Hasta La Gadget!

We know the Mini 1101 is the more business-centric of the new HP netbooks, but unless the company has a sudden change of heart, it looks like you’ll be getting the base configuration or nothing at all. Starting today, HP is enabling eager consumers to purchase one of the $329 machines, but the only “customization” options are external accessories and peripherals. Hit the read link to see if what’s offered fits your bill, and if not, the Mini 110 XP and Mini 110 Mi alternatives should be popping up soon.

[Thanks, Richard]

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HP’s Mini 1101 up for order, customizations nowhere to be found originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 May 2009 13:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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My, my Olidata — why on Earth have you been depriving our wandering eyes from this beauty for so long? After being originally introduced at CES, we’ve heard precisely nothing since… until now, obviously. At long last, the striking Conte ultraportable has found its way outside of the lab over in Italy, sporting an ultrathin frame, chiclet-style keyboard, a bezel that’s a bit too wide for our tastes, an HDMI output and a price tag starting at just €799 ($1,129). From what we can gather, a few versions of the machine will be available, one of which sports an SU2700 CPU, 13.3-inch LED-backlit display, a 120GB hard drive, 3GB of RAM, Bluetooth, WiFi and a multi-touch trackpad. Another variant is slated to include a Core Solo SU3500 CPU and a 120GB HDD, while yet another gets a Core 2 Duo SL9400 and a 128GB SSD. Peek the read link for a few more looks, including one of the most bizarre advertisements we’ve ever seen for a mere laptop.

[Thanks, Andrea]

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Olidata Conte ultraportable finally shows itself, looks mighty good originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 May 2009 11:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Solar-powered LCDs? Oh, yeah — we’ve got those. Sadly, that’s not at all what Integrated Digital Technologies is aiming to improve upon next week at Computex, though we still find its approach to trimming LCD weight and manufacturing costs an interesting one. If we’re digesting this correctly, we’re hearing that the outfit plans to create interactive displays (or iScreens) that have embedded solar cells in the TFT array rather than extra film or glass with photo sensors. The result? A cost savings of up to 30 percent in manufacturing, not to mention a rather significant decrease in weight. Without any images to go by, it’s still a wee bit tough to really wrap our heads around this new take, but hopefully we’ll see more next week in Taiwan.

[Via TG Daily]

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IDT to swap solar cells into LCDs, but not for energy reasons originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 May 2009 09:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on March 16, 2007 by CyberNet.

Funny Friday

Another Friday is here, and thanks to an article I saw over at The Hive, I decided to put together a post with a few unique Microsoft Billboards. Those are to keep with the “technology” theme we have going here, but I also decided to do a search for “funny billboards” to see what else came up. I’ll start with the Microsoft ones first which I gathered from Flickr, and then I’ll follow up with the unrelated funny billboards that while real or not, should still give you a few laughs. All of those billboards come from this site.

1.  The Human Billboard Event (cool!)

2. Seek and you shall flip (For Windows Flip 3D).

3. Visa

4. Flip

5. Stools

6.  Beef?

7.  Gambling

8.  Power Ball

9. Phonics

10. Sushi

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DuPont’s been dabbling in OLED advancement for years now, and while the world waits for the introduction of market-ready big-screen OLED HDTVs, engineers at the miracle-working company are toiling away to make sure those very sets last quite some time. For anyone following the OLED TV scene, you’ll know that luminance longevity has been a nagging issue, but if new developments pan out, stamina will be the least of our worries. In fact, the firm has crafted a green light-emitting material that can purportedly push onward for over a hundred years… continuously. Furthermore, the same scientists have engineered a new blue light-emitting material with a luminance half-life of 38,000 hours along with a red light-emitting material with a life of 62,000 hours. Unfortunately for the laypeople out there, we can’t imagine this stuff being even marginally affordable — but hey, it’s great news for the sybarites!

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DuPont crafts ultra longevous OLED materials, which likely won’t be affordable originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 May 2009 07:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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