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Sony Ericsson’s booth at IFA this year includes an Xperia-themed chopper that you can sit on and have your picture taken — with a Sony Ericsson cameraphone, of course. As of press time, no word on when it’ll be updated to use unleaded gasoline.

Chris: “It’ll be available at local dealers mere moments after you finally stop wanting it.”
Nilay: “Unfortunately, it runs Android 1.6”
Darren: “A fine substitute for the PSP Phone you’ve been dreaming of.”
Laura: “Fail hog.”
Ross: “Still no pinch-to-zoom, but at least here, that kind of makes sense.”
Don: “Mr. Stringer, your chariot awaits.”
Vlad: “Sony just couldn’t help throwing in a bit of product placement in its Terminator 2 remake.”
Tim: “It’s bigger, heavier, slower, and way more expensive than other models — but hey, look at all that chrome! Oh, yeah, the bike isn’t bad either.”
Sean: “Active shutter glasses sold separately.”
Thomas: “**Model shown is coming soon. Actual product is a horse.”

Caption contest: nothing easy about this rider originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While we admire the impulse to best your South Korean neighbor and build the world’s thinnest X (in this case, the world’s thinnest full LED LCD TV bezel), you can’t help but notice the base at the bottom where all the components that used to be in the back have been crammed seems to grow ever larger with each passing tradeshow. Still, LG’s LEX8 8.8mm thick LCD is impressively thin and the picture quality, thanks to that localized “Nano LED” dimming, is stellar. Hit up the gallery for a requisite thickness comparo with an iPhone — next year we’re just gonna pack some razor blades for comparison shots.

LG LEX8 ‘Nano LED’ TV eyes-on originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on April 19, 2008 by CyberNet.

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It’s amazing how many new words have appeared within our vocabulary over time(meaning the general population as a whole, not you specifically). Many of the slang and jargon types of words never end up in dictionaries for obvious reasons, so where is someone to go when they hear a word that isn’t defined in the dictionary and they don’t know what it means? Today we’re taking a look at several different dictionaries available on the web that cover all of the words, idioms and phrases that don’t make it into Webster’s Dictionary. Up first is Urban Dictionary…

Urban Dictionary (link)

In the footer of the Urban Dictionary website, there’s a warning that reads “Urban Dictionary is not appropriate for all audiences.”  We’ll start out by mentioning that first because there is some content on there that may offend you, or may not be appropriate for children. With that said, Urban Dictionary does have all kinds of “useful” information on it if you’re looking for specific definitions of different slang words.

Navigating Urban Dictionary

If there’s a particular word you’re looking for, you can just enter it in the search box or click the letter that it starts with on the alphabet listed across the top of the page. If you’re visiting just for fun, there’s a “random” link which you can click on to see a slang word displayed and the definition of it. They also have a word of the day each day, like on April 15th, tax day in the United States, one of words was IRS redefined as “Income Removal System” instead of “Internal Revenue Service.”

Some of the words I came across while clicking the “random link”:

• Office Ghost – an employee who maintains a position at a company despite the fact that all of his job duties have been reassigned to other employees.  This could be by the ghost’s own design or due to restructuring within the department.”
• Subwoofing – the often inconsiderate action of playing a car stereo at full blast simply to annoy those around you
• Shoulder Surfing – to look over the shoulder(s) of a person with whom you are currently engaged in conversation to see if you can find someone ‘better’ to talk to.

Voting up/down words

All of the words on Urban Dictionary are user-submitted. Users can vote up or down definitions of words depending on whether they felt the definition somebody wrote was accurate or not.

Add/Edit words

Anybody can contribute, but they do have editors that look over what has been submitted to make sure people aren’t spamming or using a specific name of someone in a definition. Part of the submission process includes adding a definition, providing an example, and then tagging the entry.

Double-Tongued Dictionary (link)

Double-Tongued Dictionary focuses on slang, jargon, and “new words.” In the about section on the site they say, “this site strives to record terms and expressions that are absent from, or are poorly covered in, mainstream dictionaries. Unlike Urban Dictionary, Double-Tongued Dictionary doesn’t really include many words that people would find offensive.

