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Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? If you’ll recall, we heard that Recon Instruments was fixing to up-end the winter sports goggle market in February of this year, with an optimistic-at-the-time ship date of October 2010. Lo and behold, the outfit has managed to nail its estimate, and the planet’s first GPS-enabled goggles are now available to highfalutin’ skiers and snowboarders. At least initially, the company will be rolling out a limited set, with two models to choose from: the $499 Transcend SPPX is fitted with an SPPX polarized and photochromic lens, while the $399 Transcend SPX features an SPX polarized lens. Aside from the fact that these probably cost less than those ho hum Oakleys in the ski shop, they’re equipped with a Zeal Optics’ frame design with a micro LCD display, which appears to hang approximately six feet in front of the user. That head-mounted display provides real-time feedback to the wearer, including speed, latitude / longitude, altitude, vertical distance traveled, total distance traveled, a chrono / stopwatch mode, a run-counter, temperature and time. Yeah, wow. You can bet we’ll be trying to snag a set for review when we do our best impression of “hitting the slopes” post-CES.

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Recon-Zeal Transcend goggles now shipping, GPS and head-mounted display included originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 15:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Nokia said Q3, Nokia has delivered Q3. Just. The long-awaited first shipments of the Finnish market leader’s N8 handset are today finally going out, and we’ve gotten our hands on one of the very first retail units out there. Gaze upon the gallery below to see what you’ll be getting inside the box alongside your multimedia powerhouse, and do make full use of our comments section too — we want to hear any questions you may have about the N8 and will try to answer them in full, both here and in our full review, which is naturally coming up soon!

Nokia N8 first unboxing originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Sep 2010 05:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple might still insist its TV box is just a hobby, but it’s not messing around when it comes to shipping. Sticking to its original schedule, the MacBook maker has started sending out shipping notifications to the great and the good in the USA and Canada, with the earliest promised delivery being September 28. Those who’ve lightened their wallets by $99 can now look forward to a whole load of media streaming from the likes of Netflix, YouTube, and Flickr, though we might have paid the full price just for the sake of the integrated Rotten Tomatoes reviews. Do make sure to come back and tell us how awesome it is when you gets yours, won’t ya?

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Apple TV now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Your favorite fruit-flavored company couldn’t stand idly by and let Dell take all the IPS glory this week. Apple’s 27-inch Cinema Display, announced in late July, has at long last been set free to venture forth and mesmerize people with its glossy screen and 2560 x 1440 resolution. The entry fee is set at $999, though deliveries will take a pretty glacial one to two weeks to reach your porch.

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Apple’s 27-inch Cinema Display is now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re still struggling to understand how exactly a device with a 3.2-inch display is considered a “tablet,” but at any rate, the Archos 32 is now available for those who’d like to pretend their shiny new PMP is — in fact — a tablet. Shortly after we sat down with this here handheld, Archos has managed to get ’em rolling off of the production line, and since you’re curious, we’ll have you know that $149.99 buys a 0.39-inch thick device with a 3.2-inch touchpanel (400 x 240), Android 2.2, 800MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, an internal microphone, G-sensor and playback support for nearly every file format under the sun. The battery’s good for up to 24 hours when cruising through tunes, but that dwindles to 6 once you fire up those bootleg copies of Family Guy. Still, not bad for a tablet. Right?

[Thanks, Brett]

Archos 32 ‘internet tablet’ now shipping for $150, redefining the bounds of ‘tablet’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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