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Medion announces LifeTab P9514 tablet, mysterious Android smartphone at IFA originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Berlin’s Internationalen Funkausstellung is by no means an unexciting consumer electronics show. Sure, there aren’t nearly as many new gadgets to play with as you’ll find at even the tamest year of CES, but there’s still plenty else around to leave almost any tech buff feeling full. Still, this year’s most exciting gadget — to me, at least — wasn’t a new tablet, or cell phone, or even that Android-controlled robotic vacuum. No, the highlight of my week was these clip-on 3D glasses, which LG reps handed out to every interested spectator as they entered the company’s booth. These dead-simple, yet completely life-changing specs were almost certainly overlooked by the 20/20 vision-abled, but for folks like me who can’t stand sliding one pair of glasses over another just to watch Kung Fu Panda in three dimensions, those clip-ons you see above are the absolute best swag I could ever hope to find.

There’s really not much to them. The 3D experience was identical to what you’ll get with traditional passive glasses — these simply clip on top of your eyeglasses, rather than resting on their own. They also offer UV protection, and “communicate seamlessly with the TV.” Well alright then. While attendees could get their own pair for free at IFA, you can also find these online for about 20 bucks — sold as the LG AG-F220. I’d like to see them become much more widely available, and more affordable as well. So listen up, Hollywood: if you ever again want me to hand over five extra bucks at the box office to watch an animated bear kick his furry paw directly toward my temple, these better be waiting on the other side of the ticket scan.

The coolest thing I saw at IFA: LG’s passive clip-on 3D glasses originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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At present time, Baidu’s a desktop web browser / search engine based in China that’s meant to mimic Chrome (though it’s actually wrapped around IE code). The company, however, has its sights set on conquering the mobile front as well, introducing Baidu Yi OS at its annual get-together. The new platform is essentially a forked version of Android, which will provide a lot of the same functionality and services we’re used to seeing from Google; Baidu, though, is adding a dash of flavor by throwing in its own bundle of apps — such as native maps, reader, music, web apps, and even a program similar to Google Places — as well as strong cloud integration for backups, storage and sharing. The new OS will likely be up against intense competition from Nokia, Alibaba, Xiaomi and Windows Phone Tango (amongst others), so the Chinese mobile space may get rather interesting in the coming years.

Baidu announces Android OS alternative, confirming its mobile aspirations originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on September 16, 2010 by CyberNet.

Mac only
I use Google as my calculator and conversion utility all of the time, and I’m sure most of you are the same way. The Google Search box can handle everything from simple math, to unit conversions, and even currency conversions. Examples of what Google can calculate include:

• 1 a.u./c
• 56*78
• 1.21 GW / 88 mph
• e^(i pi)+1
• 100 miles in kilometers
• sine(30 degrees)
• G*(6e24 kg)/(4000 miles)^2
• 0x7d3 in roman numerals
• 0b1100101*0b1001

On my Mac I don’t use very many widgets, well, that’s an understatement. I haven’t even opened the widget Dashboard in months. When I stumbled across Gooculator, however, that all changed. It’s so easy and works so well that I instantly started using it for all my calculator needs. This rekindled my respect for how useful Dashboard widgets actually can be.

How does it work? Gooculator is essentially one big text box. You type in a conversion on one line, for example “150 pounds in milligrams”, and it will output the answer on the next line. I know what you’re wondering… why would I use this over the Google site? Because Gooculator can let you chain calculations together. Allow me to explain.

Imagine you did a calculation like this:

10 + 30 - 20 <enter>

Gooculator will output the answer, and the screen should look like this:

10 + 30 - 20
= 20

Remember what I said about this being one big text box? You can actually move your cursor back up to the “= 20″ line, and append on to it another calculation:

10 + 30 - 20
= 20 / 4 <enter>

The widget will be smart enough to take the end result from the last calculation (20) and divide it by 4 providing the correct answer of 5. This is obviously an oversimplified equation, but I’m sure you can imagine how useful this can be if you’re working with converting between several units and performing mathematical operations on them.

After using this for a little bit I noticed that I had a long history of calculations, and was wondering how I clear them out. Duh, it goes back to this being a big text box… just highlight everything and hit the backspace key! In that regard it is also extremely easy to copy everything out of the widget and paste it into some notes if you ever wanted to save your calculation trail for later on.

Gooculator Homepage (Mac only – Dashboard widget; Freeware)

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