Dec 10

Electrolux “Silence Amplified” vacuum with iPod dock and speakers probably sucks

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Crazy huh? Sure, but if your company just launched a commercial vacuum cleaner so quiet that it’s called the “UltraSilencer” then what better way to drive that point home than by adding an “iPod dock” (though that’s no iPod we’ve ever seen) and speakers to the damn thing? In fact, Electrolux has taken this Silence Amplified concept so far that they’ve conducted a lab study to prove that “music assisted vacuuming increases the number of nozzle sweeps, improves the cleaning result and leaves a general feeling of happiness.” Duh. Now go check the video evidence after the break.

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Dec 06

Touchtable mixer takes conventional PMP design for a wiki-wiki-twist

Posted in: concept, Music, PMP, sound, Today's Chili, touchpad

Not that we haven’t seen turntable capabilities shoved into production and concept devices alike before, but there’s something curiously seductive about this one. Dreamed up by Sir Thomas Mascall, the Touchtable is a pocket-sized PMP that boasts a digit-friendly surface meant for scratching, mixing and all manners of interacting. Aside from playing back your favorite MP3s, this bugger can (in theory, anyway) also mix jams on the fly, cue outputs and even connect with a second Touchtable wirelessly in order to establish a more traditional DJ setup (at 1:8 scale). Plug it into a PC, and now you’ve got a MIDI controller. Pop that source link if you’re looking for a few more images and details, and feel free to contact your local VC if interested in seeing this fast-tracked to the commercial realm.

Touchtable mixer takes conventional PMP design for a wiki-wiki-twist originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 03

Zii Trinity smartphone concept handled on video

Posted in: concept, media player, MediaPlayer, phone, prototype, smartphone, Today's Chili

It’s an all too brief look, but it’s infinitely more than we’ve seen so far. CNET Asia has managed some hands-on time the Zii Trinity concept smartphone. Quite a looker, and here we also get a glimpse of it next to the good ol’ Zii Egg. As noted by the narrator, the bottom proprietary slot can be swapped for microUSB or mini-HDMI, there’s a notably-sized 5 megapixel camera on the back, as well as one on the front for video conferencing. Enough talk, take a gander for yourself after the break.

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Zii Trinity smartphone concept handled on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Dec 03

Honda’s P-NUT concept is big on puns, short on realism

Posted in: car, concept, electric car, ElectricCar, hybrid, Today's Chili

We get it, Honda, you got some of your crack acronymists on the job and hobbled together Personal-Neo Urban Transport (P-NUT) to vaguely describe this new concept car. But the car itself? It’s interesting, we’ll give it that. The primary idea seems to be the single seat in front for the driver, with two rear seats in the leg-room optimized “flanking” positions. There’s also a modular rear engine bay for working with a regular internal combustion engine, hybrid setup or pure electric power, along with a heads up display in the front windshield. It seems fun, and we like all the legroom, but we won’t start building any locomotion dreams upon the thin, salty shell of P-NUT just yet. Video is after the break.

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Dec 02

Video: Sports Illustrated Makes a Play for a Tablet App

Posted in: Apple, concept, Media Players, tablets, Today's Chili, videos


Wired’s parent company Conde Nast isn’t the only publisher taking touchscreen tablets seriously. Time Warner wants to get in on the game, too. The video above shows off its concept tablet treatment of Sports Illustrated, packed with interactive videos and graphics to create an addictive media experience. We’re impressed.

Meanwhile, while we’re still in iTablet fantasy land, Digg.com’s latest episode of Diggnation makes some allusions to Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet. Co-host Alex Abrecht claims he has inside knowledge on the pricing: “I was shocked at how cheap the price point is going to be.” But he offers nothing more beyond that. See that video below.

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Nov 30

USB Inserts bring ads into the print age and back again… or something

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Be honest: you really want to crack open a magazine and find one of these paper-thin USB key ads, right? No? Well… here’s the thing. We really think this is a cool concept — made to order, super slim, die cut USB drives that can be tucked in the pages of a newspaper or magazine (if you know what those are) — with whatever content a company wants to throw on there. However, we’re also not really sure the inserts would be compelling enough for us to ever consider loading up whatever content was on it. Regardless, that phone on the right sure seems to be familiar…

USB Inserts bring ads into the print age and back again… or something originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 28

Nova DSLR concept reminds us that cameras need not be boring

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Despite the distant memory that is film for most people, most DSLRs have plenty in common with their film-based ancestors, at least when it comes to form factor. Not this Nova DSLR concept. Conceived by Erin Fong, the idea is to allow for all sorts of hand holds thanks to the dual movable arms, and the controls at the fingertips seems surprisingly convenient. We’re sure there are all sorts of technical limitations holding something like this back, but after suffering severe kitted-out DSLR fatigue on multiple occasions, we could really get into something that makes a bit better use of how we regularly hold our non-imaging devices. Now if someone would just clean that lens already!

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Nova DSLR concept reminds us that cameras need not be boring originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nov 21

Wired shows off an Apple tablet-formatted copy of Wired on a fake Apple tablet

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It’s a wild land of imagination over at Wired and Condé Nast these days. The pair have managed not only to dream up a colorful, animated copy of Wired magazine for the so-far imaginary Apple tablet, but actually whipped up a concept of a Apple tablet to go with it. The Willy Wonka-style pairing are being shown off at the Wired Store in New York, and go along with word the other day that Condé Nast was taking the development of “iTablet” versions of its publications very seriously. Perhaps a bit too seriously? We’re not ones to judge. Video of the tablet is after the break.

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Nov 21

Video Demonstrates Wired’s Concept iTablet App

Posted in: Apple, concept, Media Players, rumors, tablet, Today's Chili, touchscreen, video

Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired’s parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the Apple tablet (if it is indeed real). The first mag to get the tablet treatment, of course, is Wired.


All Things Digital’s Peter Kafka first reported that news, and he said he was trying to convince Condé to share a video demonstrating the tablet app. Well, here you go. The video above was shot at the Wired Store promotional event currently being held in New York. On display there is a concept video of Wired’s “iTablet” app.

To me, the most interesting part appears around the 30-second mark, where we can see an animated, interactive graphic. Exciting to think about the potential for this hypothetical new format, isn’t it?

Enough said. Here’s a good time to ask — what do you think? Could an Apple tablet save publishing?

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Nov 20

Mangrove WinMo tablet rough-handled, teased for being ‘tubby’

Posted in: concept, snapdragon, tablet, Today's Chili, Windows Mobile, windows mobile 6.5, WindowsMobile, WindowsMobile6.5
Not too long ago C-motech popped up on our radar with Mangrove, the 7-inch touchscreen tablet that’s been tragically saddled with Windows Mobile 6.5. The kids at SlashGear have just had a chance to play with the device, and to be honest they don’t seem too terribly impressed. When stacked up against the Quanta Android Smartbook, for instance, the form factor was deemed unimpressive and “tubby,” while the 1GHz Snapdragon seemed lackluster compared to the similarly powered HTC HD2. And it doesn’t seem that the 800 x 480 resistive touchscreen has won many fans. But who knows? Maybe at the right price, this guy will find its (albeit small) audience. Or they can slap Android on the thing, in which case we have the perfect name for it: Mandroid.

Mangrove WinMo tablet rough-handled, teased for being ‘tubby’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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