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At Steve Jobs’ conversation with Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at D8 this evening, the Apple boss just threw out this weighty little gem when asked whether there’d be advantages to deploying the iPhone on two American carriers: “there might be.” Naturally, you can interpret that any way you like, but it’s interesting that he failed to say no to the concept of taking the phone beyond its usual AT&T playground.

Speaking of AT&T, Jobs says that his company meets with the carrier once per quarter to get briefed on network improvements, and while he notes that they’ve got the fastest 3G around, he says “I wish they were improving faster” — while also qualifying that any network receiving the iPhone back in ’07 probably would’ve suffered the same kinds of problems AT&T has. When pressed on whether we’d see the iPhone on another carrier in the near future, Jobs hit them up with the expected “no comment” before turning to other subjects, so make of it what you will. Follow the break for another interesting snippet from the Q&A session at D8 where Steve muses on AT&T’s network improvements.

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Toshiba’s found an interesting use for flexible LCD technology: user input. At SID 2010, the Japanese display manufacturer showed off an 8.4-inch wide, 0.1mm thick SVGA panel that could be grabbed and physically bent to zoom in or out using Google Earth. While it’s a far cry from 6DOF and perhaps not as entertaining as controlling the time-space continuum with forefinger and thumb, the bend sensor seems like an obvious addition to the gamut of crisp, rollable, data storing, energy generating flexible tech already in development. It’s also worth noting that Toshiba isn’t the only one working on the idea; IBM filed a patent application for “flexible displays as an input device” back in 2006. Video after the break.

[Thanks, Lennart]

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The Zoom H1 hand-held audio recorder delivers 24-bit/96kHz stereo recordings perfect for music, interviews, lectures, recitals, band practice and more.

We’ll hit the pause button on all the power-sipping tablet talk for a moment to show you NVIDIA’s maddest and baddest beast yet. This is a dual GeForce GTX 470 card, meaning that two Fermi dies reside on the same board, along with the necessary circuitry and an apparently beefed up apportionment of GDDR5 RAM as well. Measuring in at 12 inches long, this prototype is being shown off at Computex by add-in board partner Galaxy — probably just to prove that the mammoth undertaking is even possible. You’ll be forgiven for mistaking it for one of 3dfx’s final ill-fated productions, and with a requirement for two 8-pin power connectors and a doubling of the standard 470’s 215W TDP, this dualie card sure looks set for a similar future of pretty pictures and no retail viability. All the same, if you happen to have a nuclear reactor and a wind farm in your backyard, this could be just the GPU for you.

NVIDIA brings a dual GTX 470 prototype to Computex, causes power shortages in Taipei originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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