It's one thing to have a look at a new user interface
in pictures, but watching someone navigate it on video is just so much more meaningful and soul stirring. Cowon's
S9 Curve isn't due out in South Korea for another five days or so, but it looks like someone with a video camera and a YouTube account completely missed the memo. For a likely limited time, the video just past the break shows off five minutes of admittedly responsive UI interaction, complete with the ability to alter the equalizer preset from the Now Playing screen (what a concept!). Be warned, though -- the first album to pop up is
Mamma Mia!. Terrifying, we know.
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CNET]
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Cowon's S9 Curve gets toyed with on video, UI thoroughly investigated originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Now here's a concept. A
musical shirt with enough transistors to make even the hardest of hardcore nerd blush, and a long-sleeve
garment fashionable enough to make even the world-class design student stop and admire. Mashed into one. The Musical toy piano shirt is that very piece, which was constructed to wow onlookers at the Electronic Textile workshop held this month in Switzerland. Packing removable batteries, speakers and circuitry, the shirt enables the wearer to emit eight different notes from Do to Do, and we hear there's nothing quite as cute as playing a song on yourself. See what we mean in the vid hosted just after the break.
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Wearable toy piano makes music, looks good doing it originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments There's cheating, and then there's out-thinking the room. Georgia Tech's own Justin Needham and Matthew Straub are clearly headed for great things, as their Digitally Assisted Billiards is reason enough to give these guys a degree in our eyes. Using an array of low-end kit -- just an eBox 2300 embedded computer, Logitech webcam, 4- x 3-foot mirror, a VGA projector,
pool table and a few extenders -- the two were able to concoct a system for visually displaying the expected trajectory of all possible shots based on the location of the balls still on the slate. For a much better idea of what we're hinting at, check the demonstration video after the break.
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Digitally Assisted Billiards makes everyone a pool shark originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Dell just dropped the new tiny-tower OptiPlex 160 for businesses and educational markets looking to save space and "go green." This 1.85-inch thick machine packs the usual assortment of ports, and an integrated power supply (no brick!), but unfortunately forgoes the integrated disc drive. The $563 base model incorporates a single-core Intel Atom processor, 80GB HDD, 1GB RAM, integrated video, and Vista Home Basic SP1 -- most of which reminds us of the
Eee Box, other than the extra two Benjamins Dell's asking for. You can also spring for a 64GB SSD and an external DVD-ROM drive, and there will be a dual-core Atom option in 2009. While folks over in Round Rock envision these in the workplace, we certainly wouldn't mind taking one home for a romantic weekend with Ubuntu.
[Thanks, Ivana]
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Dell's OptiPlex 160 'Tiny Desktop Computer' is appropriately named originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments If there's one problem with modern operating systems it's that they're all rather planar. Sure,
OS X,
Vista, and others have some 3D tricks up their sleeves, stacking windows and layering them on cubes and such, but when you get down to business everything's rather more
Flatland than
Lawnmower Man. Apple, at least, has a plan for changing that in its patent application titled "Multidimensional Desktop," unearthed by
MacRumors, describing a way in which depth could be added to your typical virtual desktop. The patent covers dozens of scenarios, including geometric icons representing applications or documents being attached to the side surfaces, possibly replacing the rather tired "File, Edit, etc." menus at the top with positional hotspots on the right. Another example describes how light emanating from one 3D icon, a little sun representing the weather, could illuminate the other icons. It all sounds rather conceptual, but with the amount of detail included here (not to mention the familiar dock at the bottom) it's hard to label this is as just a flight of Cupertino creativity not intended for release.
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Apple bringing its operating system into living 3D? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments It has been a hot minute since we've heard from our pals at
Mouse Computer, but it has apparently ditched those
netbook-esque ways in favor of the other extreme judging by the monstrously potent NEXTGEAR-NOTE M750WX1. The 17-inch goliath touts a 1,920 x 1,200 resolution, Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9300 processor, 4GB of RAM, NVIDIA's GeForce 9800M GTX (1GB), a 120GB SSD, WiFi, a slew of ports and even a Logicool G5 LaserMouse. Too bad the ¥349,000 ($3,769) price tag is on the wrong side of awesome.
