Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on October 15, 2007 by CyberNet.

Given that today is Blog Action Day we’re supposed to write about how you can “live green.” Well, we also thought it would be fitting to try and save you some green today!

If our U.S. readers didn’t get in on the last 30GB Zune for $100 deal on Woot about two weeks ago, then there is yet another chance! Quantities this time around are probably pretty limited so you better jump on it quick, and they have multiple colors available: black, white, and the notorious brown.

As always, it is hard to put it better than Woot themselves:

Tonight, I ask all men, women, and transgendered individuals of good will to join me in forging a new deal. Under our Zune Relief Act, thousands of Zune 30GB Digital Media Players will be made available to the public at a nominal cost. From the shores of Kansas to the mountains of Florida, the downtrodden will navigate through up to 30GB of music and movies on 3” LCD screens, and watch video on those very screens. […] And thanks to the generosity of Microsoft, every Zune buyer will have access to the functionality of the Zune 2 at no additional cost.

The Zune 2 release date is set for sometime in November, but the original Zune (the one on sale at Woot) will be getting a lot of the same features via a software upgrade. So this is honestly one heck of a deal!

Get your 30GB Zune for $100

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And that, as they say, is a wrap. We’ve departed a shockingly sunny San Francisco, but not without a huge helping of Google news to mull over on the long ride home. In typical Goog fashion, the outfit served up a double-dose of keynotes this year, both of which seemed to delight both developers and media alike. Sure, no new superphones used the show as a launching pad, but plenty of other nuggets were unearthed. From the reveal of Music Beta to the official introduction of the world’s first commercial Chromebooks, the 2011 edition of Google I/O packed plenty of punch. If you missed even a second of our continuous coverage, we’ve got you covered — the best of the best is recapped below. We’ll see you next year, I/O… you bring the tiramisu, we’ll bring the Ice Cream Sandwich.

Keynotes / liveblogs:
Day 1: Music Beta, Android 3.1, Ice Cream Sandwich, Open Accessory, ADK
Day 2: Chrome, Angry Birds, Chrome OS, Chromebooks

Editorials / previews:
Google Music Beta walkthrough: what it is and how it works (video)
Editorial: Engadget on Google Music and Movies for Android
Google Music Beta versus the titans of the streaming music space: a chart
Editorial: Google clarifies Chromebook subscriptions, might have just changed the industry

Hands-ons:
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Limited Edition (white) hands-on from Google I/O!
Samsung Series 5 Chrome OS laptop hands-on at Google I/O
Fossil Meta Watch wrists-on at Google I/O (video)
Hasbro’s experimental Nexus-powered robot toy hands-on at Google I/O (video)
Lighting Science demos Android @ Home bulbs, promises dead-simple home automation (hands-on)
Google’s Arduino-based ADK powers robots, home gardens and giant Labyrinth (video)
LifeFitness exercise bike interfaces with Nexus S, makes fitness marginally enjoyable (video)
iRobot Ava mobile robotics platform hands-on at Google I/O (video)
Groupme’s group messaging app demoed at Google I/O, complete with data / location (video)

Head on past the break for more!

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While we’ve been enjoying Apple’s and Netflix’s strong and extensive streaming movie libraries, YouTube’s been plotting a little jugular strike, sucking the streaming juice with a movie service of its own. Today, it’s real. More »

An example of American Airlines’ current in-flight entertainment. Photo Charlie Sorrel

American Airlines is set to stream in-flight entertainment direct to your iPad via Wi-Fi. Passengers will be able to buy and stream movies and TV shows to any Wi-Fi-capable device.

This is in some ways a fantastic idea. The current offering of a crappy screen with even crappier audio pales next to the experience of watching video on your own device, especially if it’s something airline-seat friendly like an iPad or a netbook. Why not let passengers choose to use their own screen?

But those customers are the same ones that are likely to have brought along their own content, not just endless re-runs of How I Met Your Mother (not that there’s anything wrong with How I Met Your Mother. Barney is awesome). Plus, if the planes offer in-flight Wi-Fi then you have access to the whole internet, which is likely to be more compelling than in-flight movies.

At least American is committed to connecting its planes. The company is “expanding inflight Wi-Fi to virtually our entire domestic narrow body fleet with additional MD80 aircraft and domestic Boeing 757-200 aircraft,” says the press release. It is also working to put power outlets in all planes, eventually equipping the fleet with standard AC sockets so no adapters will be required.

This is fantastic news, and I look forward to viewing pornography and making loud, unnecessary calls on Skype during my next American flight.

In Aircell-powered in-flight movie streaming will begin trials this Summer.

American Airlines to test streaming video inflight [American Airlines via Slashgear and ZDNET]

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Paramount Pictures has just released the first full trailer for Transformers: Dark of the Moon (or TF3 as it is being branded), and it is pretty damn awesome. Take a look:

As far as I can tell, the US sent astronauts to the moon not just to play golf but to investigate some mysterious alien moon landing. Then, 40-something years later, these evil Moon Transformers wake up and attack the Earth. The good Transformers are pissed, because the US government didn’t tell them about it at the time.

You can guess what happens next. Shia “The Beef” LeBeouf defeats the evil Moon Transformers with shouting, sad glances, and the ability to remain handsome as his face gets dirtier and dirtier.

Apparently, it is also now acceptable to destroy skyscrapers in Hollywood movies once again.

Finally, what’s going on with that title, Dark of the Moon? Isn’t it missing a Side”? A side of The Beef, perhaps? (Rimshot).

Transformers: Dark of the Moon will be in theaters on July 1st, in head-spinning 3-D.

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