Jan 19

Starbucks Adds Mobile Payments From iPhones, BlackBerrys

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Is there anything more troubling in this modern world than having to use a credit card to pay for overpriced coffee? Thankfully, Starbucks is making life easier for iPhone, iPod touch, and BlackBerry users, releasing an app for those platforms that will let customers pay for their caramel macchiatos with their mobile devices at 6,800 standalone locations and 1,000 Target-based locations.

The Starbucks Card Mobile App is currently available as a free download from the Apple and RIM app stores. Beyond the aforementioned payment functionality, the app also lets users check the balance and add more money to the card (via credit card or Paypal), locate a nearby store, and check up on their Reward status.

Users pay by opening the app and waving the on-screen barcode across the store’s countertop scanner. According to Starbucks, more than one-third of the coffee giant’s customers own a smartphone, a number that, at least anecdotally, seems a bit low.

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Jan 19

Nintendo 3DS gets new friend code system, finds beauty in unification

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Ever try to do multiplayer on a DS game? We’re really sorry to hear that. It’s a mess of lengthy friend codes that does more to discourage online play than enable it. That’s going away with the 3DS. At Nintendo’s 3DS press event in New York the company announced a new system where there’s only a single code, assigned per-console and registered only once. You’ll have a single group of friends and, when they pop online in a new game, you’ll see them there. No need for multiple lists and, we hope, less of a need for Tylenol.

Nintendo 3DS gets new friend code system, finds beauty in unification originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 19

HP/Palm Sticks it To Engadget Over Tablet Leak

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A day after those leaked photos said to be the upcoming Palm/HP “Topaz” webOS tablet hit the blogosphere courtesy of Engadget, the computing giant sent out the above invite for its already-announced February event. You’ve got to hand it to the company, this move is infinitely more classy than the kerfuffle that ensued between Apple and Gizmodo, post-iPhone 4 leak.
HP, of course, is expected to announce a number of pieces of hardware utilizing Palm’s beautiful, but underused webOS platform. Engadget yesterday boasted at having gotten its hands on images of perhaps the most eagerly-awaited device–the company’s inevitable entry into the iPad-led consumer tablet wars.
Well played, HP.

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Jan 19

Canadian firm plans 78-satellite Net service

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MSCI is taking a different approach to try to relieve the congestion that’s sullying the smartphone experience.

Originally posted at Deep Tech

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Jan 19

Nintendo 3DS announcement (live blog)

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Nintendo finally confirmed the price, availability, and launch titles for its hotly anticipated 3DS gaming console at a Manhattan press event.

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Jan 19

3D Printing, Now in Titanium

Posted in: R&D and Inventions, Today's Chili

3D printing used to mean intricately-shaped chunks of plastic or resin, but the range of materials available to churn out one-off designs has grown, through glass and stainless steel to – now – titanium.

The service only comes from I.Materialize right now and is done using a process called Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). The machine lays down a layer of titanium powder and a high-powered laser sinters it into a solid later. Sintering is the process of turning powder into solid using heat, but without liquefaction.

This is repeated layer after layer until the object is ready, just like the 2 x 2-cm ball you see above, looking like something between a golfball and a microphone you might see in front of a blues singer.

Pricing depends on size, and the volume of titanium used. A 2 x 2 x 4-cm part, using one cubic centimeter of titanium, would cost you €93, or $125. Make something the same size, but with four cubic centimeters of titanium and the price goes up to just €144, or $194.

This is pretty cool, and I’m saving up to build my first titanium terminator (my previous prototype was fashioned from human bones and old printer-motors, which draws uncomfortable questions when I test it outside). You, mortal, can peruse the I.Materialize blog, where you can find pictures of what everybody else will be making: sentimental trinkets.

i.materialise launches DMLS: You can now 3d print in Titanium [I.Materialize. Thanks, Joris!]

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Jan 19

Live from Nintendo’s 3DS preview with Reggie Fils-Aime

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We’re here live in NYC at Nintendo’s 3DS press preview event, where Reggie Fils-Aime is scheduled to give a short presentation to kick things off. We’re hoping to learn some pricing and availability details — and possibly hear a word or two about 3D and the eyesight of younger gamers. After that, it’s time to party, right? We’ll find out.

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Live from Nintendo’s 3DS preview with Reggie Fils-Aime originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 19

Google Video Gets Some New Features

Posted in: Google, Today's Chili

This article was written on June 10, 2006 by CyberNet.

Google Video Gets Some New Features

Google has added some new features to Google Videos that are definitely nice to have: Movers and Shakers, recently uploaded videos, search history, and the homepage got a little refresh.

The Movers and Shakers is probably the best feature that they added. It reminds me of Alexa’s Movers and Shakers list except Google did it with videos and Alexa did it with Web Sites. This will definitely make it easy to find those videos that are about to become popular.

The recently uploaded section will show you videos that have been added recently. This doesn’t show you the most recently added, instead it randomly shows you videos that were added over the last week or so.

Lastly, Google Video is now incorporated into your Search History. The search history keeps track of searches you have done on Google, Google Images, etc… and now also Google Video. I have used this feature on Google countless times because Google saves your searches and remembers what videos/Web Sites you click on when you perform the search. This makes it a ton easier when you are trying to find something that you had searched for last week.

It looks like YouTube might need to put on some sunglasses before they get Googly eyes from seeing all of these new features!

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Jan 19

Fisker Karma now set for production in March, deliveries this spring — maybe

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Fisker Karma now set for production in March, deliveries this spring -- maybe

Still hanging on to your Fisker Karma pre-order slip despite the decidedly sizeable boost in MSRP, up to $95,900? Well, we now have an idea of when you might actually have a chance of getting a car. The most recent estimates we heard indicated deliveries starting in late 2010, but that obviously didn’t happen. Now Fisker is indicating that full production is set to begin in March, about two months from now, with people getting their rides “soon after.” Initial examples of the car are to be produced in Europe, Finland to be exact, and they’ll need the services of a fairly substantial boat to get across the Atlantic before they become available here. But, still, a potential release date just a few months away is a reasonably encouraging thing — and you can’t deny the car is still quite a looker.

Fisker Karma now set for production in March, deliveries this spring — maybe originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 19

DIY 3D volumetric display / Kinect hack spices up the Fortress of Solitude’s kitchenette

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Here’s another one for the “things we wish we had in our kitchen” file. Taha Bintahir has put together a homebrew 3D volumetric display that can — you guessed it — display 3D rendered images in all their free-floating glory. And if that wasn’t enough, our man added gesture controls via the Kinect so he doesn’t have to circle the object to view the whole thing. According to Hack A Day, Bintahir designed and built the prism itself, rendered the object he wanted to display (in this case the Superman logo) from four different camera angles, and projected the images on the four walls of the prism to create the 3D object in the center. Oh, and he distorted each of the images to match the angle of the prism’s walls. Pretty insane, right? Hit the source link for more detail on the project — but not before you see it in action after the break.

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DIY 3D volumetric display / Kinect hack spices up the Fortress of Solitude’s kitchenette originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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