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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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
I’d love to confirm this feature myself, but iPhone 4.0 beta 3, was pulled within two hours of its release (before I could get to it).
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iPhone 4.0 beta 3: native file support, rotation lock, and improved multi-tasking dock
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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Sprint’s HTC Hero update to Android 2.1 finally coming on May 7?
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
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.
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
SmrtGuard users, please open your SmrtGuard and you will be given the alert that there’s a newer version and to update. Remember, there’s always a reason for an update. We also have some information from SmrtGuard about their new additional features as well.
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Be Smart And Keep Your Guard Up, SmrtGuard Updated to v2.25!
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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We’ve finally had some word on a price for the new Nokia N8 and the great news (for consumers at least) is that the N8 is going to be considerably cheaper than the new iPhone 4 whether its called iPhone 4G, HD or anything else once it is released. Confirmed by PocketLint, the Nokia N8 price
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Nokia N8 Price Cheaper than iPhone 4 HD
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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star wars voices on tomtom gps: you have arrived at your death star nation
Waze has been around awhile for other phones: iPhone, Android, Windows and Symbian devices, but now it’s finally available for BlackBerry. What is Waze? It’s a free social mobile map that is in beta and utilizes GPS and live maps, real-time traffic updates, turn by turn directions over the air, and it’s driver-generated
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Welcome To The Waze Of The Road: Now Available For BlackBerry! Let’s Get Munching!
The online population in the world’s most populous nation has reached 404 million, the official Xinhua news agency said, citing the State Council Information Office. That compares with 384 million users at the end of 2009. Users accessing the Internet with mobile phones was steady at 233 million while the number of people with broadband access reached 346 million. The growth of users arent going to stop anytime as more and more will be accessing from the mobile.
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China’s online users above 400 million
This is an upcoming iPhone app that allows for translation, without switching back and forth between languages. As you can see, this app has two sets of keyboards that allow both users to type what they are saying on one side, and have it translated on the other. This creates a conversation that is two-sided
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iPhone App uses two keypads for translation
The Oprah Effect. All this woman needs to do is mention something, be it a book, product, or service of some sort, and you can bet your sweet ass it will get more attention than it ever could have without her. That’s the kind of publicity Sprint ( NYSE: S ) needs right now, and they just got a good dose of the “Oprah Effect” with their upcoming HTC EVO 4G Android phone. While she hasn’t explicitly endorsed the product, Oprah was spotted with an Evo 4G , and subtly gave it a name drop in a video
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Oprah has her very own HTC Evo 4G
With Android’s fragmentation issues , there has been a lot of concern when it comes to updating a device, especially when it comes to wondering whether or not a particular Android phone will be upgraded to the next software version. Now that most Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Droid users are upgraded to Android 2.1 (Eclair), it has surpassed the numbers of Android 1.6 (Donut).
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Eclair users surpass Donut, Cupcake still king of Android
Up until now, we’d heard and believed that Windows Phone 7 would be based on Microsoft’s time-tested Windows CE 6 kernel — aging, yes, but still considerably newer and more technically modern than the CE 5 upon which Windows Mobile 6.x operates. Thing is, Windows Embedded evangelist Olivier Bloch just dropped the knowledge this week that the company’s all-new phone platform will actually be “based on the Windows Embedded Compact 7 core,” which sounds a lot to us like Redmond skipped right over CE 6 and went straight for the latest and greatest (and still unavailable to the general public) stuff. [Thanks, Jeff] Continue reading Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel? Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 May 2010 17:12:00 EST.
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Windows Phone 7 based on a hybrid Windows CE 6 / Compact 7 kernel?
Handys + Elektronik #5: Sony Ericsson W595 Flower-Edition Handy ohne Vertrag, ohne Branding, kein Si… http://bit.ly/9khLLc newphone4u.com
OK, so, Gareth may not like it, but this video of Honda’s prototype U3-X omni-wheeled personal vehicle my brother just sent me is rather more persuasive than the shaky hand-cam footage of nervous American riders Gar posted back in 2009. Although I agree the butt-pads are kind of creepy. From IEEE Spectrum : The U3-X uses a balance control system that derives from Honda’s research on human walking dynamics for its famed ASIMO bipedal humanoid robot. When the rider leans his or her body, an angle tilt sensor sends data to the balance control system, which in turns moves the wheel, maintaining balance. Also, is it just me, or does the U3-X look a lot like the Graystone’s house servitron from the BSG spin-off Caprica
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Honda’s answer to Segway looks a lot like Serge
Know Your Rights is Engadget’s technology law series, written by our own totally punk ex-copyright attorney Nilay Patel. In it we’ll try to answer some fundamental tech-law questions to help you stay out of trouble in this brave new world. This isn’t legal advice or analysis, so don’t get all donked in the head. What on earth is going on with H.264, patents, and video encoding on the web? It seems like ever since Steve Jobs published his Thoughts on Flash the world has gone crazy
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Know Your Rights: H.264, patent licensing, and you