The new Rolls-Royce Ghost not only is the most luxurious car you’ll ever drive, it’s also one of the quickest at 4.8 seconds to 60 mph, and – this may be a surprise – its technology offerings are virtually unsurpassed, particularly the vision systems. It debuts in the U.S. this spring as a smaller and sportier $245,000 counterpoint to the $380,000 Rolls-Royce Phantom.
Even though the new mobile OS looks cool, some people are still confused by the name. Is Windows Phone the name of the platform? Is it what we call the hardware on which the OS runs? Both?
If you haven’t freaked out and given up on MiFi after they were shown to be, well, a little bit vulnerable, good for you, because there’s good things in store. Novatel is working on a new revision of its routers with integrated GPS, USB charging, and what’s pledged to be better battery life. Perhaps most interesting among the revisions is firmware able to run Linux “apps” that display content within the MiFi’s admin webpage. Current apps are things like data usage and weather but the possibilities are endless — or slightly broader than weather and usage, at least. It’s unclear which (if any) of the current MiFi models will be also be blessed with this firmware update and its resplendent selection of homebrew widgets, but we do know that the new MiFi model will be hitting carriers sometime toward the middle of 2010 and will be selling unlocked around the end of the year.
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Microsoft is putting the finishing touches to the famed “browser choice screen” that the European Commission forced it to include as part of its antitrust investigation settlement, and today we get to see it for the first time. Users who have Internet Explorer as their default browser (meaning none of the savvy Engadget readers) will be alerted that there is “an important choice to make” and directed to the above decision making assistant. We actually think the randomized order of the top five browsers makes a ton of sense, and would express some cautious optimism that the ballot screen could really do its job of informing people of the alternatives out there. Users in the UK, Belgium and France will get to try it out next week, and a phased rollout will begin across Europe on March 1.
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Time to update you on another forthcoming update in the laptop world, this time concerning Lenovo’s premier widescreen workstation range. Purported internal Lenovo slides from earlier this year show the new W701 and W701ds ThinkPads nonchalantly hanging out next to some pretty beefy spec sheets. The W701, which we saw passing through the FCC, is again listed alongside an Intel Extreme series CPU and a Wacom Digitizer, while its display quality has been upgraded all the way to 100 percent of the NTSC color gamut and 280 nits of brightness. Going stride for stride with it is the dual-screen W701ds, with both machines offering up to 16GB of RAM, SSD options up to a quarter of a terabyte, and Ultrabay expandability. DisplayLink ports and the like are just glazing on the cake, but we can’t help noticing the frankly silly two-hour battery rating on the 701ds — guess that CPU is going to live up to its Extreme name in every way imaginable. The announcement date listed for these machines is February 23, which is when we’ll be better able to gauge the veracity of the specs before us.
ThinkPad W701 and W701ds specs emerge from a leaky faucet originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hauppauge’s HD PVR allows you to record high-definition TV programs to your PC, using high-quality H.264. We’re giving one away to one lucky winner in this week’s Crave giveaway.
Our British readers will already be painfully familiar with the comical propensity that government officials (even spies!) have for losing sensitive data while on the move. It might be an idea, therefore, to give your forgetful local representative a break with one of these new Corsair USB drives. The Padlock 2 features OS-agnostic password protection via the keypad you see above plus 256-bit encryption of the data stored on the flash inside. So even if someone is tenacious enough to pry the case open, he’ll have a hard time getting anything useful out of it. Oh, and don’t worry about forgetting the passcode, there’s a procedure for wiping the drive clean and generating a new one. 8GB units are available immediately, and we’ve spotted them online priced at £46 in the UK and $59 in the good old US of A.
Corsair’s Padlock 2 offers 256-bit AES encryption inside a rugged body originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:55:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Do you like being able to backup/copy the DVD’s that you own? There are all kinds apps to help you to copy the DVD’s, but often times you need to use multiple tools to get the job done. Some people use one program to copy a video to their computer, another program to shrink it so that it will fit on a regular (single-layer) DVD, and then another one to burn it back to a DVD.
DVDFab Platinum does all of that, and more! It has several different options for copying a DVD including the full disc, just the main movie without the trailers or anything, or you can even split a DVD-9 (dual-layer) movie onto two different DVD-5 (single-layer) discs. If you split a DVD onto two discs you’ll prevent the loss of quality, which is important to a lot of movie goers out there.
One of the more interesting options that I haven’t seen in other DVD copying applications is the merging of multiple videos. That’s used for taking, for example, season 1 and season 2 of a television show and compressing them to fit on a single DVD. You’ll probably only want to do this if you’re using dual-layer discs otherwise the quality will probably start to noticeably suffer.
DVDFab Platinum also has several different encoding options for converting DVD’s into a more portable format. In just a few clicks you can have a DVD ready to go on your iPod, PSP, cellphone, and more. More advanced users will enjoy the variety of configuration options that are available:
We have 3 licenses of DVDFab Platinum (valued at $79.99 each) to giveaway today! All you have to do is drop a comment below providing both your name and email address in the appropriate fields. We obviously need your email address for contacting you in the event that you should win. Believe it or not we’ve actually had winners in previous giveaways get randomly selected, but since they didn’t provide an email address we had to pick someone else.
Just as with all of our giveaways we will be using a random number generator to determine the winners. For this round here is how we’re going to give out the licenses:
Entries for the giveaway will be accepted up until December 4th at 5:00PM Central Time.
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Laptops or desktops stuck with only VGA output often need a little help to get their content onto an HDTV, and Atlona is there for them. It’s introducing another in a storied line of HDMI adapters, this one taking VGA input and turning it to HDMI output. That’s not particularly special, but that this one does it powered only by a single USB port is. It’ll also pull in analog audio over a 3.5mm plug and add that to the mix, then pump the results at a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200. Of course, all that functionality is going to cost you: $120 for the adapter, but it does at least include a six-foot HDMI cable. They’re up for order now ahead of a date with the postman next week, and there’s another picture waiting for you after the break if you’re really into the orange and black scheme.
Continue reading Atlona’s VGA to HDMI adapter ditches the brick, does 1080p on USB power
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So, there’s good news and bad news, and we tend to prefer starting with the former. According to Akihabara News, Mitsubishi has whipped up an upscaling technology to end all upscaling technologies — one that takes vanilla 1080p material to 4K x 2K without breaking a sweat. Now, for the less-than-awesome tidbit. For whatever reason, the tech is not yet compatible with Blu-ray content, and moreover, you’re still nowhere close to being able to afford a 4K television or projector. Here’s hoping this breakthrough makes ’em a wee bit more feasible for the layman, though.
Mitsubishi’s upconverting technology takes 1080p to 4K x 2K, you to cloud nine originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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