Hasta La Gadget!

Believe it or not, the crew at Engadget HQ will be packing up and headed to CES 2011 a fortnight from today, and it looks as if quite a few undercover products from NEC will be making the same trip. The company has just revealed that its single-screen Cloud Communicator tablet will be on display, but moreover, a dual-screen version will be making it awfully tough for the former to get any attention whatsoever. Now, dual-screen devices aren’t exactly new, but an Android tablet with a pair of 7-inch LCDs is definitely more inciting than Kno’s education-minded megabook and the two-faced e-readers that swarmed CES 2010. Details on the hardware are few and far betwixt, with NEC only revealing that both panels will be touch-enabled, WiFi, 3G and Bluetooth modules will be baked in and that a stylus will be included for good measure. Also, it’ll fully support the use of different programs on each LCD, which — if executed properly — could melt our faces into the desert sand below. Sadly, our prying for images got us nowhere, but we’re assured to see more at next month’s extravaganza. Hang tight.

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It’s on, suckers. Motorola just sent us this “Tablet Evolution” teaser video for their CES 2011 announcements, and it doesn’t mince any words — it calls the iPad a “giant iPhone” and says the Samsung Galaxy Tab is running Android “for a phone” before closing out with a buzzing bee over that new red Motorola logo. That certainly suggests some Honeycomb action to us — and it fits perfectly with Andy Rubin demonstrating the next-gen version of Android on a Motorola tablet back at D: Dive Into Mobile. You know, the tablet that’s since leaked out with a Verizon logo on it. Yeah, we’re ready for this to go down — and you know we’ll be there live as it happens.

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Artists and geeks have a lot in common. Namely, they often share the plight of social awkwardness, a trait that grants them the freedom (or perhaps, sentence) to fritter hours upon hours toiling away at their chosen pursuit. Be they Wozniak or Duchamp, Zuckerberg or Banksy, these peculiar creatures of culture place a singular effort into building the next great technology or crafting aesthetic perfection.

On occasion, these two wonders of society are merged into one. The above video is an effort of three “artists” who spent three days that they will never get back working in the medium of Google Docs Presentation software to create a fairly impressive animation sequence. This is just about the geekiest piece of art since the multi-faceted image made in MS Paint that took four years to complete (video of that amazing and sad creation after the jump).

File this one in the making lemons out of lemonade category. Remember all of those booms used to help curb the flow of oil during this year’s massive Gulf Coast spill? There were 100 miles of them in all. Yeah, well, General Motors will be collecting them up to make parts for the latest version of the Chevy Volt.

The car maker plans to collect 100,000 pounds of booms in all, turning the plastic resin into air deflectors, which will go into the vehicle’s radiator. The deflectors will be made up entirely of recycled parts–a quarter will come from the booms, another quarter from recycled tires, and the rest from other assorted recycled parts.

Says GM’s manager of waste reduction, John Bradburn,

This was purely a matter of helping out. If sent to a landfill, these materials would have taken hundreds of years to begin to break down and we didn’t want to see the spill further impact the environment. We knew we could identify a beneficial reuse of this material given our experience.

Biddle’s got the classics, GoreTex-ified. Mascari has ’em in brown, (iconoclast), and I’ve got the tall fleecey ones—I hate getting cold ankles. Blam might order a pair. I’m talking about the L.L.Bean Boot: the accidental, unofficial shoe of Gizmodo. More »