Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on June 20, 2006 by CyberNet.

Google is at it again and this time they are updating their Google Maps…GLOBALLY! Someone noticed that high resolution maps were now available for some places, like Egypt (Egyptian Museum in Cairo is pictured to the right). I noticed that here in Ames, Iowa they had updated the maps to high resolution a few weeks ago. However, this is the first time that I have heard of a Global update.

If you are looking for a fun way to view the maps then check out Wikimapia. This map service allows you to identify and mark places on the map so that other users can easily locate places later on.

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There’s a ton of gadgetry that goes into speakers, but the notable thing here is that the Pioneer folks have begun using HVT, or Horizontal-Vertical Transforming technology — but more on that in sec. This beauty is engineered to reduce unwanted vibration and preserve bass caliber while outputting 100W of sound. Featuring a double diaphragm packaged close together, the Sound Wing gives off omnidirectional sound — that’s 360 degrees of noise. And thanks to HVT, the coils within the speaker have been rearranged to reduce the wasted space in traditional speakers — though for some reason this particular unit still measures a portly 109mm thick. Seeing that the tech Pioneer has implemented here is novel, we’re interested to see how this thing will sound in the real world. You’ll find the Sound Wing in Japan for ¥41,000 (about $507) come June.

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We take it for granted nowadays that thumbnail-sized silicon chips can crunch through the most complex of calculations, but early last century, mathematical tasks were still being carried out by humans. It was around that time that one Alan Turing, Enigma code breaker and general computer science pioneer, came up with what was essentially a thought experiment, a mechanical machine capable of simulating and solving algorithms just like a grown-up CPU. Well, you know where this is going by now, one British software engineer decided to build just such a device, out of old bits and bobs he had lying around his geek lair, producing a working model that was recently shown off at the Maker Faire UK in Newcastle. The only downer, as he points out, is that it’d take “months to add two numbers together,” but all good things start off humbly. Video after the break.

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For photographers who want their camera gear immediately at hand, nothing beats a utility belt with clip-on lens and camera pouches plus a harness to hold it all up. Lowepro’s long-running Street & Field system got a recent upgrade that makes it more useful: The new Lowepro pouches are less bulky, one ingenious pouch is designed to let you swap two telephoto lenses (but see below), and others have spring closures for when you don’t have time to snap it shut. Most items are $25-$50 and a useful system runs $200-plus.

Some things, they never change. Boys will be boys, free never really is, and iPads will have WiFi issues. If you’ll recall, the original Apple slate also had such troubling issues with maintaining a wireless connection that the folks in Cupertino actually made a promise to fix things in time. Eventually, that patch was indeed rolled out, but then we heard that iOS 4.2 was being pushed a bit due to — you guessed it — more WiFi issues. Now that the iPad 2 has made its way out into the adoring public’s hands, we’re starting to see a growing cadre of customers raising similar gripes. Our in-house iPad 2 hasn’t shown any WiFi connection issues as of yet, but there’s a 10+ page thread over in Apple’s forums that have us wondering if we’re amongst the lucky few. Have you noticed any internet quirks with your new iPad? Or are all of these people simply using the world’s worst router? Let us know in comments below.

[Thanks, Brian]

Is your iPad 2 experiencing intermittent WiFi connection issues? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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