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I wager most of the offices out there have normal coffee makers where you put in a paper filter, water, and ground-up coffee to get a full pot. Some offices have fancier coffee machines that brew single cups of fancy hot drinks. Some of the coolest single cup makers are made by company called Keurig.

Keurig has a new coffee maker for single cups of coffee with various flavors called the Vue V1200. This particular machine is the company’s newest commercial expansion for single cup brewing systems. The company says that the coffee maker is designed for stronger, bigger, hotter, and smarter brewing. The smart for the coffee maker comes in the form of RFID technology.

If you’ve ever tried to figure out how to use one of these machines for the first time to brew a cup of coffee, you probably know that there are a lot of settings and buttons that you need to push depending on what you’re making. This new coffee maker uses RFID technology with a tag on each of the individual beverage cups that comprises a recipe tag.

That recipe tag allows the machine to set itself at the default optimum setting for the specific brew the person is making. The idea is that the RFID technology allows the person making a hot drink for the first time to get it exactly right. The technology should also guarantee that the person who happens to know how to run the machine in the office doesn’t get harassed with questions.

Keurig Vue V1200 coffee brewer uses RFID technology is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Android has typically been created for ARM processors, at least until Intel decided to enter the mobile market with their Medfield Atom processors, but that also meant that Intel was limited to Android versions such as Android 2.3 Gingerbread and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. While Android 4.0 is still an acceptable version of Android, we’re sure that many Android users out there would prefer to purchase a phone with the latest version of Android installed. Well the good news is that if you’re interested in how Intel-powered Android phones perform, it seems that Intel has managed to successfully port Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.

However when they were asked as to when we can expect to see this Jelly Bean update make its way onto devices like the Orange Santa Clara, Intel responded by saying that the updates weren’t up to them but the carriers who had to put the update through acceptance testing. Either way we’ll be interested to see if this successful port of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean will be making its way onto the Intel-powered Motorola RAZR M which is expected to be revealed next week on the 18^th of September.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Intel reportedly partners with more smartphone makers in India, Sharp debuts Intel Medfield powered education tablet, will run on either Android or Windows 8,

Intel has announced that it has completed its work on porting the latest version of Android to operate on smartphones equipped with its Medfield processors. While Intel has finished the work of making Android 4.1 Jelly Bean compatible with smartphones running its processors, the company has no idea when the smartphones will be updated. Updating the operating system on the devices is up to the carriers and manufacturers.

Intel VP and general manager of the mobile computing group Mike Bell said that multiple Intel employees were currently using Medfield smartphones running Android 4.1. Medfield smartphones originally shipped running either Android 2.3 or Android 4.0. According to Bell, the operating system compatible with Medfield processors has been handed off to carriers to put on their phones and will have to go through acceptance testing.

Bell also noted that he can’t announce Android 4.1 testing or deployment on behalf of carriers or device makers. Medfield devices aren’t exactly common on the smartphone market. Intel does have its processors inside some smartphones with Orange, ZTE, Lava International, Lenovo, and Megafon. We talked about the ZTE Grand X IN that runs the Medfield processor previously.

Currently, Medfield processors used in smartphones are single-core Atom chips. There is some expectation that Motorola will announce a smartphone using Medfield chips next week. Currently ARM processors dominate the smartphone market because of their power miserly nature. Intel’s mobile processors are currently considered more power-hungry than comparable ARM offerings. Smartphones with processors that consume more power have less runtime per battery charge, and run time is critical in the smartphone market.

[via PC Advisor]

Intel wraps up Android 4.1 port for Medfield smartphones is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Apple’s iPhone 5 event may not have been streamed – instead nearly 17m of you joined us for our liveblog! – but it was filmed, and the full event has now been released for you to peruse at your leisure. It wasn’t just the iPhone 5 that made its debut, of course; Apple also had new iPod touch and iPod nano models to show, as well as a new version of iTunes.

The event also saw the release date for iOS 6 confirmed, and another demo of some of the upcoming platform’s more eye-catching features. Considering it won’t just be present on the iPhone 5 and iPod touch, but pushed out for iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPad 2, new iPad, and iPod touch owners already out in the wild, iOS 6 is shaping up to be a big deal.

Arguably, though, not as big a deal as the new iPhone 5. Apple’s smartphone has been stretched and slimmed and speeded-up, and the company had the eye-catching demos to show just why that mattered. Opinions are already flying as to whether this is a spectacular upgrade or a disappointing refresh: what do you think?

There’s more on the iPhone 5 in our full hands-on, and we’ve got hands-on coverage of the new 5th-gen iPod touch and the 7th-gen iPod nano. Let us know whether you’re itching to upgrade – or headed straight to an Android or Windows Phone 8 device! – in the comments.

Apple iPhone 5 event video released: Relive the launch! is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Panasonic wasn’t one of the quickest out of the gate with a 3D projector, having only unveiled the PT-AE7000 in the middle of last year, but it’s making up for lost time with a follow-up. The PT-AE8000 puts most of the focus on that extra dimension through both a 20 percent brighter 3D picture and motion interpolation for the stereoscopic image. Fine-tuning is equally new through picture balance and monitor tools that help perfect the color and parallax effects before any 3D movie gets started. Traditionalists in love with 2D get their fill, too: a new 220W lamp produces deeper reds, a more visible 2,400 lumens of brightness and (with the help of plates and filters) an even higher 500,000:1 contrast ratio. We’ve confirmed with Panasonic that the AE8000U should cost the same $3,499 as the AE7000 when it reaches stores between late September and early October, which makes the new projector a tempting prospect if you’ve been holding off until now.

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