Hasta La Gadget!

In case you missed it, Gawker-owned tech gossip site,
Valleywag, earlier this week, thought it would be fun to offer $100,000 to
anyone who could give them access to the Apple tablet for an hour. Apple,
shockingly, was less excited about the contest. The company sent a cease and
desist letter to the blog by way of a team of lawyers.

The blog claims that the letter, which includes the line “Apple
has maintained the types of information and things you are soliciting … in
strict confidence” serves as “the most concrete evidence (from Apple itself, no
less!) yet that there may indeed be a tablet in the works.”

Apparently not enough to warrant $100,000, the site is instead
awarding a DVD of Legally Blonde 2, a $25 Zune Marketplace giftcard, and a set
of steak knives that is, according to reports “fabulous.”

Let’s hope they actually deliver of their steak knifey
promises, least they receive another legal notice. 

Continue reading Pedro Matias sets new texting record at LG Mobile World Cup (video)

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We were recently lucky enough to experience Clear’s WiMAX service in Las Vegas for a week and, after having 4G available whenever we wanted it, we were a little sad to go back to our 3G domiciles. For those who live every day in a WiMAX wonderland, Clear has a pair of new modems for you, both featuring built-in ATA compatibility meaning those signing up for Clear Voice VOIP can jack their phones straight in. The devices are the Gemtek Series G, available in Vegas, and the Motorola CPEi 725 Series M, available in Portland. Both are $80 up-front or $5 per month on lease, and neither are available where we are, so if you’ll kindly excuse us we’re going to go pout in the corner for a bit.

Clear releasing two new WiMAX modems with integrated VOIP functionality originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Alright, so self-assembling electronics are hardly new in and of themselves, and nanoscale tech tends to always come with bombastic promises, but you don’t wanna miss how this latest innovation is built. Two professors from the University of Minnesota have successfully demonstrated a self-assembly technique that arranges microscopic electronic elements in their proper order thanks to the absolute enmity that exists between water and oil. By coating elements with a hydrophilic layer on one side and some hypdrophobic goo on the other, they’ve achieved the proper element orientation, and the final step in their work was the insertion of a pre-drilled, pre-soldered sheet, which picks up each element while being slowly drawn out of the liquid non-mixture. The achievement here is in finding the perfect densities of water and oil to make the magic happen, and a working device of 64,000 elements has been shown off — taking only three minutes to put together. If the method’s future proves successful, we’ll all be using electronics built on flexible, plastic, metal, or otherwise unconventional substrates sometime soon.

Self-assembling solar cells built using ancient wisdom, modern technology originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ve been to concerts where the lead guitar player seemed more concerned about tripping over the wire running to his amp than actually putting on a good show, and that’s not cool. Line 6, creator of a series of rockin’ music gadgets in the past, is back to sever that tether without trampling your tune, man. It promises great sound over 100-feet, even able to replicate the frequency loss from different lengths of cable, and pledges to be “the most dependable wireless unit you’ve ever experienced.” It uses the 2.4GHz band (so hopefully nobody’s running a boosted 802.11b router nearby) and costs $420 — a bargain in this line of work. Don’t believe us? Trust Steve Stevens, who not only has a lovely last name but also rocked out with Billy Idol on Rebel Yell and said “there are systems that cost well over $3,000 that sound nowhere near as good.” Of course, if you’re a big-spender with tour funds to blow, Line 6 will happily sell you the 12-channel G50 and G90 models, which will set you back $560 and $840, respectively.

Continue reading Line 6 announces Relay G30 system for guitar players who want to rock you sans tether (video)

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