Sep 08

NuForce’s Icon iDo amp improves iPod sound, costs more than a Classic

Posted in: audio, headphones, ipad, iPhone, ipod, ipod touch, IpodTouch, minipost, Music, PMP, sound, Today's Chili
Ever feel the temptation to run your iDevice straight into a set of 250-ohm Beyerdynamic or Sennheiser cans? You could, but the resulting sound would hardly rock you. Thankfully, NuForce’s colorful Icon iDo is ready to assist in your iAudiophile needs for only $250. This headphone amp — supporting sampling rates up to 48kHz, 24-bits of resolution and a 10-20kHz frequency — cables into your iPod’s 30-pin connector to bypass the digital audio converter and uses its own to amp up the quality of your audio. The iDo promises to drive headphones all the way up to 300-ohms with 12mW of power via its 3.5 jack, and it’s also sporting digital / analog RCAs if you want to share the love with some speakers. You’ll be at the whim of wall outlets as plug-in power is required for operation, but at least its built IR receiver will let you remote control your playlists from afar. It’s available today if you’re finding your HiFi bugged piqued, and a backside shot with PR is just past the break.

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Sep 08

Chumby NeTV turns any HDTV into a Chumby that’s hard to hug (video)

Posted in: Android, Email, hdpostcross, hdtv, interface, Today's Chili, TV, video
Existing HDTV owners cursing because they don’t have a Smart TV will soon catch a break from Chumby. It’s developing the NeTV, turning any TV (geddit?) into a giant, unhuggable Chumby that connects in-line between source and TV, overlaying the interface on top of your picture. It ships with a seven button remote, but most people should consider using their Android phones to get the most out of the on-board WebKit browser, seamless photo sharing and notifications that put your SMS messages and emails onto the big screen. Developers are gonna get their mitts on the device later this month, but you can catch a sneak peek after the break

[Thanks, Torin]

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Sep 08

Single-chip DIMM stacks integrated circuits like shingles for greater DRAM efficiency

Posted in: memory, Today's Chili

Cellphone screens may be getting bigger, but the push to shrink all other computing components continues unabated. Invensas is well aware of this, and has come up with new, multi-die memory that promises to be both smaller in size and more capacious than existing DRAM. Called xFD, it mounts integrated circuits in a “shingle-like configuration” on top of one another to accomplish the trick. Such stacking increases speed while reducing power consumption due to much shorter connections between RAM dies than what’s found in multi-chip DIMM. Of course, the memory won’t be popping up in PCs anytime soon, but the company will be showing off its new tech at IDF next week. While you wait, there’s more RAM reading in the PR after the break.

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Sep 08

Induction Charging Kit Costs More Than the iPad it Juices

Posted in: Accessories and Peripherals, charger, money, Today's Chili

Like a zombie hungry for brains, all LaunchPort can think about is your moneyyyyyy

Nickel and dime, nickel and dime. Ching, ching! If you could hear design and marketing strategies as sounds, then that’s the sound you’d hear coming from LaunchPort, makers of inductive iPad chargers and mounts.

The product itself is appealing. You put your iPad into the PowerShuttle case, which adds the necessary charging circuitry, as well as a widening the bezel and adding a chin. This will cost you $150.

Next, you buy the WallStation, a giant magnet that screws to the wall and charges the iPad by induction when it is stuck up there inside its PowerShuttle case. This will cost you another $150. Subtotal: $300.

And if you want to use the system at your desk? You go for the BaseStation, a triangle of brushed aluminum with a magnet and the same charging functions. The cost? $200.

If you’re keeping score, you’ll realize that we’re up to $500, or the cost of a new iPad, just to get an oversized case, a desk dock and a wall dock. And that’s not all. Because these are not yet ready to ship, they’re available for pre-order only. And here’s the kicker: in order to do this, you have to pay a $10 “Exclusive Reservation Fee.” Ker-ching!

Apple’s $30 iPad dock looks pretty cheap now, huh?

LaunchPort product page [LaunchPort via Da Giz]

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Sep 08

Adobe rolls out cloud-based Carousel photo service for Apple devices

Posted in: adobe, Apple, cloud, ios, Mac, mac os x, MacOsX, minipost, Photos, Today's Chili, video
Looking for another way to store your photos that doesn’t involve a shoebox in your closet or a hard drive on your desk? Then you now also have Adobe’s new cloud-based Carousel service to consider, which will initially come in the form of apps for iOS and Mac OS X Lion later this month (support for Windows and Android is apparently coming next year). The real selling point here is that your photos are instantly synced across said devices (and you can edit them on each), although that convenience comes at a cost — the apps themselves are free but you’ll be charged $60 a year or $6 per month until January, and $100 a year or $10 a month after that. Video is after the break.

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Sep 08

Seagate’s Huge Hard Drive Packs Four Whole Terabytes

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Seagate’s new 4TB external drive is where the 50-foot woman keeps her oversized bikini catalogs. Illustration Charlie Sorrel

When I read that Seagate’s new FreeAgent GoFlex is the biggest external hard drive in the world, I got excited. I imagined the coming winter months, with me having ditched my bed and instead just sleeping with my mattress atop the warm, humming box. Or maybe leaving my apartment and moving straight into the giant enclosure full time, with nothing to do but dodge the enormous read/write head as it swings by my delicate head every few nanoseconds.

