LG Optimus Pad coming to Rogers May 17th

It’s already made its rounds of the European continent, and now LG’s Optimus Pad seems poised to make its North American retail debut via Rogers in Canada. A helpful tipster sent us the above screenshot that reveals Rogers will be the exclusive career of the Honeycomb tablet (known as the G-Slate in the US), with a $700 starting price. With a data plan, the price ranges from $450 for a three-year contract to $650 on a month-to-month contract. Users seeking a one-year deal will shell out $600, while a two-year contract comes with a $530 asking price. The 8.9-inch slab should land up north May 17th, so plan your life accordingly.

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LG Optimus Pad coming to Rogers May 17th originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 May 2011 03:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Fake USB Wireless Adapter From Beijing

This article was written on August 11, 2006 by CyberNet.

Fake USB Wireless Adapter From Beijing

Everyone wants to have wireless in their computers nowadays but you might want to make sure you are buying from someone reputable. The image above is from Engadget and was supposedly being sold in Beijing as a wireless USB adapter. You can obviously see that if the case was closed you wouldn’t be able to see the lack of internal circuitry.

It is a toss up whether the image is something that was really being sold or whether this was just a joke. It actually reminds me of a time that I worked at a retail store and I found out that someone had returned an Xbox and put canned vegetables inside the Xbox casing. They had gutted the whole thing which meant they had a working Xbox system just without the pretty outside case…luckily I wasn’t the one that accepted the return :) .

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Microsoft Research-backed e-reader prototype can’t keep its text to itself (video)

We’ve seen plenty of dual-screen devices over the past couple of years, and they never fail to make us a little sentimental for Microsoft’s stillborn Courier concept. That goes double for this reader device, which made an appearance at this week’s CHI conference in Vancouver, seeing as how Microsoft Research apparently played a role in its development. But this gadget, presented by the University of Maryland’s Nicholas Chen, is clearly its own beast — and it’s an awesome looking one at that. The reader actually only has one screen, but it can connect wirelessly with other units, letting the users do things like send links between devices. It will also clip magnetically to another unit, so you can look at two pages of the same document at the same time, just like one of those oldfangled book-type things. Fans of awkward intros, check out the video after the break.

[Thanks, Winston]

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Microsoft Research-backed e-reader prototype can’t keep its text to itself (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 May 2011 01:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile baking fresh prepaid plans May 22, adds more 4G data for flavor

Consumers are flocking to prepaid about as fast as children to an ice cream truck, and T-Mobile is welcoming them with open arms. Pushing out a competitive and timely response to Verizon’s Unleashed plans is vital — especially given T-Mobile’s paltry first-quarter results — and the company will be ready to match wits with the country’s number-one carrier on May 22. The official site is already saying as much, proclaiming to its prepaid customers that their monthly packages will become even tastier at that time. What it’s missing, though, is a name, and TmoNews has uncovered evidence suggesting ‘T-Mobile Monthly 4G’ will be the re-branded title. So what will these new enhancements bring to customers?

Monthly rates will stay exactly the same as before, with additional 4G data supplying an extra oomph to the offerings. The top-of-the-line plan goes for $70 and will offer unlimited minutes, text, and web (a jump up from the 2GB currently in use); the $50 choice is identical in minutes and text, but will only allow 100MB before data gets throttled. This idea of cutting down internet use is a definite upgrade to the current plan, since at present time it gives out the same 100MB but cuts data use completely off as soon as that point is reached. We’re also noticing that international and BlackBerry services are available a la carte for an extra $10, as well as a noteworthy day pass that bestows 24 hours of unlimited 4G data for $1.49. Color us impressed; all of the latest revamps to T-Mobile’s prepaid options are a refreshing contrast to its competitors mandating more and more restrictions to their monthly data plans.

