Sep 29
Dell China exec Amit Midha confirms to The Wall Street Journal the imminent debut of 7-inch Android tablet, followed by 10-inch tablet within 12 months.
Sep 29
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pToday on preGame, we’ll demo two unique titles. In our first demo we’ll try and escape an enormous skyship as it plummets toward an abandoned New York City of the future. Enslaved: Odyssey to the West takes place 150 years into the future where humans are all but extinct, and a robot race is determined to exterminate the remaining few.
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Then, we’ll dive into Lost and Shadow, a beautifully designed new title that has players make their way through intricate puzzles only using the shadows cast by objects in the real world. It sounds confusing, but our demo helps everything become clear.
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But before we get to the games, we’ll discuss the rumors about a a href=”http://gamerant.com/rumor-patrol-mortal-kombat-kollection-prince-persia-trilogy-box-art-revealed-riley-43041/”Mortal Kombat Kollection and Prince of Persia Trilogy/a hitting the PS3. Both collections are said to feature HD and 3D upgrades, much like the recently announced a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20017582-1.html”Team Ico Collection/a.
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Finally, we’ll quickly touch on a new a href=”http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20017909-1.html”gaming headset revealed by Logitech today/a. The F540 allows for up to three sources (or consoles) to be connected at once, and wirelessly transmits audio to a headset. Tune in to see if we think these new $150 gaming gadget is worth your hard-earned cash.
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Sep 29
Clear WiMAX router passes the FCC without a scratch
Posted in: 4G, router, Today's Chili, wifi, WiMAX
The world is not suffering from a dearth of WiMAX routers, but Clear has just a bit of room in their stable: while they offer 4G modems that plug into your computer over USB or Ethernet, along with battery-powered WiFi hotspots, they don’t offer any home routers that do the WiFi thing, router thing, and WiMAX thing all-in-one. If this sounds like soft spot in their lineup to you, you’ll be happy to know that an honest to goodness plug-it-into-a-wall 802.11n router with WiMAX, Clear branding, and possibly even a VoIP plug has just passed through the FCC. Will it change everything? Maybe.
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Sep 29
Kobo Updates E-Reader with Wi-Fi, Price-Drop
Posted in: e-books, Tablets and E-Readers, Today's Chili
Kobo, the independent e-reader company that could, has updated its popular e-book. It gets a price-drop, a few tweaks and one big new feature.
Kobo started out as client-software on mobile devices and now exists on everything from the iPad to the PC to the upcoming Blackberry PlayBook. It has also been selling well in its physical incarnation, and this new model replaces the old, shaving $10 off the price (it is now $140) and adding much-needed Wi-Fi. Previously, you’d need to download purchases from the Kobo store to your computer and send them to the Kobo via Bluetooth or USB. Now, with Wi-Fi, you can shop direct, just like you can with Amazon’s Kindle. You can also have magazines and newspapers delivered to the device.
The new reader also has improved, sharper text (in five sizes), 1GB memory (the Wi-Fi Kindle has 2GB) and a battery life of ten days (Kindle, one month). You can, however, stick in an SD-card to increase capacity. The processor has also been upgraded, making page-turns 2.5x faster, and Kobo has added a built-in dictionary.
Unlike the Kindle, the Kobo supports the industry-standard EPUB format, the same as used by Apple’s iBooks, and just like the Kindle, any of your books will stay in sync across your various applications and devices. It also comes in a variety of colors, including black, “Pearlized Onyx” and silver (these last two only color the quilted back panel – the black is black all-over).
Available now.
Kobo reader [Kobo. Thanks, Meghan!]
See Also:
- $150 Kobo eReader: The Real Kindle Killer?
- Kobo E-Reader First on iPad
- Kobo E-readers Offered to Hotel Guests
- Kobo Beats iBooks with International iPad Bookstore, App
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Sep 29
Wood-Carved iPad Stand Adds Instant Class for $35
Posted in: accessories, Accessories and Peripherals, ipad, Today's Chili
Ooh, is that mahogany? Sherwood+Meister’s Block 22 iPad stand is actually carved from a single block of FSC-certified kiln-dried Ipe, which might be even better. Ipe resists moisture and weathering like cedar but is sturdy and handsome like cherry. You can build decks with it, without painting or staining — this has an extra hand-rubbed satin finish to keep the color.
Why is it called Block 22? That’s for the 22-degree angled groove that holds the iPad in either portrait or landscape. Although I think I would keep it in portrait, just because it looks so beautiful that way, particularly from the back:
It’s like a scaled-down mid-century modern iMac, designed by Charles and Ray Eames.
Finally, there’s a rounded dish in the back to hold accessories, like a power adapter, headphones, or camera (which would be the main reason I’d set the iPad to landscape). I’d probably wind up sticking my iPhone in the dish, and then forgetting where I’d put it because it’d be hiding behind the iPad. 21st-century comedy ensues.
