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With LG predicting a 3D television market in excess of 30 million units by 2012 and Samsung busily promoting its related world’s firsts, you’d better believe that these powerful South Korean “chaebols” have their government’s full support when it comes to delivering 3D content. Just today the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced its drive to start beaming 3D broadcasts in Full HD quality sometime in 2010 — licensing begins in January with first broadcasts expected mid-year. Unlike those 3D satellite broadcasts tested in Japan and the UK, Korea will deliver its 3D content through its terrestrial networks. Of course, Korea’s pay-TV providers want in on the action too, with CJ HelloVision set to offer 3D content through its video-on-demand offerings in the next “week or two.” CJ HelloVision will initially target about 300 households with plans to extend the service to 1,000 homes by 2012. Viewers will need yet another set-top box to view 3D content likely limited to “cartoons” at first. Pricing has not been set and it’s entirely possible that 3D VoD titles will be free at first in order to build momentum and to ensure viewer lock-in of the all important child demographic.

Korean 3D television broadcasts in Full HD just weeks away originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In Japan, the ultimate merit of a robotic suit is measured in sacks of rice. We’ve seen it before with the HAL-5. The latest suit created by students at Tokyo’s University of Science provides enough assistance to the wearer’s back to lift an additional 15 to 20 kilograms (that’s 33 to 44 pounds) — in other words, another two bags of rice for five in total. The university’s previous robosuit was heavier and more bulky by comparison, in that it provided assistance to both the wearers back and arms (though clearly some support is provided based on the image above). The suit will ultimately benefit factory workers or those with physical limitations when it goes into production sometime in 2010. Outstanding. Surprisingly, nobody from the university seems willing to talk about that kid with sawblade arms in the corner.

Tokyo robosuit could make you the sack lifting champion originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Qualcomm has spent an awful lot of time over the past few years dealing with lawsuits and nastygrams, but it looks as if things will be totally different in the new decade. Just months after Qualcomm and Broadcom settled their differences, the European Commission has agreed to drop a four-year antitrust investigation without levying the first fine or absolving the company. The reason? The entity stated that “companies that objected to Qualcomm’s pricing for its technology have all withdrawn their complaints or are planning to withdraw them.” Sounds like a reasonable reason to let bygones be bygones, no?

EU closes antitrust investigation into Qualcomm, doesn’t levy fines originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on August 25, 2007 by CyberNet.

I’ve never been a big fan of splitting and joining files because the entire process is normally tedious. A lot of times it requires the receiver of the split files to have a specialized application installed in order to join them back into one single file. It’s an almost impossible chore for anyone that isn’t tech savvy.

One of our readers, "s", tipped us off on a free Windows application called GSplit. As expected, it splits and joins files together, but the receiver doesn’t have to worry about installing an application to unite the files. GSplit automatically includes a standalone combiner when the files are split, and it is extremely lightweight (about 70KB). For example, I split a 1.32MB file into 15-pieces, and the resulting files totaled 1.40MB which included the built-in combiner.

Note: GSplit does require installation in order to split files.

Here are some of the features GSplit has to offer:

• Generates a Self-Uniting program to restore your split files professionally. GSplit is then not required in order to restore the split file.
• Store file properties and restore them: file’s date, attributes are not lost contrary to batch files.
• Detect file corruption using size, offset, CRC32. When a piece is corrupted, you are notified about it, so you just need to get a new copy of that piece, not the whole set.
• Split very large files (bigger than 4 GB).
• Customize piece files according to your needs (size, filenames, title, author…), leave additional space on disks, create pieces without headers (useful for text-based files like large server log files).
• Split multiple files back-to-back in one time, include batch (automating) and command line options.
• Show you elapsed and estimated times during the splitting & uniting operations. You can also pause/resume the splitting operation.
• Store settings into profiles and let you use these settings for different files, remember MRU files and folders, automatically try to find out the best splitting settings…
• Integrate into Windows Explorer to let you split your files directly from the context menu.

Here is a screenshot of the standalone file joiner:

GSplit Homepage
Kudos to "s" for the tip!

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EPISODE 86

Robotic snake surgeon tinkers with your heart via your mouth

Power Shirt charges gadgets as you walk

Ergoskin: Underwear that makes you sit up straight

Remember Ring (Thanks, David!)

The Body-laptop interface is knitted from Thneed which nobody, Nobody, NOBODY needs

3D Tattoo is like a secret between you and people with funny glasses

Giant mouth exhibit is just one stop on a gross, informative journey

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