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  • Isobar’s NFC Hackathon Winners Create Applications for Gaming, Gifting and Music Remixing

    Isobar’s NFC Hackathon Winners Create Applications for Gaming, Gifting and Music Remixing

    Posted on February 9, 2012 | No Comments
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  • Live from Apple’s 2010 WWDC Keynote

    Live from Apple’s 2010 WWDC Keynote

    Posted on June 7, 2010 | No Comments
    It's time. After months of whispers, leaks, lost prototypes, and police raids, it all leads up to this: Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC 2010. Will the prototype fourth-generation iPhone we've seen so much of be the real deal? Do Steve and co. have any tricks up their sleeves to satisfy their ever more rabid fan base? Follow along as we liveblog every minute of the action from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA. The keynote begins at 10 A.M Pacific (thats 12 P.M Central/1 P.M Eastern). Bookmark this page, and set your alarms -- and be sure to tune in early! We'll have some pre-show coverage, video footage, and pictures beginning at around 9 A.M.

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  • Intel demos Android 2.1 on Moorestown smartphone (video)

    Intel demos Android 2.1 on Moorestown smartphone (video)

    Posted on June 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Intel's barking up all kinds of trees (ones planted by Qualcomm, NVIDIA and ARM) with its Moorestown Atom platform, and while it'll be quite some time before we see an Atom Inside sticker gracing the face of a smartphone, the company's making sure the world sees what it has ramped up so far with reference builds here in Taipei. Aava Mobile was kind enough to build a number of prototypes for Intel to showcase at Computex, and while the vast majority were running Moblin, a couple were humming along with Android 2.1 underneath. We were able to get our hands around one here at the show, and while performance seemed decent enough, it certainly didn't floor us any more than a 1GHz Snapdragon has in the past. Granted, we weren't able to seriously tax it due to having no internet connection and no pre-loaded HD multimedia, but casual users probably won't notice a significant boost in screen transitions. Don't take our word for it, though -- jump on past the break for a video of Intel doing Eclair.

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    Intel demos Android 2.1 on Moorestown smartphone (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • SIGVerse simulates cooperation between humans and robots in virtual space

    SIGVerse simulates cooperation between humans and robots in virtual space

    Posted on May 4, 2010 | No Comments
    Japan's National Institute of Informatics (NII) has developed SIGVerse, a piece of software that makes it possible to simulate how human beings and "intelligent" robots cooperate in a virtual space. The goal is to assess how robots can be "trained" to better work together with humans one day - without actually having to build robot prototypes in real life.

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  • Apple Continues To Morph Into The Chocolate Factory. Expect Fewer Gobstopper Leaks.

    Apple Continues To Morph Into The Chocolate Factory. Expect Fewer Gobstopper Leaks.

    Posted on April 28, 2010 | No Comments
    Lost iPhone prototypes aside, most Apple leaks tend to come from partners companies tasked with helping to build something Apple needs for a particular product. After all, Apple can't do it all, itself. Well, not yet anyway. A report today in the New York Times confirms earlier rumors that Apple has purchased Austin, Texas-based chip company Intrinsity. And yes, it appears that company is the one largely behind the new A4 chip found inside the iPad. An analyst put the price at $121 million, but again, he's an analyst, so who knows.

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  • Could ThinkGeek’s iCade become more than an April Fool’s joke?

    Could ThinkGeek’s iCade become more than an April Fool’s joke?

    Posted on April 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Remember how the Tauntaun sleeping bag ThinkGeek made as an April Fool’s joke was later turned into an actual product because there was so much demand for it? Well Ars Technica makes an interesting case for why the fake iCade from yesterday's festivities could also become a reality.

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  • All-electric Fiat 500EV to hit U.S. in 2012

    All-electric Fiat 500EV to hit U.S. in 2012

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Chrysler first showed this baby off at the Detroit Auto Show this year. Today, we received word that an all-electric version of the Fiat 500 platform should be available in only a couple years. How exciting! Technical specifications are slim at the moment, but rumor has the powerplant being a sum of a lithium-ion battery, an [...]

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  • Super-thin, bendable LCDs are coming

    Super-thin, bendable LCDs are coming

    Posted on February 2, 2010 | No Comments
    We have seen curved plasmas, OLED TVs and LCDs in the past, both as prototypes and actual products. And while many people believe OLED screens and not LCDs or plasmas are the future, a Japanese consortium of 13 companies and institutions is working hard on developing super-thin, flexible LCDs. The companies claim they now have found a way to produce these LCDs by using plastic film instead of glass substrates.

