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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Cisco to announce high-def consumer telepresence device next week?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/cisco-to-announce-high-def-consumer-telepresence-device-next-wee/

Cisco to announce high-def consumer telepresence device next week?

Cisco is certainly no stranger to the telepresence world, offering a high-end system catering to your high-paid CEO and his high-def boardroom. However, that doesn't do Ma and Pa Internet User much good when they want to dial up their offspring and see how the grandkids are faring. This, it seems, is Cisco's next step, with the company launching an "inexpensive home telepresence product for personal use" according to All Things Digital. At a press conference scheduled one week from today, a device and service are expected to be unveiled with a cost between $200 and $500 (depending on carrier subsidies) that will enable easy high-def video calling -- something SkypeHD and others do today, but supporting devices have been slow to find success. What will this device look like? Well, Cisco Senior VP Marthin De Beer said earlier this year: "We didn't buy Flip to have it be only a video recorder." He also said: "We would absolutely love to integrate with FaceTime." That latter bit sounds a little optimistic, but high-def telepresence that's as simple to use as a Flip HD? It could be good -- or it could be another FlipShare TV.

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OCZ Ibis touts 2GBps High Speed Data Link, vanquishes SSD competition

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/ocz-ibis-touts-2gbps-high-speed-data-link-vanquishes-ssd-compet/

What's after ludicrous speed? If you ask OCZ, the answer is HSDL speed, which is the company's new interface idea for bypassing the bandwidth limitations of standard SATA/SAS interconnects. Using a high-quality SAS cable to hook up its new Ibis drive to a PCI Express host card, OCZ has managed to deliver a cool 2GBps of total bandwidth -- that's one gigabyte up and one gigabyte down... every second. In order to feed this massive data pipe, the company's gone and stacked four SandForce SF-1200 controllers inside the Ibis and RAIDed them together for good measure too. The upshot isn't too dramatic for desktop applications, where'll you'll see performance that's merely world-beating -- reading at 373MBps and writing at 323MBps -- but if you throw in some deeper queues and enterprise-level workloads you'll be able to squeeze out 804MBps reads and 675MBps writes. Needless to say, the Ibis scooped up many a plaudit in early reviews, and though it may be expensive at $529 for 100GB, it still seems to represent good value for those who have the workloads to saturate its High Speed Data Link.

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If A City Disappears From Google Maps, Does It Still Exist? [GoogleMaps]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5650034/if-a-city-disappears-from-google-maps-does-it-still-exist

That's the question that Sunrise, Florida had to ask itself because the city didn't exist on Google Maps for nearly a month. Whenever anyone searched for Sunrise, FL they were re-directed to Sarasota, FL, a city that's 200 miles away.

Shockingly, this is the 3rd time that Sunrise, FL has disappeared from Google Maps. For a small, unknown city like Sunrise, that's no good. The local businesses in Sunrise, FL have felt the aftereffects of not being searchable on Google saying that business was down during the month because quite simply, no one could find them. If you searched for a plumber in Sunrise, none existed. If you searched for a florist, you'd be directed to drive 200 miles to Sarasota.

It's an odd problem that, though fixed now, speaks to our heavy reliance on the Google. What's the first thing that people do to find local shops these days? Google 'em. How do we get there? Google will tell us. And it's so easy! I'm just as guilty, I blindly follow whatever it is that the G tells me to do. I mean, I'm certainly not leafing through yellow pages and thomas guides to figure it out, that takes time.

So as funny (and scary) as it may sound, if you (as in your city, business, store, etc.) don't exist on Google, you pretty much don't exist to the general population. [BBC]

Giz Explains: Brightness [Giz Explains]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5649389/giz-explains-brightness

Your smartphone's screen: 500 nits. Your laptop's: 400. Your living room projector bulb: 1700 lumens. Your mini Maglite's: 16. To gadget makers, brightness is a numerical marketing weapon, wielded often and without grace. To us, it's just another spec. No more!

The first thing to know about brightness is that, most of the time, it's not brightness. This is a semantic point, but also an important one. We (meaning basically everybody) use "brightness" to describe two distinct concepts: Brightness and luminance. One is subjective, and the other is objective. One is measured by our brains, and the other by instruments. One is the term we use, and the other is the term we mean.

Brightness vs. Luminance

Nearly everything we refer to as brightness is in fact luminance. The measurements companies use to sell the brightness of a screen, the power of a projector or the strength of a flashlight—those numbers above, the nits and the lumens—refer to objective measurements of light from a screen or a bulb, as taken by specific instruments.

