Linda aka Eponases wants to be the very best Pokémon stitcher, like no one ever was. So she took the original Pokémon and cross-stitched ‘em all in one piece of cloth.
Linda based her project on a pattern uploaded by a user named Servotron on the Sprite Stitch forums. She says the materials she used only amounted to about $80 (USD). I’m sure there are fans there who’d be willing to pay a lot more than that for the finished product, specially when they find out that it took Linda nearly 8 months to finish it. Here’s Linda with her work:
Here’s a stop motion time lapse video that Linda made to document her impressive achievement.
Over the past few weeks the tech world has been watching intently as Apple and Samsung battled in the courtroom here in the USA, only to have one last-ditch effort to settle things amicably break down at the zero hour. It’s now up to the jury to decide what the fate of these two companies will be in regards to the massive amount of design and technology patents they’re both claiming the other used without permission – copying and fair use are up for grabs, and someone is about to get hurt.
It appears that though the head of this court case, Judge Koh, has made it clear that things would be a lot better for both parties if they settled, both Apple and Samsung have not budged. Speaking over the weekend, both CEOs of the companies ended up not changing their case whatsoever. A joint filing send out since the weekend by both sides’ attorneys read as follows:
The parties have met and conferred about case narrowing, but have not been able to narrow their cases further.
This case began back in April of 2011 when Apple sued Samsung for the supposed copying of patented designs for mobile devices – the actual court session started just over two weeks ago. Samsung countersued back in 2011 and both companies have been making efforts to bring the case to this point ever since. Now it’s all in the jury’s hands.
Below you’ll find a timeline of important events that’ve occurred during the last two weeks of battle here in what’s certainly the most exciting tech-related court case of the summer. Feel free to lend your opinion on the proceedings, and stick around for the final verdict soon!
Just two weeks after Samsung announced that its Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet will be hitting the global market this month, Europe’s largest independent mobile phone retailer, Carphone Warehouse, is announcing that the highly anticipated tablet is now available in their turf for £399.99. The £400 price tag will be for the 16GB Wi-Fi version while the 3G version plus Wi-Fi is currently selling at £499.99. So if you’re in U.K. right now and is seriously considering the pure tablet version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note, you can get from Carphone Warehouse, in stores or online.
Additionally, Carphone Warehouse is also announcing a limited time offer on the original 5.3-inch Samsung Galaxy Note. The U.K. retailer is now offering the first generation Galaxy Note for £21 per month via T-Mobile. We had the chance to play with the U.S. version of the device last week, and we were quite impressed with the improvements, particularly the pressure-sensitive S-Pen that also has a microphone and tiny speaker on it. Stay tuned for our thorough review of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet.
Welcome to Engadget’s back to school guide! The end of summer vacation isn’t nearly as much fun as the weeks that come before, but a chance to update your tech tools likely helps to ease the pain. Today, we’re taking our audio with us — and you can head to the back to school hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back — at the end of the month we’ll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides — and hit up the hub page right here!
With all of the studying and on-campus traveling you’re about to delve into, sometimes adding a bit of music to your step can spice up those mundane times in your daily routine. That’s why we’ve rounded up a selection of portable speakers and headphones that’ll not only help you rock out whenever the mood strikes, but also go a step further by letting you take phone calls without skipping a beat. It may not be audiophile-grade gear in the official sense, but it won’t matter when you’re enjoying good sound just about anywhere your smartphone-connected life takes you.
This November, a team from the British Antarctic Survey will spend three days boring through two miles of Antarctic ice sheet into a small sub-glacial lake in search of wildly new forms of live. They’ll be able to do so thanks to a unique hot water drill designed and built, in part, by Mechanical Engineer Andy Webb. More »
This week we’ve had a look at the next slide-out QWERTY smartphone to hit the 4G LTE universe in the Motorola PHOTON Q. This device represents some of the best and the worst in the smartphone market today, starting with Motorola’s lovely take on a QWERTY keyboard, complete with light-up keys that feel rather nice to tap away on. The Sprint network, on the other hand, has been a letdown – both to the operating system and the hardware it’s working with.
Hardware
This device feels nice to use, the touchscreen works rather nicely, and the display is both bright and sharp. In the hands-on and unboxing video you’re about to see below this paragraph, you’ll notice that this device has Motorola moving into the no-button universe, relegating the physical buttons to the sides and the inside of the smartphone. The slider is a bit more loose than we’d like to see on a device that costs several hundred dollars right out of the gate, also.
Motorola made a bit of a strange choice with the plastics on this device. The back has a texture that should be made to grip, but because it’s so nearly-flat and linear it slips. That said, the bulk of the device does make grip more than possible, this keyboard-toting unit made to use by the working person.
The buttons around the side of the device are easy to work with, the display is a great size for web browsing as well as watching videos – qHD at 4.3-inches and 960 x 640 pixel resolution. There’s a bar of LED light under the speaker grille above the display that is rather nice and bright – if you like having a little circle of light, you’re going to love having a bar like this.
