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Wacom Cintiq 21UX hands-on

It nearly too much to take in all at once. certain, the $1,999 Cintiq 21UX pen display is priced out of reach for most of us mere mortals who “don’t draw good,” but the pure lustworthiness of that unit certain makes us try to forget that inconvenient fact. The expanded movability of Wacom’s latest is [...]

The Engadget Show: Inside chiptunes and 8-bit visuals

Greetings humans! whether you’ve seen The Engadget Show, next you’ve been privy to some pretty incredible performances by a group of musicians and artists who eschew familiar instruments in exchange for hacked and modded handheld gaming devices. We grabbed our cameras and got a brief look at the history of the chiptunes movement, the difference [...]

Nokia asks court to dismiss part of Apple patent lawsuit

How do we know we’re years away from a final resolution to the Nokia / Apple patent lawsuit? It’s been six months since Nokia first filed its complaint, and the two parties are just now starting to argue about which specific substantive claims they’re eventually going to argue about. Let’s do a quick refresh: at [...]

United puts the kibosh on in-flight video chat, one family seriously ‘bummed’

It may not be illegal to tuck your kids into bed via iChat while taking advantage of United’s in-flight WiFi, but that didn’t stop a flight attendant from ending John Battelle’s (admittedly precious) use of the service during a flight two days ago. It seems that the airline has a policy that prohibits “two-way devices” [...]

HDI headquarters walkthrough: details galore on the new face of in-home 3D

Call it an inexplicable fascination, or signal it all-out geek lust by a screen with three digits in the “diagonal screen size” specification field — either way, we had little choice but to shuttle by to HDI’s nondescript Los Gatos, California headquarters in order to check out what even Steve Wozniak has been quoted as [...]

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Fujitsu launches Thermal Printer Mechanism with fastest print speed

The new Fujitsu FTP-63AMCL101/111/301/311 printer series delivers a 250mm/sec print speed, which is among the highest in the industry. Its operating life is rated for a minimum of 150km total printing and 150 million pulses to ensure long-term reliability. The available, full-cut rotary cutter has a life of 1.5 million cuts. The printer accommodates thick [...]

Asus Cine5 PC speaker- World’s Most Compact Five-channel Speaker

Asus today announced the launch of the Asus Cine5 PC speaker which provides accurate 5-channel surround sound in personalized spaces such as study rooms. The Asus Cine5 is the first PC speaker in the world to offer leading surround sound presence with the new EmbracingSound Theatre HD technology. Utilizing premium speaker drivers and a specially-designed [...]

Sony Mickey Mouse Walkman stand

Sony, Japan announced the Mickey Mouse Walkman stand for Sony Walkman S Series. The stand can be used to hold the walkman as well as used to charge it. The design makes one to feel Mickey holding the walkman as a guitar .Available only in Japan; the Sony Mickey Mouse Walkman stand will be available [...]

Sony PlayStation Move takes aim at Nintendo’s dominance in the gaming sector

Sony today unveiled its highly anticipated motion controlling system PlayStation Move, as it takes aim at Nintendo’s dominance in the gaming sector. With the PlayStation Move, Sony hopes to lure gamers who have outgrown Nintendo, which launched the Wii in 2006 and became the first to introduce motion-detecting controllers. Peter Dille, senior vice president of [...]

After 200 years one of the world’s rarest Middlemists red camellias gets new lease on life

It lived through the Battle of Trafalgar, survived the reign of Victoria and escaped unharmed from a Blitz bomb.So it’s going to take more than a harsh British winter to stop one of the world’s rarest camellias from bursting into flower. that week – in a welcome sign that spring is just around the corner [...]

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Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled by Privacy Concerns

An anonymous reader writes “Netflix just announced that they have cancelled the sequel to the Netflix Prize, which was promised last year. Netflix made the choice after they were sued by privacy concerns. The prize involves releasing large amounts of input about users’ movie preferences, which raised concerns from the Federal Trade Commission and a [...]

