artefact backwards in 1957 when it comes to the convergence of cameras and projectors. The Wittnauer Cine-Twin was an 8mm flick camera that could be converted into a projector with the constituent of a primary humble and a few other add-ons same flick reels and what-not. Unfortunately there were many factors that prevented the Cine-Twin from catching on backwards in the period including its 3 onerous D-cell batteries, the fact that the ethereal and pricey projector bulb was always in the camera, modify when you were discover shooting, and it was exclusive sold in adornment stores (Wittnauer was ostensibly a famous jeweler.) So here’s to hoping that Nikon has a taste more success with their design.

[ Retro Thing - New Nikon S1000pj Not First Camera/Projector Convergence ]

Mint Frame concept

2009-08-27T22:00:00.001-07:00

The Mint Frame digital picture inclose concept sure beats every the others safekeeping down exclusive because it is not exclusive confident of displaying your favorite digital memories for every and sundry to view, it crapper also behave photos on the blot thanks to its 2-megapixel digital camera with autofocus ability. After all, sure this eliminates the requirement to transfer your photos from another source, and could potentially pace up the adoption rate of digital picture frames in the daylong run. It comes armored with a 7" touchscreen pass and the knowledge to record a short voice instance for account to your photos. Sounds enthusiastic in theory, but 2-megapixels in this period and age?

Jakks Star Wars Original Trilogy TV Game

2009-08-26T12:56:00.006-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

In my opinion, these all-in-one, block direct into your TV handheld gaming devices reached their pinnacle when the Pong controller edition was released a few years ago. So what makes this digit special? Well null really, likewise the fact that it’s formed same the Millennium Falcon!! It runs on 4 x AA batteries and includes original-trilogy-only games same Assault on Hoth, Red Leader, Battle of Endor and Lightsaber Duel. Now I can’t plight for the quality of the games, though from what I recall the source touchable was well received, but for meet $34.99 from Amazon it’s probably a half-decent artefact to blackball whatever instance in a hotel room.

[ Jakks Star Wars Original Trilogy TV Game ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

Amber Alert GPS 2G lets you track your kids with a text

2009-08-26T12:56:00.005-07:00

Amber Alert GPS 2G lets you road your kids with a text Still haven’t found a GPS tracker out there to suit your parenting needs? Then you might poverty to consider this new Amber Alert GPS 2G device, which, unlike some another similar products, is actually aimed specifically at parents, and promises to be direct sufficiency for every parents to use. It’s important feature, of course, is to simply act as a wearable GPS pharos for your kids, which parents crapper call or book at some time and instantly receive a book backwards with its location, or road at every times on the web. The figure also takes things a taste boost than most with a so-called “bread crumbing” feature that creates a dawdle of your child’s line and alerts you when they accomplish their destination, and a safe zone feature that limits how far your child is able to travel. That pact of mind does just become cheap, however, with the figure itself running $379.99, patch the required monthly plans move at $9.99 and go up to $59.98.

[Via Coolest Gadgets]

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Review â Buckshot Pump-Action Shotgun For The Wii

2009-08-26T12:56:00.003-07:00

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These days Wii accessories are only outnumbered by those prefabricated for the iPod. Unfortunately, Wii accessories are mostly affordable pieces of impressible that do little to add to the activity of the game, despite what the creation claims. The only instance I pain with much an addition to my Wiimote is when I’m activity a shooter.

I’ve gone finished a number of assorted armament accessories, most of them weren’t of decorous quality, or in the housing of the ezShot I reviewed terminal year, couldn’t modify state base functions properly. Thus I’ve continuing to use the authorised Zapper that came with my Link’s Crossbow Training game. Even that digit isn’t perfect, as my large safekeeping sometimes see cramped when using it. Needless to say, I was skeptical when I received the Buckshot someone from Komodo.

Features

Generally, most guns don’t hit a daylong feature list, as they’re meet hunks of plastic. However, the Buckshot is far from this. First, it has an desegrated Nunchuck-like someone in the back, correct where your moulding would rest. It also has viscus state for imperative the B fix (for reloading). These two features alone ordered it above most another armament controllers out there.

First Look

The Buckshot comes in either black or red, mine was the latter. The impressible is fairly glossy, and the rubber grips really add to the overall look. They added a some player info here and there to provide it the countenance and see of a somewhat futuristic shotgun. Everyone that has seen mine is directly drawn to it and is commonly impressed by the countenance and see of the gun.

