Sep 07
New report suggests the battery in the iPad 3 will be thinner and lighter, which could mean similar changes for the tablet itself.
Originally posted at News – Apple
Sep 07
A study by the author of the well-respected DisplayMate calibration software, pitting active 3D TVs against passive ones, finds passive models better in most aspects of picture quality.
Sep 07
Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies separates the best smartphone, tablet, HDTV, and multimedia displays from the worst with his Display Technology Shoot-Out series. And his newly crowned 3DTV champion might just give you some major 3D buyer’s remorse: More »
Sep 07
Velocity Micro Cruz T408 8-inch tablet gets its FCC credentials, goes on sale at $240
Posted in: e reader, e-book, e-books, e-readers, minipost, Today's Chili
The T408 has been loitering around pre-order pages for a while now, but without a nod from the FCC it was going nowhere. Fortunately, it’s just been given a clean bill of 802.11 b/g/n health and can be yours for $240 from Best Buy Amazon. That outlay gets you an 8-incher with a front-facing camera, 4GB of built-in storage and a microSD slot. Watch out though: like previous Cruz tablets, it omits Android Market support out of the box, which tells you something about its target audience.
Update: Looks like the T408 isn’t available from Best Buy, at least not yet. But, you can put in your pre-order over at Amazon if you so desire.
[Thanks, Nathaniel]
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Sep 07
Dexim has launched a new line of iOS-controlled vehicles. Check out the first model.
Sep 07
The addition is reportedly shown off in the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu.
Originally posted at The Digital Home
Sep 07
Sonnet announces RackMac mini Xserver, makes Apple desktop IT life seem more legit
Posted in: Apple, Mac, thunderbolt, Today's Chili
We’re sure a few of you have made that recently revamped Mac mini your office server, but now you can give it the look of a grown-up server room. Thanks to Sonnet, you’ll soon be able to rack mount your Thunderbolt sportin’ dainty PC within a 1U shell. The company has announced that, upon the system’s expected arrival in November, it’ll be decked out with a PCIe 2.0 X4 slot, a 75W power supply and a Thunderbolt daisy-chain port. This Apple speed-port adapter will enable use of that massive Thunderbolt display even in server or metadata controller mode. For more use scenarios, hit the full PR below or peruse the product page via the coverage link.
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Sep 07
LG, Sharp and Philips to build developer’s kit, create Smart TV app standard
Posted in: app, apps, developer, developers, hdpostmini, LG, philips, sdk, Sharp, Television, Today's Chili, TV
A triumvirate of television titans — LG, Sharp and Philips — are joining forces to create a development kit, defining a common standard for their Smart TV apps. The power play addresses the problem of fragmentation, since developers will only need to make one version of an app for it to work across all three of the ‘tubes operating systems. Based on open standards like HTML5, CE-HTML and HbbTV, developers should get their hands on a beta version by early October, with the finalized version due by the end of the year. The better question now is whether the Romanesque trio can drum up enough developer support to beat out competitors in an app-tastic coup d’etat, or if the likes of Vizio, Sony and Samsung will eventually join in. Needless to say, we’ll be digging for more at CEDIA later this month.
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Sep 07
When not being pushed around by your iPhone, this RC monster truck will dance for your entertainment. Photo Dexim
“Enjoy three hundred and sixty degrees of excitement, right from your hand.”
That’s the promise of the AppSpeed Monster Truck, which — apparently unlike any other RC vehicle — is controlled by a handheld remote. In this case, the remote is an iPhone running the free AppSpeed app. Plug the RF dongle into the dock connector and you can steer using any iOS device using the rather hideous interface on the app, which consists of go and left/right buttons.
Better, you can ignore the eye-insulting app altogether and steer by tilting your iDevice, whereupon your over-compensated flailings will be transmitted to the truck.
The truck itself is regular RC-toy fare: a little cab atop giant wheels, and with a quick charger box with which to inject electricity from 3 AA batteries.
There is also a multiplayer mode that gives users “the option to race their RC vehicles with friends.” This wonderful feature has only previously been possible by using one’s eyes to look at RC cars to see who won. One genuinely new (but questionably useful) feature is a mode which lets makes the truck “zigzag, spin or dance” to music. Sigh.
The truck kit is available now, for a reasonably Christmas-gift-friendly $70.
AppSpeed Monster Truck product page [Dexim. Thanks, Alyshia!]
See Also:
- Control Griffin's Model Helicopter With Your iPhone
- Remote-Control Helicopter Driven by iPhone
- Remote Control Your Car With Your iPhone
Sep 07
Why Would a Company Spend $200 Million to Build a 20-Mile Ghost Town for 35,000 Invisible People?
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New Mexico, where people go to cook Crystal Meth and disappear into the maw that isn’t quite Mexico, is going to get another claim to fame: a brand new, $200 million 20-square mile city with no residents. A modern day ghost town. More »
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