Vulkano Flow now available, does 480p placeshifting for under a hundred bucks

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/10/vulkano-flow-now-available-does-480p-placeshifting-for-under-a/

Monsoon has announced the "general availability" of a new placeshifting box, the Vulkano Flow. As we learned during CES, this box has a $99 price tag and trims last year's Vulkano to just the placeshifting essentials. It's most similar to the Slingbox Solo in that it will accept HD inputs but can only stream video at a max 720x480 resolution, which could be passable watching on a PC with a small screen or one of the mobile apps (iOS, Blackberry, Android, $12.99/ea.) There are a few hands-ons and reviews out already, with ZatzNotFunny noting a few tweaks were still necessary to get things running while The Gadgeteer has a bevy of screenshots for you to check out the UI. Monsoon's other new box, the Blast, is still launching in "the near future," which builds on the Flow's specs (detailed after the break) with DVR recording capability and HDMI output for $199.

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LG shows off 47-inch transparent IPS LCD with multitouch and Full HD resolution (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/11/lg-shows-off-47-inch-transparent-ips-lcd-with-multitouch-and-ful/

Where Samsung leads, LG inevitably follows (and vice versa, of course). The Korean electronic arms race has now heated up by an extra few degrees with LG's demo of a crazy new 47-inch display that packs in everything a geek could want: IPS technology, 1080p resolution, multitouch, and some good old transparency... just because. This so-called Window Display is sadly intended for advertisers and other digital signage proprietors, meaning that even if it wasn't still at the concept stage, it likely wouldn't be populating living rooms anyway. Ah well, so long as LG makes sure John Anderton and the precrime unit get one, we'll be happy. Video for the rest of us after the break.

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Stealth unveils the LPC-670 mini-PC: small in size, vast in price

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/09/stealth-unveils-the-lpc-670-mini-pc-small-in-size-vast-in-pric/

Stealth has been in the compact computing game for some time, and the company has just rolled out its most powerful pint-sized PC to date, the LPC-670. Packing Intel's Arrandale Core i5-520M, Core i5-580M, or Core i7-620M silicon, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, a DVD or Blu-ray burner, a max 750GB 2.5-inch HDD or 128GB SSD, optional 802.11g WiFi, gigabit Ethernet, HDMI and DVI connections, Stealth's new mini-PC has the brawn of much bigger machines. The price of such lilliputian luxury? An account-emptying $1650, and that's just for the base model -- check the right option boxes and the final tally will run you over three grand. That should ensure the customer base will be just like the machine itself... tiny. Press release is after the break.

Gallery: Stealth LPC-670 Mini-PC

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YouTube Adds Live Streaming Channel for Instant, Interactive Viewing [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5790347/youtube-adds-live-streaming-channel

While YouTube mostly serves up pre-uploaded videos for on demand viewing, they've streamed a few live events in the past, and today they started making it a regular occurrence. If you head to YouTube's new Live channel, you'll see a list of upcoming events that you can watch live, and chat with other YouTube users watching with you. Right now, they're rolling it out gradually, but quite a few popular channels are already streaming, like Hak5, Beyond The Trailer, and Geek Beat TV (pictured above). Head over to the Live channel to check out the upcoming events, and check out YouTube's blog post for more info.

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Create Your Own Dvorak Keyboard [Hacks]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/#!5790451/create-your-own-dvorak-keyboard

Have you ever wondered why the keyboard you are using right now has the characters laid out in that particular order? The standard keyboard layout is called the Qwerty layout, and was designed around 1875. But what if you wanted to try a more efficient layout? The Dvorak keyboard layout was invented just for that reason.

Instead of buying a new keyboard to try out this newer layout, why not just hack an old keyboard so that they keys use the Dvorak layout?

BiOzZ, an intrepid user over at the Hack a day forums, has disassembled an old Kensington keyboard, washed the parts, and then re-assembled it using the new key mappings.

Everything was relatively easy to change over, with the exception that some of the keys had backwards connections that required a 90 degree change to the orientation of the key. With a little correction using a label maker, they keys are now very usable.

The final step is telling your OS to use the Dvorak layout rather than the standard Qwerty layout that you are using right now.

Have you attempted to make the change to a Dvorak keyboard layout? Let us know how it went in the comments!

Qwerty to Dvorak Keyboard Conversion via Hack a day Forums

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