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Get that LED HDTV you’ve been wanting, says Westinghouse. You can afford it. The LCD-maker is releasing the LD-4255, a 42-inch LED model with 1080p resolution. It offers a sleek high-gloss black frame with red accents. But what you really care about is the cost. You can get it for a street price of $749. That’s pretty good for an LED model.
This set is 1.25-inches thick and it offers a vivid picture thanks to a high contrast ratio and a 120Hz refresh rate. It’s a widescreen model (with a 16:9 ratio, naturally) and it has two HDMI, 1 composite, and 1 component input. It’s also eco-friendly, as it exceeds Energy Star 5.0 ratings (which don’t even go into effect until 2012). The box is make of recycled materials which you can fry up and eat (that last part isn’t true). Look for this set in mid-September.
Assuage your millennial guilt just a little bit with the EcoShield+ iPhone 4 case by Agent 18. Each case has been made from at least one recycled water bottle. That’s one way to turn trash into treasures. It’s the extras that really sell this case, though. It includes a built-in stand which rotates open and disappear when you don’t need it. That means you can easily prop up your iPhone to watch a video, then fold the stand away when you’re done.
Other perks include a sliding headphone jack door that keeps dust and dirt out of your audio port, a shock-absorbing design, and a bottom half that can be easily removed for easy docking. Look for it in either while or black for $39.95.
Hey — what’s this? Well, from the looks of it, it’s a new, as-yet-unnamed HTC device. There is perilously little info available about the mystery mobile, but it appears to boast an 8 megapixel camera with a flash plus a front-facing camera, a 4.3-inch screen, a headphone jack and a kickstand. It also appears that it’s going to boast HTC’s own Sense UI. This falls in line with what we’ve heard about Verizon’s Android-heavy fall launch this year, so we would not be surprised to see this device make an appearance. Furthermore, we could go out on a limb and guess that it’s possible this is the Merge mentioned in that lineup, which supposedly boasts a 1GHz processor. That’s all there is to the story right now but we’re going to stay up late tonight to be on the lookout for further information on this one. One more photo below and hit up the source for the rest.
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Mysterious Verizon-bound HTC handset appears mysteriously on the internet originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
We are all familiar with Moore’s law. The observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that the density of semiconductors doubles roughly every eighteen months. The net result? It’s always going to be better faster and cheaper. Certainly that’s been true of the phone space, with large screens, fast processors and lots of storage.
In the last few weeks alone I’ve looked at new phones with 1Ghz processors, the latest and greatest software platforms from Google and RIM… but it’s been one little gadget that’s caught my attention and it totally bucks the trend. What device? It’s the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro — which is a lot of name for a small phone — and it shows some very different thinking about what a smartphone is. In theory, this isn’t a phone that I should like. Instead of a large 4.3-inch screen, it’s running a 2.55-inch screen at 240 x 320 resolution. Don’t look for a 1Ghz processor here. It’s got an ARMv6 revision 5 processor at 600Mhz. Finally, forget Froyo or even Eclair. This thing’s got Android 1.6 on it and may never get updated to the latest and greatest. Despite all that, I think Sony Ericsson has a potential hit on their hands if they decide to bring this to the US later this year as they said they plan to. Why am I so enamored?
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Entelligence: when less beats Moore originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Kodak’s new ESP 9250 all-in-one inkjet printer replaces the ESP 9 as its flagship printer for the Fall season.
While set-top fans wait for updates to the PopBox, the release of the Boxee Box, or cozy up to Western Digital’s WD TV line of set-top media players, Netgear has entered the fray with the NeoTV 550 and 350 HD media players. Each device comes with access to video on demand services like CinemaNow, and the players are designed as a bridge between media stored on other devices like USB drives or SD cards and your HDTV. Both devices also support streaming video over UPnP, DLNA, or Windows Media Player 11 networks.
The new Netgear set-top boxes don’t come with all of the features their competitors do, like on-board storage and flexible output options. You get one HDMI port on the back, 3 USB ports and an Ethernet port, along with mini AV and component ports on the rear and an S/PDIF jack for audio. Even so, the NeoTV 550 is priced at $219.99 list, and pricing for the 350 has not been announced, although it will likely be less. Netgear also didn’t announce when the two set-top boxes would be available.
[via Engadget]
Video game classes at major Colleges and Universities aren’t particularly new: they can be valuable teaching tools in many cases, depending on the course and the game. Making a single course all about the ins and outs of one particular game however is a little odd, but that’s exactly what professors at the University of Florida are doing with EME2040: 21st Century Skills in StarCraft.
The course will focus on build techniques and strategies, as well as how the skills that you learn playing the game can be applicable in the real world where you may be forced to manage multiple priorities and activities with limited resources. Sound familiar? Don’t rush to enroll just yet though, the course does have a pre-requisite, and is only open to students who have “basic knowledge and experience playing StarCraft.” In other words, no noobs allowed.
[via SlashGear]
This article was written on March 25, 2009 by CyberNet.
Back in October of 2007, we took a look at the Most Popular Cameras on Flickr. It’s been well over a year, and a lot happens in a year’s time, so we thought we’d take a look at the current most popular cameras on Flickr. This list gives some interesting insight as to which cameras are popular, at least among the Flickr crowd of photographers.
This time around, there are a couple of cameras that remained on the list (but moved positions), and a few new ones as well. Below you’ll find a list of the top five current most popular cameras on Flickr, how much they cost (prices from Amazon), and the type (digital SLR, point and shoot, camera phone).
As we found last time, this list shows that Digital SLR cameras are definitely more popular among the Flickr crowd than point and shoot cameras. It also shows us that Flickr users favor Canon cameras over others. Another interesting fact is that the iPhone is now one of the most popular cameras, even though it’s not the best camera out there. Apple should feel pretty good about that.
If you’re curious, here are the most popular Point and Shoot cameras followed by the most popular Camera phones:
Point and Shoot Cameras:
Cameraphones:
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