May 20

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide coming June 2 for $180

Posted in: Android, Google, HTC, qwerty, slider, t-mobile, Today's Chili

So T-Mobile’s myTouch 3G Slide — the QWERTY-enabled version of the venerable myTouch 3G — has been priced and dated, and we’re happy to see that “expected to be available in June” has turned out to mean the very beginning of the month; June 2, to be exact, in your choice of red, white, or black. What makes us less happy, though, is the notion of paying $179.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate for an Android device that now has the unenviable job of lying in the massive shadow created by the brilliant EVO 4G. Granted, the two phones are for very different carriers, but that doesn’t really excuse T-Mobile from offering up a phone with a lower-class processor, 40 percent of the screen resolution, and three megapixels lopped off the camera for just $30 less upfront, does it? Time for some serious price correction across the smartphone landscape, wethinks.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide coming June 2 for $180 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 20

Apple Lets Customers Use Cash to Buy iPads

Posted in: Apple, ipad, Today's Chili

You can use cash to buy airplane tickets. But since the iPad’s launch, Apple has had a strict credit card-only policy in place, for fear that customers would buy iPads by the boatload, in order to sell them off at inflated prices in countries where they’re not yet available.

Apple apparentlymade a rare policy change this week, according to the following plea from Diane Campbell, a viewer of the Bay Area ABC affiliate, KGO: “Mr. Jobs, give a sister a break. I’m not going to go sell my iPad.”

Apple responded by reversing its policy, telling the station:

About a month ago, we said we’d like you to use a credit card when you buy your iPad, and that was the best way we could think of to make sure that people only bought two per individual. And then it came to our attention that Diane [Campbell], through your story, was very interested in buying an iPad with cash, and we made a decision today to change that.

Of course, some might point out that the initial shortage of iPads has ended, and the device is set to go on sale internationally next week. Thankfully, we’re not that cynical.

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May 20

HP expands laptop battery recall, again

Posted in: HP, laptop, Today's Chili

HP's expands latptop battery recall, againWe haven’t heard any tales of exploding batteries in quite some time, and we’re sure that’s in large part thanks to proactive battery recalls like the one HP has been running since about this time last year. However, it’s a little disconcerting that this recall keeps getting expanded. For the second time a new group of laptops are being added to the pile, entries from the Pavilion, Compaq Presario, and other lines manufactured between August of 2007 and May of 2008. We have the complete chart included below. If you’re included the bad news is that your aging laptop could explode and wipe out your entire neighborhood at any moment. But, the good news is… free replacement battery!

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HP expands laptop battery recall, again originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 20

Live from the Google I/O 2010 day 2 keynote!

Posted in: Android, froyo, Google, GoogleAndroid, LiveBlog, Today's Chili

Yesterday’s Google I/O keynote brought about a number of big newsbits — a Chrome web app store, the open WebM video format, and so forth — but even more tantalizing were Vic Gundotra’s not-so-subtle hints at some major announcements coming at today’s keynote. Will we finally get some details on Android’s latest updates on the food roadmap?

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Live from the Google I/O 2010 day 2 keynote! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 11:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 20

NVIDIA GTX 465 detailed ahead of June 1 launch, GTX 460 also rumored

Posted in: GraphicsCard, leak, NVIDIA, rumor, Today's Chili

Hey, you there, wanna check out some unreleased new hardware from NVIDIA? Donanimhaber, the same site that brought us early (and accurate) specs of the GTX 470 and 480, is back with the above shot of an ASUS-built GTX 465 that is intended to entice the more mainstream crowd into the Fermi party. Essentially a GF100 with its wingtips trimmed, this’ll offer the same 607MHz graphics and 1,215MHz processor clock speeds of the 470, but comes with a narrower 256-bit memory interface, a tamer 3.2GHz effective memory clock, 352 rather than 448 CUDA cores, and — happily — lower power requirements. This word is also corroborated by Bit-tech, whose scribes expect a launch at the start of Computex. The Turkish site also has news of a GTX 460, which they say will show up in the middle of July with 768MB of GDDR5, while also being “cheaper and slower” than the 465. Hit the Hexus link below for some early benchmarks of the latter card.

NVIDIA GTX 465 detailed ahead of June 1 launch, GTX 460 also rumored originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 20

Quartet of Dell Streaks spotted in the wild in Seattle, testing for AT&T

Posted in: Android, att, GoogleAndroid, streak, Today's Chili

Image credit: Seattle Times

It’s not often you see four unreleased gadgets rather unceremoniously attached to a plank of wood on the sidewalk, but that’s exactly what Seattle Times blogger Brier Dudley spotted: four Dell Streaks all in a row. AT&T network technicians were apparently verifying performance of the devices on the company’s 3G network and also ensuring their ability to send accurate e-911 information. Among the four was a bright crimson model, but sadly the pink and orange versions we’re holding out for were not present on this particular piece of timber. We should be just a few weeks away from the Streak going fully public, at which point you can hopefully find something a little more suitable to which to attach yours.

