Hasta La Gadget!

Turns out Andy Rubin might not be the only fella who’s been showing off the elusive Motorola Android tablet. Earlier this week, some lucky guy from Taiwan claims to have stumbled upon the same Honeycomb device, and was kind enough to share the above homescreen spy shot as well as some thoughts on his one-hour hands-on. We’re told that there’ll be a 7-inch version as well as a 10-inch version (the latter appears to be what Rubin had), and the one we’re looking at here has a 1280 x 800 display of unknown size, NVIDIA Tegra 2 T20 dual-core chip, gyroscope, a 5 megapixel main camera, and a 2 megapixel front camera. Memory-wise it has a 32GB embedded MMC and a microSD slot.

The poster reckons the hardware — which is “pretty light” — is all ready for launch, but Honeycomb still needs some final fine-tuning. Sadly, he hasn’t got a date, but said device will apparently be priced like the current Motorola high-end phones, and will be available in three flavors: UMTS, CDMA, and LTE (which we heard about a little while back). Well, only time will tell whether this guy really does have a good friend at Motorola, or that he’s been talking to some unicorns.

[Thanks, Samson]

Update: And just like that, the poster’s removed the offending screenshot and trimmed down his first post.

Motorola Android tablet specs and Honeycomb home screen leaked in Taiwan? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There devices that can gather up solar energy, and even ones that can harvest heat and turn it into energy. And now Fujitsu has developed a device that can do both. At the same time.

The company has developed what it describes as a “hybrid energy harvesting device” that gets power from both heat and light. So if you were to wear it on your wrist, for example, the device could gather energy both from your body heat and the sun. Fujitsu says the device could be used as a battery in many instances, and is looking at utilizing the technology to power sensors and medical tech.

But while we know how it works, details are still slim so we don’t really know how well it works. Still, it’s a great idea and one that could be used for a wide range of applications. Maybe one day you’ll be able to charge our phones through the battery attached to your arm.

Via Engadget

There are plenty of companies testing out new ways of reusing and recycling packaging as a way to reduce waste. We’ve seen the reusable Replenish household cleaner, and now New Soap, Old Bottle: a company that sells soap and cleaners in recycled soda and beer bottles.

The company takes old glass and plastic bottles, cleans and sanitizes them, and then resells the bottles. Only this time they’re filled with something new. So you can buy an old Coke bottle full of glass cleaner or a Heineken bottle filled with antibacterial hand soap. The prices are quite reasonable, with most products clocking in at under five dollars, and you can even buy extra spray tops or soap pumps.

New Soap, Old Bottle doesn’t actually make its own product. Instead, it purchases brand name soap and cleaners by the barrel, repackages it in recycled bottles, and then sells it. You can check out the products on offer here.

Via Treehugger

Your average SSD fits in a laptop friendly 2.5-inch slot and does so meekly, not calling too much attention to itself. RunCore‘s next SSD powerhouse, however, is a little more bodacious. It takes up a desktop standard 3.5-inch slot and is said to rely on “substantial” sized PCBs on both sides of its cool, cerulean silicon. It’s an SATA III drive offering a similarly substantial 1TB of storage, even fronting dual SandForce SF-1222 controllers for integrated RAID 0 performance. The result? 500MB/s speed, meaning this hippo does that tutu right. No pricing has been announced yet, but expect an appropriately large MSRP when it is fully announced at CeBIT in March.

RunCore’s 1TB SATA III SSD is 3.5-inches and 1TB big, 500MB/s fast originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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How do you know you’ve made it as an electronic band? I’d say the moment that Monster Cable releases a pair of headphones based on your group as a tie-in for an upcoming Disney blockbuster, you’ve got pretty good bragging rights at your next high school reunion.

Monster this week announced the release of its Daft Punk Edition TRON headphones, due out ahead of the December 17th release of Disney’s Tron: Legacy. The over-ear headphones are inspired by the group’s robot costumes. They feature animated LED lighting, noise isolation, a removable boom mic for gaming, and extra-large drivers for deep bass.

The Daft Punk Edition TRON headphones are available now for $349.95.