HP’s got plenty of products out there using their TouchSmart software, but now it’s finally hit their consumer-focused line of notebooks with the Pavilion dv6. It’s also part of a broader, metal makeover for the Pavilion line. (more…)
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HP Pavilion Dv6: The First Touchscreen Pavilion Notebook
Don’t miss NYU’s ITP spring show 2010 : ITP’s graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars. ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people’s lives. Perhaps the best way to describe us is as a Center for the Recently Possible. ITP Spring Show 2010 Sunday, May 9, 2-6pm & Monday, May 10, 5-9pm 721 Broadway, 4th Floor NYC Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Events | Digg this!
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A fellow from Zedomax spotted something curious at the Web 2.0 Expo’s Adobe display: Some kind of Android multi-touch tablet prototype. Not many details about the device, but Zedomax claims that it “runs Adobe’s Flash and Air apps flawlessly.” [ Zedomax ] (more…)
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Flash-Friendly Android Multi-Touch Tablet Prototype Spotted
Texas Instruments has been making graphing calculators for twenty years now, and things look pretty much the same as they were in that bygone era of Amy Grant and C&C Music Factory. The company’s latest, TI-Nspire with Touchpad, features — you guessed it! — a touchpad above the keypad for scrollin’ around, as well as a letterpad (apparently they had to forgo QWERTY to make this compliant with tests like SAT and ACT). And, like its precursors, it comes with a snap-in TI-84 Plus keypad so your old dog won’t have to learn any keystrokes. Available now from your fave e-tailer, look to pay around $140. Continue reading TI-Nspire graphing calculator gets a new touchpad, nerds swoon world o’er TI-Nspire graphing calculator gets a new touchpad, nerds swoon world o’er originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 22:39:00 EST.
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Lie and your brain will send more blood to the ventrolateral area of your prefrontal cortex. fMRI scans can tell when this happens by measuring blood-oxygen levels in the brain. Soon such brain-scanning lie detectors may be used in courts. (more…)
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Brain-Scanning Lie Detectors May Be Used In Court Soon
Canon today announced the launch of the CanoScan 9000F Color Image Scanner featuring the highest-resolution to date for a Canon scanner product. With a maximum color resolution of 9600 x 9600 dpi our high-speed CCD scanner with built-in professional film scanning is idealfor people interested in preserving their work or family memories in a
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Canon introduces a new High-End Scanner in the US with with CanonScran 9000F
Two months ago, ALLA, a Japan-based company, introduced new 5.1 surround sound headsets with the Emocion AL-DP100V. Coming at an affordable price, this new series should provide you a real 5.1ch experience, at least according to ALLA, and is mainly targeting gamers… ALLA Corporation is a young company, created in 2003, and aims to sell in
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[Review] EMOCION AL-DP100V 5.1 headphones from Alla Japan
This is turning into a serious boy-who-cried-wolf kind of situation, but evidence is growing today that HTC and Sprint are finally — yes, finally — ready to drop a hot batch of Sense-laden Android 2.1 on eager Hero owners. A screen shot of a Best Buy employee news page reads that the update was “delayed until this week” and will be “in all stores” by this Friday, May 7; what that means isn’t exactly clear, but it could suggest that all Heros being sold in Best Buy Mobile locations will have the update applied by then. As for current customers, Best Buy is sending out instructions on how staff can help owners upgrade if they happen to wander into the store, but otherwise, it should be available from HTC’s site (yeah, no over-the-air action here). Stay tuned, folks. [Thanks, John] Sprint’s HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 finally coming on May 7
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When we did our Alex Rider contest , one of the kids proposed a tiny spy cam built into a faux maple leaf one could launch with a slingshot. We thought it was a clever idea. Some researchers at the University of Maryland’s Dept. of Aerospace Engineering were similarly inspired by samara seed pods and created the RoboSeed
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Maple seed-inspired flying vehicle
Believe it or not, this gorgeous looking Amp is Made in France… Yep, apparently my fellow French friends are not only capable to offer good looking design but also impressive piece of technology and sound. Engineered by a dynamic young company named Devialet, the D-Premier is their first High-end Amps that features a new Class
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The World most beautiful and accurate Amps, the D-Premier now available in Japan
Well, here’s something of a surprise. In addition to demonstrating Flash running on phones like the Nexus One and Palm Pre at the now-happening Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe also has a prototype Android tablet of some sort on hand that, according to Zedomax , runs Flash and Air apps “flawlessly.” Unfortunately, there doesn’t appear to be any details at all on the tablet itself, and judging from the looks of things, it is a prototype in the truest sense of the word (check out the other shot after the break). It does seem to deliver the goods when it comes to Air and Flash, however, with it able to run Wired’s Air-based magazine app and play YouTube videos without so much as a hiccup, although we’d definitely like to see it in a few more taxing situations. See for yourself in a pair of all too brief videos after the break
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And once again such cool little device is coming from the fast growing Korea (watch out Japan!!!) Offered by DesignMAX the “yourpebbles” is a pebble shape platinum silicon based all in one cradle than can hold your beloved Smartphone, like an iPod for example, without the needs of any glue or fitting, can be
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Who said that pebble could not be smart? Behold the Smart Pebble universal cradle.
