Source: http://gizmodo.com/5824044/porsches-compass-watch-makes-me-wish-i-needed-a-compass-more-often
The compass is viewed through mirrors on the compass face and the bottom of the watch half, and it works in both hemispheres. It's also waterproof to 50 feet. No word on the pricing just yet, but expect it to cost about what you paid for your car. [Porsche via uncrate]
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Continue reading Pix-Star FotoConnect HD is a 10-inch digiframe ripe for regifting
Pix-Star FotoConnect HD is a 10-inch digiframe ripe for regifting originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 09:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Vizio Tablet tiptoes into retail, starting at Costco originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lenovo's 7-inch IdeaPad caught by Mr. Blurrycam? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 10:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading LG Thrill 4G up for pre-order today at Radio Shack, ahead of August 7th launch?
LG Thrill 4G up for pre-order today at Radio Shack, ahead of August 7th launch? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Charlie Miller finds MacBook battery security hole, plans to fill with Caulkgun originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/23/lg-promises-55-inch-oled-tv-in-2012-just-in-time-the-next-bak/
LG promises 55-inch OLED TV in 2012, just in time for the next b'ak'tun originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 05:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/22/droid-bionics-secrecy-betrayed-on-amazon-by-simple-dock-listin/
Continue reading Droid Bionic's secrecy betrayed on Amazon, by simple dock listings
Droid Bionic's secrecy betrayed on Amazon, by simple dock listings originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/22/wolfram-launches-open-cdf-format-adds-visual-pizzazz-to-charts/
Continue reading Wolfram launches open CDF format, adds visual pizzazz to charts and graphs
Wolfram launches open CDF format, adds visual pizzazz to charts and graphs originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading IBM rig doesn't look like much, scans 10 billion files in 43 minutes
IBM rig doesn't look like much, scans 10 billion files in 43 minutes originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 03:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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This unprecedented view of the space shuttle Atlantis, appearing like a bean sprout against clouds and city lights, on its way home, was photographed by the Expedition 28 crew of the International Space Station. Airglow over Earth can be seen in the background.
By far, this is the most amazing shot I've ever seen of the shuttle. Absolutely crazy. Now I'm even sadder to see it go. [NASA]
Watch our homage to the video space shuttle program: 30 years of the shuttle in one single launch video
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5823536/a-3000-bike-with-4-wheels-for-the-well-heeled
The Epitaph Cruiser is opulent, if anything. Its powder-coated steel frame is accented with aged-leather. The seat, handlebar covers and insert are all hand-made. The Epitaph also uses a single rear coaster brake to maintain the clean, fixed gear look (though you'll want to avoid long hills). Oh, and it has four wheels— oversized front and rear forks accommodating its custom double alloy rims. The production run is limited to a scant 12 cruisers with each bike retailing for $2950 (hey, exclusivity ain't cheap). No word yet on how you'd change out flats from the twin-mounted tires. [AutumnSphere via Born Rich]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/21/dell-quietly-pulls-the-streak-to-perform-an-update-should-bring/
Dell quietly pulls the Streak to perform an update, might bring it back next month? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Motorola Droid 3 review originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The space shuttle was the most complex machine ever created. Even with all its faults, it was a mighty beast. Combined, the shuttles travelled 513.7 million miles (826.7 million km) in 135 missions. It's an staggering number—we could have visited Jupiter!
As a spacenerd who never saw Saturn V roaring up to the skies, I couldn't imagine a more amazing display of power and engineering prowess more amazing than the launch of the Space Shuttle. Strapped to 1.6 million pounds of liquid fuel and two solid rocket boosters pushing 5,600,000 pounds-force of liftoff thrust, it was a thing of beauty that we will never see again.
For someone who saw the original launch of Columbia as a kid, I'm finding it hard to believe that everything is over just three decades later. If I feel gutted today, I can't even begin to imagine how people working in the program must feel. Still, I'm hopeful that things will get even more exciting in the coming years, hopefully with a mission to Mars and other planets. Until then, I'll watch this video to remind me of the genius of human engineering and the American space program.
Godspeed Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. And thanks for all the fish.
