Dec 09

Sour’s ‘Mirror’ browser-based music video is absolutely wild

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Is Japanese band Sour’s “Mirror” music video the single best thing we’ve ever seen in a browser? It probably is. Load it up in Safari or Chrome and make sure you connect your Facebook, Twitter, and webcam — we tried it out and it’s totally fine. In fact, it’s more than fine. It’s stunning. Why can’t HTML5 and Flash always play this nicely together?

Sour’s ‘Mirror’ browser-based music video is absolutely wild originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 30

Icon Notebook: textual communication avenue for the Microsoft Word averse

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It looks like a document. It’s chock-full of documents. But not Microsoft Word documents. Only documents that could dream of one day being scanned in and converted to a Word document. It’s the Icon Notebook, brought to you by the brilliant minds at Brigada Creativa, and it’s on sale now for €6.95 ($9.34) direct from Spain. Which is a whole lot cheaper than a Word license, no matter the font you’re talking in.

Icon Notebook: textual communication avenue for the Microsoft Word averse originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Dec 2010 00:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 29

Nooka Zub Zayu watch has no hands, a name only Trevor Horn could love

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Call us suckers for odd watches if you must, but there is something about Nooka’s timepieces that make you take a second look. Keeping with the tradition of goofy “z” names (remember Nooka’s Zot and Zoo from a couple years back?), the Zub Zayu is ambidextrous and eschews hands for something called the “time capsule” display. And if that isn’t enough, it also goes into sleep mode to conserve juice. We just hope it comes back to life quicker than the iPod nano! Available now for $175.

Nooka Zub Zayu watch has no hands, a name only Trevor Horn could love originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 25

Syte Shirt redesigns iPad-toting version, introduces smartphone edition

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Look, it’s not embarrassing. We too are waltzing around the dinner table, iPad Syte Shirt on, with a slideshow of pilgrims and Tofurkys to really “showcase our spirit.” But what about the jubilant among us that aren’t about to part ways with their hard-earned clams in order to pick up an iPad? Enter the Smartphone Syte Shirt. Like the original, this all-black shirt is handmade in San Diego, but very much unlike the original, this one’s designed to hold your iPhone, Droid Incredible or whatever handset you so happen to own. Better still, there’s a zippered pouch at the top to prevent theft, and both landscape and portrait orientations are duly supported. The screen protector still accepts finger touches, and it’s both dust and water resistant — you know, in case your jealous bandmates decide to douse you when you refuse to remove it before heading out on stage. Hit the source link to order yours for $39.95. Seriously, do it. No one’s watching.

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Syte Shirt redesigns iPad-toting version, introduces smartphone edition originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 24

Portal gun to be auctioned off for Child’s Play charity

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The Portal gun. If you’ve been alive over the past year and change, you know exactly what we’re talking about. We can safely say our lives were changed after spending a few good minutes with Harrison Krix’s handmade replica in 2009, and soon you’ll have the golden opportunity to know exactly what we mean. Krix has constructed a new Portal gun, one that’s arguably more bodacious than ever, and there’s only one way to get it: outbid the Bro Montana next to you on December 7th. A Child’s Play Charity event auction will be held on that fateful day in Seattle, and it’ll be the one and only opportunity to have the pink slip transferred to you. Of course, monies received from the auction will benefit Child’s Play (a gaming industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 60 hospitals worldwide), and the bragging rights afforded to the winner will be fairly epic in scope. Head on past the break for a video of what’s up for grabs.

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Portal gun to be auctioned off for Child’s Play charity originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Nov 2010 21:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 15

Universal remote arrives within a pillow, makes channel surfing hip again

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It’s a pillow. And a remote. And if your powers of observation are anywhere near “strong,” you’ve probably deduced by now that you’re looking at a universal remote control… albeit one that’s wrapped within a pillow. We’ve seen similar creations come around in concept form, but leave it to the folks at Brookstone to turn this thing into a reality. Purportedly, this unit can be programmed to work with over 500 devices, and there’s a power-saving auto shutoff feature that’ll definitely be overrode by your incessant squeezing. We wouldn’t count on this thing actually working well, but for $29.95 (in addition to the cost of two AAA batteries, of course), we highly doubt you’ll find a more fashionable, lovable cube of cotton.