Seagate’s GoFlex storage system consists of external hard drives and accessories which’ll make backing up your data simpler and faster. While doing all that, the system will also be the first time that Seagate will include NTFS drivers for Macs. (more…)
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Seagate GoFlex Storage System Loves Macs And PCs Equally
We all knew Seagate’s FreeAgent line couldn’t hang around forever, and tonight the storage mainstay has revealed the next logical step for the line. The GoFlex family is one of the more varied ranges out there from any hard drive maker, with the primary intent on the HDD side being to create drives (ranging from 320GB to 2TB) that are friendly with both Macs and PCs (simultaneously) while also giving users the ability to upgrade their connection or switch it out depending on what workstation they interface with. The new crew supports USB 2.0 out of the box, though upgrading to USB 3.0 , FireWire 800 or eSATA can be accomplished via the new GoFlex cable system. Also launched today is the GoFlex TV HD media player, which essentially acts as a liaison between your tele and your media, regardless of whether it’s stored locally, on the LAN or on the internet. Moving on, there’s the GoFlex Net media sharing device, which transforms any USB mass storage device into one that’s happy to pump out content via the ‘net — think Pogoplug , and you’ve pretty much got the idea.
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I just love checking out other people’s workshops for those little flashes of inspiration. Make: Online reader Kaas of Ashland, WI wrote in with some excellent tactics for storing hardware. First, she uses chocolate milk containers to store screws and then tapes an example onto the outside of each one so she know’s what’s inside — no labels necessary. For bulkier items she uses cat litter tubs. Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Workshop | Digg this!
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Make: Time & Space: More workshop organization ideas
Panasonic today announced upgrades to its Panasonic Toughbook CF-52 semi-rugged notebook and the business-rugged Toughbook CF-T8 tablet-alternative notebook computer, adding increased processor speeds, memory and Gobi mobile technology. The Toughbook CF-52 now runs on the Intel Core i5 (up to 2.53GHz) processor and includes 2GB RAM and up to a 250GB shock-mounted hard
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Seagate have announced their third-generation of portable hard-drives, the Seagate GoFlex Storage System , which debuts a system of interchangeable connection adapters that can be used to turn a regular USB 2.0 HDD into a USB 3.0, eSATA or FireWire 800 drive. Meanwhile there are a selection of special cables and docks, which can add automatic backup functionality (using Memeo technology), network connectivity, HD media playback or desktop dock convenience
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Seagate GoFlex adds swappable USB 3.0/eSATA/FireWire cables, media docks to HDDs
The Rain Drum (why didn’t you call it the Drumbrella?!) is a conceptual umbrella designed by Dong Min Park to provide a little musical accompaniment to a walk through the rain . You see (or hear!), each section of the umbrella is supposed to make a different drum sound (snare, bass, tom-tom, crash cymbal and high-hat cymbal) when hit by droplets.
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I’m Siiiiinging Playing The Drums In The Rain
If there’s one thing I really love about TomTom’s GPS navigators is the fact that you can download and replace the stock voices with different ones if you’re sick of the default. So you can imagine the big grin on my face when I found out that TomTom and Lucasfilm have paired up to bring us voices from Star Wars characters. TomTom plans on selling voice tracks from Darth Vader, C-3PO, Yoda and Han Solo, but they’ll will probably sell more Darth Vader tracks than anything, as is evidenced by this hilarious clip of Darth in the recording studio laying down some phat GPS tracks. Click to View Embedded Video Clip You can get your hands on the Darth Vader sounds now over at the TomTom site for $12.95(USD).
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With over 1m iPads sold , it’s looking like Apple’s tablet gamble has paid off. Ironically the milestone was reached on the same day that the iPad WiFi + 3G debuted, the 3G-enabled version of the touchscreen slate that promises to set you loose from WiFi hotspots. After the cut, check out the SlashGear review, complete with MiFi benchmarking and some surprising battery findings. For the most part, the iPad WiFi + 3G (which from now on we’ll just refer to as the iPad 3G for the sake of brevity) is identical to its WiFi-only sibling. Both have the same capacitive touchscreen display, slimline aluminum body, iPhone OS 3.2 and either 16GB, 32GB or 64GB of flash storage.
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iPad WiFi + 3G Review
What happened to the utopian dream of a life of leisure for us humans, paid for with the toil of uncomplaining automatons? It could be that it’s just been delayed… In this month’s issue, T3 magazine looks at the present and future of robotics, hails the dawn of post-human intelligence and looks forward to the era when robots will fight our wars, heal our sick, take our jobs, steal our girlfriends and shoot us dead
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In This Month’s : Rise Of The Robots