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Monitor the baby, or make a celebrity-style sex tape. You decide. Photo credit Stem Innovation
Izon is a “remote room monitor” which beams video across the Internet and onto the screen of your iPad, iPhone or iPod. It might also be described by a more cynical person than myself as a kind of lifestyle spy camera.
The Izon is a white plastic stick which swivels on its dome-shaped magnetic base to be easily pointed at whatever you want to spy on. Then, when away from home or office, you can dial in via a companion app and enjoy a live stream of whatever is going on. You could check in on your baby whilst away on a trip, for example, or watch impotently from afar as burglars empty your house and smear their feces across its walls before they finally steal the Izon too, and its high-quality video stream blinks out.
Once connected to your home Wi-Fi network, the Izon’s stream can be viewed over Edge, 3G or Wi-Fi, and you can also tell it to keep an eye on a specific part of its field of view using a motion sensor. It can also listen for noises, and will send a push alert to your device when anything is detected.
Only you know whether you want or need such a thing, but if you do, then its nice to know there’s such a user-friendly option out there, and one which costs a reasonable $130. Just one thing: if you do buy one, be careful when you and your lady or gentleman get frisky in the same room: The Izon has a function which will automatically upload video to YouTube.
Izon product page [Stem. Thanks, Matt!]
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There have been rumors circulating that Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi were going to combine their LCD making efforts. Now, according to Yomiuri Shimbun, that plan seems to be moving forward. The deal doesn’t cover big-screen manufacturing, only small and medium sizes that find their way into phones and tablets. The joint venture will command roughly 20-percent of the market according to TechCrunch when it finally becomes official, with a hefty investment from the semi-public Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, which will own a significant stake in the new company. It may be another day or two before the deal is announced, but consider this a serious shot across their Korean competitors’ bows.
Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi look to join LCD manufacturing forces originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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If its tablet costs less than $300, Amazon could sell 3 million to 5 million units in the fourth quarter, according to a Forrester analyst.
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The head of the company’s Personal Systems Group, Todd Bradley, says he wants to lead the division regardless of whether it’s spun out on its own.
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Convert all your WordPerfect files to PDF with Adobe’s CreatePDF
Aside from the bloated carcass that is Photoshop, and the CPU-taxing nightmare that is Flash, Adobe is also known for the slimline, efficient and easy to use Acrobat and Acrobat Reader, applications for authoring and reading PDF files. Who am I kidding? Acrobat is pretty much the most complicated, slow and cumbersome way to do anything with a PDF, which is why I’m skeptical that Adobe’s CreatePDF for iOS will even work.
The $10 universal app takes files of many formats and converts them to a PDF. If this sounds familiar then that’s because we have recently seen two other apps which do the same and more, for less money: Print to PDF lets you convert anything to a PDF using the standard iOS print dialog, and also automatically catalogs web pages and emails. The other, PDF Converter, also ties in Dropbox support and converts several formats that Adobe’s app won’t, including Pages and Keynote files.
CreatePDF works through the “Open In…” dialog, letting you send documents ready to be processed. Once done, you can use the same method to get the PDFs out, or you can mail them. No Dropbox or other storage option is supported.
That said, you get proper PDFs from supported formats, including preservation of links in converted Word docs (PDF Converter loses these) and also support for Adobe’s own Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign file formats. Here’s the full list:
Maybe I’m being tough on Adobe for its desktop crimes — the mobile Apps, like the excellent Adobe Ideas, are way better and more focussed than what has come before. And until there’s one perfect PDF app that will convert all file formats, it looks like we’re stuck using a handful off apps. At least iOS has folders, I guess.
Adobe® CreatePDF [iTunes]
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HP: TouchPad will receive OTA update for added ‘functionality’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember that Boeing-powered Batmobile we ran across last month? Well friends, it could be yours via eBay auction in about a week. Currently, the highest bid is you can buy it now for $620,000 — which would be enough to cover the cost of several cars not fit for the Caped Crusader. However, none of those come equipped with a helicopter turbine, now do they? Putsch Racing reminds interested parties that the mean machine is street registered in the US, so you can roll like the Dark Knight without fear of the police pursuing you. An iPad loaded with digital avionics helps you monitor the jet engine, and you can use your choice of three fuel sources to power the thing: Jet A, kerosene, or diesel. Hey now, we never said it was environmentally friendly. If you, like Jay-Z, are “planking on a million,” check out the detailed auction shots below and bid on Batman’s ride yourself.
World’s only turbine-powered Batmobile up for sale on eBay, recession hits Bruce Wayne, too originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Sleek, simple and elegant, the Horizon echoes the iPad it supports
Just Mobile, the folks behind the chinky Alupen iPad stylus and its accompanying orifice the AluCube, have come up with a handsome, minimal iPad wall mount.
It’s called the Horizon, and it looks like one. Unlike other iPad wall mounts, this one doesn’t require screwing a huge, dorky-looking saucer to the wall first. Instead, you hang a minimal aluminum bar. This bar has bevelled edges, and the main part of the stand slides over this and holds dovetails into place.
The front section is equally minimal, comprising a rubber-lined channel into which the iPad slides. Rubber linings are supplied for the iPads 1 and 2, and there’s a rubber nubbin front and center that will push the home button when you press it. There’s also a hole in the bottom of the u-section bracket through which the dock connecter will fit.
The Horizon goes for $50. I’d totally pay that if it also came with a big fat magnet to mount it on my fridge.
Horizon product page [Just Mobile. thanks, Erich!]
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