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“To our millions of customers, who never stopped believing this day would come…” Alright, we guess they earned just this one moment of visual hyperbole.

Verizon’s ‘It Begins’ ad plays up the iPhone wait for all it’s worth (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So you jailbroke your new Apple TV, only to realize that there’s not all that much to do at the top of Everest except rest and enjoy your accomplishment, eh? No need to trek back down the hill — there are a great many minds at work to leverage your new-found power into something truly useful. Like what, you say? Take a gander above. An second-generation Apple TV appeared at our doorstep this weekend with XBMC on board — decoding our 1080p HD content, complete with hardware acceleration, on Apple’s ARM silicon, and with only occasional choppiness.

If your sense of self-entitlement is wondering what took so long, don’t. We’re told that this isn’t a simple port, as the new Apple TV doesn’t share much with its older brother, and is an entirely different animal to develop for. The bulk of the work has been done, though, and as you can see in the video above, once you launch XBMC from the new Apple TV it is the same great experience you’ve come to love. The difference is, this time, the hardware you’re running it on costs just $99. This tiny box is finally beginning to feel magical… now, we’re just waiting on a simple installer so we can load it up ourselves.

Update: And just like that, the wait is over. If your jailbroken second-gen Apple TV is ready and you have the foggiest idea what “apt-get” does, you can install XBMC right now. Find instructions at our more coverage link below.

Continue reading XBMC comes to the new Apple TV, we go hands-on (video)

XBMC comes to the new Apple TV, we go hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You simply can’t get a better price than the free ZTE-made AT&T F160–so long as you can live with its minor faults.

Originally posted at Dialed In

The eerie video you’re about to watch captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell—this is the first time that such an event has been caught in moving pictures. More »

Oh sure, we’ve seen the Kinect assist a hadouken or two, but that wasn’t the same: here, the YouTube user who brought us Call of Duty via Wiimote, Nunchuk and Kinect is throwing fireballs and taking names in the real game. Demize2010 manipulated the FAAST emulator to recognize a variety of virtual martial arts gestures, including the infamous dragon uppercut and whirlwind kick — giving him everything he needs for a flowchart victory with only his bare hands.

Meanwhile, one Bill Maxwell has taken the Kinect and made it recognize his fist, the better to control first-person shooter games with requiring an Wiimote intermediary. He’s developed a “high-speed kinematic tracker” called MaxFPS that monitors his hand’s position in real time, allowing him to move, turn, jump, and reload with quick swipes of his paw. How do you shoot? Why, by punching those baddies’ lights out, of course. See it on video after the break.

Continue reading Kinect combos Street Fighter IV, fires single-fisted boomsticks at the FPS crowd (video)

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