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We weren't sure exactly what Beyonce, David Goes to the Dentist and Chocolate Rain all had in common, but VIZIO squeezed them all into its Super Bowl ad. Still striving to remake its reputation from being merely a cheap HDTV manufacturer to a premium one offering lots of features, the ad (embedded after the break) shows how it's bringing "the best of the internet" with
VIZIO Internet Apps. We still need to see if its picture quality will measure up and whether the
widget experience has gotten any better (read:
faster)
in 2010 to be truly convinced, but a slick ad never hurt.
Continue reading VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way
VIZIO Super Bowl ad pushes internet connected HDTVs in a big way originally appeared on Engadget HD on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Chumby One, much like the original, is an interesting beast. For all intents and purposes, it’s a mod-friendly box that sits on your nightstand and pushes out real-time information that it pulls down from the web. That said, the inbuilt display may be too small to be considered “glanceable” in some scenarios, and if you’re ferociously nodding your head up and down in agreement, we’ve a hack you should probably see. One xobs recently discovered that a composite video output could be added to the Chumby One, enabling it to output its information onto any display with such an input. Granted, the device can only support a single display at a time, but hey, who ever said you could have your cake and eat it too?
Chumby One gets composite video output via marginally difficult mod originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve already
played with the Chumby One and fell for it, so it did hurt a bit when our friends at
iFixit decided to rip this cute device apart. Actually, it wasn’t as heartbreaking as we thought, especially when the hackers spotted a cute message below the Kingston 2GB microSD card — containing the firmware — on the logic board, courtesy of Andrew “bunnie” Huang, VP Hardware Engineering and Founder of
Chumby Industries. Other notable discoveries include a Freescale i.MX233 processor, Hynix 64MB DDR RAM and a removable “Ralink-based RT2571 USB Wi-Fi dongle” (note: extra USB port!). Feel free to check out the guts after the break — just promise you won’t cry or faint.
Continue reading Chumby One gets the iFixit treatment, greets world with a cute hidden message
Chumby One gets the iFixit treatment, greets world with a cute hidden message originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You may bang on the legacy airlines, but
American Airlines has a good thing going here with
Gogo. The outfit has just completed installation of in-flight WiFi on 150 of its MD-80 aircraft, and in order to give you a better idea of how to prepare, it's now launching an online widget that'll let you know if your bird will enable web surfing when you get on. The tool is completely web-based, so any PC or smartphone can access it; the only real knock is that it only informs you of a "yes" or "no" 24 hours prior to departure, so it's still impossible to book a flight 3 months out and know for certain if you'll be able to hop online. This is definitely something that should be adopted by the other airlines (pronto!), but we can't help but dream of the day when something like this is unnecessary due to in-flight internet becoming completely ubiquitous. Ah, the future -- how you tease us so. Demonstration vid is after the break.
Continue reading American Airlines launches online widget to sniff out WiFi-equipped flights
American Airlines launches online widget to sniff out WiFi-equipped flights originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Well, what do we have here? D-Link's DIR-685 Xtreme N Storage Router -- you know, the 802.11n packing, WAP having, BitTorrent running beaut with USB storage support and 3.2-inch display we
first laid eyes on in January at CES -- has finally hit store shelves. Every bit as lust-worthy as it was when we initially
reviewed it, this bad boy retails for $300. Hit the read link to get in on the action.
[Via
Electronista]
Filed under: Storage, Networking
D-Link Xtreme N DIR-685 storage router now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Now that Samsung's standardized on the
TouchWiz interface across its entire touchscreen line -- dumbphone and smartphone alike -- they've created a fertile playground that offers developers the opportunity to reach a good chunk of the world's second largest phone manufacturer's devices. A dedicated software development kit for TouchWiz is now available direct from Samsung, and since your average code monkey doesn't necessarily have access to fifteen different phones running multiple versions of every platform Sammy supports, they're also offering up their Virtual Device Lab that'll let devs test their wares on everything the company has on tap. For distribution, Samsung will have a number of channels available: its
Application Store, a new Widget Gallery that'll premiere on Verizon's
Omnia II launching later this year, and -- perhaps most tantalizingly for developers -- the possibility of inclusion right in the frickin' ROM if Samsung
really loves what you've done. Considering that you're targeting S60, WinMo, and a wealth of proprietary OS devices in one fell swoop, this could end up being a huge distribution channel.
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Samsung launches TouchWiz SDK for cross-platform bliss originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Somehow or another, D-Link managed to combine a NAS, digital photo frame, secondary display and 802.11n router into a single device, and when the
Xtreme N DIR-685 Storage Router was announced way back at CES this year, we were certainly interested to see how such a conglomerate would go over. At long last, the do-it-all wireless router is finally making its way out to the public at large, and with an MSRP of $299.99 (sans any internal HDD space), it's definitely one of the pricier routers out there. We've taken this strikingly unique device into our lairs for a few days of testing, and if you're interested in seeing if this bad boy is worth the price of admission, you'll need to follow us past the break.
Continue reading D-Link's Xtreme N DIR-685 storage router hands-on and impressions
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D-Link's Xtreme N DIR-685 storage router hands-on and impressions originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sungale's recently unleashed a WiFi-enabled, widget-having
digital photo frame -- the ID800WT -- and the fine folks over at
Zatz Not Funny have taken it for a little spin. The 800 x 600 resolution touchscreen boasts 512 MB of internal storage, and widgets for weather, news, Picasa,
YouTube, Gmail, and Internet radio. The reviewer didn't find the widgets to be particularly awesome, in many respects -- their implementation, for instance, made the Gmail app "nearly useless" because it displayed only a few lines at a time, and many had trouble connecting to the internet properly. It wasn't all doom and gloom, however -- they really liked the frame in theory, and thought that the company was shooting for the right idea -- they just didn't actually succeed. The frame will be available sometime in the coming month for about $165.
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Sungale WiFi Widget photo frame gets a hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looking to make the wild and not-entirely-wondrous world of
printers exciting for the first time in decades,
HP has just unveiled the "world's first web-connected printer." If you're wondering how it plans on accomplishing such an impossible mission, let us just say this: the Photosmart Premium is going the way of the widget. Up on the 4.33-inch front panel is Touchsmart Web, a touchscreen interface with several bundled, online apps to accommodate usual paper-friendly tasks such as printing Google maps, tickets from Fandango, coupons, recipes, Sudoku, etc. There's even a full-on HD Apps Studio just in case downloading new apps on one's printer really becomes the new hotness. The API's being made open for the entire realm of developers, but we have to wonder what kind of interest we'll see here. Pricing is set for $399, and if you're thinking "why not just buy a cheap netbook and plug it into my current model" we hear ya, but we get the impression this is aimed squarely at another crowd. Lots more details are just past the break.
Continue reading HP unveils Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web: "world's first web-connected printer"
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HP unveils Photosmart Premium with Touchsmart Web: "world's first web-connected printer" originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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