Jun 21
The Good Grips Cord Catch does one thing and it does it well. If you need to keep device cables from falling behind your desk, this product does the trick.
Jun 21
Who hasn’t wanted to make a chocolate bar with the toppings of his or her choice? Well, now you can, thanks to German start-up Chocri.
Jun 21
Amazon’s Kindle conveniently falls to $189, Nook looks stunned and bitter
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Oh, snap! Merely hours after Barnes & Noble came out swinging with a $149 WiFi-only version of its Nook and a price-reduced $199 3G Nook, along comes Amazon to rip a massive hole in B&N’s billowing sails. As of this very moment, the $259 Kindle 2 — complete with global 3G and the 6-ink E Ink display you’ve come to know and love (or hate) — is now the $189 Kindle 2. Oh, and there’s also free 2-day shipping. Looks like the undercutter just got undercut, huh?
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Jun 21
Amazon drops Kindle price to $189
Posted in: Today's ChiliAfter Barnes Noble drops the Nook’s price to $199, Amazon answers back with a price chop of its own.
Jun 21
Dance Dance Revolution: 20 Robots Think They Can Dance
Posted in: Miscellaneous, robot, Robots, Today's Chili
When 20 robots wave their mechanical hands and bend their knees in harmony to French composer Maurice Ravel’s masterpiece Bolero, it is a sight worth seeing.
A troupe of Nao fully programmable robots developed by a French company are doing an impressive song-and-dance routine at the ongoing Shanghai World Expo. On Monday, which is the France Pavilion Day at the Expo, the robots put on a 10-minute performance to a three-part music compilation.
It’s awesome and a little cute to see the robots move together in sync to the music and the choreography. Priced at about 10,000 Euros each, that’s almost $250,000 worth of dancing robots there.
Check out this 8-minute long YouTube video for a look at the robots grooving to the music:
The Nao robot developed by Aldebaran Robotics weighs about 9.5 lbs and is about 23 inches tall. The robot comes with x86 AMD Geocode 500 Mhz CPU, 2 GB flash memory, two speakers, vision processing capabilities, Wi-fi connectivity and ethernet port. It has 25 degrees of freedom, which means it can do a lot more than just tilt is head, look right, left and take a few steps –which is the ability being showcased with the dancing.
The Nao robots are also playing at Robocup, the annual humanoid robots soccer game, that will be held in Singapore later this week. Hopefully, they will do better than France’s national team at the World Cup. The robots are currently available only to universities though a general release is expected later this year.
See more photos of the Nao robots at work on their dance routine:
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- Willow Garage Holds a ‘Graduation Party’ for Its Robots
- Gallery: Battle Bots Reign Triumphant at Robogames
Jun 21
Lifechanger: Astronaut Leroy Chiao’s Coffee Maker [Lifechanger]
Posted in: NASA, space, Today's Chili, top
What was my Lifechanger? Hmmmm…iPhone? iPad? Macbook Pro? Let’s dig back a little deeper…Airplane? The1MB original-style Mac (with external 20 MB hard disk), on which I wrote my Ph.D. thesis? Radio Shack TRS-80? Nope, it was a coffee maker! More »
Jun 21
Apple rolls out iBooks app for iPhone, iPod touch
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It’s not just multitasking apps that are hitting the App Store to coincide with the release of iOS 4.0 — Apple has also just rolled out version 1.1 of its iBooks app, which is now available for the iPhone and iPod touch in addition to the iPad (officially, this time). As previously announced, the app now also supports PDF viewing, and boasts a range of other more minor improvements, including new ways to bookmark (complete with syncing across devices), your choice of white or sepia colored pages, more font options and, of course, “greater stability and better performance.”
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Jun 21
Apple Launches iOS 4 for iPhone, iPod Touch
Posted in: Apple, iPhone, ipod touch, Phones, Today's Chili
Apple on Monday quietly rolled out the latest version of its mobile operating system, iOS 4 (formerly named iPhone OS 4). The upgrade introduces several key features such as multitasking, a unified inbox for e-mail and the ability to group apps into folders.
The new elements of iOS 4 have been covered thoroughly by Apple and here at Wired.com, so there isn’t much to add. (If you want a nice deep dive, check out Jacqui Cheng’s review of iOS 4 at ArsTechnica.) But we can tell you the new update runs considerably smoother and faster than iPhone OS 3, and overall it’s a fantastic free update.
Will it work on your iDevice? Here’s what you need to know:
iPhone owners
- Original iPhones (2007) cannot run iOS 4 at all. That means you won’t be able to run any apps developed for iOS 4. Bummer.
- iPhone 3G (2008) owners can run iOS 4, but multitasking is not supported.
- iPhone 3GS (2009) and the upcoming iPhone 4 are fully compatible with iOS 4.
iPod Touch owners
- Original iPod Touch (2007) devices cannot run iOS 4.
- Second-generation iPod Touch (2008) devices can run iOS 4, but multitasking is not supported.
- Third-generation iPod Touch (2009 and current) devices fully support iOS4.
iPad owners
- You won’t get iOS 4 until fall.
Ready to go? Here’s how to install the update:
1. Upgrade your iTunes version to 9.2.
2. We recommend you back up your data before running the install, so plug in your iOS device via USB and hit Sync.
3. When you’re done syncing, click Check for Update.
4. Download iOS 4, then follow the on-screen instructions to install. And you’re done!
Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com
Jun 21
Attendees of this week’s Origins Game Fair will get to see a sneak peek of the popular German board game running on Microsoft’s tabletop touch computer. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-20008334-56.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Beyond Binary/a/p
Jun 21
HyperMac Micro, Mini batteries get iPad / iPhone 4 charging support, yet more color options
Posted in: ipad, iPhone, Today's Chili
We’ve already seen some HyperMac batteries updated to support iPad charging, and it looks like you can now also add the smaller HyperMac Micro and Mini batteries to the list — they’ve not only been updated with iPad / iPhone 4 charging, but with no less than ten color options as well. Apart from those changes, however, the Micro and Mini remain the same as before, and pack capacities of 3600mAh and 7200mAh that should translate to about five and ten hours of iPad battery life, respectively. They also hang onto the same $89.95 and $119.95 list prices, but HyperMac is knocking $20 off each of those just for this launch. Full press release after the break.
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