Man, talk about maturing early. ASUS'
Eee Box just
hit the shelves here in America a few months back, and now the company is already pushing out a pair of successors. Both the Eee Box B204 and B206 retain the same overall design and
processor (1.6GHz Intel Atom N270), but you will find a 256MB ATI Radeon HD 3400 GPU to complement the 1GB of RAM, 160GB SATA II hard drive, multicard reader, 802.11n WiFi, Windows XP Home, 10GB of online Eee Storage, gigabit Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, DVI connector and the freshly added HDMI socket. The B204 trumps the B206 (weird, right?) with the inclusion of Bluetooth and a built-in battery that acts as a UPS in case of power failure. We've already seen
just how decently the B202 could handle 1080p playback; it's just that much easier with a dedicated HDMI port. As is par for the course with ASUS, there's nary a mention of price / availability.
Filed under: Desktops, Media PCs
ASUS Eee Box B204 / B206 grows an HDMI port, handles high-def material originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Look, we're not going to go and get all sappy about Logitech shipping it's billionth mouse. After all, we still prefer our fingers for pointing and keyboards for quick navigation around the ol' computer. Still, a claim of one billion served is always notable, be it computer peripherals or hamburgers. Logitech's very first mouse was the Logitech P4 introduced in 1982. For the very first mouse ever, you'll have to contact Douglas Engelbart, its inventor. Or just click on over the break for pics of the P2 and Engelbarts original toothless sawblade.
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Logitech serves one-billionth mouse originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments If you were a bit taken aback by the £40 ($59) monthly tariff
required to take the
G1 home for free, apparently you weren't alone. T-Mobile has hacked that requirement down to £30 ($44) per month, and while the carrier itself has said that it's not a reaction to poor sales, industry analysts are saying otherwise. In fact, a company spokesperson even states that it has chosen to "offer the device free with a £30 contract to make the pricing more competitive in light of recent device launches," even though it is "well on track to achieve [its] sales forecasts." Whatever the agenda, we're all about getting phones into hands for less, so three cheers all around. Except for you early adopters... bummer, eh?
[Via
Pocket-lint]
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T-Mobile lowers price of G1 admission in the UK to better compete originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments RED's "
big change" announcement is out. The good news: no more waiting. Unfortunately, that's about it --
still no DSMC configuration for the general consumer. The rest of the news is targeted at professional film makers which, really should be expected if only these lustful hearts could be contained. With Jannard's team recently overcoming some sensor and electronics limitations, the specs and prices for the Scarlet and EPIC systems have been juggled resulting in a new, stretched delivery schedule. Judging by reactions in the RED USER forums, the changes are welcome if only vaguely understood for a system that only exists on paper (outside of
RED ONE) for the time being. Now go ahead and hit the read link for the specifics of what changed -- and with 1,048,576 possible configurations to this modular camera system, you'd better bring help.
Update: After reviewing the 1 million configs, we did find something noteworthy: the
previously TBD price of the 2/3-inch 8x fixed zoom 3K Scarlet is now priced at $3,750 when it ships as a "complete kit" with brain and lens sometime in the Fall of 2009. It looks like it should also be compatible with lenses from Canon and Nikon via an optional interchangeable lens mount. As previously announced, the "brain" alone costs $2,500. That officially puts RED within fighting distance of the 1080p-capable
Canon EOS 5D Mark II for the prosumer's dollar. Relevant components pictured after the break.
[Thanks, Ben]
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RED's 'big change' announcement is actually kind of big (updated) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
Just in case you thought 3D was only for Thursday night NFL games and NBA playoff matchups, Fox Sports is broadcasting the first college football game in the format January 8. CEO David Hill dropped the info during the 3D Entertainment Summit, acknowledging plans to bring the 3D feed to CES (finally, we won't have to miss the big game this year -- like we'd ever watch an SD feed stretched on cheap hotel plasmas) and select movie theaters, but balked at pushing technology forward. Citing costs absorbed by broadcasters in switching to high definition, he's looking towards consumer electronics manufacturers to turn over HDTV profits and start another round of upgrades for early adopters. While they argue over who picks up the check we don't expect more than a few demos here or there, but with Panasonic, LG and others already taking the baton it's just a matter of time, maybe when ESPN takes over things full time in 2011?
Filed under: CES, HDTV, Home Entertainment
BCS Championship game live 3D broadcast coming to CES, movie theaters originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 06:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
When SED development hit the brakes a few years ago, OLED technology quickly stepped in to fill the emptiness felt by our fickle hearts' desire for the blackest of blacks. Up until now, prototype OLED panels have been limited to a max size of about 40-inches. But these won't be available for consumers until 2010 or so. For now, we're "stuck with" Sony's little 11-inch XEL-1 if anyone actually wants to purchase an OLED TV for their living room kitchen. Samsung's vice president of flat panel development, HS Kim, says that Sammy "may demonstrate" a 50-inch OLED TV at CES in January but quickly tempers any enthusiasm with a crushing blow of reality,
"I'm sure that if we marketed such a set at ten times the price of current LCD TVs, which is what it would be now, no-one would buy it."
