Jan 06

Pink PSP 3000 official in Japan for March, get ready girls!

Posted in: gaming, handheld, playstation, psp, sony, Today's Chili, video games, VideoGames

Hey — are you in love with the PSP 3000 but can’t stand the fact that a pink one doesn’t exist? Well, your life just got a lot better. Playstation Japan’s just officially outed the handheld in “Spring Blossom Pink” for a March 2010 launch. Other than its new, more girlish figure, this PSP 3000 is exactly the same as every one on the market, but you know, looks sure are important. Sadly, this beauty’s only been announced for Japan so far, but we’ll keep our eyes open for other availability. This one’s going to run ¥16,800 (that’s about $183). There’s one more looker after the break.

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Pink PSP 3000 official in Japan for March, get ready girls! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 06:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

D-Link announces Touch and Pocket 802.11n routers, Rush wireless accelerator

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D-Link just dropped a bunch of new 802.11n gear here at CES — a couple of new routers and the intriguing Rush accelerator pictured above, which is basically a powerful 4×4 access point. It’s switchable between 2.4GHz and 5GHz, and it can do up to 600Mbs over 802.11n. As for the routers, there’s the new D-Link Touch, which sports a three-inch touchscreen for configuration and simultaneous dual-band 2.4 and 5GHz support for up to 450MBps transfers, and the Pocket, which is designed as a quick’n’dirty travel router. Sadly we don’t have prices for any of this stuff, but we’ll find out more closer to the middle of the year when it all goes on sale. Pics in the gallery, PR after the break.

Gallery: D-Link 802.11n devices

Gallery: D-Link 802.11n gear hands-on

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D-Link announces Touch and Pocket 802.11n routers, Rush wireless accelerator originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Pandigital Photo Mail LED frame lets you email snaps over AT&T’s wireless network

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If there is such a thing as a digital photo frame specialist, Pandigital might very well be it. It should come as no surprise then, that the company has just announced a new cellular-connected product to compete with the forthcoming Vizit frame. Focused on making photo sharing as easy as possible, this new 8-inch LED-backlit display comes with an AT&T cellular connection and associated email account, making the process of getting pictures on it effortless — and sufficiently remote to let you drop photos off with grandma without having to actually be there. The first 300 mailed snaps are free, at which point you’ll have to choose between the 6-in-1 card reader or paying a per-pic charge for further emailing to the 1GB of built-in memory. Costing a cent under $150, the Photo Mail frame will be finding store shelves early this year — skip past the break if you want to learn more.

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Jan 06

Olive and Thiel team up for a high end, high priced audio server

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Call us crazy, but we think this is an idea that just might work. Olive, known for high-end music servers, and Thiel, who we’ve seen in this space purveying high-end speakers and IP-based audio solutions, have joined forces to rock your condo, trendy loft space, or dentist’s office. Built around the Olive 4HD (with its 2TB storage, 24-bit / 192kHz sound, gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n WiFi, and an iPhone / iPod touch remote control app), the Olive+Thiel can rock up to four pairs of Thiel’s SCS4D IP-based self-powered speakers with 6.5 Inch Coaxial/Coincident driver and 200W Class D Power Amp. In addition to the server functionality, this bad boy can rock you out via its analog and USB digital audio inputs — trust us, Butterfly by Crazy Town has never sounded this sweet! (OK, maybe its never sounded that sweet to begin with.) Available this month for $7,900. PR after the break.

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Jan 06

Dish takes Sling’s new boxes for its own TV Everywhere in 2010

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At least one TV provider is taking advantage of Sling’s veritable bounty of new hardware, and rather predictably it is Dish Network. The rebranding (instead of being SlingLoaded, the ViP 922 DVR is now “with TV Everywhere”, the Sling Monitor 150 is dubbed the Dish Network WiFi Monitor and the Slingbox 700U has become the TV Everywhere Adapter) is enough to make your head spin, but at least we don’t have to miss our stories, thanks to the recently released Dish Remote Access Mobile App for iPhone and iPod Touch with remote scheduling and remote control capabilities for most Dish receivers. All of the hardware is scheduled to arrive in the second quarter, we’ll need at least that long to get our Everywhere and Anywhere TV straightened out.

