Jun 28
Scion is making new Pioneer head units available in the 2012 xB that will include Pandora integration and standard Bluetooth.
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
Jun 28
Promise announces that it’s now shipping the first Thunderbolt-enabled storage solution, the Pegasus.
Jun 28
Securely hang a dSLR from any belt or strap with this Kickstarter-funded little clip.
Jun 28
The Royal Society wants kids to make graphene, puts the miracle material in games
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If we were more musically inclined we might write a ballad singing the praises of graphene — the magical material that can be used in everything from super-fast CPUs to ultra-efficient solar panels. Sadly, the truth is, we’re bloggers and not rock stars for a reason, so we’ll just entertain ourselves with the Royal Society’s Summer Science exhibition on the carbon nano-structure instead. From July 5th through 10th the London-based science center will run a major hands-on exhibit where participants will get a chance to see graphene under a microscope and create their own single layers of of the stuff with nothing more than a pencil and some scotch tape. If getting to the Trafalgar Square-adjacent academy is out of the question, you can always fire up the promotional and educational Graphene Games, which you can download for both Android and iOS at the more coverage links.
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Jun 28
After cutting its tablet forecast, Acer is also reducing its notebook shipments for the third quarter to reduce a backlog of inventory with retail partners, DigiTimes says.
Originally posted at Circuit Breaker
Jun 28
Why drop thousands of dollars on a wedding ceremony when the robotic voice of Concept Shed’s AutoWed will join you together in marriage for just one buck?
Jun 28
In a Rush to Get Hitched? Insert Coins in the Marriage Machine
Posted in: R&D and Inventions, Today's ChiliAutoWed Wedding Machine by Concept Shed from Conceptshed on Vimeo.
By Alice Vincent, Wired UK
It’s always nice when bonkers design concepts become a reality. Like a parking meter vending machine that will “marry” you and your buddies for jokes.
Concept Shed’s AutoWed Wedding Machine offers just that. This meticulously built 2.5-meter-tall [8-foot] creation started out as a joke until an American museum commissioned the Cornwall-based creative team to make it a reality.
AutoWed inventor Sam Lanyon explains to Wired.co.uk: “About a year and a half ago we were playing around with an idea about the bastardisation of a traditional wedding by crossing it with a parking meter. We stuck it into the sketchbook and it just sat there as an idea.”
Marvin’s Marvellous Mechanical Museum in Detroit, in the U.S., liked that idea. Thus, over 300 bespoke parts, made from materials ranging from plywood towaterjet-cut aluminium detailing were gathered and the Cadillac-pink love machine was born.
As the video above shows, the AutoWed machine mimics the ceremony used to unite couples in matrimony to produce a beautifully printed, if totally unofficial, certificate for a dollar or U.K. pound. Following the insertion of your spare change, you can enter the details of you and your partner or best-friend-forever on a fancy steampunk-inspired keyboard and enjoy the robotic voice reading out your respective names. In true vending machine style, the AutoWed also pops out a pair of rings in plastic eggs to complete the faux ceremony.
Lanyon has been amazed by the impact the super-cute machine has had. “Within three days of linking it on the website we’ve had 34 pages of Google results about it. It’s quite crazy.”
Indeed, such is the interest in bringing more AutoWed machines to a bar near you, Concept Shed is simplifying it for more profitable fun for the venues which choose to install it: “We’re going to be designing a simplified version. This one looks great but the custom-built keyboard and other details means that it’s quite expensive. So we’re producing a cut-down version for other bars to appreciate the payback.”
We don’t envisage any serious happily-ever-afters romances as a result of the AutoWed machine, but Concept Shed are pleased with the fact it exists: “It’s just a fun vending machine. We come up with crazy ideas and it’s great to be able to have the opportunity to make them.”
Jun 28
LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer tablet hands-on (video)
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If you have kids and own a tablet, chances are you’ve passed it to the back seat on occasion, asking your five-year-old to help you navigate to the beach, or to beat an otherwise hopeless level in Angry Birds. Now, you can reward them with a tablet of their own. Available in green and pink, the $100 LeapFrog LeapPad Explorer includes a 5-inch, 480 x 272-pixel (16:9) touchscreen, 2GB of built-in storage, and a durable housing — but your 5-9 year old isn’t going to get caught up on specs. They will take notice to the built-in camera (with video capture), microphone, stylus, and accelerometer, however — all of which enable custom kid-friendly apps and educational games, including Disney Animation Studio, an interactive reader, and compatibility with over 100 downloadable apps and LeapFrog cartridges, which range in price from $5 to $25. There’s no wireless connectivity, so you’ll be tethering with Windows or Mac OS to download additional content, and to share your child’s creations with family and friends.
Gallery: LeapFrog LeapPad Hands-On
We’re certainly far outside LeapPad’s target demographic, but we did have a chance to go hands-on with the device earlier today, and felt that the tablet was solidly built, with a well-rounded feature set and sufficient expandability options — for a kids toy, of course. Games and apps took advantage of the Pad’s features, such as Roly Poly Picnic, which uses the accelerometer to navigate through a maze, spelling out simple, three-letter words along the way (like all apps and games, Picnic is adjustable based on your little one’s age and skill level). There’s also a video player (currently limited to 4:3 content), photo, and video capture apps. Shipping August 15th, the device doesn’t have a ton of horsepower under the hood — a 400MHz processor means apps won’t launch with the speed and grace of an iPad 2 — but for a $100 toy, the LeapPad will do just fine. PR and hands-on video are after the break.
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Jun 28
This article was written on March 16, 2007 by CyberNet.
Earlier this week, TiVo and Verizon joined together to announce TiVo Mobile Scheduling which will allow users to remotely record shows by using their Verizon mobile phone.This means that when you’re miles from home and you realize your favorite show isn’t scheduled to record, you can easily schedule that recording while on the go by searching through the TV listings right from your phone.
While this would be a nice extra free incentive to offer customers and to draw in potential customers, there will be a $1.99 fee charged per month to get your access. Also important to note is that it will be available only to those who have a Series 2 or Series 3 TiVo box, and the Verizon phone would need to be enabled with Wireless Get It Now.
This is the second time in the last two months that TiVo has joined together with another company to offer something extra for their customers. Early in February, TiVo and Amazon joined together to offer TiVo customers video downloads right to their box.
Going back to the Verizon and TiVo deal, so far around the web it appears that most people aren’t too impressed because if you have a computer with Internet access, you can do the same thing for free. A writer over at TiVo Lovers says, “Honestly, this doesn’t impress me. One carrier, and a limited number of phones at that – and a fee.”
It probably would have been a good idea to try and get other wireless providers in on this as well. They’re targeting only a portion of the wireless market, and for those reasons, it doesn’t seem that offering this service would be worth it.
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Jun 28
Best cheap tablets
Posted in: Today's ChiliThere are plenty of dirt-cheap tablets floating around out there, but only a handful are really worth your time. CNET rounds-up their top picks for tablet shoppers on a budget.
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