Hasta La Gadget!

Sure, we’ve seen all those purtied up renders, but what does the Ulysse Nardin Chairman look like in the flesh? Well, they’re keeping it under wraps pretty tightly at BASELWORLD, not letting photographers near it, but our friendly tipster Greg’s phone “accidentally” snapped a couple pictures. He says there was no way to touch it or see it in action, but he was struck by the sheer enormity of the device. We’re looking forward to selling a few organs for a shot at one ourselves, but for now those two shots up top will have to suffice.

[Thanks, Greg]

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Ulysse Nardin’s Chairman caught in the wild! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on March 19, 2007 by CyberNet.

Netvibes has been chuggin’ along well, introducing new features to prepare for their latest Coriander Release. Just a few weeks ago they trickled out new features for that release like the theme (rounded corners, shiny colors), and today they took the last big step by releasing Coriander in its entirety.

There are several new features like easy sharing of your customized Netvibes modules, a quick start feature where newbies can get their Netvibes set up easier, and a new search module that makes it easy to compare maps between Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and Live Maps. That is useful in case a map service doesn’t have a satellite view for a particular area, you could try another.

While all of these new features are great additions to Netvibes and their Coriander release, I think by far the best change is with the RSS Reader. Now you’ll notice a “show website” button within your feed reader.  Clicking on it will take you from viewing the content in the feed to viewing the actual website all while remaining in your reader.

That means that it’s no longer a burden if you want to comment on an article because you don’t have to navigate away from the page you’re currently on.  Another huge plus for users is when sites only publish partial feeds.  This gives you quick easy access to the full articles.

Not only does this benefit the users with quick easy access to the full content, it also benefits the publishers because they’re going to be getting more views on their site because people wont’ be relying solely on the feed.

When you click on the “show website” button, you’re actually put into a “show website” mode, and you’ll stay in that mode until you click on the “Go back to the feed view”.  They’ve made it so that with one click, you can easily switch between the feed view, and the web site view.

One area that they might want to improve on is coming up with a way to manage a lot of feeds.  They could easily provide a link at the top of the reader so that you could click to go to the next un-read feed. By doing that it wouldn’t make it quite so difficult to navigate through a larger number of feeds.

Overall, Netvibes did a great job with Coriander, and with the improvements/additions, particularly the RSS Reader, they really stand out from the rest of the crowd. You can find the official release announcement here with further details on some of the other changes and improvements.

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Iconoculture: Restaurants are finding creative ways to play the culinary field while minimizing financial risk — for themselves and their customers.

In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, two Vietnamese restaurants — Bep and Bonjin — use the kitchens of other restaurants and are each open just one day a week during off hours.

More restaurants within restaurants: New York’s Craft and Beer Table break stride to offer affordable “Frugal Friday” and “Tuesday Night Dinner,” respectively. In Chicago, “Dine with Dale” takes over Relax Lounge weekly.

Even Rachael Ray has gotten in on the act with Café Una Notte, which used the kitchen at New York’s Barbuto

One night stands: Pop-up restaurants proliferate during recession [Iconoculture]

Tonight is Roppongi Art Night, and I’m basically going because I want to see a giant fire-breathing robot:

Can you blame me? After all, it’s a FIRE BREATHING ROBOT! We’ve done some YouTube video before, but I’m going to be trying it out live tonight streaming from my phone on Qik on and off from around 8pm or so. The frame rate isn’t beautiful, but let’s just consider this a test session. Tune in live or catch it recorded below:

This is a quick pic that I snapped while there, but Pink Tentacle has a great series of photos of the bot in all his flaming glory.

Qik is nice because it automatically starts streaming (and recording) when the phone goes live, but also gives instant geo-positioning to web viewers. Most of our audience isn’t out of bed yet during broadcast time, but this will make a nice test.

Right around 13 months ago, we were asking you fine readers how you’d change Amazon’s original Kindle. Now that it has had some time to think about things and deliver a refined version of its hit e-reader, we’re giving early adopters the chance to fire off yet another round of criticism. Did Bezos & Co. address all of your gripes with the first iteration? Are you still bummed by anything? Is the screen sharp enough for your tastes? Battery life up to snuff? Do you still want more freedom when it comes to using that built-in EV-DO connection? What could Amazon do to make you even more stoked about being a Kindle 2 owner? You never know what the next firmware update could bring, so choose your words wisely.

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How would you change Amazon’s Kindle 2? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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