Navigating Double-Tongued Dictionary

You can perform a search on the site using the search box on the right side of the page. You can also click on the “categories” link at the top of the page to view all of their categories. Like Urban Dictionary, they too have a word that they highlight each day which you can receive via RSS or email. Examples of slang or jargon types of words that I came across while visiting the site:

• door buster – a discounted item of limited quantity intended to bring customers into a store
• chillax – to relax, take it easy, chill out
• suicide lane – a center lane used for passing or turning on a three-lane road or highway

By clicking on “categories” you’ll also find that they include words from other countries. For some countries, the list of words is very limited. For each word, you’ll also find a list of citations of where the definition came from.

Commenting

People are able to comment on each of the words and no sign-up is required.

Adding words

Adding words to Double-Tongued Dictionary requires submitting an email to the editor. They look at several criteria to determine if your submission can be included. The editor actually edited “The Official Dictionary of Unofficial English”.

Idiom Site (link)

This is a fun site to visit to find out what some of the idioms mean that you hear. Some of the idioms they include you’ve heard over and over, but others you probably haven’t. To start, we’ll first define an idiom which is a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language. When someone says “break a leg,” do they really mean to go break your leg? Of course not! Most people know that the saying is associated with good luck but not everybody has heard the saying before and might be confused when they hear it for the first time.

Navigating Idiom Site

Navigating this site is super simple because right on the landing page they have the alphabet listed out so that you can click on a letter to view words. Examples of idioms include:

• apple of my eye
• baker’s dozen
• double whammy
• erueka
• excuse my french
• gung ho
• hold your horses

and more…

Sumbitting an Idiom

Anybody can submit an idiom by clicking here. All you have to include is the idiom itself, and then a description of it. Just because you submit one doesn’t mean it’ll be included, but the editors will at least look at it.

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Remember that big, honking red-and-black HTC slider that dwarfed an EVO 4G? It’s back sporting Verizon colors just as we were told, and with a few more confirmed specifications thanks to the ever-reliable FCC. The HTC “PD42100” is still missing a proper internal codename, but test reports confirm it’s ready for at least CDMA 2000 and GSM 850 plus EV-DO Rev. A, Bluetooth and 802.11b/g/n WiFi at 2.4GHz frequencies. There’s no word on that 1.2GHz processor or 4-inch display, but it’s clear we’re looking at some chunky chiclet keys and there’s definitely a removable battery. We can’t wait to get our hands on what surely looks like the new king of Droids.

Update: As it turns out, the size of the screen has been staring us in the face for hours — we just had to think back to high school geometry class, specifically the Pythagorean Theorem. Starting with the FCC’s handy-dandy picture of the phone’s rear next to a square ruler, we had only to superimpose an image of the front on top, then calculate the diagonal (after translating to inches, of course) to discover it was a 4-inch display all along. Oh, and the phone has EV-DO Rev. A for data. [Thanks, Mark]

HTC’s dual-mode CDMA / GSM Android slider hits the FCC, decked out in shades of Verizon originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 23:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So look — RIM’s BlackBerry Torch 9800 isn’t exactly the barnburner-of-a-smartphone that we were hoping it’d be, but at least it looks snazzy, right? Right? Regardless of your answer to that, it’s a bona fide fact that Colorware has outdone itself on this one. Usually, it’s most fun to toy around with the company’s endless array of hues in order to create the most hideous version of your favorite gadget before pretending to hit the order button, but for whatever reason, the first handset to ship with BlackBerry OS 6 actually looks dapper in red and white. Or maybe that’s just the Wolfpack in us talking. Either way, it’s available to customize now in the source link for $250 (send your own) or $1,050 (buy new sans a contract). Video’s after the break, should you need one.

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BlackBerry Torch 9800 gets the Colorware treatment, sees value increase infinitely originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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