Look, we're not going to speculate on what Sony has coming on January 9th. Let's just say that it wouldn't be totally surprising to see some
weird, long netbook. Okay? Okay.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Sony teaser site says "revolutionary new VAIO" coming January 9th originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Not that the whole using-cellphones-for-disease-detection is
completely fresh, but the latest handset hack for medical purposes is still mighty impressive. UCLA researcher Dr. Aydogan Ozcan has essentially converted a standard cellphone into a portable blood tester of sorts, which is capable of detecting HIV, malaria and various other illnesses. Put as simply as possible, the device works by analyzing blood cells that are placed on an integrated off-the-shelf camera sensor and lit up with a filtered light source. Said light source exposes unique qualities of the cells, and from there, the doc's homegrown software interprets the data and determines what's what. So, has anyone given this guy the main line to
NTT DoCoMo, or what?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Cellphone hacked to analyze blood, detect diseases on the spot originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments NVIDIA's Quadro FX 4800 might not be nearly the beast that the
5800 is, but it'll only run you an arm and three-quarters of a leg versus every limb you've got. The GPU gurus over at
HotHardware were able to grab hold of the 1.5GB monster, complete with a GT200 graphics processor and a sticker price around half of that shown on the aforesaid 5800 ($3,499). The board features a 602MHz GPU clock speed, 192 stream processors, an 800MHz GDDR3 clock speed, 384-bit memory controller and a PCI Express 2.0 x16 connector. So, how does the $1,999 workhorse stack up? Hit the read link for the full report, but the gist of it is this: it's a stellar piece, but ATI's FirePro V8700 was found to provide "similar performance (and in some cases, more) with a roughly 25% lower price." Choices, choices.
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NVIDIA delivers 1.5GB QuadroFX 4800 workstation graphics card originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments We greeted the promising
Pasen REI-16 with lots of skepticism, and truthfully, this thing still has some work to do to shake the dreadful shackles of the Pasen brand that we've always known. However, the video hosted up after the break does a fairly awesome job of proving that the firm's new owners are serious about producing quality kit. The unit demonstrated is described as an "almost final sample," and so far, we're really digging the interface. Everything looks satisfactorily intuitive, and on the real, we actually caught a whiff of envy watching those thumbs go to town. Don't let us down, Pasen -- we
think you've got a winner on your hands here.
[Via
B4Tech Blog]
Continue reading Pasen's REI-16 PMP gets examined on video
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Pasen's REI-16 PMP gets examined on video originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments If Line 6's
POD Studios just weren't down your alley, Lexicon's hoping to suit your fancy with its new line of I∙ONIX Desktop Recording Interfaces. The USB-enabled I∙ONIX U22, U42S, and U82S were designed to fill the obligatory void between your keyboard and monitor, and each one features dbx microphone preamps on all analog inputs. The U22 can record two channels simultaneously and includes a pair of analog combi-jack mic / line inputs, two TRS balanced line outputs, a Hi-Z instrument input, a 0.25-inch headphone output and MIDI I/O; the U42S and U82S include four and eight analog combi-jack mic / line inputs (respectively), S/PDIF I/O, two instrument inputs, and two 0.25-inch headphone outputs. Full specs for each box are listed in the read link, though -- strangely enough -- prices are not.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Portable Audio
Lexicon announces I∙ONIX line of USB desktop recording interfaces originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments LaCie's newest Ethernet Disk isn't for the faint of heart... nor for those with just a few files to backup. Oh no -- this one's for the storage
professional. Housed in a 1U rack-mountable enclosure, the NAS device can hold up to 6TB of data and can support up to 100 users on Mac, Windows or Linux platforms. Also of note, it functions just fine with Apple's Time Machine, which is more than Cupertino's own
AirPort Disk can say (
maybe). It's available this very moment in 2TB, 4TB and 6TB capacities starting at $749.99.
[Via
Slashgear]
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LaCie 1U rack-mountable Ethernet Disk works with Time Machine originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 06:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
HP was pretty jazzed about delivering the first multitouch "consumer" convertible tablet, but in Laptop Mag's point of view, that highly touted feature could use a bit of TLC. In fact, critics were pretty hard on the machine overall due to the multitouch not being "fast or responsive enough," but considering the $300 premium, we can't say such criticism is unjustified. Performance wise, everything was on par, and battery life was found to be respectable enough; at the end of the day, though, it only managed to score three out of five stars and couldn't elicit the type of praise that makes you want to run out and pick one up on the double. However, if HP manages to improve the touch experience, we could be looking at a winner in the tablet world.
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HP TouchSmart tx2z reviewed: multitouch could use some work originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 04:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Dell VP of Communities and Conversations Bob Pearson is ragging on Apple for its MacBook "Greenest Family of Notebooks" ads. In a post titled "The Real Meaning of Being Green," Pearson accuses Apple of not discussing
environmental issues, making inaccurate claims and stating no goals, while touting Dell's energy efficient Latitude E-series and use of PVC / BFR-free components. Of course, the PC maker has had its fair share of eco-unfriendly practices over the years, including accusations from the ever-fickle
Greenpeace last month that the company has withdrawn from its commitment to stop using PVC / BFR in its computers by the end of 2009 -- but why let little details get in the way of a good schoolyard fight?
