The National Insurance Crime Bureau released its annual list of cities with the most stolen cars, and the West Coast has the dubious honor of beating out all other regions of the country.
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
Multitouch tables haven’t exactly hit the mainstream, but price is likely to be a major factor. Merel’s Mtouch table brings that familiar Microsoft Surface-like multitouch functionality for a fraction of the price, retailing for $3,995, or about half as much as Surface. The 720p, 32-inch display doesn’t sacrifice on power — a 3.2Ghz quad-core Intel Quad i5 Sandy Bridge processor and dedicated Radeon HD 1GB video card keep the Windows 7-based interface running smoothly — but the table’s display suffers from some uniformity issues, likely due to the pair of super-bright LEDs used to light it.
We spent a few minutes with the Mtouch at the CEA LineShows in NYC, and liked what we saw — once we got past the lighting issues, which appear slightly exaggerated in the photo above (notice the two bright spots near our subject’s fingers). Content is loaded using a web interface, and the table is compatible with a variety of formats, including PDFs, which are displayed as “magazines” with easy-flip pages. The table is in the early stages of production — just 30 have been made and sold so far, assembled completely at Merel’s factory in Yonkers, NY. They are available for purchase now, however, and should be shipped to your door within 30-days of placing an order. Jump past the break as we go hands-on with the Merel Mtouch.
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Merel Mtouch multitouch table hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 20:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Every two weeks, Senior Associate Editor Nicole Lee answers your questions about cell phones, smartphones, and all things mobile.
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All Your Screens Are Belong To Us | Apple’s newly-awarded capacitive touchscreen patent could wreak havoc on the smartphone market.
HomePlug hasn’t exactly struck it big on the home networking scene but, with so many disparate options (none of which play very nice together) it’s not hard to see why. The Powerline Alliance is throwing its support behind a new IEEE standard, P1905, that may ease our consumer pain and make the outlet connectivity tech a better fit for our dungeons living rooms. The goal is to create a layer that sits atop the various wired and wireless hookups that blanket our homes and let them easily share data. Bridging the gap between HomePlug, HomePlug AV, Ethernet, WiFi, and MoCA is an ambitious task to tackle, but we’ve got faith our gadgets can get along.
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HomePlug and IEEE want our home networks to play nice, talk to each other originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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CNET editor Dong Ngo gives his take on Netgear’s latest true dual-band 450Mbps wireless router, the N750 Wireless Dual-Band WNDR4000.
This article was written on June 13, 2008 by CyberNet.
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I never thought Opera was going to make this possible, but I’m pleased to say that in the new Opera 9.5 you can actually customize how many Speed Dial entries are shown at any one given time! They are so incredibly useful that I’ve found myself needing more than the nine that comes standard in the browser. I will say that the Opera team could have made it easier for users to customize how many Speed Dial entries are shown at a time, but I’m just grateful that in Opera 9.5 this can now be changed. Here’s what you need to do:
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Rows=5
Columns=5You’ll need to play around with the number of rows and columns until you find something that fits your screen well. In my example I added five rows and five columns, but you’ll notice that some of the rows don’t show up. Opera requires a minimum size for each of the Speed Dial entries, and if they don’t all fit they will simply run off the screen. Once that happens there’s no way to access them since scrollbars aren’t shown.
Options like these would probably be better served in the opera:config advanced options area, but hey, I won’t complain. Speed Dial is Opera’s most useful feature for me, and having more of them makes it even better.
One thing that you should note is that Opera Link will keep your Speed Dials synchronized across multiple computers, but it will only do work for the first nine entries you have. So don’t expect to all 50 of your Speed Dial entries to appear on all of your computers running Opera. Sorry, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. 
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We record a lot of video, but seldom do we find ourselves shooting in a professional-class studio, with the comforts that go along with it — namely that ever-so-necessary teleprompter that our broadcast buddies couldn’t imagine working without. Soon, you’ll be able to teleprompt on the go, with the 4-inch Miniprompter for iPhone or iPod touch from Listec Video. An app displays text in reverse, which is then bounced to the reader using a mirror. We didn’t have any trouble reading and following the Miniprompter, even at a distance, and you can adjust speed and position using a remote, which seemed to be MIA at the Listec booth. The sub-$500 (ouch!) setup is compatible with most camcorders and DSLR cameras through the use of interchangeable rings, and should be available in Q3.
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Listec Video Miniprompter for iPhone hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Sync system could ultimately interpret what drivers are looking to do by understanding the meaning of words and phrases they say and then coaching them to correctly complete tasks.
Following yesterday’s rumor that Hulu had received an a buyout offer from Yahoo, the usual “people familiar with the matter” have informed the LA Times and a reporter for CNBC that the sale process could begin within two weeks. As its owners seek to separate themselves from what is looking more and more like a competitor than a savior, reportedly Guggenheim Partners and Morgan Stanley have been retained and potential bidders have been contacted. One way to make sure anyone is actually interested in buying the site is to strengthen its content licensing deals, and oh-so-coincidentally Variety is reporting Hulu has already reached a new deal to keep the TV shows from Fox flowing. Yesterday we asked for your ideas on who an eventual buyer might be and so far the list includes Google, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and Pets.com, which should just about cover it.
Hulu reportedly retains investment bankers and renews Fox deal, will go on sale soon originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 18:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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