Selasa, 02 Februari 2010

Protect Your Pretty, Pretty Face With the ColdAvenger [Winter]


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Steve Wozniak Explains That Faulty Software Caused His Car Troubles [Cars]


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Senin, 01 Februari 2010

Latest Redsn0w Tool Jailbreaks iPhone 3.0 and 3.1.2 [Jailbreak]


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Stephen Colbert Delivers Grammy for Song of the Year From His New Apple iPad [Grammys]


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Minggu, 31 Januari 2010

Wasabi Fire Alarm Awakens You With a Slight Burning Sensation [Fire Alarms]


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Spongy Steel Won't Soak Up a Mess, But It Could Save Your Ass in a Firefight [Science]


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The Earth's Satellites, Visualized By Nation [Satellites]


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Sabtu, 30 Januari 2010

The Star Wars Opening Crawl Finally Reaches Earth [Comedy]


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Wireless Keyboard and Touchpad For the High Tech Couch Potato [Input]


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Jumat, 29 Januari 2010

This Week's Best iPhone Apps [IPhone Apps]


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Retro Thing's Transparent USB Joystick Is Hackable and Cheap [Gaming]


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Kamis, 28 Januari 2010

England Is Next Country To Project Criminals' Faces On Buildings [Billboards]


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Why the iPad Will Crush Netbooks and Ebook Readers [Industry Analysis]


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Rabu, 27 Januari 2010

Gadget Deals of the Day [Dealzmodo]


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Selasa, 05 Januari 2010

Canon debuts A3100 IS, A3000 IS, A495 and A490 low-end shooters

It might not be glamorous, but if a $110 camera is every you crapper give -- or every you'd consortium your kid with -- then it dead becomes of utmost importance. The newborn crop of A-series cameras fits much a bill, with the 12 megapixel, 4x zoom, optical ikon stabilized PowerShot A3100 IS in the "high end" at $180, followed by the 10 megapixel A3000 IS at $150; 10 megapixel, 3.3x ascent A495 at $130; and similarly specced A490 at $110. The differences between the A495 and A490 are muddled, right of color choices and less scene selections. The Two A3000 cameras sports 2.7-inch screens and recharageable lithium-ion battery packs (a first for A-series cameras), with the A490 units feat for 2.5-inches and trotting discover the AAs. All quaternary shooters should be discover sometime in late February.
Canon debuts A3100 IS, A3000 IS, A495 and A490 low-end shooters

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Nexus One hitting France at รข‚¬450 contract-free?

Nexus One hitting author at รข‚¬450 contract-free?
Maybe you, same us, are a lowercase disappointed at how the Nexus One fared in our review. It haw not be the ground-breaker we'd all hoped for, but it's ease a mighty essential handset, and while we're expecting to undergo the flooded info for its American release after today it seems someone haw hit tipped their headgear on dweller availability info a lowercase early. According to Le Point, the phone will be acquirable in author and elsewhere in Europe within the next "several weeks," with prices at €450 for a contract-free device. However, if you don't nous signing digit eld of your wireless independence absent to Vodafone that toll is said to modify to €200. Again, we're ease waiting to learn about pricing here in the States, but we'd expect a kindred ratio here.

[Thanks, Lopez]

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Keepin' it real fake, part CCXLIX: Cool K07 is the ultimate facePalm

Yeah, yeah -- we've seen a evenhandedly anaemic try to misfit the Pre before, but this... this is the copy webOS figure your shadowy lateral has been waiting for. A departed double for the Palm Pre, the Cool K07 boasts a luscious 2.8-inch touchscreen (320 x 240 resolution), a T-Flash card slot, a 2 megapixel camera, integral speaker, MP3 / MP4 player, a blazing alacritous unification to the web (GPRS, if you staleness know), Bluetooth, an FM radio tuner, signal clock, a some games and shack for 1,000 contacts. Granted, there's hour of that fancy "Synergy" stuff, and we're guessing you won't encounter some "cards" or "multitasking" here, but for $128 unlocked and shack for the SIM card of your choice, how on Earth could you complain? Exactly. You can't. Or maybe that's just stupid silence we hear...

[Thanks, Dechris]

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Senin, 04 Januari 2010

Apple buying mobile ad network Quattro Wireless for $275M?

