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Creative HanZpad hurdles FCC, will deliver ICS and quad-core goodness to China

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:40:02 +0000

Creative Labs might want to get some white gloves, because we recognized its fingerprints on the HanZPad, a Chinese tablet platform which just landed at the FCC. Using its own ZiiLABS division’s ZMS-40 ICS optimized SoC (system on chip), the thinnish 7.95mm tab looks to have meaty specs with a quad-core ARM 1.5GHz processor, 1280 [...]

Ultimate Ears Personal Reference Monitors offer custom tuning, look great with your smoking jacket

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:20:05 +0000

Logitech’s got just the thing for that $2,000 burning a hole in your pocket. The new Ultimate Ears Personal Reference Monitors are “engineered to your exact needs for fit, look and sound.” The wood-paneled in-ear monitors utilize UE’s Personal Reference Tuning Box to adjust the output mix of lows, highs and mids. Your two grand [...]

Using QR Codes To Save Lives

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:20:02 +0000

itwbennett writes “Paramedics in Marin County, California, may soon be putting QR codes to lifesaving use. According to an IDG News Service report, ‘Lifesquare, a Silicon Valley start-up, has partnered with two emergency response agencies in Marin County to run a year-long pilot program. Lifesquare wants residents to input personal information about their medications into [...]

Kabel Deutschland sets record with 4.7Gbps download speeds

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:40:01 +0000

About a year ago, Arris teased a system capable of 4.5Gbps downloads, and while that technology was in the proof-of-concept phase last June, it’s beginning to look more like a real possibility. German network provider Kabel Deutschland just notched a new download speed record using Arris’ C4 CMTs and Touchstone CM820S cable modems: a mind-blowing [...]

Google World Wonders Project takes you to Earth’s treasures in glorious Street View vision (video)

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:20:02 +0000

Google has already been taking us to exotic locations through Street View, but now it’s hoping to enshrine the most famous places on Earth through the World Wonders Project, one car (or trike) at a time. A total of 132 sites, ranging from natural landmarks like Yosemite to much more synthetic constructions like the Leaning [...]

Sony’s PlayStation Vita has a YouTube app headed its way by the end of June

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:40:02 +0000

Assuming all that gaming, Facebooking and Tweeting isn’t enough action for your PS Vita, Sony announced tonight it will get a YouTube app by the end of the month. The company’s US blog hasn’t posted any pics yet, but Engadget Japan has a few screen grabs of what it will look like. Check after the [...]

Upscale London boroughs say no no no to BT’s broadband revolution, ugly green boxes

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:20:03 +0000

Between all of the delays, disappointment and a general lack of availability, many Brits can’t seem to catch a break when it comes to getting up to speed with fast internet — but this time it could be their own fault. BT’s fiber optic rollout plans came to a screeching halt in Chelsea and Kensington [...]

Andromeda On Collision Course With the Milky Way

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:20:01 +0000

ananyo writes “From the Nature story: ‘The Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way about 4 billion years from now, astronomers announced today. Although the Sun and other stars will remain intact, the titanic tumult is likely to shove the Solar System to the outskirts of the merged galaxies. Researchers came to that conclusion [...]

Google image search results crammed into picture dictionary

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:00:02 +0000

Though not quite a replacement for Mountain View’s ill-fated dictionary, this 1,240 page tome contains the first Google image search result for each word in a run-of-the-mill dictionary. With a PHP script, London-based artists Felix Heyes and Ben West scraped the image from each search and compiled an alphabetically ordered PDF brimming with 21,000 images [...]

Georgia Tech develops poultry deboning robot / chicken nightmare machine

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:40:05 +0000

If you have any chickens in the house, you’re going to want to keep them away from the computer. Georgia Tech researchers have developed the device that will haunt their feathered dreams. The prototype Intelligent Cutting and Deboning System has a built-in 3D vision system in order to help it cut and debone a chicken. [...]

UN Takeover of Internet Must Be Stopped, US Warns

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:40:02 +0000

benfrog writes “In a rare show of bipartisan agreement, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle warned this morning that a United Nations summit in December will lead to a virtual takeover of the Internet if proposals from China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia are adopted. Called the World Conference on International Telecommunications, the summit [...]

Panasonic’s UN-W700 runs Android, streams Blu-ray video, takes Skype calls, isn’t a tablet

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:00:02 +0000

We’ve seen Android used for home theater purposes before, but it’s been rare that a company has wanted Google’s OS used almost exclusively with that purpose in mind. Panasonic is gambling that its UN-W700 can use Android (2.3, unfortunately) for an all-singing, all-dancing compact video device. The 7-inch, 800×480 standee plays media from its SDXC [...]

MotoCzysz aims to refashion TAC Motors’ Stark into an eco-friendly off-roader

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 03:20:02 +0000

Imagine barreling through the Amazonian rainforest with machetes flailing from the windows of your off-road rig, and just as you’re about to kick the vehicle into low gear, you pause to consider the impact of your vehicle’s exhaust (among other things) on the delicate ecosystem around. Fortunately for eco-minded folks, Portland-based EV manufacturer MotoCzysz — [...]

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 11:30pm ET!

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:40:01 +0000

It’s another fireside chat between Myriam Joire and Brad Molen. It’s going to be legen — wait for it — dary. May 31, 2012 11:30 PM EDT Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 11:30pm ET! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 May 2012 22:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of [...]

CompuLab to serve fanless AMD PC-3′s stuffed with minted penguin

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:20:03 +0000

With the Ubuntu variant Mint roaming free as one of the more attractive Linux breeds, why not lock it up in its own mini-case? That’ll happen soon thanks to mintBox, a joint venture with CompuLab, which will put the OS in two of its fanless PC-3‘s — the T40N and T56N — priced at $476 [...]

Apple Releases IOS Security Guide

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 02:20:02 +0000

Trailrunner7 writes in with a story about a iOS security guide released by Apple. “Apple has released a detailed security guide for its iOS operating system, an unprecedented move for a company known for not discussing the technical details of its products, let alone the security architecture. The document lays out the system architecture, data [...]

Google springs for .lol, .youtube domains, we wonder if it’s going TLD .crazy

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:40:03 +0000

Google just can’t wait until ICANN reveals custom domain name bids in mid-June to say what it’s trying to buy — and it’s clear that Mountain View went on a shopping spree. Some of the top-level domains in the land grab are ones you’d expect safeguarding Google’s prized possessions, such as .google, .youtube and .docs. [...]

Wi-Fi Alliance announces Miracast wireless display certification program

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 01:40:02 +0000

The ability to transmit audio-visual content over WiFi is poised to launch a bit of a cable-free revolution in the living room, but before that happens, the Wi-Fi Alliance hopes that manufacturers will rally behind its standard set of technologies known as Miracast — in the process, burying WiDi and giving AirPlay a run for [...]

RIM finally gets some good news, court rules it can keep using BBM name

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:40:03 +0000

Between delays, executive defections and falling market share the news lately hasn’t been rosy for RIM, but today it got at least one reprieve as a Federal Court in Canada ruled its use of the acronym BBM did not infringe another company’s trademark. The lawsuit was filed last December by BBM Canada, a broadcast industry [...]

Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize?

admin — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:20:01 +0000

An anonymous reader writes “With IT and Data Center consolidation seemingly happening everywhere our small shop is about to receive a corporate mandate to follow suit and preferably accomplish this via virtualization. I’ve had success with virtualizing low load web servers and other assets but the larger project does intimidate me a little. So I’m [...]