Security Industry Faces Attacks It Can’t Stop

itwbennett writes “The takedown of the Mariposa botnet and so-called advanced persistent threat attacks, such as the one that compromised Google systems in early December, were hot topics at the RSA conference last week. What both Mariposa and the Google attacks illustrate, and what went largely unsaid at RSA, was that the safety measure industry [...]

China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave

suraj.sun writes with that snippet from an Associated Press report:
“China’s top Net regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or ‘pay the consequences,’ giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute by censorship and hacking. ‘If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you [...]

University of Wyoming Studies Video Games

krou writes “The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyoming’s English office is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an assistant professor at UW who is part of the group, explains that ‘it’s a group of society [who] do research [...]

MIT Scientists form a Polyethylene Heatsink

arcticstoat calls our attention to MIT research that has produced a version of polyethylene that can conduct heat away from computer chips. Polyethylene is the most widely used plastic. It’s not clear how practical that research is for industrial-scale use, involving as it does an atomic-force microscope. The work is detailed in a paper published [...]

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Solar Surge charger, iPhone second place, iDongle hardware jailbreak

A company called Novothink has unveiled a new case for the iPhone called the Solar Surge. The device has a solar panel that helps charge a 1320mAH battery inside the case and the thing sells for $79.95.

The iPhone is still in second place for smartphones in the US according to the latest input from comScore. [...]

iPhone icon magnets, Guitarbud, and OS 4.0 rumors

If you are a huge fan of the iPhone and you need more magnets to stick on your fridge Jailbreak Toys has your item. The company has a set of magnets selling for about $13 that has all the iPhone home page icons on individual magnets.

Guitarists that would like to be able to record their [...]

Street Fighter on iPhone, EA Sports Active 2.0, Beta 4 of OS 3.2 SDK surfaces

If you are a fan of old school horizontal fighters, Street Fighter IV is now on the iPhone. The game can be had for about $10 and there is no free trial version offered.

The new EA Sports Active 2.0 system will be available for the Wii, PS3, and iPhone when it launches. The system has [...]

Case-mate Hug ships, iPhone printing at Hilton Garden Inn, March Madness app

Case-mate has announced that its new wireless charging system called the Hug for the iPhone 3G and 3GS is now shipping. The system is available for $100 and includes the charge base, case, and screen protector.

Frequent travelers that stay in Hilton Garden Inn hotels can now use a system at the hotel that lets the [...]

China Unicom to get WiFi iPhone, No iPad/iPhone tethering, iPhone video shout rate surfaces

According to reports, China Unicom is set to sell the iPhone with WiFi. The current handsets it sells lack WiFi while gray market alternatives have it.

Steve Jobs has made it clear that those who buy the iPad in April won’t be able to tether the device to the iPhone for 3G connectivity. That is hardly [...]

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Mozilla Is examining Firefox explanation Manager

Considering the open source nature of Firefox, it’s always fairly easy to guess and check out the new features that Mozilla is working on. Now it seems that Mozilla is planning a rather useful account manager, which should be particularly helpful to users who are logged into many sites at once. Initially, the support should [...]

You’ll Be Able To Purchase Your iPad goods Plan Directly From The iPad Itself

Users who are planning to purchase Apple’s iPad with a 3G modem probably already know that AT&T is offering two info plan prices for the device, which are $14.99/month for 250MB or $29.99 for unlimited info. While it’s not too hard to walk into an AT&T store to inquiry for the change in plan, it [...]

Audio Lounger Concept Looks Desirable

We certainly don’t mind tech seeping into our everyday items, and the Audio Lounger concept certainly looks like one of those things we wouldn’t mind making room for. It sports four built-in high quality speakers and a (rather noticeable) large subwoofer, not to mention a touchscreen panel on the upper side of the seat to [...]

