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It has a funny name, but the Solarrific Solar Portable Power Supply from Convenient Gadgets and Gifts has a serious purpose.  This external power supply comes with eleven connectors to fit most any digital device, including iPhones and iPods.  The Solarrific is 3.25″ X 2.25″ X 0.59″, so it’s small enough to fit in your bag or even your pocket.  Inside, there’s a polymer lithium-ion battery with a 2000 mAh capacity.  Rated input voltage is 5.0-6.0V DC; rated output voltage is 5.4V (+/- 0.1V).  You can recharge the Solarrific with solar power (takes about 35 hours), with a USB port on your computer, or with the included AC adapter.  The life cycle of the battery is about 500 recharges, but even after 500 charges, it should retain > 80% capacity.  You’ll get a fabric pouch to hold the Solarrific, the AC adapter, and all the connectors.  The Solarrific Solar Portable Power Supply is … [ visit site to read more ] Filed in categories: News , Spotlight Gadgets Tagged: External power supply , solar charger Solarrific Solar Portable Power Supply originally appeared on The Gadgeteer on October 11, 2010 at 12:00 pm.

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Solarrific Solar Portable Power Supply

The bright pink Pogoplug has been updated to the far more somber Pogoplug Pro, with the new model getting a slick black chassis and integrated wireless.  Still priced at just $99, the Pogoplug Pro can connect up to four USB 2.0 devices to your network – now either via the wired ethernet connection or using

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Pogoplug Pro packs onboard WiFi and $99 price tag

We’ve profiled pens from Lamy before, with their excellent and relatively affordable Safari line. Some of you might be a bit more flush with cash, or maybe looking to celebrate. Maybe you just landed that big promotion, or passed the bar, or are just happy to have a job in this economy. In that case, the Lamy 2000 could be the answer. If you’ve never written with a fountain pen before, you owe it to yourself to try.

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Lamy 2000 Fountain Pen

Hey, Cloud Engines — don’t say we never told you pink was a bad idea . The next generation Pogoplug has launched this afternoon, bringing with it a refreshing color change and a badly-needed WiFi module within. For all intents and purposes, the Pogoplug Pro (which, oddly enough, is a consumer device) has four USB ports and allows all four of ‘em to be accessed remotely so long as your ISP provides a suitable upload speed. Users can even access content on a variety of smartphones, with apps for the iPhone, Android, iPad, BlackBerry, and webOS being readily available

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Pogoplug Pro enables remote access to four USB hard drives, adds inbuilt WiFi

Stephen Fry was one of the first people in the country to fall for the “delightful” new Windows 7 phones and he came on stage at the UK press conference to tell us just how much he liked it….

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Windows Phone 7: Stephen Fry likes it, but does this say more about him or Microsoft?

Mercedes-Benz is on an environmentally conscious tear as of late, launching two hybrid vehicles last year, and now an entirely zero emission fuel cell car this December. We were given an opportunity to test drive the new F-Cell vehicle in Manhattan and learn more about the car. For starters, when thinking about what Mercedes has done with this specific vehicle, it’s mind blowing in itself. A non-combustion engine car that is powered off of hydrogen with zero emissions. Did you ever think you’d see the day

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Mercedes-Benz B-Class fuel-cell all hydrogen-powered vehicle test drive, impressions

Samsung’s Omnia 7 , ladies and gents. Equipped with the only Super AMOLED display in Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 stable, the Omnia 7 provides suitably vibrant and richly saturated visuals. To be perfectly fair, we didn’t note a major advantage in using its display relative to the other WP7 devices, but that’s more a mark of distinction for the other phones on show today . The hardware really is looking polished to perfection on all these devices, and the Omnia 7 isn’t really breaking with that trend, showing off a remarkably lightweight body that combines straight lines with a nicely curved back that sits well in the hand. The power/lock button is curiously positioned on the side of the device , but all points of input seemed to perform very nicely once you know where they are

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Samsung Omnia 7 first hands-on (update: video!)

With thousands of developers churning out thousands of apps, we’ve no doubt exploring the Marketplace is going to be a full-time job for at least a day or two after you nab your Windows Phone 7 device this fall — but with all the hullabaloo today, we thought this would be a good opportunity to highlight a few that Microsoft and its partners have been talking about recently. Dig in! Continue reading Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup Windows Phone 7 launch day app roundup originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

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Click To Enlarge Apparently this Japanese remix of Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”, is hidden in every copy of the iPad app, The Elements in Japanese. Since I don’t have an iPad and I likely would have never seen it, I just have to say thank you Internet for making this available for my very sleepy Monday morning

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Sing The Elements In Japanese, The Ultimate Mnemonic Device

Here’s yet another HTC handset from the WP7 launch today: the 7 Trophy . Features like the 3.8-inch WVGA LCD, 1GHz Snapdragon and the 5MP camera certainly sound familiar; even the phone’s battery cover has taken a design cue from the Desire — same peel-off method, and same matte texture. Not all that exciting, really, but the OS was running pretty smoothly except for the buggy HTC Hub and browser. For now, help yourselves with our hands-on shots below.