Filed under: Laptops
Dell VP criticizes Apple's 'green' initiatives, pot and kettle laugh in unison originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments We're not sure if this is meant to prove that texting on Samsung's line of handsets is remarkably quick or if the ten individuals selected to text quickly whilst skydiving are just amazing multitaskers, but either way, the exercise has been executed. Samsung Mobile rounded up ten skydivers and equipped them with a
Propel,
Alias,
Gravity,
Rant or
Messager in an attempt to set the "Guinness World Record for fastest test messaging while skydiving." The crew took a total of two jumps and landed safely each time, and now the Guinness team is breaking down the video to see if an award is in order. Check the read link for more images and a vid, but don't bother looking for an application to get on the 2009 team.
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Samsung attempts to set world record for fastest texting while skydiving originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Good thing Netflix / Roku got those
finicky quality issues
ironed out, as the latest firmware update is all about clarity. Version 1.5, which is evidently being pushed out in waves, is allowing individuals to stream high-def
Netflix content. So, for those of you lucky enough to have the new firmware already, how do things look and sound? Are you pleased? Not really? Speak up below!
[Thanks,
TheManTheyCallJayne]
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Roku v1.5 firmware update brings HD Netflix streaming originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments
Rumors of a new Mac mini or
iMac have been floated (and denied) for a while now, but one ferocious investigator's feasted his eyes on a few pieces of rather telling evidence recently. A poster on the InsanelyMac forums found some code in his new MacBook which referred to "iMac9,1 and Macmini3,1" which would seem to indicate that a newer version -- current iMacs and Mac minis are marked iMac8,1 and Macmini2,1 -- if both products are on the horizon. The new identifiers also list both as having "CFG_MCP7" chipsets -- the same NIVIDIA set used in the
new Macbooks (current minis have Intel GMA 950 chipsets while iMacs have NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS GPUs). So... we'll see you at Macworld, then?
[Via
CNET]
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New iMac, Mac mini looking more probable after minute discovery originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments T-Mobile and HTC are clearly both pretty committed to Android -- and cheers to that, may we add -- but the real question is: is the "G" series a franchise or a one-hit wonder? And if it's a franchise, just how soon might we see a G2? Logic would suggest that T-Mobile would want to give the
G1 a little breathing room before piling on cousins that risk cannibalizing market share, but
Cell Phone Signal is claiming we'll see the G2 next month, and what's more, the spec sheet reads like a dream: 5-megapixel autofocus primary cam with VGA secondary cam for video calling, full touchscreen, and WiFi -- in other words, something like the "Touch HD with Android" that everyone had been hoping for. Come on now, video calling? Seriously?
It gets juicier, though.
Boy Genius Report has an unconfirmed follow-up rumor citing a tipster that
Cell Phone Signal's spec sheet is basically accurate, but that the launch date's been pushed back to April. The tipster goes on to say that the device won't be exclusive to T-Mobile and will be sold elsewhere around the world -- though not under the G series branding -- and it'll lack a QWERTY keyboard but maintain the trackball we all know and love / hate from the G1. Oh, and get this: they claim there's already a G3 in the works, too. Any way you slice it, there are bound to be plenty of Android devices launching around the globe in '09, but if this turns out to be even remotely accurate, is it really the right way for T-Mobile to be going about its business?
Read - Original sketchy G2 rumor
Read - Additional sketchy information
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Will there or won't there be a T-Mobile G2 in the near future? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Here's a fun game that you can play at home: what comes between "
Studio XPS 13" and "
Studio 15"? If you guessed "Studio 14," you can count just about as well as those Dell marketing types. Granted, granularity has always been sort of a thing with Dell, so we can't really harsh on them too much for giving us more options -- though this laptop has only popped up at Dell Malaysia so far, so perhaps we'll be spared the distinction (unlikely). For 3,599 RM (that's "Malaysian ringgits," about $1,038 of our boringly "US dollars") you can score a Core 2 Duo T8100 2.10GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, X3100 integrated graphics, 250GB HDD and a 14.1-inch LED-backlit 1280 x 800 display. Those magical media playback controls to the right of the keyboard? Those come free.
[Thanks, Clinton T.]
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Dell Malaysia nabs a Studio 14 laptop before the rest of us originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments The Mimo UM series USB monitors have been on
our radar for
a while now, so we were excited to get our hands on one and put it through the paces. The company sent us the base model UM-710, which sports the same 7-inch, 800 x 480 display as the rest of the line. Also available are the UM-730, which includes a webcam and a mic for, and the UM-740, a touchscreen variation of the 730. Read on for our brief impressions after spending a few days with the mini-display.
[Special thanks to
The Gadgeteers for the display]
Continue reading Nanovision Mimo UM-710 hands-on and impressions
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Nanovision Mimo UM-710 hands-on and impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 18:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments With all the planning and rushing around, we thought we wouldn't get a chance to get a podcast out this week. Luckily, we had an amazing and candid time with readers during our Q&A at the
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Engadget Podcast 122 - 12.20.2008: NYC reader meetup Q&A originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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