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LG VL600 LTE / CDMA modem for Verizon in the wild?

Joe — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:27:20 +0000

You might remember that an LTE modem for Verizon passed FCC muster not long ago — now, it seems we’re getting our first glimpse of it. As is usually the case with these early devices on next-gen networks, this USB stick doesn’t look quite as svelte as we’d probably like it to be, but we have little doubt that they’ll get progressively thinner and sexier over the course of a year or three.

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Panasonic gearing up to reveal consumer-level 3D camcorder?

Joe — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:43:09 +0000

You won’t be coloring us shocked if this plays out exactly as rumored, but word on the street has it that Panasonic will be busting out a consumer-level 3D camcorder as early as next week. ‘Course, this is a company that already has a built-to-order 3D camcorder available to those with just over 20 large in need of a new home, and with the 3D push happening at a breakneck pace, it was just a matter of time before one of the big boys came along and served up an option for the Average Joe / Jane

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Aegis Bio grows to 640GB of fingerprint-protected storage

Joe — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:16:57 +0000

Apricorn specializes in the fine art of making people believe their data is worth stealing and charging them for the privilege of protecting it . Its Aegis Bio range has now been expanded, both in number and in capacity, as the former ceiling of 250GB has been lifted with the introduction of 320GB, 500GB and 640GB variants. The 2.5-inch external disk validates user identity with that handy fingerprint scanner on top before allowing access to the otherwise 128-bit encrypted precious stuff within it.

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Inventec phasing out Kohjinsha brand, opting for Onkyo instead

Joe — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:25:50 +0000

It may not matter to you Yanks, but for many regions of Asia, this news may just ruin some weekends. Okay, so maybe “ruin” is a stretch, but if you suddenly stop seeing a new flow of Kohjinsha gear at your local computer market, here’s why: owner Inventec is killing the brand

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Cisco unveils Cius Android tablet with HD video capabilities

Joe — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:24:09 +0000

Cisco ’s just announced a business-aimed Android tablet , and it’s calling it the Cius. The tablet will offer HD video streaming, real-time video, multi-party conferencing, plus all the regular tablet functions like messaging, email, and browsing.

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Motorola Droid 2 stars in its first video, touts 1GHz CPU and 512MB of RAM

Joe — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 06:32:34 +0000

It was inevitable, really, that a phone as widely leaked as the Droid 2 would end up caught on video. Doing the honors for us today are Android and Me , who’ve compared the new Droid to the classic variant . Funnily enough, they didn’t find too much deviation from Motorola, describing the two handsets as “virtually identical,” with the major physical change being the replacement of the previous keyboard’s navigation pad with arrow buttons

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Steampunk Arduino Watch tells time, plays Breakout, thrills the world

Joe — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:45:46 +0000

We’ve seen no shortage of homegrown watches in our lifetime, and the quantity of Arduino -based gadgetry that graces the web each day might just outnumber the quantity of humans incensed by BP right now. But so far as we can tell, this is the first instance we’ve seen of the two combining in holy matrimony

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ASUS hops on the AMD train with Geode-based Eee PC 1201K

Joe — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:31:35 +0000

AMD has picked up a fair bit of ground in the netbook space lately with support from the likes of HP and Acer , and it looks like it’s now added yet another big partner — ASUS is relying on some AMD hardware for its just-announced Eee PC 1201K netbook. That’s an AMD Geode NX 1750 processor backed up by a SiS 741GX/966L chipset, to be specific, which is complemented by some mostly ordinary specs otherwise, including a 1GB of RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a 0.3-megapixel webcam, a built-in memory card reader and, somewhat interestingly in light of today’s news , Windows XP Home for an OS.

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Samsung shocks the pico projector world with SP-H03

Joe — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:35:15 +0000

Samsung ’s just rolled out its first ever pico projector , the SP-H03. The little thing boasts 1GB of internal memory, a microSD slot, and projects WVGA video at 30 lumens, a 1 watt speaker, and supports both open and proprietary codecs.

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Japan proposes holographic 3D broadcasts for 2022 World Cup

Joe — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:06:02 +0000

While we’re limited to merely 3DTV depictions of the 2010 World Cup , Japan is letting its freak flag fly in a proposal to host the 2022 matches with a concept envisioning matches captured by 200 HD cameras, then projected as fully 3D images onto real fields in other countries. Just in case technology hasn’t advanced that far in the next decade plus, there’s also the possibility of positioning mics underneath the playing surface to catch every sound, with all of this powered by solar panels plus the kinetic energy created by a stadium full of fans

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