The buttons and the d-pad look to be at a slightly different resolution. The copyright in the bottom left, which appears on official Sony images, is cut off, too. Likewise, odd. However, as mentioned above, this purported PSP2 image could be photo taken of official Sony art or of an official Sony handout, hence these resolution inconsistencies.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti: second-generation Fermi for the $250 mainstream
Posted in: breaking news, BreakingNews, GraphicsCard, NVIDIA, review, Reviews, roundup, Today's ChiliAh, NVIDIA, how far you’ve come. This time last year we were all wondering if your first Fermi GPUs would operate successfully without a nuclear reactor in our backyards, yet today you’re introducing a successor to one of the best value-for-money GPUs the PC gaming world has seen in ages. Yes, the GTX 560 Ti has mighty big shoes to fill, but it’s off to a good start with 384 CUDA cores running at 1645MHz, 1GB of GDDR5 RAM running at an effective rate of 4GHz, and an 822MHz graphics clock — each one a clear and pronounced upgrade over its GTX 460 predecessor. You’ll have to check out the reviews below for a detailed breakdown of what those numbers will mean on a game-by-game basis, but there’s another way in which this new card is proving its impact already.
ATI AMD has (conveniently) chosen to cut the prices of its Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6950 cards today, while also outing an HD 6950 with just 1GB of onboard memory to serve as a direct competitor to NVIDIA’s latest. Competition, ladies and gentlemen, it’s an awesome thing.
Read – HardOCP
Read – Tech Report
Read – PC Perspective
Read – techPowerUp!
Read – AnandTech
Read – Bit-tech
Read – TechSpot
Read – TweakTown
Read – Hot Hardware
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti: second-generation Fermi for the $250 mainstream originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 09:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | Comments
Double USB-Plug Concept Slots in Both Ways
Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, Today's Chili, usbThis concept design eases one of the most annoying inconveniences that humans suffer in the modern age: trying to stick USB plugs into sockets, and getting them the wrong way around. We have all done it: you jab the cable into the side of your computer and it just won’t go in. You get mad, your skin grows greener, and your clothes start to tear.
The Double USB-plug will save you, along with your wardrobe. It can be plugged in any way you like, thanks to an intricate and easy-to-break system of internal componentry. If you look into the end of a regular USB plug, you’ll see that it is half-filled with the plastic part containing the contacts. The Double USB has two of these, filling the entirety of the metal tube. Both are spring-loaded, so whichever one is redundant in a given orientation will simply be pushed back as you plug it in.
It’s a solution that would certainly work, but it would also require much more complicated plugs that would bring their own frustrations. Imagine you are away on a trip and you want to charge your [insert gadget here]. You brought one USB cable, the fancy Double USB we see here. Only unlike the million indestructible USB cables you left back at home, this one has taken a whack and is now rendered useless, springs poking out like a Swiss watch that has been hit with a hammer.
This USB plugs in both ways [Yanko]
See Also:
- Concept We Want to Buy: Tiny, Simple USB Camera
- Hermaphrodite USB Cords Stack to Infinity
- Daisy-Chaining USB Cables Add Endless Connections
People Are Still Flipping Out Over the MacBook Air [Apple]
Posted in: Apple, Laptops, macbook, macbook air, netbooks, Today's Chili, top Yesterday I hiked eight miles with my 11-inch MacBook Air in my bag. Didn’t even notice it was there. These MacBook Air owners sound sycophantic, but discount this praise at your own peril—especially if you’re a laptop manufacturer. More »
BMW’s visions for future mobility look as ridiculous as they are impractical
Posted in: Today's ChiliTurns out we were way off on this whole car of tomorrow business. According to BMW the car of tomorrow is a form-fitting suit with unflattering horizontal lines and ball-bearing shoes. Or, maybe it’s a kind of bat winged jacket that attaches to a collapsible scooter… thing. That one’s called Flymag, pictured above, which converts into a backpack and apparently makes you FOF when you sit on it. These concepts and more are courtesy of FDI, the International Design School in Barcelona, and are on display through the end of this month at Rambla de Catalunya. Go see them now before they’re relegated to the annals of yesterday’s crazy visions for tomorrow.