So what is brightness? Let's crack a dictionary:

The effect or sensation by means of which an observer is able to distinguish differences in luminance.

In other words, brightness describes the experience of a phenomenon (luminance), not the phenomenon itself. A slightly more helpful crack at a definition, by Charles P. Halsted, engineer and fellow at the Society for Information Display:

Brightness is a subjective attribute of light to which humans assign a label between very dim and very bright (brilliant). Brightness is perceived, not measured.

The term is entirely subjective. You are never incorrect to refer to an item as bright or not bright, in the same way that you can't be wrong about the deliciousness of a piece of cake—at its most scientific, it's a measurement of a personal experience, made by the person having it. Even more jarring is that without humans, eyes, optical nerves, brains and judgment, brightness ceases to exist. If an HDTV flips on in the forest...

Measuring Light

Thankfully, there is a coherent way to talk about the amount of light that comes out of our gadgets. We talk about nits in our gadgets' screens, and lumens in our projectors, both of which refer to luminance, albeit indirectly. And they're intuitive! Higher is brighter; more is better. This is why manufacturers even bother to talk about them.

From Candlepower to Candela

You've probably heard the term "candlepower" before, and you may hear it again. Like the candela, it's a measure of light intensity. Its definition is exactly what it sounds like: The measure of the "power" of a candle. In particular, according to the British Government circa 1860, one candlepower is the intensity of light produced by a spermaceti (whale oil) candle burning at a specific rate. Other countries defined it slightly differently.

The units has since fallen out of use. Well, sort of. The candela, which replaced the various different candlepowers as the standard unit for luminous intensity, is deliberately close to the British Candlepower. The way the sperm whale's brain-juice burns has in no small way determined how we talk about light to this day.

If you see someone advertising candlepower today, they're actually just talking about the candela, the accepted standard unit for luminous intensity. In common usage, the two have become one and the same.

Talking about luminance isn't exactly straightforward. Watts, a measure of power, are often used as shorthand for a light's brightness. A 40 watt bulb uses twice as much power as a 20 watt. It's simple! But it also isn't very helpful. Chuck Halsted again:

The response [of human eyes to light] is non-linear and complex. The sensitivity of the eye decreases as the magnitude of the light increases.

So even though 40 watts is about twice as radiant as 20 watts, it won't seem that way to you and me.

This is where candelas come in. A two-candela light will seem half as bright as a four-candela light, and twice as bright as a one-candela bulb. That's because the candela doesn't strictly measure intensity—it's a combined measure of light emitted, and its (approximated) significance to us, the humans, according to average sensitivity of our eyeballs to specific wavelengths of light.

This sounds sort of like what most people mean by "brightness!" Actually, it sounds a lot like that. The candela gives us a way to say, in broad terms, how bright, how glow-y, or how intense a single light is. What it doesn't do is speak to the size of our screens, or the way our projectors spray light. For this, we need nits and lumens.

Giz Explains: Brightness

Everything Is Il-lumen-ated

To use the candela to talk about gadgets and screens and bulbs, it's got to be wrapped up inside new terms. These terms take into account where the light is coming from, and where it's going.

The term nit is actually slang for the standard measurement for luminance, the candela per square meter. Put simply, a nit, is a measurement of light emissions and surface area. Think of it this way: The candela basically tells us how much light energy is coming from a source. (Or more specifically, how this light energy is likely to be perceived by people.) Nits tell us how this energy is distributed over an area, or to put it (too) crudely, how dense the light of a certain screen is. That's why 400 nit smarpthone screen will seem as bright as a 400 nit laptop screen, even though the laptop screen is emitting more light in total.

Lumens measure something similar, but they do it differently. A lumen is essentially a measure of light intensity that includes a consideration of the area the light is hitting—the cone of the projection, basically. Imagine a light source emitting light in all directions. Now imagine surrounding that light source with a sphere that absorbs all light. Cut a little circle out, and you'll get a beam of light. A smaller opening will mean fewer lumens, assuming the light doesn't change intensity. A larger opening, more lumens. See how this works?

The lumen is helpful in describing projectors, because it measures both light intensity in a way that has practical advantages: Knowing how many lumens a projector emits, and how far away from a projection surface you are, you can figure out how bright a projection will be, more or less. It's... nit-like.

