Mar 12

Movable Power, like Paris, is a conceptual feast

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We’re suckers for power-strip designs. As gadget nerds, we’re constantly faced with overloaded circuits and blocked ports. For the latter, there’s this design by Jeff Carter that neatly overcomes the limitations presented by the ubiquitous (and ridiculous) side-by-side strip design. Regarding our excessive power issues, that’s easy: more interns to shovel the coal and kittens.

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Mar 12

Onkyo announces 2009 AV receivers, including first receiver with Dolby ProLogic IIz

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The Onkyo TX-SR607 is the first AV receiver we've seen with a front panel HDMI input.

The Onkyo TX-SR607 is the first AV receiver we've seen with a front panel HDMI input.

Sony and Yamaha have announced their midrange AV receiver lines, and today Onkyo announced three new AV receivers ranging in price from $300 to $600. The biggest news is that the new …

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Mar 12

Video: Fun with a microwave and PS3

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While the image above may be disturbing to the PS3 faithful, the path taken to its artistic destruction is oddly intoxicating. It’s the latest console mod / art piece by the microwave Intertainer going by the alias d0vetastic. The video is long, real long at 12 and half minutes — no sound track, no voice over, just you and your computer holed-up with a coagulating 60GB PS3 console and controller. So pull up a chair, set the video to full-screen and prepare to feel the darker side of your emotional response system. Anyone can microwave popcorn — only an artist can microwave his gaming console. Heh.

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Mar 12

Brown University, DARPA give iRobot’s PackBot autonomy

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It’s not easy to find research in the field of robotics without military applications (or military funding), and Brown University’s latest is certainly no exception. Starting out with iRobot’s PackBot (and some pocket change from DARPA and the Office of Naval Intelligence) researchers at the school have achieved several advances that will someday produce robots that follow both verbal and nonverbal commands from a human operator, indoors and out, without the need for a controlled environment or special clothing. The goal, according to Chad Jenkins, is to develop a robot that acts “like a partner. You don’t want to puppeteer the robot. You supervise it, ‘Here’s your job. Now, go do it.'” The work is being presented this week at the Human-Robot Interaction conference in San Diego, but if you can’t make it we’ve provided a video of the thing in action just for you (after the break). We for one salute our autonomous robot overlords.

[Via PhysOrg]

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Mar 12

Dell’s multi-touch Studio One 19 PC makes exclusive debut in Japan

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Well, well. Japan just scored an exclusive on this new multi-touch Studio One 19 PC from Dell. The All-in-One “entertainment PC” comes in a variety of colors to match your kitchen decor with specs that max-out on options such as a Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB of memory, 750GB hard disk, 6x USB, integrated 1.3 megapixel webcam, and NVIDIA GeForce 9400 graphics, and Blu-ray player. The 18.5 inch display features a 1,366 x 768 aspect ratio with touch or non-touch glass panels — capacitive or resistive… that’s the question. Prices start at about ¥149,800 which translates to a tax inclusive price of about $1,538 of the green stuff. Hey Dell, how about a shot from the side so we can measure the chub index?

Update: Helloooo chubby sexy! Profile and top-down pictures found (thanks LionelatDell!) and dropped in after the break and into the gallery. Who knew that the display was actually offset-forward from the main slab? Nice. And she sure is curvy.

Update 2: PC World got a demo of the new AIO and reveals a $699 starting price (now confirmed by an official press release) when it hits the US this Spring — a lot more when you start adding the $100 touchscreen option, $200-ish Blu-ray, more memory, etc.

Gallery: Dell’s multi-touch Studio One 19 PC makes exclusive debut in Japan

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Mar 12

Call Landline Phones In 60 Countries For Free With Gizmo

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This article was written on July 22, 2006 by CyberNet.