Universal remote arrives within a pillow, makes channel surfing hip again originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 31

Hundred Year Starship Initiative plans to put people on Mars by 2030, bring them back by… well, never (video)

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For a while now, there has been a conversation going on in certain circles (you know, space circles): namely, if the most prohibitive part of a manned flight to Mars would be the return trip, why bother returning at all? And besides the whole “dying alone on a hostile planet 55-million-plus kilometers from your family, friends, and loved ones” thing, we think it’s a pretty solid consideration. This is just one of the topics of discussion at a recent Long Now Foundation event in San Francisco, where NASA Ames Research Center Director Pete Worden discussed the Hundred Year Starship Initiative, a project NASA Ames and DARPA are undertaking to fund a mission to the red planet by 2030. Indeed if the space program “is now really aimed at settling other worlds,” as Worden said, what better way to encourage a permanent settlement than the promise that there will be no coming back — unless, of course, they figure out how to return on their own. Of course, it’s not like they’re being left to die: the astronauts can expect supplies from home while they figure out how to get things up and running. As Arizona State University’s Dr. Paul Davies, author of a recent paper in Journal of Cosmology, writes, “It would really be little different from the first white settlers of the North American continent, who left Europe with little expectation of return.” Except with much less gravity. See Worden spout off in the video after the break.

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Oct 19

dSolar panels for Mindstorms bring green power to your Lego creations

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When society collapses and the national energy infrastructure goes to pot, at least you’ll still be able to run your fantastical Lego Mindstorms NXT creations. That’s right: the fine folks at Dexter Industries are offering panels, batteries, and all the geegaws necessary to power your projects the old fashioned way: with the sun. The basic dSolar 2W System ($90) features a 9 volt solar panel with enough juice to power the NXt and a single motor in direct sunlight (about 250 mA). There is also a four watt system available for $100, as well as capacitor banks, parallel connectors for multiple panels, and more. Hit up the source link to get started — but not before you check out the video after the break.

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dSolar panels for Mindstorms bring green power to your Lego creations originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 13

OQO founder lists prototype handheld PCs on eBay

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This is definitely one for hardcore fans only: company founder Jory Bell has listed two of the very first prototype OQO computers on eBay. Sadly, they may or may not be bootable (you’d have to break out the soldering gun to figure that one out), but both will definitely look great in the self-styled “Museum of Legacy Computer Hardware, discontinued AD&D Modules, and Heavy Metal T-Shirts” you have going in your parents basement. What will the lucky winner receive for his hard-earned dough? The Brazil PC dates back to 2000 or 2001, and is missing many of the things (batteries, CF card) that actually lets it function. Fun, huh? The other prototype, ATTO, apparently held the Guinness World Record at one time for smallest PC. It includes a capacitive touchscreen display, firewire, an integrated antenna for WiFi and Bluetooth, and more. Feel like going nuts? You’ve got about a week to bid as of this writing, with the lot currently going for just over $4.

[Thanks, Picasso]

OQO founder lists prototype handheld PCs on eBay originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oct 07

Giant touchscreen vending machine at CEATEC stares us down, offers us a frosty beverage

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So we tracked down one of those crazy new touchscreen- and camera-enabled vending machines being deployed across Japan’s mass transit stations at CEATEC today; one of their claims to fame is that they’re WiMAX-enabled in order to receive ads and other high-bandwidth content, so local WiMAX provider UQ installed one of the units in its booth as a showcase of the kinds of wild and crazy things you can do with ludicrous speed. As much as we hate to admit it, we’re pretty sure we’d be consuming more overpriced juice, soda, tea, coffee, and water if we had one of these near our homes — seriously, how can you resist those cute rectangular eyes staring at you, slowly stealing your soul while asking you to “come by?”

Of course, the scary part about that is that the machine really can see you — it’s got a camera right above the display that detects your presence, makes some snap judgments about you based on largely accurate stereotypes, and recommends certain beverages (though you’re still free to choose whatever you like). The machine supports Suica payments — a popular NFC system in these parts — using either a Suica card or your appropriately-enabled phone, which makes blowing hundreds of yen on cans of Georgia Vintage coffee frighteningly simple. Follow the break for some video of the machine in action… or if you’re planning a trip to Japan in the next couple years, expect to see these around town in some of the high-traffic train stations.

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