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T-Mobile baking fresh prepaid plans May 22, adds more 4G data for flavor originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 May 2011 00:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Robot arm learns to use hammer, mocks pathetic human’s attempt to fight back (video)

This guy had a pretty natural reaction upon discovering that the DLR Hand Arm System has learned to use a hammer: he took a bat to the thing. Rather than curbing the inevitable robotic uprising, however, the whole thing just demonstrates exactly how durable the mechanical appendage is, as it resumes normal functionality after the swift blow. The arm contains 52 motors and super strong synthetic tendons, and is the work of the German Aerospace Center, the electronic sadists who also recently took a hammer to one of their robot hands. Videos of the mayhem after the jump — we’re sure they’ll be Skynet’s Exhibit A.

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Robot arm learns to use hammer, mocks pathetic human’s attempt to fight back (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 May 2011 23:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Share Images Copied to Your Clipboard

This article was written on May 11, 2011 by CyberNet.

Share clipboard images

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I share a lot of screenshots and images with people, but there are all kinds of tools out there that try to make these tasks as simple as possible. Climsy is one of those apps. We’ve covered several clipboard utilities in the past, but this one serves a single purpose of uploading the images you’ve copied to either Climsy.com, ImageShack.us, or your Dropbox account.

When Climsy detects that there is an image on your clipboard you’ll see the notification pictured in the screenshot above, and the image will be immediately uploaded to your designated service when you click the “share” button. Once the upload is done the notification window will display the URL to the image, and next to it will be a “copy to clipboard” button that will place the link on your clipboard. Then you can send the link to whomever needs to see what you captured.

Here’s a brief list of features highlighted by the Climsy developer:

  • Share your clipboard images over internet or network
  • Support for upload to Climsy.com, Imageshack.us or Dropbox
  • Support for store images to local or network disk
  • Customizable image format (jpg or png) and image compression (jpg)
  • Easy drag’n’drop image to any software (for example Skype)
  • Lightweight application with minimal resources usage
  • Multilanguage support

Climsy is available as a portable application, and on my system it uses less than 1MB of memory. So you won’t even know its there except when you need it.

Climsy Homepage (Windows only; Freeware; Portable)

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Ask Engadget: best full-size laptop without an optical drive?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Garren, who isn’t ashamed of being picky about his next laptop. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com.

I’m a college student looking for a new laptop, but almost all of my media I receive digitally. I’m looking for a laptop, not a netbook, without an optical drive, and budget sensitive. The optical drive will just be a waste of space, when I can have thinner laptop. What’s out there?

Any of you digital junkies care to chime in? If so, comments are welcoming one and all down below.

Ask Engadget: best full-size laptop without an optical drive? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 May 2011 22:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell video teases upcoming ‘ultrathin’ laptop

Dell has released a video and photos of its upcoming 15.6-inch ultrathin laptop. The line of new laptops is designed in the spirit of the discontinued Adamo.

Originally posted at Nanotech – The Circuits Blog

Logitech Revue price drops to $199 on Amazon

While we wait for the OTA update that will bring Android 3.1 to existing Google TV devices, Logitech’s Revue — check the official blog post linked below for some of the features being added — has apparently already received its price cut and CrunchGear points out it is currently available for $199 on Amazon. As we noted a couple of weeks ago when the company announced weak sales and a plan to drop the price to $249, getting the price under two bills was probably as important as smoothing out the software experience. Of course, after Google I/O we wonder if anyone interested in Google TV is still jonesing for a launch device (even with the promise of updated software and Android Market access in the future) when something newer and better is likely on the way. After all, you can get Honeycomb on a T-Mobile G1 now, but that doesn’t mean you would want to do it.

Logitech Revue price drops to $199 on Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 May 2011 21:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Analyst: iPhone ‘4S’ possible, but with no 4G

Analyst report says expectations for Apple’s next iPhone should be tempered, with the future device lacking a 4G LTE chipset, though ending up on more carriers than it’s currently offered.

Originally posted at Apple Talk