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The Eee PC T91, is shipping March. A 10-inch
model, the EeePC T101H, is shipping June. Price details are not yet
available, but Asus said to expect somewhere around $600.

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If you were thinking offline Gmail on your desktop was the greatest thing since sliced bread, prepare yourselves people. If an MWC keynote from Google’s VP of engineering, Vic Gundotra, is any indication, the same functionality might be coming soon to an iPhone / Android phone near you. Amongst other things, the souped up web app boasts an overhauled interface, supports labels, and of course, offline access. Despite our own hunch that Google’s just using black magic and voodoo to make this happen, Gundotra claims that it’s all made possible through HTML5 standards — AppCache being the biggie. This development certainly opens the doors to more offline-enabled web apps in the future — Docs, anyone?. Of course, we know Apple has a thing about people messing with its own apps, so it’s probably going to take some time / knee-breaking to get them to come around, but for some reason, we don’t think it’ll take as long with Android. There’s a demo video available after the break, and please, try to contain yourselves.

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Google demos offline Gmail for iPhone, Android at MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adtec‘s just released its Bluetooth wristband, which enables hands-free — well, sort of. The band, which is equipped with a speaker and volume control, connects to your cell phone via Bluetooth, and comes in white or gray. The company suggests one might find this little gadget useful while fishing or running. Maybe it’s just us, but we were thinking it might be neat to use it while conducting highly confidential espionage missions, too. Or… you know, blogging. Pair it with this guy and you’ve got a match made in heaven! It’s available now in Japan for ¥5,980 — about $65 — but will probably (sadly) never makes its way across the waters to North America.

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Adtec unleashes Bluetooth wristband, delusions of grandeur originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You know, when armchair futurists (and jive talkin’ bloggists) make note of some of the scary new tech making the rounds in defense circles these days it’s one thing, but when the Doomsday Scenarios come from official channels, that’s when we start to get nervous. According to a report published by the California State Polytechnic University (with data made available by the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval Research) the sheer scope of the military’s various AI projects is so vast that it is impossible for anyone to fully understand exactly what’s going on. “With hundreds of programmers working on millions of lines of code for a single war robot,” says Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, “no one has a clear understanding of what’s going on, at a small scale, across the entire code base.” And what we don’t understand can eventually hunt us down and kill us. This isn’t idle talk, either — a software malfunction just last year caused US. Army robots to aim at friendly targets (fortunately, no shots were fired). The solution, Dr. Lin continues, is to teach robots “battlefield ethics… a warrior code.” Of course, the government has had absolutely no problems with ethics over the years — so programming its killer robots with some rudimentary values should prove relatively simple.

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Navy report warns of robot uprising, suggests a strong moral compass originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“I put down $500 for a Netbook and all I got was an integrated Webcam!” Don’t complain. That’s not a bad deal, but if you must, I’ll see that Webcam and raise you an integrated biometric fingerprint scanner.

This week, UPEK announced the availability of …