Hasta La Gadget!

Just when MMT’s 15.4-inch Monitor2Go was getting excited about its big USB display on campus title, Greenhouse Japan has strutted in and ruined the party with its 15.6-inch GH-USD16K USB secondary monitor. True, a resolution of 1366 x 768 won’t give the screen bragging rights over Apple’s 27-inch Cinema Display, but it should suffice for those on the move in desperate need of some quick dual-screen action. Especially since the accessory weighs less than 3 pounds, produces 18bit color depth and has a brightness of 220 nits while sipping just 5 watts of Serial Bus power. Speaking of dual-action, the monitor can also be set to clone or extend the connected computer’s screen depending on user preference. Look for it to start shipping early next month to Japan for an estimated price of $214, glancing over its shoulder until an inevitable 15.8-inch newbie lopes onto the block.

Green House reveals its first 15.6-inch USB monitor, lives large on small charge originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 07:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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

Tutorial Thursday

GMail does an exceptional job of blocking spam in my opinion. Hardly ever do they let one slip through the cracks and make it to my Inbox but it does occasionally happen. I have one non-GMail address that forwards all of the mail straight to my GMail account but Google does not scan those for spam, or at least it doesn’t seem like it. The messages typically come from the same few people but I don’t want to have an obsessively long filter list because I like to keep things tidy.

After doing a little research on GMail filter operators I found out how I could combine multiple filters into one “junk” filter. If you are already familiar with GMail filters then the following image should be enough for you otherwise just walk through the steps below:

1. Select the Create A Filter option located near the search box at the top of the screen.
2. In the From: text box enter in the email addresses that you want to block. They have to be in this format:
   (email1@gmail.com OR email2@gmail.com OR email3@gmail.com)
   You can add as many email addresses that you want to the list but you have to make sure that all of the emails are contained in parenthesis and are separated by OR.
3. Press the Next Step button.
4. Select what you want to do with these emails. I send them directly to the trash by using the “Delete It” option.
5. Before you continue onto the next step you may want to decide whether to apply this to all of the existing email that you already have. This can be done by selecting the option that says “Also apply filter to XX conversations below.”
6. Press the Create Filter button.

You have now created your filter to block multiple email addresses. It is a piece of cake to go and add more to the list as you come across them which makes this solution so great. Let us know if there are any filters that you use so that other people can benefit from them.

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Skunk Juice. It’s a name that makes me nauseous just to write, and embarrassed to say out loud. But the earbuds that the company makes are actually pretty neat.

They work a lot like the mag-safe connector on a MacBook, only with two sections. Plug the jack into an MP3 player or computer, and plug the earbuds into your ears. The two sections snap together with magnets, letting them break apart when the cord gets tugged. As someone who has killed more than one pair of headphones by snagging them on a passing piece of street-furniture, I can dig this feature.

There’s another side-effect of this magnetic coupling. The termination of the ‘bud section is double-sided, so you can stick and stack more headphones on top. Thus you can snap your headphones onto your buddy’s headphones and share (up to four people can hook up together).

The idea is a good one, but the Skunk Juice earbuds look cheap, and come in at $36 a pair (extra connector sections are $13 apiece). It’s a better solution for sharing than those two-into-one adapters, though.

Skunk Juice product page [Skunk Juice via Macworld]

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Do you feel constrained by the drabness of silver and black cameras? Well its time to let your fashionable freak flag fly, because Sony has announced that it’ll now offer its NEX-5 camera in gold. The camera remains otherwise unchanged since its debut this past summer, and unfortunately the company hasn’t released the other colors seen at Photokina, but hey, a little bling is better than none.

Sony’s NEX-5, now available in gold! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 06:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dust off the baking soda and bust out the vinegar, because Google’s throwing a science fair. That’s right, the internet giant is taking the time-honored tradition of hastily constructed teenage science experiments online. Entrants must be between 13 and 18 years old and submit their projects (in English) via Google Sites by April 4th. Once the projects are in, a panel of real-life teachers will select 60 semi-finalists. From there, the pool will be narrowed down to a group of 15, who will attend an in-the-flesh fair at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA, this July. The big event’s judges include CERN‘s Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Google’s Vint Cerf, and Nobel Laureate Kary Mullis. Grand prize winners in three age groups will receive a $50,000 scholarship, a trip to the Galapagos islands, and some stuff from LEGO and Scientific American. On second thought, maybe the baking soda volcano isn’t such a great idea. (Rube Goldberg-inspired promo video after the jump.)

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Google Science Fair 2011 boasts big names, big prizes (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Jan 2011 04:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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