Jul 25

Someone Could Be Watching You

Posted in: Gadgets, Today's Chili

This article was written on June 21, 2006 by CyberNet.

Someone Could Be Watching You

The reverse peephole viewer is designed for police to look through a peephole from the outside and let them see perfectly through into an apartment or house. While you may start to think that this is a pretty cool little gadget why don’t you think about the real people that are probably buying these things. All of your neighborhood creeps probably carry these things around in their pockets.

This gets me thinking though, if someone holds this up to the outside of a door then they can see perfectly through. What would the person inside the apartment/house see if they happened to look through the peephole? If there was enough light entering the peephole would they see a gigantic eye? Hmmm…too much thinking!

News Source: Gizmodo

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Jul 25

Apple patent application takes the hard keys out of the keyboard, promises a flat surface solution

Posted in: Apple, imac, keyboard, macbook air, macbook pro, MacbookAir, MacbookPro, patent application, PatentApplication, steve jobs, SteveJobs, Today's Chili

Apple’s giving us a patent application peek into its post-PC future, and it looks like hard keys will be so 2008. The recently revealed filing shows off a virtual, flat keyboard concept for Cupertino’s line of non-iOS products that flirts with metal, plastic and glass form factors. Using a combination of piezoelectrics, haptic feedback and acoustic pulse recognition, these prospective designs will be able to detect your finger-pounding surface input. If you’re the fast-typing kind, you’re probably wondering how your digits will recognize the keys sight unseen. Well, there’s a few workarounds for that. In its metal and plastic iterations, Jobs and co. plan to stamp or micro-perforate the layout into place, while their glass counterpart would receive a graphical overlay. The application also promises an LED-lit display for hard to see conditions and the inclusion of capactive sensors to enable multi-touch functions, so you avoid e.e. cummings-style emails. Of course, applications aren’t necessarily indicative of a surefire product, but those interested in tickling their imagination can give the source link a look.

Apple patent application takes the hard keys out of the keyboard, promises a flat surface solution originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 25

A new BlackBerry to be unveiled tomorrow, or so Facebook would have us believe

Posted in: BlackBerry, research in motion, ResearchInMotion, RIM, social networking, SocialNetworking, teaser, Today's Chili

What’s made by Research in Motion and is “shiny, new, and social all over?” No one can say for sure, but according to BlackBerry’s Facebook page, we’re going to find out tomorrow. Might it be the Torch 2 come calling, newly acquired FCC badges in tow? Perhaps Waterloo’s hinting at the Bold Touch, its phone of many flavors. Or, maybe it’s something yet unseen that will blind all who perceive it with a corona of social networking awesomeness. Whatever BlackBerry’s got in store for us, let’s hope it’s not just another phone with a Facebook button.

A new BlackBerry to be unveiled tomorrow, or so Facebook would have us believe originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 21:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 25

Laser-outfitted guitar offers enhanced precision

Posted in: Today's Chili

Guitar being developed by M3i Technologies uses lasers to record chords even before your fingers touch the strings.

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Jul 25

Clearwire announces $99 Clear Spot 4G Apollo hotspot

Posted in: 4G, hotspot, Today's Chili, WiMAX
We just spotted it at the FCC earlier this month, and Clear customers will now soon be able to get their hands on the company’s new Clear Spot 4G Apollo mobile hotspot. Clearwire announced today that the device will be available for $99 (or leased for $6 a month) in “late July,” which should mean any day now unless our calendars are off. Built by Gemtek, the hotspot allows for up to eight simultaneous connections, and promises up to six hours of continuous use from its built-in rechargeable battery — plans to go along with it start $35 a month, with unlimited mobile data running you $45/month (with no long-term contract, of course). Press release is after the break.

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Clearwire announces $99 Clear Spot 4G Apollo hotspot originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 20:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 25

Top Stories: Monday July 25, 2011

Posted in: roundup, Today's Chili, top, Total recap

Barack Obama Thinks Your Password Sucks

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Jul 25

Ripple updates its Look nettop with Fusion E-Series chip, leaves its handsome design alone

Posted in: AMD, korea, nettop, refresh, Today's Chili
We don’t cover nettops a whole lot around these parts, but we were powerless not to gawk when Ripple Korea unveiled the Look, a shapely nettop with a slick paintjob to match. At the time, it packed a dual-core Atom processor and integrated Intel graphics, in keeping with nettops’ reputation for not being the most powerful PCs on the shelf. The next generation might be a bit more capable, though — Ripple just refreshed it with an AMD Fusion E-350 (“Zacate”) chip, which means you can almost certainly expect a bump in graphics performance this go ’round. Other than that, the specs haven’t changed much: like the previous generation, it comes with 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. No word on pricing, though if the Fusion version is like its Atom-powered predecessor, you’ll have your best chances of nabbing one if you make the pilgrimage to Seoul.

Ripple updates its Look nettop with Fusion E-Series chip, leaves its handsome design alone originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 25

Rumor: New Apple iDevice to be 55-inch OLED TV

Posted in: Today's Chili

Though portability has been at the forefront of Apple’s game plan since the introduction of the iPhone four years ago, a new rumor suggests your living room could be where Apple sets its sights next.

Originally posted at iPad Atlas

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Jul 25

Scientists prove cosmological speed limit, time travel moves a little further out of reach

Posted in: science, Today's Chili
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The cosmological speed limit remains unbroken. A team of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, led by Du Shengwang, claim to have proven that a single photon is incapable of traveling faster than light. The support for Einstein’s special theory of relativity all but rules out the simplest form of time travel — breaking the universe’s traffic laws to condense time within a vessel. Don’t get freaked out though, this doesn’t mean time travel is impossible, only that it will be much more difficult than firing up a warp drive. General relativity still holds hope for bending and ripping the space-time continuum to meet our eon-hopping desires. Looks like it’s time to get working on our flux capacitor technology.

Scientists prove cosmological speed limit, time travel moves a little further out of reach originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 25

Sprint launches first CDMA push-to-talk phones

Posted in: Today's Chili

The Kyocera DuraMax and DuraCore will offer push-talk service in rugged flip phone designs. The handsets are due in the fourth quarter of this year.

Originally posted at Dialed In

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