Tuesday, May 19, 2009

DigiFi and Kleer debut Digital Opera S2, S5 wireless earbuds

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/19/digifi-and-kleer-debut-digital-opera-s2-s5-wireless-earbuds/


We haven't heard much from the Kleer / DigiFi combo since they finally brought their first Opera wireless earbuds to the US at the beginning of the year, but they're now back with not one but two new sets of 'phones, including the follow-up Digital Opera S2 and the Made for iPod Digital Opera S5. As you might suspect, both models are mostly identical, and pack the same 32 foot range and ten hours of playtime as before, along with the usual promise of uncompressed, CD quality audio. The S5 model, however, adds an iPod-compatible transmitter and some control buttons right on the headphones themselves, while the S2 opts for a basic 3.5mm-based transmitter to accomodate your non-Apple gadgets. No word on pricing just yet, but both should be available on June 20th.

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Monday, May 18, 2009

NEC Japan announces its SuperSpeed USB 3.0 controller

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/18/nec-japan-announces-its-superspeed-usb-3-0-controller/


Have you got that USB 3.0 cable on your hope chest, just killing time until your SuperSpeed dreams become a reality? Well, that day is almost at hand: NEC has just announced details for the first USB 3.0 controller. The µPD720200 chip is backwards compatible with USB 1.1 and USB 2.0, with the company making samples available this June at $15 a pop (including Windows drivers). Look forward to seeing peripherals hit the streets soon after. Until then? Like the rest of us, you'll just have to keep on keepin' on.

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EeeRotate Orients Your Laptop Screen for Easy Reading [Downloads]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/erSCXYVKmAg/eeerotate-orients-your-laptop-screen-for-easy-reading

Windows only: With the proliferation of lightweight and wide-screen notebooks, it was only a matter of time before someone realized that they make decent e-book readers when they're sideways. EeeRotate makes swapping orientation easy.

Photo by TeleRead.

Once installed, the tiny application rotates your screen and trackpad input using keyboard shortcuts. CTRL+ALT+RIGHT rotates your screen and touchpad input 90 degrees clockwise, CTRL+ALT+UP returns it to normal. Interestingly, in our tests EeeRotate would rotate the touchpad input, but not the input from the USB mouse plugged into the laptop. The navigation wasn't difficult using either one of them, and you'd likely not have an external mouse plugged in if you were using it as an e-book reader, but it's worth noting. Next time you find yourself reading lengthy documents on your wide screen laptop or netbook, EeeRotate can help you take advantage of your expansive screen space. EeeRotate is freeware, Windows only.



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Rendeznew Locates a Midway Point for Multiple Travelers [Travel]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/whlIZZjZV-4/rendeznew-locates-a-midway-point-for-multiple-travelers

You and some friends need to meet up. Free webapp Rendeznew eliminates the ten-minute arguments about fair driving distances and provides a list of equi-distant meeting spots.

Unlike previously reviewed MeetInBetweenUs and Mezzoman, which only allow for two addresses, Rendeznew allows you to enter up to four addresses in order to find a middle ground between all of the locations.

For the screenshot above, we put together a hypothetical Lifehacker Editors' Road Trip, which would—fingers crossed!—end with us arriving at a turkey ranch in Kansas. You can drill down through local listings to find various spots like coffee shops, bars, museums, restaurants and more. If the midway point ends up being, well, not exactly an inspiring destination—ours was 40 miles north of Wichita— you can simply drag the big green arrow to a new location. Each search has a unique link you can share with your friends, and every suggested midway point has a set of directions for each of the four addresses. Rendeznew is a Google Maps mashup with search results provided by Google and Yelp.



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How Do You Get Your News? [Ask The Readers]

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~3/kDoAx-6gW5A/how-do-you-get-your-news

With the multitude of competing mediums these days, it's easy to pick and choose your information inputs. Newspapers, television, RSS, Twitter—how do you mix and pick your news sources?

Thomas Baekdal details the patterns of communication over the last hundred years and the shifts that have occurred. If your great-grandparents wanted to stay current on the news, for instance, they had to make a conscious effort to be places where people were talking about it. Now you can have it streamed, beamed, and delivered.

Where do you fall on the chart pictured above? Newspaper reader? Avid talk radio listener? All internet news, all the time? Tell us how you get your news, and where you think you'll be getting it in years to come, in the comments.



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