Jan 03
Not only does Samsung’s HMX-Q10 seem to offer decent specs for the money, it can flip over for left-handed use.
Originally posted at CES 2011
Jan 03
‘Zombie satellite’ springs back to life, actual zombies still zombies
Posted in: satellite, Today's Chili
In the George A. Romero classic, Night of the Living Dead, a radioactive satellite falls to earth and causes the dead to rise from their graves — but what if the satellite itself had become a zombie? That’s the slightly less frightening reality that has befallen Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 communications satellite, which “went rogue” in April of 2010 and has been unresponsive ever since — even though it has continued to transmit signals. Late last month, however, the satellite finally came back to life, and Intelsat was able to put it into safe mode to prevent it from interfering with other communications satellites. It’s apparently even now trying to determine if the satellite could become fully functional again — although, if you ask us, that just sounds like it’s all part of the zombie satellite’s plan…
‘Zombie satellite’ springs back to life, actual zombies still zombies originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Jan 03
It’s got to be hard sell bird watching to this latest generation of short attention span having thrill seekers. A California-based wildlife photographer is offering a way, through the sort of gadget that we likely won’t be seeing during CES this week.
Doyle Doss’s Doss Products is offering up the Eye 2 Eye, a mask with a built-in humming bird feeder between its eye holes. Pour some sugar water in there, and the hummingbirds will hopefully start queuing up feed. Extreme.
“Hummingbirds are the alcoholics of the bird world,” Doss told AOL. “You can’t get between them and the bottle. They are ferocious when it comes to getting that sugar water. We try to make the mask as attractive as possible, but once they realize there’s food in there, that’s all they’re thinking about.”
The photographer reportedly got the idea for the device after a humming bird was attracted to his red beard, roughly 30 years ago. “That moment was magical for me,” said Doss, “and I wanted to share that experience with others.”
Doss built the device around a safety face shield, painting it red for the full beard effect. He has sold more than 400 Eye 2 Eye masks at $80 a pop.
Jan 03
MetroPCS tweaks LTE plans: $40 gets you unlimited talk, text, and web*
Posted in: 4G, lte, Today's Chili
Ah, there always has to be fine print, doesn’t there? Don’t get us wrong — $40 for unlimited talk and text alone is still a pretty fantastic deal in the scheme of things — but in tweaking its LTE service plans today, MetroPCS has made the data situation just a little confusing. Technically, the $40 plan also includes unlimited web access plus YouTube… but at the $50 price point, you get 1GB of “additional data access” for features that aren’t covered under MetroPCS’ definition of “web browsing.” You also get turn-by-turn navigation, international text messaging, access to corporate email accounts (another arbitrary distinction that we’d kind of like to see go away), and audio / video features through the carrier’s MetroSTUDIO service. At $60, you get unlimited access to MetroSTUDIO including 18 channels of on-demand video content. MetroPCS’ lowest-cost LTE offering had previously been $55, so it’s a step in the right direction — but pro-net neutrality? Yeah, not so much. Follow the break for the press release.
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Jan 03
How do you get a stolen flat screen TV out of a car wash? Simple–hide it under your shirt. That’s apparently exactly what a robber didn’t after pulling a 27-inch TV off the wall of the Prestige Car Wash and Gas Station men’s bathroom.
That’s not even the weird part of the story–that came latter.
No one actually caught the man in the act, but the car wash’s manager Nicole Telles reviewed surveillance tape to find that the man who committed the crime had paid with a credit card just before (literally) ripping the business off.
Telles got his name from the car and, naturally, added him on Facebook. “He accepted me, so I went through all his pictures, made sure it was him.” Telles’s boss then sent the man a note, saying that, if he returned the TV, the car wash wouldn’t call the police.
“He ended up deleting me, so then we thought to ourselves that the kid doesn’t want to give it up,” she added. Eventually Telles and her boss turned the evidence over to the cops, who promptly arrested the suspect.
Jan 03
Is Gmail Coming Out Of Beta?
Posted in: Google, Today's ChiliThis article was written on August 09, 2006 by CyberNet.
