iPad on sale at some Sam’s Club stores, stuffed in between the treehouses and turkeys
November 16, 2010 No Comment
If you’ve never been to a Sam’s Club , well you’re missing out on a seriously authentic American experience. The sheer quantity of goods should — and most likely will — overwhelm you as you cram the largest box of cereal you’ve ever seen into your shopping cart. Well, the cornucopia of products on offer has apparently been increased by one lately. That’s right, it looks like Sam’s Club is now selling the Apple iPad , according to several tips sent into 9 to 5 Mac . The pricing doesn’t look bad: $488 for a 16GB WiFi-only model and $609 for the 3G model. Hey, you had to pick up a mega pack of tinsel this weekend anyway, right? iPad on sale at some Sam’s Club stores, stuffed in between the treehouses and turkeys originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Viewsonic rolls out 3DV5 pocket camcorder, other gadgets of 2D and 3D varieties
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Viewsonic has been touting a whole range of 3D gadgets since IFA this summer , and it’s now finally brought a few of them to North America. That includes the $180 3DV5 pocket camcorder , which was already released in Europe and does 720p video along with 5 megapixel stills (in both 3D and 2D), and the also-$180 3DPF8 8-inch digital photo frame, which will let you view 3D videos and photos without the need for 3D glasses. Joining those are the $330 DVP5 pocket camcorder, which isn’t 3D but does pack a built-in projector, and the $150 DPF8-CAM Digital Photo Copier, which is actually an 8-inch digital photo frame with a built-in scanner to let you easily convert your snapshots to digital copies. Head on past the break for the complete press release, and hit up the gallery below for a closer look at the whole lot. Gallery: Viewsonic 3DV5, 3DPF8, DVP5, and DPF8-CAM Continue reading Viewsonic rolls out 3DV5 pocket camcorder, other gadgets of 2D and 3D varieties Viewsonic rolls out 3DV5 pocket camcorder, other gadgets of 2D and 3D varieties originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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For most Mac users, upgradeable anything is starting to sound like a distant memory, but Mac Pro users bought that big ol’ box for a reason: expandability. Now NVIDIA is here to make it worth their while, releasing the mid-range Quadro 4000 graphics card with that latest / greatest Fermi architecture . With 256 CUDA cores and 2GB of GDDR5 memory, the card should slice through just about anything a pro app (Photoshop, Maya, Snood) can send it, and probably wouldn’t mind popping out a FPS session now and then just to stretch the legs. Of course, when we say “mid-range” we aren’t talking cheap: NVIDIA’s MSRP is $1,199, a good bit more than the card’s $700-ish PC-compatible counterpart. It should be available this month. Continue reading NVIDIA brings the Fermi-packing Quadro 4000 to the Mac Pro NVIDIA brings the Fermi-packing Quadro 4000 to the Mac Pro originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Mitsubishi MDT231WG monitor is 23-inches of 120hz gaming goodness and movie magic (video)
November 16, 2010 No Comment
Sometimes having a computer monitor and a separate HDTV are just too much for your feng shui to handle, and Mitsubishi is here to enhance your qi with its MDT231WG all-in-one monitor. No, not an all-in-one in that it has a PC built in there, but rather it’s intended to serve double-duty as a computer monitor and an HDTV. Its 120hz refresh rate and 5.5ms response time mean it’ll keep up with Call of Duty , while its 178-degree viewing angle, 5000:1 contrast ratio IPS panel, and integrated 2.1 channel sound system means it should do a decent job at movie playback. And, with a combined power output for all three speakers of 11 watts you won’t even have to worry about waking the neighbors. Right now this is looking like it’ll only be hitting the Japanese market and, while Mitsu hasn’t announced a price yet, we found one for pre-order at
Continue reading …AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon announce Isis national mobile commerce network
November 16, 2010 No Comment
