Friday, September 17, 2010

Apple's 27-inch Cinema Display is now shipping

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/apples-27-inch-cinema-display-is-now-shipping/

Your favorite fruit-flavored company couldn't stand idly by and let Dell take all the IPS glory this week. Apple's 27-inch Cinema Display, announced in late July, has at long last been set free to venture forth and mesmerize people with its glossy screen and 2560 x 1440 resolution. The entry fee is set at $999, though deliveries will take a pretty glacial one to two weeks to reach your porch.

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Brother's AirScouter floats a 16-inch display onto your eye biscuit (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/brothers-airscouter-floats-a-16-inch-display-onto-your-eye-bisc/

First announced in July, Brother's updated AirScouter wearable display is finally getting its first live demonstration at Brother World in Japan. The prototype Retinal Imaging Display (RID) projects safe, fast-moving light directly onto your retina that appears to the viewer as a 16-inch display floating transparently at a distance of about 3 feet. The tech used by Brother was harvested from its own optical system technologies found in laser and inkjet printers. Brother plans to launch the AirScouter for industrial uses in Japan where the glasses could overlay operating manuals onto machinery, for example. Later, Brother plans to adopt its RID tech into consumer products worldwide making for a more immersive (and practical) augmented reality experience.

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LG's FB614M micro stereo plays DVDs, streams tunes, fits nicely in your pal's spaceship

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/lgs-fb614m-micro-stereo-plays-dvds-streams-tunes-fits-nicely/

We've seen our fair share of funky micro stereos over the years, but LG's latest just might be the most bodacious yet. Curvaceous and compact, the FB614M all-in-one system is ready for every DVD and CD you could toss at it, and streaming jams from your phone or PMP won't be an issue so long as your device is equipped with a little-known protocol by the name of Bluetooth. Naturally, there's an iDevice dock up top as well as a touch sensitive control dial, and the inbuilt USB ensures that most every other player is well taken care of, too. Your guess is as good as ours when it comes to wattage and sound quality, but South Koreans can find out themselves later this week for ₩299,000 ($257).

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Greensound's glass speakers: stunning visually and aurally, far from kid-friendly

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/greensounds-glass-speakers-stunning-visually-and-aurally-far/

Yeah, we've seen our fair share of glass speakers in the past, but it looks as if Greensound has hopped on the bandwagon at just the right time. In the past, these kinds of music makers were largely looked at as gimmicks, but the Floe series looks to offer a serious advantage over equally expensive conventional drivers. Put simply, audio is created at the base of each speaker, and it's distributed up (and around) the pane with the lows coming from the bottom, the mids from the middle and the highs from the top. We're pretending to ignore the fact that these things will probably be far outside the budget of every sect save for the affluent, but you can tease yourself by pressing play just after the break.

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CiragoTV platinum CMC3000 network multimedia center announced to join set top box masses

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/ciragotv-platinum-cmc3000-network-multimedia-center-announced-to/

Not satisfied with the current rat pack of set top media players flooding the market like the Popbox, Boxee Box, AppleTV, or WD Elements Play? Then perhaps the CiragoTV platinum CMC3000 might tickle your fancy. Yes it lacks brand name recognition, but it's no slouch in the specs department and supports all manner of codecs, 1080p playback, UPnP networking, timeshift recording, and even includes a built-in NAS with a BitTorrent client. Connectivity wise, the box features an HDMi output, two USB ports for tacking on additional storage, and a media card reader that also takes MemorySticks for you die-hard Sony fans. Though it's sold in 500TB for $229, considering the 1TB sizes is only $249, we're not sure who'd balk at coughing up an additional $20 for double the storage. Remember that's twice the space for Voltron folks. For more details watch the PR video after the break.

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Intel plans to shrink its Atom chip circuits to just 15 nanometers, and other glorious tales of wonder

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/intel-plans-to-shrink-its-atom-chip-circuits-to-just-15-nanomete/

Earlier this week at IDF Intel dropped some very, very tiny news on us... namely that the Atom SoCs will soon include circuits which are 22 and 15 nanometers in size. The smaller, 15 nanometer width is the size of about 60 atoms -- seriously. Intel's processors, which are categorized by the size of their circuitry, are currently 32 nanometers at their smallest. So, we'd say you should be on the lookout for them but... yeah, well, you know where we're going with this.