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  • Via Sony’s bio-battery: RC cars can now be powered by sugary drinks

    Via Sony’s bio-battery: RC cars can now be powered by sugary drinks

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    Sony has been working on the development of efficient bio-batteries since 2007, but the company hasn't really come close to commercialization so far. The batteries, which exist as prototypes, can be recharged not by using methanol as fuel but glucose. And it makes sense, as a single bowl of rice contains the same energy as 96 AA batteries. And using the bio-battery in real products might soon become reality, it seems. This week, Japanese toymaker Takara showcased a few radio-controlled toy cars that are powered by the Sony battery. Power is generated by using enzymes to break down glucose found in sugary drinks. Cola, juice, soda and sports drinks can be used, as long as the liquid contains around 7% glucose.

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  • VMware wants dual-OS virtualized smartphones, no ugly boot-loaders

    VMware wants dual-OS virtualized smartphones, no ugly boot-loaders

    Posted on December 7, 2009 | No Comments
    VMware wants dual-OS virtualized smartphones, no ugly boot-loaders
    It's getting harder and harder to pick a smartphone, with options like iPhone OS, WebOS, Android, and Windows Mobile making the choosing difficult. Life would be easier if you could pick two, and that's what virtualization giant VMware is working on, the ability to run dual OSes in one smartphone. The company already has Android/WinMo and other prototypes running, but phones featuring the tech now aren't expected to hit market until 2012 -- a big delay from the earlier indications of a release this year. Those prototypes rely on ugly boot menus, whereas the vision for this tech would see users switching between environments on the fly, taking and making calls in either whilst juggling chainsaws and dazzling their friends. The company pledges it'll be a seamless experience, but we're doubtful given how even stepping out of HTC's SenseUI into the OS below can occasionally result in mild nausea. The bigger question is who would want this, and it's easy to think the answer is "basically nobody," but picture the poor corporate souls who must carry one phone for work and another for play. This tech could finally let them ditch that holster, and wouldn't the world be a better place then?

    VMware wants dual-OS virtualized smartphones, no ugly boot-loaders originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Dec 2009 06:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Why the CrunchPad mattered

    Why the CrunchPad mattered

    Posted on November 30, 2009 | No Comments
    There’s already been quite a bit of ink spilled over the demise of the CrunchPad but I thought I’d add a few drops. My opinion is this: the CrunchPad was a testament to the power of online media and a fascinating study in the ability of new media to enact real changes on the real [...]

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  • NEC prototypes battery-less remote control

    NEC prototypes battery-less remote control

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    NEC Electronics, an NEC subsidiary, has announced the development of a remote control [JP] that works without using batteries. Every time users push a button on the device, they generate a small amount of electricity through vibration. NEC says this is enough to turn on or off a TV (or any other electric appliance), switch channels or control the volume.

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  • BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions

    BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions

    Posted on November 12, 2009 | No Comments

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    For a company with the most starched, buttoned-up roots of any major wireless manufacturer, RIM's venture out of its enterprise comfort zone to the consumer space went amazingly smoothly thanks to the introduction of the original Pearl, a phone that's still sold in a variety of colors, configurations, and carriers to this day. At some point, though, it became clear that the industry was moving toward touch -- a space RIM had never dabbled in -- and the trend gave birth to the Storm, a product that had obviously been rushed to market with countless software bugs and a dodgy SurePress concept that caused more problems than it solved. With prototypes floating around in the wild mere months after its predecessor's release, RIM's message was loud and clear earlier this year: "we need to fix the Storm, and we need to do it quickly." Ultimately, it's ended up taking the company just about a year to get the Storm2 to market, a product that attempts to tweak Waterloo's touchscreen strategy just enough to undo a few mistakes and send it down the right path. Mission accomplished? Read on.

    BlackBerry Storm2 hands-on and impressions originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Rumor: Is this the Android-powered HTC Passion for Verizon?

    Rumor: Is this the Android-powered HTC Passion for Verizon?

    Posted on October 26, 2009 | No Comments
    Ah - another day, another Android rumor. As Android fleshes itself out into the torrential go-to OS for smartphone manufacturers that we've all hoped it would, we can expect to see more and more Android rumors rambling about. In other words, According to TheUnlockr, the phone you're looking at above is none other than HTC's first Snapdragon-powered Android phone, the Passion for Verizon. That seems a bit strange for a couple of reasons:

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