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Mouse Computer delivers QX9300-powered NEXTGEAR M750WX1 gaming laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments What's this? A
solid state drive family with prices not hidden deep within telephone menu trees? Yep, OCZ Technology is so sure you'll be unable to resist the speed and agility packed within its Vertex series that it has proudly produced MSRPs to go along with 'em. The 2.5-inch SATA II crew is MLC NAND-based and includes up to 64MB of onboard cache, 200MB/sec read speeds, 160MB/sec write speeds and a 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF). If your current machine could use a little bit of this, you can pick up a 30GB, 60GB, 120GB or 250GB edition right now for $129, $249, $469, and $869, respectively.
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OCZ intros Vertex line of 2.5-inch SATA II SSDs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Whoa, talk about returning from the depths of yesteryear. For those with incredibly good memories (we're talking superhero-level here), you might remember Phoenix Motorcars touting a "truly plug-and-play" vehicle
nearly two years ago to the day. Now, the outfit is back with a partnership with the state of
Hawai'i. In an ambitious press release, the two parties have jointly announced plans to bring "all-electric vehicles and an electric vehicle infrastructure to the island of Maui by 2009." The premise is sound; after all, it doesn't many months of paying $5.29 / gallon for regular (proof after the break) to get everyone on the island to support such an initiative. The real question, however, is will Phoenix Motorcars deliver? Bonus shots to make you envious of whoever will be testing these are also just beyond the break.
Continue reading Phoenix Motorcars bringing all-electric vehicles to Maui by 2009
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Phoenix Motorcars bringing all-electric vehicles to Maui by 2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments See all those little Samsung squares? That's NAND flash memory, 80 gigabytes worth on
Fusion-io's ioDrive. Tweaktown got an exclusive look at the PCIe storage card and came away mightily impressed by its "near nonexistent latency." It's faster than the best SATA II SSD or fastest 15,000RPM drive loaded in an 8 drive RAID config. Put simply, it's the fastest storage device they've ever tested. Tweaktown was so impressed that they proclaim, "Fusion-io has raised the bar so high that once adopted, traditional solutions will be considered legacy products." Mind you, this is enterprise class storage designed for data center servers requiring ultra-fast IO. Still, the only thing preventing you from installing it inside your own 64-bit OS (only) gaming rig is the price: the 80GB ioDrive lists for about $3,000 on up to $14,400 for the 320GB model. Yeah, expensive, but not for your CIO. Eveyone else will have to wait for the consumer model said to be in the works. Hit the read link for all the benchmarks.
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Fusion-io's ioDrive tested: world's fastest storage confirmed originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Still getting by with
PCMCIA, are you? Looking to get into the
potentially crumbling world of
Wireless USB? Well then, step right up! Ratoc is pumping out its very first WUSB kit with the REX-WUSB1, which includes a rather bulky PC Card (with ultra-wideband antenna) and a four-port WUSB hub. Users with Windows XP / Vista-based machines simply plug in the card, load up the drivers and link their favorite USB peripherals to the hub; from there, you can kick back and enjoy the spoils of wireless printing, wireless
cooling and wireless
warming -- two of which really aren't all they're cracked up to be. Anywho, the bundle is expected to go on sale in the Land of the Rising Sun later this month for ¥31,500 ($340).
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
Ratoc introduces Wireless USB kit for your PCMCIA-equipped laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Ever been to a spa and ruminated about the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg? Or maybe you think that aromatherapy, not a gun, is the
real rain that will wash the scum off the streets? Good, Laxman's Innertainment System is for you. The MP3 player features a set of open-eye goggles that display ever-changing colors of the light spectrum. It ships with 4 hours of ambient music laced with nature sounds that you can overwrite with any songs of your choosing. The purpose? Well, according to the vendor, "you will be awash in kaleidoscopic geometric structures while you shift into a more relaxed state of mind." How noble, any more so and they could have named it the Inert-ainment System. Seriously though, for $649 we'd rather be drumming our lips while staring into a spinning pinwheel
for free. Click through for the hypnotic video.
