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enTourage announced three major deals with publishers that will bring thousands of new book titles to its dual-screen eDGe ereader. Targeting the higher education market, the trio includes Cengage Learning which publishes a wide variety of educational content under brands such as Delmar, Heinle, and more, O’Reilly which offers over 1,ooo titles in technology and programming, and the University of Chicago Press which has over 1000 academic titles in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. With these agreements, enTourage is making a play for the academic market and is hoping to succeed where Amazon and its Kindle DX failed. Anyone on the way to college interested in this electronic reading and note taking system? Read

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enTourage partners with Cengage Learning, O’Reilly, and the University of Chicago Press

Man, if you thought the lawsuit action in the mobile space was crazy before, well, you ain’t seen nothing yet — Motorola just sued Huawei and over a dozen former employees for conspiring to steal its wireless trade secrets and other proprietary technology over a period of years starting in 2001. Yeah, it’s crazy. The lawsuit was originally filed in 2008 against four former Motorola engineers and a company called Lemko, all of whom Motorola accused of conspiring to stealing trade secrets related to wireless technology. After years of discovery in the case, it appears that Motorola realized the conspiracy went much deeper than it originally thought, leading the company to file a new complaint on July 16th, in which it named Huawei and nine additional former employees, who allegedly schemed to steal plans for a 3G base station called the SC300

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Motorola sues Huawei and several former employees for stealing wireless trade secrets

It seems like everyone is cooking up their own touch-free gesture-based control technology , just like every blogger is destined to refer to it as ” Minority Report -like” or ” Minority Report -esque,” or “Tom Cruise-tastic!” Fraunhofer’s FIT, the newest such project, has recently appeared on the YouTubes, where we must say it looks pretty darn good. Not only does it not require special gloves or markers, this thing also works in real time and can support multiple users (and multiple fingers). The researchers hope to use this for working with complex simulation data and in education, although there are some kinks to be worked out: currently elements like the reflections caused by wristwatches and the orientation of the palm confuses the system. That said, the demo is pretty rad! See for yourself after the break. Continue reading Fraunhofer FIT touch-free gesture-control for multiple users (video) Fraunhofer FIT touch-free gesture-control for multiple users (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:01:00 EDT

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Fraunhofer FIT touch-free gesture-control for multiple users (video)

We are no stranger to Star Wars games, like the Battle for Hoth . Now, Trench Run is receiving an update to 2.0. You can see work here in the video with “Brass Monkey” technology that allows you to use the iPhone as a controller for a big screen version of the game. In addition to this very cool feature, there are new levels and ships as well. I believe that the Trench Run game costs $5, and the 2.0 update will cost $0.99.

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Star Wars Trench Run 2.0

We’ve heard this song and dance before, but DigiTimes has it that MSI is on pace to shove out a 3D laptop this September. Before you open that jaw and feign a yawn, you should know that the company is purportedly not following convention by integrating NVIDIA’s 3D Vision technology; instead, it’ll rely on Dynamic Digital Depth’s (DDD’s) TriDef 3D software for transferring 2D images to 3D. This means that users will be able to use cheap-o polarized glasses rather than the more expensive (and battery draining) active shutter variety. Somehow or another, the whole thing is supposed to launch at under a grand, so we’ll be poking around on the IFA show floor hoping that this one comes to fruition. MSI rumored to have TriDef 3D laptops on deck, no active shutters required originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:26:00 EDT

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MSI rumored to have TriDef 3D laptops on deck, no active shutters required

I’ve heard that there may be a great convergence, where we would purchase a movie, and be able to watch it from any platform like our television, mobile phone, or PMP. This could happen if Ultraviolet has their way. Right now, Ultraviolet has several members like NBC Universal, for example. However, I don’t think that Apple and iTunes will play nice with it. Especially with the Hulu iPad service and Hulu Plus

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Ultraviolet could signal the great convergence

Motorola has filed a lawsuit against Chinese electronics maker Huawei, claiming that the company stole trade secrets. Motorola alleges that former Motorola employees left for Huawei and provided the company with information on Motorola’s cell phone technology. The company ..

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Motorola Dials Up Lawsuit Against Huawei

Have you ever purchased some clothing online? Have you ever purchased clothing online that you had never tried on before? If so, or if not, then you probably know that it can be a bit tricky, considering you don’t get to see how it looks on you, or if it will even fit in general. So, what should you do

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Fits.me is a Shape-Shifting Mannequin

I am embarrassingly tardy with this review, but the reasoning is actually good news and worth mentioning. I had been playing mTanks on my iPod Touch but then the kids got out of school, we went on vacation, and I got busy getting my iPod Touch set up for my wife to use to read ebooks on vacation. Long story short, I forgot about the game completely. Before I finish the story, let’s see what this mTanks is all about: The Hype: 4 days ago NASA’s Spirit rover discovered a growing army of tanks beneath the surface of Mars.

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iPhone Game Review: mTanks!

When Steve Jobs stood on stage last week and explained what was happening with the iPhone 4′s antenna (or, the whole mobile industry, if you really want to look at the presentation), he mentioned that the dropped call statistics from AT&T weren’t available at the time. Well, looks like that’s over and done with, because the month of May’s results have just been outed, and all because a website went out of their way to run their own poll. The site, Tech-Ex , asked its readers to confide their deepest, darkest AT&T secrets: how often do your calls get dropped? The results weren’t pretty: 4.5%, versus Verizon’s results, which stood at 1.5%, all in the month of March.

