May 4 is unofficially Star Wars Day , and although you don’t need a holiday to honor the science-fiction franchise, it’s fun to look back and appreciate where your geeky path began. Check out a few ways you can celebrate the occasion in this slideshow. Source View Slideshow ›
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May the Fourth Be With You: Happy Star Wars Day!
The new iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 or simply known as iPhone 4 OS now brings iPod widgets on the dock, and it looks very nice at that. We mentioned a few details about the new Apple iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 being released, but according to Engagdet it has now been pulled
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iPhone OS 4.0 beta 3 brings iPod widgets on dock
Samsung: 3D Glasses Compatible With Other TVs When Worn Upside Down I wonder if this is real or just a way to make people watching 3D in the home look even stupider. Samsung’s Super AMOLED Tablet Said To Be Called The S-Pad I’m no marketer, but Samsung, if you’re listening, you should not name anything “S-Pad” ever. The Pipe Labyrinth Behind Lost I haven’t started watching the final season yet, so I don’t want to read this post in case of spoilers. I assume it’s good though… 48 Hours, Thousands Of Contributors, One Magazine This sounds like a good idea. I’d read it
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Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Tuesday Night
Enter to Win Your Mom an Updated Kitchen! Mother’s Day is just around the corner and we know you’re on the lookout for something special to honor your mom – that’s why Yum has partnered with Williams-Sonoma to create an amazing giveaway! It’s full of some unbelievable prizes; basically everything mom needs to have an updated, modern kitchen. Enter now!
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Enter to Win Your Mom an Updated Kitchen!
Heute hat Apple endlich die neue iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3 zum Download freigegeben. In erster Linie dürften sich viele darüber freuen, dass man endlich die Kamera wieder benutzen kann und dieser Bug beseitigt wurde. Weiterhin wurde das Dock für das Multitasking (Fast App Switcher) um eine weitere Funktion erweitert: iPod Fernsteuerung .
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iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3 jetzt zum Download – iPod Fernsteuerung und Rotation-Lock
Laut neusten Informationen arbeitet Sony Ericsson derzeit an einer neuen Smartphone Plattform, welche unter der Bezeichnung U5500 in der Entwicklung ist. Die neue Plattform soll als Sprungbrett für neue Smartphones erscheinen und die ersten Testmuster der neuen Plattform, sollen im 3. Quartal 2010 herausgehen.
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U5500: Neue Smartphone Plattform von Sony Ericsson in der Entwicklung
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
We have a video below showing Oprah Winfrey fondling around with the new HTC EVO 4G well before its release date. Cannot believe she has one already, but then she is the TV icon who can have what she wants. Would have been so much better if she had loads of these smartphones and gave some away to her audience. This is part of the No Phone Zone Day 2010 because the text message she shows says so, there is not a lot to go on other than watching the video below that we found via Engadget .
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HTC EVO 4G in Oprah Winfrey Hands Before Release Date
Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady led the pack of hot couples at the 2010 Costume Institute Gala along with JT and Jessica Biel, Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson, and, perhaps most exciting, Jude Law and Sienna Miller. Kristen Stewart is edgier than Robert Pattinson’s other onscreen love, and Katy Perry shows a lot of skin in a revealing dress. Watch tons of highlights from fashion’s biggest night with our editors’ commentary on the night’s best looks!
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Met Costume Gala Madness: Best Dressed, Highest Slits, Hottest Couples, and More!
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
The Colorado Judicial Branch announced April 20 it has opened the application process for $750,000 in fiscal year 2011 grants from the Family Violence Justice Fund, which funds programs that provide civil legal services to indigent Coloradans.
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Application process
Since the Gizmodo Apple iPhone 4G / HD prototype saga it seems clone makers are coming out of the woodwork to produce copies, the question is “Would you buy these clones?” personally we would not. The iPhone 4G that Gizmodo had was taken apart bit-by-bit and revealed quite a lot, and this one we are showing here thanks to micgadget is very much similar
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iPhone 4G / HD Apple Clone, would you buy it?
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
I’m building an Arduino-controlled Nerf sentry gun. Rather than build it and present the finished project all at once, I’m going to chronicle the build here on Make: Online. The first step was to add wiring and a two-wire connector to control the trigger circuit
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Arduino Nerf sentry gun build: wiring the trigger
I don’t etch circuit boards very often, so I can’t really justify purchasing or even storing much specialized equipment for it. Once in a while, though, I do need to produce a batch of boards, and having something as simple as an automatic agitator for the etchant tank can make the job much easier. So what’s a poor hacker to do? In cases like this, having a pile of junk and rapid prototyping tools such as the Arduino come to the rescue
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The 5-minute circuit board agitator, or, making temporary tools
Hey, would you look at that — we done won ourselves an award! And not just any award, but the People’s Choice Webby Award in Consumer Electronics, which is doubly special to us since it was voted on by the general public. Obviously we’re pretty happy about the win, but we’re even happier to have such great readers like all of you — Engadget editors work pretty hard, but you’re the ones who make our site what it is. So by way of celebration, we’re giving away a Droid Incredible , courtesy of Verizon Wireless, and 10 lucky runner-ups will get spiffy new Engadget T-shirts! All you have to do is leave a comment to tell us how happy you are, and you’ll be entered to win. The full instructions and typical rules can be found after the break
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Engadget wins the People’s Voice Webby in Consumer Electronics, and you can win a Droid Incredible!
The details are still by no means clear, but sure enough: Apple has pulled iPhone OS Beta 3 from the iPhone Dev Center, just two hours after it was first released . While a link to iPhone OS 4 is still available, the page now only offers up the iPhone OS Beta 2 that was released last week
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Apple takes down iPhone OS 4 Beta 3 two hours after its release
Unlike many of Apple’s devices, the iPad has seen a host of accessories released along with it. In the past Apple has relied mostly on its third party manufacturers to create cases and other peripherals for the iPhone, iPod etc. For the iPad Apple is offering a case, a power adapter, a dock, a keyboard dock, a display adapter and the camera connection kit, the last which we’re going to look at today. Right about now you’re probably asking yourself, “what do I need the camera connection kit for?” And I did the same thing as I stood in the Apple store looking at it on the rack. The best answer I could come up with
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Review: iPad Camera Connection Kit
In a case of life imitating art (in this case, comic book art), a man dressed as Spiderman stopped a would-be thief from stealing a $160 comic on Free Comic Book Day this last Sunday. He was aided in his crime-fighting by two Jedi knights and The Flash . Not even kidding. Adelaide Comic Centre’s Michael Baulderstone, 45, noticed a man “behaving suspiciously” at the back of his store
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Spiderman Busts Would-Be Comic Thief
I’ve come across a bunch of cute, quirky mouse pads recently that also double as notepads; the problem with all of them, though, is that using them as notepads means you’re tossing paper in the trash every time you want a fresh sheet. The Scratch-n-Scroll Mousepad ($15) from Quirky uses the same concept as a child’s toy.
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Take Note on This Eco-Friendly, Reusable Mouse Pad