Archive for August 20th, 2008
Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 20th 2008 at 10:39AM What can we say? Intempo has launched a new pair of ipod-compatible speaker systems, and unless you’re somehow just entering the market for one in the latter half of 2008, chances are you’re already yawning. Nevertheless, the RDi-W (pictured) does distinguish itself somewhat by including support for DAB and wireless internet radio, and there’s a 30-watt internal amplifier to kick out the jams. The much drabber Fusion keeps things small and simple by offering up just 25-watts of power and DAB / FM tuners. Expect the couple to sashay into e-tailers next month for £169.99 ($316) / £99 ($184).Read - RDi-WRead - FusionPermalinkEmail this5 CommentsFi (Read the full post about ‘Intempo unveils iPod-lovin’ RDi-W / Fusion speaker systems’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
MobileTechReview has a review of the Samsung Instinct and writes, “The Samsung Instinct has a 2 megapixel camera with a fixed focus lens. There’s a self portrait mirror but no flash. The camera uses the entire screen as the viewfinder and there are very few settings– a cue Samsung shouldn’t have taken from the iPhone. The phone takes images at max resolution, 1600 x 1200, and resizes them down if you send them as MMS (Picture Mail). There are no settings for white balance, effects or anything else. Likewise the camcorder has no settings other than a button to switch between MMS length (2 minutes or less) or for saving locally (length limited by available storage).” Read more about the Samsung Instinct. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Instinct Review - MobileTechReview’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
FROM APPLETELL - It’s all about ease of use, why shouldn’t iphone copy and paste be part of the big picture too? With the OpenClip project, it just may be. MORE » Keep up with the latest gadget goodness! - Subscribe to our feed → Tags: hdtv, mobile devices, video, cool gear (Read the full post about ‘Copy and Paste may be on the horizon for the iPhone’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
MobileTechReview has a review of the Samsung Instinct and writes, “The Samsung Instinct has a 2 megapixel camera with a fixed focus lens. There’s a self portrait mirror but no flash. The camera uses the entire screen as the viewfinder and there are very few settings– a cue Samsung shouldn’t have taken from the iPhone. The phone takes images at max resolution, 1600 x 1200, and resizes them down if you send them as MMS (Picture Mail). There are no settings for white balance, effects or anything else. Likewise the camcorder has no settings other than a button to switch between MMS length (2 minutes or less) or for saving locally (length limited by available storage).” Read more about the Samsung Instinct. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Instinct Review - MobileTechReview’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a special effects technique that marries digital stills with video footage in order to overcome bad exposure and missing detail in the video image. Called Space/Time Fusion, the technique works by taking video footage that’s blurry or overexposed and substituting the digital information with that of a properly exposed and focused still shots of the same subject. The technique can also remove unwanted subjects or objects like they were never there. And all done automatically thanks to an algorithm in the Space Time Fusion software which analyzes both video and digital imagery and then marries them together at similar points. (Read the full post about ‘New video technique marries video and stills improving images’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
We’ve already heard about the problems Pandora has been having with the upcoming RIAA royalty structure. But we’re already starting to see the effects on smaller internet radio sites. Muxtape’s main page hold’s a sad message reading; “Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA.” While Muxtape insists it’s not closed for good, this can start to get scary for many people fairly soon. As the RIAA starts tightening its grip, more services may be forced to shut down or start charging people to use the service. It’s hard not to think that the RIAA is basically shooting itself in the foot with these new rules. Online radio, while not exactly all that profitable, is a great way to find new music you may like but never heard before. That could potentially lead to more record sales. It’d be nice if maybe instead of basically trying to shut down internet radio, the RIAA tried working with it. Or maybe the RIAA should hire some younger consultants on the matter, maybe some people just out of college that know how people like listening to their music in the internet age. (Read the full post about ‘RIAA forces Muxtape downtime’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Even as I write this report, I have my cellular phone plugged into the wall. Usually, I forget to charge it, and I have to milk one bar on the battery indicator all day. Like me, I’m sure you have been in predicaments where you desperately needed to charge your cellular phone, but don’t have time to hang around a power outlet for the next few hours. Fortunately, there is a solution. What if you could just charge your phone with the simple action of walking? This is the basic principle of M2E Power. I realize that the picture of this product (currently a concept) isn’t much to look at, but there is a lot going inside. It works with a miniature magnet passing through a coil, which captures the lowest emissions of kinetic energy. (Read the full post about ‘M2E Recharges as You Walk’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
If there’s one job I couldn’t do in a million years, it’s forensic scientist. I get grossed out wiping up food stains, so despite my grudging admiration for Sara Sidle, there’s no way I could hold onto my nerve (and my cookies) for long enough to swab human fluids.
But it seems a lot of women are a lot less wussy than I am. In fact, USA today reports that perhaps in part due to shows like CSI, more women are entering the field than ever before: 74% of recent graduates in forensic science are female, up from 60% just six years ago.
This is one of the few areas of science to contain a high proportion of female graduates, which is great. But it’s also one of the lowest-paid science-related jobs…
(Read the full post about ‘Women and the “CSI effect”’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Palm, once again has announced the Treo Pro, of course it seems this time it was made official, as they have released a press release, promo video and also added the newly designed Treo to their website. This release is actually pretty exciting for a Treo, not only does the Pro have a nice clean design and decent features it will also be sold unlocked for $549 here in the US. Palm has yet to announce a specific date of release, however they have stated it will hit the market in September. Aside from the US, the Treo Pro will also be available through Vodafone and O2 in Europe and through Telstra in Australia. As for the specs, it will be running Windows Mobile 6.1 and powered by a 400MHz Qualcomm processor with 256MB (100MB user available) and 128MB RAM. (Read the full post about ‘Palm officially unveils the unlocked Treo Pro’…)
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Okay, we all multi-task to some degree while driving. I have a GPS mounted on my windshield, for instance, though I don’t play around with the settings while driving. And we all know people who text on their cell phones from behind the wheel (don’t do it!).
(Read the full post about ‘I’m scared - driving while watching iPhone video projected on windshield’…)
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