If you’ve already got an iPad keyboard dock ($69) or love standing it up in an iPad case ($39), there’s probably not that much extra here to get you to pull the trigger. But if you use the iPad in the kitchen, in a slick design or architecture office, or just go nuts for the contrast of hardwood and aluminum, $35 gets you a very lovely stand indeed.
Block22 iPad Stand [Sherwood+Meister]
iPad Wood [Yanko Design]
All images via Sherwood+Meister.
See Also:
- First iPad Stand Steps into View
- How-To: Gorillapod Doubles as Awesome iPad Stand
- The Pencil iPad Stand: Smart Enough to Impress a New Yorker …
- Wooden iPad Stand Doubles as Kitchen Accessory
- Wired Bureau Chief Builds iPad Stand from $6 Doorstops
- Joule: An Elegant, Minimalist iPad Stand
- HyperMac Crams 16-Hour Battery into iPad Stand
- Compass, an Elegant Fold-Up Stand for iPad
Sep 29
Scosche MotorMouth II brings handsfree calling to any aux input-equipped vehicle
Posted in: audio, bluetooth, car, Today's Chili, video
Nah, it’s not the second coming of the Jupiter Jack. In fact, it’s not a lackluster FM transmitter at all. Instead of pumping yet another one of those, Scosche has decided to take the high road here with the MotorMouth II, a Bluetooth streaming device that’s designed for use in any vehicle with a 3.5mm auxiliary input. The idea here is to pair your Bluetooth handset with the adapter, then plug the adapter into your head unit; once you start a handsfree conversation on your mobile, the caller’s voice can be heard loud and clear over your car’s stereo. Of course, you may want to avoid this critter if you’re planning on taking to your part-time lover while your full-time partner in life is riding shotgun, but for the faithful ones out there, it’s available now for $79.99.
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Sep 29
Gateway revamps its desktops for the holiday shopping season, including a new all-in-one design
Sep 29
All you toy manufacturers may as well down tools and go home. Give up. Your career is over. Lego has made the ultimate toy, and nobody ever needs to make another toy again.
As you are no doubt aware after excitedly reading the headline and drooling over the picture above, this toy combines three of the most powerful forces in the universe: Lego, Han Solo and Carbonite. I love how the design is of a Lego-ized Solo frozen into suspended animation, and also that handles have been added to fit the tiny curled hands of any other minifigs that may need to carry poor Han and pin him up on Jabba’s wall like a Persian rug.
The set, which also contains a de-frosted (or perhaps pre-frosted) Han for proper reenactment, is just $25. It can also be had as a part of the $87 Slave 1 set, but who wants to give any money to that bounty-hunting scum Boba Fett?
Don’t say: “There will be no bargain. I will not to give up my favorite decoration. I like Captain Solo where he is.”
Han Solo Carbonite minifig [Amazon via Oh Gizmo!]
See Also:
- Han Solo Frozen in Carbonite Desk
- Han Solo Carbonite Thumb Drive
- So… Encased in Carbonite You Are
- Tauntaun Sleeping Bag
- Frickin' Star Wars
Sep 29
OCZ Ibis touts 2GBps High Speed Data Link, vanquishes SSD competition
Posted in: benchmark, review, roundup, solid state drive, SolidStateDrive, SSD, Today's Chili
What’s after ludicrous speed? If you ask OCZ, the answer is HSDL speed, which is the company’s new interface idea for bypassing the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA/SAS interconnects. Using a high-quality SAS cable to hook up its new Ibis drive to a PCI Express host card, OCZ has managed to deliver a cool 2GBps of total bandwidth — that’s one gigabyte up and one gigabyte down… every second. In order to feed this massive data pipe, the company’s gone and stacked four SandForce SF-1200 controllers inside the Ibis and RAIDed them together for good measure too. The upshot isn’t too dramatic for desktop applications, where’ll you’ll see performance that’s merely world-beating — reading at 373MBps and writing at 323MBps — but if you throw in some deeper queues and enterprise-level workloads you’ll be able to squeeze out 804MBps reads and 675MBps writes. Needless to say, the Ibis scooped up many a plaudit in early reviews, and though it may be expensive at $529 for 100GB, it still seems to represent good value for those who have the workloads to saturate its High Speed Data Link.
OCZ Ibis touts 2GBps High Speed Data Link, vanquishes SSD competition originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 29
Blio for Windows review, now available for download
Posted in: e reader, e-book, e-books, e-readers, review, Software, Today's Chili
Last week we brought you news that KNF-B was prepping for a September 28 launch of its Blio e-reader software, and according to our date books, the time has come! The free PC software (Windows XP, Vista and 7 are all supported) can be downloaded now at the source link below; the iPhone app should be hitting the App Store very soon, however. We’ve been using the program for the last few days to, you know, “read,” so before heading over to download it yourself you’ll naturally want to hit the break for our impressions of the unique reading application.
Gallery: Blio for Windows preview
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Blio for Windows review, now available for download originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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