All this said, simply knowing what nits and lumens are won't give you an intuitive sense of how many of either your display or projector needs. The fellas over at ProjectorPeople have put together a chart to determine how many lumens you should aim for in a new projector, depending on setting and display size:
For screens, guidance is tougher to come across. Typically, the higher your nits the better your experience will be, though ultra-bright LCDs can sometimes appear washed-out, particularly when displaying black.

In most conditions, a 250 nit screen will appear plenty bright. Many cheaper or older display will dip below that, and a some new ones—particularly LED-backlit screens—measure in at over 400 nits. That said, choosing a monitor or smartphone shouldn't necessarily be a calculation. Sometimes, you're best off just trusting your eyes.

Still something you wanna know? Send questions about That Thing That Doesn't Make Sense here, with "Giz Explains" in the subject line.

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IP Webcam Turns Your Android Phone into a Wireless Camera [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5650392/ip-webcam-turns-your-android-phone-into-a-remote-camera

Android: IP Webcam turns your Android Phone into a network camera by streaming the phone's camera over its Wi-Fi connection for remote viewing.

Install the app, tweak the settings (login/pass, resolution, image quality), and then simply load up the URL it gives you in a web browser (I used Chrome for testing) or a client that accepts streaming video (I used VLC).

Below is the setup I used to stream a view from my dwarf Cichlid tank to my desktop. I used two suction cups and a black hair tie to secure the phone against the glass. The same setup could be used to peek out your window at your parked car or out your front door.

IP Webcam Turns Your Android Phone into a Wireless Camera

IP Webcam Turns Your Android Phone into a Wireless Camera Although the individual stills are blurry the over all video itself was decent enough quality. While it won't replace a dedicated HD web cam or security camera it does add solid remote-viewing capabilities to your Android phone and requires minimal setup. IP Webcam is free and requires Android OS 2.2+. You can download it by searching for "IP Webcam" in the Android Marketplace or by scanning the QR code at right. For an alternative Android application check out previously reviewed Qik. iPhone users will want to check out iWebCamera for similar phone-to-desktop streaming.

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The Early Apple TV Reviews Are In [Roundup]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5650371/apple-tv-review-roundup

The first reviews of the new Apple TV are starting to appear and we're rounding them up for you. Here's a look at the early impressions:

Fox News' Clayton Morris had plenty of good things to say about the Apple TV's features, but he also had a big concern:

The new Apple TV is small — hockey-puck small. That's impressive, but we all know size doesn't matter, whereas speed does. I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it connected to the iTunes library on my desktop computer. The Apple TV does this noticeably faster than its ancestor using a 'home sharing' option, which connects with any iTunes account in your household — Mac or PC.

The biggest new thing about the Apple TV is the feature my mom will like the most: If you're a Netflix subscriber you can watch movies instantly on it. Every web-enabled TV component can do that these days, including game consoles like the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 and dedicated boxes from Roku and Boxee, so it's an expected feature. But on the new Apple TV it's fast, easy to set up, and easier for consumers like my mom to appreciate.

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The new Apple TV is very promising, but it won't amount to hill of beans if Apple markets it the same way they did the last one — basically not at all. Apple can jokingly call it a 'hobby,' but if the company wants it to be a successful hobby they need to educate consumers the same way they did with the iPad.

PC Mag's Tim Gideon had both praises and hesitations when it came to the gadget's features, but he went as far as to name it PC Mag's new Editors' Choice media hub anyway:

Pros:
Compact design. Intuitive user interface. Streams video, music, and photos from your computer, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. 99-cent TV-show rentals. Streams Netflix Watch Instantly content, YouTube, and content from iOS devices to Apple TV.

Cons:
No hard drive. Can't purchase content-streaming only. Can't rent a show on Apple TV and watch it on other devices or your computer. Limited rental content available. Connects via HDMI-not compatible with older televisions without purchasing adapter. Doesn't ship with an HDMI cable.

Bottom Line:
A lower price, a more compact design, and the ability to stream content from iOS devices and rent 99-cent TV shows makes Apple's latest Apple TV set-top box an excellent option for iTunes and Netflix users.

Those are the earliest reviews to hit the web. We'll update as more become available.

Stop Underestimating Your Printer [Printers]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5650665/stop-underestimating-your-printer

Stop Underestimating Your Printer The only time I recall using my printer in the last few months was when I tried out printing from my iPad. Why am I not taking full advantage of the long list of things I can do with it?

The New York Times has an article remarking on all the things we forget—or don't realize—our printers can do and it caught our attention. From printing on fabric to creating papercraft models to designing decals—there's a lot we can do with those dust collecting gadgets.

