Oct 31

Verizon nabs Samsung Continuum, Zeal and Motorola Citrus on November 11th, according to gushing leak?

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Someone’s found their way into an internal database and pulled out details on three Verizon phones — the Samsung Continuum, Samsung Zeal and Motorola Citrus, all of which will reportedly drop on the 11th of next month. We don’t have any reason to doubt that, as all three showed up on a recent rebate, but there’s more to these leaked screens than a release date. For instance, the Continuum will apparently sport a Swype virtual keyboard on top of a 3.4-inch Super AMOLED screen, to say nothing of that secondary display, and the Motorola Citrus explicitly doesn’t support tethering. The Samsung Zeal, meanwhile, isn’t a modern smartphone at all, but rather a dual-hinge device with “magic” e-ink keys that change from a standard dialer to a four-row QWERTY layout. Isn’t it nice to have all that sorted out?

[Thanks, Gavin]

Verizon nabs Samsung Continuum, Zeal and Motorola Citrus on November 11th, according to gushing leak? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 01 Nov 2010 00:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

Flickrvision: Flickr Meets Google Maps

Posted in: Photos, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on May 15, 2007 by CyberNet.

When Flickr meets Google maps, what do you get? A really cool mashup that shows you in real-time, geo-located Flickr photos. Flickrvision was just released yesterday and it’s created by the same person who made Twittervision, if you’re familiar with that.

When you go to Flickrvision, you’ll see a big map of the World.  Flickrvision moves all around the map to show you where the most recent geo-tagged photo came from on Flickr, and displays the photo.

Flickrvision

This is a cool way to get a random sampling of photos from around the World, but unfortunately, it’ll be yet another time waster (in a good way) that’ll keep you distracted from things you should be doing.

I spent a few minutes watching it and I saw lots of different things like flowers, someone opening a gift, a park in the UK, a handful of nature scenes, someone changing a flat tire, and the view of the earth from a plane. If you mouse over the images, they’ll enlarge.

I’m sure the owners of the photos aren’t expecting that a bunch of strangers are viewing their pictures, but that’s what happens when you don’t set your photos to private.

Check it out, I think you’ll enjoy seeing photos from around the world. Some of them are great and really give you a feel for what’s going on outside of where you live.

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Oct 31

Logitech unveils wireless solar keyboard K750, does away with batteries for good

Posted in: hands-on, keyboard, logitech, solar, solar power, SolarPower, Today's Chili, Wireless

When Logitech first introduced wireless peripherals, we’d be lucky if our alkaline cells lasted a week, but these days the firm’s low-power mice can go months on a charge. Now, the company’s taken the next logical step, and made a solar keyboard. With an ultra-slim 1/3-inch profile and a full slate of laptop-style chiclet keys, the Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 isn’t your average rack of buttons to begin with, but the ambient light solar panels installed on the top of either side should mean you’ll never need to plug it in to recharge. That’s not a claim we’ll be able to test easily, of course, as the company tells us its low-power integrated circuits can theoretically run for three months even if you leave it in a dark desk drawer. It uses the same 2.4GHz Nano Unifying receiver as several other Logitech wireless products, too, meaning you’ll only need a single one of your netbook or set-top-boxes’ precious USB ports. That’s often a concern on MacBooks as well, though you can see from the prominent Windows key this particular product doesn’t quite have a Mac-friendly setup.

Though we’re obviously far away from being able to tell you how the solar panels fare in normal use, we’re typing up this article on one of the boards right now. So far, we’re loving the flat, firm feel of the slab and rounded finger-friendly indents on each key, though the QWERTY layout’s actually a little cramped for our tastes. We’ll let you know how it holds up over the long haul. Find it next month for $80, though, if you’re already sold.

Gallery: Logitech Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 unboxing and hands-on

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Oct 31

Microsoft Experiments with New Live Search Homepage

Posted in: Microsoft, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on July 31, 2008 by CyberNet.

There are a variety of tactics that search engines can use to draw people in, and it looks as though Microsoft’s tactic with Live Search is to throw up a nature scene of someone in a canoe, add some hotspots, and then hope people are intrigued enough to stay for a while. Below is a screenshot of what the Live Search homepage looks like while hovering over one of the “hotspots”:

Live Search example.png

The hotspot we hovered over in the image above says, “Is that a lily pad or a crocodile” and then clicking on it takes you to an image search for African Crocodiles. They are trying to show off some of their features in a unique way which makes the Live Search homepage a place of discovery. It’s something different, that’s for sure. We haven’t seen any other search engine take an approach like this which could draw in some users.

Now that Microsoft may draw some new users in, they just have to make sure that they provide great results. We’ve already talked a little bit this week about the importance of search engines providing quality search results. This came up with that whole Cuil situation because while the site may look nice and they’ve been able to talk it up quite a bit, the results are terrible. We wouldn’t say Microsoft’s Live Search results are terrible like Cuil’s, but they do still have some work ahead of them.

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Oct 31

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: reach for the stars, safer kids and sexier cars

Posted in: ev, Today's Chili

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green.