[Thanks, Kris Hill]

Quartet of Dell Streaks spotted in the wild in Seattle, testing for AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 May 2010 10:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 20

Voice-Controlled Alarm-Clock Does Your Bidding

Posted in: household, Today's Chili

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Like me, most of you have probably given up on purpose-made alarm clocks in favor of a cellphone under the pillow, or the less brain-boiling option of an iPod or other non-cellular clock.

Unlike me, you probably get out of bed when the alarm rings, or at least after a few rounds of hitting snooze and nodding back off (I just kick the Lady out of bed and wait for her to awaken me with coffee and a smoothie).

But the most annoying part of getting up – having to actually move and press buttons whilst still groggy from dreams of being chased through treacle-aired street – is removed from this little Moshi alarm clock, a “digital” clock radio that can be silenced merely by telling it to shut up.

The voice-activated Moshi will use its digital AM/FM tuner to provide the wake-up music, and it can also lull you to sleep with your own music by hooking up an external source through a line-in jack. Snooze time is the industry standard nine minutes, allowing you to roll back into your stupor simply by whispering the correct instruction. You can even tune the radio and set the alarm via voice, but those are probably best done when you aren’t moaning groggily and slurring your words.

The Voice Control Digital Clock Radio will cost you $70. For those still unconvinced, Moshi is planning an iPhone app soon, which should let you simple moan “Just let me sleeeeeep” into your pillow and the iPhone thereunder will obediently comply. Available now.

Voice Control Digital Clock Radio [Moshi. Thanks, Valerie!]


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May 20

Honl Adds Softbox to Light-Shaping Tools

Posted in: flash, Today's Chili

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Dave Honl, our favorite maker of light-shaping tools, has added a circular soft-box to his lineup of small-flash accessories. The nylon and polyethylene cone folds flat and joins Dave’s snoots, grids and reflectors. The big difference between the new traveller8 softbox is that, as its name suggests, it softens light and spreads it out. All Dave Honl’s other kit is designed to control and focus light exactly where you want it.

The traveller8 attaches to the small flash head the same way as all the other Honl modifiers: You wrap around the included rubberized, Velcro Speed Strap and the soft-box then Velcros onto this. Folded, the soft cone is around 11 x 9-inches, and weighs in at under four ounces.

The traveller8 may seem expensive at $70, but if it is made to the same standards of the rest of the range (which we have tested), then it should last you just shy of forever.

Honl Photo traveller8 Softbox [Honlphoto via Strobist]

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May 20

MyFive: Most Popular Searches on eBay

Posted in: Today's Chili

This article was written on December 02, 2007 by CyberNet.

Ever wondered what people search for most on eBay? Thanks to eBay pulse, you can find out! eBay Pulse is a daily snapshot of current trends on eBay. You can view the overall most popular, or you can select a specific category. Today we’ll look at both the most popular all around and then we’ll take a look at some of the categories that might interest you like computers, cameras, and more.

Overall Most Popular Searches

  1. iPhone
  2. iPod
  3. Wii
  4. Car insurance (huh? people search for car insurance on eBay?)
  5. Xbox 360

Most Popular Searches in Computers and Networking

  1. Laptop
  2. Dell
  3. Apple
  4. Desktop
  5. HP

It’s amazing to me that the most popular search is simply “laptop.” You’d think people would go to eBay with a particular model in mind having researched it first before buying.

Most Popular Searches in Cell Phones & PDAs

  1. iPhone
  2. Verizon
  3. Nokia
  4. Cingular
  5. Blackberry

Most Popular Searches in Cameras & Photo

  1. Digital Camera
  2. Canon
  3. Nikon
  4. Leica
  5. Sony

Apparently Canon is the most popular brand of cameras on eBay?

Most Popular Searches in Consumer Electronics

  1. Macintosh
  2. iPod
  3. Marantz
  4. Krell
  5. Rotel

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May 20

Convertible Coffee-Table Desk, for Tall People With Short Arms

Posted in: household, Today's Chili

convertible-tableThere’s likely a reason that Hammacher Schlemmer’s product page for the Convertible Coffee Table doesn’t show any pictures of people using it. It would probably crick your spine into a Quasimodo-hunch within mere moments of springing it open.

The table sits innocently in your living room, its slightly too-tall shape providing a shiny brown surface, just like any other coffee-table. But when you need to scoff a TV dinner or get some work done on your notebook computer, the lid pops open and rises up like the lid-activated storage drawers in a toolbox. The birch-veneer and walnut-covered top pantographs 15-inches towards you and sits at a height of 31-inches, a makeshift desk that sits… Right in front of your face.

If you’re wondering, that’s too high. I sat on my sofa and measured. 31-inches is around my chest height, and I’m over six-two. In fact, this desk is higher than my actual desk. Moreover, it is higher than my desk was before I cut the legs down so I could use it comfortably (and yes, I have a proper adjustable chair).

If you’re looking for a coffee table, then, which will flip up and allow very tall people with high chairs to use it as a work-surface, then go ahead and spend the $200. If you’re planning on using this as a quick way to more comfortably do some work whilst lazing on the sofa, or to safely eat a snack, forget it. Unless you are Mr. Fantastic, or have the body proportions of a T-rex, you’ll be sweeping those Doritos directly off the table-top and letting them drop into your mouth.

The Convertible Coffee Table [Hammacher Schlemmer via Oh Gizmo!]


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