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Friday, December 07, 2012

LG's first 55-inch OLED HDTV pops up in the FCC's database

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/lgs-first-55-inch-oled-hdtv-pops-up-in-the-fccs-database/

LG's first 55inch OLED HDTV stops by the FCC, fresh off of the assembly line

Although LG and Samsung exhibited dueling OLED HDTVs at CES earlier this year neither has been able to put a model on US shelves yet. that may change soon since we just spotted this 55EM9700-UA from LG in the FCC's database. Flashing WiFi and Bluetooth modules as well as a December 2012 build date, our only picture of the unit is from behind, powered off, although the photographer makes a cameo via reflection. An appearance in what remains of 2012 seems unlikely, but the odds that next thing in television display technology will actually arrive soon are getting better -- assuming lawsuits don't put the breaks on everything. While you look for an extra $10,000 or so in that holiday budget, check out better pics in the gallery, and a promo video plus a pic of the label after the break.

Gallery: LG 55EM9600 press shots

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Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, HD, LG

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Source: FCC

Samsung product page confirms Galaxy Camera coming to Verizon LTE

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/samsung-galaxy-camera-verizon-lte/

Well, it was all but confirmed at Photokina, but the release of AT&T's HSPA+ Galaxy Camera threw a few doubts our way. Still, it looks like an LTE version of Samsung's Jelly Bean shooter will be in fact making its way stateside, landing on Verizon's 4G network no less. From a quick glance at the EK-GC120's spec sheet, most of the features seem to be in line with the global variant, with an obvious exception in the network field -- this flavor lists only 700 MHz compatibility, so you might have some trouble hooking up overseas.

Pricing and availability info is still up in the air (the "Shop" link currently lands us at a 404), but we've reached out to Verizon and Samsung for those still-pending deets, and we'll pass along the good word as soon as it hits our inbox. For now, at least you can rest assured that the most compelling Android-powered shooter will be getting an LTE boost, so if you're currently in line to snag that lesser-equipped AT&T variant, you might want to step aside and wait for the 16-megapixel shooter to hit Big Red.

Update: Just moments after our post went live, Samsung pulled the product page. The specifications list is still active though (for now), so if you want to sneak a peek at the official sheet, you can hit up that respective source link below.

Filed under: Cameras, Samsung

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Source: Samsung, Samsung (specifications)

The 25 Most Disruptive Apps Of 2012

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/businessinsider/~3/e-g-4-SUpoM/the-top-25-most-disruptive-apps-2012-12

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This was a huge year for apps.

Apple's App Store surged to more than 700,000 apps and is still growing. Google's Android Play Store also swelled to around 700,000 apps as of October 2012, significantly closing the gap between the two rivals.

As the year nears a close, we took a look at some of the industry game changers of 2012.

Brewster changes the way we look at our address book and relationships

Brewster is a personalized address book that understands your social networking relationships and merges everything into a beautifully-designed app. The goal is to make it easier to manage your contacts. And to that end, the app delivers.

Our favorite feature is the ability to mass email or text a group of friends.

Price: Free

Available for: iPhone

The Fancy challenged us to think outside of the box when it comes to e-commerce apps

The Fancy is changing how we discover and purchase things that we like. Think of The Fancy as a social version of Amazon or a shopper-friendly version of Pinterest.

The Fancy was so cool this year that there were even talks of Apple buying the service.

Check out our walkthrough of the Fancy >

Price: Free

Available on: Android and iOS

Fantastical made a better iPhone calendar than Apple's built-in app

Fantastical's goal is to be fast and friendly. It realizes that people are always on the go and makes it very easy to quickly pull up the app, check your appointments, and avoid complications.

The team built Fantastical for iPhone from the ground up because they didn't want to just port a desktop app to the iPhone and be done with it.

Price: $1.99 (launch price). Flexibits plans to raise the price to $3.99 at some point, so if you want an alternative to the iPhone's built-in calendar, now's a good time to try it out.

See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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Weird New Substance Flows Like a Liquid Then Remembers Its Shape In Water

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-substance-solid-liquid-2012-12

Electron Microscope metamaterial

An awesome new metamaterial created by researchers at Cornell University can flow like a liquid then when put in water it returns to its original shape.

A matematerial is a material that is man made and can not be found in nature.

Biologist and environmental engineer, Dan Luo, created this hydrogel using synthetic DNA. Single strands of DNA will lock onto other strands with a complimentary sequence, serving as a great building block for self assembling materials.

The hydrogel was created by using a mixture of synthetic DNA and a polymerase enzyme, which is what makes DNA chains longer and weaves them with other DNA strands.

"During this process they entangle, and the entanglement produces a 3-D network," Luo explained in a release from the university.

The researchers described their new substance as working like a rubber band, which has a shape but can be twisted, stretched, and deformed.

The material also has small empty spaces that can absorb water, and resembles a sponge. Because of this hydrogels may one day be used to deliver drugs slowly into patients as it degrades in the body.

The new hydrogel was published Dec. 2 in the journal Nature Nanotechology. An awesome video of the gel being hydrated and returned to its original shaped can be seen here.

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Hands-on with Transporter, the peer-to-peer social storage solution

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/hands-on-transporter-peer-to-peer-social-storage/

You may have missed Transporter's unveiling on Kickstarter earlier today, so let us provide a quick refresher -- it's a device that, when used in tandem with one or more other Transporters, enables simple and secure peer-to-peer file sharing. Unlike many Kickstarter projects, however, Transporter's already in the beta testing stage of development and the hardware is ready for prime time. We had a chance to see the thing in person this evening, so we figured we'd open it up and give you a glimpse of what lies beneath its onyx exterior. Join us after the break for our impressions.

Gallery: Transporter hands-on