Bang & Olufsen BeoSound 8 welcomes iPads, iPhones and iPods into its emporium of awesome originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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How NOT to conduct surveys and interpret the results; why surveys are utterly useless (go ahead, I dare you to read it) http://bit.ly/cPQXrl
Continue reading Samsung shows off 70-inch 'Ultra Definition' 3DTV
Samsung shows off 70-inch 'Ultra Definition' 3DTV originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Rocketfish serves up 4-port WirelessHD kit, wireless headphones
Rocketfish serves up 4-port WirelessHD kit, wireless headphones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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OCZ RevoDrive X2 PCIe SSD reviewed: blisteringly fast in every conceivable way originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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advertisers getting smarter (video effectiveness) - http://bit.ly/bU3pqs; consumers shopping savvier (private label) - http://bit.ly/9yBfm8
Cab drivers know their cities intimately, using shortcuts and side streets to bypass traffic jams and (hopefully) get you to your destination more quickly. Now Microsoft is hoping to tap into this talent and design better driving directions for online maps.
Engineers at Microsoft Research Asia are analyzing GPS data culled from 30,000 Beijing cab drivers, hoping to find faster and shorter routes. They built a software program called T-Drive that uses real cabbies' trajectories gathered over a period of three months. On average, the cabbies' routes shave off 16 percent of a trip, saving 5 minutes for every 30 minutes of driving, Microsoft says.
Drive-time predictions from Web services like Mapquest and Google and Bing maps rely on the speed limit and the length of a road, as Technology Review explains. They warn users that trips can take longer depending on traffic, but for the most part, they're unable to help drivers navigate around a jam or a known problem area. Some projects aim to solve this problem - a Nokia and University of California program collects info from drivers' cell phones to provide traffic data, and MIT's CarTel program
involves in-car sensors that monitor traffic and feed a continually updated stream of data. But until now, no one has mined cabbies' wealth of traffic knowledge.
According to the Microsoft team, led by Yu Zheng, T-Drive outperforms the typical speed-limit time estimate. More than 60 percent of their routes were faster than the speed-limit-based approach, according to a paper describing T-Drive presented this week at the International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems in San Jose, Calif. Of those more efficient trips, half were at least 20 percent faster than the old approach.
So far, it only works for cabs in Beijing, but it could conceivably work in any congested city with lots of cabs.
T-Drive Taxi-Based Directions: Microsoft Research/IEEE
Other than that, it's old fashioned popping the water balloon. Looks pretty sweet. [Edward Horsford via NPR via Neatorama]
The face project was conducted at local street fairs. Sydney residents who participated filled out a consent form and had their pictures taken. Their ages ranged from two weeks to ninety-three years. Their race was more homogenous. Over fifty percent of the project participants described themselves as Anglo Saxon Celtic, while only three percent considered themselves Indigenous Australians.
Those of Chinese ancestry formed the most populous minority. While they were not much represented in the overall composite faces, they were seen in the composite faces for one Sydney neighborhood, Haymarket.
To see more Sydney faces, go to The Face of Sydney.
Shocking, yes, but the "vapor chamber system" at its heart, which they contend will knock off about seven decibels (compared to the GTX 480) does sound slightly cool (obnoxious pun!).
Within the sealed cooling chamber, you see, water will be boiled by a copper plate, and will in turn force a heat transfer from the hot components (which are also cooled by the fan). Once cooled, the water is then recycled back to the copper plate so it can do its thing again. A nice little enclosed cooling system that promises quieter performance.
As Rumorpedia reports, the GPU is still unnamed and mysterious, but it does exist. Release dates, pricing, all that? Unnamed as well. Just some leaked slides, available for viewing in the source link that follows. [Rumorpedia via Engadget]
As was the case back in 2008, electroadhesion still requires very little power to function. According to SRI, 11 square feet of electroadhesive material will support about 440-lbs. using 40mW.
Continue reading Indamixx 2 Atom-powered MeeGo tablet touts rockstar looks, $999 price tag
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Verizon trials unlimited text and data cellular plans for preferred customers, starting at $70 a month originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 06 Nov 2010 14:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading DIYer builds handsfree, Arduino-powered remote camera trigger (video)
DIYer builds handsfree, Arduino-powered remote camera trigger (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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