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December 27, 2010
LG, the consumer electronics giant from South Korea, will certainly intend to wow the crowds over at CES 2011 with their very own LZ9700 LED backlit 3D LCD HDTV, making it the largest in the market to date. It is able to handle both 2D and 3D content with aplomb, where the LZ9700 will be accompanied by TruMotion 400Hz for an even smoother viewing experience than before. Not only that, this puppy will come with LG’s very own Smart TV functions that allows owners to access a variety of TV applications, games and language classes among others. While LG did not reveal the pricing details of the LZ9700, you can be sure that it will not come cheap, and we will just have to wait until CES in slightly more than a week’s time to find out more. [
Once one network attached storage manufacturer upgraded to 3TB hard drives, it was only a matter of time before the rest followed suit, and this time it’s Synology’s turn with the DiskStation DS1511+. In case you haven’t done the math already, this particular unit can store up to 15 terabytes of your juiciest secrets across five 3TB hot-swappable drives, and its 1.8GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of memory handles a RAID 5 array capable of speeding that data across a local area network at up to 197 MB / sec read speeds and 165 MB / sec writes. If that capacity isn’t enough to house your plan for world domination and monitor all the IP cameras in your underground volcano lair, the unit can scale up to 45TB with a couple of secondary expansion units, each with five more 3TB drives of their own. Yours for roughly $900 — sans storage — wherever NAS are sold. PR after the break.
Continue reading Synology DS1511+ does the 3TB-per-drive dance, backs up most of your neighborhood
Synology DS1511+ does the 3TB-per-drive dance, backs up most of your neighborhood originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 27, 2010
Here’s a rather interesting leak for Sony Ericsson fans out there. Pictures of an unknown Sony Ericsson phone have
The other interesting bit is that these pictures were taken by another unknown phone, bearing the model number LT15i. It seems to be taken by a phone with an 8-megapixel camera and speculation is that it might be the Sony Ericsson
Running Android on the Nokia N900 has been an ongoing theme for the better part of the past year — and with hardware designed from the ground up to be both hackable and high-end, we’d expect no less. Indeed, Android 2.3 is the latest victim of an N900 sneak attack, and impressively, core components like messaging already seem to be working — likely thanks to the fact that hackers had already gotten pre-2.3 builds rock solid. What’s even more impressive, though, is how smooth and generally non-janky everything seems to be — smooth enough so that you might be able to do this as your daily driver if Maemo 5 is starting to wear thin for you. Nokia might not approve, but then again, we don’t approve of the N9 still not being announced… so yeah, tit for tat, as it were.
Continue reading Nokia N900 mixed with Gingerbread, baked at 425 degrees for 16-18 minutes (video)
Nokia N900 mixed with Gingerbread, baked at 425 degrees for 16-18 minutes (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
December 26, 2010
Continue reading HRP-2 humanoid robot learns to use obstacles to its advantage
HRP-2 humanoid robot learns to use obstacles to its advantage originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Dec 2010 11:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
December 26, 2010
Oh, sure — gas is bound to hit $4 a gallon before 2020, but you can buy an awful let of petrol with the money you’ll save from dodging Fisker’s increasingly expensive Karma. ‘Course, those looking to blow 100 grand on an eco-friendly automobile are probably doing so just to throw Ma Earth a bone, but still — money matters. Originally teased way back in the fall of 2007, Fisker’s first plug-in hybrid still hasn’t ended up anywhere near mass production, but it has managed to see two rather significant upticks in price all the while. Right around two years ago, we saw the $80,000 MSRP boosted by $7,000, and today, prospective customers are being notified via email that the Karma’s base price is now sitting at $95,900 before a $950 destination fee. Granted, the company insists that this includes an integrated solar roof panel (valued at $5,000), and it still starts at $1,400 less than a Panamera S. And yeah, that base price does shrink to $88,400 after you include federal tax incentives. That said, we’re doubting high-rollers that were dead-set on handing over $73,000 or so after tax breaks are currently stoked about an increase this large, particularly when there’s still no definitive ship date. To Fisker’s credit, we’ve seen General Motors go through similar trials and tribulations surrounding the Volt, and even at $95k, you’ll be hard pressed to find more sexy than this on four (street legal) wheels.
