Nov 26

Brando Clock Thermometer Has More USB Than We Know What to Do With [Brando]

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I sometimes wonder if the people at Brando have a competition going to see how many USB ports they could possibly put into one gadget. This alarm clock hub comes with seven, as well as a calendar and thermometer. With seven hubs (and knowledge of your room’s exact temperature), you could charge your iPod, warm your feet, warm your hands, heat your coffee, heat your lunch, humidify your cubicle and still have a port left over. Sure, having all those things running at the same time could cause some massive electrical shortage, but at least you’ll be toasty, moisturized and you’ll know what time it is. [Brando]


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Nov 26

Best Buy, Macmall Start Mac Discounts For Black Friday Now: Up to $250 Off [Dealzmodo]

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Fry’s MacBook deal may have turned out to be too good to be true, but these sales prices are real: Best Buy and Macmall are offering up to $250 off Macs. The full list is here, helpfully compiled by MacRumors, with that $250 being on 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros at Macmall with on-sale discount and mail-in rebate. iMacs, regular MacBooks and Airs get around $100 to $150 off at both Best Buy and Macmall. We’ll just have to see how Apple’s own crazy discounting matches up to this on Friday. [MacRumors]


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Nov 26

Black Friday Mac discounts underway

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While we patiently wait to see what Apple has in store with its traditional Black Friday sale, MacMall and Best Buy have already kicked the sale into gear. Better yet, MacRumors has created a handy summary chart that links you directly to the best possible deal. With no hardware updates expected through the end of the year and Apple’s own Black Friday discounts typically falling between meager and stingy (and discounts being a rarity in general), this is likely your best-bet opportunity to hop on the switcher wagon or step up to a new unibody MacBook. Just click that read link to get started.

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Black Friday Mac discounts underway originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 26

Fedora 10 goes live: your download awaits

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Just six short months after Fedora 9 hit the tubes, in flies Fedora 10 to give you something new to tinker with over Thanksgiving break. The latest iteration of the Linux-based OS bundles in OpenOffice 3.0 and touts a “wide range of improvements in areas such as virtualization management, networking, boot time and security.” Don’t mind us, though — you can delve as deep as you like in the release notes while your download progresses.

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Nov 26

Creative’s $200 Vado HD pocket camcorder ready for pre-order

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We’ve seen these Amazon “leaks” time and again. So while the December 7th date for the Vado HD might be an educated guess, the details including that $200 price tag certainly look real enough. The display still measures 2-inches, but the beefier 3.3 x 7.9 x 6.3-inch solid state camcorder now brings 8GB of storage for up to 2 hours of 720p MPEG-4 recordings — 8 hours at VGA quality. It also ships with an HDMI cable for instant playback to your like-equipped television. Otherwise, slot the cam into your PC’s (XP and Vista, only) USB port to instantly share your works to YouTube and others with the help of the cam’s built-in Vado Central Software. With this, the Kodak Zi6, and Flip Mino HD, there certainly won’t be any shortage of pocket HD cameras of suspect-tweener quality to choose from this holiday season.

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Nov 26

Toshiba unveils 16GB microSDHC card of its own

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SanDisk was first out of the gate with a 16GB microSDHC card, but Toshiba’s just two months behind with the announcement of its iteration. Slated for mass production in January of 2009, the capacious SD-C16G should provide plenty of room for your EMF albums and that Rage Against the Machine discography. In related news, Tosh also introduced the soon-to-come SD-F16G and SD-F08G, 16GB / 8GB Class 6 SDHC cards that should handle even the quickest of cameras when they launch over the next few months. No prices to chew on just yet, but we’d wager they’ll be competitive.

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Nov 25

German labs set new mark for energy efficient white OLEDs

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BASF and OSRAM ticked the OLED progress meter up one recently, with news out of Germany about new diodes that are both efficient (60 lumens per watt) and reproduce color accurately enough to meet international Energy Star standards. The most power sipping organic light-emitting diodes ever created they aren’t, but the ability to keep their color under varying levels of intensity leads to the next step, producing stable deep-blue colored emitters for increased efficiency (100 lumens per watt or more) so they can start illuminating surfaces near you. Isn’t it lucky, we know some folks in South Korea BASF might want to have a chat with.

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Nov 25

Amazon gets Black Friday started early, shows off a few deals

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You’re thinking about it. Your spouse is thinking about it. Your kids are thinking about it. And yes, your NXE Avatar is thinking about it, too. Black Friday is but hours away, and you still haven’t conjured up the courage to get up at 3:00AM and venture out to save a grand total of $14.97 (pre-tax). Never fear, as the world’s most spectacular e-tailer is here with a slew of deals to keep you firmly planted. Amazon’s going all out on the day after Thanksgiving, but it’s also giving early birds the opportunity to snag a few specials on the run-up to the big day. We won’t spoil anything here, but be sure and give the read link a look if you’re all about saving some dough and staying home.

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Amazon gets Black Friday started early, shows off a few deals originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 25

TrueMotion 3D enables true motion control

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While the Wiimote opened the door to motion-sensitive gaming, it’s obvious limitations even have Nintendo pushing the tech forward with add-ons like the MotionPlus — but a company called Sixense might have leapfrogged the field with a system called TrueMotion 3D. Rather than relying solely on an accelerometer, this controller uses a magnetic field to track both your hands’ positions in 3D space. With a refresh rate of ten milliseconds and accuracy up to a millimeter, and interest from developers including Activision and EA, this guy could someday relegate your Sixaxis to the back of your junk drawer — right next to your old Atari’s paddle controller. Not convinced? Scope the tell-all demo after the break.

READ – video at Engineering TV
READ – Sixense website

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Nov 25

Columbia Pictures flicks — mostly — back on for Xbox 360 Netflix streaming

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We never got a satisfactory answer for why they disappeared in the first place, but it seems the majority of the Columbia Pictures’ movies on Netflix Instant Watch lists suddenly switched to “not available on Xbox 360” are once again open for streaming to all devices. The Karate Kid series, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day and others now stream to Microsoft’s box, however Columbia Pictures movies tagged with the “available through Starz Play” logo — including Bad Boys and Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story — are still out. Hopefully the remaining relevant parties are contacted soon, as Detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett have work to do, but this is a great start.

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