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Add one more to the list of manufacturers supporting Apple’s AirPlay . Philips just announced its Fidelio SoundSphere speaker that supports WiFi music streaming over Apple’s new media sharing “standard” from your PC or Mac iTunes library or from any iOS device. Unfortunately, Philips isn’t providing any useful detail about these speakers with free-floating tweeters and 360-degree sound. But hey, if you’re the kind who buys speakers based on appearance alone, then the €799 (about $1,100 — nearly twice as much as the Zeppelin Air ) price tag should be no problem when they hit Europe sometime in May. Press release and bonus pic showing the bundled dock after the break. Continue reading Philips Fidelio SoundSphere WiFi speaker gets AirPlayed Philips Fidelio SoundSphere WiFi speaker gets AirPlayed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 05:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Solid state drives are the geek storage of choice, what with their quiet nature, blazing fast speed , and stunning good looks . However, the limited capacity and sky-high price of SSDs keeps many of us buying traditional disk-based storage solutions — which is just fine considering Samsung keeps finding ways to fit more bits and bytes on every drive. Last year, Sammy’s EcoGreen F4EG squeezed 2TB onto a 3-platter drive (or 667GB per platter), and now the company’s primed to release a new series of Spinpoint drives with even greater areal density at a time and price that remains TBD. Whenever they do get here, the new HDDs promise to deliver 1TB per platter spinning at 5,400RPM — meaning 4TB desktop drives and a terabyte of storage in standard-sized laptop HDDs. The 3.5-inch version packs a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility, while the 2.5-inch variety has an 8MB cache and a 3 Gb/s SATA interface. Knowing all that, only one question remains: could areal-density enthusiasts be the new pixel-density enthusiasts ? Samsung HDD manages 1TB per platter, areal-density enthusiasts rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Solid state drives are the geek storage of choice, what with their quiet nature, blazing fast speed , and stunning good looks . However, the limited capacity and sky-high price of SSDs keeps many of us buying traditional disk-based storage solutions — which is just fine considering Samsung keeps finding ways to fit more bits and bytes on every drive. Last year, Sammy’s EcoGreen F4EG squeezed 2TB onto a 3-platter drive (or 667GB per platter), and now the company’s primed to release a new series of Spinpoint drives with even greater areal density at a time and price that remains TBD. Whenever they do get here, the new HDDs promise to deliver 1TB per platter spinning at 5,400RPM — meaning 4TB desktop drives and a terabyte of storage in standard-sized laptop HDDs. The 3.5-inch version packs a 32MB cache and SATA 6Gbps compatibility, while the 2.5-inch variety has an 8MB cache and a 3 Gb/s SATA interface. Knowing all that, only one question remains: could areal-density enthusiasts be the new pixel-density enthusiasts ? Samsung HDD manages 1TB per platter, areal-density enthusiasts rejoice originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Mar 2011 02:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

CULIACAN, Mexico – Gunbattles between rival gangs killed 18 people in a northeastern Mexican town Monday, a day after seven police officers and an inmate died in an ambush of a convoy transporting prisoners in western Mexico. The fighting in the town of Abasolo erupted Monday morning and left at least 18 people dead, the Tamaulipas state government said in a three-sentence statement that offered no details. It said state and federal security forces had arrived in the town to restore order and investigate. The shooting came a month after shootings in the nearby town of Padilla also killed 18 people, several of them innocent bystanders. Tamaulipas has been wracked by a turf war between the…

Charlie Sheen is threatening to sue after Warner Bros. fires him from the hit CBS sitcom ‘Two and a half Men.’ (March 7)

Charlie Sheen is threatening to sue after Warner Bros. fires him from the hit CBS sitcom ‘Two and a half Men.’ (March 7)

Charlie Sheen is threatening to sue after Warner Bros. fires him from the hit CBS sitcom ‘Two and a half Men.’ (March 7)

Those who are familiar with Android Honeycomb might have already come across its music player’s cloud syncing feature, though previous attempts to port said app to phones hadn’t been successful. Whatever it was that kept crashing the app back then, it seems to have fixed itself — xda-developers member WhiteWidows managed to extract the APK file from his Motorola Xoom , and after slapping the app onto his rooted EVO 4G, the phone started to automagically sync his tunes to his Google account. The modder then swapped in an empty SD card, but he was still able to stream music straight from the cloud after checking the “Stream music” option in the app. Pretty neat, eh? That said, we do wonder if Google will be able to handle the exabytes worth of high-quality Justin Bieber and Spice Girl tracks. Android Honeycomb’s music app extracted, brings cloud sync and streaming to phones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Robots that are able to find a charger and plug themselves in may not be that unique anymore, but most of those chargers tend to leave the robot with little to do while it replenishes its batteries. Not so with this new charger developed by Aldebaran Robotics for its Nao robot, which basically consists of a retractable extension cord that leaves the robot free to continue interacting with its owner, or simply sit down and chill out as the case may be. What’s more, while that comes from Aldebaran itself, we’re also now starting to see some results out of the company’s new developer program , and it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that one of the first standout projects involves Wiimote and Kinect controls. Head on past the break to see both it and the new charging station on video. Continue reading Nao robot gets a new charging station, Kinect / Wiimote controls Nao robot gets a new charging station, Kinect / Wiimote controls originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink