Recon Instruments has proudly announced the limited release of an innovative HUD designed specifically for precision human flight. Originally designed for snow sports, the Flight HUD goggles feature a tiny LCD screen that displays speed, altitude and glide ratio in real time. The Flight HUD is available from labs.reconinstruments.com for $299 for the first 250 pre-orders and $349 thereafter. Watch the video after the jump.
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Just about anyone who has bought more than one aftermarket graphics card knows that bundled games rarely matter. They’re usually year-old titles or neutered editions built only to showcase the GPU’s performance for a few hours. AMD thinks its Never Settle bundle might finally get us to notice. Buy any modern Radeon HD video card from the 7770 GHz Edition on up and you’ll get a download code for at least one new game you’d genuinely want to try, ranging from Far Cry 3 on basic cards to a full three-game deal that supplies Far Cry 3, Hitman: Absolution and Sleeping Dogs to high rollers buying the 7900 series. There’s likewise a discount for Medal of Honor: Warfighter and promises of bundles in 2013 for Bioshock Infinite and the reimagined Tomb Raider. As long as you’re not dead set on springing for a GeForce board in the next few months, one of the qualifying cards might be worth a look to jumpstart your game collection.
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming, Peripherals, AMD
AMD Never Settle bundle gives Radeon HD 7000 buyers free games they’d actually care to play originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Scarecrows are supposed to be scary… to crows. Japanese farmers take the age-old crop protecting concept to a whole, new, terrifying level with scarecrows so weird and disturbing they freak out anyone or any bird who sees them.
Editor’s note: This weekend we’re running a new column called Backed or Whacked by Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, focusing on consumer technologies, and writer for Engadget. Every week he’ll address two crowdsourced projects from the view of an investor, analyst, and gadget fiend. He’ll look at what made one a success and the other, well, a whack.
Companies keep trying to affix touchscreens to our refrigerators and develop more infomercial-friendly variations of the blender, but the kitchen still remains a relatively low-tech sanctuary. Even as we hurtle toward a Wall-E-era existence of complete automation and leisure, the simple joys of preparing a meal in one’s own kitchen can be invigorating. And while Kickstarter has begun to contribute to the endless array of convenience products aimed at simplifying our food preparation and serving experience, some haven’t survived the chopping block.
Backed: Flow cutting board. A nice steak salad might be a good way to start the meal, but slicing through ingredients can be so messy with all those precious juices going to waste. Fortunately, coming to save us from these unkind cuts is SimpleWare with its Flow cutting board in which a perforated top filters the mess down into a catch tray where it can be reclaimed for soups, sauces, dressings and unforetold hair care products. After selling out the first 200 at $20, Flow flowed to backers starting at $25 a pop, which helped it to slip through the perforated surface standing between it and its $25,000 goal.
Backed: Ultimate Spatula. Sometimes you get the sense that people back a product simply because the idea of innovating in that space is simply surreal. The humble spatula is such a nondescript item that “Spatula City”, a store focused on selling them, was a parody advertiser in the 1989 Weird Al comedy vehicle UHF. You might expect the Ultimate Spatula to let you spatulate at twice the speed of your afterthought from Bed, Bath and Bespattered. But, no, all this nylon-reinforced unibody slice of slicone does is prevent melting in the pan while staying cool to the touch at the handle. That said, it looks good while remaining nigh indestructable. Rest easy knowing that many tomatoes died to bring you this spatula, which survived over seven hours of testing in a simmering pot of tomato sauce.
And that’s been good enough for design house Get It Right to nearly double its funding goal of $15,000 with more than 15 days left to go in the campaign. That means there’s still plenty of time to get yours in your choice of 11 spatulactacular colors in exchange for Andrew Jackson’s portrait.
Whacked: OMNI Trivet. You’ve sliced and whisked your ingredients into a formidable feast and are now ready to serve it to your guests in all manner of oddly shaped serving dishes. But today’s trivets sadly come in a variety of such unhelpful shapes as square and round. Wouldst that you could combine them to create curvaceous designs such as the outline of a fish or chalice. That is the goal of OMNI trivet, a set of modular trivets that can nest together to create a megatrivet large enough to support a bathtub of broth.
Alas, with half the campaign time gone, designer Louis Lara has attracted only about 10 percent of the relatively modest $13,500 he seeks. Although the starting reward price for a set of four comes down to only $7.50 per trivet, Kickstarter has afforded him no protective barrier between the heat of desire to share his creation with the world and the easily marred surface of the table of crowdfunding dreams. And speaking of surfaces, perhaps the trivets would have had more appeal if Lara had taken a cue from a certain imminent Windows RT-based tablet and keyboard accessory, enabling the components to just click.
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Ross Rubin is principal analyst at Reticle Research, a research and advisory firm focusing on consumer technology adoption. He shares commentary at Techspressive and on Twitter at@rossrubin.
HTC must be looking forward to see how their first foray into the phablet market would end up – partnering with Verizon to deliver their maiden 5” Android-powered device to the US, calling it the HTC DLX. There were rumors of this device floating around for the longest time, some of them wayward, while others would seem to be pretty much spot on. First things first – the HTC DLX is meant to be pronounced “HTC Deluxe”, where it does seem to pack in a Full HD display that would place it on par with the HTC J Butterfly, while carrying with it at the very minimum an 8-megapixel camera with a 2-megapixel camera at the front.
The HTC J Butterfly will run on a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro processor that is accompanied by 2GB RAM and an 8-megapixel rear camera, so we do hope that Verizon will do their level best not to tone down the hardware specifications in the HTC DLX, but rather, we would like to see a 12-megapixel shooter as well at the back. Word on the street also has it that the HTC J Butterfly was codenamed “Deluxe J” in its bootloader menu, so you can say that the HTC DLX is the US version of the HTC J Butterfly. Huzzah!
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: HTC Droid Incredible X for Verizon appears at certification forum, HTC DLX specifications leak (Rumor),
All right, so the dust is more or less settling at the moment while Android and iOS fight it out at the top, leaving third place to the likes of Microsoft with their Windows Phone 8 and RIM with the BlackBerry 10. While the latter has yet to roll out just yet, Microsoft is faring far better with Windows Phone 8 from initial impressions, and two of their handsets – the Nokia Lumia 920 and the HTC Windows Phone 8X from AT&T, are now up for pre-order over at Best Buy if you are interested to try something new apart from Android or iOS.
The particular pre-order advertisement went live earlier this morning, where the Nokia Lumia 920 was listed to come in the following colors – yellow, red, white, cyan and black, retailing for $149.99 a pop for a new activation, but if you want to remain unshackled, then it will cost you a far higher price point at $599.99.
As for the HTC 8X, it will be offered in purple for $99.99 with a new activation, and in terms of paying for an unactivated version, you will also have to fork out a similar amount as the Lumia 920, that is, $599.99. Shipping commences when available.
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Nokia Lumia 920’s exclusivity on AT&T reportedly only for six months, Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 officially announced as part of AT&T’s Fall lineup,
We did talk about the Sony C650X Odin’s alleged specifications more than a week ago, but had absolutely no inkling of an idea as to just how the smartphone would look like. Well, it does seem as though additional light has been shed into the darkness of rumors, and here we are with what could very well be the first leaked image of the Sony C650X Odin in the flesh. The Sony C650X Odin is touted to be Sony Mobile’s upcoming flagship device, where it will be positioned to fight for the Android-powered phablet market share among other rivals such as the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, LG Intuition and HTC DLX.
It seems that Sony has translated their TV design over to the C650X Odin, where there is hardly a bezel for your eyes to grab a hold of, as it does look as though the screen itself offers edge-to-edge functionality. Of course, this could be due to the fact that the device itself has been turned off, so one cannot really make a conclusion as to whether this is legit or not. Rumored specifications include a 5” display at 1080 x 1920 resolution, a quad-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor and 2GB RAM. Perhaps more will be revealed at the CES showfloor next year – or will we see an official announcement at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona after?
By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Alleged Sony “Odin” specs spotted in forums, suggests 5″ 1080p display, Sony C650X Odin could be 2013 flagship smartphone,
ASUS’ Transformer Pad was tucked in beneath the Transformer Prime in the company’s range of hybrid Android tablets. The only problem however, was that the company forgot to really differentiate the two — with only a few hours less battery life the real distinction. But how has it been for you to live with? Did you get used to its slightly fiddly keyboard, have you been as smitten with it as our reviewer? Step into Jonney Shih’s shoes and tell us what you’d suggest he does differently when next year’s model comes out.
Filed under: Laptops, Tablets, ASUS
How Would you Change ASUS’ Transformer Pad TF300? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You may be having a freak-out session right this minute over a set of “spy shots” released to the press via Android Central – if you’ll have a closer look, you’ll see some photoshop magic. These images show the HTC DLX with a 5-inch display, 4G LTE from Verizon, Beats Audio integrated, back-facing camera with single LED flash, and a rather thin/tall body overall. All of this photoshopped nonsense doesn’t disprove, on the other hand, that Verizon could be planning their next big DROID Incredible device.
The name HTC DLX is an extension of what we’ve seen in Japan with the HTC J Butterfly, a 5-inch smartphone with rather similar specifications to the one we’re seeing here. This USA version of the device takes the name DELUXE_J from the code-name given to the J Butterfly and turns it into DLX for Verizon. It’s not yet known whether Verizon will keep this name or extend their DROID dominance over their chosen ones here in the States. Expect a possibility of the name DROID Incredible X as well.
As far as how real/false these images are, you’ve only to compare them to the images of the HTC J Butterfly that has been offered up for hands-on experiences over in Japan already this past week. The ease in which one could forge these photos is too much to ignore. That lovely little rectangle near the main lens is also rather telling on the back of the handset. That said, again, we’ve heard enough about this phone to believe that these mock-ups are close enough anyway – thusly, let the rumors continue.
This device has been tipped to be working with a display that’s comparable in sharpness to the iPhone 5, has a 12 megapixel camera on the back (perhaps 8 megapixels for the USA, given the trends), and a 2 megapixel camera on the front. The processor inside is almost certainly going to be the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro as we’ve seen in the LG Optimus G, and 2GB or RAM has been displayed inside – just enough of a motor to play all your favorite racing games very, very wide.
HTC’s first Verizon phone in many moons here in the HTC DLX will be rolling out with 16GB of internal storage, almost certainly a microSD card slot for expansion up to 64GB extra (or 32, you never know), and you’ll have at least a 2500mAh battery inside – removable, of course. Inside you’ll have Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Sense 4+, and one whole heck of a lot of pixels up front.
HTC DLX phablet teased in photoshopped forgeries is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The Amphis BTO MD7400-Ci7-IG is the latest desktop PC from PC Koubou that sports a 3.50GHz Intel Core i7-3770K processor, an Intel Z77 chipset, a GeForce GTX 680 2GB graphics card, a 16GB DDR3 RAM, a 2TB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive, a 700W 80PLUS certified power supply and runs on Windows 8 64-bit OS. The Amphis BTO MD7400-Ci7-IG will begin shipping from October 26th for 142,980 Yen (about $1,800). [Product Page]
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