For a stereo, the Wall of Sound isn’t massive. But for an iPod dock, it’s gargantuan.
Pitched as “the world’s most powerful iPod speaker,” the Wall of Sound is a $4,500, handcrafted iPod dock with a stocky 3×4-foot frame that weighs in …
Someone on the big wide internet has the HP Compaq Mini 311 and did up an unboxing for us all to share in. Spoiler alert: the packaging is about as exciting as a shoe box, which is pretty unfortunate for such an exciting product. Meanwhile, someone on the other end of the internet went to the trouble of actually ripping apart their Mini 311, so the rest of us can see how HP squeezed that ION in there without getting our hands dirty. Spoiler alert: doesn’t look too hard to us. Video of the unboxing is after the break.
Read – MyHPMini.com teardown
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HP Mini 311 unboxed, torn apart originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Just earlier this month we’d been hearing word from Sony that it was seeing PlayStation Home as more of a “social game platform” than a “social network,” and now we’re hearing that Sony might not be seeing it as much of anything. Peter Edward, the director of Home for Sony, says that the service is “not a priority right now.” Kind of at odds with his other statement that it’s “proved there is a market out there and we’ve got a lot of people that spend a lot of time in [Home],” but we’ll let is slide. So, is this a roundabout way of saying Home hasn’t been as great as Sony thought it would be, or just a different way of saying the emphasis is changing? We’ve never minded Sony’s Home efforts on their own, but in the context of an also-ran multiplayer platform, it’s easy to see why the company should be focusing on other aspects of the gaming experience.
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PlayStation Home ‘not a priority right now’ for Sony, most people seem to feel the same way originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hard to believe that before Apple made multitouch cool, the most we ever “touched” our PC was touch typing. Now, here’s Photoelastic Touch, a more tactile form of interaction that enters into “Minority Report” realm (still one of the coolest future tech shows) by not even requiring users to touch the screen.
Japanese researchers led by Hideki Koike at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo used a face mask comprising see-through gel as a haptic interface, allowing users to press, pinch, or touch the transparent mold to control the face on the LCD. In this case, the actions prompted a furrowed eye brow or eye movement.
Koike says one application of the technology could involve building a 3D model of the brain from the material to give budding surgeons feedback as they “operate” on it. The researchers showed off the technology at Digital Content Expo 2009 in Tokyo.
Of course, there’s nothing like watching all this in action. So catch the video coming right after the jump.
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We won’t dive back into all the backstory that led to former AMD CEO Hector Ruiz’s current troubles as the chairman of AMD spin-off Globalfoundaries, but let’s just say that when your name is in the same sentence as “insider trading scandal” and “hedge fund probe,” you’re probably in a pretty bad way. While this story is obviously still far from over, it looks like Ruiz has at least realized the gravity of his predicament, and announced today that he’s taking a “voluntary leave of absence” before formally resigning from the company on January 4th, 2010. He’ll be replaced immediately by former Broadcom CEO Alan “Lanny” Ross, who will serve as interim chairman until the company’s board appoints a permanent chairman.
[Via GigaOM]
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Ex-AMD CEO Hector Ruiz steps down as Globalfoundries chairman amid insider trading scandal originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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UPDATE: We have a response from Motorola here.
According to Motorola’s own Web site, the Motorola Droid for Europe (A.K.A. the Milestone) lists pinch-and-zoom as one of the features in the Interface section. Sadly, the U.S. Web site for the Droid does not list pinch-and-zoom as one of the features in the Interface section. Sniffle, sniffle.
[Via Pursuitist]
Continue reading TAG Heuer Meridiist Lamborghini model announced, snickered at
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TAG Heuer Meridiist Lamborghini model announced, snickered at originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Acer recently outpaced Dell as the second largest PC seller in the world. Is No. 1 Hewlett-Packard next on the list?
Acer Chairman J.T. Wang reportedly intends to ship 40 million notebooks in 2010, a number that could help the Taiwanese company challenge and even overtake current champ Hewlett-Packard for the top spot in portable PC sales.
To achieve this goal, Acer is looking to kick up revenue by more than 70 percent over the next three years, said Wang in an interview with Reuters.
J.T. Wang
Much of that revenue growth is likely to come from an anticipated 50 percent gain in sales for low-cost Netbook PCs. As the economy improves, Wang expects to sell an ever greater number of low-priced, portable PCs, a segment that has been very kind to the company.
As chairman since 2008, Wang has led Acer as its sales and market share have shot up over the past year. And with revenue expected to hit $18 billion this year, he’s already targeting the next milestone.
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Ugh. Just weeks after we figured that Acer’s first Android-based handset would indeed ship with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, a new slide over at an international Liquid presentation is suggesting otherwise. As you can clearly see above, it looks as if the Qualcomm-sourced CPU will be underclocked to just 768MHz, which makes little to no sense on the surface. Granted, most average consumers couldn’t care less about the CPU in their next smartphone, but it seems reasonable to think that the Liquid will lag behind its 1GHz contemporaries when used side-by-side. Who knows though — maybe this is just the thing necessary to squeeze a full week of battery life out of this thing. Or not.
[Via MobileTechWorld, thanks Gully and Jose]
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Acer Liquid’s Snapdragon processor to be clocked at just 768MHz? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The iPhone has arrived in China for the first time on China Unicom–but with a twist.
The Chinese government had initially insisted Apple remove Wi-Fi functionality from the device. By the time the government changed its mind earlier this year, the iPhone had already gone into production, as MacRumors reports.
As a result, the iPhone doesn’t have it on its introduction. It also comes in at a high price of $730 to $1025 (when converted from yuan to U.S. dollars), which is 20 percent higher than what unlocked iPhone 3GS models with Wi-Fi are selling for in Chinese street markets.
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