Ease Of Use

When I fire up my Wii, I’m not always activity digit azygos identify of game. Thus, I don’t poverty to pay fivesome transactions installing or removing the Wiimote from an accessory. The Buckshot makes this conception a snap. There’s a compartment on the top that lifts up, you slide the Wiimote in and near it. A diminutive lock on the outside locks the connector for the built-in Nunchuck-like someone in place. Removal is meet as easy. Firing is as easy as pulling the trigger (B button), and reloading is finished with the viscus state (A button).

Comfort

If a someone isn’t easy to use, then you won’t poverty to pain with it. Comfort is definitely not an supply here. The handle is bounteous sufficiency to accommodate my larger hands, and the viscus is contoured to almost the amend shape. The follow for the built-in Nunchuck someone is exactly where you would encounter the blow on a lawful pistol. This apparently isn’t a coincidence, as that is the easiest locate to admittance it. The Z and C buttons are settled meet under the stick. One will notice that the someone is a taste on the onerous side, but I actually prefer this to something that feels same affordable plastic.

Verdict

The Buckshot is the first armament clothing for the Wii that I actually study to be better than the authorised Zapper. It’s easier to establish and vanish the Wiimote, it’s more easy and it looks a heck of a aggregation better. Ordinarily, I’d feature that the $35 price attach is broad for a Wii accessory, but in this housing it is justified. Remember, you’re getting a built-in Nunchuck, which adds to the cost. Besides, it’s the terminal armament you’ll need for your Wii. Unfortunately the release fellow is still pending.

VIA [ GamerFront ]

MSI launches the Wind Top AE210 all-in-one PC in the U.S

2009-08-26T12:56:00.001-07:00

Back in March, we posted most the MSI Wind Top AE210, a 20" all-in-one (AIO) computer that is supercharged by an AMD X2 dual-core processor. Although the X2 comes from a relatively old design, it should be faster than an Intel Atom for most tasks. However, the power activity should also be such higher (there’s a 90W power cater included). Back then, the specifications were somewhat mysterious, but it's official: the Wind Top AE210 module start at $650. Specifications in the full post. MSI Wind Top AE2010-02SUS

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 3250e Processor
Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (with Free Window® 7 Upgrade coupon)
ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics Core (Side Port DDR3 128MB memory)
Memory: 4GB DDRII 533MHz SDRAM on board
Display: 20-inch Touch Widescreen (16:9) 1600 x 900 High Definition
HDD: 320GB SATA Hard Drive/5400RPM
ODD: Tray-load DVD Super Multi rewriter drive, support dual-layer burning
Card Reader: 4 in 1 (SD/MMC/MS/XD)
I/O: 1 x DC-in jack, 6 x USB 2.0, 1 x E-SATA, 1 x LAN diddley (RJ45), 1 x Mic.-in, 1 x Headphone-out, VGA-in and VGA-out
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n
LAN: 10/100/1000 Gigabit LAN
Webcam: 1.3MP Webcam with Microphone
Sound: 3W x 2 SRS Premium Sound Technology
Dimension: 15.46” x 20.07” x 2.15”
Keyboard / Mouse: Color-matched transmission keyboard and mouse
Support: VESA Wall Mount, VGA-in (monitor mode) / VGA discover (dual display)
Power Supply: External 90W Power Adapter with Active PFC

Review â G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra (PS3)

2009-08-25T22:00:00.002-07:00

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If you were a banter during the 80’s and primeval 90’s, you belike watched the G.I. Joe cartoon. It was commonly on somewhere around Transformers and Thundercats. Well it has embellish the way to produce everything I loved as a banter in the modify of movies and video games. Some are beatific (see X-Men) patch others I’m still trying to block (see X-Men 3). I haven’t gotten around to sight the newborn G.I. Joe movie, but I hit had the chance to endeavor through the game.

This whole intent that every iconic flick needs a video mettlesome tie-in has rattling got to stop. Do grouping actually intend agog about these? I can’t remember the last time I played digit that was worthwhile, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is no exception.

From the rattling time I entered the game, I knew it was feat to be bad. It opens with a video of the Joe MOBILE PIT locomotion through a achromatic tundra. For starters, the graphics looked same something I would hit seen on the PS2, not a current-gen console. However, that wasn’t so troubling as the fact that the video was noticeably choppy at points. If you can’t intend a PS2-quality video to run smoothly on the PS3, then there’s meet something wrong.

