(Credit: E-Junex)These pimped-out Japanese keys take the “bored” out of keyboards.
Why should the tactile tools we touch all day be blandly beige, boring black, or washed-out white? Japanese content producer E-Junex recently came to the rescue of aesthetically challenged input devices with two keyboards sporting anime-style gals.
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An Apple HDTV with an iPhone remote control opens up intriguing possibilities for living-room entertainment.
In a note to clients Thursday, Gene Munster, a senior analyst at investment bank Piper Jaffray, floated the notion that Apple would take a bite out of the TV market in 2011 by introducing its first television.
To help support his claim, Munster cited the more than 48 million iPhones and iPod Touches out there that could be used as TV remotes or interactive game controllers.
Of course it’s just speculation at this point, but that describes 99 percent of Apple-related blogging anyway, right? And in that vein I think an iPhone/iTouch enabled HDTV would be pretty dang cool if the company did it right. Let’s call it the “iHDTV.”
Of course any Apple-branded HDTV should have an Apple TV box built-in…but that's just the beginning.
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Imagine a television that’s smoothly integrated into both your home network–for streaming your videos, photos and music–and the Internet at large, including not just iTunes for music and movies but the whole array of web-based content currently available through the browser on your computer. The company’s Apple TV box works great already for many of those functions, and the first step a future iHDTV would need to take is to build that functionality right into the flat-screen TV itself, without the need for an external box.
Even with a built-in Apple TV box and a big, shiny Apple logo, the iHDTV would barely rate a “ho-hum” from jaded tech reviewers like myself. Nope, the real coolness and opportunity for innovation would be the seamless integration of a high-powered, Web-enabled touch-screen remote control–especially one 48 million people already own. Like, say, an iPhone.
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(Credit: Matthew Moskovciak/CNET)We’ve covered just about everything you need to know about the PS3 Slim, but the sleuths over at Engadget HD (via a translated version of AV Watch) found a chart that indicates the PS3 Slim can bit stream both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio. …
[Thanks, Tom]
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MSI Wind 210 with AMD Athlon Neo announced for Europe originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A new player to the already-flooded Netbook market is here to say hello: Hannspree, the former world suppliers of utterly bizarre basketball, elephant, and plushie-shaped novelty TVs, has released its very own itty-bity Atom minilaptop for the U.S. to buy at last. Extreme similarities to …
Been holding off on that PS3 Slim pre-order, waiting for Sony to tell you that this whole PS2 backwards compatibility issue was just a big misunderstanding, and of course Sony will keep trying its best to reintroduce PS2 compatibility into the PS3? Well, you might want to rethink that strategy, cowboy, because Amazon is warning of “shortages of this product across the US.” It’s already limiting Slim sales to one per person, and has a more lax five-Slims-per-person strategy in the UK. Meanwhile, Sony in Europe is saying not to worry, since it has “trucks and trailers” of the new console already on the road . We just don’t know who to believe these days, but if you’re not prepared to wait past September 1st for a crack at the Slim, you’ve got some deciding to do.
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Amazon says PS3 Slim already facing supply shortages, Sony disagrees originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We know how it is: you’ve paid $300 for your brand new copy of Windows 7, but what a hassle to enter in that activation code! Well, you don’t have to worry about it now for a good four months after install: Microsoft has given its sort-of blessing to a simple hack to keep that non-activated copy of Windows 7 humming for a full 120 days before full-on nag mode sets in. All you have to do is enter “slmgr -rearm” into the command prompt at the end of every 30 day period, and your copy of Windows gets a whole new lease on life — an action that can be repeated three times. The same command is available to Vista users, and we have to say that Microsoft has come a very long way since its unforgiving WGA kill switch days.
[Via Telegraph]
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Windows 7 runs free without activation for 120 days with simple command originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Update: Of course, this is probably the product of some sort of licensing deal — but you’d think someone at WildCharge or Duracell would have mentioned it, right?
[Via PhoneMag]
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Duracell announces myGrid wireless charger, WildCharge feels a little KIRFed originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The dudes and dudettes at Photography Blog are nothing if not thorough, and their latest review is no exception. The GR Digital III and its peculiar 28mm wide-angle fixed focal length lens (i.e. no optical zoom) have been subjected to an inspection and the verdict is an exuberant thumbs up. The aluminum alloy body impressed them right from the off, and the reviewers also liked the customizable menus, improved shutter speed, Dynamic Range double shot, and Adobe DNG RAW output. Those were all mere cherries, however, to the cake of “excellent” image quality and “stand-out” Macro performance. The sole blemishes found were the price (£529 / $699) and noise issues beyond ISO 800, but then the latter is a well known weakness of compact cameras. Check out the read link for sample images and the (very) full review.
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Ricoh GR Digital III hits the review bench, collects plaudits originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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