BOSS’s Micro BR-80 digital multitrack and field recorder fits the band and studio in your hand
July 24, 2011 No Comment
Who needs a recording studio — or even a full band — for that next demo? Grab your guitar, BOSS’ latest portable Micro BR digital recorder and a fistful of ego for a do-it-yourself session that only a mother could love. The BR-80 lets you record two tracks at once and offers eight tracks of playback along with 64 virtual tracks to mix and master any epics you’re dreaming up. For hookup, it’s packing aux and 1/4-inch inputs, a headphone out, and even a USB port to interface with a computer. You can also record using its onboard stereo field mics if you lose your cables at a gig. Inside, it’s packing four and six-string COSM effects, DNA from its VE-20 to spice up your vocals, and eBand options. There’s support for WAV and MP3 formats, but better yet, SD cards up to 32GB giving you a whopping 550 hours of recording time to lay those burnin’ licks down. It’s currently available and shipping for about 300 bones — eRoadies not included. Full PR after the break. Continue reading BOSS’s Micro BR-80 digital multitrack and field recorder fits the band and studio in your hand BOSS’s Micro BR-80 digital multitrack and field recorder fits the band and studio in your hand originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 07:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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What do you get when you cross a dj with a “Canadian roboticist?” An almost true-to-fiction Wall-E , that’s what. In this rendition of garbage-bot gone cute, amateur robotics enthusiast DJ Sures (yes, he makes music) hollowed out a U-Command Wall-E toy and fixed him up with some servo guts. The voice-activated, semi-autonomous modjob has a built-in eye camera that recognizes motion, colors and faces, coming the closest we’ve seen to replicating the CG-romantic. The whole AA-battery powered affair runs on the EZ-B Robot Controller software shown off by Sures in the video below. And unlike other past recreations , this little guy knows how to get down without the need for sped up video tricks . Clearly, the Pixar-bred bot’s become the unofficial icon of the homebrew robotics community, so where’s his official counterpart? You listening Disney? Get cracking. Continue reading Wall-E meets his Canadian DJ maker, turns into a real robot toy (video) Wall-E meets his Canadian DJ maker, turns into a real robot toy (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Like Android, QWERTY keyboards, and paying as you go? Boy, have we got the handset for you. This is the Samsung SPH-M930, a Droid Charge-looking slider reportedly destined for the pre-paid world of Boost Mobile . The Gingerbread handset is said to be rocking a 1GHz Qualcomm chip and is a mere FCC approval away from your thumbs. Samsung SPH-M930 to give Boost Mobile a keyboard-packing Charge? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Thought the Personal Audio / Apple brouhaha was over ? Think again, because everyone’s favorite patent licensing company is back, hitting Cupertino with another suit. You’ll recall an earlier ruling by a federal jury in Eastern Texas found the CE maker guilty of infringing upon PA’s playlist-related IP with an assortment of older iPods. This new filing alleges that newer Apple devices, like the iPhone 4 , iPad 2 and modern day iPods — which weren’t part of the original 2009 case — also violate that same IP, in a move we’d surmise serves to pad Personal Audio’s coffers. Not like Apple’s apt to feel the pinch should Personal Audio snag another victory, but hey…. Personal Audio sues Apple again, targets iPhone 4, iPad 2 and newer iPods originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Curiosity rover to land in Mars’s Gale Crater to look for life, finally answer Bowie’s nagging questions
July 23, 2011 No Comment
It’s gotten its own photo shoot , some cool animation , and the interest of James Cameron — and now Curiosity finally has a destination. NASA’s pluckily-named Mars rover is set to land next to a mountain inside the red planet’s 96-mile-wide Gale Crater. Curiosity is scheduled to touch down in August 2012 in search of life on the fourth rock from the sun. The crater, one of 60 suggested sites, was chosen due to its potential for a safe landing and the possibility of scientific discovery, thanks in part to nearby geographical formations that may have been created by water. Here’s hoping it encounters some serious space oddities when it gets there. Continue reading Curiosity rover to land in Mars’s Gale Crater to look for life, finally answer Bowie’s nagging questions Curiosity rover to land in Mars’s Gale Crater to look for life, finally answer Bowie’s nagging questions originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Sam, who couldn’t be more excited to hop onboard the SuperSpeed bandwagon. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com . “I finally got a new laptop with a lone USB 3.0 port. I’m now looking at getting a USB 3.0 hub with a power adapter so I can use both of my USB 3.0 hard drives at faster speeds. I’ve read lots of horror stories where some hubs either don’t come with power adapters — and as a consequence the portable drives don’t work with them properly — or they are designed poorly which results in USB 2.0 speeds. Or, the hard drives keep getting disconnected. Do your readers have any suggestions or experience using USB 3.0 hubs? Thanks!” A timely question, indeed. We too have seen USB 3.0 hubs act awfully finicky — particularly when mixing USB 3.0 and 2.0 HDDs — so we’d love to hear what one(s) are working out for folks. Shout it out in comments below! Ask Engadget: best USB 3.0 hub on the market? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 22:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Unless you’ve got a penchant for going the ultralight route, chances are you’ve got a DVD or other optical drive in your laptop that you rarely, if ever, actually stick a disk in it. This concept, dubbed disk+Mouse plans to put that space to good use holding a pointer that stores flat, but pops up in a conical shape when needed. Of course, by this time next year we’ll all probably be looking at physical media the same way we did floppies in the post iMac world and this will be nothing but a cutesy throwback with no place to go — just like those cassette-shaped USB drives. CD-shaped mouse is perfect for our physical media-free future originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We know it’s been a long wait since CES , but after getting pawed at by both Blake Griffin and yours truly , the Vizio Tablet is starting to show up in stores right about on schedule . Frequent Engadget commenter DaHarder took a step away from the Disqus box and snagged this tablet at a local Costco store for $329 ($20 off the regular price), an achievement also unlocked by the folks at Mobileslate . According to their reports you may have to ask around to find out if the VTAB1008 is actually in stock but it may be lurking along with its $40 Accessories Kit, while it’s already showing in stock on the Vizio online store. Impressions so far suggest a “budget” tablet experience above that of the flood of craptablets with decent hardware and battery life, but a software experience behind the top of the line slates due to the custom UI, small internal storage and RAM and slower single core Marvell CPU. Our review is yet to come, but if there’s around three bills burning a hole in your pocket and you’ve just got to have an Android tablet with integrated IR blaster, we’re not seeing too many other options available. [Thanks, DaHarder] Vizio Tablet tiptoes into retail, starting at Costco originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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What we have here, is a decidedly low-end Android tablet from the folks at MSI (possibly a member of the Enjoy family ) flying through the FCC as fast as its single-core 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU and 512MB of RAM will carry it. Inside you’ll find Bluetooth and WiFi antennas, as well as enough room for a full-sized SD card, though oddly the user manual says this model (listed as MS-N0Y1) only supports sizes up to 8GB. Up front you’ll find a camera for video chatting, the requisite buttons for navigating the customized version of Gingerbread, and a 10-inch screen sporting a rather uninspiring 800×480 resolution. There’s a second camera around back, as well as the all important FCC tag. Check out the gallery below and hit up the source for the aforementioned user manual and a special treat — schematics for those Android pushing internals. Gallery: MSI tablet passes through FCC MSI tablet moseys on through the FCC, exposes its inner secrets originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Verizon promotes Lowell McAdam to CEO, Ivan Seidenberg stays on as Chairman
July 23, 2011 No Comment
Ivan Seidenberg , the man who took the helm as Big Red steered its ship into the iPhone’s waters, is stepping down as CEO effective August 1st, the completion of a succession plan that’s been underway since last year. His replacement? Current President Lowell McAdam, who helped lead the charge to bring Apple’s smartphone to the company’s subscribers — and who proudly stood on stage with Apple’s Tim Cook to announce it. Seidenberg will remain Chairman for the time being to help aid in the transition, and while we’re not sure for just how long that will be, we wonder if maybe he’s not just waiting to pick up a Bionic before heading out. Continue reading Verizon promotes Lowell McAdam to CEO, Ivan Seidenberg stays on as Chairman Verizon promotes Lowell McAdam to CEO, Ivan Seidenberg stays on as Chairman originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:59:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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