Gallery: BMW ‘The Suit That Takes You’
BMW’s visions for future mobility look as ridiculous as they are impractical originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink DVICE |
trecool | Email this | Comments
This article was written on February 29, 2008 by CyberNet.
It may not have happened to you yet, but chances are that sometime in your life, you may end up dropping your cell phone in water whether it be the kitchen sink, a puddle, or maybe even… the toilet! So what are you supposed to do when something happens to your precious phone? Today’s helpful tip explains two things that you can do should your phone get wet. Our source of information was wikiHow, so checkout their site for additional tips.
Get a bowl of rice…
That’s right, get yourself a big bowl of uncooked white rice, take your battery out (and SIM card if you have one), and then bury your phone in the bowl. The rice will soak up the water from your phone and there’s a good chance your phone will work once all of the water is removed.
Use a Hair Dryer on low…
Once again, be sure to remove the battery and your SIM card and don’t turn it on to see if it works! The key here is not to use high heat, but to use the lowest possible setting on the hair dryer. The heat can actually damage the phone even more, so keep that in mind before you go putting it under a heat lamp, in the microwave (this will destroy the phone and possibly the microwave), or blast it with hot air from a dryer.
Additional Tips
- Most phones have an indicator (many times there are multiple indicators, some which you wouldn’t be able to see, and one is usually under the battery) which changes color if the phone has been exposed to water. If you were to take your phone back to the place you got it from, they’ll likely check this indicator first. Many insurance plans on phones will not cover damage from water, and this is the way that they’ll check.
Image Source - Be sure your phone is completely dry before you try turning it on for the first time. This means the non-visible inside parts need to be dry too. Give the phone plenty of time to dry both on the outside and the inside.
Drop your phone in water? Tell us what you did, and if it worked!
Copyright © 2011 CyberNet | CyberNet Forum | Learn Firefox
Related Posts:
- Find Out What Your Phone Number SpellsNew Poll: What do you use for Voice Communication?The Future Of Cancer Awareness Is With Cell PhonesSync Your Cell Phone With Google CalendarHelpful Tip: How to Select Text Vertically in MS Word
Tennessee’s Webb School makes iPads mandatory, still looks down on note-passing
Posted in: Apple, apple ipad, AppleIpad, education, ipad, slate, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tablets, Today's ChiliWe’ve seen the Kindle DX fail as a textbook alternative, but the iPad marches ever onward as a pioneer of wireless education. Or so it seems, anyway. This time the tablet has set its sights on a private school in Knoxville, TN, where all students from fourth to 12th grade will be required to carry iPads starting this August. Webb School students can either provide their own slate or lease a WiFi-only model for $20 a month. Just like administrators at Seton Hill University, the folks at Webb School see the iPad as an eventual replacement for traditional textbooks, as well as a tool for interactive learning. We’ve voiced our skepticism about the in-school iPad trend before, and while we still wonder just how effective the devices might be in the classroom, we’re interested to see how this thing turns out. You know, we love the Oregon Trail and everything, but don’t today’s students deserve to see more than pixelated trailblazers dying of digital diphtheria?
[Thanks, Jordan]
Tennessee’s Webb School makes iPads mandatory, still looks down on note-passing originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink Wistv |
Webb School of Knoxville | Email this | Comments
Apple Adding NFC Contact-Less Payment to iPhone 5, Consultants Guess
Posted in: Apple, ipad, iPhone, nfc, Phones, Today's ChiliThe next iPad and iPhone will contain a Near-Field Communication (NFC) chip that will let you use them to make purchases, according to Bloomberg. This technology is widespread in other countries – Japan, for example – but has never taken off in the US. Putting a chip into the iPhone 5 could provide the critical mass that is needed for wireless payments to go mainstream.
