The Viewsonic MovieBook VPD550T portable video player promises 1080p HD video output over an integrated HDMI output. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10438197-49.html” class=”origPostedBlog”MP3 Insider/a/p
In this age of device convergence, why should your digital camera case be just a case? The DC Protective Hard Case with screw stand ($12 or $15, depending on size) from the never-boring Brando WorkShop keeps your point-and-shoot from harm and also doubles as a stand. The Web site doesn’t have a lot of word-type information, but from pictures, it looks like the 1/4-inch screw lets you tilt your camera forward and back.
The case comes in three different colors–silver, carbon, and black (above)–and two sizes, either 11 by 7.5 by 3.5 or 12.3 by 9 by 4.7 centimeters.
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White House intros official iPhone app in lieu of universal health care originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Korean scientists introduce Mahru-Z, a human-like autonomous robot that can perform house chores such as laundry.
Trapped for 65 hours in the lobby of his Port-au-Prince hotel, Dan Woolley used information gleaned from an iPhone first-aid app to make a tourniquet for his fractured leg and stanch the bleeding from his head wound.
Your HDTV comparison list just got a little longer, with Sony announcing a big long line of new Bravia LCDs of all shapes and sizes. Lowest end is the EX300, with 22-, 26-, and 32-inch models that all sport 1,366 x 768 resolutions, a suite of silly colors (white, pink, brown, and black), and prices ranging from ¥70,000 – ¥90,000 ($770 – $990). The EX500 is a ¥130,000 ($1,400) 40-inch, 120Hz, 1080p model, while the EX700 models range from 32- to 52-inches and will set you back between ¥120,000 ($1,300) and ¥300,000 ($3,300). The extra money nets you LED backlighting, luscious thinness (22mm), and networkability, which means YouTube and DLNA streamability, plus widgets and all sorts of other goodies. All are scheduled to hit Japan on February 25, and all will surely make their way across the pond eventually — except maybe that pink one.
Sony launches EX300, EX500, and EX700 Bravia TVs in Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Company about to introduce an iPhone app that connects patients with physical therapists and trainers, allowing the swapping of workouts and performance data. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-10438020-247.html” class=”origPostedBlog”News – Health Tech/a/p
We’ve had a few run-ins with Stantum before, and never came away less than impressed. This time they sent us their Slate PC concept, which is actually a hacked-up Dell mini 10. The 10-inches of real estate don’t seem to hamper Stantum’s multitouch, ultra-sensitive and pressure-simulating resistive touchscreen technology one bit. Unfortunately, with stock Windows 7 on here we’re not sure this makes much more of a compelling use-case for a “slate” computer than we’ve seen already littering the halls of CES. Read-on for our full impressions and a video tour.
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Stantum multitouch Slate PC prototype hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Without pictures or firm form factor details, it’s hard to tell exactly what Quanta is driving at here (or who it’s driving at it for), but the concept of a “computer in an iPhone form factor,” as Quanta Chairman Barry Lam so tactfully puts it, doesn’t fill us with much hope for usability. At least it probably won’t look as terrifying as this modded Dell netbook pictured above. Quanta says it’s building a “smartbook” device with a 3.5-inch touchscreen, with voice calling and web browsing the primary functionalities. We’re not really sure what even qualifies this as a “smartbook” if it’s really in an iPhone form factor, but perhaps it’s to run some sort of full-featured OS. Unfortunately, Moblin and Windows seem out, because there’s Qualcomm and ARM under the hood. If this is indeed in some sort of fold-up form factor, our greatest fear is another Viliv N5 or UMID mBook BZ experience — we just don’t think we could relive that sort of pain.
Quanta working on 3.5-inch smartbook-as-phone, hates our thumbs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Mini shows off pictures and details of its new crossover, the Mini Cooper Countryman. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13746_7-10438108-48.html” class=”origPostedBlog”The Car Tech blog/a/p
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