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HTC 7 Trophy first hands-on (update: video!)

If you’ve got enough time to breathe, you’re not doing it right. Our crazy tour through Windows Phone 7 land is continuing at full pelt with the LG Optimus 7 . We must admit we were very pleasantly surprised by this handset. The 3.8-inch display is a mere LCD and the construction seems to be wholly plastic, but both seem to be punching well above the weight of their constituent elements. It’s a well chiselled, handsome, and light phone, with a trio of physical buttons at the bottom

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LG Optimus 7 first hands-on (update: video!)

Today Microsoft officially launched Windows Phone 7 along with its handset and carrier partners. Microsoft has had success with its Windows Mobile products in the past with enterprise customers but has failed to achieve any significant traction with Windows Mobile in the consumer’s space. Windows Phone 7 is the culmination of over two years of resources

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Windows Phone 7 Launches – Can it Compete?

Section: Communications , Cellphones , Smartphones , Mobile T-Mobile was lucky enough to earn the right to release one of the nine new Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the HTC HD7 which Microsoft launched just now. There are many reasons why we can say that T-Mobile was lucky to be the only US mobile operator to release this smartphone during the holiday season. For one thing, the HTC HD7 happens to have the biggest 4.3-inch touch display among the new Windows Phone 7 units.

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HTC HD7 with Windows Phone 7 and 4.3-Inch touch display coming to T-Mobile

This great painting is by Scott Listfield . Scott has got quite a few paintings featuring these lonely astronauts in them. The whole concept reminds me of 2001: Space Odyssey . Except for the R2-D2 part – that reminds me of Star Wars . The lonely astronaut is a sort of leitmotiv that comes up frequently in science-fiction.

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r2-d2 gets a parking ticket from an astronaut

HTC said that it was going to make Windows Phone 7 a major part of its device lineup… and they weren’t kidding. The manufacturer has just announced five devices, in various flavors, that will be available around the globe in the near future. As HTC writes: HTC 7 Surround Whether it be gaming, movies or music, HTC 7 Surround is the ultimate multimedia device.

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HTC announces five Windows Phone 7 devices, sprinkled around the globe

And it’s Samsung’s Windows Phone 7 turn! We just got to check out the Samsung Focus (formerly known as the i917 Cetus ), and if you’re looking for the WP7 version of the Galaxy S, this is your guy. The curvy, glossy slate has a 4-inch WVGA Super AMOLED display, and feels a lot like the Samsung Vibrant. AT&T’s touting that the 9.9-millimeter / .3-inch device is the slimmest Windows Phone handset yet, and we do have to say it’s pretty darn slim. We’ll be going back for more soon, but feast your eyes on the gallery and video below… Gallery: Samsung Focus first hands-on! Continue reading Samsung Focus first hands-on! Samsung Focus first hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:01:00 EDT.

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Samsung Focus first hands-on!

[Robert Lam] has produced a number of video tutorials, his latest being a tutorial on how to make a biped robot walk . He is mainly covering the individual motions and actions. He doesn’t go into any specific programming, but rather breaks down the act of walking into several motions and discusses the reason you need them as well as some variations. For some this will seem like obvious observations, but we’ve seen plenty of biped robots that attempt to walk without shifting their weight.You can watch this video after the break, but be sure to dig around in some of his other tutorials for plenty of good stuff.

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Learning to walk, a tutorial on making bipeds walk

And we’re back with our seventeenth installment of Your Comments . Here are our favorites from the past week, from Make: Online , our Facebook page, and Twitter . Over on Twitter, Justin Craft is ‘fixing’ a toy for his kids: Weekend project time, inspired by @make. Hacking my kid’s sadly low-powered race track.

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LG’s representing the QWERTY slider sector for AT&T during this Windows Phone 7 launch with its new Quantum handset (formerly known as the C900), which goes by the Optimus 7Q moniker outside the US. It’s a little frumpy at first glance, but it’s just as impressive under the hood as the rest of this lineup, so we’ll give it some more time before we form our full impressions. Super early first impression? We love this keyboard. For now check out the gallery below.

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LG Quantum first hands-on! (update: video)

The first word that came to our mind when handling the HTC 7 Mozart was “classy.” The aluminum unibody construction conveys a rare sense of rigidity and durability to this phone, while its overall curvature, 3.7-inch LCD screen, and ergonomics invoke memories of the company’s Desire and Nexus One Android products. Which is no bad thing, particularly if you thought the Desire was a fine phone that could do with a more upmarket enclosure.

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HTC 7 Mozart first hands-on (update: video!)

Alright, so by now we all know that HTC’s HD7 is mostly a HD2 in imperial new clothes, but let’s give the new phone a chance, shall we? We’ve just gotten to grips with the latest member of HTC’s 4.3-inch brigade and predictably enough it feels just as snappy as the rest of the Windows Phone 7 devices introduced today. Navigation is blazingly quick, interrupted only by Microsoft’s excessive fascination with animated screen transitions. Clearly, designing the new WP7 OS around hard-set minimum specs has paid off for Microsoft, whose end product exhibits a great deal of polish.

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HTC HD7 preview (update: video!)