Kim then shifts into sales-mode by pointing out that Samsung's more power-efficient
240Hz LCDs and Plasmas with highly-reflective black panels and LED edge-lighting are quickly cutting into any advantage offered by OLEDs -- including thinness if you factor in the additional electronics you'd have to slap onto the back of those 3-mm thick OLED panels to create a TV. Of course, manufacturers can also dump all that tech into a display-side box much like Sony does with it's XEL-1, but hey, he's on a roll. When the interview with
What Hi-Fi ended, Kim presumably kicked a puppy just to drive his points home.
[Via
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Samsung teases with 50-inch OLED TV for CES, scolds us for caring originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Step aside
NetFlix, looks like Amazon is
finally ready to crash your HD streaming party. According to one reader, the "Available in High Definition" menu pick just appeared under his TiVo's
Amazon Video on Demand menu. Nothing happens when he clicks it but we imagine that might get sorted by the time the sun comes back around the globe. Anyone else seeing this?
[Thanks, Rich]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Amazon ready to begin HD streaming to TiVo? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments To anyone even remotely familiar with Nokia's history, this
tidbit won't come as
a surprise at all. In fact, we've been hearing "Linux" and "Nokia" in the same sentence
for years. At Nokia World in Barcelona -- the same place where the almighty
N97 (pictured) was unveiled -- Ukko Lappalainen, vice president at Nokia's markets unit, informed
Reuters that "in the longer perspective, Linux will become a serious alternative for our high-end phones." Potentially more interesting was his followup line: "I don't see anything in Android which would make it better than Linux
maemo." Quite frankly, we'd be entirely more interested if this was some revolutionary epiphany, but it's basically just more of the same song and dance. Now, if an N98 pops out next month with a freakishly awesome and nimble mobile variant of Ubuntu, well -- that's a horse of a different color.
[Via
LinuxDevices]
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Nokia could give Linux a spin in high-end mobiles originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Seriously, how many spare Xbox 360s does
Benjamin Heckendorn have laying around? By our count, this is the
third instance where the modder extraordinaire has
shoved Microsoft's latest console into something that's theoretically playable on one's lap, and obviously, this one is the best one evar. Dubbed the Xbox 360 Portable, the unit is said to weigh almost as much as his sister's cat, and it differs from most other on-the-go 360s by featuring a removable standard Xbox 360 hard drive, two accessible memory card slots, no keyboard (use the
chatpad!), an internal WiFi module and beveled edges for extra safety. We'd ask what crazy mod he's planning with all the free time coming up over the holiday break, but honestly, we'd prefer to be surprised.
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Ben Heck outdoes himself with Xbox 360 Portable originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments NewSight decided just
removing the need for silly glasses wasn't good enough, showing off the first
3D LED-based display. Each LED is arranged at a pitch of 6mm, similar to current LCD 3D technology, so it can display the same content that's been
popping up as of late. The 180-inch 3D LED Video Wall is capable of combining with three others to form a 360-inch screen, with a 20,000 hour warranty period on its LEDs and NewSight's digital signage background, we can imagine
watching a game or being hounded by eerily-realistic Black Friday ads very soon.
Filed under: Displays, HDTV
NewSight 180-inch 3D Video Wall is first with LEDs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
It'd already been known that HTC got a little help from the boys and girls at San Fran-based One & Co in designing its beautiful, WinMo-defying TouchFLO 3D user interface along with the Touch Diamond on which it premiered; apparently, HTC likes the result so much that it's snapping the privately-held firm right off the market. One & Co's expertise certainly isn't limited to phones -- its clients span from Coca-Cola to Adidas, Dell, and Palm -- and interestingly, HTC has decided that the move won't spell the end of the design consultancy, so if you were hoping to get your hands on an HTC-designed K2 snowboard, you might just have a shot. We're told that the injection of fresh thought that found its way into the Diamond will ultimately filter its way through HTC's entire lineup, which we're taking to mean Android- and WinMo-based devices alike -- and sorry, G1, but if this means that we can eventually land a Google-powered set with a giant display and some glossy facets on its rear, you know you're getting eBayed right quick.
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
HTC acquires design firm One & Co originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments It's been on sale for
a couple days now (at least
in Shanghai), so it had to happen eventually -- you're witnessing the first tentative breaths of a Canon
EOS 5D Mark II as it leaves the box. So many manuals to ignore! So many useless composite video cables and driver CDs to fill your drawers! So much bubble wrap to spend intimate moments with! It all goes down at the read link, kids.
[Thanks, Mikha]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Canon EOS 5D Mark II unboxed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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