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Engadget Podcast 187 – 03.13.2010
How many SDK’s does it take to screw in a light bulb? You won’t find the answer in this week’s leaky edition of the Engadget Podcast Show, but you will get an exclusive chance to peer into the future of Paul Miller’s voiceover career.
Hosts: Josh Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: MPC2059 – [...]
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TomTom iPhone app hits 1.3, gains real-time traffic and Google local search
Here lately, Navigon has been crushing it on the iPhone GPS front. Every couple of weeks, it seems that MobileNavigator is getting yet another fantastic update, all while TomTom’s lackluster offering hangs back in the land of complacency. Thankfully for us all, the outfit has just pushed out the v1.3 update, which adds real-time traffic [...]
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Ceton’s quad CableCARD tuner for Media Center available for pre-order
That’s right, you can now reserve your place in line to be the first to record four HD cable shows at once on your Windows 7 Media Center. The bad news is that ship date for the InfiniTV 4 is now May 31st. Ceton wasn’t willing to share a specific reason for the 60 day [...]
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Lian Li’s PC-T1R Spider case crawls towards a release
Custom computer cases that look like spiders aren’t generally the sort of thing that are available to public, but Lian Li’s new PC-T1R case is one big exception to the rule, and it’s now edged a bit closer to a release. Previously only seen in a teaser video, a nearly final version of the case [...]
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Scientists discover method for rapid charging Li-ion batteries
Huzzah! Yet another discovery for us to add to our ever-expanding list of “awesome things that’ll never actually happen!” Ibrahim Abou Hamad and colleagues from Mississippi State University have reportedly devised a method of charging batteries that could hasten the process rather significantly, and better still, it could provide “an increase in battery power densities” [...]
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Make your Magic Mouse oh-so-ergonomic with this pasty silicone grip
While it’s hard to say if Apple’s Magic Mouse really needs “fixing” — it depends somewhat on your grip — it’s not a huge stretch to say that the slender multitouch device doesn’t quite fit in the palm of one’s hand. Sensing a market opportunity, Will of MMFixed.com recently decided to come to our collective [...]
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One man band rocks the iPod touch, rescues the MIDI clarinet from obscurity
We’ve seen blow-hard electronic music makers in the past (one particular didgeridoo hack comes to mind) but still, when one makes us take note we feel like we just have to pass it along. Onyx Ashanti is an American living in Berlin and a one-man band to boot. His instrument of choice is a Yamaha [...]
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Palm offering discounted contract-free phones to developers — too bad they’re carrier locked
Usually when we hear the phrase “contract-free developer phone” the words “unlocked” and “GSM” follow shortly thereafter, but apparently Palm didn’t get the memo — it just announced discounted hardware prices for its devices, but they’re carrier-locked to Verizon and Sprint. Yeah, that’s a big sad face out of us — it’s not like Verizon’s [...]
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Black Ninja Monday is When the Commenter Trolls Get Their Due []
Several star commenter have noted recently that the troll factor is rising again. This post is reminder that all comments wasting words and the comment moderator’s time wondering about such issues as “why does gizmodo love/hate/get paid by company XYZ?” may result in zero warnings and then a ban. And whatever happens to your comment [...]
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Entourage Edge review
Is it an Android tablet? An e-reader? Just a sweet gadget with two screens? Truth is the Entourage Edge is a little bit of everything, and that’s exactly why we’ve been so intrigued with the “dualbook” since we fondled it at CES. Finally ready to make its shipping debut, the $499 dual screen device is [...]
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Nokia asks court to dismiss part of Apple patent lawsuit
How do we know we’re years away from a final resolution to the Nokia / Apple patent lawsuit? It’s been six months since Nokia first filed its complaint, and the two parties are just now starting to argue about which specific substantive claims they’re eventually going to argue about. Let’s do a quick refresh: at [...]
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Wheelie Robot Is Great At Being Adorable While Performing Useless Task [Robots]
I should be in awe of this autonomous, two-wheeled prototype robot by Toyota, dreaming of The Jetsons and Wall-E. But instead, all I can think is, “Who needs a robot that just balances crap on its head?” [PlasticPals via CrunchGear] More »
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Microsoft loses second Word patent appeal, on the hook for $240 million in damages
And the intellectual property rollercoaster continues. The BBC is reporting that Microsoft’s second appeal against a judgment granting $240 million in damages due to content in Word that infringed on patents held by i4i was today rejected, leaving the Redmond giant with a huge fine to pay atop its undoubtedly sky-high lawyer bills. In the [...]
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