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We’re sure if you asked Powercast nicely it’d tell you a whale of a tale, about how the “more than 100 companies” who allegedly signed up to develop products that seemingly pull energy from the ether materialized into this light-up Christmas tree. Still, we’d be happy to forgive and forget if meaningful products emerged instead, and that’s why we’re moderately happy the company’s announced a nice big development kit. $1,250 buys your firm or deep-pocketed hobbyist the spread pictured above, with a wireless transmitter to throw three watts and a pair of receiver boards to catch them from over 40 feet away, plus a low-power development board from Microchip equipped with that company’s proprietary short-range wireless protocols and ZigBee functionality. We can’t wait to see what people build, but we won’t be snapping one up ourselves — we’re still holding out for the firm to go open-source and build an Arduino version. PR after the break.

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Powercast and Microchip fire up interest at a distance with wireless power development kit originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Can’t imagine this one’s left your collective conscience, but just in case: back in August, Shenzen Huashi Future Car-Parking Equipment unveiled its design for a commuter monorail that used the space between traffic and bridges. In a sense, the bus would straddle over its four-wheeled brethren at a rate of 25 to 50mph. Construction reportedly starts in Beijing’s Mentougou district by year’s end, but what of the rest of the world? Designer Song Youzhou has founded US Elevated High-Speed Bus (Group) Inc which, as the name would suggest, is on the look-out for manufacturers to build (and outlets to sell) the so-called straddling bus to the proper American locales. Sure, we’re the Land of the Free and Home of the Extra-Tall Trucks (and Low Overhead Bridges), but don’t let that get you discouraged.

Bus that travels over traffic longs for US embrace, designer seeks stateside collaborators originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 09:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Huawei‘s Ideos S7. We loved it in June (resistive touchscreen notwithstanding), Expansys picked it up a few weeks later, and now Best Buy is also joining in on the phone. The 7-inch Android tablet — with kickstand — is now but a listing on the US retailer’s website, “coming soon” for $299.99. Store pickup is coming soon, but shipping availability is November 7th… no matter how expedited you make the order. If it’s any consolation, that’s still before the Galaxy Tab.

Huawei S7 gets Best Buy listing for $299.99, not shipping until November 7th originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not much more to tell you that you didn’t already pick up from the headline. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci told Dow Jones Newswire that it will be launching its first line of tablet PCs in New York City on November 23rd, priced from $299 to $699 each. That’s all the man said, leaving us to speculate on the OS (though Android’s been heavily rumored) and whether we’re looking at the launch of an Acer 5-, 7-, or 10-inch tablet (or all of the above) priced with or without carrier subsidies. Still, with Android Gingerbread already on the lawn of the house that Google built we can expect to see a whole slew of Google sanctioned tablets launch before CES 2011 gets underway in January.

Acer tablet PC line launching on November 23rd, priced from $299 to $699 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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More from DigiTimes this morning and its chatty sources within NVIDIA and Taiwanese supply chains. First up is talk that ASUS’ 10-inch Eee Pad — presumably, the Android loving EP101TC said to cost less than $399 — will launch in March of 2011 with NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 taking care of the processing duties. DigiTimes‘ sources also remind us that Tegra 2 tablets are on the way from Dell, Samsung, MSI, and Toshiba in addition to smartphones from ASUS, Motorola, and LG. Good to know, but for as long as Tegra 2 has been discussed, we’ve yet to see the SoC ship inside anything worth getting too excited over. And don’t even mention the Boxee Box, they switched to Intel at the last minute, remember? Maybe Dell’s Looking Glass tablet will change all that when it launches any day now.

ASUS Eee Pad EP101TC getting Tegra 2 treatment ahead of March launch? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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