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Tech NewsHands On: Asus’s AiGuru SV1 Grandma-Friendly Skype Videophone
OK guys, is it out yet or isn’t it? This morning, official word of Asus’s new AiGuru SV1, a standalone (no PC required) Skype videophone was released and then retracted—but here we are tonight at a media event in NYC and what do we see sitting on Skype’s table? Not sure what the nervousness is … Continued
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Tech NewsYour Citroen C4 is Not Optimus Prime
You can watch this commercial all day long. You can load up YouTube and play it for your coworkers. You can even rip the video and convert it to play on your PMP of choice. But it won’t make your shitty hatchback into an epic 80s superhero. Sorry. Not gonna happen. And this isn’t even … Continued
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Hands-On: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
We got our hands on Canon’s brand-new full-HD shooting 5D Mk II monster tonight, and well, yeah, we want it just as much as we did last night-even though Canon wouldn’t let us pop our own CF cards in for some test shots and vids. We’re not mad though-we ran through live view, video mode … Continued
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iPhone Breakout Knockoffs Being Nastygrammed By Atari
Programmers who made knockoffs of the Atari game Breakout are getting nasty letters from the game developer to remove their apps from the iPhone App Store. So far touchArcade says BreakClassic, BreakTouch 3D and Super Pong 2 have all been targeted, which is similar to the situation where the Tetris knockoff Tris was also pulled … Continued
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Buffalo Shinobi HD Uses MacBook Air HD to Slip Inside Your Pants
Like the Buffalo hard drive I bought in Japan to replace one that died, Buffalo’s Shinobi Portable HD is actually Samsung inside, but in this case, the same kind used in the MacBook Air, so it’s incredibly slim and totally pocketable—the “world’s thinnest external hard drive”—about the size of a biz card holder. The convenience … Continued
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RCA EZ300 Pocket Camcorder Shoots HD for Frugal Filmmakers
It looks like RCA is trying to best their own high marks with the Small Wonder EZ300, an HD-capable pocket camcorder that’s seriously cheap. In addition to shooting 720p HD video (and along with Kodak’s Zi6 making HD the pocket cam standard), the EZ300’s 2GB internal memory is expandable by 16GB via SD slot, which … Continued
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News Flash: Moto R&D Working On Prototypes Other Than RAZR 3!
In a panel at GigaOm’s Mobilize conference today, Motorola VP of Applied Technology Fred Kitson revealed some prototype display technologies they have in the works, confirming the company has more on the mind than the damn RAZR. One phone prototype Kitson described involves an embedded projector that made use of 3 lasers that project on … Continued
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Buy 300 Pieces of Verizon Wireless Swag To Impersonate a Verizon Wireless Employee
Have you ever wanted to impersonate a Verizon Wireless employee? This is your chance! Some former employee is now auctioning off his sad, sordid history with the company (he actually saved up 300 different pieces of flair from his time there) to the highest bidder. There are cellphone holsters, fanny packs, flip flops, balloons (never … Continued
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iRex Promises a “New Era in Digital Reading” Next Week, a.k.a. an Updated iLiad
There are no real details yet, but the e-reader company iRex has a teaser site up promising to unveil a “new era in digital reading” on September 22nd. We’re not sure what kind of improvements they’re going to make on their iLiad reader to make it worthwhile in this current market. Obviously, they are going … Continued
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Palin Email “Hack” Was Hardly a Hack at All
The screamingly obvious trail of evidence left behind by the person who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail yesterday should have been the tip-off-this was not an elite job. According to postings on the troll-hive forum 4chan dug up by Threat Level, all the perp did was guess her password-resest security question correctly after a … Continued
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Minneapolis Opens Gadget-Filled Bridge After Tragic Collapse Last Year
You may recall an incident on the news last summer involving a bridge collapse in Minnesota that claimed 13 lives and injured 145 others. State officials were quick to draw up plans for a replacement—but this time they wanted strict safety measures in place to prevent another disaster from occurring in the future. Contractors delivered … Continued
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T-Mobile Android Event Liveblog: Sept. 23
In just a few days, T-Mobile will be taking the wraps off of the world’s first Android phone and we’ll be bringing it to you live. The event officially starts at 10:30AM Eastern on Sept. 23, but we’ll be there early as always, hoping that the first 100 people get Google stock as a door … Continued
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Lenovo Thinkpad X200 Tablet, 12 Inches of Touchtasticness
Lenovo’s X200 tablet isn’t the best kept secret, but it’s a nice looking convertible laptop now that we have the full specs. At 3.5lbs, the configurable tablet features a 12.1″ touchscreen (in pen or finger input options) Core 2 Duo processors up to 1.86GHz supported by 4GB of RAM, and available upgrades to 128MB SSD, … Continued
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First Historic Image of Planet 3106 Trillion Miles From Earth
Thanks to the distortion-reducing power of the ALTAIR adaptive optics system on the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, three University of Toronto scientists were able to capture images of the star 1RXS J160929.1-210524 from a distance of about 500 light years away. The image is believed to be the first ever of a planet in … Continued
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Circuit City, It’s a Deal!
We’re generally savvy enough to avoid the clever marketing schemes of niche credit cards, but every once in a while an especially tantalizing deal comes around that even we cannot resist. Forgive us, 28.4% APR. We’d just crawled in from the desert and our thirst was unquenchable. [The Consumerist]
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Tech NewsGadgetsQuestion of the Day: Do You Miss the “Q” Character in the New James Bond Films?
As most of you already know, Quantum of Solace is scheduled to hit theaters on November 14th. The second trailer for the film came out last week and while it does seem to feature some Minority Report-style gadgetry, there is still no “Q” gadget guru in the film. Personally, I love the direction that the … Continued
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AT&T: iPhone 3G Internet Use Below Expectations. Us: Guess Whose Fault That Is
Although leading up to the iPhone 3G’s launch, AT&T was coy about how hard they expected their network to get slammed, AT&T CTO John Donovan reveals that they expected a 5x growth in data consumption vs. the old iPhone. However, the spike has been barely more than half of that, about 3x. That wouldn’t have … Continued
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Verizon Waited Almost Four Days to Help Authorities Find Body of Missing Woman
Despite repeated pleas from family, friends and the FBI, Verizon took its sweet time getting around to helping out in the search for woman in Kansas City who was last seen being abducted on camera in a Target parking lot. When a technician did finally arrive three and a half days after being initially asked, … Continued
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Dealzmodo: Linksys DMA2100 Media Center Extender for $99
If you are looking for a super cheap way to stream content from your Media Center PC, it doesn’t get much better than this $99 DMA2100 deal from Newegg. The cheapest we have been able to find it elsewhere is around $140—and that is still pretty good. The DMA2100 is not as flashy as the … Continued
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XBMC “Atlantis” Beta 1 Now Available
The folks behind XBMC, the cross-platform media streaming solution, have announced that the first beta version (dubbed “Atlantis”) of their media center has gone live on all platforms: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows and Xbox. The first things users will notice is the new skin “PM3.HD”—a high-definition tribute to Project Mayhem III. The announcement also … Continued
By Sean Fallon