Call Landline Phones In 60 Countries For Free With Gizmo
Skype is known around the World as an easy way to communicate with your friends and family for free. Of course, it is normally only free if you are calling PC-to-PC but there are some deals that you will find with Skype. One of the most popular deals that they are offering is that you can call a landline phone anywhere in the U.S. and Canada for free if you use Skype which will last until the end of this year. They also started a new deal for July where each weekend they offer free calls to a different country: this weekend it is Mexico and next weekend it is Japan.

So those deals are great and all but what if you could get free calls to landline phones in more than 60 countries? You can if you and your friends signup for Gizmo. The software reminds me very much like Skype but they have a slightly different deal going on. You can call landline phones in 60 countries if you are able to get your friends to register with Gizmo and enter their phone number in. Once you and your friend are both registered and have your phone numbers entered in you are able to call each other’s landline phones for free.

Gizmo also has a small list of countries, that includes the United States and Canada, where you can also call mobile phones at no cost! So why would they be offering all of this for free? If they can get you and all of your friends to signup for an account think about how quickly they will grow. It is almost like an email system where if you send an email to 5 of your friends and they send it to 5 of their friends then a million people will get it in no time. I would say that is some smart marketing from the people at Gizmo.

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Mar 12

iriver WAVE-HOME internet phone thingamajig seen in the wild

Posted in: in the wild, InTheWild, phone, pics, pictures, Today's Chili, VoIP

Much like Sony’s Rolly, we’re still struggling to piece together exactly how iriver’s WAVE-HOME device is supposed to revolutionize our lives. And, you know, figure out what exactly it does. Thanks to a unit floating out in South Korea (in black attire, no less), we’re given a decent look of the internet phone / do-it-all home appliance getting unboxed and setup for the first time. Aside from phoning people, we’re told that the handset can also double as a TV remote or controller for a radio / music player. We’re still eager to get our own palms around one of these curious creations, but for now, you can tap the read link to get a few JPEGs closer.

[Via Portable Alliance]

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Mar 11

Nintendo doubles up Sony’s PSP, ships 100 millionth DS handheld

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Nearly a month ago to the day, Sony triumphantly proclaimed that it had sold its 50 millionth PlayStation Portable. Now, Nintendo’s making that figure look awfully small by shipping its 100 millionth DS handheld. The number includes original DS, DS Lite and DSi systems, and clearly, those sales are still going strong. The original DS launched way back in late 2004, while the totally hip DSi is slated to ship here in the United States in under a month. So, who’s taking bets on how long it takes to hit the magical 200 million mark?

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Mar 11

Klipsch debuts sub-$100 Image S2, S4 in-ear headphones

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Klipsch hasn’t exactly been catering to more budget-minded customers with its earphones as of late, but that looks to be changing with its new Image S2 and S4 models, which come in at a reasonable $49 and $79, respectively. That’ll still get you the same proprietary, oval-shaped ear tips as Klipsch’s pricier earphones though, along with a so-called moving coil design with controlled dampening, and a “hot rod” dual magnet motor structure on the S4. The S4 set also comes bundled with a few bonuses like a cleaning tool and a “crush-resistant” aluminum case, while the S2s get stuck with a basic cloth case and a slightly less flashy solid black finish. Look for the S4s to roll out first in April, with the S2s set to follow sometime In July.

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Mar 11

Mitsubishi shows off “3D touch panel” display

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Bothered by all the touching involved with touchscreens? Then you may want to keep an eye out for Mitsubishi’s latest and greatest bit of technology, which promises to detect the distance between a finger and the touch panel to allow for a whole host of new interface options. That’s done with the aid of an array of sensors that can also be used to calculate the speed at which the finger is approaching, and allow for a so-called “mouse-over function,” which would essentially let your finger control a cursor without actually touching the screen — something Mitsubishi says would be ideal for devices with small screens. Of course, it is still just in prototype form (currently a 5.7-inch capacitive VGA display), but Mitsubishi says it’s based on panels that are already on the market, which should help ease development and reduce costs. Not surprisingly, Mitsubishi also says that “it will first be used for our products,” although it naturally didn’t say exactly what those product might be.

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