May 26

Modder transmits Wii games to iPod touch, which isn’t really as fun as it sounds (video)

Posted in: Apple, hack, ipod touch, IpodTouch, mod, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, Today's Chili, touch, video, wii
Three years ago, a certain obiwan22222 wowed us when he played Wii on his PSP (with a little help from Sony’s LocationFree technology). For his next trick, our man has done the same thing on an iPod touch. But wait, you ask — is there a LocationFree client for iPhone / iPod touch? We don’t think so, so we’ve pinged him for an explanation. He’s being extremely tight-lipped about it all, saying only that 1) this is not fake, 2) he got rid of the five second lag, and 3) all will be revealed “soon enough” (that is, once we’ve been tortured enough). If anything, we can certainly respect a man with a flair for showmanship! In the meantime, check out the video after the break. We’ll let you know as soon as we hear back from the dude.

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May 25

Onkyo’s E713 all-in-one PC is the space station to your starfaring iPod

Posted in: Apple, AppleIphone, ipod, ipod dock, iPod Nano, ipod touch, IpodDock, IpodTouch, Today's Chili

Okay, now this is just getting ridiculous. We know Onkyo has a long history of building iPod docks, but to see the company build an entire all-in-one PC around the feature is a little much, especially when — once again — the iPhone isn’t invited to the party. No, when the E713 series ships in Japan next month at or around the ¥99,880 (about $1100) price point, it will include up to a Core i5-650 processor, 4GB of RAM, a digital TV tuner, Blu-ray drive, 1TB hard drive and loads of ports behind that 23-inch, 1920 x 1080 LCD screen, but a slide-out iPod classic / nano / touch dock that apparently can’t accommodate the iPhone’s portly frame. That’s discrimination, right there — or at least we’ll keep on telling ourselves that, since we’re all out of sour grapes.

Onkyo’s E713 all-in-one PC is the space station to your starfaring iPod originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 04:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 19

Students accelerate cubicle arms race with PlayStation Eye-tracked, iPhone-guided coilgun (video)

Posted in: arduino, diy, hack, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, mod, mods, remote control, RemoteControl, Today's Chili, video, wifi

DIY weaponry gets more lethal with each passing year; where once we were content with a simple foam missile launcher, technology has progressed such that our automated turrets now spew screwdriver bits, airsoft and paintballs. As progress forges ahead, two engineering students at the University of Arkansas have added injury to insult with this four-stage DIY coilgun. Using an Arduino microcontroller to actuate the firing mechanism and steer the monstrous wooden frame, they nimbly control the badass kit with an iDevice over WiFi, and line up targets using a repurposed PlayStation Eye webcam. While we’d of course prefer to have our phone SSH into the gun over 3G, we’re not going to argue with success. We’d like to keep our lungs un-perforated, thank you very much. See it in action after the break.

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May 19

iPod touch with 2 megapixel camera leaked in Vietnam (video)

Posted in: Apple, breaking news, BreakingNews, camera, ipod, ipod touch, IpodTouch, leak, samsung, Today's Chili, video

Guess who has another Apple scoop? Tinhte, the upstarts from Vietnam have first pics of the mythical iPod touch with a camera. The “DVT-1” stamp on the back makes it clear that this is an early design verification test unit in the evolution of product testing. In other words, this might not be the final design whenever Apple chooses to announce it, say, on June 7th. A check of the device’s serial number identifies a late 2009 third generation iPod touch — could be that this device was one of those eBay prototypes that never made it to production for whatever reason.

The Foxconn manufactured device is also running the same base diagnostic utility that we’ve seen before (who could forget that “serial number” icon). The Foxconn label appears to indicate a 64GB model (“64G” using a pair of Samsung 32GB Flash modules presumably) in addition to a 2 megapixel, backside illuminated sensor manufactured by Omnivision (part OV2665-6s). Video after the break.

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iPod touch with 2 megapixel camera leaked in Vietnam (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 06:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 17

L5 Remote now shipping, turning your iDevice into universal IR boss

Posted in: Apple, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, remote, remote control, RemoteControl, Today's Chili

This might be a little later than the promised late February release, but we’ve finally gotten word of the iPhone L5 Remote accessory shipping. You’ll remember that this little infrared dongle, also compatible with the iPod touch and iPad, turns your touchscreen device into a universal remote control, replete with customizable and easily programmable buttons. The L5 costs $50, a tidy 20 bucks cheaper than the i-Got-Control alternative, and can be had now via the company’s website below.

[Thanks, John]

L5 Remote now shipping, turning your iDevice into universal IR boss originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 14

Hauppage WinTV gets WiFi streaming for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch

Posted in: Apple, ipad, ipod, ipod touch, IpodTouch, streaming, streaming video, StreamingVideo, Television, Today's Chili, TV
If we’ve learned anything from the long gestation of the SlingPlayer iPhone app, it’s that folks want to stream video to their iPhone, iPad, and / or iPod touch. At least the folks at Hauppauge think so — and the new version (v7.2) of WinTV for the WinTV -HVR tuner board for the PC now includes that functionality. Indeed, the software will even stream 16 and Pregnant (or whatever it is you’re into these days) to your Mac computer. Sadly, all of this streaming is going down via WiFi, but who knows? Maybe you really want to record TV on one machine and then watch it five feet away. It will be available directly from Hauppauge for $9.95, although the company is making a free upgrade available to current owners of WinTV-HVRs. PR after the break.