But alas, the size refers only to the massive storage: four terabytes. That’s big enough, if my math doesn’t fail me as usual — to hold the contents of four (4) 1TB hard drives, or eight 500GB drives.

You can hook up this almost bottomless drive, which will surely never fill up, via USB 2.0 or worse, and you can also opt to swap out the adapter section for USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 for an extra fee. As it is, the GoFlex will cost a reasonable $250, which is about the going price for the top end of storage capacity, whatever that happens to be this month.

The GoFlex is available now.

FreeAgent GoFlex drive [Seagate]

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Sep 08

Citrix’s GoToMeeting app now freely available for Android, comes pre-loaded on Droid Bionic

Posted in: Android, app, enterprise, mobilepostcross, Today's Chili
Motorola and Citrix have already teamed up to pre-load the latter company’s GoToMeeting and Citrix Receiver apps on the Droid 3, and they’re now back doing the same with the long-awaited Droid Bionic. The good news for everyone else this time around is that Citrix has also decided to release GoToMeeting as a free app on Android Market. Granted, GoToMeeting may not be quite as exciting as the latest augmented reality app or a mobile version of Minecraft, but it is a fairly significant piece of the enterprise puzzle, which Motorola in particular seems to be targeting heavily these days. Hit the link below to try it out for yourself (provided your phone makes the grade), and head on past the break for the full press release.

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Sep 08

Holy Moly! Adobe ‘Lightroom’ for iOS

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Carousel brings an optimized version of the Camera RAW rendering engine to iOS

Oh man. Apple’s PhotoStream can suck it. Adobe has just announced Carousel, an app which puts the Lightroom/Camera RAW rendering engine on the iPad and iPhone, and also lets you edit your photos and sync those edits between all your devices,
automatically.

Carousel doesn’t sync with your existing Lightroom library. Instead, you install the free Carousel app on your iOS devices and your Mac (Android and Windows versions are in the works) and the software syncs all photos and edits between devices, as well as storing a full-resolution copy on Adobe’s servers.

Here’s another shot of the interface, because I know you want to see it

You don’t get the full range of Lightroom’s power, either. Edits are limited to a variety of presets as well as basic image adjustments like saturation, exposure and cropping. But the exciting part is that it uses the same RAW rendering engine as Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW. This makes great-looking photos with low, low noise. It should also mean (although Adobe hasn’t said so) that you can import these images, with their non-destructive edits, into Lightroom.

The apps are all free, and the service is subscription-based, which makes sense as Adobe is storing your photos for you. Subs will be $10 per month or $100 per year, with an introductory price of $6/$60. The apps should be out any time now.

Adobe Carousel [Adobe]

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Sep 08

Kokuyo’s CamiApp brings paper back to note-taking (video)

Posted in: Android, Apple, ios, mobilepostmini, notebook, Today's Chili

Between Samsung’s Galaxy Note and the Boogie Board Rip, a mini-trend emerged at IFA last week with companies attempting to bridge the gap between paper notebooks and digital devices. Japanese office supply manufacturer Kokuyo is looking to get in on the action, utilizing devices that consumers already own. In August, the company’s CamiApp was released for iOS, with an Android version coming later this month. The app scans and digitizes handwritten text, letting users edit, highlight, email, tag and share the information with apps like Evernote and Dropbox. The apps are specially designed to work with forthcoming “smartphone-friendly” paper notepads from the company. According to Kokuyo, the notebooks have “special features” that make digital capture easier. Eight different notebooks will be made available tomorrow. The company is also working on making the CamiApp notebooks available overseas.

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Sep 08

2012 Bicycling Bling Goes Big

Posted in: Gadgets, Today's Chili, Transportation

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The bike industry will converge on Las Vegas next week for the annual Interbike trade show, where brands from around the world will roll out their 2012 product
lines for stores and distributors in the U.S. We got a preview of several product highlights this summer at an industry retreat in Utah and tried them out on roads and
trails above Park City. Here are a few of our favorites.

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PowerTap G3

The power-meter category is exploding this year. These devices measure a rider’s direct power output in real time, measured in watts. For training purposes and for gauging effort in races, power is vastly superior to heart rate as a measure of effort, as it’s not affected by temperature, diet, stress, and other factors that can tweak your pulse.

PowerTap, one of the dominant players in this category, has completely revamped
its system for 2012. The heart of the setup is still the sensor integrated into the rear
hub. But that new hub, called the G3, is about 20 percent lighter than the current
top-end PowerTap hub and also much easier to service. All of the key electronics are
housed in a cap that unscrews from the hub body.

The G3 hubs will start at $1,199 and will also be offered in complete high-end wheel
sets starting at $2,999. Entry-level PowerTap hubs and wheel sets will be $799 and
$999, respectively.

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