Sure, you can buy compact cameras in dozens of garish and offensive colors, but what if you’re the sort who craves a different garish and offensive color every day of the week? You need the $150 Pentax RS1000, a 14.1 megapixel shooter with a 4x optical zoom, 720p video recording, and faceplate that’s just four screws away from getting lost. Using the Personal Skin Designer app you can craft your own custom cover (the first one is free), meaning you could be just a few clicks away from having that brick of a camera look like a real brick

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Pentax announces customizable cameras, faceplate-swapping RS1000 and Lego-loving NB1000

Wow, a mutant virus? This analogy may sound like a ringing bell for another cat fight on the playground, but Acer founder and retired chairman Stan Shih is actually semi-praising Apple here

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CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Acer founder characterizes Apple as a mutant virus

Apple definitely surprised us this morning by relaxing its restrictions on third-party iOS development tools and publishing its app review guidelines, but that’s nothing compared to the almost shockingly blunt tone of the guidelines themselves. Grab the PDF for yourselves at the source link now and check out the highlights after the break. Continue reading Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines: ‘we don’t need any more fart apps’ Apple’s App Store Review Guidelines: ‘we don’t need any more fart apps’ originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:58:00 EDT

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In a surprising announcement—and after receiving a mountain of criticism , —Apple has announced that they “are relaxing all restrictions on the development tools used to create iOS apps” and “publishing app review guidelines.” More

Hands up if you’ve ever heard of BridgeCo. No? Us neither, but that’s about to change following a CNBC report detailing the company’s relationship with Apple

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Is BridgeCo the foundation for ‘Made for AirPlay’ Apple accessories?

‘Search engine optimisation’ experts are scrambling to figure out what Google’s new system will do to their work – but the effect on advertisers might not be trivial either Superfast! Photo by ehatch10s on Flickr. Some rights reserved Is SEO – the dark art of “search engine optimisation”, which usually means “Google search optimisation” – doomed following the introduction and continuing rollout of Google Instant on the planet’s most-used search engine

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What will Google Instant do to ‘SEO’ – and to its own AdWords system?

If somehow your were able to choke up the FirePro V8800 and its 2GB of graphics buffer — traveling across an autobahn-wide 147.2GBps interface — here’s the card for you. ATI has just announced the V9800, which doubles its predecessor’s memory allowance to a mighty 4GB of GDDR5, but otherwise looks an almost identical beast

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ATI FirePro V9800 runs out of ideas, shoots up with 4GB of GDDR5 and six mini DisplayPorts

Looks like our pals at Research In Motion are taking the company name literally this week — they’ve got a pair of patent applications target ads to automobiles and pedestrians on the street by dynamically changing their information density. By taking a page out of Google’s book and measuring the relative position of GPS-equipped phones (or using traditional sensors should that fail), RIM wants to create digital billboards that automatically add details the slower traffic gets. In one example, a “Road House Restaurant” could display only the name and exit number of the joint in giant letters when traffic moves quickly, but pitch that delectable pecan pie more thoroughly when it’s stop and go — but RIM’s thinking a bit further than that, suggesting that when vehicles are particularly slow, you could pull out your phone and get a coupon by photographing a projected QR code .

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RIM tries to patent billboards that adjust to roadside traffic

So let’s see, how long has iOS 4.1 been out in the open for public consumption ? We make it less than 24 hours, yet already some earnest jail busters have managed to liberate it from Apple’s control freak clutches

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iOS 4.1 jailbreak on the way after bootrom exploit discovery

LaCie’s bringing its monkey out to play again today, announcing a USB 3.0 version of the Rikiki and a new Minimus portable hard drive. Both come in slick aluminum enclosures, with the Rikiki looking unchanged from its predecessor, but of course inside they pack the extra vroom vroom of the latest USB spec. Unlike Iomega , LaCie isn’t shy about price premiums here, as the Rikiki USB 3.0 model costs $100 for 500GB (versus $85 for the 2.0 SKU) and the Minimus offers a terabyte in exchange for $130.

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LaCie embraces USB 3.0 with world’s smallest hug, ‘world’s smallest’ HDDs