Sony S Series Walkmans Get The Disney Treatment

If you’re a Disney and Sony fan, that will probably have you drooling uncontrollably. Sony Japan has officially announced its new Sony Walkman S series (NW-S740/S740K/S640/S640K Series) that come emblazoned with Mickey and Minnie mouse characters at the back. There will be three versions available, Mickey only, Minnie only, and the couple together. There are [...]

Universal Drying Apparatus

If you happen to live at a place where snow is more common that a bright, sunny day, soon after chances are your shoes will suffer from the problem of being wet most of the moment. While there are tons of ways to keep your shoes dry or help them achieve that status, the Universal [...]

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FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband analysis app for iPhone, Android and the home

We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not that moment, though, as the FCC is getting involved directly with its own Consumer Broadband pop quiz app, designed to [...]

Android’s American market share soars, WinMo pays the price

Mobile manufacturer and platform market share stats for the US are in for the month of January thanks to comScore, and as usual, they tell a fascinating (and somewhat unpredictable) story of what’s actually going on at the cash registers. Motorola — which has distant since fallen off its high horse on the global stage [...]

iPhone SDK 3.2 showing first hints of multitasking for third-party apps?

Naturally, we need to first deny that noise by saying that rumors of third-party multitasking capability in the iPhone are as old as the iPhone SDK itself. That said, it’s hard to disregard a new reference to a “multitasking dialog box” buried deep within the iPhone SDK 3.2 beta that — while not new to [...]

iDongle hardware iPhone jailbreak tool makes hacker life a little simpler

whether you needed any more proof that Apple’s lame cat-and-mouse game with the iPhone jailbreak community has only served to increase its resourcefulness and creativity, look no further than the iDongle, a slick piece of hacker-made hardware that can jailbreak and activate an iPhone 3GS or iPod touch running OS 3.1.2 just by plugging it [...]

DARPA looking to develop iPhone and Android apps, App Store

Sure, in the past we’ve got a hearty chuckle out of initiatives that involved Redfly terminals and Clippy variants, but the question remains: how can we get cutting-edge tech into the hands of soldiers faster? We’ve recently come across some RFIs for DARPA projects aimed at developing apps and an App Store for Android and [...]

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PC | GameSpot News’ complete GDC coverage with GDC Awards, Sony conference video

[UPDATE 2] Uncharted 2 tops Game Developers Choice Awards with five trophies; PlayStation Move debuts; write-ups of Meier, Pardo, Molyneux, Pitchford, Muzyka, Sakamoto, Yamaoka, Toriyama, and Schafer talks plus on tap; full run-down of event and new Deus Ex trailer inside.

SAN FRANCISCO–The 2010 Game Developers Conference began today with the Independent Games Summit [...]

PC | Meier on crafting the ‘epic journey’

GDC 2010: The creator of Civilization, Colonization, and Alpha Centauri talks about his three decades in game development in the presentation, “The Psychology of Game Design (Everything You Know Is Wrong).”

SAN FRANCISCO–At the
2008 Game Developers Conference, Sid Meier was honored with a
Lifetime Achievement trophy at the
Game Developers Choice Awards, the same honor bestowed on [...]

PSP | Fat Princess: Fistful of Cake TOTS GDC 2010 Daily Demo

Check out that Daily Demo straight from the GDC 2010 Today on the Spot!
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PC | Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening Q&A – High-Level Abilities, Characters, Items, and Story

Lead designer Ferret Baudoin explains Awakening’s new skills, items, and story.

Last year’s Dragon Age: Origins told an epic fantasy tale of a world torn apart by both a monstrous invasion and a traitor’s civil war. As a Grey Warden, your character defeated the threat of the evil darkspawn–the ugly monsters from the depths of [...]

PC | Deus Ex: Human Revolution CG Trailer

Delve into a world of mechanical augmentations in that awesome new trailer for Human Revolution.
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“PC | Deus Ex: Human Revolution CG Trailer” was posted by markwalton on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:42:11 -0800

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