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AT&T Comments on Dropped Call Statistics

South Gate Restaurant, Bar and Lounge has launched the first iPad wine tablets in New York City. South Gate created custom wireless iPad wine tablets exclusively designed to navigate its extensive wine list of over 650 bottles. Image: South Gate The South Gate iPad wine tablet not only provides detailed information about the major wine regions and varietals, but also automatically updates the wine list as labels sell out, to ensure that inventory is always accurate

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Choose Your Wine From the iPad

Tomorrow some MAKE friends will participate in a panel discussion called Open Retail at Eyebeam’s Summer School series in New York City. The event will also be live streamed , for all you out-of-towners. Moderated by Dustyn Roberts, Eyebeam Disscussants: Bre Pettis, MakerBot; Giana González, Hacking Couture; Becky Stern, CRAFT and MAKE Magazines, Sternlab Using Re:Group exhibited projects MakerBot and Hacking Couture as a point of departure, Open Retail will explore the intersection between the engineering and fashion industries, and the ways in which open source practices are influencing them both. Eyebeam resident artist Dustyn Roberts (engineer and author of the forthcoming book, Making Things Move ) will moderate a discussion with Bre Pettis ( MakerBot ), Giana González ( Hacking Couture ), and Becky Stern (associate editor for CRAFT and MAKE Magazines, Sternlab ), which will consider how newly emerging open hardware licenses might help spur innovation and counteract draconian patent laws, while also building sustainable business practices. Conversely, the lack of copyright in fashion has resulted in an industry focused on branding and closely guarded trade secrets

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Responding to an online poll conducted by website Tech-Ex, AT&T gave the world some indication of what their dropped-call rate actually is. Tech-Ex conducted a reader poll that indicated AT&T’s dropped-call — for its readers — was around 4.5% for March of 2010; conversely, Verizon Wireless’ rate came in at 1.5% for the same period.

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AT&T had 1.44% dropped call rate for May of 2010

The Galaxy S, when announced, had a full 4 hours to bask in the limelight of this year’s CTIA in Las Vegas before Sprint outshone it with the HTC EVO 4G, the country’s very first 4G phone of any kind. While the EVO’s specs were clearly more breathtaking, the Galaxy S still had nothing to cry about.

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AT&T Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) review

Simple, sleek, and sophisticated, the Loop iPad Stand ($29) from Griffin is a modern iPad stand that will prop your iPad comfortably at a variety of angles in both portrait and landscape orientation. The stand is weighted with nonslip rubber feet to prevent slipping or tipping over, and is shaped to accommodate your iPad standing straight up or down at a lower angle suitable for typing. Plus, the open design ensures there’s plenty of room to plug in your iPad’s dock cable

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Here at Shiny Shiny we really like Augmented Reality – the technology that overlays reality with computer data and makes pictures, icons and tweets float over an image of the real world. We are soo into it. Layar is…

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Top AR Developer Howard Ogden on changes in Layar, and why it’s still two steps ahead

3D Gesture control represented in movies such as Minority Report starring Tom Cruise is always great to see and normally so far fetched that real-life technology takes years to match the movie. Well a new 3D gesture control system designed ad developed by Fraunhofer is looking to make the Minor Report system resemble an old Windows 3.1 computer. Check out the video of the system in action, after the jump

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New 3D Gesture Control System Makes Minority Report Look Dated (video)

The Bloodhound Education Programme, aiming to inspire young people to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics has created a rocket car that is aiming to achieve 1,050 mph in 42 seconds. The car has been under development for more than three years and is just now moving of the computer and into reality, to create a car that will travel faster than a speeding bullet. Check out the video after the jump. A 1:1 scale model of the rocket car was recently on show at the Farnborough International Airshow in the UK for a week. The design and shape of the Bloodhound SSC is completely unique, being 13m long, and weighing close to 7 tonnes

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Rocket Car Aims To Reach 1,050 mph In 42 Seconds

Creative is expanding its Sound Blaster Wireless ecosystem with this single-piece speaker made of granite-rock. The aptly-named Wireless Rock Speaker can reportedly withstand moderate weather conditions so it’s safe to assume that they are waterproof. We are a little surprised that Creative comes up with these as the company traditionally hasn’t made anything suitable for outdoor use for extended period of time. The speaker itself is powered by a removable Li-ion battery which lasts up to 6 hours of continuous playback and which can be recharged on a cradle. For those of you wondering, the Rock Speaker isn’t Bluetooth

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Creative Creates Wireless USB Speakers with Rocks

While online shopping has taken over most facets of modern retail, buying clothes via the interwebs is something more of a hard sell. The Fits.me shape-shifting mannequin is here to make that a little easier — for men, anyway. Earlier this year the company created a robotic torso comprised of flexible panels that can shift between thousands of different shapes and sizes from small to extra large

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Fits.me shape-shifter models the huge pectoral muscles men want, smaller ones they have (video)

Panasonic have today launched the worlds first all-in-one TV that includes pretty much every technology you currently could need. Including 3D playback, Hard Disk Drive and Blu-ray recorder, together with an array of other functions. There are two models available the 46-inch TH-P46RT2B and the 42-inch TH-P42RT2B with both sporting some impressive equipment, including: Full HD Resolution, 500GB HDD, 3D Blu-ray player, speakers, Skype, Ethernet port, DLNS support, Viers Link and 3 x HDMI ports. But unfortunately you still only get one pair of 3D glasses The new Palsma display will be available to buy it Japan on August 28th for around $5,050 for the 46″ model and $4,500 for the 42″. But not official details have been released about international sales as yet

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