Sep 20
Among the least expensive 120Hz LCDs available, the Vizio E0VL series delivers a decent picture but falls a bit short of competitors.
Sep 20
London, New York on track for subway cellular coverage?
Posted in: london, o2, t-mobile, Today's Chili, vodafone
After nearly three years of setbacks, if New York City isn’t careful it looks like London just might win the race to extend cellular service to its underground transit system. The plan laid out by London Mayor Boris Johnson calls for the UK’s big five wireless carriers (Vodafone, O2, Orange, T-Mobile, and 3) to cover the cost (some “hundreds of millions of pounds,” according to the Telegraph) for a system that should hopefully wire the Tube by the 2012 Olympics. Meanwhile, the New York plan came back to life recently when Broadcast Australia purchased a majority stake in Transit Wireless, which was awarded some $46 million to wire subway platforms and select tunnels back in 2007 — and which apparently threw in the towel shortly thereafter. Unlike the New York plan, London’s won’t be limited to the platforms, which is great news for Britons who like to listen to obnoxious strangers’ cellphone conversations.
London, New York on track for subway cellular coverage? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 20
Headless bipedal bot can carry 220 pounds, 88 pounds more than Toyota’s i-Foot mobility assist robot can lift.
Sep 20
This article was written on May 10, 2007 by CyberNet.
It appears that the latest social network trend is classifieds as both Friendster and Facebook are taking this route. Facebook teamed up with Oodle, while Friendster teamed up with OLX. Neither of the services are extremely impressive because in both situations, Oodle and OLX are just gaining access to the massive amounts of people that Facebook and Friendster have in their communities.
Facebook Classifieds Details
Despite what I originally thought, Facebook isn’t doing this on their own. I would have thought it would be beneficial for Facebook to set up their own system where people could buy from others in their own networks. Instead, they’ve teamed up with Oodle Classifieds which means that you won’t exactly be buying from other Facebook users.
Facebook has implemented this feature in the form of a Facebook Group which you can find here. Students make up a good portion of Facebook, and the classifieds will help students get rid of books, furniture, and other items because there’s no charge to list them.
Probably the best feature that’s come out of the entire service is that Facebook users are able to specify if they want their classified listings to be available only to their friends and other Facebook users, or if they want it available to the entire Oodle community.
Keep in mind, anything you want to do whether it’s search, buy, or sell, you’ll be taken away from the Facebook site and re-directed to the Oodle site.
Friendster Classifieds Details
Friendster’s classified service launched today, but it’s really nothing more than a classifieds tab at the top and a link back to OLX. The benefit for OLX obviously is the number of people who the classifieds will now be exposed to, and the benefit for Friendster is that they will get half of the revenue generated from the deal.
Unlike Facebook, users don’t have any control over who the listings are available to. You can’t specify that you want your listings available only to your friends – they’re automatically available to the entire OLX community.
Source: Mashable
Wrapping it up
If I had to choose to use one service over the other, I’d definitely choose Facebook’s Classifieds. In general, I like Oodle’s user interface, and the fact that I can select my listings to be available only to my friends or those in my network is appealing.
Either way, neither of the two services blew me away. Any guesses on which classifieds service MySpace will team up with? Or will they just come up with their own system? I’d say they’ll go for the latter. They like being independent.
Update: As it turns out, Facebook really is introducing their own classifieds service called Facebook Marketplace that has no affiliation with Oodle. As Patrick points out in the comments, “Odle made the unfortunate decision to purchase a Facebook group for integrating classifieds at just about the same time Facebook was planning to roll out their own.”
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Sep 20
Leica introduces M9 ‘Titanium,’ limited to just 500 lucious pieces
Posted in: camera, digicam, luxury, Today's Chili
Can’t afford anything that’s been introduced at Photokina so far? Unfortunately for you, there’s hardly a chance that Leica’s newest limited edition product will be the one that slips under the budget. At the outfit’s exclusive press preview this evening in Cologne, a gallery of executives from Leica and Volkswagen (who chipped in on the design) formally unveiled the M9 ‘Titanium.’ For all intents and purposes, this is just a souped-up M9, but there’s plenty to love for those who fancy high-fashion. You know, like a trim that uses leather “typically reserved for the interiors of Audi’s premium automobiles.”
According to Leica, “anything that looks like titanium, is titanium.” It’s also coated with a fingerprint-resistant overlay, and the bundle is slated to include the camera itself, a 35mm Summilux F/1.4 prime lens, lens hood, a new carrying concept (just a single hook for a carry strap), a newfangled electronic illumination system and a fanciful cardboard box made somewhere in the Black Forest. Just 500 of these kits are being produced and sold for an undisclosed amount starting in November, and chances are all but one or two have already been claimed. Good luck getting in line, and you might as well forget scoring the four millionth Leica camera to be produced since 1923 — a specially-stamped M9 ‘Titanium’ — as that one’s being given away to someone far more important than us tonight.