Now that everyone and their mother's got a smartphone, you've got a money of sweaty capitalists pounding on the entranceway disagreeable to encounter every last thinkable artefact to invoke the way into cold, hornlike cash. One of the most manifest -- calibre apps from a bicentric clearinghouse -- is proving fruitful through innumerous authorised platform app stores, but targeted ambulatory advertising has to be a near second. Google saw the writing on the wall and snapped up AdMob not daylong ago; digit of AdMob's competitors, Quattro Wireless, is today rumored to be locked up for a acquire by Apple for a cool $275 meg as early as tomorrow. While ambulatory ads (or ads of some sort, really) aren't event remotely in Cupertino's repertoire, it's cushy to wager how this could provide the consort an possibleness to capitalize on the iPhone's spirited liberated app ecosystem, change revenue for devs (while stealing a nice lowercase revilement for itself), and take backwards a house industry that's flourished since the App Store's debut. At this point, it's blurred what this effectuation for iPhone users -- or would-be paper users, for that matter -- but sight how this jibes with recent Apple IP, this tie-up strength actually make a frightening amount of sense.

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Sony VAIO Z to offer ultra-fast "Quad SSD" in RAID 0 configuration, backlit keyboard?

We've already presented you the leaked glasses for the unexpected updates to Sony's VAIO Z program of laptops. Now here's what you haven't heard: that SSD on the feature itemize is kinda special, a "Quad SSD" in Sony language. To excerpt from the materials we've peeped, the Quad SSD is represented as "SSD RAID0:64GB/128GB x 4." What's blurred is whether that effectuation 4x 128GB or 64GB modules for either 512GB or 256GB of RAID 0 storage, or exclusive 4x winkle modules totaling 128GB or 64GB of RAID 0 capacity. Presumably, it's similar to devices same the PhotoFast GMonster Quad Drive (pictured, with quaternary CF module cards) that we've already seen. What we do undergo for sure, however, is that Sony's Quad SSD features incredible throughput compared to a traditional 5400rpm hornlike disk. We're conversation about writing a 1GB file at about 4 seconds compared to 25 seconds on that same 5400rpm spinner. We're also told that the VAIO Z module be the first to feature a backlit keyboard, something we've been missing from Sony's previous procreation of Zs. It's CES kids so the truth is exclusive hours away.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

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Scrybe from Synaptics brings new life to your tired touchpad

Scrybe from Synaptics brings new chronicle to your tired touchpad
Did your laptop concern not see sound to include any jazzy intercommunicate support into your touchpad? Did you acquire early and woman out on the multitouch revolution? Synaptics wants to modify the gap for those portables (and suitably-equipped desktops) with its Scrybe software. It augments Windows' existing touch functionality to add context-specific gestures and motions, and patch jog-dial curb for media has us most excited, you'll also be healthy to modify photos, countenance up articulate definitions, and plentitude more -- modify if you don't hit a 10-finger capable device. The organisation is for the company to make partnerships with different manufacturers so that this code becomes accepted supply stuff, but you can get a taste of it today thanks to a roughly 10MB beta advertisement downloadable today at the feature link. Do let us know what you think.

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Milestone multitouch browser ported to the Droid by a user-made patch (video)

This lowercase nugget of software is itself ease in beta, but if you can't wait for the flooded Milestone code opening to rise out of alpha development, it's a beatific alternate line to effort your Droid dancing in the "pinch to zoom" party. Once again produced by the beatific folks over at AllDroid, the connector substitutes the Droid's choice application with the Milestone's multitouch capable digit -- and from the feedback we're seeing it does so rattling cleanly and painlessly, whether you're streaming Android 2.0.1 or 2.1. You'll ease need to stem your device first, and some background datum is advisable before actuation in, but then you should be country for take-off into the concern of multitouch browsing. Video evidence after the break.

[Thanks, Steve]


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Minggu, 03 Januari 2010

AT&T sued by Washington DC for unused balances on calling cards

Here's a superficially curious, but essentially quite important, taste of legal wrangling for you. Reuters is news that the District of Columbia has filed meet against AT&T Corp for the feat of clean balances on occupation cards purchased from the telecom giant. Estimated at somewhere between 5 and 20 percent of the overall continuance of the cards, the so-called breakage -- remaining credit that customers miss to ingest -- has typically remained with the carrier as a variety of inevitable bonus. The DC Attorney General, however, is seeking to have breakages treated as unclaimed property, which under regularise accumulation effectuation that after threesome eld they must be returned to the state. Whichever side of the inclose you sit on, the selection on this case will ordered a momentous illustration for the future of such paid services.

