It’s No. 1 vs. No. 2 in the BCS title game as Auburn meets Oregon. The Ducks scored at least 37 points in all but one game this season. Auburn scored 50 or more points in six games in the 2010 campaign. (Jan. 6)
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Sure the world of digital printing might not catch many people’s eye, but there’s something otherworldly about just how fast this thing spits out pages. Memjet ‘s office reference printer is fast. How fast? 60 pages a minute, fast. Print quality looks fine at 1600 dots per inch and reportedly half the cost of ownership of other color printers. The trick behind the speed are the 70,000 nozzles firing more than 700 million drops of ink per second that print the page in one pass rather than the several passes of traditional inkjets — or enough for a page a second. We’re pretty sure if we had one of these at our disposal we’d be throwing as much material as we could at it just to watch the magic on the output side. Gallery: Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer Continue reading Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer Memjet: ink-on with the world’s fastest printer originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Been needing a credit card scanner to execute your superspy data collection with? Say hello to your new best buddy, the Planon Slimscan. This teeny tiny unit is equipped with a 600dpi optical scanner, though it shrinks images down to a 300dpi resolution to get a reasonable number of them to fit within the 64MB of onboard memory. Intended primarily as a collector of business card and receipt data, the Slimscan will come with Abbyy and PaperPort software along with the ability to export your stuff out to an Excel spreadsheet. Pricing is set at $120 and shipping is expected to commence any time now. Gallery: Planon Slimscan, world’s slimmest scanner, hands-on Continue reading Planon Slimscan, world’s slimmest scanner, hands-on (video) Planon Slimscan, world’s slimmest scanner, hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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iRobot’s first attempt at a telepresence robot, a modified Roomba, was a false start , but now they’re back with an all-new bot called AVA which should right all wrongs. The bot can adjust its own height from three feet to five feet tall to meet you at eye level, with a tablet perched on top (this is CES 2011, after all). Its base is an odd three-wheeled configuration for maneuverability, and the robot has DARPA Challenge-style environment mapping to avoid bumping into anything or anybody. For sensors the AVA is using dual Kinect-style PrimeSense sensors, along with laser rangefinders, scanning acoustic sensors, and bump sensors. There’s naturally a microphone and camera for the bot’s primary purpose: video telepresence. What’s more interesting, however, is that iRobot has an apps platform for this, which will allow developers to build new functionality. There’s no word on price or when this will go on sale, but we already know one thing: we want one. Check out some quality time that PC Magazine ‘s Lance Ulanoff spent with AVA after the break. Continue reading iRobot debuts AVA telepresence robot with tablet controls iRobot debuts AVA telepresence robot with tablet controls originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The first study to link a childhood vaccine to autism was based on doctored information about the children involved, according to a new report on the widely discredited research. (Jan. 6)
Continue reading …Contessa Brewer: What If GOP Nixed ObamaCare Repeal, Invested In Education of Unemployed Instead?
January 7, 2011 No CommentReporting that House Republicans will soon be voting to repeal President Obama's “job-killing” health care law, MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer wondered if the GOP should take a different route to save jobs. During her Thursday 12 p.m. EST news hour, she revealed a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report estimating that a repeal of the health care law will cost $230 billion over the next ten years. Disregarding the GOP arguments for repealing ObamaCare, Brewer wondered aloud about the merits of the $230 billion being invested in re-education of unemployed persons. “What would happen,” Brewer asked Prof. Robert Reich of the University of California at Berkeley, “if you took $230 billion and instead put that toward re-education of the nation's unemployed?”
Continue reading …Fulton Innovation blows our minds with eCoupled wireless Tesla, inductive cereal boxes (video)
January 7, 2011 No Comment
Wondering what your future kitchen looks like? Take a gander at what Fulton Innovation is showing at CES this year. They’re also giving a peek at the future of retail shopping, and even parking lots. It’s all the magic of inductive charging, and now that the Qi standard has been finalized it seems like things are coming together. Really together, in everything from cereal boxes with blinkenlights to Tesla Roadsters that charge almost as quickly as with a wire but, quite obviously, without the wire. Would you like to know more? Click on through. Gallery: Fulton Innovation at CES Continue reading Fulton Innovation blows our minds with eCoupled wireless Tesla, inductive cereal boxes (video) Fulton Innovation blows our minds with eCoupled wireless Tesla, inductive cereal boxes (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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HyperMac is known more for its power-extending solutions than its other peripherals, but this still-unannounced iPad external hard drive enclosure we spotted at the company’s booth is certainly interesting. Capable of accepting a standard 2.5-inch hard drive, the brushed metal box has two miniUSB ports around back — one to connect to your computer, and another to connect to your iPad. Unfortunately, unlike other iPad storage solutions like the AirStash , because it interfaces through Apple’s USB camera adapter, you’re limited to photos and video content only. On top of that, it only works with the iPad because the iPhone and iPod touch don’t support that particular accessory. The target price point is around $100 without any physical drive — yes, it’s a BYOHD affair — which is definitely steeper than we’d like, especially given the limited functionality. Still, if you’ve got more content than space to spare, you might want to look into picking one of these up when it drops in sometime later this month. Gallery: HyperMac’s external hard drive enclosure for iPad HyperMac’s external hard drive enclosure for iPad hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The Engadget Podcast Show livestream extravaganza starts at 8PM PST / 11PM EST!
January 6, 2011 No Comment
Alright, the past two days have been insanity, meaning our live Engadget Podcast Shows have happened at an ungodly hour, no matter which end of the US you happen to live. Today is totally insane too, but we’re going to take a break from the insanity to do an insane live show at 8PM Vegas Local Time (VLT), or 11PM EST, if that’s more your bag. We can’t promise to be any more coherent than the last two nights, but we can promise to be just as attractive and twice as argumentative. Don’t miss it. The stream and the chat are after the break. Oh, and here are the last two shows, in case you missed them: Engadget Podcast Show 002 Engadget Podcast Show 001 Continue reading The Engadget Podcast Show livestream extravaganza starts at 8PM PST / 11PM EST! The Engadget Podcast Show livestream extravaganza starts at 8PM PST / 11PM EST! originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We’ve been dying to play with a third-party AirPlay speaker system ever since Apple opened the tech up, and iHome was happy to oblige here at CES with the new iW1 . The wireless speaker system features two three-inch woofers and two one-inch tweeters with Bongiovi audio processing, a built-in lithium-ion battery with a grab-and-go charging base, and capacitive touch controls — and, just as we suspected, AirPlay compatibility courtesy of BridgeCo . iHome’s also developed a new iOS configuration app called iHome Connect that’ll help you get the iW1 on your WiFi network quickly, although regular WPS setup is also supported. You can also charge your iPhone or iPod by plugging into the USB port in the back — iHome is packing a cable in the box. Streaming from iOS was just as simple as with the Apple TV or Airport Express, and we only saw minimal lag between control inputs like volume and track changes, just as with an all-Apple setup. Interestingly, iOS only supports point-to-point AirPlay streaming right now, so you can only use a single speaker at a time, but if you’re streaming from iTunes you can hit multiple speakers at once, regardless of vendor. iHome is still tuning the audio performance, so we’ll reserve judgment on that until we get a review unit — which should happen when this guy ships for $300 in March. Video after the break. Gallery: iHome iW1 AirPlay speaker dock hands-on Continue reading iHome iW1 AirPlay wireless speaker hands-on iHome iW1 AirPlay wireless speaker hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Jan 2011 18:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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