Aug 28
Tokyo entertainment firm Kokoro shows off its latest fembot, Actroid F, in a PR video. The lifelike android is slated to go on sale to work as a receptionist or hospital worker.
Aug 28
A major lens overhaul yields two new supertelephoto lenses and two prototypes. The SLR powerhouse clearly wants to keep pro shooters from defecting to Nikon. pOriginally posted at a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20014985-264.html” class=”origPostedBlog”Deep Tech/a/p
Aug 28
Too busy suffering from “character amnesia” this week to keep up on Crave? Here’s what you missed while you were forgetting how to write in your native language.
Aug 28
StreamTV Elocity A7 tablet packs Tegra 2 and Android 2.2, coming to Amazon for $399 in September
Posted in: hands-on, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili, video
We can’t say we’d ever heard of StreamTV, but all the company had to say was “Tegra 2 Android Froyo tablet” to get us to meet up with them in NYC earlier today. The Philadelphia start-up is planning to bring its Elocity A7 — essentially a re-badged Compal’s NAZ-10 — to an Amazon order page near you, and from what we saw during the hour-long demo it may just be a contender for your stashed away $399. The 7-inch tablet has an extremely responsive 800 x 480 resolution, capacitive touchscreen — yes, multitouch worked in the browser and photo gallery — with a front-facing 1.3 megapixel cam on the left bezel. We actually got to make a quick Fring video call to one of the other tablets in the room, though it was rather lagging since we were running over it all 3G.
Surrounding the tablet is an SD card slot along with USB and HDMI ports, the latter of which did come very handy for hooking up the tablet to a 22-inch HDTV and watching an extremely smooth 1080p clip. (Thank you 1GHz Tegra II-720 CPU!) Speaking of, we also got to play a racing game, Asphalt 5, on the device, though the accelerometer steering was a bit flaky. Besides that, we’ve got to say the entire tablet experience was pretty smooth — you can see for yourself after the break and in the upcoming episode of the Engadget Show — but the unit we saw was running Android 2.1. The SteamTV’s CEO says they’ll only be shipping 2.2-running units come October and with a supplemental GetJar app store since it cannot preload Google’s Marketplace because of restrictions. He also tells us they’ll be including an HDMI cord and wireless keyboard in the box — all for $399. It all sounds rather promising, but so do all these future Android tablets!
Gallery: StreamTV Elocity
StreamTV Elocity A7 tablet packs Tegra 2 and Android 2.2, coming to Amazon for $399 in September originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 28
Wii Balance Board-controlled robot a hit with toddlers in Ithaca (video)
Posted in: research, robot, Today's Chili, video, wii
How could we resist a story involving robot-powered babies? The Ithaca College Tots on Bots project aims to mobilize infants with physical disabilities by setting them atop a “mobile robot” equipped with a Wii Balance Board to let the young operator steer by leaning — which, it turns out, works pretty well. Additionally, the vehicle uses sonar to avoid nasty crashes and a remote control that an adult can use to take control. Further study has to be made before any long term developmental benefits can be ascertained, but in the meantime it does look like a lot of fun. See it in action after the break.
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Wii Balance Board-controlled robot a hit with toddlers in Ithaca (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 28
LaCie Rikiki Go external HDD features 1TB storage, new and improved monkey
Posted in: hard drive, HardDrive, Today's Chili
How do you differentiate one portable HDD from the next? Well, let’s see: You can bump the storage capacity up to 1TB. Or you can give the monkey a mohawk. Yep, that’s pretty much it! The Rikiki Go supports USB 2.0, sports an aluminum case, and is available now (with 1TB capacity) for $150. There is also a 500GB version that’s not yet in stock, but will be at some point for $90. PR after the break.
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LaCie Rikiki Go external HDD features 1TB storage, new and improved monkey originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Aug 28
Ferroelectric isn’t just a ridiculously fun word to say, it might just also be the future of computing. While that possibility is still a ways off, researchers have been making considerable progress in recent years, and a team from Japan’s Tohoku University has now set a new record for ferroelectric data storage. That was accomplished with the aid of a scanning nonlinear dielectric microscope, which allowed the researchers to hit a data density of 4 trillion bits per square inch. As you might expect, the exact process is a bit complicated — involving a pulse generator that’s used to alter the electrical state of tiny dots on the ferroelectric medium — but the researchers say that the technology is a leading candidate to replace magnetic hard drives and flash memory, or “at least in applications for which extremely high data density and small physical volume is required.” Unfortunately, they aren’t going so far as to speculate when that might happen.
Researchers set new record for ferroelectric data storage originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aug 27
If you’re like us, you’re constantly on the hunt for the perfect small computer. Now, we’re not saying we’ve found it in this new set of Zotac Zboxes… but we do like where they’re coming from. The minimal slivers pack Ion chipsets along with Intel CULV CPUs, making for a power-sipping experience that can actually push a couple of pixels (a couple, not many more). The company is dishing out a few varieties of the mini PCs, all loaded with some variation of Intel’s Celeron processors. The HD series (the NS21 and ND22) pack a Celeron 743 or SU2300 CULV (respectively), DDR3 RAM slots, a 2.5-inch hard drive slot, HDMI and DVI-I ports, along with NVIDIA’s Ion GPU. There’s also an ITX series, all sporting those same CPUs, a single PCI Express x16 slot, a handful of SATA / eSATA hookups, and HDMI, DVI-D, and VGA connections. All the systems have a slew of USB ports, the boxes can be mounted in four different positions (including on the back of a monitor), and though retail pricing hasn’t been announced, it looks like at least the ND22 should list for around $270. Hit the source link for all the details, and More Coverage for a review.