The article is certainly worth a read and provides a great deal of project ideas, but I'll be honest: I'll probably continue to use my printer as little more than a place to set down the mail for quite some time. [NY Times]

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Apple TV jailbreak confirmed, done via same exploit as other iOS 4.1 devices

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/apple-tv-jailbreak-confirmed-done-via-same-exploit-as-other-ios/

The Shatter exploit that was discovered for iOS 4.1 devices has, predictably enough, been found to function on the latest Apple TV as well. Though a jailbreak fit for distribution is still brewing for all of Apple's iOS wares, this will be welcome news to folks interested in trying to add a little extra functionality to Apple's hockey puck of a media streamer. Then again, even the best of apps might not make up for it being a 720p media device in a 1080p world.

[Thanks, Jawad]

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Motorola's wraparound S10-HD Bluetooth headphones: for the Usain Bolt in all of us

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/motorolas-wraparound-s10-hd-bluetooth-headphones-for-the-usain/

Clearly, introducing one Bluetooth headset in a single day just isn't enough for Motorola. In addition to the Oasis, the outfit has also let loose the new S10-HD, a wraparound set that is marketed as Bluetooth headphones rather than a BT headset (though it's fully capable of acting as either / both). As expected, these guys are designed to withstand all sorts of sweat beads, enabling fitness junkies to keep on rockin' in the free world regardless of how steamy the conditions may be. We're also told that the speakers are recessed in their housing with a new ear cushion interface and hydrophobic acoustic mesh (fancy!), and silicon seals are in place around all of the electrical components. Should you receive a call while streaming tunes, it'll gently pause the music until your call is done, and afterwards it'll resume automatically. The S9-HD's proper successor will be landing in Best Buy locations starting October 24th for $79.99.

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Kindle for the Web overhauls Amazon's online book previews, adds sharing and embedding features

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/kindle-for-the-web-overhauls-amazons-online-book-previews-adds/

It's been forever and a day since Amazon first offered its users access to the opening few pages of a book on its web store, but now that feature is being codified under the Kindle umbrella as a new Kindle for the Web service. It'll allow external sites to embed book samples right into their content stream, while users get a new Share button for spreading the good word about Chuck Palahniuk's visionary writing across their social networks. Font sizes, line spacing, and even background color are adjustable too. Hit up the source link to try it out for yourself.

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Panasonic Toughbook S9 claims to be the world's lightest 12.1-inch laptop with a DVD drive, we believe it

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/panasonic-toughbook-s9-claims-to-be-the-worlds-lightest-12-1-in/

Panasonic's Toughbook line hasn't only been impressing in extreme durability lately, but also in extreme weight-loss. Joining the 3.2-pound Tougbook C1, is the newest 12.1-inch Toughbook S9, which weighs just three pounds. And yes, Panny's claiming it's the lightest 12-incher with an optical drive, and our quick research seems to prove that claim right. Even more impressive is the power that's packed into the featherweight chassis -- it's got a Core i5-520M processor, 2GB of RAM, and a shock-mounted 320GB hard drive. Thought that Panasonic gave up the durability for that weightage? You'd be wrong -- the magnesium alloy case can still withstand a 2.5-foot operating drop, meets all the Mil Spec 810-G drop procedures, has a spill-resistant keyboard, and can take more than 220 pounds of pressure on its lid and base. It does sound great for when someone drops it off the airport security belt, but that's until you hear about the physical beating it'll take on your bank account -- it'll retail for $2,499. Yeah, we wish we had better news to end on, but perhaps the press release and pictures below will turn that frown upside down.

Gallery: Panasonic Toughbook S9 press shots

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Fujitsu K supercomputer will do 10 petaflops in 2012, eat Crays for breakfast

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/fujitsu-k-supercomputer-will-do-10-petaflops-in-2012-eat-crays/

10's a nice round number, isn't it? Round, yes, but also wildly impressive when you put the word "petaflops" behind it as Fujitsu has done with its upcoming K supercomputer, which will be able to crunch through 10 quadrillion operations every second. Compare that to the current champ of processing farms, Cray's Jaguar, which can handle only (only!) 1.75 petaflops of workload and you'll know that we're talking about a seminal leap in performance. Japan's Riken Research Institute is the fortunate addressee on the crates of ultrafast SPARC64 VIIIfx processors that Fujitsu is now shipping out and the current plan is to have everything up and running by 2012. In total, there'll be 80,000 CPUs, each possessing 8 cores running at 2.2GHz, which will be housed within 800 racks. So yes, there'll be a machine somewhere on the Japanese isle with 640,000 processing cores at its disposal. Feeling safe?