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Quake ported to the Pre, webOS 3D gaming truly within reach

Yeah, hardware accelerating Doom is an essential milestone in any fledgling system's career, but when you talk 3D acceleration, Quake is sure a colossus move aweigh of Doom in polygonal terms. The game has today been ported to webOS using the aforementioned new SDL library from edition 1.3.5, and patch it looks a lowercase inactive and crashy in the recording after the break, it's understandably a landmark circumstance just the same. Now if only we could intend clog same this in the App Catalog we'd be perfectly happy forever and ever. Or for at least a week.


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Sabtu, 02 Januari 2010

n'Gadgets store has us pondering a name change, new line of business


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Sony Vaio Y11, S11 and F11 leaked ahead of launch, Z and CW series refreshed

It appears that the Vaio T's return is exclusive the tip of a colossus berg of refreshes reaching discover from Sony HQ this month. Greek e-tailer Compuland has a triad of newborn models traded -- ostensibly prematurely -- for sale: the Vaio Y11 (pictured) is a relatively accepted 1.3GHz Core 2 Duo SU7300 machine with 4GB of DDR3 module and 320GB of storage, and its word seems to sound given that its specs land somewhere between the underpowered X and fully-equipped Z series. Speaking of the latter, Sony is adding a Core i5-520M to its refreshed Z line, as substantially as to the newborn 16-inch F11 help which adds a half terabyte hardware intend just for kicks. The lesser Core i3-330M Arrandale chip finds a home in the newborn 13-inch S11 laptop, which may or may not be replacing the SR program we know and love, as substantially as a freshened up CW number. Hit the feature course for early pricing and more details, and if you hope rattling hornlike maybe we'll get comely announcements from the official channels some instance soon.

[Thanks, SpaceCowboy1973 and Al]

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Researchers develop tiny, autonomous piezoelectric energy harvester

Folks hit daylong been using piezoelectric devices to harvest forcefulness in everything from dance floors to parking lots, but a assemble of European researchers hit today shown off whatever new uses for the technology at the recent International Electron Devices Meeting that could wager even more of the self-sufficient devices place to use. Their big breakthrough is that they've managed to diminish a piezoelectric figure downbound to "micromachine" size, which was apparently doable in conception as a termination of using aluminum nitride instead of advance zirconate titanate as the piezoelectric material, thereby making the devices easier to manufacture. Their first such figure is a wireless temperature sensor, which is not exclusive extremely tiny, but is healthy to duty autonomously by harvesting forcefulness from vibrations and transmit temperature aggregation to a humble station at 15 ordinal intervals. Of course, the researchers say that is meet the beginning, and they wager similar devices yet being utilised in everything from tire-pressure monitoring systems to prophetic fix of some agitated or rotating machine parts.

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Plethora of new HP laptops, desktops leak ahead of CES

Holy smokes! A ton of unannounced HP laptops and desktops meet came across our desk, in addition to those Envy models we saw meet a some life back. Ahead of what we move will be their conventional declaration next hebdomad right around CES, we've got whatever content on 14 newborn models -- whatever more engrossing than others. Now, before you get likewise excited, we don't impact flooded specs on any of these, but we do impact pricing information, and here are whatever highlights: the 14-inch HP Pavilion dv4i, a Windows 7 laptop with a flush display and blot reverend that should run most $785. Up next is the 10-inch Mini 210 HD Edition, which will become in red, black, grayness and blue, boast Intel's sort newborn Pine Trail platform (a 1.66GHz N450 CPU), nonnegative GMA 3150 graphics. Another goodie here is that this digit is due to board with Broadcom's Crystal HD recording playback chip. The Mini 210 HD is due to cost around $330. Logic Buy (the saucer of lineage for every this info) is news that these models should board on or around Jan 7th, though ready in nous that every of this aggregation is extremely unofficial, so don't blessed us if it every changes. If you only can't get enough, impact the gallery for a countenance at a some of the systems, and check the rest of the news after the break.
HP CES 2010 leak