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Sep 20
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Sep 20
Intermec CS40 walks the work / play tightrope, WinMo 6.5 threatens to knock it off
Posted in: rugged, Today's Chili, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile6.5
Even phone holster users (don’t be shy, we love you) have every reason to shy away from using most of today’s ultra-rugged business handsets from manufacturers like Symbol once they clock out for the day — they’re just too beastly, and typically, they trade every last ounce of ergonomic credibility in an effort to be as bulletproof as possible. That’s a problem that Intermec is looking to tackle head-on with the new CS40, a phone that makes few reliability concessions while stepping down to a true smartphone form factor (and if you look closely, you can even see some hints of style in there). Just how rugged are we talking? Intermec says it’ll survive multiple drops onto concrete from four feet onto all four corners, will stand up to dust and splashed liquids, and still manages to include a 2D barcode scanner so that you can perform your weekly inventory with flair. It’ll be available in QWERTY and numeric keypad variants in the fourth quarter, but never mind the styling: can you carry Windows Mobile Handheld knowing full well all the cool kids will have Windows Phone 7 by then? Follow the break for Intermec’s full press release.
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Sep 20
Part of the problem with the steampunk aesthetic is that it’s a mish-mash of at least a half-dozen eras and styles, and as a result these pseudo-Victorian mods have little substance.
The real steam-engine Victorians were industrialists and colonialists. They were all about power. Gears, pulleys, and exposed wood-grain were all functional. These guys didn’t hide those things away behind a filagreed veneer because they liked the swagger. But most self-proclaimed steampunk designs are only swagger — and they’ve usually tacked on the filagree, too.
That’s why Keen Footwear’s Portland shoestore (called Keen Garage) is so refreshing. The retro-industrial look, which refits reclaimed materials, has a stylized look, but performs important functions as well. The annotated images below give you an overview of how their setup works:
Keen Garage, Counter/Overview.
Check out the bicycle-wheel stool in the lower-left corner.
(All photos courtesy Keen Footwear)
The entire shop is only 900 square feet.
If the futurists profiled by our Charlie Sorrel are right, and interior design will be a driven by the need to maximize the utility of increasingly dwindling space, we would do well to learn some lessons from the past. After the jump, check out some more historical space-maximizing design technology.
First, though, another dig at contemporary steampunk-as-style.
Kate Beaton writes and draws a comic-historical cartoon called “Hark! A Vagrant”. My favorite strip is probably “Brunel Is Tired of These Time Traveling Assholes.” In it, the legendary inventor meets a guy straight out of faux-Victorian sci-fi who’s proud of his gear:
Time-Traveller: “Isambard Kingdom Brunel! Wow! Check out my awesome steampunk goggles.”
Brunel (bored): “What do they do?”
Time-Traveller (proudly pointing at his head): “Check it. Gears.”
Brunel (fists clenched): “Tell me they do SOMEthing.”
Time-Traveller (proudly pointing at his feet): “I put a shitload of cogs and watches on my boot.”
Here are some space-saving desks that that builder of railways and steamships would be proud of.
Famous image of a bookwheel invented by Agostino Ramelli in the late 16th century. Ramelli’s bookwheel was not actually constructed, but influenced similar early modern desks designed to cycle through multiple books in a single sitting. Other wheel desks (including some made in China as early as the 7th century AD) used a similar design, but rotating horizontally rather than vertically. [Dead Media Archive]
Keen Garage: Upcycled design mixes steampunk and outdoor footwear for a new Portland concept shop [Cool Hunting]
See Also:
- Steampunk culture: an introduction for Guardian readers
- Steam-Driven Dreams: The Wondrously Whimsical World of Steampunk
- Victorian Mod Gives iMac a Woody Look
- Even More Brazilian Steampunk
- Steampunk Robots: Beautiful Toy Nightmares
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Sep 20
HP says webOS tablets to be ‘similar to the iPad’
Posted in: developer, hewlett-packard, HewlettPackard, HP, ipad, palm, tablet, Today's Chili, webos
HP’s been saying it’ll use webOS on a tablet since the first moment it bought Palm, but it looks like things are starting to pick up ahead of that “early 2011” due date — in an email to the Palm Developer Community, HP’s Peter Helm says webOS will be used on “tablet-style devices similar to the iPad.” Check it:
Now that we are officially part of HP, we are going full speed ahead with our applications initiative. Our proprietary operating system, webOS, is now the OS that will be used in HP’s mobile devices. This includes mobile handsets as well as tablet-style devices similar to the iPad. We will accordingly leverage Palm’s ability to innovate and the scale of HP’s vast install base and distribution network previously unavailable to us.
Yeah, that’s pretty much the Rorschach test of seemingly-innocuous quotes; you can read it as anything from a meaningless passing reference to the market leader to an overt hint that we’ll be looking at an ARM-based device with a 9-inch display and a lengthy battery life. The possibilities are endless — let’s just hope whatever Palm and HP are actually working on delivers on the enormous promise of the platform.
[Thanks, Pierre-Marc]
HP says webOS tablets to be ‘similar to the iPad’ originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sep 20
One-man indie game Minecraft offers an engrossing, surprisingly tense sandbox world to play around in.
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