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Roomba not sucking the way it used to?
Samsung sure hopes not, as it has just recently pushed out a robotic vacuum cleaner of its very own. Quietly showcased during
IFA earlier this month, the Furot II packs an oh-so-familiar design and sports an integrated camera and mapping system that enables it to find its way, remember its course and clean your floors with practically no human assistance. There's also an array of sensors that keep it from slamming into this and that, and the rechargeable battery keeps it humming for around 1.5 hours before petering out and making a beeline for its charging station. We get the impression that it'll be available in both black and refulgent red, though no price and release date is currently available.
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Samsung's Furot II robovac wants a piece of your Roomba originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We'll just go ahead and get the bad news out of the way: if you call yourself a North American, and you're not gutsy enough to find an importer, you'll probably never own the downright beautiful device shown above. Known as the iSTATION S3,
DigitalCube's latest arrives with 8/16/32GB of storage, an HDMI output, a battery good for 20 hours of audio playback (or 8 hours of video), an expansive 3.5-inch AMOLED display, WVGA (800 x 480) resolution and support for a veritable smorgasbord of file formats. Sadly, we've no price or release date to share, but by all means, give that read link a tap if you're looking for more eye candy.
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DigitalCube shows off sexy iSTATION S3 PMP originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It seems like a no-brainer, introducing small footprint, multitouch Windows machines to rooms usually off-limits to PCs.
HP's certainly taking a stab at it, and now the "
trendy lifestyle brand" (ugh) Packard Bell is going for the gold in Europe. First up, the oneTwo L sports a 23-inch (1600 x 900) display, an Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670 graphics, E-SATA, and optional Blu-ray drive and DVB TV tuner. For the more budget-conscious touchscreen fiend, the oneTwo M comes in with a 20-inch (1920 x 1080) display, Intel Core 2 Duo T6600, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD series 4500. Both will ship with Windows 7, up to 8GB RAM, PacBell's TouchGadgets (including TouchFriends social networking integration for Flickr and Facebook, TouchMusic media player, TouchMemo, and TouchMediaShare), a 5-in-1 memory card reader, and a webcam. You can expect to pay €999 ($1,452) for the former, or €599 ($872) for the latter. On sale October 22. Video after the break.
Continue reading Packard Bell debuts oneTwo line of all-in-one PCs
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Packard Bell debuts oneTwo line of all-in-one PCs originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Think you've seen this one before?
Close, but no cigar. Philips' GoGear Muse doesn't deviate much from the path that has been chosen for it (and fittingly so, might we add), boasting a predictably glossy motif, 16GB of internal storage space and a 3-inch display. As it overtakes the
Opus for the company's top-of-the-line player, it also gains support for BMP, GIF, PNG, OGG, APE, Real Video and Real Audio formats, and just in case you're curious, it'll also handle those ultra-rare "MP3" things as well. Philips asserts that users could see up to 25 hours of audio playback on a single charge, while watching
Family Guy re-runs could suck it dry in just 5 hours. As with pretty much everything else that Philips produces these days, it'll first hit Singapore for S$349 (or around $244 in Greenbacks), with only a faint chance of ever seeing significant action here in North America. One more look is after the break.
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Philips sticks to its guns with 16GB GoGear Muse PMP originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Well, we didn't get a chance to check it out first hand at IFA, but Packard Bell did make a showing of its own at the show, and took the opportunity to debut this new EasyNote Butterfly m laptop. As you can see above, this new model one-ups the smaller
13.4-inch EasyNote ButterFly with a slightly sleeker design (and a shiny silver exterior), but it keeps things mostly in check inside, with it packing an unspecified low-voltage processor, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics (which can be switched off to save power), a max 640GB hard drive, up to 4GB of RAM, and all the usual niceties like a multi-touch trackpad, Bluetooth 2.1, and 802.11n WiFi. Still no word on a release over here, but folks in Europe should be able to pick one up next month for a starting price of €599 (or just under $900).