Dish takes Sling’s new boxes for its own TV Everywhere in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

DECE & Keychest both laying claim to friendly DRM of the future title

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The quest for a DRM solution that works for consumers instead of against them continues, with the forces behind the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (48 companies now) and Keychest (so far, just Disney) trading announcements. While the DECE has added 21 new members to its fold, agreed on a common file format, selected a vendor for the authentication service that ideally will keep you viewing legitimately purchased content at your liesure and approval of several DRM systems, without full specs available or any hardware or content specifically mentioned, it’s still just so much vapor. Meanwhile Disney promises additional content partnerships are “coming soon” and that it’s negotiating with content distributors, cable and telco companies, but we suspect until the promise of a “DVD collection in the cloud” is reality and not just a spec, most users will stay close to their torrents and disc ripping programs to get play-anywhere ease right now.

DECE & Keychest both laying claim to friendly DRM of the future title originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Rollei rolls out Flexline 100 inTouch digital camera

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Well, isn’t this the cutest thing you’ve seen since Macaulay Culkin slapped his cheeks in Home Alone? Rollei‘s just outed its latest digital camera offering, the slim little (15.6-mm) Flexline inTouch. This wonder-inducing little guy boasts a 10 megapixel CCD sensor, 3x optical zoom, face detection, plus integrated image-processing feature for on-the-go retouching. It’s also got a great-looking 3-inch LCD touchscreen display and can take up to 30 shots per second. It’ll be available in blue, silver, and glittery metallic pink (hooray!), and you can get one this month for about €199 — or about $286. There’s one more captivating shot after the break.

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Jan 06

Canon’s EOS-1D Mark IV gets unboxed, high ISO modes tested

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Canon's EOS-1D Mark IV gets unboxed, high ISO modes tested
Wondering how Canon’s high-ISO response to Nikon performs in the dark? We’ve got the answer. Photographer John Deeb got his early and was not only kind enough to take a comprehensive set of unboxing pictures with a video, but also captured a series of pictures of model Lauren Howery to show off how the thing performs in extremely low light at increasingly excessive ISO settings. Lots and lots of pictures below.

Gallery: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV unboxing

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Jan 06

Michael Jackson ‘This is It’ PS3 bundle makes it a better place for you and me

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This is it! And by “it” we, of course, mean corporate synergy, as Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment Japan reach across the cultural divide to bring America’s late King of Pop to the island of Japan in the form of a bundled Blu-ray and “Special Pack” PlayStation 3 SKU. But this bundle isn’t as off the wall as you may imagine. It won’t heal the world or rock with you, but if MJ fans wanna be startin’ somethin’ with the PS3, you really can’t beat it. Your ¥33,500 nabs you a Blu-ray of last year’s behind-the-scenes cash-in and a 120GB PS3 Slim in a “limited offer” package beginning January 27 – sorry, no choice of black or white. Oof, that last one was bad.

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Jan 06

LED Flashlight Brings Power and Light to Geeks

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LAS VEGAS — Walk into a  Costco and $20 LED flashlights line the aisles. To turn it into a product that’s at least ten times more expensive requires some engineering. The result is the mPower Illuminator– a sleek, expensive emergency flashlight that’s packs 180 lumens into a palm-sized product.

With its brushed titanium and chrome finish, the Illuminator is a good-looking enough device.  After all, it has been designed by the Porsche design studio.

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LEDs are increasingly replacing old-fashioned bulbs in flashlights because they consume lower power and can offer brighter light.

The mPower Illuminator tries to go beyond that. It has a USB port on the side so you can charge a cellphone or a GPS system off it.

The flashlight weighs 9.2 oz and comes with two batteries: a C123 three-volt lithium battery and a custom reserve battery that has a shelf life of 20 years. The reserve battery can be activated with the twist of a knob and provides enough power for two hours of continuous use.

But all this will set you back by $290.

If you don’t balk at price, the Illuminator could be a nice gift for a geek who wants only the best, even if it is for a emergency light with a custom battery that might never be called on.

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com


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