Featured Stories
-
DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); LONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has...
Read More -
New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
Read More -
Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
Read More -
Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
Read More -
TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
Read More
-
Living Room Archive
-
Vizio Internet-connected HDTVs delayed
Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
Well this is no fun. If you've been patiently waiting for the Vizio HDTVs that bring Twiiter, Facebook, Netflix, and Yahoo into you living room, you're going to have to wait a bit longer. Santa isn't going to bring one this year.
-
Worlds Collide: iMo digital photo frame features built-in printer
Posted on November 19, 2009 | No Comments
If you thought that the whole point of the common digital photo frame was to make old-school photos a thing of the past, it looks like you were wrong. I was wrong too, so let's take comfort together in our wrongness. If the folks at iMo have their way, we’ll look at a digital photo on their digital frame and say to ourselves “I want that photo on some sort of card stock and I'll stop at nothing to get it!”
-
Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone
Posted on October 31, 2009 | No CommentsFiled under: Peripherals, Apple
Why confine your nerdy sloth to your living room, where large robots mime fake guitar and serve you sloppy mixed drinks? Take that zest for the sedentary life with you on the road by having one of your robot ninjas steal this iPhone Rock Band robot from its ingenious creator, Joe Bowers. The Arduino-based device uses ambient light sensors to detect the falling notes and then taps out the music with some conductive foam attached to some squeaky fake fingers. Joe did a fairly detailed write-up, and even uploaded his code, so there's presumably nothing stopping you from actually doing something with your life and building one of these with all that free time you've saved up by hacking your way through all the console-based guitar games. Video is after the break.
[Via Daily Mobile]Continue reading Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone
Laziness on the move: robot plays Rock Band on the iPhone originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments -
How to hide that subwoofer in the corner of the room
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No Comments
Keeping your home theater (my wife calls it a living room) clean and uncluttered can be a real pain if you have a decent sound system. Sure, there's the obvious "run the wires under the floor" trick, but what do you do with the elephantsubwoofer in the corner? It's big, it's ugly, and it's absolutely necessary for a decent system. -
ASUS EeeBox EB1501 packs dual-core Atom, NVIDIA Ion, optical drive
Posted on October 2, 2009 | No Comments
Yum. Here's the ASUS EeeBox PC EB1501. It's a tiny "ballerina-inspired design" that features a dual-core Atom CPU, NVIDIA ION graphics, and -- gasp!!! -- an optical drive?
-
After 55 years: Panasonic pulls the plug on tube TV production
Posted on October 1, 2009 | No Comments
Kids, do you remember those big, clunky things in the living room we older people called tube TVs? They are dying off. One of the world's biggest TV manufacturers, Panasonic, announced yesterday [JP] it will stop producing those TVs after 55 years.
-
Report: Wii video distribution service comes to North America in 2010
Posted on September 28, 2009 | No Comments
In Japan, Nintendo has been experimenting with offering content other than just games for quite a while now. Japanese DS owners have been able to download anime movies and digital manga for over a year. And in May this year, Nintendo teamed up with the world's biggest ad agency, Tokyo-based Dentsu, to introduce a video distribution service for the Wii. Needless to say, this service is Japan-only, too. But that will change soon.
-
Table-flipping simulator lets you practice throwing dinnertime tantrums
Posted on September 18, 2009 | No CommentsFinally! It’s about time someone developed an arcade game that closely simulates a heated discussion wherein you pound your fists on a table before finally flipping the entire thing over. Per Kotaku: “Japanese arcade game Cho Chabudai Gaeshi is a score attack game that lets players pound a soft table for combos and then upend it [...] -
Tokyo’s Gundam statue is history, but you can now buy a 1/60 replica
Posted on September 11, 2009 | No Comments
The giant Gundam statue that has been protecting Tokyo for a couple of months is gone, but now you have the chance to bring back memories in the form of a smaller version you can put in your living room. The original 1/1 statue stood 20m tall, while the replika [JP] is 1/60th of that size (30cm) and weighs 4kg.
-
Woot! Two-pack of giant remotes for $5
Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
Boy, oh boy. Here's the best deal going on those jaw-droppingly large universal remotes that your grandpa used to switch between Matlock and Wheel of Fortune. Woot.com is selling not one, but two -- two! -- gigantic remotes for just $5, plus $5 shipping.
-
Nyko Action Pak, Core Pak now available for $45
Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
Consider yourself lucky because Nyko just dropped two controller bundles just for you. The Action Pak is a combo Wand controller (like the Wii Remote) and Pistol Grip attachment that’s the first and only digitally activated gun accessory. We’ve got one in the ‘testing lab’ aka my living room and we’ll have a review next week. The second bundle, the Core Pak, consists of the Wand and a wired Kama w/ rumble that packs the first force feedback for both peripherals.
-
How does a 55-inch LED HDTV from Samsung sound to you?
Posted on July 30, 2009 | No CommentsAs a reader of CrunchGear, I can only assume that you're familiar with a recent invention called “television.” It's truly a remarkable thing: it transports lights and sounds from the four corners of the planet, and brings them right to your living room. It's like you're actually at the big game! A recent upgrade, called high-definition television, improves the quality of the picture. Samsung, which is a company based in far-away South Korea, has a new line of high-definition televisions called the 8500 Series. It uses something called light-emitting diodes (“LEDs”) to light up the image—no more replacing tubes!
-
Netgear and OpenDNS to filter traffic, replace parents
Posted on July 29, 2009 | No Comments
I'm guessing that a lot of households utilize filters on computers to, well, keep the kiddies away from, you know, the Internet sites you look at. Netgear and OpenDNS aim to take that task away from the individual computer and start filtering at the router. That way, every device connected to the Internet through that router - including iPod touches, game consoles, and every computer - will be subject to filtering.
-
Samsung has a new home theater in a box coming at you next month
Posted on July 21, 2009 | No CommentsThis is Samsung's latest 5.1 home theater in a box, the HT-BD3252. It comes out next month for a cool $799.
-
Video: Sega Toys’ new projector brings fireworks show to your living room
Posted on July 2, 2009 | No Comments
Sega Toys Japan yesterday unveiled the Uchiagehanabi, a device that brings fireworks indoors. And it's not only the visuals but also the corresponding sounds (shots, explosions etc.) you get in your very home. The device uses the wall or a ceiling as a backdrop for projecting fireworks patterns.
Sega Toys says that some of the images are as wide as 1.5m, and users can even create remixes of their favorite patterns to get personalized fireworks displays. It's also possible to "draw" patterns by yourself and let the Uchiagehanabi project them onto your living room wall.