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Jan 06

Video Streaming Service Coming From Amazon

Posted in: amazon, itunes, Movies, Today's Chili, Web Sites

This article was written on May 28, 2008 by CyberNet.

amazon streaming movies.png The Al l Things D conference is going on right now and one of the most interesting things to come from it was when Walt Mossburg was interviewing Jeff Bezos, founder, president, and chief executive offer of Amazon.com. Bezos announced that within the next couple of weeks, Amazon will be launching a streaming movie service that users will pay for. Bezos was quoted as saying, “We are working on a new version of video on demand, a for-pay streaming service we will release in the next couple of weeks. The streaming service will start instantly and it’s a la carte, for pay.” To clarify, this new streaming movie service would be separate from Amazon Unbox (a download service).

Amazon sure likes competing, don’t they? It is nice for us consumers that there are multiple sites out there to choose from. Bezos says he’s serious about music and video downloads. Now we’re left with a few questions like how much will movies cost to stream and how many titles will they have available in their library? Oh, and we can’t forget how recent the titles were either. Hopefully they’ll have more recently released movies available as well as some of the older ones. These are all things that could make em’ or break em’!

Source: Gizmodo

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Jan 06

Beamz laser instrument gets upgraded to please hardcore laser rockers and gamers alike

Posted in: audio, hands-on, laser, Music, sound, Today's Chili

The demonstration of four-player Rock Band Mobile at Samsung’s CES 2011 press conference was pretty slick, but to the folks at Beamz, that kind of music gaming is still so amateur compared to its laser switch-activated jam sessions. That’s because they’ve redesigned their original product to be more living room-friendly thanks to a black paint job and a slimmer profile. They’ve also tried to appeal more to the gaming set by expanding the Beamz song library beyond the original 80 developed by independent artists to include “top hit jams” – aka cover versions of top 40 tracks — and 35 licensed “video songs” from Disney and EMI. So if you’d like to laser thump the bass to Blondie’s Heart of Glass music video, you can. Additionally, the Beamz software has been upgraded to support up to three laser instruments on the same track and recording for a real band experience — though it still only runs on PCs. For $200, we don’t expect these to fly off shelves, but for those who’ve mastered the whammy bar, it’s at least another way to get your faux music-making fix.

Gallery: Beamz music player

Beamz laser instrument gets upgraded to please hardcore laser rockers and gamers alike originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:24:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Reycom Windows Media Center coming for $499

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We love us some Windows 7 Media Center, but we recognize that using a HTPC for a DVR isn’t for everyone. For some there is no replacement for a dedicated set-top box, which is why we were so excited to hear that Windows Media Center was coming to embedded devices. The problem of course is that is-coming and is-here, are completely different. A little known European company (state side anyways) hopes to change that by brining one to the US in the first quarter of this year for about $499. The bad news is that there’s no CableCARD support like the Gateway one we saw earlier. There are plans to follow it up with dedicated versions for cable and telecom operators later this year, but for some reason we don’t feel like they’ll be too interested in it.

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Reycom Windows Media Center coming for $499 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Huawei IDEOS X5 hands-on (video)

Posted in: Android, froyo, Google, hands-on, Today's Chili, video

Huawei was right on cue here at CES today, announcing the US version of its IDEOS X5 mid-range Android smartphone. This device uses the same formula as the original IDEOS (also known as the Comet for T-Mobile) and aims to provide a decent product at a competitive price. Although we already knew the specs, this was our chance to play with the IDEOS X5 and gather more information. The phone looks elegant and feels solidly built, with a 3.8-inch WVGA capacitive display behind glass in front and 1500mAh battery behind soft-touch plastics in back, all wrapped in an 11.4mm-thin body. Take a look at the gallery below, and hit the break for additional details and our hands-on video.

Gallery: Huawei IDEOS X5 hands-on

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Huawei IDEOS X5 hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Dell Venue announced for the US, will be sold unlocked

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We knew the Dell Venue was coming stateside, but now we know it. Dell has announced the phone for our fine country at its CES 2011 press conference, although it failed to mention a price, a release date, or anything else very helpful. Right now Dell doesn’t have a carrier partner, so they’re planning on selling the handset unlocked from Dell.com. Apparently they’re flirting with the idea of a T-Mobile version, but the unlocked model won’t have the T-Mobile 3G bands — basically, it’s an unlocked AT&T phone that AT&T hasn’t blessed. Oh, and just in case you forgot the specs: WVGA 4.1-inch AMOLED screen, 8 megapixel camera, Android 2.2, and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 8250 processor. Got it? Good, now we wait.

Dell Venue announced for the US, will be sold unlocked originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer

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Sure the world of digital printing might not catch many people’s eye, but there’s something otherworldly about just how fast this thing spits out pages. Memjet‘s office reference printer is fast. How fast? 60 pages a minute, fast. Print quality looks fine at 1600 dots per inch and reportedly half the cost of ownership of other color printers. The trick behind the speed are the 70,000 nozzles firing more than 700 million drops of ink per second that print the page in one pass rather than the several passes of traditional inkjets — or enough for a page a second. We’re pretty sure if we had one of these at our disposal we’d be throwing as much material as we could at it just to watch the magic on the output side.

Gallery: Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer

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Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

CES: Huawei Ideos X5 runs stock Android

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The globally released Huawei Ideos X5 is officially headed to the U.S. A stock Android interface makes for a refreshing change.

Originally posted at CES 2011

Jan 06

Orbotix Sphero iOS-controlled toy ball hands-on

Posted in: augmented reality, AugmentedReality, hands-on, Today's Chili, video

It’s not even close to an AR.Drone, but the Orbotix Sphero should find a way to eat up your precious productivity when it hits shelves sometime “later this year.” This 4.3-inch LED-lit sphere connects to your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch via Bluetooth, and allows you to remotely control it or change its color… and that’s about it. There are two different input modes — one that uses the built in accelerometers and another joystick mode that utilizes a large virtual circular joystick on-screen. The few minutes we spent with the sphere were mildly entertaining, but the lack of cameras or other sensors makes it kind of pointless. Still, we could see young kids going wild for this and refusing to give you back your iPhone to take a call. Orbotix detailed a game dubbed “QuizTug” in which multiple players connect to the same Sphero and try to “score” while the other player completes a math problem or some other type of question — an interesting idea for sure. Operation definitely took a little bit of getting used to, and we still didn’t have it quite down pat after about five or ten minutes but we’re sure with some practice we’d be shredding the half pipe like our demo dude was. The existence of an open API makes us optimistic for the future of this little guy, especially given the sub-$100 pricetag. Check it out in our hands-on gallery or in the video posted after the break, and let us know what you’d do with this thing in the comments.

Gallery: Orbotix Sphero hands-on

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Orbotix Sphero iOS-controlled toy ball hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jan 06

Planon Slimscan, world’s slimmest scanner, hands-on (video)

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Been needing a credit card scanner to execute your superspy data collection with? Say hello to your new best buddy, the Planon Slimscan. This teeny tiny unit is equipped with a 600dpi optical scanner, though it shrinks images down to a 300dpi resolution to get a reasonable number of them to fit within the 64MB of onboard memory. Intended primarily as a collector of business card and receipt data, the Slimscan will come with Abbyy and PaperPort software along with the ability to export your stuff out to an Excel spreadsheet. Pricing is set at $120 and shipping is expected to commence any time now.

Gallery: Planon Slimscan, world’s slimmest scanner, hands-on