LG uncovers 47-inch 47LG75 LCD TV: LED-backlit and oh-so-thin

from Engadget by Darren Murph

We knew LG was cookin' up a LED-backlit LCD TV behind closed doors, and it's quite the treat to hear that all that work has paid off in the 47LG75. This 47-inch set touts an uber-slim design, oh-so-sexy frame, 1080p support and hidden speakers to boot. Unfortunately, we're not privy to actual specifications just yet, but we are told to expect a "high contrast ratio" to go along with the automatic brightness and color optimizing technologies. We've also got a sneaking suspicion that this beauty won't be one of the sets ringing up for next to nothing on Black Friday, but we certainly hope LG fleshes out a few more details by then, anyway.

 

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Polaroid and Zink develop Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer

from Engadget by Darren Murph

Filed under: Digital Cameras

We'd heard through the grapevine that the Zink portable printer camera would be getting boxed up and sent out to eager customers late this year, but now it seems as though Polaroid has jumped in for a bit of the action. Realistically, you shouldn't be too surprised that the former king of instant photography is syncing up with Zink, and we must say, this whole partnership conjures up some pretty fond memories of shakin' snapshots in tense anticipation as we waited for the scene to develop. Nostalgia aside, the firm's Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer does indeed sport the Zink logo, and sure enough, it produces borderless 2- x 3-inch color prints instantly when fed images from a digicam or cellphone. We don't have a firmed up release date in front of us or anything, but all signs are pointing to soon -- very soon.

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Free Rice -- How many grains did YOU donate?

http://www.freerice.com

more importantly how many hours did you spend? :-)

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The moment of truth

Today in the lunch line I was waiting for a custom tossed salad to be made for the person in front of me and I was surveying the sundry items available to add to my salad.

I decided for health reasons I was definitely getting the haricots verts (fancy french for green beans). Then moments later when it was my turn to name 5 ingredients to go into my salad and was rushed by the salad-tosser-guy i just rattled off avocado, corn, alfalfa, artichokes, and tomatoes. After I got back to my desk and started eating, I noticed I had no green beans. I realized I had gone with "my usual" or what was familiar and safe.

So, in marketing, even if the marketing were so successful to have gotten a product in my consideration set and I had already decided to buy it, even then at the moment of purchase some other distractions may come into play that ultimately defeats the intended purchase.

How does marketing impact the moment of purchase and make one product "win" over another?

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Alienware's Area-51 ALX CF the first to use 45nm processors

from Engadget by Nilay Patel

Well, that didn't take long -- just a few hours after Intel confirmed that those hot new 45nm Penryn processors are shipping, Alienware blasted out a press release announcing the Area-51 ALX CF, the first machine to use the new chips. The QX9650-equipped machines can be ordered overclocked up to 4.0GHz, and Alienware also bumped the graphics to dual CrossFire ATI Radeon HD 3870 cards. All that power won't come cheap, though -- the CF line starts at $5499.

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