Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/09/samsung-announces-1080p-in-bezel-cmos-sensor-webcam-spying-goin/
Samsung announces 1080p in-bezel CMOS sensor, webcam spying going HD originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://lifehacker.com/5512744/uploadr-takes-screenshots-shares-files-and-folders-with-ease
Once you've installed the application or launched the portable version, you can simply drag files onto the interface to immediately upload them to previously mentioned file sharing site Localhostr. You can upload single files, or even entire folders of files, as long as they fit inside the 50MB total limit.
You can also use Uploadr to take screenshots of windows directly, and immediately upload them. Once you've done so, you can copy the URL to the clipboard for sharing, or if you head into the options you can enable automatic copy of the URL. Uploadr is a free download for Windows only.
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/samsung-nx10-reviewed-a-worthy-alternative-to-micro-four-thirds/
Samsung NX10 reviewed: a worthy alternative to Micro Four Thirds originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/what-it-takes-to-properly-convert-a-2d-movie-to-3d/
What it takes to properly convert a 2D movie to 3D originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/new-mitsubishi-3d-dlps-arrive-for-2010-is-this-the-mysterious-s/
Continue reading New Mitsubishi 3D DLPs arrive for 2010, is this the mysterious StreamTV?
New Mitsubishi 3D DLPs arrive for 2010, is this the mysterious StreamTV? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsSource: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apples-sold-450-000-ipads-as-of-today-pushed-3-5-million-ipad/
There you have it -- according to Steve Jobs at today's iPhone event, nearly half a million iPads have been pushed so far alongside 3.5 million iPad app downloads -- a perfect few orders of magnitude above the 3,500 iPad apps presently available. It's not clear whether that includes units sold to third party retailers (like Best Buy) that are still sitting on store shelves, though, so there's quite a bit of potential for variability there. Separately, he's mentioned that 50 million iPhones have now been sold worldwide alongside 35 million iPod touches -- so yeah, needless to say, the iPad has some big shoes to fill if it wants to hit the same level of rousing success.Apple's sold 450,000 iPads as of today, pushed 3.5 million iPad app downloads (update: 50 million iPhones!) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You heard that right, people -- iPhone OS 4 just brought multitasking to the platform! Apple says they've figured out how to implement third party multitasking without hurting performance or battery life, and they're demoing it now -- you just double click the home button and see a list of your apps, and you can just tap to switch between apps. The system actually runs the services apps need in the background -- the apps don't need to do them individually, so it's not a "true" multitasking system, but it seems plenty effective. There are seven services: background audio, which allows you to use the standard pop-over iPod controls, Voice over IP, which can receive calls in the background, location services for GPS and social networking (there's an indicator if any service is tracking you), updated push notifications with local notifications, task completion so you can finish things like uploads in the background, and fast app switching, which lets apps sleep and resume instantly. Notably missing? Anything for managing a conversation, like IM or Twitter, which is a big omission. Win some, lose some, we suppose.Multitasking comes to iPhone OS 4.0 -- but not to the iPhone 3G originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/steve-jobs-we-tried-to-buy-a-company-called-admob/
We'd previously heard rumors that Quattro Wireless was Apple's consolation prize after a deal with bigger mobile advertising rival AdMob fell through, and Steve Jobs confirmed it on no uncertain terms at the Q&A session following today's iPhone OS 4.0 event: "we tried to buy a company called AdMob... but Google snatched it away." Indeed they did, though that deal hasn't yet been approved by the Federal Trade Commission while Apple's already up, up and away with its iAd solution, so it seems like everything shook out for the best -- if you're an iPhone developer, anyway.Steve Jobs: 'we tried to buy a company called AdMob' originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Mitsubishi's Unisen LCD HDTVs, now with more speakers, LED, WiFi, apps, cowbell
Mitsubishi's Unisen LCD HDTVs, now with more speakers, LED, WiFi, apps, cowbell originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsThe shape-memory alloy actuators might power minimally invasive surgical devices or tiny laptop cameras
Such devices, known as actuators, can be cut from a flat sheet of metal just a fraction of a millimeter thick. They emerged from a roject that aims to build printable robots, where the robots would consist of both the metal actuators and plastic components that could be built layer-by-layer through a process similar to inkjet printing.
The secret behind the lightweight actuators comes from rectangular notches carved into the metal alloy, which increases electrical resistance. That means only material around the notches heats up when an electrical current passes through.
