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Oliver Stone was unsurprisingly the most opinionated, however, and lamented the fact that Blu-ray will be “last hardware” in the face of digital distribution. He even suggested that people should “be different, go against the grain” and collect Blu-rays, which he says will be very valuable by 2050 or so in much the way comics and baseball cards are today. On a more general note, Stone also said that watching kids try to watch a movie on a computer screen and multitask so much these days is “very depressing to me” and that, in a way, “we are the last of the Mohicans.”
Richard Lawler contributed to this report.
Update: Now with video! Check it out after the break to hear their words directly.
Oliver Stone, Michael Mann and Baz Luhrmann extoll the virtues of Blu-ray, Stone suggests stocking up (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Well, lookie here: we just came across an extraordinarily trapezoidal device that we’re told is the new Slingbox to be offered by Verizon on a monthly subscription basis to LTE customers. Not much to see, really, but they’ve definitely dialed down the industrial design here in favor of a tiny, matte black shell that’s got some creative angling to it. It’s standard definition only, as far as we can tell — the only connections on back are for composite video. If you’ve already got something like a Solo or a Pro-HD, we’re not sure there’s any compelling reason at all to consider it — but it might be a good way for Sling newbies to get into the game. Check out more shots below.
Exclusive: Verizon Slingbox in the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We just got a chance to meet iRobot’s AVA and talk to iRobot’s CEO Colin Angle about his plans for this intriguing new bot. What we’re looking at right now is basically a developer platform, or a “concept car” as Colin put it, showing off ideas for a consumer-facing bot with a lot more smarts than a Roomba, with hopes to attract developers who can extend its functionality. What wasn’t clear to us before is that the tablet perched atop the bot can be any iPad or Android tablet — not some first-party model by iRobot — and the point of that is to let existing iPad and Android devs to develop apps using their regular tools that can control the bot through an API iRobot will give them access to. That means, unlike some robotic SDKs out there, developers won’t have to learn the ins and outs of robots before they build an app for the AVA, they just have to pass simple instructions to the bot which can be interpreted by iRobot’s already impressive software. For instance, the robot can already drive itself around a building and map it entirely, so then a software dev would just have to pick a point on a map and send AVA on its way — no complicated navigation work on the app dev’s part. iRobot also sees potential for game devs, which is particularly interesting because they could combine two of the “hot” areas of current game development: Kinect-style motion controls and touch controls. It’s all very exciting, we assure you, so we suggest you follow after the break and watch this video — before we sic AVA on your ass.
Gallery: iRobot AVA chills with us at CES
iRobot AVA chills with us at CES, will turn Android and iPad app developers into roboticists (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Acer unveils a second Android smartphone at CES for keyboard-loving fans.
Originally posted at CES 2011
Korean company LG was the first manufacturer in the world to announce a smartphone equipped with a dual-core Tegra 2 processor (aka a “superphone”). However, LG has yet to find a carrier in the United States to sell the beefy handset; so far it’s only officially available in Korea and a few European countries.
Hopefully LG finds a carrier in the states soon, because from my hands-on testing of the Optimus 2X, it’s a fast, solid Android phone. Plus, it has a cool feature to hook it up to an external display.
Photos by Jon Snyder/Wired.com
There’s only one way to stop the Engadget Podcast Show, and it’s cutting the electricity to our doublewide. Oh, wait, even that didn’t stop the Engadget Podcast Show. Watch, listen, and learn what survivalism means in 2011.
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02:30 – iRobot debuts AVA telepresence robot with tablet controls
12:00 – Mac App Store hands-on
19:00 – Apple’s Mac App Store goes live
23:00 – Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb for tablets: a guided tour of the UI (video)
24:23 – Live from Dell’s CES 2011 press event
26:53 – Dell Streak 7 first hands-on! (update: more video)
30:12 – Dell teases Streak 10 for literally five seconds, says we’ll see it next year (update)
34:48 – iPad 2 mockup teases 128GB storage, exhibits speaker grille we’ve seen before
36:55 – Live from Verizon’s CES 2011 4G LTE press conference
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We’re seeing a few companies mixing a little Android on the dashboard, most notably Parrot, and while we think the little green guy certainly has a future in next-gen infotainment systems, we’re not quite sure this is it. It’s a prototype display, running on Tegra power and developed in conjunction with Fujitsu Ten. Right now it’s offering little more functionality than a raw Android tablet, made more car-friendly only by the addition of big home, back, and menu buttons. The UI is showing only a simple maps app, centered in Tokyo, and overall things look… early. But, we’re certainly eager to see what the companies can do with Android on the dash — down the road a little.
Continue reading NVIDIA and Fujitsu Ten’s Android Car Nav hands-on (video)
NVIDIA and Fujitsu Ten’s Android Car Nav hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Jan 2011 16:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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