Continue reading Laxman Innertainment System is Yanni approved
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Laxman Innertainment System is Yanni approved originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
Is it possible that shoddy workmanship has once again saved the planet from an
untimely demise? Not really, but this next tale should give our paranoiac readers plenty to mull over regardless. CERN has recently released pics of damage wrought when an electrical fault caused a liquid helium leak a mere nine days after the Large Hadron Collider started smashing atoms in September, wrecking interconnects between the magnets in sectors three and four. According to CNET, the
doomsday machine will be out of commission until at least summer of 2009. So breathe a sigh of relief, little ones... and pray that the
grey goo or the
replicant hordes don't get us in the meantime. Hit the read link for all the pics.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Large Hadron Collider damaged and we have the photos to prove it originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments While a power-on password and
encrypted drive in your laptop could protect your data in the event of theft, it doesn't come close to the satisfaction you'd feel at being able to
locate and prosecute the bastage who stole it. While Lenovo has its
Lockdown PC Now feature that allows you to remotely disable your lost or stolen laptop via SMS, it lacks GPS to pinpoint your gear's location. Enter Ericsson, who just announced its intent to make its HSPA-capable Mobile Broadband Modules compatible with Intel's
Anti-Theft Technology. Ericsson's modules will support remote-SMS disable like Lenovo's slabs but adds GPS to transmit the laptop's location. At least they will once commercial products begin to ship sometime in the second half of 2009.
P.S. To all thieves and malcontents: just because we gave you a picture of the module above doesn't mean you're allowed to remove it and disable the service. Not cool.
Filed under: Laptops
Ericsson and Intel developing remote kill switch with GPS locator for stolen laptops originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lasonic's iPod dock masquerading as a ghetto blaster is nothing we haven't seen before, but the new Limited Edition i931 with Rap-Up branding... well, it's so "fabulous" we couldn't resist. Weighing in at about 25 pounds, this behemoth boasts two 12-inch speakers, it docks and charges your iPod, and it's going to look semi-fly doing it, too. It's also got an AM/FM tuner, EQs, an alarm clock -- you know, the works. This hulking "high performance portable music system" is destined to make you nostalgic for a simpler time of miniscule MP3 players with teensy little earbuds. It's $189 and available now.
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Lasonic and Rap-Up team for the Limited Edition i931 boombox originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments The
next installment of CES is under a month away (crazy, right?), and the leaks around the hinges are already starting to show. The latest dirt on the graphical front is this bit from
NVIDIA: a twin-GPU behemoth that'll likely destroy
anything else on the market today. Purportedly dubbed the GeForce GTX295, the device will pack two 55-nanometer GT200 chips, 480 total stream processors, 1,792MB of DDR3 memory and a power consumption rating of 289-watts. Other details are currently missing, but don't be shocked to see this locked and loaded in a few brand new machines come January 8th.
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Twin-GPU NVIDIA GeForce GTX295 expected at CES originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
As you may or may not have noticed, the folks at MTI Micro seem to be plenty convinced that fuel cells will eventually power
all manner of devices, and they're now taking things one step further with their new Mobion universal fuel cell charger that, yes, promises to provide power to any device in the
entire universe (with a USB port). To add a bit more practicality to the equation, the charger makes use of removable (and disposable) cartridges, which each provide 25 watt-hours of power, or roughly enough to fully charge the average cellphone more than ten times. While it's only in prototype form at the moment, the company says that the final product should be available by the end of 2009, although it's not making any promises about a price just yet.
[Via
Planetary Gear]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
MTI Micro shows off universal fuel cell charger with removable cartridge originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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