Jan 05

Mophie Pulse Turns Your iPod Touch Into a Gaming Device

Posted in: Apple, ipod, Today's Chili, video games

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Is the iPod touch the ultimate portable gaming device? Not quite, but strapping one of these Mophie cases on the thing certainly puts it up there. The Pulse adds forward-facing speakers, pulsing game vibration, textured gaming grips, and enhanced stereo for the many games the iTunes App Store has to offer.
Oh, it’s also a case, too. There’s a nice little hole carved out in the back for taking pictures. I had a chance to play with the thing last night at CES Unveiled. It’s pretty slick–for a prototype. Mophie hasn’t actually offered any release or pricing details on the thing–or when it’s coming out with a version for the iPhone, though we were assured that that’s on the way as well.
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Jan 05

Kodak Launches Two Pocket Camcorders

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Now they’re no tablets, but it seems we’re destined to see a whole slew of of pocket camcorders this CES. Kodak fired the first shot today with two Flip competitors–the Kodak Playfull, and the Playsport Zx5 (sensing a bit of a theme with these names).
The Kodak Playfull is a skinny, compact camcorder, measuring 0.7 inches thick. It offers 1080p video at 30 frames a second or 720p at 60 frames. It can also capture 5MP stills. There’s a 1.5-inch display on the thing that auto adjusts to the light in the room. Built-in software lets you add effects to the video directly on the camera. The camera also has an SD slot for expanded memory.
The Playsport Zx5, meanwhile, is an update to the rugged Zx3. The camera is waterproof up to 10 feet and is booth shockproof and dustproof–so you can get the thing dirty. It shoots 1080p video at 30 frames a second or 720p at 60 frames, features a 2-inch LCD, and has an SD card slot.
The Playfull and Playsport will both be available in the spring, for $149.95 and $179.95, respectively. 
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Jan 05

PayPal Beefing Up Security with Password Key Fobs

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This article was written on January 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

PayPal/VeriSign PayPal is in the process of beefing up their security by offering a password key fobs to users.  They have been a favored target of phishers for a long time.  Recently, a security researcher found that about half of all phishing sites target either eBay or PayPal. Clearly, extra protection would definitely be a welcome addition to the standard password, and much needed.

This one-time password is a six digit code that changes every 30 seconds.  It would work by users entering their typical login and password, and then additionally entering in the generated code which acts as an extra layer of protection. PayPal has been testing this with their employees for a couple of months now, and they expect consumer trials to begin next month.Users will sign up  via a special website that will be available in the U.S., Germany, and Australia.  Eventually they plan to expand this program to other countries as well.

This key fob will be $5 for personal accounts and free for business accounts.  Even $5 for some of those personal account holders may be enough to keep them from using this protection.  It would be nice if PayPal offered this as a free service for anybody that wanted to use it.  As of the end of September, there were 123 million PayPal accounts! With that many accounts, just think about the number of transactions that are handled each day, but also the fraudulent transactions as well.

Back in 2005, eBay entered into a partnership with Security Technology Company VeriSign.  This code generator is based on technology from them. Many financial firms already use this type of security, so it’s great to see PayPal taking an extra step to protect all of those 123 million accounts. The ones that pay the 5 dollars anyways…

PayPal Security Key FAQ and View Demo

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Jan 05

AT&T Launching 12 Android, 20 4G Devices in 2011

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Lots of big numbers from AT&T today at the company’s CES press conference. Two of the more impressive ones came directly from the telecom giant’s CEO, Ralph de la Vega: 12 and 20. Twelve is the number of Android devices the company will be offering in 2011. Twenty is the number of 4G devices the company will be offering in that same time period.
AT&T is set to roll out its 4G LTE network in the middle of the year. The 20 phones include Android and Windows Phone handsets, as well as at least one from Apple (iPhone 4G?, iPad 4G?). The Motorola Atrix and HTC Inspire 4G will be the first 4G handsets for the new network.
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Jan 05

ThinkGeek Unveils the JOYSTICK-IT iPad Joystick Controller

Posted in: controller, gaming, ipad, Miscellaneous Tech, Tech Toys, Today's Chili, video games
Likely the result of an April Fool’s joke turned serious, the new JOYSTICK-IT iPad Controller from ThinkGeek addresses a problem that a number of iPad gamers have with their games: that virtual thumbsticks on the iPad screen aren’t that much fun to use. The JOYSTICK-IT controller looks and feels like a real arcade joystick, it just sticks to the iPad’s display right over where the virtual joystick is positioned, and you can play like normal. 
The JOYSTICK-IT isn’t the first iPad controller we’ve seen this week: yesterday TenOne Designs unveiled the Fling controller for iPad at the Consumer Electronics Show with a much different design. Alternatively, the JOYSTICK-IT actually looks and functions like a joystick, and is completely removable and replaceable depending on where the virtual controls in your game of choice are on-screen. 
While you can’t pre-order the JOYSTICK-IT, you can sign up to be notified when the JOYSTICK-IT is up for sale at ThinkGeek’s Web site. The company says it will be available in late January for $24.99 retail price.
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Jan 05