This week Inhabitat saw several incredible feats of green architecture reach for the stars as Richard Branson unveiled the world’s first commercial spaceport and a lunar solar power tower won the Moon Capital International Design Challenge. We were also impressed by Snøhetta’s design for a massive möbius strip-shaped particle accelerator and we caught the groundbreaking of what will be one of the world’s most efficient solar skyscrapers in Korea.

Ultra-efficient autos blazed a trail this week as an electric audi shattered a world EV distance record by traveling 372 miles on a single charge. We also caught a glimpse of the future of green transportation as major auto manufacturers unveiled a set of incredible eco concept cars, and we caught wind of a plan to bring these insane traffic-straddling buses to the United States.

In other news, we learned that iPhones and other communication devices may have potentially deadly side effects for kids, and we showcased several innovative designs for safer cycling – an inflatable airbag collar that automatically pops up to prevent injuries and a crash helmet that makes a stink when it cracks.

Finally, to celebrate Halloween we rounded up a ghastly array of ghoulish green designs – from a skeletal x-ray lamp to a skin-crawling camera made from a human skull to a company that will press your mortal remains into a vinyl record. Happy Halloween!

Inhabitat’s Week in Green: reach for the stars, safer kids and sexier cars originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

ViewSonic G-Tablet pops up in Sears weekly ad, mistakenly claims to be the ViewPad 10 at Sears’ website

Posted in: android tablet, AndroidTablet, slate, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili, viewsonic

Did ViewSonic’s 10-inch tablets catch your eye? We’ve got good and bad news. The good news is that the G-Tablet (with a 1GHz processor and Android 2.2) is now on sale at Sears for $379.99 — even less than we were told. The bad news is that the Intel Atom N455-powered ViewPad 10 apparently is, too. We say apparently because Sears seems to have crossed some wires when putting the latter slate up on its site, most egregiously stating that that dual-booting device does both Windows 7 and Android 2.2 for the exact same $379.99. Last we heard, the ViewPad 10 — like the eerily similar Tega v2 — could only do Android 1.6 alongside Microsoft’s OS and would cost quite a bit more. Don’t rely on Sears to cut you a deal, folks.

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Oct 31

Deltenna’s WiBE rural broadband device: swans and geese now free to browse

Posted in: mobile internet, MobileInternet, Today's Chili, uk, VoIP

At last, progress. We’ve heard whispers of “rural broadband expansion” thrown from halls of politicians for months on end, but it looks like a small company across the pond is cutting through the red tape and getting down to business. Deltenna’s WiBE — described as a device to deliver fast broadband to rural areas that are far from the phone exchange — is available starting today in the UK and Ireland. It’s purpose? It connects to nearby 3G networks and creates a mobile hotspot, not unlike a MiFi. The difference is that it delivers a data throughput around 30 times greater than a 3G USB modem, and the connection range is “typically between three and five-times that of the 3G dongle.” The theoretical maximum is 7.2Mbps, with extensive testing demonstrating a typical download rate of 2.8Mbps in rural regions. Cetag Systems in Ireland and Buzz Networks in the UK will be first to offer it, with pricing set at £425 (less with bundles) in England and €299 through Cetag. Wildfowl sold separately, though.

Gallery: WiBE rural broadband device, quite literally in the wild

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Oct 31

Interactive fiction meets interactive typewriter, pilfers the kingdoms of Zork (video)

Posted in: arduino, diy, hack, Hacks, mod, mods, Today's Chili, video

You are standing in an open field as usual, or perhaps you’re in the darkness, likely to be eaten by a grue, but the words aren’t etching their way into your soul from the familiar computer terminal — they’re on freshly printed paper. Like a player piano, the Automatypewriter lets you play games like Zork by automatically keying in letters via a series of solenoids and fishing line to tell you where you are, and it records your input, too; every time you type “XYZZY” in vain, it’s an Arduino board that sends signals to the text parser, which directs a hollow voice to pity your foolish word. Forget the iPad typewriter — this is old-school. See it in action after the break, or hit the source link for the schematics to build one yourself. Just be sure to install Planetfall, too.

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Oct 31

The terrifying Chevrolet Corvette Z06

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CNET Car Tech reviews the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06.

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Oct 31

REAL Google Calendar CL2 Screenshots Leaked

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili

This article was written on March 08, 2006 by CyberNet.

REAL Google Calendar CL2 Screenshots Leaked

Michael Arrington from TechCrunch was able to get his hands on some screenshots of the Google Calendar project that is named CL2. This is definitely a lot more exciting than the previous leaked fake screenshots. They have many features implemented that will allow the calendar to act very similar to Outlook’s calendar in my opinion.

All you have to do to create an event is click on the date or time that you want the event and then you type the name of the event in the popup box. Also, you have the ability to create multiple calendars and you will be able to share the calendar with other people. You can add a new user yourself simply by going to the settings. It is nice to see Google putting their ‘extravagant simplicity’ in this calendar.

The screenshot above is the main page that you see immediately after the login. I can’t wait for the release of CL2 and hopefully it is sooner rather than later because this would help to simplify my life.

View All Of The Screenshots From TechCrunch

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