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May 11

Apple brushes off NPD’s smartphone report, says it sees ‘no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon’

Posted in: Android, Apple, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Today's Chili

Fresh off NPD’s latest Mobile Phone Track report claiming that Android has leapfrogged the iPhone in US sales, Apple is commenting on the numbers — and as you might expect, they’re not exactly taking a congratulatory tone with Google. Speaking to AllThingsD‘s John Paczkowski, Cupertino had this to say:

“This is a very limited report on 150,000 US consumers responding to an online survey and does not account for the more than 85 million iPhone and iPod touch customers worldwide. IDC figures show that iPhone has 16.1 percent of the smartphone market and growing, far outselling Android on a worldwide basis. We had a record quarter with iPhone sales growing by 131 percent and with our new iPhone OS 4.0 software coming this summer, we see no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon.”

The factual accuracy of Apple’s words here can’t really be disputed, but as Paczkowski notes, the context can: lumping the iPod touch into this equation isn’t really fair, since NPD’s report is about smartphones, not mobile operating systems (which would’ve let devices like non-phone Android MIDs into the picture). Besides, this is about the US market in the first quarter of 2010, not global sales, nor is it about Apple’s development pipeline. In other words, Apple’s not disputing NPD’s report here — rather, they’re simply trying to change the subject, as any properly-trained PR department would. There’s no question Android still has an uphill battle to dominate market (and mind) share the world over, but the odds that it outsold the iPhone in the US in Q1 remain very real.

Apple brushes off NPD’s smartphone report, says it sees ‘no signs of the competition catching up anytime soon’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 May 2010 14:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 08

AmpliTube iRig brings axe slingers closer to their iPhone, creative side (video)

Posted in: Apple, controller, guitar, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Music, peripheral, Today's Chili, video

Oh sure, we’ve seen something similar from PRS, but the reviews on the Guitarbud were — how do you say? — less than stellar. For those looking high and low for a decent alternative, IK Multimedia has outed the equally seductive AmpliTube iRig, a software / hardware tandem that enables axe slingers to jack their guitar or bass into an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and tweak their sound with a variety of amps and effects (up to 10 stomps, 5 amps, 5 cabinets and 2 microphones). The dongle also has a headphone jack for keeping your wailing to yourself (read: it’s mom and neighbor approved), and if you’re sporting a jailbroken device, you could also record your newest masterpiece while this hums along in the background. It’s a beautiful thought, no? It’s up for pre-order right now at $39.99, and you can peek a video of the solution in action just after the break.

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May 08

Phone guitar: iPhone OS, Windows Mobile and Android got all night to set the world right (video)

Posted in: Android, guitar, HP, HTC, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, Today's Chili, video, Windows Mobile, WindowsMobile, winmo

What can you do when no one’s got a phone to jam with you? Why, you can be a geeky one-man band, of course! Web developer Steffest (just one name, like Sting or Madonna) managed to do just that by strapping a couple of Android devices (possibly an Archos 5 and a HTC Desire), a couple of WinMo handhelds (looks like a HP iPAQ h1940 and a HTC Touch Diamond), and an iPod touch on top of a portable speaker. All this just for a forthcoming presentation on mobile cross development — Steffest had to painstakingly write the same audio program “in Java for Android, in C# for Windows Mobile and in Objective-C for iPhone.” Oh, and it doesn’t just end there — turns out this dude can also pluck tap away a good Neil Diamond classic on this five-way nerd-o-strummer. Get on board and check out the video after the break.

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May 07

Nintendo CEO: battle with Sony is over, Apple is the ‘enemy of the future’

Posted in: Apple, AppStore, business, console, gaming, industry, ipad, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, nintendo, nintendo wii, NintendoWii, playstation 3, Playstation3, ps3, psp, sony, Today's Chili, wii

Backing away from a previous position, are we Nintendo? Just a month after Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime claimed that the iPhone OS (you know, that operating system used on the iPod touch, iPhone family and the iPad) wasn’t a “viable profit platform for game development,” along comes the company’s president to say that, in fact, Apple is the primary “enemy of the future.” That’s according to Times Online, who says that the Big N’s CEO (Satoru Iwata) feels that the battle with Sony is a “victory already won,” and who clearly believes that the next wave of gaming won’t be of the traditional sit-on-your-coach-and-slam-buttons variety. ‘Course, the PSP never has been able to hang with the DS family, but even the Wii has a ways to go before it catches the mighty PlayStation 2 in terms of global sales. Going forward, the company is purportedly looking to revive the element of “surprise” in Nintendo products, but it might be best served by simply catching up to the competition and supporting this wild concept known as “HD gaming” over “HDMI.”

Nintendo CEO: battle with Sony is over, Apple is the ‘enemy of the future’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 May 2010 14:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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