Oct 16

Large Hadron Collider staying cool at just a hair above absolute zero temperatures

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Ah, Large Hadron Collider, our old frienemy, how close is thy doomsday clock now? Closer than it was last week, naturally, especially now that the temperature in each of its eight sectors has been dropped to 1.9 Kelvin, or -271 degrees Celsius / -456 Fahrenheit, depending on your equivalent measurement of choice. While pretty much lethal for humans, that’s still twice as warm as the Boomerang Nebula some 5,000 light years away from our fair planet, making it a veritable vacation spot for those carnivorous inhabitants of the Centaurus constellation (not that they’d really want to make that big of a trek without some sort of pre-planned hotel accommodations, but we digress). The chill is all a part of the massive science experiment’s ramp up to its second half of November relaunch — assuming the personification of Higgs boson doesn’t pop in via its proverbial TARDIS equivalent wearing a cape and carrying an anti-LHC particle gun, that is.

Large Hadron Collider staying cool at just a hair above absolute zero temperatures originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 16

Hitachi exhibits 10-inch glasses-free 3D display

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Hitachi‘s face-recognizing, power-saving plasma may have been the outfit’s show-stopper at CEATEC, but this little bugger here showed some pretty fantastic potential as well. The 10-inch 3D display, more formally known as the Full Parallax 3D TV, one-upped most every other 3D display at the show thanks to its ability to showcase dimensions sans any glasses. Unfortunately, the native resolution is just 640 x 480, and yes, it really is just 10-inches in size. In due time, the outfit hopes to scale up to screen sizes that may actually be appealing to end users by utilizing multiple projectors (each of which with a 800 x 600 resolution), though a 4K x 2K 3D display (of the glasses-free variety) is still probably a couple of trade shows out. At least.

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Hitachi exhibits 10-inch glasses-free 3D display originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 16

CE-Oh no he didn’t! Part LXIV: Microsoft’s Greenberg says Xbox will outsell PS3 for ‘entire generation’

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Didn’t think Microsoft exec Aaron Greenberg could top himself after saying that Hulu on 360 was like “asking out a really hot chick on a date?” Well, think again, ’cause Greenberg recently sat down with GameInformer for a fairly wide ranging interview, and he took the opportunity to toss a few bombs in Sony’s direction. The biggest of those is that he’s “confident” that the Xbox 360 will “not only outsell PS3 for the full calendar year, but for this entire generation” — adding that it’s “similar to a game of baseball, it is not about just winning one inning, but instead being able to win the game by consistently delivering across all nine innings.” Greenberg also went on to say that Sony’s expected good showing in the September sales numbers is merely a “short term bump,” and that “it is not a real concern to us.” Hit up the link below for the complete interview, which also includes talk of the Zune HD, Xbox Live, and Microsoft’s plans for the holiday season.

[Via PC World]

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Oct 16

Vote your plans for Windows 7

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Have you been eagerly tracking Windows 7 since the beta release? Or have you had enough of Microsoft? Tell us how you plan to handle Windows 7 in this weekend poll. Voting ends Monday morning at 9 a.m. PDT.

Originally posted at Windows 7 Insider

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Oct 16

Sharp’s LED-based LCD TV costs less money, consumes less energy

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The Sharp LC-LE700UN series uses less power than any TV we've tested.

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LCD TV makers have always charged a premium for LED backlighting. In fact, the first LED-based LCD TV Sharp released, the inch-thick XS series, debuted last year at a cool $11,000 …

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Oct 16

Indecent Exposure 66: Inferred extracurriculars

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Flummoxed by film scanning, finding white balance where there is none, and they only come out at night (to shoot).


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Oct 16

US Mobile DTV standard finally approved

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Well freaking finally. The Advanced Television System Committee just approved the Mobile DTV standard, meaning we’re finally about to see for-real mobile television in the US. LG and Samsung have already made gear for the new standard, and the tech will be demoed later today before a rollout… sometime. Still, it’s heartening news to hear that it’s finally ready — over 800 stations are signed up to broadcast the new signal, which makes use of existing 6MHz airwaves to do everything from straight TV to video-on-demand and targeted advertising. Cool, so now we’re what, just a billion years behind DVB adoption?

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Oct 16

Giveaway: Win one of ten very special pink Nyko Kamas for Wii!

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Hey there, happy Friday! We here at Engadget love giving things away, as you probably already know… and today we have something very special for our dear, beloved readers. Nyko‘s graciously provided us with 10 very special pink Kama wireless nunchuks for the Wii (which should go very nicely with those just-unveiled Wii Wands). These Kamas aren’t available to purchase — so if you win, you’ll be one of a very select few to own them, which is always nice to hear, right? Read the full rules after the break, and get commenting to win! Good luck.

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Oct 16

GSM Motorola Sholes hits FCC

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We’ve been waiting a long time for the Google Android Motorola Sholes to clear the Federal Communications Commission, so you can imagine our disappointment when we saw just the GSM version of the handset get certification this week. It’s the CDMA model for Verizon that we want, so …

Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast

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Oct 16

Movie Gadget Friday: Code 46

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Ariel Waldman contributes Movie Gadget Friday, where she highlights the lovable and lame gadgets from the world of cinema.

On our last visit, we examined the computer hacking fantasies of 1980’s adolescents in Weird Science. Skipping on from software-engineered babes to a bio-engineered society, this week we investigate the gadgets in the human-clone-saturated cities of Code 46. Though most of the futuristic technology in this 2003 film is in the form of mind-altering viruses, the everyday devices used by Tim Robbins and Samantha Morton slightly stretch today’s technical specs in true sci-fi form.

Memory Videobook

Preventing scrapbooks from being left behind as primitive forms of experience archiving, this gadget combines the cheap plastic form of photo-books with a relatively thin interactive screen. The device captures first-person memories from a user in the form of lossy video (alas, the specs behind memory capturing have yet to be released, much to our irritation). Playback and fast-forward/rewind are enabled through basic scrolling gestures on either the corner of the video or the opposing soft-acrylic, touch-sensitive finger pad. Similar to Americhip’s video-in-print technology, the memory videobook appears to use a TFT LCD, but with a far more outstanding resolution. While this memory scrapbook device is far from chic, we kind of respect that it stays true to its historical laminated, cutesy form despite the high tech modifications. More after the break.

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