Zotac’s Zboxes are small, Ion-fueled, and cheap originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Aug 27
This article was written on November 20, 2008 by CyberNet.
Welcome to the WrapUp by CyberNet. This is a collection of news stories, downloads, and tips that we have collected over the last few days, but never got around to writing about. Don’t forget to send in your own tips, or just leave a comment on this page if you think you’ve got something we should include.
–News–
Cancel your Sprint Service Without ETF in January
Sprint will be charging an extra $0.99 per line come January 2009, and some people are using this as a way to get out of their contract while avoiding the early termination fee (ETF). So if you’ve been wanting to break away from Sprint this might be just the time.
Adobe Tests 64-Bit Flash on Linux
One of the biggest complaints that I’ve heard from 64-bit operating system users is that Adobe doesn’t have a 64-bit version of Flash available. That will soon be a thing of the past. They are currently testing a version that works in Linux, and when the time comes they will simultaneously release 64-bit versions across the board for all the OS’s (Windows, Mac, and Linux).
Tear-off Tabs in Firefox 3.1
A new feature in Firefox 3.1 will let you drag and drop tabs to move them to/from a new window.
25GB of Free Storage Coming to SkyDrive
Microsoft has announced that they will be upping the free storage offered by their SkyDrive service from 5GB to 25GB! Once they do that I’ll definitely start using it. [our SkyDrive review]
Windows 7 Getting iPhone-Style Scrolling
By now you probably know that Windows 7 will be focusing on making touch-screen devices as useful as possible. One of the ways it will do that is by letting a user scroll around an application in a manner similar to the iPhone. [our Windows 7 review]
What Tech Companies are Hiring?
With the massive amounts of layoffs occurring CNet has taken it upon themselves to assemble a centralized guide of what tech companies are hiring. They even have estimates of how many people each company is looking for.
The Microsoft Store
Believe it or not, but Microsoft has actually built an online store where you can purchase their own products… and it doesn’t suck! The Windows MarketPlace has always been beyond useless, but the new Microsoft store is clean, simple, and easy to navigate. Maybe they’re finally getting on the right track?
–Tips, Tutorials, and Reviews–
How to Import Gmail Contacts into Outlook
Transferring your contacts from Gmail to Outlook is a pretty easy process, and this guide will show you what to do.
Upload Photos to Facebook with Live Photo Gallery
If you’re a Windows Live Photo Gallery user that likes uploading photos to Facebook you may want to checkout this handy little add-on.
10 Ways to Speed Up Web Browsing
This guide by Lifehacker demonstrates some of the different ways you can browse the web faster.
Benchmark Startup Times of Apps
Have you ever wanted to see how long it takes a program to startup? This little utility can do just that.
Best Way to Tether an iPhone for Free
If you have a jailbroken iPhone this guide explains how to use a free program called PdaNet to tether the device for free. I can definitely vouch for how great this app is… it was actually one of the deciding factors for me to jailbreak my iPhone.
Get RSS Updates via IM and SMS
A free service called notify.me will let you receive RSS updates through IM’s or text messages. There aren’t many instances where an RSS feed would be that important that I’d want to have a text message sent, but it might be nice for things like tracking packages.
–Downloads–
- Adobe Air 1.5 [Mirror]
- AIM 1.0 Beta 4 [Mirror]
- BurnAware Free 2.1.6 [Mirror]
- Camino 1.6.5
- Digsby Build 37 [Mirror]
- FeedDemon 2.8.0.6 Beta 3 [Mirror]
- FileZilla 3.1.5.1 [Mirror]
- Foobar2000 0.9.6 Beta 5 [Mirror]
- Google SketchUp 7.0 [Mirror]
- Maxthon 2.1.5.1250 [Mirror]
- Safari 3.2 [Mirror]
- Sandboxie 3.32 [Mirror]
- Songbird 1.0.0 RC2 [Mirror]
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 [Mirror]
- Tomato Router Firmware 1.22
- Weather Watcher Live 6.0.1 [Mirror]
- WordPress 2.7 Beta 3
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Aug 27
How would you change Apple’s iPhone 4?
Posted in: Apple, AppleIphone, att, Features, HowWouldYouChange, HWYC, ios, iPhone, problem, smartphone, Today's Chili
We know, half of you aren’t even going to read past the headline before you start angrily banging away about Apple’s admitted antenna gaff and the still-not-totally-fixed proximity sensor, but we’re urging you to look deeper. Think harder. Critique your criticisms. In all seriousness, Apple’s iPhone 4 garnered more attention (negative or otherwise) than any other phone released this calendar year, and for good reason — in fact, Apple itself had to hold an emergency press event just to announce what could’ve been announced in a PR blast: everyone’s getting a free case. That said, Cupertino has still managed to move millions of units in just a few months, and that demand doesn’t seem to be dropping off at any significant rate. If you’re one of the lucky (or unlucky) ones that have managed to procure Apple’s latest iPhone, we’re overly anxious to hear your thoughts on changing it. How would you have addressed the antenna issue? Would you have preferred a less drastic departure from the 3GS form factor? Would you have offered more colors than white and black? Thrown in Bluetooth 3.0 for kicks? Go ahead, the floor’s yours — just don’t abuse it, cool?
How would you change Apple’s iPhone 4? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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