Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on October 26, 2006 by CyberNet.

The My Dream App contest has finally come to an end and the 3 winners were revealed. Each of the winners will receive a MacBook and 15% of the royalties that come from the sales of the Mac program after it is developed. Here are the three applications with Atmosphere taking home first place:

1. Atmosphere – A virtual window to the outdoors for your desktop. View a virtual representation of your area’s weather when too busy to go outside.
2. Portal – File syncing from the future. Sync folders and documents between Macs effortlessly and watch transfer progress through a cool, highly visual wormhole user interface.
3. Cookbook – The ultimate cookbook application, with online grocery shopping, thousands of recipes, Leopard voiceover technology integration, shopping list sharing, and more.

What is even more amazing is that Portal received 6122 votes, Cookbook received 6109 votes, and the runner-up Hijack received 6104 votes! Atmosphere had nearly 6600 votes so it wasn’t as close to the others but I couldn’t believe the small difference…especially between 3rd place and the runner-up which was just 5 votes!

If you want to see what the original 24 ideas were then checkout this post that I previously did. It gives the name of the idea along with a brief description. I’m now wondering if any developers will look at the other 21 entries and try to make some Mac software to fulfill the idea? I mean they already know which ideas were the most popular since the number of votes was always made available to the public which is a good starting point.

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If, while perusing the Nexus One teardown, you were doing a mental tally of just how much each internal part may cost, here’s your chance to compare your numbers to some professionally obtained figures. iSuppli reports a preliminary estimate of $174.15 for the cost of materials needed to build each handset. The research firm also congratulates Google on keeping a bill of materials comparable to most recent smartphones while having “the most advanced features of any smart phone ever dissected by iSuppli’s Teardown Analysis Service.” Costliest of all things was the 1GHz Snapdragon ($30.50), followed by the AMOLED display ($23.50) and memory ($20.40) from Samsung. The Bluetooth and 802.11n WiFi transceiver cost $8.20, and perhaps the most egregious spend was $12.50 on a 5 megapixel camera that many of us might never use. Hilariously enough, Google has spent $17.50 on what is clearly identified as a “capacitive multitouch touchscreen assembly” from Synaptics, though enabling it clearly remains a bridge too far.

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Droid gets overclocking, Nexus One gets tethering, Android hackers get mad props originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s only the first week of 2010 and we’re already swimming in gadget announcements.

RunCore’s had a thing for delivering high-speed, enthusiast-level SSDs, and if you managed to pass right over the Pro IV, you may find the urge linked to the Pro V a bit too much to resist. TweakTown was able to spend some quality time with the device, which includes a SandForce 1500 controller and low(er)-cost MLC flash. Without getting into the dirty-dirty (trust us, you’ll find plenty of charts in the source below), we’ll pass along the following note: “we feel comfortable saying that the Pro V will be the enthusiast SSD to which all others will be compared to for the first half of 2010.” Of course, with the speed worries behind us, the only question remaining is cost — which always seems to best the case with SSDs. We’re told that it’ll cost more than the Barefoot-powered Pro IV, but with competition in the market heating up, hopefully the MSRP won’t sting too badly.

RunCore’s 100GB Pro V solid state drive gets benchmarked, loved originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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