The same reason I don’t want you to see my 25 most played songs on iTunes is the same reason I don’t push Spotify updates to Facebook. You would find that I’ve listened to Britney Spears’ “Til the World Ends” a total of 72 times. It’s a great dance track, ok? More »
It’s lights, camera, action cam over at Sony’s blog. The company is giving the world a teaser of a new “hi-def wearable video camera” that looks to be an answer to the GoPros and Contours of the world. Sony offered up a handful of shots, including one of the camcorder encased in rugged plastic, mounted atop a helmet. According to the blog, the lightweight camera features SteadyShot image stabilization and an ultra-wide angle lens from Carl Zeiss. Sony’s promised more info to come, naturally, until then, you can peep more shots in the source link below.
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This rudimentary robot hand, developed by the Ishikawa Oku Laboratory in Japan, never loses at Rock, Paper, Scissors. It has a perfect record against everyone who’s ever challenged it, but that’s only because it can see and react faster than any human being can. More »
From Barcelona to Hanover to Vegas and Taipei, we’ve seen our fair share of low-end Android tablets, some of which actually offer a bit of promise, and get it done for under 200 bucks. And while even a few sub-$100 models have littered the exhibition hall floors, they’re most often mere vaporware, never actually making their way to US and European retailers and online shops. The Matrix One, for its part, could actually get the nod of approval from big box execs, however — according to company reps, at least. And it wouldn’t be a half-bad option at $99, shipping with Android 4.0.3, a 2-megapixel webcam, 1.5GHz Cortex A8 processor and an 800 x 480-pixel 7-inch capacitive display. Those specs also make their way to a nearly identical $149 flavor, which ups its budget counterpart’s 512MB RAM and 4 gigs of storage to 1GB and 16GB, respectively, while keeping the other components intact.
While that display won’t best any brand-name slab on the market, it’s certainly usable, even in bright sunlight, as we experienced today at CE Week in New York City. The tablet performed just fine during our quick demo, which included navigating through some menus and watching a few HD video clips. The built-in speaker on the rear won’t come close to filling a room (or even a noisy car, perhaps), but a headphone jack will let movie fans and youngsters alike appreciate content a bit more, especially if traditional tablets are priced out of reach. There’s also an HDMI port for outputting 1080p video to a TV, along with one full-size USB port, a mini-USB connector for syncing and updates, a power port and a micro-SD card slot, for adding up to 32 gigs of extra storage.
You’ll also find a built-in mic and a two-megapixel webcam (no rear-facing shooter, however). All in all, the 11.1-ounce package is quite polished, especially given the price. We won’t likely be adding the Matrix One to our personal collection, but if a $99 tablet is on your must-have list, this wouldn’t be a bad choice — let’s just hope it does indeed pop up in stores, perhaps as soon as the tablet’s ready to ship at the end of next month. There’s a gallery below if you’d care to take a closer look, and do jump past the break as well — that’s where you’ll find our hands-on video, with a lively Manhattan soundscape to boot.
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This month we had a chance to take a look at an early screening of the upcoming blockbuster action film The Amazing Spider-Man, and what little we can tell you at the moment includes this: the visual effects here take the cake. While the refresh of the Spider-Man movie series has a story that is thrilling in its relative newness, it’s the mise en scene that will strike you hardest. If The Avengers proved to us that its prime time to bring the Marvel Universe to the big screen in a massive way, Spider-Man is the knife that cuts all the sweetest bits of this delicious visual cake and serves them up with the friendly neighborhood kid this superhero was always supposed to be.
There’s not a whole lot we can say about the individual characters without giving away the plot of the movie. That said, there’s no holding back the fact that Spider-Man takes the great high-flying feeling you get in the first three movies and keeps ahold of it fully. Though instead of seeing Peter Parker doing all manner of rubber-bodied wobble-flips like we saw in Spider-Man 1, 2, and 3, we’ve suddenly got a whole new generation of web-slinger in which he looks one heck of a lot more real, and feels that way too.
You’ll find Peter learning his skills fin a complete reboot of the Spider-Man storyline, with his physical transformation being shown clearly in his bent-body calamitous crashes and bloody bashes galore. This movie has Andrew Garfield getting cut and bruised more than the other three Spider-Man movies combined, and the audience is certainly going to have a great time while he does it. The most important thing this movie does is make you believe that Spider-Man is born of the same kid hero that went big in the 1960s when an adult hero was the only kind there was.
