I’m obsessed with sling bags for digital SLR cameras lately. Mostly because I haven’t stumbled upon one that solves all the problems I have (with my camera gear I mean).
I want one that keeps me organized of course, but also one that allows me to comfortably carry …
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LeapFrog intros “smartphone” for your little one (or you) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Bentley released this teaser photo of a mystery car to debut at Geneva.
(Credit: Bentley)
For a superhigh-end automaker with a long history, Bentley keeps itself busy. The company launched the Brooklands coupe in 2007, and last year tweaked its Continental GT, appending the word Speed to the model name. …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
(Credit: Super Talent Technology)If you own a Windows-based Asus S101 Eee PC and are running out of storage space, there’s now another choice of upgrade.
Super Talent Technology (STT) announced Wednesday that it now offers a new solid-state drive (SSD) for the Netbook with capacities up to 64GB….
Open source programming platform Arduino has spawned thousands of enthusiastic DIY-gadget heads.
The Arduino board, with its "Made in Italy" tag, features a microcontroller that can be programmed for a number of projects using a custom programming language and development environment. It’s useful for simple robotics and electronics projects that need a little more intelligence than you can get with a handful of resistors and capacitors from Radio Shack — which is why it has become an underground hit among true gadget enthusiasts.
Now Hack N Mod has scoured the web to find the top 40 Arduino projects. The list includes projects to make a robot that will avoid walls, a twittering plant, a miniature pocket piano, a Segway-like robot and an interactive gaming controller–all using Arduino. Wired magazine editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s make-your-own unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or spyplane gets the second spot on the list.
The list of the 40 projects comes with instructions on how to get started on each. Now there’s no excuse to hang out in the garage and just drink beer on the weekends. Its time to get tinkering.
See also:
Build It. Share It. Profit. Can Open Source Hardware Work?
Photo: Arduino Keyboard (Collin Mel/Flickr)
Streaming video pioneer Vudu released an iPhone app this week that allows users to rent or buy a movie remotely. With a few swipes of your finger, you’ll be able to direct your video box at home to download the selected movies, so they’ll be ready to go when you come home for work. Because waiting for less than twenty minutes to start a download is just a nightmarish proposition for control freaks.
The Vudu Movie Catalog application offers the full browsing services of the at-home box, with full cover art, movie synopsis, and cast information. There’s no word if the iPhone App will also offer iPhone selections of its new "On-Demand" section, which comes with extra web content, like Discovery Channel.
Currently, Vudu offers about 13,000 movie titles in their video-boosting HDX digital video format. The company has gained notoriety through the quality of that video and its torrent-style storage system, with small pieces of movies moving from one hard drive to another to facilitate downloads. Recently, Vudu also announced a standards-based RIA (Rich Internet Application)platform for its box that allows third-party developers to build and improve web-based content apps.
The VUDU Movie Catalog application is available now at the iTunes store, for free.
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Windows 7 is shaping up to be an awesome OS. It’s everything people wanted Vista to be and more. Which is exactly why Microsoft should give it away—or offer it dirt cheap—to Vista users.
Windows 7 is the solution to Microsoft’s Vista problem, which is really a nasty hydra of a problem. Let’s not pretend that this isn’t the case. There are three major heads to the beast: Consumer perception of Vista as an abysmal failure and a crappy OS (hence, Mojave); the use of XP instead of Vista in increasingly popular netbooks; and the critical lack of Vista interest from the business community.
Windows 7 neatly resolves them: Word-of-mouth sentiment for Windows 7 has been overwhelmingly positive, even from Mossberg, a dude who spent half of his Sprint Instinct review pre-reviewing the iPhone 3G. Windows 7 is slimmed down when it needs to be, running fantastically on netbooks. And the IT buyers and consumers who skipped Vista have been waiting, cash in hand, for whatever came after, so Windows 7 will have a much more enthusiastic customer base.
The stars are aligned for Windows 7. It could wash the bad aftertaste from Vista out of everybody’s mouth. But that’s only if Microsoft sells it right.
For starters, Microsoft needs to get rid of all the separate license types (OEM vs. upgrade vs. full) and trim the number of boxed configurations. Give buyers three versions, Home, Business and Ultimate, all at a reasonable price. $129 would be ideal for the first two, with $149 for Ultimate.
Second, every Vista user should get it for $49, or even less.
Apple gave away OS X 10.1 for free, and Microsoft should take a lesson there. It doesn’t matter that Vista isn’t really broken—like OS 10.0 really really was. Or that it was mostly the hardware guys’ fault for not delivering their drivers on time. Or that Mojave proves, at least to the nimwits who appear on camera, that Vista is a warm and fuzzy OS. Or that, conversely, most people who hate Vista have never really used it. All of that could be true, but regardless, people’s perception is that Vista was, is and always will be broken. And perception is reality.
Microsoft screwed up the Vista launch, and well, first impressions are the ones that matter the most. True, it’s already paying for that mistake. But taking that small hit per user wouldn’t just be the final cost of the Vista screwup, it would be “earnest money,” as they say in business. Microsoft would be buying something it hasn’t had the opportunity to get in the last few years: People’s faith.
SingleSpotCamping.com is a brand new started website. It offers all land- and lot owners to present their own “single-spot-camping”. The idea is – that anyone who owns a piece of land (it can even consist of your garage entrance) and think it would be fun using that spot, to welcome one or a couple of camping guests – can join www.singelspotcamping.com. Land and lot owners get a completely new way to an extra income, without huge investments – and get a profit at once.
T-Mobile hit us with a triple whammy today when it released the RIM BlackBerry Curve 8900, T-Mobile Shadow and the Nokia 7510. Bonnie managed to secure the two smartphones for full reviews, and she gave us the full details in today’s Dialed In. We also dish on the the …
Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast
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