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Lenovo LePad to ship in December, IdeaPad U1 Hybrid dock slated for January 2011

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/lenovo-lepad-to-ship-in-december-ideapad-u1-hybrid-dock-slated/

Seeing that swiveling Dell Inspiron Duo earlier this week immediately made us think of the other really enticing tablet / laptop we've been waiting for... Lenovo's IdeaPad U1 Hybrid. To recap: it was over eight months ago that the company unveiled it at CES only to tell us a few months later that it was being shelved for the time being. However, we're hearing now that it's definitely still kicking! According to Lenovo, the 10.1-inch LePad (the tablet part of the U1 Hybrid) will be released in China in December running some version of Android. The LePad (apologies for repeating the name, we just love saying it in a French accent) will then be greeted in January by its "hybrid option" -- a separate case containing a keyboard and laptop guts. Lenovo didn't have any updates on the internal specs of the docking / hybrid part, though we're assuming it'll still pack some sort of Intel processor and Windows 7 to transform it into a real life laptop. Unfortunately for now, Lenovo's saying the LePad and the Hybrid part will only be available in China, but we're gonna keep wishin' and prayin' that both actually see the light of day and journey across the rough seas.

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HP V5020u camcorder does 1080p in style

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/17/hp-v5020u-flip-camcorder-does-1080p-in-style/

HP's just outed a new camcorder, the 1080p loving V5020u. Among it's other attractions, this camcorder boasts full HD 1080p video recording at a resolution up to 1920×1080, a built-in gyroscope for image stabilization, 10x digital zoom, a 5 megapixel sensor, a motion detector, a 2-inch LCD, and an SDHC slot for extra storage capacity. This bad boy, which we think is pretty good looking, will be available in October for $159.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

DIY stereoscopic splitter takes your pictures to the third dimension

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/16/diy-stereoscopic-splitter-takes-your-pictures-to-the-third-dimen/

Don't feel like shelling out the cash for a 3D camera? Instructables user "courtervideo" has put together a little device that harnesses the magical, mysterious power of something called a "mirror" to let you grab stereoscopic 3D images with your regular ol' 2D camera. The method is pretty straight forward: two large mirrors places beside the camera reflect the image you're trying to capture onto two smaller mirrors, which are then photographed. The result can then be viewed through a stereoscope, which will send one half of the picture to each eye, resulting in a 3D image. We like to think of the stereoscope as the Victorian precursor to Chinavasion Video Glasses. Sounds like fun to us! Hit up the source link to get started.

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LaCie Wireless Space takes on Time Capsule, doubles as NAS and WLAN router

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/16/lacie-wireless-space-takes-on-time-capsule-doubles-as-nas-and-w/

And here you were thinking the upcoming Photokina trade show was all about cameras. Not so, vaquero. Granted, LaCie's probably taking advantage of this here event to reveal it's latest and greatest media storage device, but we digress. The newly announced Wireless Space is perhaps the most interested and multifaceted device to emerge from the company in quite some time, and to say it's taking on Apple's Time Capsule would be understating things tremendously. In essence, what we have here is a NAS backup drive and an 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi access point / router, all bundled into one delicious black box. Available in 1TB and 2TB flavors, the Space enables both Mac and PC users both to backup their files wirelessly (or via cabling, should you so choose), and it also acts as a network hard drive for accessing files remotely, a UPnP / DLNA media streamer and a full-on router should you need one. It's fully compatible with Time Machine, and you'll also find a trio of Ethernet sockets and a pair of USB jacks on the rear. It's shipping today for $229.99 and $349.99, respectively, leaving Apple the loser once again in the price department. Is that a war we smell brewin'?

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Could You Ever Switch to Internet Explorer? [Reader Poll]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5639092/could-you-ever-switch-to-internet-explorer

If you can read this, you probably don't like Internet Explorer. Microsoft's browser has ignored web standards, fallen down on security, and lagged the competition for more than a decade. But IE9 seems truly different. Can you comprehend using Windows' default browser?

Internet Explorer gained its once-dominant position by arriving free with every new copy of Windows. After it held a commanding share for some time, power users and advocates for software choice took up the cause of Firefox, Opera, and other free, outsider-friendly, forward-thinking browsers. After the apex of evil that was Internet Explorer 6 (or that's how web developers usually describe it), the browser started to incrementally improve, if not quite catch up. Internet Explorer 9, in Microsoft's words and in beta previews, is a solid leap forward.

With robust HTML5 support, hardware graphics acceleration, a torn-down interface that leaves lots of vertical space, a competitive JavaScript engine, and an interesting take on webapps, Internet Explorer doesn't seem like such a sacrifice, at least for someone not particularly tied to another browser. Then again, it's still only available for Windows, and lacks major add-ons or extension capabilities.

But we thought we'd put it out there: Could you consider switching from your current browser to IE9?

