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Tried booting your corporate PC lately? Dollars to donuts it takes longer than three minutes to complete. The point? You need Sandy Bridge, and you need it now. Dell’s hoping your IT department will agree, with the introduction of the Vostro 460 mini tower bringing along Intel’s second generation Core processors (Core i5 and Core i7 options are available), Turbo Boost 2.0 and an understated design. Customers can also load it up with as much as 3TB of storage, a Blu-ray drive, 1GB NVIDIA or AMD discrete graphics card and a USB 3.0 expansion card. You’ll also get a tool-less chassis, eight USB 2.0 ports, inbuilt security services from Trend Micro and a starting price of $599. Surely that fits into the Q1 budget somewhere, right?

Dell implants Sandy Bridge CPUs within biz-minded Vostro 460 mini tower originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As they say, there’s no accounting for taste. They called David Klein crazy when he gave the world gourmet jelly beans–until they started selling like gourmet hot cakes. And now, more than three decades later, they’re calling him crazy again, just because he’s given the world candy shaped like a bottle of urine.

The man behind Reagan’s favorite snack food has attempted to strike gold for decades since having his best known invention bought out. Klein’s latest confectionary concoctions all seem to largely revolve around the medically grotesque.

In recent years, he’s given the world a gummy gangrened toe, bloody nose, and vomit. There’s also The World’s Largest Gummy Heart, a two and a half pound concoction that looks like a severed heart in a Styrofoam tray. That’ll run you $30. There’s also Formula Pee, a candy bottle of lemon-flavored pee.

It’s the heart that Klein’s banking on as his next success story. He asked AOL, “what’s more perfect than a heart on Valentine’s Day?”

No if only you could get it to say, “Be Mine…”

It’s been nearly a week and we’re still trying to figure out exactly what was going on during Samsung’s wild CES 2011 keynote – even though we liveblogged it, talked about it on the showcast, and named it best presser of CES, we’re not sure you can fully understand the insanity of the dancers, the random moments, and a futureboy named Zoll unless you’ve seen it yourself. Samsung’s put the whole thing up on YouTube in six segments (you can find the first below) but we cut together a little highlight reel you can watch above. Trust us — it’s worth it.

Continue reading Samsung’s crazy CES 2011 keynote — the highlight reel

Samsung’s crazy CES 2011 keynote — the highlight reel originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, in addition to being one of the coolest and largest nations in the world, China now has the distinction, at least for the time being, of having the longest bridge in the world. The Qingdao Haiwan Bridge — at 26.4 miles long — in Shandong Province is almost three miles longer than the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, which was the previous record holder for the longest bridge over water in the world (the longest bridge in the world period is also in China). The bridge took four years to build — lightning fast by American construction standards — and cost around $8.5 billion dollars. It was designed by Shandong Gausu Group and built by about 10,000 workers.

China has built the longest bridge in the world… so you don’t have to dig that hole originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Disguised as a mere toy, the original Mindflex is actually a kind of limited telekinesis simulator in that it allows you to control the up and down movements of a ball suspended in air by, well, flexing your brain. With the release of the Mindflex Duel, you can now test your telekinetic prowess against that of your closest friends. That’s right, Mattel’s latest offering allows you to play what amounts to tug-of-war (with a tiny foam ball) using only the power of your mind. The Duel also lets people play cooperatively, but that doesn’t sound like nearly as much fun as hooking this to a stim unit for a little friendly competition and some elevated stakes for the loser. We’re not sure why, but the mind games won’t start until August, though the device is currently available for pre-order on Amazon for $99.99.

Mattel’s Mindflex Duel in the works, allows true test of wills originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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