Archive for: March 26, 2008

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It’s only taken about a million years, but someone has finally decided that improvements are possible in automobile braking lights. Students from Virginia Tech have developed a new system that can show not just whether you’re stopping, but whether you’re slowing down, whe…

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If you’ve got an Apple iPhone stashed somewhere on your person, soon after you’d know about the utter next-gen convenience that it brings as a fine, fine communication device. But of course, as outlandish as it may be, there will be times that the final thing you’d want your iPhone to do is to do it…

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We’d been hearing that HP’s slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now we’ve got some more info to back that up — we just received what appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it’s VIA C7-Ms all around, with graphics courtesy of a VIA Chrome 9 chipset. Accordin…

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We’re all about the wind-powered LED rigs lately, but for some reason we’re just not as captivated by the Firewinder LED windmill as we’d hoped to be. The vertical corkscrew features rows of white LEDs embedded in the blade’s edge, which brighten as the winds blow harder, which is definitely a n…

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Despite reports that Windows XP Service Pack SP3 would hit Release to Manufacturing soon after the RTW of Vista SP1, Microsoft has released yet another build of the next (and possibly last) service pack for its most popular operating system. The build, dubbed ‘Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candi…

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“Fashion often repeats itself, with dated products reborn into popular products. Just think of VolksWagen’s Beetle or BMW’s Mini. And now we can add the Commodore Amiga to the list, sort of, thanks to a new all-in-one PC with a look rather reminiscent of the domestic computer.” that design was addit…

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We’ve seen a number of iPod speakers with pass-through dock connectors, but we’ve never really understood the point — why would we listen to music on our iPod when we’re already sitting at the computer, which has better speakers? iHome’s latest rig, the iH69, tries to bring it all together, tho…

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Motorola split into two groups nowadays in order to save their falling mobile commerce, but the real kicker is an insider’s newsletter that Engadget published. It has it all, from suicides to golf scores and how all that brought a giant down. Good afternoon reading, albeit sad.Original post by donot…

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Harris Corp. may have nothing but good things to say about the HTC-made PDAs it’s planning to supply for use in the 2010 census, but it looks like the handhelds are already starting to cause plenty of headaches for census officials, who are reportedly even considering a return to pencil and pa…

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You may still not be able to get an iPhone in Canada (at least officially), but you can now at least seize a spiffy new 16GB Samsung YP-P2, which is a whole 8GB bigger than the model currently available in the US. From the looks of it, Best Buy Canada is the among the first to offer the beefed…

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Microsoft has opened up its Contacts application programming interface for the Windows habitable platform, which will allow third-party developers to build applications that transfer and share contact data across various social networks. The move — part of a larger strategy to adopt an open…

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We briefly got our hands on Sony’s DSC-T300 digital camera (along with a bevy of other Cyber-shots) back at PMA earlier that year, but the folks at Digital Photography Review have now come through with a thorough review of the camera which, among other things, is particularly notable for its u…

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