Could You Ever Switch to Internet Explorer?online surveys

Feel free to explain your pick, or get more specific on your "other" answer, in the comments.

Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam [Video]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5638671/beam-your-desktop-to-your-tv-with-veebeam

Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam Veebeam does not do anything new. There are a variety of ways to get content from your computer to your TV. But the Veebeam does it easily. Web? Games? Movies? Hulu? With a Wireless USB dongle and receiver, you're set.

By plugging the $99 Veebeam's antenna into your computer's USB port, whatever is on your screen is shot over to your TV via composite or HDMI-connected receiver. Simply as that. No cords and no software. The cleverness here is that you don't need to worry about the permission of content providers to watch whatever online content you want on your TV. Hulu? Bring it on. ABC streaming episodes? Sure. If you can play it on your laptop or view it in your browser, it's all gravy.

Beam Your Laptop to Your TV With Veebeam

Wireless USB, which powers the Veebeam, uses Ultra-WideBand technology, which, for our purposes, means those scenes from Mad Men get streamed smoothly (and in HD, if you're willing to pay an extra $40). If you don't feel like waiting around for AirPlay (or don't have any Apple devices to use it with), this might simplify your couch vegetation habits. [Veebeam]

Worldy Wings iPhone Game Is the Shmup You've Been Waiting For [IPhone Apps]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5638919/worldy-wings-iphone-game-is-the-shmup-youve-been-waiting-for

Traditional shoot'em Ups, shmups, are awkward on the iPhone, because your left thumb covers a quarter of the screen and your right thumb covers another quarter—bad when you need to see every single bullet heading for your ship.

So instead of having to drive your ship with your hand, you drive it by tilting your phone in the direction you want. It's less precise, but you do get to see the entire screen, which is vital for shmups. (You also have the option of using screen press mode, which you'll actually end up doing anyway, for more precision in flying.)

Also gone is the outdated strategy of having to repeatedly press, or hold, a button to shoot. Worldy Wings just has you shooting the entire time, something most players do anyway. You just tap the screen when you want to set off a lightning attack.

With only two difficulty levels, three planes and 5 missions, the game is way too short. But it's $2, and 1942/Raiden fans will love it. [iTunes]

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How to Take Wireless Photos with Your DSLR and iOS Device [Photography]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5639184/how-to-take-wireless-photos-with-your-dslr-and-ios-device

Whether you're looking to wirelessly upload your photos to your iOS device or want to use it as a remote shutter, here's how to make it happen.

We're going to take a look at two ways to make this happen. The first is with an app called Shutter Snitch, which sends photos wirelessly from your camera to your iOS device, and the second is with an app called DSLR Remote, which lets you control your camera with your iOS device. Check out the video above for a quick run through of how to set things up.

Shutter Snitch

Here's what you'll need to get started:

A camera
The Shutter Snitch app ($8)
A Non-X2 version Eye-Fi card (Around $50) or a wireless adapter for your camera (expensive!)
An SD to CompactFlash adapter, if your DSLR doesn't take SD ($15-25)

Before you can start using your Eye-Fi card with your iOS device you'll need to turn off Relay Mode in the Eye-Fi manager and make sure it's not automatically uploading photos to your computer, Flickr, or anywhere. Once you do that you can set up Shutter Snitch on your iOS device.

To start the setup, tap options and sign in to your Eye Fi account on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Shutter Snitch will, hopefully, recognize your card and sync up with it. If you check your Eye-Fi manager, you should see the name of your iPhone as the computer your Eye-Fi card is connected to. If not, try restarting. Now you can make a new collection in Shutter Snitch, open it, and start taking pictures. You have to be in a collection in order for the photos to be transferred. If you are, they should start appearing on your iPhone in a few seconds.

DSLR Remote

Here's what you'll need to get started:

A camera
The DSLR Remote Lite or Pro app ($2 or $20)
A USB cable that fits your camera (probably mini to regular)

How to Take Wireless Photos with Your DSLR and iOS Device

DSLR Remote is $2 for the lite version, which has basic features, but it'll set you back $20 for the pro version which gives you things like live view mode. Setup is pretty easy. You download software on both your computer and iOS device, then connect your DSLR to your computer with a USB cable. Your iOS device should recognize your computer pretty quickly. Select your computer from the list and that's really all you have to do. Aim the camera where you want it and then you can start capturing pictures directly to your machine by hitting the shutter on your iOS device. You can even change settings and focus. Unfortunately, so far, you can only take pictures. No video yet.

Shutter Snitch [iTunes App Store via Jesse Rosten]

DSLR Remote Lite / Pro [iTunes App Store]

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