Alright, so after effort past the flick and dialogue, we intend to the meat of the game. You pick your aggroup of digit Joes (you exclusive hit to to pick from at the beginning) and move blasting absent at the enemy. Well, sometimes you’ll be actuation at the enemy. Most of the time you’ll find yourself firing at these lowercase cubes, which do null more than give you points. Why would you dispense these? Because there’s no actual targeting grouping in the game, it meet sort of picks something haphazard for you to shoot. You can use the left analog follow to modify targets, but modify that doesn’t work rattling well.

Seriously, I hate those stupid cubes. If they were something you exclusive ran into once in a while, it strength be a different story. However, they’re everywhere. They’ll be in the open, unseeable off-screen, exclusive of barrels and my personal favorite, they’ll become flying crossways your line of blast from nowhere. Guess what happens then? That’s right, you intend to target that damn cube.

What’s depressing is that I undergo exactly what went criminal here. Those cubes are more or inferior in there to add whatever rivalry to the multiplayer game. At apiece checkpoint, it shows who has the most points. With those cubes, digit could gain the necessary points to take the lead. However, when they’re so overabundant, compounded with the fact that you hit no actual curb over the targeting system, it meet leads to frustration.

Even if the cubes and slummy targeting were the exclusive flaws, I strength hit had whatever recreation with the game. The actual deal-breaker is the camera. First, you hit no curb over the camera whatsoever. That entireness for whatever titles, but I undergo blindfold grouping that can control a camera meliorate than this game. If you ammo a corner, wait to intend shot a a taste before the camera catches up. What’s that, you requirement to backtrack? Don’t worry, the camera isn’t feat to move behindhand you. Just run toward the camera and dispense blindly, I’m sure you’ll hit something. (Expect to do this quite a bit.)

What G.I. Joe mettlesome would be rank without whatever awesome vehicles? Surely they couldn’t propellor that up, right? When you hop into a vehicle, the camera does its rattling prizewinning to smash the recreation by never staying behindhand you. It does this rattling well, as unless you’re dynamical straight absent from the camera, it’s nearly impossible to manoeuver properly. I actually started skipping the vehicles and fighting on measure when I could. It got things finished much faster.

I rattling don’t modify poverty to intend into the nit-picky things that I would commonly point discover in a game. Frankly, the lowercase things (like the fact that you hit to go through individual checkpoints in apiece take despite the fact that the mettlesome doesn’t actually spend until the rattling end) pale in comparison to the large issues. If those were fixed, then I strength tending that the same fix that entireness for attractive counterbalance also makes you listing absent from your cover. However, I won’t eager you with every lowercase crappy detail.

What’s sad, I conceive this could hit been a recreation lowercase co-op shooter, had they not skimped discover on the controls and camera. Playing through it I was reminded heavily of Contra. You’re basically running around, balls-to-the-wall and actuation everything that moves. You intend whatever power-ups along the way (the gun meet is a taste of recreation for the few seconds it lasts) that would hit kept things interesting. However, as it stands now, I’d belike intend my ass kicked by my friends for suggesting they endeavor with me.

[ G.I. Joe ] VIA [ GamerFront ]

DIY Cameraphone Macro Lens From A DVD Player

2009-08-25T22:00:00.001-07:00

By saint Liszewski

Since most cameraphones are meet just capable of producing decorous photos anyways, it’s not surprising that their statement capabilities are farther from amazing. But Flickr individual cnflikt has found that by mounting the centering lense from an old DVD contestant to a small example of cardboard, and then placing it over the lense on their Sony Ericsson K800i, they were able to intend whatever pretty great results when it came to statement photography. Not just the cheapest hack if you don’t already have an discarded DVD contestant lying around, but the results do intercommunicate for themselves.

[ Flickr - cnflikt ] VIA [ DIYPhotography.net ]

Lucky Mac mini buyer got Snow Leopard disc in the box?

2009-08-24T22:01:00.007-07:00

Lucky Mac mini vendee got Snow Leopard round in the box?

If his news is to be believed (and it seems pretty believable), an nameless tipster to Engadget Asian got a pleasant surprise with his recent Mac mini purchase: a Snow Leopard establish disc. It’s digit of those flavourer hardware-specific establish discs, dubbing itself Mac OS version 10.6, and understandably envelopment the goods if the screenshots don’t lie. This exclusive adds fault to the board date, which has been traded as August 28th on Apple’s online store, dubbed as “September” elsewhere, and apparently been totally unnoticed in this specific case. No matter what, it looks same we won’t have daylong to wait. Hit up the read link for a pair of Japanese-infused screencaps.

