Archive for: May 21, 2008

Filed under: Peripherals
Heads-up, open-source gurus — your next play toy is officially ready to be pre-ordered. The OGD1 is a self-proclaimed “high-end FPGA prototyping kit and hardware engineering platform, equipped with the peripherals needed to develop and tryout computer graphics architectures…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Laptops
The folks by at Laptop Magazine have gotten their mitts on CTL’s latest edition to the ever-growing field of ultraportables, the IL1PC (or as we like to shout it, the Airis Kira 740), and have given it the once by. The system is built atop VIA’s 1GHz C7-M CPU, has 1GB of RAM, a …

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Filed under: Displays
We’ve seen an A4-sized sheet of e-paper or two in our day, but Epson’s new prototype display features an absurdly high resolution for its size: 3104 x 4128, clocking it in at something like 385ppi. According to Fareastgizmos, E Ink’s supplying the, um, electronic ink, while Sei…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Displays
You’ve got your LCDs, you’ve got your OLEDs, and you’ve got your E Ink, but Qualcomm’s gearing up to push a new kind of display your way: the technology’s called reflective interferometric modulation (IMOD), which is something of a mouthful, so Qualcomm intends to market it as …

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Gadgets

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Filed under: Home Entertainment
It seems like everything about Roku’s Netflix Player seems understated, from the plain, unceremonious purple box it shipped in, to the nondescript black plastic case, to the stripped-bare user interface. But as we’ve quickly discovered, it’s pretty easy to memorize to…

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Gadgets

It was simply inevitable: someone was going to lay the iPhone and BlackBerry Bold down beside one another, and whether John Mayer won’t stop sending himself emails towering abundant to do it, CrackBerry’s sister site will. There’s really nothing here that you couldn’t put together yourself from …

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Cellphones

Though Whirlpool managed to pick up a few new partners to build gizmos that played nice with its life-simplifying centralpark connection system back in January, there still aren’t many options out there to manufacture good use of it. Thankfully, the outfit has just lassoed in Mobility Electronic…

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Household, Peripherals

Sure, it’s been done before, but that doesn’t form the view of a robotic arm controlled by a Wiimote any less exciting, particularly when the arm is actually responsive. That feat is aided considerably by the fact that that latest setup was developed by an engineer from National Instruments, w…

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While it doesn’t precisely boast all that many robot-like characteristics, that grasshopper-inspired bot from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology is apparently sufficient of one to lay claim to the robot high-jump record, which it was able to capture handily by jumping 27 times its own h…

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Robots

After some exhaustive research invested by one iSmashPhone, it seems like that now-infamous “Enable 3G” screen shot supposedly lifted from a recent iPhone firmware 2.0 beta was mocked up. The spirit of the shot mercifully lives on, though, seeing how the existence of the underlying preferences t…

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Apple, Cellphones, Gadgets

Former Democratic vice presidential candidate and Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman criticized Google this week for not removing all YouTube videos produced by Islamic terrorist organizations.

Earlier this week, Lieberman sent a letter to Google chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt requesting that it "immediately remove content produced by Islamist terrorist organizations from YouTube."

"Many of the videos produced by one of the production arms of al-Qaeda show attacks on U.S. forces in which American soldiers are injured and, in some cases, killed," Lieberman wrote.

Google, which bought YouTube in 2006 for $1.65 billion, responded by removing 80 videos from the video site that depicted gratuitous violence, which is a violation of YouTube's community guidelines. However, the Internet company declined to remove all videos featuring terrorist organization material, citing free speech.

"While we respect and understand his views, YouTube encourages free speech and defends everyone's right to express unpopular points of view," the YouTube team said in a blog post. "We believe that YouTube is a richer and more relevant platform for users precisely because it hosts a diverse range of views, and rather than stifle debate we allow our users to view all acceptable content and make up their own minds."

Those who disagree with a video's content "are always free to express their disagreement with a particular video on the site, by leaving comments or their own response video," YouTube concluded. "That debate is healthy."

The removal of those videos "is a start, but it is not enough," Lieberman responded Tuesday. "No matter what their content, videos produced by terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, that are committed to attacking America and killing Americans, should not be tolerated. Google ...