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  • Is this the first home controlled solely by iPads and iPhones?

    Is this the first home controlled solely by iPads and iPhones?

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    I said it a few days ago and I'll say it again, the iPad is the future of home automation. I'm clearly not alone in this thinking, either. At least one installer has already embraced the iPad and rolled out what could be the first whole-house system controlled by two iPads and one iPhone. This includes everything from the security systems, HVAC, cameras, three media servers, a Russound audio system, to even the pool can be controlled via these devices. The installer has seen the future and it includes lots of iPads and money. via CEPro,
    "My plan is to sell many more automation systems," he says. "The stumbling block for clients in the past hasn't been the control system, it's always been the cost of the user interface. With the iPad, this problem has been completely removed. This is a tremendous victory for the future of my business. I don't have to sell expensive products that don't multitask. And I get to charge each time I program an iPad or add one to the system."
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  • Goodbye, Norma Jean: Apple’s “Get a Mac” Ads are over

    Goodbye, Norma Jean: Apple’s “Get a Mac” Ads are over

    Posted on April 8, 2010 | No Comments
    Of two things I was always sure: that people would not talk to me at parties and that Apple's "Get a Mac" ads would be around forever. I imagined showing my grandchildren the ads in 2040, explaining that once, a long time ago, the animated corpse of John Hodgman used to be a real man and now as he capers about on our 3D holoscreen talking about the PC's lack of a fission reactor power supply, gobbets of preserved flesh strung up like a puppet on a skeleton of titanium, well, you can still see some of that same schlubby good humor in that soulless meat pop that I enjoyed back in 2010, before the Happening. That will never happen, people. Apple is discontinuing the campaign. In an interview with AV Club Long said that Apple hasn't brought them back into the studio in a long while and that he believes they're going to "move on."

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  • Sleep Scan: Tanita’s sensor-equipped mat monitors your sleep

    Sleep Scan: Tanita’s sensor-equipped mat monitors your sleep

    Posted on April 7, 2010 | No Comments
    Leading health monitor manufacturer Tanita today announced [JP] a sensor-equipped mat that's supposed to measure the deepness and quality of your sleep. The company, which is also active in the US, says placing the mat under your mattress is enough. The system will then keep track of your body motion, breath rate and pulse throughout the night.

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  • Tearing down the Apple A4 processor

    Tearing down the Apple A4 processor

    Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Kyle at iFixit and his buddies at Chipworks straight up tore into the A4 chip that appears in the Apple iPad. The chip is an ARM processor with a small RAM package made by Samsung. The processor itself is made entirely by Apple although it is based mostly on the original Samsung processor made for the iPhone. Other interesting points include the possibility of an onboard GPU, the same one powering the iPhone, namely the PowerVR SGX 535. This means while the screen is bigger the graphics aren't much faster. The iPad also has 256MB ram and, most important, the CPU "sips" power.

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  • More 3D football (soccer) comes to Europe: Up next, Belgium & Poland

    More 3D football (soccer) comes to Europe: Up next, Belgium & Poland

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    More 3D broadcasts are sweeping across Europe. The next countries up are Belgium and Poland. They follow the UK and Germany—oh, and the U.S.

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  • Is Archos launching 7 Home Tablet on iPad day?

    Is Archos launching 7 Home Tablet on iPad day?

    Posted on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
    The iPad isn't the only upcoming slate computer. Archos has the 7 Home Tablet coming real soon as well. The 7-inch Android tablet doesn't have an official release date as of yet, but a German retailer states that it will be shipping in a week. Why the iPad launches on April 3rd? Coincidence? We think not.

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  • Sprint LG Rumor Touch finally going on sale on March 28th

    Sprint LG Rumor Touch finally going on sale on March 28th

    Posted on March 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Man oh man! Remember the LG Rumor Touch? The touchscreen feature phone Sprint announced all the way back at CES in early January? If you’d had asked me yesterday when this thing was going to launch, my response would have been a blank stare followed by “Holy crap, that hasn’t launched yet?” Sure enough, it hasn’t [...]