Just in time for the total economic collapse of Europe and the rise of the cyber-nomadic tribes, the kids at Discover, Barclaycard, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon have a name for their mobile phone-based payment system : Isis. Essentially it remains what we heard from Bloomberg a few months back: a system for using an app on your phone to send payments to a POS system using NFC technology. The Isis team thinks it has “the scope and scale necessary to introduce mobile commerce on a broad basis,” and we wish them the best. But we know how it all ends anyways: with the lucky among us dead, and the rest of us living in caves, hiding from death-dealing robots , and bartering for what we can’t scrounge from the ruins of our once-great cities. PR after the break. Continue reading AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon announce Isis national mobile commerce network AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon announce Isis national mobile commerce network originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ve already shared some opinions on why Samsung’s Galaxy Tab pricing makes sense stateside — granted, that was before AT&T announced it would be charging $50 more than every other US carrier . After initially showing up for pre-order in the UK on Carphone Warehouse for
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We’ve only ever seen brief glimpses of the BlackBerry PlayBook in action so far, but a new video posted up by RIM comparing its tablet’s web browsing performance to the iPad certainly has us hungry for more. Seriously — PlayBook pretty much run laps around the iPad while loading pages, and even its Flash performance seems decent, which is a first for a mobile device in our experience. Of course, the video was made by RIM and we’re sure the specific pages were picked to make the PlayBook look as good as possible, but that’s fair enough — now if we could just get our hands on one to verify these claims for ourselves, we’d be happy as clams. Video after the break. Continue reading BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad go head-to-head in a browsing showdown BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad go head-to-head in a browsing showdown originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Evigroup Paddle tablet goes Pro, gets cursor-controlling, head-tracking webcam
November 16, 2010 No Comment
Some day, in the distant future, we’ll be activating windows, clicking buttons, and playing Farmville with our minds. Our minds . There have been attempts to get us there, none fully comprehensive, though the Evigroup Paddle Pro tablet is taking an interesting alternative approach: using head tracking to control the cursor. Apparently its front-facing webcam detects your front-facing mug and as you look about the screen it moves the cursor appropriately. Staring rudely at any button or control for a half-second equates to a click and, while we don’t yet know how you’ll double-click, we’d like to think a spasmodic twitch will be required. Evigroup is also launching a curvy keyboard to go with the Paddle Pro and is promising the ability to play video and audio wirelessly courtesy of a “small station” that connects to your TV. The internals, meanwhile, are perfectly predictable: a netbook spec Atom N450 struggling with Windows 7 Home Premium. No word on price or availability. Evigroup Paddle tablet goes Pro, gets cursor-controlling, head-tracking webcam originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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It’s hard to believe we’re already writing a review of the Nook Color , considering Barnes & Noble’s first foray into the e-reader world was revealed just over a year ago. In that time, the company has gone from no presence in e-books to owning 20 percent of the marketshare, and now has moved from a somewhat sluggish hybrid E-Ink / LCD device to a full color, tablet-like product. The Nook Color is definitely a major step forward, boasting a completely revamped, Android-based OS, and a big push into the children’s book and periodical market (particularly full color magazines). Both of these spaces have yet to be mined successfully by players like Apple and Amazon — and it’s clear Barnes & Noble is aware of the stakes. Beyond book reading, the Nook Color potentially offers a tablet alternative that can (or will be able to) do much of what is possible on an iPad or Galaxy Tab. In fact, the company plans to launch its own Android tablet app store in the first quarter of 2011, providing a consistent, compatible application experience that could get the jump on other Android tablet-makers’ plans (hello Samsung). Of course, this is a fierce market, and with a $249 price tag, Barnes & Noble has to play to win on every front. So, is the Nook Color the next logical step in e-readers? Is it a healthy alternative to more expensive tablets? And can it cement the prominent bookseller’s place in a hotly contested new space? Read on for all those answers in the full Engadget review! Gallery: Nook Color review Continue reading Nook Color review Nook Color review originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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