The good news: Time Warner is ready to give you unlimited bandwidth for your high speed Internet connection. The bad news: it’s gonna cost you. A lot. The company issued new price plans for users in a blog post yesterday.
Ten to 60 GB a month will cost somewhere between $25 to $65, depending on where you’re located. Up to 100GB will run you $75, plus $1 for every gigabye above that–up to $150 a month.
The Gadget: Ideative’s Socket Sense surge protector that expands in order to fit more bulky AC adapters all on one strip.
The Price: $29.99
The Verdict: One of the best expandable surge protectors we’ve used yet. It’s incredibly useful on road trips (CES) as well as at home, and beats even the Power Squid in our eyes in a general comparison.
The special thing about Socket Sense is that it can be expanded from 13 to 18 inches and has 6 angled outlets, allowing you to fit more adapters on one strip. Because of this, the Socket Sense is significantly bigger than a lot of other power protectors—fully extended, it is the length of a 5’4” female’s arm—and weighs a lot more too.
However, compared to squid outlets, the design and size of the Socket Sense gives it a heavy, flat bottom, which makes it easier to use without having to deal with bundled up cords and cables all over the place. Moreover, surge protector allows you to individually extend each outlet when needed, allowing you to adjust how much space it takes up to some extent. Also, there is enough tension on extender so that the strip doesn’t flimsily slide open or close, but it doesn’t give off so much resistance that a relatively weak girl can’t extend it easily.
Overall, Socket Sense is a reliable piece of hardware for those who need a power strip that offers more space between each adapter. It has 2160 joules of surge protection, compared to the 540 joules of the $30 power squid (the $50 squid offers 1080 joules and the $70 squid offers 3240 joules). For $30, it’s hard to find a better overall surge protector with this amount of space per socket, although the EZSpace UFO is pretty good as well. [Ideative]
Large enough to allow you to plug in six of just about anything in the strip
Slightly larger than a normal power strip
Slightly pricier than a normal strip at $30
When you’re drowning in a flood of copycat netbooks it’s hard to not to be drawn to one that’s a little different, one like EMTEC’s Gdium, bravely forgoing internal storage in favor of a 16GB thumb drive “G-Key” and willfully ignoring the ubiquitous Atom processor. But, such attraction only gets you past so many inadequacies, and according to Laptop Magazine‘s review this one has plenty. Its customized Linux interface was said to be nice, but that 900MHz MIPS architecture couldn’t even keep up with average netbooks, its touchpad was borderline unusable, and after a few moments placed on a lap the thing turned into a 112-degree oven — just the sort of thing that won’t do your future generations any good at all. Sure, the $349 price is lower than expected, but with Mini 9’s going for $150 less it’s not exactly a bargain.
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EMTEC’s Gdium netbook reviewed: colorful case hides an underwhelming device originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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When Michael Arrington asks for something, people tend to listen. Back in July of last year, the TechCrunch founder posted about his dream project–a $300 touchscreen tablet with no hard drive, designed to simply surf the Web. That project, naturally, was deemed the CrunchPad.
Pictures of the device have subsequently “leaked out,” showing up, among other place’s on Arrington’s own CrunchGear site.
The blogger addressed the leak today on TechCrunch, writing,
[F]rankly we weren’t planning on talking about it at all, it just isn’t the right time yet. But, to make a long story short, someone accidentally published some photos we took to the Web.
The device is admittedly not yet ready for prime time. So, did the device really leak out without Arrington’s consent? Did he intend to float the thing to gadget blogs he knew would be more than willing to snap up a few blurry shots? My guess is that either way, Arrington’s enjoying the added traffic push this morning.
Unimpressed by DXG’s lineup of value-priced but generally underwhelming video recording options? Maybe a few trendy pattern appliques will change your mind. The company’s apparently gone down to Canal Street, grabbed a few “discount” handbags, and turned them into gaudy camcorders that promise 720p capture at 30fps. They’re set to retail for a mere $129, and while the company’s pledging they’ll be available at stores like Radio Shack and Walmart later this summer, we’re thinking there are probably a few trademark attorneys out there with a thing or two to say about that.