As far as the presentation goes, this is certainly a film you’re going to want to see in IMAX 3D. The screening we had a peek at today was presented on one of these massive screens with stadium seating, (the only kind any theater should have these days, of course), and RealD 3D. While I’ll never get over how odd it is to wear 3D glasses of any kind, or that these glasses make the whole movie just a bit less bright, the third dimension here is top-notch.
Have a look back at our talk with 3ality Technica about their involvement with Prometheus to see what kind of gear the crew was using to make The Amazing Spider-Man’s 3D camera setup a reality. This film was made with a couple of RED cameras on every shot where there’s 3D, with 3ality Technica’s gear allowing the filming of this movie to be no more difficult than a 2D movie would have been – and it shows. There’s no holding back here when it comes to effects shots and all manner of building-crawling angles here. Expect a ride, and you shall receive it.
We’ll be having a more involved look and review of The Amazing Spider-Man once the film is actually out in theaters early next month. Meanwhile, stay tuned for several more features – including interviews of all the stars and some of the crew, too – we’ll be producing right here in the main news feed in our fabulous [Entertainment portal] – web-slinging action coming at you for weeks!
The Amazing Spider-Man movie: our first look is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Hey, Vladimir Miklushevsky! You governor of the Primorye Territory in Russia, you! Why do you always have three, three?, iPhones with you? What’s going on here, Vladimir? Don’t you know how to set up multiple mail accounts? More »
It’s been quite some time since we’ve heard from Improv Electronics, maker of writing tablets such as the Boogie Board Rip. The company was on hand at CEA today to tease its latest device, the Boogie Board Jot, which like the Rip sports a reflex LCD display that doesn’t require power to record your scribbles. In fact, the device only uses energy when you hit the eraser button, which means the battery should get you through some 50,000 erases.
Unlike the Rip, this model has no on-board storage, which explains the cheaper $40 price. Another new feature is the redesigned stylus, which acts as a stand for the device when docked in the onboard slot. Improv Electronics will launch the Jot in September, but you can catch some of those back-to-school vibes in our hands-on video below the break.
Gallery: BoogieBoard Jot LCD eWriter
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Boogie Board Jot eWriting pad hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Following reports that the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx had surpassed Apple’s iPhone 4S in sales at Verizon, another report by Canaccord Genuity analyst Michael Walkley says it isn’t so. According to Walkley, the Apple iPhone 4S remains Verizon’s top selling handset and has been the top selling handset at all major carriers for all of 2012 thus far.
A previous report by William Blair analyst Anil Doradla claimed that the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx had surpassed Apple’s device, putting the iPhone in second place for the June quarter. Doradla believed that the drop in popularity on Verizon had more to do with the carrier’s aggressive marketing of its 4G LTE handsets, rather than anticipation for the next-gen iPhone.
However, Walkley claims the contrary. He says that although the Droid Razr Maxx is gaining ground it hasn’t caught up to the iPhone yet. His own channel checks revealed the iPhone 4S is still the top selling device, followed by the Droid Razr Maxx in second and the Samsung Galaxy Nexus in third.
[via AppleInsider]
iPhone 4S remains Verizon’s top selling handset is written by Rue Liu & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Polaroid. The brand is iconic, to put it lightly. In the post film age however, the company has fought to stay relevant without completely sacrificing its identity at the altar of the digital photography gods. The solution has been cramming printers inside the bodies of its shooters (and partnering with questionably talented celebrities), hoping to recreate the experience of instantly coping a glossy copy to hang or hand out, while co-opting the benefits of the megapixel. The Z2300 is the latest in its effort to claim a chunk of the casual photography market. This 10 megapixel printer cam produces 2 x 3-inch prints that are also stickers in about 30-45 seconds. It’s not quite as quick as the Polaroids of old, but at least you don’t have to shake em.
Gallery: Polaroid Z2300 hands-on
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Was just re-reading Brent’s review of the $600 heated, “massaging” toilet seat and was wondering how much a non-rich person would spend on Throne accessories. Not necessarily that particular one, but maybe a fancy color or something with brass hardware. I mean, you spend how many hours a year on the can, and you usually just use whatever came with your house, right? Why isn’t that something we upgrade? More »
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