Fisker raises Karma plug-in hybrid base price to $95,900, brings that 750i back into consideration originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Dec 2010 05:38:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
December 26, 2010
It’s Christmas Day, which probably means that at least one toy that you received (or gave) won’t be fully functional until Monday. Why? Batteries. It’s an age-old problem, that “batteries not included” thing, and it’s one of the reasons we’ve fell so in love with Sanyo’s Eneloop line. Without question, the Eneloop rechargeable AA batteries are amongst the best and most reliable that money can buy, so whenever another Eneloop product pops out, it obviously catches our eye. Sanyo’s branching out pretty severely with its latest device, and being that at least 3.5 members of the Engadget staff have strummed a six-string once or twice, we had to take a closer look at the Pedal Juice when given the chance. For those that missed last month’s introduction, this pedal-sized block of energy is designed to provide 9V power to six or seven effects pedals, miniature amplifiers or electric drum pads (amongst other musical doodads). So, does this thing live up the the Eneloop reputation? Find out after the break.
Continue reading Sanyo Eneloop Pedal Juice battery pack preview
Sanyo Eneloop Pedal Juice battery pack preview originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Dec 2010 22:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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December 25, 2010
Yeahhhhhhhhh boyeeeeee, it’s CHRISTMAS, yo!!! You know what that means!!! ENGADGET PODCAST TIME — WITH PRESENTS!!!!! HIT IT!!!
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Music: Last Christmas
00:03:35 – Verizon teases Android LTE hardware for January 6th at CES
00:03:50 – New HTC device starts leaking piecemeal — is it the Mecha / Incredible HD?
00:04:10 – Motorola has an LTE phone for Verizon in the works
00:04:25 – Motorola’s ‘Tablet Evolution’ video teases some Honeycomb at CES
00:35:50 – Palm’s tablet is codenamed ‘Topaz,’ keyboard accessory leaks out
00:36:20 – Three HP Slate-like webOS tablets coming at CES? We’re not so sure.
00:47:00 – Microsoft to demo new slate PCs, Windows 8 tablet functionality at CES?
00:49:05 – Microsoft to announce ARM-based Windows at CES?
00:58:11 – How to pronounce ASUS (video)
00:59:35 – FCC passes limited net neutrality rules, almost no one happy about them
01:00:30 – FCC releases full net neutrality rules
01:01:20 – Net neutrality: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile react
01:06:00 – FCC: We didn’t impose stricter net neutrality regulations on wireless because Android is open
01:13:27 – NYT: Next batch of Google TV devices delayed, pending software updates
01:13:35 – Sony says Google TV sales meeting expectations, TV division working more closely with Google than cellphone group
01:13:45 – Logitech said to be halting Revue production until Google TV software revamp
01:16:30 – New Apple TV, Roku media streamers race to break one million in sales
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December 25, 2010
Here’s wishing you all a very happy holiday break, with lots of tinsel things attached. Here at Ferret Towers we’ll be running on reduced power for a few days while we let the goodies digest, but to help you overcome feelings [...]
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December 25, 2010
Taken a look at Google’s homepage recently? If not, we’d recommend you do so, STAT. The image you see here will only be an active doodle — a name given to Google’s “special” logos used to commemorate certain events and holidays — for a few more hours. According to a lengthy report over at the Wall Street Journal, the Holiday 2010 Doodle is El Goog’s “most ambitious one yet,” taking five artists some 250 hours to create. Google estimates that it has crafted some 900 doodles since 1998, with a whopping 270 of ‘em running in 2010. This particular one relies on 17 interactive portraits of holiday scenes from around the globe, and it took the team a number of months to finally whip up a finished product that everyone was stoked on. We’d encourage you to click around on it to discover what the tiles actually mean, and if you’re hungry to learn about the shockingly interesting backstory that surrounds it, the source link has a URL with your name on it.
Google’s 2010 holiday doodle: its ‘most ambitious one yet’ originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 25 Dec 2010 02:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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