Video edited by Woody Allen Jang on an idea by Jesus Diaz. Additional video editing by Jesse Martinez.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5823364/the-13+inch-mba-burns-the-fastest-2010-macbook-pro
At this point—unless you work in the optical drive industry—why would the 90% of us who don't need professional-grade computing ever choose a Pro over an Air? [Laptop Mag via ElectricPig]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5823395/nasas-official-android-app-makes-me-cry
Judging by the information supplied to me, the next opportunity I have to spy on the ISS is the 28th of July, at 4.21am GMT. I'd rather just catch up on Nasa videos, or take a look at their integrated Twitter stream, if I'm honest. Here's the full list of features:
- Thousands of images from NASA IOTD, APOD and NASAImages.org
- On demand NASA Videos from around the agency
- Current NASA Mission Information
- Launch Information & Countdown clocks
- Current Visible Passes for the International Space Station (ISS)
- ISS and Earth Orbiting Satellite Tracker
- NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency
- News and Features from the NASA topic areas
- Facebook® Connect and Integrated Twitter™ client for easy sharing
- Live Streaming of NASA TV
- NASA TV and What's On Your TV schedules
- Map and links to all of the NASA centers
- Featured content section
Out now for iOS and now Android, it's a free download. [Android Market via The Telegraph]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/21/researchers-use-graphene-to-draw-energy-from-flowing-water-self/
What can't graphene do? The wonder material's been at the heart of a stunning number of technological breakthroughs of late, and now it's adding oil exploration to its long list of achievements. A team of researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered that the flow of good old H2O over a sheet of graphene can generate enough electricity to power "tiny sensors" used in tracking down oil deposits. The gang, led by professor Nikhil Koratkar, was able to suck 85 nanowatts of power out of a slab of graphene measuring .03 by .015 millimeters. The little sensors the researchers speak of are pumped into potential oil wells via a stream of water, and are then put to work sniffing out hydrocarbons indicative of hidden pockets of oil and natural gas. Of course, that doesn't have a whole lot of practical application for your average gadget consumer, but Koraktar sees a future filled with tiny water-powered robots and micro-submarines -- we can dig it.Researchers use graphene to draw energy from flowing water, self-powered micro-robots to follow? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/5823109/5-best-alternatives-to-apples-new-product-lineup/gallery/
The Series 9 is like the MBA, just slightly bigger. Unfortunately that includes the price as well. For $1199— what you'd pay for a 2.38 lb., 11.6" MBA with 4GB of memory and 128GB SSD—you get a 2.31 lb. 11.6" laptop with 2GB of memory and only a 64GB SSD. The other smaller thing about Series 9? Its processing speed: 1.33GHz vs the MBA's 1.6GHz. $1200
In terms of performance for price, the R835 gives you more value. It has a 2.3GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, and 640GB HD, double the available RAM and triple the available standard HD in the last iteration of the MB (before, you know, Apple killed it and all) for $65 less. $835
Sure the Mini isn't technically designed as an HTPC but some of its best work is done as a home theater-serving hockey puck. The Dell Zino does essentially the same job, albeit as two stacked hockey pucks. It's got the same basic stats as the Mini, 2.3GHz processor and 2GB of RAM, but the Zino is double the height in order to make room for the tray-loading CD/DVD/Blu-Ray combo drive. On the other hand, at $300, the Zino is half the Mini's height in money. $300
Thunderbolt has a data transfer speed of 10Gb/s. USB 3.0 has a maximum data transfer speed of 5 Gb/s. It's half but available on things that don't start with Mac. What more do you want? (image courtesy of Maximum PC) $Depends on what it's attached to
The Thunderbolt display's 27" viewing area with 2560-by-1440 LED-backlit resolution and ability to daisy-chain peripherals is just brilliant. But if you don't really give a shit about stringing your hard drives to your monitors (or you only have one of each and are already connected through your computer) then you'll want to check out the Dell UltraSharp U2711. It has a 2560 x 1440 resolution 27" display with 80,000-to-1 contrast ratio. And it's $100 less. $900
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/5823190/7-ways-google-changed-the-internet-forever/gallery/
Here are some of the coolest and most genuinely world-changing things that Google Labs's mad scientists have cooked up through the years.
Google Maps is basically neck-and-neck with Gmail as far as Google's most ubiquitous non-search product. It's the most widely-used map service on the planet, available to 30% of the world's population, and is still expanding and adding features.
Sure it's fun to troll bomb Google Suggest results into suggesting searches like "Did Hitler really perform in nude burlesque shows?" But Eric Schmidt wasn't very far off when he said that "[Google] can more or less know what you're thinking about."
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
Back in 2006, most of us were still emailing things to ourselves if we wanted to access a file on another computer; synchronized online documents were so far ahead of their time that they didn't really catch on for a few years. If Google ever wanted to hipster out on the internet, Google Docs is all the cred it would need. They've been doing the cloud thing since before you even know what it call it, man.
Google Alerts took the old school concept of the newsletter and mailing list and married it to the new school practice ingesting every damn piece of information on the internet. It's an ingenius fusion of online laziness and ambition: We want to know everything that's going on, but we can do without the hassle of scouting out and frequenting the actual sources.
One of the better identifiers of a true nerd is how devastated you were the day you lost your college access to JSTOR and other uber-nerd academic publications. Google Scholar soothed away the nerd pain with a searchable index of freely accessible full text academic papers.
Search-by-image is pretty awesome. It just made its way to Google desktop a month ago, and we're all pretty excited about it making an appearance in WP7 Mango. But Google's been doing it with Google Goggles since late 2009. It's really impressive, and a great example of how Google Labs helped keep Google ahead of the curve.
Sometimes knowing what you're thinking isn't good enough, and Google offers to step in and save you from yourself. Mail Goggles is a sobriety check for your email account that asks you to solve a series of math problems before you're allowed to send a dumbass 4AM message to your boss. It's the simple things, people.
Source: http://gizmodo.com/5823276/go-green-with-the-sprout-biodegradable-watch
These watches are great. They are good-looking, colorful and 80-93% biodegradable. They are made of wonderful materials such as bamboo, organic cotton, mineral crystal lenses, and mercury-free batteries. Sprout has even managed to sell them at a reasonable price. The entry-level model starts at $30, while the top-of-line model climbs to a pricey, but not exorbitant $75. [Sprout via Oh Gizmo]
Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/07/20/dnp-stub-apple-refreshes-macbook-air-with-sandy-bridge-thunderb/
Continue reading Apple refreshes MacBook Air with Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt, and backlit keyboards
Apple refreshes MacBook Air with Sandy Bridge, Thunderbolt, and backlit keyboards originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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