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Pill poppers rejoice! AT&T-connected Vitality GlowCaps are finally available on Amazon. The intelligent pill caps, which use flashing lights and audio reminders, as well as phone calls and SMS, to remind forgetful patients that it’s down-the-hatch time, retail between $10 and $15 a month through a Vitality connectivity service plan. Details of GlowCap’s functionality were still up in the air when we got our hands on one back in March, but it looks like AT&T and Vitality have ironed out all the smart Rx kinks. Basically, your pill bottle lights up and chimes when it’s time for your meds. As soon as you open the bottle, adherence data is then sent via AT&T to Vitality, who then passes that data on to you, your doctor, and any other approved party, in the form of progress reports. They’re also equipped to automatically refill your prescription when the bottle gets low. Considering you still remember what that little light means when it appears (and you don’t have a penchant for over-medicating), GlowCap might just save your life. We’ve been using ours for about a month now, and still haven’t kicked the bucket — review coming soon.

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Vitality GlowCaps smart pill bottle toppers now available on Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Is your Xbox 360’s bundled controller not loving you quite like it should? Razer’s ready to pick you up on the rebound with its updated Onza controller for Microsoft’s console. The Tournament Edition offers analog sticks with adjustable resistance, an improved D-pad, backlit action buttons, and a pair of added programmable keys. The Standard version eschews the backlight and analog customizability, but keeps the other improvements. Pre-orders for both begin on January 17th, with the Tournament costing $50 / €50 and the Standard asking for $40 / €40.

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Razer refreshes Onza 360 controller with new Tournament and Standard Editions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dell hasn’t had a regular booth or presser at CES in a few years now — the company chooses to bunker down in a suite at the Palms instead. That’s where we’re currently hangin’, waiting to see what Round Rock has in store for us this year — and there’s a huge Alienware Hummer parked outside, so we’re definitely expecting some gaming news. But what else will Dell do? Another Adamo-bearing model? Another super-hasty Streak hands-on in a back alley? We’ll find out soon enough.

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Live from Dell’s CES 2011 press event originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Both Sony and Vizio have already quietly dropped word that Skype would be heading to their respective internet-connected TVs, but Skype itself has now made the move fully official, a full year after it offered the first demo of Skype on a Panasonic VieraCast TV at CES 2010. Unfortunately, it isn’t offering many more details than Sony or Vizio, and it’s using both “coming soon” and “later this year” to describe the rollout on TVs from the two companies, which leaves open a depressingly long and confusing possible launch window. What’s more, Skype has also confirmed that it’s working with Panasonic and Sony to bring some added connectivity to your existing TV with the aid of a Skype-enabled Blu-ray player and webcam — look for those “soon.”

Skype gets official with apps for Sony Bravia, Vizio VIA TVs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As we eagerly wait for Netflix and VUDU to hit the peppy, young Boxee Box, The New York Times is reporting that the company has inked a deal with CBS for selling episodes through the software platform. As you know, the aforementioned network has traditionally tread carefully in the digital distro arena, while this is the first such deal between Boxee and a television network. “It’s a major step for us, working with the biggest network in the U.S.,” said the company, who expressed hopes that this is “the beginning of more deals with more major content providers both here in the U.S. and abroad.” Just what we needed: more ways to watch Two and a Half Men.

Boxee makes deal with CBS for digital content sales originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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