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Sony, Warner and Disney mulling $30 at-home viewing option, we laugh and wait for the $100 option

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/sony-warner-and-disney-mulling-30-at-home-viewing-option-we-l/

Ah, "premium" video-on-demand. Media controllers have been fighting the inevitable forever, but now it seems they're finally coming around to the future -- letting users watch silver screen gems (or duds, for what it's worth) in their home shortly after release in the theater. Before you bust out the golf claps for these dudes and dudettes, you should know that they're planning to ding you for around $30 for the privilege, so it's only remotely of interest if you happen to have a family of eight. According to a new Bloomberg report, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., and Walt Disney Co. are all in talks with major cable systems to "offer films for as much as $30 per showing soon after they run in theaters." Disney's also thinking of streaming its content to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with Warner expected to begin testing an offering later this year that lets consumers watch new(ish) release material for "$20 to $30 per viewing." Of course, we guess it can't hurt to throw the option out there and see exactly who is desperate enough, but we're guessing this won't exactly be the demise of the cinema. Or Redbox.

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Toshiba takes Canvio portable hard drive line to SuperSpeed heights

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/toshiba-takes-canvio-portable-hard-drive-line-to-superspeed-heig/

How does one make a Canvio hard drive better, you ask? By adding USB 3.0 support, of course! Toshiba has just unveiled the latest rendition of its stylish pocket drive, the Canvio 3.0. As with practically every other HDD on the market, this one is also making the SuperSpeed leap in order to provide transfer rates around ten times higher than those of prior generation units. Naturally, it'll play nice with your USB 2.0 machine (albeit at USB 2.0 speeds), and will ship in capacities of 500GB, 750GB and 1TB. For the Windows users in attendance, Tosh is tossing in NTI BackupNow EZ software for free, and if you're tired of the standard black motif, you'll be thrilled to know that it'll ship in high gloss black with red, green, blue, white, or silver graphical accents. Check 'em right about now in North America for $119.99, $129.99 and $179.99 in order of mention.

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BlackBerry PlayBook vs. iPad vs. Galaxy Tab vs. Streak: the tale of the tape

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/blackberry-playbook-vs-ipad-vs-galaxy-tab-vs-streak-the-tale/

What a day -- yesterday, that is. Research in Motion finally announced its long-awaited BlackBerry tablet, the 7-inch PlayBook (thankfully not named the BlackPad). While there's still quite a few missing details, and nary an unit in site for us to try first-hand, we've still got a sampling of specs for this little guy to go tête-à-tête on the quantitative field of proverbial battle, at least as it can be seen so far (that early 2011 release date is still a ways off). Looks very promising so far, lined up against Apple's iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, and the Dell Streak, but our known unknowns -- i.e. price, app support, and overall feel of using the QNX-built operating system -- are what will really make or break the slate. Until that time, enjoy our number-crunching below:

	BlackBerry PlayBook	Apple iPad	Samsung Galaxy Tab	Dell Streak
Screen size	7 inches	9.7 inches	7 inches	5 inches
Resolution	1024 x 600	1024 x 768	1024 x 600	800 x 480
Pixel density (approx.)	170	133	170	187
Platform	BB Tablet OS	iOS 3.2.2 (4.2 in November)	Android 2.2	Android 1.6 (2.1 / 2.2 in future)
Adobe Flash support	10.1	Not Supported	10.1	Not supported
Processor	1GHz dual-core Cortex A9	1GHz Apple A4 (ARMv7)	1GHz Cortex A8	1GHz Snapdragon
Graphics	Unknown	PowerVR SGX 535	PowerVR SGX 540	Adreno 200
RAM	1GB	256MB	512MB	512MB
Internal Storage	16GB / 32GB (unconfirmed)	16GB / 32GB / 64GB	16GB / 32GB	512MB
Expansion	Unknown	None	microSD	microSD
Connectivity	802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR	802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR	802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0	802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Cellular data	3G and 4G promised for future	3G optional (AT&T)	3G (all carriers)	3G (AT&T)
GPS	None	3G models only	Yes	Yes
Camera	3MP front, 5MP rear	None	1.3MP front, 3MP rear	VGA front, 5MP rear
Weight	0.9 lbs	1.5 - 1.6 lbs	0.84 lbs	0.49 lbs

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