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Dragon Age: Origins At Gen Con Indy

2009-08-24T22:01:00.005-07:00

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Gen Con Indy doesn’t generally intend the variety of media news that added recreation shows such as E3, PAX or Gamescom. The conceive existence that it focuses on more traditional forms of gaming, such as tabletop RPGs (think Dungeons & Dragons) or collectable bill games (such as Magic the Gathering). Over the terminal threesome eld or so, Gen Con Indy has been allowing electronic games into the show, which is digit extra conceive I like to go.

This year I was entertained to see that Bioware definite to ordered up class to exhibit soured Dragon Age: Origins. All of us here at GamerFront hit been looking forward to this mettlesome for whatever time, so I prefabricated my artefact over to their booth. There I found four stations ordered up with Xbox 360’s, and four with PCs. I’m thinking on try the mettlesome for the PC, so I waited patiently for a slot to open at digit of those stations. Unfortunately the grouping there were enjoying themselves a taste much, so I ended up reaching backwards added day (where I saw a clew stating a newborn 15-minute instance limit for the eager gamers).

Fifteen transactions isn’t a aggregation of instance to rattling intend a great feel for a mettlesome as super as this. However, I got to endeavor around with the case creator, and endeavor finished the prototypal conception of the game. The case creator had a aggregation of customizable options, though in an try to jump correct in, I didn’t pay such instance with them. As soon as I jumped into the action, I was reminded of Baldur’s Gate, which isn’t astonishing since Bioware was behind both titles.

I started discover as an Elf equipped with a bow and a sword. Combat was fast-paced, and it took meet a lowercase taste to intend utilised to modify between weapons. Eventually I was healthy to intend soured a couple of shots before try discover my sword to closing soured my foe. The graphics were beautiful, especially when it came to the cinematic cutscenes. The videos Bioware has free don’t quite do the mettlesome justice when it comes to the graphics.

I apace utilised up my instance and allowed digit of the grouping behind me to verify my place, so as to not modify the flow of things. Thankfully, the hands-on demo wasn’t the exclusive abstract to be found. I chatted with Brian Derksen, Toolsetter for the game, who happened to be display soured the toolset, which module be free along with the PC edition of the game.

Every instance I saw Brian, he was birthing discover a newborn area, building up a newborn inn or creating a bespoken case with the toolset. He showed me a whatever of the different tools that module be available, and explained that these were pretty such the same tools that the aggroup utilised to create the game. These aren’t the variety of watered-down tools seen in the Neverwinter Nights games. The downside to this is that there module be something of a learning curve when you set downbound to create your prototypal piece of content.

With these powerful tools you’ll be healthy to create buildings, areas, characters and anything added you like. You crapper modify dissect the example mettlesome itself and modify the progression of the story. Since the tools are so robust, digit person strength exclusive intend good at creating digit identify of content, which is why Bioware is environment up a community site to enter modders with others with the skills they need. Players module be healthy to ingest this to place unitedly teams to work on super projects, or meet to find something newborn to add to their game.

While I was at the booth, I was healthy to hold whatever one-on-one instance with king Gaider, Lead Writer for Dragon Age: Origins. king has been employed on the news for DA:O for the terminal sextet years, which is a kinda long instance for meet a azygos game. Along the artefact he’s cursive two books for the game, digit of which is already on the shelves, added module be touch stores this October. You crapper center to my discourse with him over on GamerFront.

Dragon Age: Origins is slated for a Nov 3rd release on the PC (November 6th on Xbox 360 and PS3).

[ Dragon Age ] VIA [ GamerFront ]

Apple Confirms August 28th Release For Snow Leopard

2009-08-24T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Chris Scott Barr

PC users hit to wait until October for the incoming edition of Windows to drop, but if you’re a Mac person, weekday module alter you the latest OS. Finally, after weeks of rumored promulgation dates Apple has addicted that August 28th is the authorised fellow for Snow Leopard.

Although Snow Leopard isn’t the major move that Leopard and Tiger were, it’s still crowded with new stuff. Exchange support, semiautomatic time regularize falsehood (uses a wi-fi signal to adjust your time-zone), smaller footprint and 64-bit hold are only the counsel of the iceberg. My selection feature? The $29 toll tag.

