Samsung launches $250 Exynos 5-based Arndale community board for app developers

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/26/samsung-launches-arndale-community-board/

If you're looking to create that perfect multi-threaded, NFC, GPS-based OpenCL app (and who isn't?), but found your development board options too limited, Samsung has good news. It's just launched the Arndale community development board around its Exynos 5 Dual SoC, with the ARM Cortex-A15 dual-core CPU and ARM Mali T604 GPU. Those specs give the board "an order of magnitude lift in performance" from the last model and full profile OpenCL capability, according to Samsung, on top of NFC, GPS and camera sensor features. That'll let developers go to town on new games, security and multimedia apps next month for $250 -- if that's you, check the PR after the break or coverage below.

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S amsung launches $250 Exynos 5-based Arndale community board for app developers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pi Crust Is a DIY Breakout Board to Expand Interfacing Options on Your Raspberry Pi

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5954810/pi-crust-is-a-diy-breakout-board-to-expand-interfacing-options-on-your-raspberry-pi

The Raspberry Pi is a great little cheap computer, but it doesn't have a lot of interfacing options to connect external peripherals. If you want a low-footprint solution that looks great sitting on the Raspberry Pi itself, DIYer Joe Walnes outlines how to make the "Pi Crust" breakout board.

Walnes' design is pretty simple and sits inside the surface area of the Raspberry Pi itself. It adds a wide variety of i/o options provided you're willing to do a little soldering. You order a custom PCB (which Walnes provides the layout file for), and a few other parts amounting to less than $20. Once you've got it running, the Pi Crust works with any low-level peripheral, which means you can expand your DIY electronics projects beyond the standard i/o of the Raspberry Pi. Head over to the Pi Crust main page for a list of parts and directions.

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LG's 84-inch 4K TV goes on sale in the US for $19,999, home mortgage optional

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/26/lg-84-inch-4k-tv-goes-on-sale-in-the-us-for-19999/

Sony might have beaten LG to the punch in the 84-inch 4K TV wars with its XBR-84X900 pre-orders, but you've got to be on the field to win -- and the first to show up for battle is LG's 84LM9600, which is officially on sale and in stores as of today. Anyone who can find a retailer carrying the Ultra High-Definition LCD can drop $19,999 to get what will undoubtedly be the centerpiece of the room, even if there's hardly any content to fully exploit those six million extra pixels. LG does have a $5,000 price advantage over the Sony 4K set shipping next month, although we won't kid ourselves here. Anyone who can see themselves spending five digits on bleeding-edge TV technology is either wealthy enough not to mind or busy explaining to the family why home refinancing is totally worth it.

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LG's 84-inch 4K TV goes on sale in the US for $19,999, home mortgage optional originally appeared on Engadget! on Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Open webOS-powered HDTVs said to be on the way from... LG?

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/25/open-webos-lg-connected-tv/

If you were wondering what was next for webOS now that it's gone all open source on us, webOS Nation chimes in with word that Gram is working with LG to bring it to connected HDTVs. Several names from the HP / Gram team are dropped as being involved in the effort, which reportedly was under way even before HP revealed it would spin the project off as an independent. Of course, when we actually saw Open webOS 1.0 it was already stretching to fill the space of an HP TouchSmart computer screen (project architect Steve Winston specifically mentioned hotel kiosks as a possibility, a market LG is all over) so it makes sense that larger displays have been a target. With LG supposedly both looking to replace its existing NetCast smart TV platform and unhappy with Google TV based on its rate of adoption and Google's terms, engineers have been working to port the software to its dual-core L9 chipset. In the past LG has pursued voice and motion control, the aforementioned Google TV integration and even Plex support to make its smart TVs more appealing, and has founded the Smart TV Alliance for cross platform apps. We only have to wait until CES 2013 to see if webOS is next up to power its efforts, stay tuned.

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Open webOS-powered HDTVs said to be on the way from... LG? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 02:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sharp announces first TVs with Moth-Eye technology: the AQUOS XL series

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/25/sharp-moth-eye-AQUOS-XL-TVs/

Sharp may look like it's in trouble, but that's not stopping it bringing new displays to the market, including today's announcement of the AQUOS Quattron 3D XL TV line. Behind the mouthful of acronyms, these LED-backlit LCD panels are the first to feature Sharp's Moth-Eye technology, designed to reduce glare and pump out bright colors, as well as a deep black. The company's 'four primary color' tech is partly responsible for the rich output, which squeezes a yellow sub-pixel in with the standard R, G and B. All the panels run at 1,920 x 1,080, as you'd expect, sport a 10 million to 1 contrast ratio and use five speakers to deliver audio. Prices aren't fixed, but the 46-, 52- and 80-inch models will be released in Japan on December 15th, while the 60- and 70-inch variants will come slightly earlier, on November 30th. You're going to have to be quick on launch day, though -- only 10,000 units are expected to be available in the first month.

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Shar! p announ ces first TVs with Moth-Eye technology: the AQUOS XL series originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 25 Oct 2012 04:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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