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  • Dear Square Enix: Just remake Final Fantasy VII already

    Dear Square Enix: Just remake Final Fantasy VII already

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    I'll just point you in the direction of this weird rant... thing about Final Fantasy. It sorta explains the differences between Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy XIII. Something about honor and inns and whatnot. Yeah. More importantly, let's discuss the possibility of Square Enix remaking Final Fantasy VII, because that hasn't been done before on the Internet.

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  • Mac pricing leak? Perhaps updated Macs are inbound.

    Mac pricing leak? Perhaps updated Macs are inbound.

    Posted on March 17, 2010 | No Comments
    In case you haven't noticed, the MacBook Pro line is starting to get a little stale with just a lowly Core 2 Duo CPU. Even the Mac Pro with it's Quad-Core Xeon isn't the fastest kid in town anymore with the six-core Core i7-980X making the rounds. Hopefully all this fuss concerning a supposed leak of new Mac pricing that's a bit higher than the current MSRPs foreshadows updates coming in the near future.

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  • The Field Guide To Modern 3D Glasses

    The Field Guide To Modern 3D Glasses

    Posted on March 10, 2010 | No Comments
    You might want to take a different approach when shopping for a 3D TV than a standard HDTV. Instead of just looking at the picture quality, you should also take a serious look at the brand's 3D glasses. Some show some clear advantages to purchase that brand's 3D TV and until there's a standard format for 3D glasses, each brand requires its own unique glasses, thereby locking you into that manufacturer's products. Yeah, it's a bit messy right now. Click through for details on all of them.

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  • Video: HTC Supersonic briefly caught in the flesh

    Video: HTC Supersonic briefly caught in the flesh

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    We started drooling about the HTC Supersonic as soon as we heard the words "Android" and "WiMax" in the same sentence. Once "4.3 inch display" got thrown into the mix, our salivary glands just couldn't be stopped. While HTC hasn't made even the smallest of official peeps about this thing yet, it looks like someone out there has gotten their hands all over it - and just as anyone with early access to a new, unannounced cell phone should do, they took some video. Check it out after the jump.

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  • Video: HTC Supersonic briefly caught on camera

    Video: HTC Supersonic briefly caught on camera

    Posted on March 8, 2010 | No Comments
    We started drooling about the HTC Supersonic as soon as we heard the words "Android" and "WiMax" in the same sentence. Once "4.3 inch display" got thrown into the mix, our salivary glands just couldn't be stopped. While HTC hasn't made even the smallest of official peeps about this thing yet, it looks like someone out there has gotten their hands all over it - and just as anyone with early access to a new, unannounced cell phone should do, they took some video.

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  • Ballmer hints that new Xbox styles may be coming

    Ballmer hints that new Xbox styles may be coming

    Posted on March 5, 2010 | No Comments
    And lo, from the Ballmer came the words, and the words were about the Xbox, and they did ponder the words as to what they meant. And then the idle speculation started, and people started posting stuff on the internet, and it just got silly. But judging from (and speculating from) some comments that Ballmer said at a recent UW speech, there's a pretty good chance that there may be some new kinds of Xboxen coming to your television.

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  • Logitech outs new clip-on USB speaker

    Logitech outs new clip-on USB speaker

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Logitech promises that “Your built-in speakers just can’t compete with the stereo sound from this lightweight, portable speaker.” Whether or not that’s true will be up to you to decide, I suppose, but the single-cable operation of the “Logitech Laptop Speaker Z205” that’s “tiny enough to toss in your bag” may appeal to those of you looking for a bit more oomph.

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  • Joey, have you ever scored a movie about being in a in a Turkish prison? A classic interview with Giorgio Moroder

    Joey, have you ever scored a movie about being in a in a Turkish prison? A classic interview with Giorgio Moroder

    Posted on March 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Moogs, memory banks, and Moroder. What sucks is this guy probably was still using Moogs up until just before all of the gear in his studio went obsolete, stubbornly clinging to all of that good stuff until the end. Sadly, Giorgio hasn’t done much since the Neverending Story II back in 1990 but he was recently [...]

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