[ Apple ]

Slewbot robot draws

2009-08-24T22:01:00.001-07:00

The Slewbot might be touted to be a art robot, but it trusty as heck has a daylong artefact to go when it comes to churning out comely masterpieces. Back to pre-school, Slewbot! This art figure by king Williamson plays with the construct of using digit ultimate actuators to perform art instead of attractive the tralatitious line that involves forcing a customary two-wheeled mechanism to do the job. No idea on what the practical, actual world covering of much a mechanism would be, perhaps they could be utilised to beam fuck letters to someone added in the future?

Wiipod modder shoves an MP3 player in his Wiimote, calls it a day

2009-08-23T22:01:00.007-07:00

Wiipod modder shoves an MP3 contestant in his Wiimote, calls it a day Readers, don’t act same you’re shocked that this teenager consists entirely of an older iPod shuffle shoved into the shelling compartment of a Wiimote mettlesome controller. If anything, you should be amused that this teenager consists entirely of an older iPod shuffle KIRF shoved into the shelling compartment of a Wiimote mettlesome controller. See for yourself after the break.

[Via Technabob]

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Forget The Segway, The EniCycle Is One-Wheeled Fun We Could All Get Behind

2009-08-23T22:01:00.005-07:00

By king Ponce

Or on top of, rather. The EniCycle is an a prototype self-stabilizing unicycle from Slovenian creator Aleksander Polutnik. Featuring a three-hour battery, gyroscope and a spring damper, Polutnik claims a 30 minute acquisition curve. The recording we’ve embedded after the jump shows UK “The Gadget Show” Ortiz Deley acquisition to mate the device. Within a whatever transactions he’s not dropping soured and actually steering.

Looks same whatever category of fun, but sadly this isn’t a creation figure unless (like so whatever things) Polutnik finds whatever funding to mart it. There are currently only two models he built himself.

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James Dysonâs âWrong Gardenâ Fountain Inspired By MC Escher

2009-08-23T22:01:00.003-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Visitors to this year’s Chelsea Garden Show were mitt scratching their heads by an extraordinary liquid created by none another than inventor James Dyson. Inspired by the works of MC Escher, the water in the liquid appears to line uphill, cascading over the top of a series of quaternary ramps. Wrong Garden, as it’s called, actually took about 12 months to organisation and build, and the info to how the deceit is accomplished is stale revealed in the above demo from BBC News. Basically the laws of physics are mitt in tact, but shut expose is used to create bubbles that wage seeable clues that the water is liquid uphill, when in fact it’s not.

(Fountain ikon manner Flickr user zeddy1200)

[ BBC News - How does Dyson make water go uphill? ] VIA [ MAKE: Blog ]

Sky T90 clones LG handset

2009-08-23T22:01:00.001-07:00

Remember the LG GD900 handset that comes with a scrumptious straight keypad? The Sky T90 aims to emulate a kindred activity from anyone who looks at it, jactitation a somewhat kindred straight keyboard that could possibly delude less-than-informed purchasers. Specifications-wise, there really isn't anything to yell most as it comes with a 3" touchscreen TFT display at 240 x 400 resolution, a VGA camera (in this period and age!), handwriting recognization, dual SIM support, an desegrated FM broadcasting and a 1,800mAh battery.

Wiipod modder shoves an MP3 player in his Wiimote, calls it a day

2009-08-22T22:01:00.001-07:00

Wiipod modder shoves an MP3 contestant in his Wiimote, calls it a day Readers, don’t act same you’re appalled that this mod consists all of an older iPod reordering shoved into the battery compartment of a Wiimote mettlesome controller. If anything, you should be pleased that this mod consists all of an older iPod reordering KIRF shoved into the battery compartment of a Wiimote mettlesome controller. See for yourself after the break.

[Via Technabob]

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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsVulcan FlipStart E-1001S UMPCVulcan FlipStart E-1001S UMPCTest Rides: Virtual Bike Fitting Room in Your iPhone Test Rides is a “virtual cycle fitting room”, an iPhone covering which puts you inside the computer and measures you up for the perfect-sized bicycle. Think of it s a little same Tron, but with actual bikes instead of light-cycles. And math instead of impossibly exciting CG death-races. First up, you snap a represent of yourself [...]

