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Dell, HP, and Lenovo bringing SDXC to laptops alongside 32nm Intel chipsets?
Those incredibly sexy (as far as portable storage capacities are concerned) 64GB SDXC cards coming on the horizon? You’re gonna want some hardware to work with it, and according to DailyTech, three of the largest computer manufacturers are looking to bring the upgrade with Intel’s forthcoming Arrandale CPUs. Lenovo, HP, and Dell are reportedly working [...]
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Inside Sharp’s new LCD factory, we can see our next HDTV from here
The path back to LCD leadership for Sharp begins at its just opened Sakai City manufacturing facility. Being a 10th generation facility means it can roll out more and bigger displays, producing six 60-inch LCDs from each glass substrate, 60% more than older 8g facilities. Check out the pics for a peek at where 72,000 [...]
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Asus O!Play Review: Best-Priced HD Video Player Is the New Champ [Review]
Battlemodos give you a clear sense of what’s good and bad in a gadget category, but there’s no way to include everything. Consider the $99 Asus O!Play the new champ of HD video players—better late than never.
The Old Champs
If you remember the HD media player battlemodo, I awarded WDTV Live and Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ the [...]
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Inside Sharp’s Newest LCD Factory [LCDs]
This is some testing equipment inside Sharp’s new LCD plant in Sakai City. The rest of the facility doesn’t look quite as ominous though. In fact, it kinda resembles an air traffic center with some robots tossed in for fun.
Eco-friendly is the general theme of Sharp’s facility because it’s all about creating and saving energy. [...]
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ASUS Maximus III Extreme mobo lets Bluetooth cellphones tweak settings
ASUS has been giving its motherboard owners ways to tinker with their wares for years now, but it sounds like things are about to get seriously amped up with the Maximus III Extreme. The P55-based board, which falls into the growing Republic of Gamers lineup, adds a new feature to the existing ROG Connect overclocking [...]
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Pocket Tool X’s Piranha looks like it’s a multipurpose animal
How many uses can one tool have? If you think the answer is “never enough,” the Piranha by Pocket Tool X might just be for you. A multipurpose job (which kinda reminds us of a dinosaur’s head), the Piranha boasts a double-ended bit holder, both open and box wrenches, a bottle opener, a nail puller, [...]
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The Best Twitter Apps for iPhone and Android Just Got Better [Twitter]
Some of the best of Twitter apps just got a lot better with fresh updates—Tweetie 2.1 and Birdfeed 1.2 on the iPhone, and Twidroid 3.0 on Android. Here’s what new and awesomer:
Birdfeed 1.2 The biggest change in Birdfeed 1.2 is geolocation using the official Twitter API, which embeds the location of a tweet as metadata, [...]
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The Japanese Love Chocolate So Much They Made a Chocolate Phone [Chocolate]
This Japan-nly NTT Docomo Melty Chocolate phone is ridiculous. It’s a working phone—it has 8-megapixel camera, digital TV tuner, Bluetooth and such—but the menus are designed to look like chocolate, and the outside looks like chocolate.
Only 13,000 units will be made, which is a good sign that even the Japanese know this thing is too [...]
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Buffalo SuperSpeed USB 3.0 external hard drive reviewed, fast
Was anybody else surprised to see that Buffalo (fine purveyors of USB hardware, including kitschy dice speakers, and teeny, tiny thumb drives) was able to start pushing USB 3.0 hardware out the door so quickly? The fine citizens of TweakTown definitely were — and now they’ve gone and given HD-HXU3 external hard drive a thorough [...]
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Kindle is the biggest selling item on Amazon, bests sliced bread
Recession? Not if you’re the Amazon Kindle, it turns out — it’s currently the bestselling product across all categories at Amazon. Yes, that means it’s outselling the robotic hamsters, the t-shirts with wolves howling at the moon, and the limited edition Snuggies. November, when people traditionally start trampling each other in the name of [...]
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Sony Says Up to Half Its HDTVs Will be 3D in 2012 [HDTVs]
Whether or not the success of 3D TV hinges on the popularity of 3D films like Avatar, or just our willingness to give in and wear stupid glasses, one thing is clear: TV makers are all about 3D right now. Sony for instance, has 3D laptops, TVs, and Blu-ray players (plus 3D PlayStation games) planned [...]
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LEAK: The Google Phone "Is a Certainty" [Rumors]
According to a trusted source who’s seen it with their own eyes, the Google Phone “is a certainty.”
And by “Google Phone” we don’t simply mean another Android headset. We’re talking about Google-branded hardware running a version of Android we haven’t yet seen.
Over the next few weeks, Google Phones (most probably in early, prototype form) will [...]
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Nook begins shipping, in select Barnes & Noble stores on December 7th
If you missed getting in your Nook pre-order there’s still hope to nab the dual-display Barnes & Noble reader in time for the holidays. A Wall Street Journal piece says that Nook will be “available for sale or for demonstration purposes” in select, high-volume B&N stores starting December 7th — a week later than expected [...]
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Sony outs world’s first TransferJet chips for short-range wireless transfer
Induction chargers like Palm’s Touchstone are great and all but they lack one significant feature long mastered by USB tethers: data transfer. That could soon change as Sony begins pushing out its first TransferJet LSI in hopes of obtaining broad industry adoption of this newest form of short-range wireless transmission technology. TransferJet, remember, allows for [...]
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Department of Defense Buys 2,200 PS3s to Upgrade Supercomputer [Military]
Apparently the Department of Defense believes that PS3s are a better value when it comes to supercomputers than IBM products specifically designed for the purpose. Granted recent price drops probably didn’t hurt in justifying a 2,200 console order either.
This isn’t the first time that the DoD is using PS3 consoles for supercomputing. In fact, these [...]
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Smartbook AG launches absolutely gaudy $3,000 Swarovski-laden netbook
Taking a break from making headlines over infringement rights, Smartbook AG has found an entirely new way to get our attention. Introducing the Zenid GC Crystal, a “smartbook” that’s, as Netbooknews.de points out, one of the most common Chinese ODM netbooks, the S40 — 10.2-inch WXGA LED screen, 1.6GHz Intel Atom N280, 2GB DDR2 RAM, [...]
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Netronix looking to Android, 3G for its e-book readers
Google’s little green man has been getting quite an education lately, popping up in a number of e-book readers (why hello there Nook, Alex, eDGe). Not to be left out, Netronix is reportedly also looking to work with Texas Instruments on assimilating Android into its product line, according to company chairman Arthur Lu (via DigiTimes). [...]
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Alessi Silver Tea & Coffee Tower May Contain a Robot Voiced by Paul Reubens [Tea Pots]
Far be it from me, a blogger with only the most perfunctory grasp of the English language to criticize a legitimate artist, but $30,000 for a tea pot? The Earl Grey within better literally send me to the stars.
Price aside, this thing really is sleek, sexy and functional. In addition to the long, flat tea [...]
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A Very Personal Message to the Buyer of the iPhone 3GS Supreme [Wrongmodo]
Dear anonymous buyer of the $3,164,000 iPhone 3GS Supreme, the most expensive and tacky cellphone in the world: You are a tasteless assclown. Sincerely, Me.
P.S. I don’t care that you are a rich Australian business man in the gold mining industry. I don’t care that you are so rich that paying $3,164,000 for this ridiculous [...]
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Mysterious iPhone model found in app usage records?
O iPhone3,1, where art thou? Last time we spotted that signature, it was buried in lines of code as part of a beta OS 3.0 firmware build. Now according to data from analytics software inside iBART, the San Francisco-centric transportation app has been host to a new visitor with the aforementioned device identification number. As [...]
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