Some things never change. Other things never stay the same. Take the iPhone and Android. The iPhone is an iPhone is an iPhone. Android? It went from being the ugly stepsister to the belle of the ball. More »
After all of those months of hearing about “iPhone 5″ and “Nexus Prime” rumors, the actual devices have finally shown their faces to the public. Of course, the phones that we got are called the iPhone 4S and the Galaxy Nexus. Both are showcase devices for the latest versions of their respective platforms’ firmware. If […]
The iPhone 4S’s Siri is sassy and she’s everybody’s new favorite toy, but it turns out she’s leaving the door open for strangers to access information on your phone even when it’s passcode locked. Siri! How could you? More »
Continue reading Audyssey’s Lower East Side Audio Dock Air: square to be cool
Audyssey’s Lower East Side Audio Dock Air: square to be cool originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The iOS-friendly Doxie Go puts paid to pesky paper
The new Doxie Go is about as far from old, creaking desktop scanners as a modern digicam is from a Box Brownie. The self-contained scanner has its own memory and rechargeable battery, performs OCR on your documents and stores them ready to be synced later to a computer, the Internet (Evernote) or even your iPad and iPhone. In short, it’s an ideal way to finally ditch boring old paper from your life.
The specs: Doxie Go will scan at 600dpi, and has space for 600 pages or 2400 photos, weighs 14 ounces (400 grams) and can make 100 scans on a charge. 300 dpi color documents take eight seconds and 300 dpi and 4×6-inch photos take five seconds.
Once done, you can hook up to a Mac or PC (you can also scan straight into a computer via USB, like a regular scanner), or transfer direct to an iPhone or iPad with the optional ($40) iPhone Sync Kit. iPad users can skip this expense by just pulling the SD card out and slotting it into the camera connection kit, which is multi-use and costs $10 less.
And we’re done. Now we can print from and scan to phones and tablets. Hell, Hamrick software has just released VueScan Mobile, an app that lets you use almost any wireless scanner you already own with your iPad. If only there was a way to back up an iPhone or iPad to a plain USB hard drive, then I might be completely done with computers.
The Doxie Go is ready for pre-order and will ship at the end of November. It costs $200.
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Instapaper, the internet equivalent of a bookmark, has been given a top-to-toe makeover for its latest outing on the iPad. Fear not, your reading materials remain easy to read (and ad-free), but version 4 has now been smoothed over with a thick layer of tablet gloss. Navigation is all done through a bar on the left, and remains available for prodding as you read through your article selection. The upgrade also adds a subscription option for searching all your previous reads, as well as better social skills, with the ability to pick up and store articles and posts shared by your Twitter buddies — ensuring that you’ll probably never run out of reading material again.
Instapaper gets iPad refresh: more friends, more reading originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 03:51:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Mention music apps and our minds immediately conjure up images of a certain Icelandic songstress’ interactive iPad album. Well, folks the high-art bleeps and bloops don’t have to belong to the aurally experimental, as you, too, can make synthy music to doze off to. Fans of Moog’s synthesizers looking to mobilize the analog noise art now have a 99¢ iOS option for the iPad. Dubbed Animoog, this virtual instrument shrinks the keyboard synth experience down to 10-inches, running on the company’s Anisotropic Synth Engine and bringing with it polyphonic modulation and pitch shifting, various modules for effects, a timbre page and MIDI in / out. Fancy yourself a folktronic tablet technician? Then hit up the source to download the bargain-priced goods.
Animoog takes the synth keyboard stylings to the iPad, DIY electronica lives to see another day originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 18 Oct 2011 07:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Offering to play matchmaker between your high-end camera and smartphone, XEquals has extended support for its BlueSLR remote control beyond iOS. Yes, Blackberry and Android users can now download their respective app and pair this Bluetooth dongle to their (still Nikon-only) DSLR. The compatible dongle and free app will land later this month, but before you lay down the requisite $149, it’s worth checking that both your camera and phone models are supported. As it stands, compatible Android phones are limited to some HTC or Samsung models. While Android support is likely to expand in the future, there’s no word on a Pre 3 version.
Continue reading BlueSLR dongle arrives for BlackBerry and (some) Android phones
BlueSLR dongle arrives for BlackBerry and (some) Android phones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Kids lacking the imagination to bring their own toys to life now have the option of letting a games console do it for them. Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure has teleported into stores, boxed with three toy figures and a ‘portal device‘ that brings them to life in-game. The bundle totals up at $70, and Activision is billing it as the “first true cross-platform game”, with the toys playing nice across Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, 3DS and iOS versions. The statuettes, which connect to the portal peripheral through embedded RFID tags, also store game data across platforms. The business plan presumably involves groups of kids investing in Spyro’s latest yarn and swapping characters amongst themselves, while holding onto their own precious in-game achievements. If your little brother has trouble trading with friends who couldn’t care less about the antics of lava-belching monsters, they can always can stump up an extra $8 for new figures. Click ‘Read more’ for some explanatory cartoon violence.
Continue reading Spyro figurines bridge the console divide, bring flame-grilled peace to the world
Spyro figurines bridge the console divide, bring flame-grilled peace to the world originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading iPhone 4S hits four million in sales after first weekend
iPhone 4S hits four million in sales after first weekend originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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