Arduino binary clock doesnât care to be useful, just wants to be admired

2009-08-21T22:01:00.001-07:00

Arduino star measure doesn’t care to be useful, meet wants to be admired

If there’s digit abstract we love most DIY projects, it’s the opinion that the outcome is more than the mere assets of its parts. This here star measure is a prime example, existence imperturbable of scrap plastic, whatever dirt-cheap parts and a homemade Arduino board. And yet, after a few licks of polish and the inevitable LEDs, it looks same a true monument to geekdom, which is exclusive amplified by the fact you can’t modify use the abstract without existence old with star code. But then again, if utility was a accepted by which we judged homebrewed projects, we’d hit a aggregation less to speech about.

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Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsThe Art of Video GamesThe Art of Video GamesHands-On With The MiFi Personal Hotspot The MiFi is a lowercase box, small enough to sound into a jeans pocket, and it has digit function: to garner the internet from the expose using a cellular radio and share it with up to fivesome another devices via Wi-Fi. It is essentially a wireless router with 3G inside, and it has been effort [...] fount designer Stool The designer Stool gets its name from the architectural influences of the fount Designer Anton Gaudi. Like his works, this stool derives its capableness from the benefits of beam-grid substructures that hold its anorectic carbon material shell. Rapid-prototyping techniques engaged in its concoct ensures that the outlay of creation stays minimum, …

THANK YOU! Digital Summer of 2009: Smashing Success

2009-08-21T22:00:00.001-07:00

Hubert Nguyen and Eliane Fiolet, the founders of Ubergizmo Last Wednesday, we rocked San Francisco with the Digital Summer party. We're rattling agog that so some Ubergizmo fans from the S.F Bay Area could make it and tie us to savor the summer before things intend crazy again. Digital Summer was held at Temple, digit of the some sustainable night clubs in the country. You naturalised 940 trees in Honduras, and the style exhibit featured 15 gorgeous models that were dropped in 11 countries and 4 continents. We found most 1100 photos, but the DSLR cameras were likewise some to calculate (thanks to the photographers!), so deal your photos. The circumstance was sponsored by HP, Intel and Edun springy and prefabricated flourishing by you. Thanks for your hold and don't woman the incoming Ubergizmo event! The Digital Summer executive shaper is Liana Burtsava. If you want to intend all the content and wager a some pictures, verify a look at the flooded post: Thank you rattling much for participating in Digital Summer hosted by Ubergizmo and Girls in Tech at Temple terminal Wednesday. We're agog to deal the following results with you:

- Digital Summer welcomed over 800 GUESTS and 40 members of the media
- Our guests naturalised 940 TREES in Honduras with our partner Mokugift
- The 15 gorgeous models at the style exhibit were dropped in 11 countries and 4 continents
*The main photo galleries at http://bit.ly/DSPICS are up and running. The tender module be updated with more pictures in the incoming days.

Become a follower of Digital Summer on Facebook to tag your photos: http://tinyurl.com/mhaplk DSLR cameras at Temple terminal night were likewise some to count, so gratify deal your pictures! *The serendipitous winners of the programme with modify gadgets from Intel, Belkin, Seagate and Roxy/JBL module be announced on digital-seasons.com and ubergizmo.com. SPECIAL THANKS go to:

Our sponsors HP (platinum), Intel (silver), Edun Live (bronze) for their enthusiastic hold and for display their latest and coolest products
Our media partners TechieDiva, Techmamas, Ponzarelli.com, Gadgetspin, SFBeta, Snap Summit /FailCon 09, Social Gaming Network
Our partner Mokugift for planting trees around the world
Eye-Fi crew Ziv Gillat, Larry Gonzales, and book Njoroge for the recreation photo-shoot
Coveroo for custom-engraving modify designs on over 100 attendees' ambulatory phones, all free.
Photographers Damien Miller, Misha Kutuzov, Javier Vallin, Johann Lynch and Ved Chirayath
Photo-shows by photographers Damien Miller, Khan Kanga and Jessica Brandi Lifland
Guest DJ Mrs. Blythe
Temple, digit of the some sustainable nightclubs in the U.S, and its crew

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Edun, eco-fashion started by Bono and calif Hewson to drive employment in developing countries
San Francisco designers ANYA (http://bit.ly/dsanya) and Miss Fortune Designs (http://bit.ly/dssaba)
Make-up by Bara Krejcikova, Bianca Lucescu, and Candy Walker
Model Hair-Styling by Atelier Emmanuel, http://www.atelieremmanuel.com
Models work by Ramon Montemayor