People have been speculating for so long about when Gmail is going to come out of beta. Every change that’s made, people get excited and infer that it’s bound to happen sooner rather than later. Back in February when Gmail users were given a load of invitations to send out, people took this as they were just about ready to release it from Beta. It has yet to happen globally, however in Australia today, Google has announced that you will no longer need an invite from an existing Gmail user to create an account.
People in Australia wanting to test out the service can simply go to www.gmail.com and create a free account without an invitation or without using Google SMS. Gmail has become highly popular offering over 2.7GB of storage with millions of users already taking advantage of that.
Many people would rather it remain a service that requires an invite. It’s not a difficult process to sign up, however it does take a little more effort which seems to keep spammers from creating accounts. I’m curious as to whether they’ll move this to other regions of the world. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
News Source: PC World Australia
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Jan 03
Editorial: I’m ready for my car of the future, and it doesn’t even have to fly
Posted in: electric vehicle, ElectricVehicle, ev, feature, Features, Today's Chili
Face it: you’re never going to have a flying car. Even if the Moller Skycar were cheap and common enough for everyone to be able to afford, the first time some bleary-eyed morning commuter spilled coffee on their lap and made a spiraling dive into a kindergarten, they’d all be grounded. Permanently. We might get there some day, but the next few generations of tomorrow’s cars are going to stay firmly planted on the ground. I’m okay with that. In fact, I like that. After all, it’s pretty fun to drive on the ground — or a lake, if the ice is thick enough.
If we’re stuck with such pedestrian things as wheels and tires and fenders, what’s the next-generation of cars going to look like? Are hybrids really a hot thing or are they the automotive equivalent of a transition medium? Will tomorrow’s cars continue today’s horsepower wars or are a nation’s dyno graphs on the verge of a beige econo-precipice the likes of which we haven’t seen since the ’70s fuel crisis? Damned if I know, but I do at least have an idea of what I believe the next generation of cars should be, something that could be produced in five years or less and would totally rock my world. Maybe it will rock yours, too.
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Jan 03
AOC Announces a Tablet, Too
Posted in: tablet, Today's Chili 
By the time this week is over, we can practically guarantee that you’ll wish you’d never heard the word “tablet” before. CES is still a couple of days away from officially starting, and we’re already receiving boatloads of tablet announcements. Moments ago, we caught word of the simply named Toshiba Tablet, and now we’re hearing about the AOC Breeze.
Who’s AOC? The company manufacturers LCD and LED monitors and HDTVs, and while the name doesn’t have the cachet of a, say, Toshiba or Samsung, the company produces a lot of product.
Today the company is unveiling its Breeze tablet. The device features an 8-inch display, a Rockchip processor, 802.11b/g, and Android 2.1. Not exactly state of the art, sure, but the device’s strongest selling point seems to be the fact that the tablet will come in at under $200.
“In developing the Breeze Tablet, we were able to capitalize on our expertise in video displays and our strength in the computer industry to create a device that matches our 60-year reputation of providing quality and user-friendly products at a great value,” says AOC exec Robert Velez.
The Breeze will be on the floor at CES this week, so we’ll be the judge of that…
Jan 03
Analarm vibrating watch wakes you, not your spouse or the neighbors (video)
Posted in: Today's Chili, video, watch
At some point, every day, it’s time to wake up. If you’re lucky you roll out of bed whenever the spirit moves you. For the rest of us there’s some sort of prompting involved. At some point you’ve probably felt the rage of being awoken early by someone else’s alarm, a problem that the Analarm watch nullifies. It’s a simple concept: a vibrating watch with an alarm. Set your time and it buzzes to let you know when to get up, a feature we sorely wished the WakeMate had. Seemingly that’s all the thing does, other than tell time of course, which makes its £290 ($450) price seem slightly egregious, especially considering upcoming products like the Lark Up wristband pledge to do the same for just $99.
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Jan 03
The memory card specialist takes advantage of the new flash card memory format’s capacity in a new professional-oriented SDXC card.
Originally posted at Deep Tech
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