Past actuators have made use of springs created from shape-memory alloys, including an iron shape-memory alloy that might lead to better surgical interventions and quake-proof buildings. But the MIT actuators can get rid of heat more quickly and consume less energy, because only a small part of the spring heats up when electrically charged,
The shape-memory actuators might eventually exert a force up to 160 times their own weight.
For now, the current actuators can already make use of their energy-sipping efficiency to run on batteries, and have helped create a wirelessly-controlled rolling robot that resembles a runaway tank tread. We're also excited to see more examples of creations such as the robo-bat.
More images are available at MIT's slideshow here.
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By reverse engineering the solar cells they've worked on for so long, researchers at NREL were able to generate a difficult combination of green and red that could revolutionize the way we light our homes and other buildings. LEDs, after all, are the reverse of solar cells; one turns light into electricity, the other electricity into light.
Though the solar cells NREL scientists were working on hadn't gone so far as to capture green light–solar cells don't require green light to harvest energy–they had dabbled in the green spectral region. Years of tweaking the different lattice layers within solar cells informed their thinking: if they could closely manage the spectrum absorbed by solar cells by carefully tweaking the size and nature of the lattices within the cells, couldn't they do the same for LEDs?
So they did, achieving a deep green on their very first try by putting indium into gallium nitride. The team is now working to create a fourth color that will enhance white light even further. NREL envisions a deeper red blended with a lemony green that will be combined with a blue and a very deep green made from their indium-gallium nitride technology.
The resulting light would be highly manageable, giving the user the ability to electronically manipulate the hue. Meaning by the time the DOE phases out compact fluorescent bulbs in ten years, we should have a cheap, efficient and more flexible light source ready to take their places.
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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/ysuuxLXgfDI/mission-blue-filling-in-blanks.html
Last year, we launched Ocean in Google Earth, expanding the scope of Earth to include 3D maps of the world's oceans and videos, photos and narrative from the world's leading scientists and media sources to bring them to life. We worked with more than 100 partners to begin to fill in the "blue" part of the planet, adding hundreds of placemarks in more than 20 ocean layers. Since then, we've added hundreds of new posts to the Ocean layer with the help of Sylvia Earle's Mission Blue Foundation and dozens of committed individuals around the world. The posts come from a diverse range of partners including National Geographic, independent videographers and dive enthusiasts, government organizations like the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and international organizations like the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Source: http://lifehacker.com/5511793/make-qr-codes-in-a-jiffy-with-googl
We recently highlighted how to make your personal QR code, but for those of you who don't recall, a QR ("quick response") code is a square barcode that makes getting URLs, location coordinates, any text or contact information onto a phone fast. With a barcode scanner app installed, you just point your phone's camera at the code to read its contents.
Gina detailed how to create QR codes using code generators like this or this, but if you're already using Goo.gl to shorten your URLs, simply add .qr to the end of a shortened Goo.gl URL and it'll instantly generate a QR code for you.
Once you've got your shortened Goo.gl URL—like http://goo.gl/3p8r, which points to Lifehacker's home page—just append .qr like so:
...and you've got your personal QR code. Not bad.
Note: To use Goo.gl to shorten URLs, you need to be using the Google Toolbar, or you can point your browser here or try this bookmarklet. Also, the other generators listed above offer QR codes that embed text, phone numbers, maps, and ready-to-send text messages in addition to URLs, so if you want more than just a shortened URL, they're probably better options.
Source: http://lifehacker.com/5512326/xmarks-for-firefox-syncs-open-tabs-between-browsers
Mozilla's own Weave tool added tab syncing in its 1.0 release, so its nice to see Xmarks catch up to the competition. But given that Xmarks works, in one form or another, across Safari and Internet Explorer as well, a future update could make tab syncing much more convenient for the home/office divide.
Xmarks states that it uploads your window and tab status in the background, when your browser has a "quiet moment," so it might not always pick up every last tab, especially before a crash. It is, however, a nice piece of mind that costs you nothing. Xmarks is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.
Source: http://lifehacker.com/5512349/create-instant-qr-codes-with-a-bookmarklet
Hosted at his public Dropbox, reader grewal12 put his JavaScript skills to work, offering up two different versions of a bookmarklet. You'll need to copy the code and save it as a new bookmark manually, but once you do, it's a handy little thing. Go to a page you want to make easy for Android and iPhone users to get to with their camera scanners, hit the bookmarklet, and, depending on which version you picked, your code will appear in either a tiny new window or in the same browser tab. Handy stuff.
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