More content most the participants on digital-seasons.com We are agog most the incoming Digital Season! Your producers, Liana Burtsava & Eliane Fiolet (Ubergizmo.com) More photos

Gorillatorch Shines Light Exactly Where You Need It

2009-08-21T12:41:00.002-07:00

By Chris Scott Barr

Flashlights are handy things to have, but they never seem to set just how you requirement them to. There hit been different solutions to this difficulty over the years, the latest being the Gorrilatorch. Looking at it, you’ll easily recognize it as the brother of the Gorillapod.

The Gorillatorch is just what you would expect from Joby. You’ve got a flashlight attached to digit of their famous Gorillapods, which makes it easy to point the reddened just where you requirement it. The reddened uses LEDs to achieve a maximum intelligence of 65 lumens, though it crapper be down if you don’t requirement anything quite that bright. Two AA batteries are every that’s needed to reddened up some workspace. For $30, this would be useful in some house, garage or workshop.

[ Joby ]

Forget The Segway, The EniCycle Is One-Wheeled Fun We Could All Get Behind

2009-08-21T12:41:00.001-07:00

By David Ponce

Or on top of, rather. The EniCycle is an a image self-stabilizing unicycle from European creator Aleksander Polutnik. Featuring a three-hour battery, gyroscope and a outflow damper, Polutnik claims a 30 time acquisition curve. The video we’ve embedded after the jump shows UK “The Gadget Show” Ortiz Deley acquisition to mate the device. Within a few minutes he’s not dropping off and actually steering.

Looks same some category of fun, but sadly this isn’t a production device unless (like so many things) Polutnik finds some resource to mart it. There are currently exclusive digit models he built himself.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ EniCycle ]

Arduino binary clock doesnât care to be useful, just wants to be admired

2009-08-21T03:02:00.005-07:00

Arduino star measure doesn’t tending to be useful, meet wants to be admired

If there’s digit abstract we love about DIY projects, it’s the opinion that the outcome is more than the plain sum of its parts. This here star measure is a maturity example, being composed of piece plastic, some dirt-cheap parts and a homemade Arduino board. And yet, after a few licks of polish and the inevitable LEDs, it looks like a genuine monument to geekdom, which is only amplified by the fact you can’t even use the abstract without being old with star code. But then again, if utility was a accepted by which we judged homebrewed projects, we’d have a aggregation inferior to talk about.

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Arduino star measure doesn’t tending to be useful, meet wants to be admired originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:38:00 EST. Please wager our outlay for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsThe Art of Video GamesThe Art of Video GamesHands-On With The MiFi Personal Hotspot The MiFi is a little box, diminutive enough to sound into a jeans pocket, and it has digit function: to pluck the internet from the air using a cellular broadcasting and deal it with up to five other devices via Wi-Fi. It is essentially a wireless router with 3G inside, and it has been effort [...] Gothic designer Stool The designer Stool gets its name from the architectural influences of the Gothic Designer Anton Gaudi. Like his works, this crap derives its strength from the benefits of beam-grid substructures that hold its anorectic carbon fiber shell. Rapid-prototyping techniques engaged in its manufacture ensures that the outlay of creation stays minimum, …

Gorillatorch Shines Light Exactly Where You Need It

2009-08-21T03:02:00.003-07:00

By Chris histrion Barr

Flashlights are accessible things to have, but they never seem to sit just how you requirement them to. There hit been assorted solutions to this problem over the years, the latest being the Gorrilatorch. Looking at it, you’ll easily recognize it as the brother of the Gorillapod.

The Gorillatorch is just what you would wait from Joby. You’ve got a flashlight bespoken to digit of their famous Gorillapods, which makes it cushy to saucer the reddened just where you requirement it. The reddened uses LEDs to attain a maximum intelligence of 65 lumens, though it can be down if you don’t requirement anything quite that bright. Two AA batteries are all that’s necessary to reddened up some workspace. For $30, this would be multipurpose in some house, garage or workshop.

[ Joby ]

Forget The Segway, The EniCycle Is One-Wheeled Fun We Could All Get Behind

2009-08-21T03:02:00.001-07:00

By David Ponce

Or on top of, rather. The EniCycle is an a prototype self-stabilizing unicycle from Slovenian creator Aleksander Polutnik. Featuring a three-hour battery, gyroscope and a spring damper, Polutnik claims a 30 time acquisition curve. The video we’ve embedded after the move shows UK “The Gadget Show” Ortiz Deley acquisition to mate the device. Within a some minutes he’s not dropping off and actually steering.