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DXG’s latest camcorders sport the Burberry and Chanel look, KIRF-style originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember Hybrid Technologies, the company that offers to rip the motor out of a Mini and then charge you close to $60,000 for the privilege? They’ve gone and changed their name to EV Innovations Inc., or EVII (which looks like EVIL if you squint), and along the way came up with a pair of new electric options. First is the Wave (pictured above), with a 170 mile range, 80 mph top speed, $34,900 price tag, and a body that looks something like a 996 Porsche Carrera left out in the sun too long. The other is the Inizio, the sports car (after the break) with beefy pushrod suspension, racy sport seats, adequate 170 mph top speed, generous 200 mile range, and aggressive $139,000 price tag. The company hopes to start building both next year, but since it can’t decide between three or four wheels on the Wave and doesn’t yet have a body to show for the Inizio, that could prove to be a bit optimistic.
Continue reading Hybrid Technologies becomes EVII, adds two electric beasts to its conceptual stable
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Hybrid Technologies becomes EVII, adds two electric beasts to its conceptual stable originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Man, remember just how great of a deal this looked like when it launched at $299 in May of last year? Funny how things change so rapidly, huh? Well, it’s pretty comical unless you’re 3K Computers, who now has a pathetic excuse of a netbook that it can only sell by slashing the asking price from $299 to under $150. Nearly web-wide, legitimate e-tailers are selling the RazorBook 400 CE for less than half of its original MSRP, and we’re not even a full year into its life cycle. But really, who’s jonesing for a CE-powered netbook (we could just stop there, truthfully) with a diminutive 7-inch display, 128MB of RAM and a processor that’s slower (in clock speed, anyway) than that found in HTC’s Touch Diamond? If you’re sheepishly raising your hand, the read link’s got sucker your name written all over it.
[Via Laptoping]
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3K’s Windows CE-powered RazorBook 400 netbook goes half price, still won’t sell originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Make no mistake, wrapping your mind around the build of an OLED panel is mighty tough to do. Without getting you mired in technobabble, let’s just say that indium tin oxide (ITO) has generally been a mainstay in every single OLED that was produced commercially. Now, a team of researchers from AGFA-Gevaert, IMEC, Holst Centre and Philips have prototyped a 12- x 12-centimeter flexible OLED lighting panel that swaps out the ITO for highly-conductive transparent resin electrodes. You see, it’s been difficult for OLED builders to secure enough electrical conductivity of ITO in a low-temperature process, and this new methodology is perfectly suited for the coating method (which makes it ripe for printing). The resin itself is being dubbed Orgacon, and tests have shown it to have a 6x improvement over ITO in terms of electrical conductivity. Beyond that, the crews are keeping the secrets safe from the poachers of the world, but here’s hoping this amounts to more than just jovial celebration in a far off laboratory.
[Via OLED-Display]
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Resin replaces ITO in latest flexible OLED prototype originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Speaking of vinyl, what if you have a stack of old records around that you want to listen to on your iPod? If you ask the RIAA, you’ll be pointed towards an online store where you can pay for your music all over again. If you ask the folks at Denon, they might suggest their new DP-200USB, a turntable with a twist.
The $250 record player does all the dirty work for you. You can, of course, just pop on a record and listen, but the guts of the machine contain an MP3 encoder and will not only detect gaps and separate tracks into individual files, it will query Gracenote and actually add names and ID3 tags to the resulting MP3s. To be clear, the tagging is carried out by included software back on your PC.
The neatest touch, though, is the position of the USB port. It’s on the front, so you can just stick a pen-drive in their and rip. Just press record and it’s all automatic once the music starts. You even get to listen as you copy.
I’m pretty sick of tinny-sounding MP3s, but I love the convenience and I don’t want to start buying CDs again. This is tempting me to hit the thrift-stores and pick up some classics for pennies. If only it would encode in a lossless format. Then I’d be sold.
Product page [Denon via Oh Gizmo!]
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