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It’s a beautiful combination, really — lower power consumption, and support for high bandwidth applications. That marriage is evident in Samsung’s newest Wireless USB chipset, which was built around Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology and designed to enable high-def streaming between a mobile host device and a tethered device for viewing. According to Sammy, the two-chip solution will be aimed at cameras, camcorders, TVs, PCs, tablets, beam projectors, portable HDDs, Blu-ray players and handsets, and given that it can handle a theoretical high of 480Mbps with an average power consumption of less than 300mW, even the weakest smartphone battery should be able to stream at least a single episode of Family Guy to the tele. Mum’s the word on who all will be lining up to adopt this stuff, but since it’s slated to hit mass production in Q4, we’d say those details should be worked out right around CES 2011.

Continue reading Samsung’s new Wireless USB chipset enables HD streaming with less power

Samsung’s new Wireless USB chipset enables HD streaming with less power originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Sep 2010 08:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Continue reading Panasonic announces speedy new 8GB, 16GB UHS-I SDHC cards

Panasonic announces speedy new 8GB, 16GB UHS-I SDHC cards originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This week Netgear made a battery of new product announcements related to home entertainment and Powerline networking. On the media side, the NeoTV 550 & 350 HD players look a lot like last year’s Digital Entertainer Elite, minus the 500GB of internal storage and access to VOD services like CinemaNow. Both are however capable of playing a robust list of codecs in full HD from a variety of attached sources like USB, eSATA (in the case of the 550) or SD storage, as well as streaming content from UPnP, DLNA or WMP11 networks. The 550 adds in support for external Blu-ray drives and BD-Live too, all for $219, which should appeal any of the poor souls with an unused standalone drive.

Three new Powerline kits — AV 200, AV 500, and AV+ 500 — were also announced to help consumers avoid the pain of stringing Ethernet in every direction. The entry level AV 200 appears to improve on the previous HDXB101 kit by offering the same theoretical 200mbps in addition to push button security enhancements and greener power consumption. The AV 500 kit provides the same and ramps the networking speeds to up to — you guessed it — 500mbps, while the “+” version throws in a pass-through filtered AC socket to avoid sacrificing precious outlets. Priced all below $200, every kit will available by mid November for all the fall home networking networking your heart could desire. Peep the galleries and PR below for further details.

Continue reading Netgear announces NeoTV 550 & 350 HD Media Players plus other networking goodies

Netgear announces NeoTV 550 & 350 HD Media Players plus other networking goodies originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There’s nothing really new about the Sprint Battery Boost (yes, that Sprint), but it puts a lot of useful little gadgets into one neat, keychainable package, and it does it for a reasonable $30.

The plastic widget looks like a chunky USB pen-drive, and it kinda is. Inside is a 600-mAh lithium ion battery, and on the outside is a retractable full-sized USB plug and a pop-out micro-USB connector. Pop it into a port on your computer and it’ll charge itself. Plug it into a cellphone or iPod and it will charge that, giving around one extra hour of talk-time.

It doesn’t stop there, either. There is a slot inside the USB-plug for a microSD card, turning this into an actual pen-drive, and also a carabiner-style clip to hook it onto keys or bags. All in all, a very handy piece of plastic. I guess that if you have to put something on your key-chain, it may as well be this.

The Sprint Battery Boost is available now from its maker, Technocel.

Sprint Battery Boost [Technocel. Thanks, Jennifer!]

See Also:

• New Keychain Multi-Tools from Leatherman
• The One-Dollar iPod Keychain Hack
• Ultra Simple Homemade Keychain
• Radiation Detector Keychain

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If you’re anything like us, you may find yourself in need of scanning in a few last-minute receipts for reimbursement. Or maybe your oldest youngster left his essay sitting on the kitchen table, and you need to shoot him / her over a PDF on the double. Or maybe you’ve just got way too many tax-related documents cluttering up your basement. Point is, just about anyone could find a reason or two to invest in a scanner, and Pandigital’s making things a lot easier with the PhotoLink personal photo scanner / converter. The $149.99 device was launched last week, and we’ve been toying with it a few days here at Engadget HQ. If you’ve been on the fence about buying a portable scanner, join us after the break for a few impressions along with a riveting video of this thing… well, scanning.

Continue reading Pandigital PhotoLink portable scanner review

Pandigital PhotoLink portable scanner review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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