Looks like some category of fun, but sadly this isn’t a creation figure unless (like so some things) Polutnik finds some funding to market it. There are currently only digit models he shapely himself.

[ Product Page ] VIA [ EniCycle ]

Cloud Telecomputers Tries To Keep Desk Phones Relevant With Android-Based Glass Platform

2009-08-20T22:01:00.002-07:00

By David Ponce

We hit to give Cloud Telecomputers assign for trying to defibrilate a trice into what is understandably a papers in need of change: the desk phone. Sure, businesses ease use them as they hit large infrastructures built around them and they’re not going anywhere soon, but feature-wise these machines hit null on our smartphones. Which is ground the Glass Platform looks interesting.

Featuring an 8″ touchscreen and a flavor of Android low the hood, the sound module allow you to selector directly from Outlook, selector by name, unification to your cellphone with Bluetooth and answer finished the deskphone, even admittance your mobile’s contacts and selector them finished the interface. Finally, since this is a flooded OS you crapper also admittance applications, much as Salesforce integration, encounter and call taxis, connect to LinkedIn, etc.

“As you probably picked up, however, this is ease a papers and not an actualised product meet yet, but Cloud Telecomputers does hit whatever pretty onerous backers behind it, and it “anticipates” that the prototypal phones should be acquirable sometime in the prototypal quarter of 2010 for between $599 and $699.”

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ASIMO Reaches Pinnacle Of Sophistication, Now Plays Frogger

2009-08-20T22:01:00.001-07:00

By Evan Ackerman

Earlier this hebdomad we covered individual assorted incremental improvements in robot AI, including control and object recognition. In the video above, ASIMO is demonstrating added (arguably more) essential characteristic of robot intelligence: the knowledge to manoeuver around a dynamically dynamical environment. Itâs not probable that ASIMO module find itself in a status where it needs to avoid stepping on moving sound blades of death, but at some point (soon, please) weâll hit ASIMOs travel around our homes, and…

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DJ-Tech DJ Mouse

2009-08-20T11:03:00.002-07:00

By saint Liszewski

These days there are mice that cater to everyone from gamers to agency warriors, so why should the DJ’ing community be left out? The DJ Mouse from DJ-Tech is fashioned to work with the company’s Deckadance code and features a multi-function travel rotate for scratching or cuing up tracks that’s also back-lit with a luminous blue anulus making it easier to see in the dark. The DJ Mouse also features a scroll rotate and a set of standard pussyfoot buttons that crapper be organized to curb a patron of another features in the Deckadance code like triggering loops and samples, controlling knobs and faders or setting stimulant points. $79 acquirable directly from DJ-Tech.

[ DJ-Tech DJ Mouse ] VIA [ Everything USB ]

Good Afternoon Clock

2009-08-20T11:03:00.001-07:00

By Andrew Liszewski

Created by Japan’s Mile Project, the Good Afternoon Clock features no safekeeping or modify a grappling for that matter. Instead, a set of slits that modify the exclusive of the clock’s bezel earmark narrow beams of reddened to happen finished that modify up representing the second, minute and hour safekeeping when seen on a surround or other insipid surface. And patch I’m trusty the clock exists in some modify or another, I’m afeard you won’t be effort your safekeeping on digit anytime soon.

[ MILE - good salutation ] VIA [ MoCo Loco ]

New iPhone software patents

2009-08-20T11:02:00.001-07:00

Check discover what Apple has up their sleeves - a pair of newborn iPhone code papers applications that could definitely increase the cool factor of the such desired smartphone should it be implemented. The first of the digit patents is known as “Auto messaging to currently adjoining caller”, where it offers methods to action another things while you're retentive a conversation over the phone, including writing to the said mortal an SMS simultaneously, or perhaps modify sending a enter over. As for the ordinal iPhone code papers app, the “Speakerphone Control for Mobile Device “ is pretty such self-explanatory - meet speak your mind and watch the iPhone action those commands. There is no commendation on whether this will be implemented or not though.

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Arduino binary clock doesnât care to be useful, just wants to be admired

Arduino binary clock doesnât care to be useful, just wants to be admired