It’s a nice theory, and it may well be true, but Bloomberg’s sources are not inside Apple itself. Instead, the story comes from consultants, and is pure speculation.
NFC lets you pay by touching or waving your phone near a payment terminal. You have likely used very similar RFID technology when using public transport – the Oyster Card in London is a good example. In fact, NFC is compatible with the RFID tech used in these cards, so you could use your phone to get on the bus and metro, too.
NFC in the next iPhone makes sense, despite the complete lack of evidence. Last year Apple added a front-facing camera and a gyroscope to the iPhone 4. The next iPhone needs some new gimmick to make people buy it, so why not con tactless payments? For many people, losing their iPhone is already more painful that losing their wallet, so why not toss all those eggs into one tiny, beautifully-engineered basket?
Apple Plans Service That Lets IPhone Users Pay for Purchases With Handsets [Bloomberg]
Photo: Chris Mear / Flickr
See Also:
- NFC
- Pay for Coffee Nationwide With Your iPhone, Blackberry
- Visa Case Turns iPhone into Credit Card
- BMW Squeezes Wallet into Car Keys
- McDonald's Tries Out New RFID-enabled Pay-By-Phone Coupons …
Right up until you take a blade to them, bike-tire inner-tubes are all but indestructible. Pair them with these IT-Clips and you have yourself a hard-wearing and environmentally-friendly set of tie-down straps.
Punctures can be repaired, but there comes a time in every inner-tube’s life when it has to be retired from service. If you’re a cyclist, then you likely have a heap of them stowed away, ready for to use.
Here’s a short list of the things I am using inner-tunes for right now: wrapped around the handles of a pair of crutches to provide grip and extra size; wrapped around the tops of bike-polo mallets as handles; slid like a sleeve over the barrel of a fat metal pen to make it easier to use; cut, folded and stuck into a small rubber pouch to carry a puncture-repair kit (very meta, this last one).
The IT Clips are threaded onto the tubes just like any clasp threads onto a piece of webbing. The clips then slot together for quickly securing a load, or even for holding up your pants. You can extend them with the metal IT Hooks seen in the above picture. A pair of clips costs around $5, and they come in red, yellow, green and blue. You should find them in bike and hardware stores.
IT Clips product page [IT Clips via Oh Gizmo]
See Also:
- Bike Inner-Tube Vending Machine
- Rubber Wallets Made From Old Inner-Tubes
- (Almost) 1001 Uses for Old Inner Tubes
- Rubber Bags Made from Bike Inner Tubes
- How To: Make an iPod Nano Case from a Bike Inner-tube
Nokia’s leaked MeeGo device resembles dual-core ST-Ericsson U8500 reference platform
Posted in: arm, dual-core, meego, nokia, processor, slate, smartphone, speculation, tablet, Today's Chili, videoYesterday’s leaked image of a purported Nokia tablet device seems to have been more informative than we initially believed it to be. An eagle-eyed forum member over on mobile-review has spotted the similarity between it and a reference platform for ST-Ericsson’s U8500 system-on-chip. Last we heard, that little powerhouse was running a pair of 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 cores, so excuse us if we find the prospect of it driving Nokia’s next flagship a rather exciting one. You can see video of the reference device in question after the break — it ends on the delicious and unequivocal assertion from the ST-Ericsson rep that Nokia has signed up to deliver the U8500 in an upcoming device. Bear in mind, however, that the video is from November of last year and we still don’t know for sure that the Nokia slate above is its MeeGo progenitor or just a prototype. Either way, the U8500 is expected in smartphones at some point in the first half of this year, which kind of fits Nokia’s roadmap, no?
[Image credit: Cor72z]
Nokia’s leaked MeeGo device resembles dual-core ST-Ericsson U8500 reference platform originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | mobile-review forums, Charbax (YouTube) | Email this | Comments