There's something about
fire-breathing robots that just gets us
giddy, so you can imagine our joy when finding one that gallops, too. The hand-built robot dog -- cutely coined LRRY-1 (pronounced Larry, we'll have you know) -- was built almost entirely from unwanted Citroën scraps, and not a single ounce of non-recycled material was used in the final construction. No idea if it's technically street legal, but we'd love to see a
traffic warden try to get this thing back in its cage. Video is posted after the break.
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Continue reading Recycled Citroën parts used to create fire-breathing robo dog
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Comments It's darn tough to pump out a
digiframe that's not immediately forgettable these days, but if anybody can do it,
iriver can. The subtly beautiful 7-inch Framee-L features a 720 x 480 resolution display, 1GB of inbuilt memory, an SD / MMC card slot, USB port and an alarm feature for waking you in the mornings (or nights, if you roll like that). Furthermore, you'll find a capable multimedia player that can handle photo slideshows, all sorts of audio files and even MPEG-4 AVC / H.264, AVI and Motion JPEG video formats. It'll hit Japan just before Santa takes flight for ¥17,800 ($196).
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iriver's 7-inch Framee-L digiframe handles multimedia just fine originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments They're far from common, but we've definitely seen modular GPS concepts
before. If this leaked FCC documentation is any gauge of reality, however,
TomTom will be making those wild, wild dreams into something entirely more tangible. The DUB1 is an up and coming navigator which is designed to operate in a snap-in portal located in your nearest dashboard or in the palm of your nearest hand. It's likely that said portal will be a double-DIN aftermarket accessory, but we suppose TomTom could nail down contracts with automakers to provide it from the factory. There's little left to do but wait and see, but given
just how nuts Garmin went at CES 2008, don't be shocked to see this as one of the many coming from its main rival in just under a month.
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Comments 
Brutal honesty here: on election day this past November, the entire Engadget staff (well, those of us with US passports) collectively agreed that casting our vote via SMS or some other incredibly simple method would be infinitely more awesome than trudging out in the streets and waiting in hour-long lines. Clearly, some higher-ups in Estonia are on board with that concept, as its Parliament has approved a law that will likely make it the first nation on Planet Earth to give citizens the right to vote by phone in something that matters (American Idol notwithstanding). 'Course, those who choose to take advantage must first obtain a free authorization chip for their handset, which sort of kills the whole "not having to leave your house" aspect of all this. Ah well, at least we're moving in the right direction.
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Estonia to allow citizens to vote via cellphone by 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments 
DisplayLink USB monitors are starting to trickle out a little more frequently now, but USB graphics cards based on the tech are still somewhat rare -- we've seen a couple, but VillageTronic's ViBook box is the only one that comes with software to span an image across up to six screens at once. That's right, the bundled VT MultiDisplay software will let you create a single giant Windows desktop out of six 1600 x 1200 22-inch displays if you buy enough of the $130 dongles -- Mac users can do the same with four screens. The dongle can be outfitted with a VESA cradle that allows it to hide discreetly behind your monitor, and while we don't know what the upper limit of graphics performance is, we do know that we'd kill for a gigantic 4800 x 2400 workspace. Weekend project, anyone?
[Thanks, Becky]
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ViBook looses DisplayLink USB-to-DVI adapter with support for six-screen spanning originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments HP's
TouchSmart 2 launched without a whole lot of fanfare, but what you get for $1,299 is pretty unique. The
IQ504 / IQ506 all-in-one PCs are one of the first to actually encourage full-on touchscreen use in a PC, with HP urging users to touch their way to computational bliss. Of course, with an unorthodox design such as this, there will always be pundits who feel that this or that should have been done somewhat differently, and if that's you, you've found your sounding board. Are you a little let down by the internals? Yearn for more expandability? Is the screen as responsive as it should be? Get heard, won't you?
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How would you change HP's TouchSmart 2 all-in-one PC? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Comments Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
In a commercial featuring
30 Rock actress and producer Tina Fey and director Martin Scorsese, the former
Saturday Night Live head writer uses her credit card to gain entrance to an airline lounge. The notion of a faceless slice serving as an access pass would also apply to Novatel Wireless's
MiFi, the simply named 3G personal hotspot that will support up to five users simultaneously connecting to a 3G network when it is offered through operators next year.
MiFi is not the first product to enable a small group to bridge WiFi products to the wireless WAN. One early entrant,
Junxion, was acquired by Novatel Wireless competitor Sierra Wireless. And
Cradlepoint has created a battery-powered device sold at Best Buy that, like the Junxion device, relies on a laptop card to create its WAN connection.
That's not true, though, of the MiFi, which integrates an HSPA or EVDO radio along with the battery that can provide over four hours of Internet access to devices such as a PC, iPod touch, Zune, Nintendo DS or Sony PSP. In fact, without apologies to Right Said Fred, the MiFi may be "too sexy for my LAN" -- particularly for a product that can work silently in a backpack as it serves its nodes. A thicker frame could provide all-day access, but perhaps such lengthy sessions will generally take place where there is access to an outlet; the device continues to perform normally if it is drawing juice from a PC's USB port. But the MiFi is not simply a dumb dispenser of digits.
Continue reading Switched On: MiFi pushes 3G past the router limits
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