Peter Jalowiczor is a gas worker from South Yorkshire, England. He’s also the discoverer of four giant exoplanets, according to the University of California’s Lick-Carnegie Planet Search Team. But he’s not an astronomer and he doesn’t even have a telescope. More »
Google and Motorola haven’t quite announced that Honeycomb tablet we’re expecting to see at CES in just a couple days, but that’s not stopping eLocity, makers of the A7 tablet pictured above — the company just announced no fewer than seven 10-inch Tegra 2 tablets running Android 3.0. Specs are pretty light, but we’re told the new A10 line will use the dual-core Tegra 2 T-250, have “high-resolution” multitouch screens, microSD storage, USB ports, a front-facing camera, and feature an HDMI port that supports 1080p output. So why seven 10-inch tablets with what seem to be the same basic specs? We have no idea — we’re sure to find out more when CES kicks off. PR after the break.
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Breffo has announced the launch of Spiderpodium Tablet, which adds to its line of flexible grip accessories for portable devices.
Originally posted at CES 2011
The Breeze tablet features Google Android 2.1, and also adds a full USB port.
Originally posted at CES 2011
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Toronto was once now as a progressively green city, but under new mayor Rob Ford that appears to be changing. For the worse. Ford’s most recent move is to reconsider the five cent fee on plastic bags, which is aimed at curbing wastage and is being adopted by cities across the globe. Italy recently decided to ban plastic bags all together.
“All of a sudden the five cents is really becoming a sticking point with people and it wasn’t really before, so I want to get rid of it,” Ford told the National Post. “I’m going to change how it’s being implemented right now, put it that way. How we’re going to do it, I’m not quite sure, but we’re definitely going to review it. Because spending five cents and just putting it in the pocket of businesses doesn’t make any sense to me.”
But this seems to ignore the main point of the fee, which is to reduce waste, discouraging shoppers from using bags in the first place. Understandably, not everyone agrees with Ford. “We think anything that reduces plastic use is a good thing,” Franz Hartmann, executive director of the Toronto Environmental Alliance, said.
In an attempt to reduce pollution, Paris is considering banning certain vehicles. Though details are still pretty slim, it seems likely that the restrictions will be placed on SUVs and old diesel vehicles. So what should Parisians who own one of these vehicles do?
“Sell it and buy a vehicle that’s compatible with city life,” environmental official Denis Baupin told RTL radio. “I’m sorry, but having a sport utility vehicle in a city makes no sense.”
The restrictions are expected to be put into place either this year or next, and will effect cities including Paris, Lyon, Grenoble and Aix-en-Provence. City officials are still in the process of determining which cars will actually be restricted and what types of penalties will be used.
Via the Detroit Free Press
PrimeSense provides some of the brains behind Microsoft’s Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an important twist — it connects to a pair of ASUS Wavi boxes, which wirelessly streams its data to your living room PC between your TV and a Windows PC over the 5GHz band. Oh, and should ASUS attract enough developers, it will even pull down applications from an Xtion online store. ASUS says we’ll see the package commercially available around the world in Q2 of next year — with a UI and selection of apps and games on board — but they’ll release an Xtion PRO developer kit in February to tempt all you Kinect hackers into coding magical things for the platform. No more details for now, but there’s an event in Vegas this week where ASUS is all but guaranteed to show it off. PR after the break.
Update: Did we say HTPC? Turns out it doesn’t quite work that way — the Wavi are actually a pair of boxes that wirelessly sling data between them. You put the Xtion sensor on top of your TV, connect it to Wavi #1, then plug Wavi #2 into a PC up to 25 meters away. Mind you, it looks like the Xtion may not be quite as capable as Microsoft’s unit, as there’s only infrared hardware inside — it might be fine for gesture control, but don’t expect any augmented reality lightsaber fights. See some mockups below!
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PrimeSense is the brains behind Microsoft’s Kinect, and wants a bigger piece of the pie; ASUS has a reputation for announcing wonderfully wacky peripherals every year. At CES 2011, the Wavi Xtion will check off both boxes nicely. In a nutshell, the Xtion is a PrimeSense 3D depth camera built exclusively for PC, but with an important twist — it connects to the ASUS Wavi box you see immediately above, which wirelessly streams its data to your living room PC, eliminating a cord or two. Oh, and should ASUS attract enough developers, it will even pull down applications from an Xtion online store. ASUS says we’ll see the package commercially available around the world in Q2 of next year — with a UI and selection of apps and games on board — but they’ll release an Xtion PRO developer kit in February to tempt all you Kinect hackers into coding magical things for the platform. No more details for now, but there’s an event in Vegas this week where ASUS is all but guaranteed to show it off. PR after the break.
Continue reading PrimeSense and ASUS team, bring Kinect-like Wavi Xtion to your HTPC
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How much would you pay for an animal that sort of resembles another animal? It’s no unicorn cow, sure, but you can get your hands on a panda cow for the low price of $30,000. There are only 24 of the animals in existence–the latest of which, Ben, was born at 8:00 AM on New Year’s Day.
The cow’s panda-like markings are the result of almost 50 years of genetic tricky at the hands of a Washington-based farmer. The animals are in high demand in China, according to their developer, Richard Gradwohl.
Ben’s owner, Chris Jessen, said that he would likely be selling the unique cow, though he hasn’t yet set a price.
Here’s some video of Ben’s Good Morning America debut, in which he may or may not be peeing on his owner’s lap.
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