Hasta La Gadget!

Allow us to set the scene: It’s late Friday night. You’ve just finished working and decide to hit up the local 7-Eleven on your way home for a Slim Jim, Mountain Brew and… your Amazon package? Why, yes, as absurd as it seems there could very well be a P.O. Box-like locker in your nearby Kwik-E Mart’s future. The whispering winds of hearsay flew by the ears over at The Daily and delivered this little nugget of Bezos-backed possibility. According to the source, a Seattle chain already has one of the prototypes in its possession, with a nationwide rollout potentially headed for next summer. So, how’s it work? Apparently, you’ll be offered a choice of 7-Eleven delivery locations during the online checkout process, after which an emailed bar code can be scanned by the locker to reveal a pin that gets you access to your Amazon stash. Alright, it’s an undoubtedly convenient idea, but how’s about they also throw in some of those Android-based tablets? Now that’s point-of-sale.

Amazon, 7-Eleven team up to bring delivery convenience to your corner store originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re here in Berlin, covering IFA 2011, and Panasonic’s getting things started by showing off a concept camera, its first with a twin-lens capable of shooting 3D stills and video. Alas, the company’s press release is light on technical info, though it does reveal the system’s built on dual 4x lenses with “thin, folded” optics. Hopefully, we’ll see this thing in person while we’re in town and learn a bit more. In similar news, the company also announced the HDC-Z10000 (pictured), its first 2D / 3D camcorder with an integrated twin-lens. The camcorder records 1080p / 1080i AVCHD 3D video, has dual CMOS sensors with a combined resolution of 13.1MP and a glasses-less 3.5-inch LCD. It’s also capable of 3D macros as close as 17.8 inches — a record for twin-lens 3D camcorders, according to Panasonic. As the company’s been known to do, though, it’s holding off on revealing any details about pricing or availability, so it looks like we’ll have to save that for a rainy day. Full PR after the break.

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This article was written on August 27, 2008 by CyberNet.

Mozilla has released a new prototype extension that attempts to bring the command line to the browser. The extension, called Ubiquity, uses a set of predefined commands to do things like map an address the user has highlighted, shoot off an email, and more. A good example of this can be seen in the screenshot above where the user highlighted “Chicago Comics,” launched Ubiquity, and was given a list of matching addresses.

Once you’ve got Ubiquity installed you’ll be able to press Control+Space (Option+Space on Mac) to launch the command line window. From there you can use one of the 71 built-in commands (that URL will only work if you’ve installed Ubiquity) to manipulate highlighted text, perform searches, and more. Plus users can even create and share their own Ubiquity commands.

The extension is pretty powerful, and I was surprised at it’s stability considering what an early release it is. They’ve setup a nice tutorial for beginners that will walk you through how a lot of the different stuff works, and it’s something you’ll really need to go through if you want to make the most of what it has to offer. There’s also a video demonstration I’ve posted at the end of this article.

I’ve read on some sites that a feature like this could be something we see in the next big Firefox release. In the past Mozilla has said that they only add features to the browser that will be used by over 90 percent of their users. Ubiquity is undeniably appealing to power users who praise the keyboard, but anyone that is mouse-centric probably won’t touch this with a ten foot pole. My guess is that this one will remain in the land of add-ons.

So what do you think of it? Is it something you’ll use, just try out, or don’t even have any plans on installing it?

Ubiquity Homepage
Thanks Trip!

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Remember your first cellphone? If you’re old enough, that memory will include a pull-out antenna of some kind, a vestigial RF tail whose genes were passed down from walkie-talkies and field radios of old. And it seems that Apple, presumably before building its multi-zillion-dollar antenna lab, was also experimenting with pop-up antennae on its old MacBook Pros.

Here’s a photo of a heretofore secret prototype MacBook Pro with built-in 3G, up for sale on Ebay and currently requiring a bid of over $11,000 to win the auction. Externally, the Santa Rosa-based MacBook Pro looks like any other pre-unibody MBP, apart from a small slide-out rabbit ear in the top right corner of the lid. This extends to give better reception to the soldered-on SIM circuit board within. The inside is also full of prototype gear, from the red motherboard to the “evaluation” optical drive (going on the optical drives in the current MacBook Airs, I guess it failed the evaluation [**rimshot**]).

Interesting is the amount of polish that has gone into hardware which was destined never to see the comfort of an Apple Store display table. Not only is that antenna a perfect match for the lid, but the SIM card slot has a very professional-looking home in the battery bay (just like a cellphone).

If (and probably when) the MacBook Air gets a 3G radio, the antenna is much more likely to be sitting behind a plastic RF window like that in the iPad 3G, and the SIM will probably have a little pop-out drawer, also like the iPad 3G (and iPhone). Which probably only makes this glimpse inside Apple’s secret design lab all the more interesting.

Unreleased PROTOTYPE Apple Macbook Pro 15″ With 3G [Ebay via TUAW]

See Also:

• Antenna-gate
• Apple's Answer to Antennagate: Free iPhone 4 Cases
• IPhone 4 Loses Reception When Antenna Band Is Touched
• Antenna-Aid Makes iPhone Reception All Better