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Whenever mobile digital television broadcasts finally take off LG will be ready and its latest concept design — following the autostereoscopic 3D screen shown at CES — is the Tweet-TV pictured above. At the National Association of Broadcasters show this week it’s demonstrating the prototype Android phone with a Harris MDTV antenna that also pulls in relevant tweets and displays them over the broadcast being watched. Whether or not a dose of social networking will help MDTV succeed where others have failed remains to be seen but first we’ll see if it manages to reach 40% of the US population later this year. The press release and a bigger picture follow after the break.

Continue reading LG adds ‘Tweet-TV’ enabled Android phone to its list of Mobile DTV prototypes

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The Toy Car exposes the mechanical innards of the pullback motor

This gorgeous, stainless steel and bronze toy car is simply named Toy Car, which seems an appropriately stripped-down name for such a minimalist vehicle. Without a body, or even a cover over the engine, you can see exactly how the car works.

It’s essentially a fancy version of the pull-back-and-go cars found in cereal boxes and kids’ fast-food “meals” everywhere. Pull the car backwards while pushing down and the motion of the turning wheels is stored as energy in a coiled spring inside the big central toothed wheel. Let go and it unwinds, propelling the machine forward. When the spring has fully sprung, a clutch disengages and lets the car roll free.

I guess I like this especially because I always used to wonder as a kid what goes on inside these cars. Of course I opened a few up to see, but the cogs and springs were always too small and complex to fathom. That and the fact that the things had a habit of exploding on my, sending sprigs and cogs everywhere, somewhat limited my education.

The Toy Car, by contrast, is wonderfully simple and easy to grok. It also looks like the inside of a giant watch, which adds to its appeal. You probably won’t be buying one for your kids, though. The Toy Car, by Wouter Scheublin, is sold as a limited edition art piece through the Priveekollektie gallery, and is priced in the “if you have to ask” category. It does come with a little walnut garage, though.

Toy Car [Wouter Scheublin via Oh Gizmo]

See Also:

• Boattail Racer, the $350 Wooden Toy Car
• Motormouse Looks Like a Toy Car
• Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Runs Toy Car
• Death Race 2000: Model Hearse Toy Car

This article was written on May 28, 2008 by CyberNet.

Back in early April this year we wrote about a new service from Google called Google App Engine. At the time we questioned whether it would Compete with Amazon’s S3 service because the two are similar in the fact that they open their infrastructure to developers so that they can focus on developing. At the time, Google said that they were going to offer a limited amount of resources for free, but that for those who need more resources, they would be able to purchase them in the future.

Google never specified how much additional resources would cost until yesterday when they announced their pricing plan, and said they’re working on two new APIs. To refresh your memory, here are the resources they’ll be offering for free:

• 500 MB storage
• 200 million megacycles of CPU per day
• 10 GB bandwidth per day

This should equal around 5 million pageviews per month, but for those who need more resources, here are the pricing plans that will be offered later this year:

• $0.10 – $0.12 per CPU core-hour
• $0.15 – $0.18 per GB-month of storage
• $0.11 – $0.13 per GB outgoing bandwidth
• $0.09 – $0.11 per GB incoming bandwidth

As for the two new APIs we mentioned, one will let developers manipulate images on the server include scaling and cropping and another will cache data which means pages will load faster.

One of the complaints that commenter “Change” made back in April was that developers will have to develop in Python because other languages and platforms are not supported yet. Unfortunately Google has not added support for any other languages beyond Python.

So far, Google App Engine sounds like a great service for developers to take advantage of. Now if only they could add support for other languages, I think more people would be satisfied.

Source: ReadWriteWeb

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Where Samsung leads, LG inevitably follows (and vice versa, of course). The Korean electronic arms race has now heated up by an extra few degrees with LG’s demo of a crazy new 47-inch display that packs in everything a geek could want: IPS technology, 1080p resolution, multitouch, and some good old transparency… just because. This so-called Window Display is sadly intended for advertisers and other digital signage proprietors, meaning that even if it wasn’t still at the concept stage, it likely wouldn’t be populating living rooms anyway. Ah well, so long as LG makes sure John Anderton and the precrime unit get one, we’ll be happy. Video for the rest of us after the break.

Continue reading LG shows off 47-inch transparent IPS LCD with multitouch and Full HD resolution (video)

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This article was written on December 18, 2007 by CyberNet.

Three new features were introduced to Bloglines Beta last night that will make the experience just a bit better. As most of you know, Bloglines is one of the most popular web-based news aggregator services used by many. The folks over at Bloglines have said that they’ve been working hard to get “stocking stuffers” out to everybody for the holiday season. Just in time, stockings have been filled and this is what you’ll find:

1. Save – want to easily save articles for later reference? Now you can, and if the publisher makes graphics available in the feed (like CyberNet), those will be saved as well. These articles will go to your “saved” folder so that you can go back and access them later.
2. Photo Widget – This will come in handy for those of you who subscribe to Flickr feeds. This photo widget will provide you with large thumbnails of images from the Flickr feeds you’re subscribed to. This sure beats only being able to view the text description!
3. Blog View – Want to view the full blog instead of just the feed article? Now you can with the 3-pane view. This full blog view will essentially show you everything including comments, ads, and anything else that might be in left or right sidebars.

If you’d like to take advantage of the new “save” feature, here’s how it will work:

• Look for the “save” button at the bottom of an article and click it
  
• A new inline window will appear where you can leave a comment about the article and select a folder that you’d like it to be saved to. Click save, and you’re all set to go!
  

Nice, huh?

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