The display, also, can get amazingly bright. Brighter than you could possibly need it to be, in fact, with Automatic Brightness not bringing you up to full brightness even when you’ve got a full battery. Motorola is going up and over the mark when it comes to retina-burning insanity. It’s pretty awesome.
Software
Motorola is also bringing an extremely unique set of abilities to Android. If you’ve got your standard web browser on your home screen, for example, you can place your finger on it and swipe upward to attain a pop-up window with bookmarks. This same ability works in different ways with several built-in apps on this device.
There’s also a modified look and feel to the settings page, icons across the whole build, and the lock screen. Motorola also brings back the three-circle widget that’s able to show time, date, weather, battery life, and quick access to settings. A swipe across any of the three circles here brings on an alternate view or function.
This device once again brings Motorola’s webtop software interface when you plug it in to HDMI, and there’s once again a lovely collection of accessories available to you even before the device hits the market. Motorola continues to be smart with their microHDMI/micro-USB combo on the side of the device as it works with most of the smartphone/tablet accessories they’ve released over the past year. Motorola’s attention to accessories goes so far as to bring on an “Allow Bluetooth bypass” option in settings, allowing you to turn on voice actions from afar.
Motorola is owning their presentation of Android here, that’s for sure. Have a peek at this Quadrant benchmark result to see how the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 dual-core processor is helping Motorola bring you a high-powered QWERTY smartphone, too. This is certainly one of the more powerful devices in the slide-out QWERTY keyboard-toting category, that’s for sure.
Speed Tests
Unfortunately we’re forced to speak up against the carrier here in that, just as it was with the last device we reviewed on this network, connectivity was lacking in a major way. Speed tests were essentially impossible as the device was unable to make the connection long enough to test, for the most part – and that’s not just on 4G LTE.
Up in Minnesota we’ve been able to get the symbol for 3G to appear on the device, but we’re extremely suspicious of how real that signal actually is. Buyer beware – make sure you take your device out into the field to see if you can get coverage before committing.
Camera and Battery
The camera is pretty decent, with both 8 megapixel photos and 1080p video working like a charm. Motorola’s camera interface is interesting, certainly, and does offer a few filters that are nice – but for the most part you’ll want to stick to straight up plain-old photos anyway. Video similarly does have some nice detail to it. Have a peek below at examples of both.
Battery life on this device is quite nice, though again we’ve been unable to work with 4G LTE – that would be the biggest battery drainer. As of now it’s the bright display, which if you do set to automatic, you’ll have a perfectly fine time dealing with. Without the display on full blast, you’ll have more than 10 hours with medium usage on your hands.
Wrap-Up
As it stands, this is a rather nice piece of hardware on a surprisingly less than acceptable network. If you’ve used this carrier before and you’ve had a lot of luck, then certainly you’ll be good to go with this device. But if you’re new to the smartphone universe, we’re currently recommending that you stay away – or at least test your device out on a test run before you commit.
Motorola has once again brought on a solid piece of hardware, with a QWERTY keyboard that is easy to use and a processor from Qualcomm that has a fire in its belly as it has on each of the devices it’s been released on thus far. This device will be available throughout the USA immediately if not soon!
It looks like smartphone manufacturers have stopped racing ahead in the megapixel wars, instead focusing on improved sensors to deliver better images from mobile devices. Sony has been pressing ahead with such sensor developments, with its latest Exmor RS smartphone camera range further improving image quality. Sony will offer three versions of the sensor, with two eight megapixel models and a 13-megapixel variant.
Sony will be using new f/2.2 aperture lenses for some for improved depth-of-field, and the company has also improved auto focus features for video recording. In addition, videos will be able to take advantage of HDR, a feature that has been reserved for still images on smartphones so far. That should allow footage to capture a full range of lighting scenarios, with smartphones struggling to dynamically adjust to dramatic changes in the past.
The company is still working on further sensor enhancements, focusing on improved image quality and sensor behaviour while keeping the overall size down. Sony says that the first new Exmor sensor will be available in October, but it lack HDR video and RGBW exposure features. The other two sensors with those features will be reportedly be available in March and May 2013.
Manufacturers like Apple and Samsung will most likely make use of the new sensors once they hit the market next year. They’re particularly appealing due to the reduced size (up to 40% over previous sensors), which would save precious space inside a smartphone that could make room for additional components or battery capacity, all while bringing better image quality.
Contrary to what you might think, this photo was not snapped over the weekend using Instagram’s Valencia filter. It’s known as Lenna and as Motherboard points out, it’s one of the oldest, most widely used test picture used for all kinds of image processing algorithms. More »
Punk’s not dead, it’s just diversifying its portfolio. Having already conquered Broadway, East Bay pop-punkers Green Day are hitting the world of casual gaming with a new episode of Facebook’s Angry Birds Friends that features pig opponents “inspired by band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tre Cool.” The offering also features “Troublemaker,” an exclusive song that is most likely a tribute to the hard living ways of porcine egg thieves. Asked to justify his pro-swine stance, Pinhead Gunpowder member Armstrong answered, “We’re all fans of Angry Birds. It’s such an addictive game that when we first started playing it we couldn’t stop. Go Team Green!”
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Just two weeks after Samsung 
