Hasta La Gadget!

Without much fanfare, Samsung has released a TV / tablet combo in Korea that seems to deliver on all the untapped promise in Toshiba’s JournE touch tablet. Dubbed the LED TV Couple, Samsung has paired a 55-inch LED baclkit LCD TV with a brand new 7-inch touchscreen tablet, which communicates with and controls a full home theater over 802.11n WiFi. The tablet offers a visual program guide, including video previews of TV shows, along with access to media stored on a PC — which can in turn be “tossed” up to the full TV — and even a few widgets. But the real money is in the pair’s ability to stream live TV and Blu-ray content from the home theater to the tablet, making that next trip to the kitchen for munchies so much less painful. No word on a US or Europe release, but we hope to see a lot more of this pair in the near future. Peep them in action after the break.

Continue reading Samsung’s LED TV Couple packs a 7-inch tablet remote for streaming TV and so much more

Samsung’s LED TV Couple packs a 7-inch tablet remote for streaming TV and so much more originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

Samsung has teased us like this before, stuffing the NX body under glass at tradeshows, letting it sit there being all DSLR-ey, but more details are beginning to trickle out about the camera here at IFA. As reported by PhotographyBLOG and confirmed to us on the show floor by Samsung, the camera is due to be launched by the end of the year or early next year. Like has been said before, the camera has an interchangeable lens systems, but Samsung also informed us specifically that the lenses will not be interoperable with other camera systems. In a way it makes sense, because the camera is much larger than a micro four thirds camera, but different in build than a regular DSLR — though it houses a regular APS-C sensor. Still, it’s a hassle, and we’ll have to see if the blend of electronic viewfinder and regular-sized sensor offer a compelling enough alternative to embark upon a whole new lens system adventure.

Filed under: Digital Cameras

Samsung’s NX camera due for late 2009 or early 2010, uses proprietary lens system originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

Hey, remember last year when Lenovo’s UltraNav keyboard made a (re)appearance on Flickr because the company was soliciting feedback on how to make it better? Well check it — there’s a new version in town, and it incorporates all those user suggestions. Lenovo says people mostly wanted the exact same feel as their ThinkPad laptop keyboards in the desktop unit (no surprise there), but almost no one wanted wireless, a number pad or a trackpad — so the new model pictured above is more or less a faithful wired replica of the T400s board, right down to those liquid drainage holes. What’s more, cutting the numeric keypad and trackpad allowed the company to reduce the price by $40, so this little slice of hotness is now just $60. Not bad, but we’ll be honest — we’d still throw down for a wireless version of the old UltraNav in a heartbeart.

[Thanks, Tian]

Read – Lenovo DesignMatters blog post on the keyboard design process
Read – ThinkPad Keyboard at the Lenovo online store

Filed under: Peripherals

New ThinkPad keyboard features crowdsourced design, lower price originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments

This article was written on September 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

Click to Enlarge

Making a box shot for your own software can be difficult if you’re using an image editing program. What you really need is some software that is made just for doing such a task, but the problem is finding one that is free! When I was looking for something else I came across a program called 3D Box Shot Maker, and it does everything that I would expect it to.

Here’s what I had to do to make my own box shot:

1. Set the side(left) and the Front(right) images.
2. Adjust the boxshot size, shadow and reflection.
3. Save the generated boxshot image out as image file. It supports 4 image format: BMP, JPG, PNG, and GIF.

I managed to find a cover image of Spider-Man 3 for the PS3 on the Internet, along with a nice thin snapshot that I could use for the side of the box. As you can see from the screenshot above the result wasn’t all that bad.

It takes some time getting the ratios (height, width, etc…) just right so that it’s not too distorted, and if you’re just playing around I would say that this software will be as good as any.

3D Box Shot Maker (freeware for Windows)

Copyright © 2009 CyberNet | CyberNet Forum | Learn Firefox

Related Posts:

How To Display The Size Of Folders In Windows ExplorerLooking For Free Weather Software?Great List Of Free Mac SoftwareMicrosoft Releases Windows Defender Beta 2Get a Taste of RumShot, a Free Screen Capture Program

Join us as we rejoice together: “Finally!” Look, we can’t straight up say that Bluetooth headsets don’t have their place in this world, but seriously, we’ve yet to not be freaked out when walking up to someone who’s apparently speaking to the ghost we can’t see. In a recent survey conducted by the quizzical minds over at Strategy Analytics, they found that only 26 percent of US-based Bluetooth headset owners use their device each and every day. That figure is down from 43 percent in 2008, proving that style may have just notched a minor victory over utility. Of course, the study also found that daily BT headset use was up slightly in Europe, but hey, it takes awhile for these so-called “trends” to float across the pond.

[Image courtesy of eHow, via HotHardware]

Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals

Bluetooth headset use plummets in the US, humanity celebrates a small victory originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments