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Remember this little “Twin Video” freak of nature from January? Well, Ion Audio went and built the thing, and while it looks dramatically different now, the general idea is the same: one camera faces you, the other camera faces your subject. Outside of that it’s a pretty basic Flip-style camcorder, with a decent $120 price tag, SD card storage, and a rechargeable battery. Just remember, with great dual-facing power comes great dual-facing responsibility. Check out a sample video after the break.

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Ion Audio’s Twin Video dual-facing camera becomes more than a render, starts shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The nettop hits, they just keep on coming. This one’s from Habey, who we’ve seen delivering a number of microATX wunder-machines over the years. Its latest delivers Intel’s latest 1.6GHz Atom, the dual-core D510, and pairs it with Ion 2 graphics to deliver a system capable of 2560 x 1600 output over HDMI, easily handling 1080p or, as you can see in the video after the break, triple Flash video playback without much of a hiccup. There’s gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 wireless, four USB ports, and 250GB of storage. Price? Well, that’s up in the air. Like many of the company’s products this is really meant to be bought in bulk, so we’re guessing the cost is wholly dependent on how many of these you want for your business or man cave. But, if you’re the DIY sort, you can just get the board itself, the MITX-6564, complete with graphics and processor and dual slots just waiting for your DIMMs. Again, though, no price for mere consumers.

Update: Ya’ll never fail to impress. Moments after this post went live commenter Brent found these for sale (individually) at a reasonable $329.

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Can you smell it in the air? Autumn is most assuredly here. Sure, you can deduce as much from equinoxes or changing leaves, but if you ask us, it’s almost just as precise to go by a new, pre-holiday product cycle. Acer‘s taken the cue with two new desktop SKUs — one each in the nettop and all-in-one categories. First with the latter: the 21.5-inch AZ3100 all-in-one (pictured). A tier lower than the AZ5700, this one lacks the multitouch and TV tuner, and instead utilizes a 2GHz AMD Athlon II 170u processor, NVIDIA GeForce 9200 graphics, 3GB RAM, and 500GB HDD. Add in a DVD drive, webcam, HDMI, six USB 2.0 ports, Windows 7 Home Premium, and a side chassis for “cable management.” It does best its older brother in the price category, though, at just $599 — about five Benjamins lower.

As for the Aspire Revo 3700, it was actually announced earlier this month, but now we’ve got the skinny on this book-sized nettop’s price and availability. That’d be $349 for the tag, and a street date of approximately… now, according to the press release. Speaking of which, all pertinent paperwork can be found after the break.

Continue reading Acer unveils AMD-infused Aspire Z3100 AIO, Revo 3700 nettop now available for $349

Acer unveils AMD-infused Aspire Z3100 AIO, Revo 3700 nettop now available for $349 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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About nine months ago ASUS released its 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201N to much fanfare. It was the first “netbook” to pack NVIDIA’s Ion platform and a desktop-class Atom processor. Translation: it absolutely wrecked regular netbooks (and even other Ion netbooks) on the graphics and performance battlefield. Indeed, the 1201N blurred the lines between netbook and regular laptop, but we ultimately knocked it fairly hard for not lasting longer than 2.5 hours on a charge — it was dubbed a “netbook” of course.

Our apologies for the brief history lesson, but it’s actually quite important in understanding why ASUS’ second generation of the 1201N is such a big deal. The 1215N has a Pine Trail 1.8GHz dual-core Atom D525 processor and NVIDIA’s Ion 2 with Optimus, which no longer requires the GPU to be running the entire time and saves battery power. The $500 rig (though we’re seeing it on sale for as much as $599) is still on the pricey side for a “netbook,” but promises 1080p playback, seven hours of battery life and a 250GB hard drive. So, does the 1215N correct all the wrongs of the 1201N and live up to the “netbook powerhouse” title that ASUS has given it? And more importantly can it compete with some of the newer thin and light laptops, like the Dell Inspiron M101z? We found out, and we’re assuming you want to as well in our full review after the break.

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ASUS Eee PC 1215N review  originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s baaaack. Okay, it never really went anywhere, but thanks to a very nice tipster we learned that Fusion Garage released a new software update for the JooJoo last night. The new 0.2.4 firmware, as you can see from the shot above, adds a few previously-lacking features such as the ability to store passwords, calibrate the screen, and basic USB support. Obviously, we couldn’t help but whip out our JooJoo review unit and try it all out. The download didn’t take more than three minutes and, lo’ and behold, we were able to log into Twitter, close the browser, and then launch it again without having to log back in! However, more impressive is that its sole USB port is now functioning. We put a 1080p trailer of Scott Pilgrim on a flash drive, plugged it into the side of the tablet, and miraculously the NVIDIA Ion chip was finally put to work — it handled the clip with ease and with absolutely zero stuttering. Don’t believe us? Video after the break, so there.

[Thanks, Mark]

Continue reading JooJoo software update adds local video playback and password storage, still a few months too late

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