You think Blu-ray’s been seeing a bump in sales lately? Just wait until players drop below $100. This holiday season will no doubt usher in a boom of new Blu-ray owners with the introduction of new players by Chinese manufacturers.
Last year’s holiday season saw players dip below $199. This year, after the introduction of the technology in China, players are expected to half that lower threshold, according to industry insiders like Samsung marketing director, Mark Leathan.
In yet another edition of “super rad gadgets that’ll never touch American soil,” we present the Diatec SmartTrack Neo USB touch pad. Aside from the Japanese product page, there isn’t much information out there, but we do know that this small USB pad adds multitouch functionality to PCs, which is perfect timing for the upcoming release of Windows 7.
The touch pad is roughly 3 inches wide and an inch long and features two buttons on the bottom as well as a single USB cord that connects it to a computer. Once installed, the device supposedly enables pinching, pulling, swiping, and turning, much like the motions on an iPhone, and it even responds to gestures with more than one finger. Unfortunately, the Web site indicates that the hardware is only compatible with PCs, so Mac Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini users can resume breathing.
More detailed pictures after the jump.
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Pop open the champagne and pour your hardworking robot vacuum a glass–it’s now a Robot Hall of Fame Inductee.
iRobot’s seven-year-old Roomba is one of five in the class of 2010 inductees into the Robot Hall of Fame, along with NASA’s Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, the DaVinci Medical Robot System, Huey, Dewey and Louie from the 1971 Bruce Dern film “Silent Running and the T-800 Terminator from James Cameron’s 1984 film “The Terminator”. A brainchild of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, the Hall of Fame, according to a university spokesman, “recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and embodied breakthrough accomplishments in robotics.”
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Sprint debuts 2-in-1 AirCard 402 mobile broadband card originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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TiVo owners just got another way of acquiring high-definition movies and TV shows. Tivo announced today its new partnership with Amazon.com, which lets TiVo subscribers download HD videos from the Amazon Video on Demand service right to their DVRs.
Episodes of current TV shows will be available for purchase for $2.99; recently released movies will be available to rent for $3.99-$4.99. Many of the titles support Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, for use with living-room surround-sound setups.
TiVo subscribers with a broadband-connected Series3 HD, TiVo HD, or TiVo HD XL can register for the service by visiting www.amazon.com/videoondemand/tv. Afterwards, they’ll be able to search and browse available movies and TV shows to download directly to their TiVo.
For additional information, visit www.tivo.com/amazon.
Here’s a concept device I think everyone can get behind: At Yanko Designs, a team of four designers are showcasing this Braille ebook reader. According to Seon-Keun Park, Byung-Min Woo, Sun-Hye Woo and Jin-Sun Park, the concept for driving the technology is already here–all that’s needed is a friendly neighborhood investor to toss some money their way.
Electroactive polymers are used to create different letter configurations when the pages are turned. You can find more information–and more shots of the proposed device–here.
This article was written on September 28, 2006 by CyberNet.
The number of people who use Internet calling services such as Skype are increasing, and along with it, the accessories are too. For example, Logitech now has an “Easy Call Desktop” cordless keyboard and mouse option which was designed for those who use the Internet to place phone calls. The EasyCall Desktop makes it just a bit easier to use services such as Skype because it has an integrated speakerphone, and a headset included to give the convenient hands-free conversation.
The Logitech version will cost around $129.99 and has all of the standard features including the programmable hot buttons. Along with supporting Skype, it also supports AIM and Yahoo Messenger services with voice (it appears they’re working on the Windows Live Messenger support).
Even Skype has a section on their website dedicated to purchasing products to enhance Skype such as phones, headphones, even a mobile wi-fi phone that would work on any wi-fi network (this product not available yet, only pre-order).
Skype is certainly changing the way that people communicate over the Internet. You can bet we’ll continue to see the accessories designed to cater to the online communication business.
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We like where this is headed. Toshiba seems poised to capitalize on its incredibly aggressive TG01 form factor, with the TG02 slated for Q4, and the TG03 for some time after that. We already got the skinny on the new handsets, along with the QWERTY-equipped K01 and K02 counter parts, and now we’ve got a few new shots of the TG series to keep things interesting. It’s all a little low-fi at the moment, but while the TG03 looks like the most basic of renders, the TG02 shot (above) seems somewhat photographic in nature — just think if Mr. Blurrycam had some sort of fixation for dotted lines.
Read – TG02 leaked shots
Read – TG03 leaked shots
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Toshiba TG02 and TG03 shots surface originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Amazon Video on Demand HD, as it appears on the Roku Digital Video Player
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It’s been a long time in coming, but Amazon Video on Demand is finally available in high-def. Owners of TiVo HD/Series 3 DVRs, the Roku Digital Video Player, the Sony Bravia Internet Video Link, …
[Via The Inquirer]
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Skytone debuts ARM-based, Android-powered netbook / tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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