The Smartfish Engage Keyboard Moves with You While You Type

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Making sure your workspace is ergonomic is more important than a lot of people realize until their wrists and neck start hurting from typing while slouched in front of a computer all day. Smartfish Technologies has been in the business of ergonomic peripherals for years now, and their newest product, the Engage Keyboard, is an ergonomic design that moves to adjust itself to your typing habits while you use it. 
If you keep your hands farther apart than most keyboards allow, you can slide the left and right sides of the keyboard apart, instead of forcing your wrists into an unnatural position while typing. The same is true for your typing angle: the keyboard can adjust the angle that it rests on your desk to match the angle and height you type from. The Engage Keyboard moves with you while you type so your hands and wrists are never in a single, static position while you work. 
Smartfish unveiled the keyboard at CES in Las Vegas this week, and has it on display at the show. It’s available now to order from SmartFish’s Web site for $149.95 list price.
 
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Jan 05

Cinemin Slice: iPad Dock Meets Pico Projector

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WowWee had at least one surprise up its sleeve at this year’s CES. The company last night showed off the Cinemin Slice, an iPad speaker dock that features a rear pico projector.


The Slice can project images up to 60 inches, with a viewable range of up to 125 inches. It projects at 16 ANSI lumens. Images are projected in a WVGA resolution at a 16:9 aspect ratio and a 100:1 contrast ratio. It features a 90 hinge and manual focus.

The 30-pin dock lets you plug in and charge your iPad, iPod, or iPhone. There’s also a Mini-HDMI and AV ports for plugging in other media players and a VGA port for computers.

The Cinemin Slice is coming later this month and is available now for pre-order from WowWee. It’ll run you around $430.

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Jan 05

Doctor Who, Top Gear Play Tunes at CES

Posted in: MP3 Digital Audio, Today's Chili

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The BBC is getting into audio. Or at least, it’s licensing out two of its biggest brands to be used as speakers, created by Speakal, a company known for making cutesy speaker bases and iPod docks, such as the iPig, iBoo, and the flower shaped iPom.

The first: the helmet worn by The Stig on Top Gear, which will hold an iPhone or iPod touch (or maybe any audio device) nestled up top. It has an integrated subwoofer, digital amp, and 25W output.

And of course, there’s a police call box, circa 1963. Better known as the TARDIS, the blue box is typically seen as a (not-very-well) camouflaged time machine used by a former renegade Time Lord, now the last of his people, who likes to randomly pick up women from Earth and take them on adventures. This version doesn’t appear to have a dock, but will instead work with any media player that supports Bluetooth playback. No word yet on the price. You’ll have to supply your own traveling companion.

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Jan 05

LG Intros Glasses-Free Mobile 3D Display

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Move over, Nintendo’s baby-eye-frying 3DS. LG today announced that it’s also getting into the glasses-free mobile 3D device game. The company didn’t actually reveal a product, so much as so off a new 4.3-inch 3D display that will be used in future devices.

The WVGA touchscreen measures 480-by-900 pixels. LG calls its 4.3 inches “the optimum screen size for watching 3D on a mobile device.” Here’s the info behind the technology:

LG’s 3D display uses an applied parallax barrier technology, which delivers a series of light-blocking slits attached to the front of the LCD panel. The slits, or barriers, ensure that the left and right eyes see different images, creating an illusion of depth and a thoroughly convincing 3D effect.

Working closely with LG Display, LG has also drastically reduced crosstalk. The new display has straighter, more upright barriers that are very precisely aligned to the LCD panel. This technological advance not only means smoother, brighter, crosstalk-free images, but also a wider viewing angle than on previous parallax displays.

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Jan 05

Motorola’s Atrix Android Phone: Twin CPU Cores And a Laptop Dock! [Motorola]

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It runs Android 2.2, with HTML5 support, and is AT&T’s first dual-core processor in an Android phone. And it docks into a laptop. They’re calling it the world’s most powerful smartphone. ORLY? More »

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