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Mini 210 - a help we've previously seen that 10.1-inches, acquirable in red, black, grayness and blue. Featuring Intel Atom N450 CPU, Windows 7 Starter Edition, up to 250GB hard drive, 802.11b/g WiFi, 5-in-1 card reverend webcam and 6-cell battery. Expected toll is $280. Compaq Mini CQ10 - 10.1 inches, 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU, GMA 3150 graphics, 1GB DDR2 RAM, an up to 250GB hard drive, 802.11b/g WiFi, and a 6-cell battery for an due transport toll of $260. HP Pavilion Elite HPE-110t screen - we're brief on specs here, but it's due to impact a flushed chassis, micro-tower design, a Pocket Media Drive bay, DVI, HDMI and VGA connections, nonnegative MediaSmart 3.0 for $685. HP Pavilion Elite HPE-150t Quad-core screen - again, no specs, but the toll should be around $785. HP Pavilion Elite HPE-170t Quad Core i5/i7 screen - flushed chassis, micro-tower design, Core i5/Core i7 CPU, up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM, Pocket Media Drive bay, DVI, HDMI, and VGA connections, 460W PSU, MediaSmart 3.0. Expected toll of $985. HP Pavilion Elite HPE-180t Quad Core i7 screen - flushed chassis, micro-tower design, up to 8GB of DDR3 SDRAM, GeForce GTX 260 1.8GB graphics, Pocket Media Drive bay, DVI, HDMI, and VGA connections, 460W PSU, MediaSmart 3.0, with an due retail toll of $1,085. Other models we impact obloquy but little aggregation most are the HP Pavilion p6370t Series, the HP Pavilion Slimline s5300z, Series, the HP Pavilion Slimline s5310t Series, the HP Pavilion Slimline s5370t Series, and the HP Pavilion Slimline s5380t Series.

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Jumat, 01 Januari 2010

Ben Heck's PS3 Slim laptop pops up for sale on Ebay

You're belike already old with the impact of modder / coder extraordinaire, Benjamin Heckendorn... and if you're not, well, maybe it's instance to inform yourself with his work. Regardless, whatever of his strange handiwork has shown up on Ebay for sale, and patch we don't poverty to counsel you to foolishlessly pay loads of hard-earned cash, this is extremity to be an heirloom digit day. The listing here is for Ben's PS3 Slim laptop -- the digit modded from a 17-inch Gateway 1775w LCD with a 1280 x 720 pixel partitioning -- and its currently at around $1,075.00 with 16 bids on it and roughly 3 life remaining. So if this kind of abstract strikes your flamboyant (and we undergo that it does) jumping to it! Check out our segment of The Engadget Show we filmed at Ben's grievous work after the break.



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US government launches Distraction.gov, wants to scare you straight

European countries may hit daylong ago banished the use of cellphones patch dynamical to the dark lateral of the law, but some of the United States preserve in allowing their citizens to talk patch driving. One think for their disinclination may be that outlawing something that has embellish ordinal nature to most grouping would be both unproductive and thickened to enforce. So what do you do? The natural deciding to forcing grouping to intend attentively is educating them of the reasons why. Never nous the fact that we every kinda, sorta undergo the risks we consent patch operative a Droid and a Dodge concurrently. The newly minted Distraction.gov is chockfull of scaremongering statistics, lidded by a truly poem video which we've handily stashed for you meet after the break. Go intend it patch it's hot.


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ASUS considering closing divisions responsible for LCDs, Eee Stick?

ASUS has seen its deal of restructuring over the years, and it looks same it could be most to go through another evenhandedly significant shake-up -- at small if whatever of the leads DigiTimes has picked up actually belittle out. The prototypal (and seemingly more likely) of those is that the company is supposedly considering movement downbound its sectionalization that builds "opto-mechatronics products" same the Eee Stick, which itself was bacilliform from the remnants of the company's old optical drive department, and has reportedly already seen its filler diminish from digit cardinal team members to just twenty. Potentially modify large than that, however, is talk that ASUS might mayhap be thinking most getting discover of the LCD business. Not surprisingly, however, there's modify inferior hornlike grounds for that -- just whatever word that the sectionalization is facing "fierce competition" that's inflicting whatever losses. For its part, ASUS is categorically denying that it's considering any such shutdowns -- and don't vexation most the Eee PC, it seems that ASUS is actually crescendo its investment in that sectionalization to develop more Pine Trail-based netbooks.

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LG Arena GT950 leaks out with AT&T branding

Looks like AT&T is most to intend a edition of the LG Arena -- these shots of a GT950 with the carrier's branding meet impact the tubes. The sound hasn't been officially announced by either AT&T or LG, but the safe countenance is that the 950 is meet a customized var. of the old Arena KM900, so countenance for a three-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen with LG's S-Class UI, a fivesome megapixel camera, GPS, Wi-Fi, and 8GB of storage. We'll have to wager whether this hits at CES next week or MWC in Feb -- but until then you crapper intend a see for this thing by checking out our KM900 hands-on recording right here.

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