Apr 17
Apr 17
LEGO MP3 player: another brick in your kid’s wall of sound
Posted in: audio, lego, Music, PMP, Today's Chili
So this is pretty out-of-the-ordinary looking. LEGO‘s recently-announced MP3 player — produced through a partnership with Digital Blue — fits in nicely with the rest of the company’s kiddie gadget offerings, though we’ll admit that this is probably the first one we’re truly tempted to check out for ourselves. These bad boys have 2GB of storage, LCD displays, and unlimited attitude. It’s got that sweet brick shape that brings to mind memories of our olden days while staying on top of the latest tech that kids today demand… you know, MP3s of Miley Cyrus and stuff. Right? The MP3 players — in multi-color and pinkish (for girls) — will be available sometime this summer for $39.99
LEGO MP3 player: another brick in your kid’s wall of sound originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 17
BAGGU
Posted in: Today's Chili
Baggu was started in CA by Joan and Emily (Joan is Emily’s mom). After dozens of prototypes, they came up with a solution that makes using reusable bags stylish, practical and easy. Joan and Emily made Baggu because they wanted a better Reusable Bag. Something neat & compact, stylish enough to take to work or to give as a gift, but really practical so you’ll actually use it for your grocery shopping. Whether you love electric purple or classic black, with a palate of over 40 colors Baggu blends in with anyone’s personal style.
Apr 17
Intel Embraces Mobile Linux
Posted in: Gadgets, Linux, Software, Today's Chili, ubuntuThis article was written on July 17, 2007 by CyberNet.
Intel sees a bright future in using Linux as a mobile platform because of the small memory and disk footprint it leaves behind. The project initiated by Intel is called Moblin, and some of the sub-projects will be working with the Ubuntu Mobile & Embedded Edition which should be available in October 2007.
Here are a few of the sub-projects that are already underway:
- Network Profile Manager – Let users connect to WLAN and Bluetooth networks.
- Browser – Screen dimensions for these devices range from 800×480 to 1024×600 pixels, so the opportunity for desktop-like web browsing is a big plus. The browser will be based on Firefox, but it will feature a redesigned interface to make it more acceptable for touchscreen devices. Don’t worry…it will still support the installation of extensions!
- Image Capture – Capture, manage, and share pictures and videos using a built-in camera.
- Chat – It will be built using the Telepathy framework, which supports most popular messaging protocols.
- User Interface – The interface looks pretty sweet. Plug-ins can be created to add things like a quick-launch, calendar, application notifiers, and more. Oh, and there will be themes as well!
- Multimedia – You’ll be able to play back your songs and videos, as well as flip through photos. It even has a feature kind of like Cover Flow on iTunes where you can flip through the album covers for your CD’s.
The projects are led by the community, but Intel supplies the hardware to the developers. The hardware comes in the form of Mobile Internet Devices (small mobile devices for consumers) and Ultra Mobile PC’s (slightly larger, but offer a full PC experience).
I’m excited to see what the Moblin project can lead to, and after seeing the Eee PC yesterday I believe that Linux has a strong future in the mobile arena.
Mobile Linux Internet Project Homepage [via Linux Devices]
Thanks for the tip Mohan!
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Apr 17
Some keen-eyed fellows at the Audi Forum Tokyo car show were just hanging out, checking out an R8, when bam! The recently announced special edition white Leica M8 appeared out of thin air, ready to impress. We don’t know what the circumstances were, or how the cam came to be there, but it’s looking really fly, we can tell you that much. There’s still no official word on pricing or availability, but rumor has it that it’s going to appear sometime in May and might cost around €7,000 (about $9,150). One more shot after the break.
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Leica special edition white M8 spotted at car show in Tokyo originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 17
130 Audio Setups That Will Make You Very, Very Jealous
Posted in: contest, feature, Today's Chili, top
Man, my home theater setup really sucks. At least compared to most of these that you guys submitted, which are almost universally amazing.
Seriously, what do all of you do that allows you to afford such sick equipment? Pass along some of that cheddar to me, please. In any case, on to the winners:
First Place — Ronnie Koh
Second Place — Byron Yu
Third Place — Eric Lee Klingman
Apr 17
Nintendo shares fall after surprising drop in Wii demand
Posted in: console, DS, nintendo, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, Today's Chili, video games, VideoGames, wii
Nintendo may have been denying any rumors of a Wii price cut earlier this month, but it looks like it could possibly be reconsidering its options if this latest sales trend keeps up. Apparently, sales in the U.S. for the month of March clocked in at around 601,000 consoles, or about a 17% drop from a year earlier. During the same period, however, Xbox 360 sales were reportedly up a healthy 26%, while PlayStation 3 sales dipped 15% — although, in sheer numbers, both were still well behind the Wii. That unsurprisingly didn’t make investors too happy, with Nintendo shares falling 6.6% on the Osaka Securities Exchange after the news broke, which accounted for it’s biggest drop in more than two months. Also contributing to the sell-off was a 19% drop in Nintendo DS sales compared to the previous year, although the company seems to be betting pretty heavily that the DSi will quickly turn those numbers around.
Filed under: Gaming
Nintendo shares fall after surprising drop in Wii demand originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 17
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy is one of the big Blu-ray releases slated for later this year.
Blu-ray detractors and backers, here’s the latest status report on the format:
According to Adams Media Research, about 9 million Blu-ray discs sold in the U.S. from January through March–up …
Apr 17
Fujitsu’s secure USB tech keeps your data from wandering off (or just plain deletes it)
Posted in: security, Today's Chili, usb drive, UsbDrive
With corporate espionage on the rise, you just cannot be too careful, right? We’ve all heard the horror stories: Someone takes a spreadsheet home to do a little number crunching on his personal PC and, next thing you know, some ne’er-do-wells in Tehran have the specs for the President’s personal helicopter. Well, the brain trust at Fujitsu Labs has put its collective heads together and come up with a pair of new technologies aimed at preventing sensitive information from getting into the wrong hands. First, the “secure USB memory device” is a thumb drive containing a processor and a battery. Data security policies can be set to delete data after a specific period of time or if the drive is accessed by an unauthorized computer — handy if the thing gets lost or misplaced. Second, the company’s “file redirect technology” restricts the data to the USB memory device itself, or to a specified server. The company is currently conducting internal trials of the technology, but we’ll let you know as soon as we see one of these bad boys in the wild.
[Via Akihabara News]
Filed under: Storage
Fujitsu’s secure USB tech keeps your data from wandering off (or just plain deletes it) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Apr 17
A super-small concealed video camera? I was overjoyed to discover the Spy Handbag Camera, which is available at Gadget.Brando.com.hk. Plus, it’s Friday and there’s not a lot going on.
I know I’d feel like a spy using this to create my own undercover investigation. Sure, people would wonder why I was apparently carrying aound a FiloFax ten years after everyone else stopped using them, but I wouldn’t care. The SpyHandbag Camera has a pinhole lens and can’t be detected from outside. It shoots at a 353-by-288 resolution and records 12 frames-per-second AVI files. It also has 2GB of storage, which probably holds a lot of video at that resolution.
The Spy Handbag Camera includes a bottlecap-shaped keychain remote, so you don’t need to awkwardly press a button on the case to start recording. Instead, you can awkwardly fumble with your keychain. Judging by the picture, it seems to have a USB connection. Thy spy cam sells for $82, but shhh! Don’t let anyone know you’re buying it. Good luck, 007.
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