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Dell’s ultra-light Adamo is getting a price drop, which should make a bit more competitive with Apples’s entry into the space, the MacBook Air. The low-end Adamo now costs $1,500–the same as the low-end Air.

The company has dropped the price of its high-end Adamo down to $2,230, which is still a bit pricier than the top-of-the-line Macbook Air, which runs $1,800–though for the record, that configuration of the Dell has 3G built-in and twice the RAM of the Apple at 4GB.

You’ve known how to wirelessly connect the music on your computer with your massive hi-fi speakers since about the dawn of the caveman, but that doesn’t mean Creative won’t try to make it seem revolutionary. The company has this week announced immediate availability of its Sound Blaster Wireless for iTunes, which essentially functions as a wireless adapter for any pair of regular old speakeroonies. The name is a marketing-inspired misnomer as the device will work with all manner of software, including Windows Media Player, Napster, Rhapsody, LastFM and even YouTube. The relative straightforwardness of this unit is appealing, though we’re skeptical about Creative’s claims of zero signal drop-offs, given that transmissions are done via the already crowded 2.4GHz wireless frequency. If you just have to hear it for yourself, entry fee is $149.99.

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As reported yesterday, a 25-year-old employee of Taiwanese technology company Foxconn jumped to his death last week after one of 16 prototypes of the forthcoming iPhone went missing. Now the company has announced the suspension of a security official.

There’s little in the way of details regarding the suspension of the worker who has only been identified at “Gu,” though, according to a statement by the company, the employee has been turned over to Chinese authorities.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling told Bloomberg, “”We are saddened by the tragic loss of this employee. We require that our suppliers treat all workers with dignity and respect.”

The original PSP was never the most svelte of handhelds, and we’ve generally not been fans of accessories that make it even bigger — bulky battery packs and card readers and the like. So, the V-Screen from RealView already has one strike against it, since it looks larger even than the console itself. That it promises to do something impossible is a second strike, saying it can create “a fully 3 dimensional experience from the PSP screen” — supposedly making all of your 2D games played on a 2D screen appear 3D. To us it looks a high-end version of those magnifying glasses we used to stick on our green, postage stamp Game Boy screens back in the day, and while we expect it to be just as effective, we’ll reserve full judgment until the thing releases this fall and some reviews trickle in. That said, it doesn’t look to be PSPgo compatible, and that could be the third strike right there.

[Via Joystiq]

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RealView’s V-Screen for PSP pledges to add depth where there is none originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It was over a year ago that UC Berkeley introduced the world to CellScope, the 60x microscope for cellphones made from cheap, off the shelf components (like a re-purposed belt clip). Now, even though we’re disappointingly still not seeing this thing in stores, there’s an upgraded version able to take pictures of even smaller nasties. Using a filter the scope can now spot microscopic critters tagged with dye that glows under fluorescent light — things like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (that’s the cause of TB if you, like us, lack a med degree). A software app is able to then count the number of cells within a given sample and tell you whether to worry about that annoying cough. There’s still no word on whether this product will ever actually start scoping out such things in the wild, but we certainly hope it will — if only so that we can keep our vast collection of cellphone accessories complete. Video after the break.

[Via Crave]

Continue reading CellScope, the cellphone microscope, gets UV upgrade to spot tiny glowing things

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CellScope, the cellphone microscope, gets UV upgrade to spot tiny glowing things originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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