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Packard Bell debuts 15.6-inch EasyNote Butterfly m laptop originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
The big theme that stood out for me last week at IFA was the idea of 3D driving sales of new TVs. Both Sony and Panasonic made strong plays for 3D at their press conferences, although Sony did a much better job, giving the audience 3D glasses and showing the trailer for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs" along with footage of FIFA Soccer and Gran Turismo running on the PS3 -- the cockpit view in GT was particularly impressive. Panasonic's presentation was a little odder, with the audience being asked to "imagine" what 3D would look like during a
slideshow of still images of various events like boxing matches. It was kind of like introducing color TV by showing off a black and white screen and asking the audience to imagine it in color.
I understand the need to drive new sales of TV sets and find some sort of purchase driver. Let's face it. Screens have gotten large enough, perhaps even too large -- if I offered you a 150-inch TV, where would you put it? Resolutions have maxed out and it's hard to make sets much thinner. OLED displays could be a great purchase driver but are a few years off. So something new needs to drive the market. I'm just not convinced that 3D will really help move things forward.
Continue reading Entelligence: 3D may fall flat
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Entelligence: 3D may fall flat originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The
Esprimo Q1500, which might remind you of a
Mac Mini, is back with with the mischievous intent to show off the wares that Apple
won't let you have. Though we suspected the Intel CPU inside would be a CULV variant, it turns out to be no less than a 2.8GHz Core 2 Duo T9600 -- and it got a good workout by the awesome
Engadget Spanish crew, who ran a 720p video in Windows Media Player alongside a Blu-ray movie without any hiccups. The good news extends to the machine itself, which remained quiet in operation and cool to the touch a full 10 minutes into its mini torture test. If we said prices for the top config might be a little cheaper than expected, would you
finally be excited? Video after the break.
Continue reading Fujitsu Esprimo Q1500 flexes Blu-ray muscle on video
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Fujitsu Esprimo Q1500 flexes Blu-ray muscle on video originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It's not like we didn't
know this already, but Sony Ericsson has now officially confirmed an October UK release for its latest pair of handsets. The half-Swedish,
half-Welsh mobile empire has set the seventh day of the tenth month of whatever year this is as the date for a nice little corporate get-together and unveiling of whatever little details haven't
been seen or
pored over by now. The
Aino slider hopes to capture fans with its slender looks and PS3
Remote Play skills, while the
Satio (formerly known as the Idou, pictured) works the multimedia phone crowd with a 12.1 megapixel cam and a 3.5-inch 16:9 display. The latter was recently handled by
Engadget Spanish, who found it underwhelming and somewhat sluggish -- but rest assured, we'll be getting a lot more fingerprints on these touchscreen devices in the coming weeks.
Continue reading Sony Ericsson Aino and Satio hitting the UK on October 7
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Sony Ericsson Aino and Satio hitting the UK on October 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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What do you add to a pocket projector that already has a massive 640 x 480 resolution and the power of 9
suns lumens? Why, a WinCE-powered computer, of course. Now, when everyone else is fumbling around with their
bulky laptops, you can bust out your Darling, use the top-mounted touchpad to navigate, and be the fastest projector gunslinger in the office. There's even a stand, a pair of mini-USB ports for hooking up a keyboard and mouse, and an SD expansion slot to augment the already super-generous 1GB of Flash storage. So how much does a PC with a
huge display and SSD cost these days? $180. Don't tell us that ain't progress. Check it out after the break.
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Continue reading Guangzhou Darling DP2000 is a nutty pc-in-a-projector that we kinda love (video)
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Guangzhou Darling DP2000 is a nutty pc-in-a-projector that we kinda love (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We're still curious to see how well the integrated projector in Nikon's
Coolpix S1000pj does under real-world lighting and usage conditions, but it sure seems pretty in the controlled environment of the company's IFA booth. The crew from Engadget Spanish say the novel cam is a lot thinner than you'd expect -- check out the video and a gallery of sample shots after the break.
Continue reading Nikon Coolpix S1000pj hands-on at IFA
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Nikon Coolpix S1000pj hands-on at IFA originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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