Complementing the integrated projector concept introduced at CES last month, MSI brought a new not-for-sale hottie to its CeBIT booth this week in the form of the Dual Pad, which is… well, literally two WindPads placed on top of one another. The idea is that the pads can be taken apart and used as two completely independent Windows 7 tablets when necessary — “you and your girlfriend on a trip” was the example given to us during the press conference — but when you piece them together, they become one mega-tablet capable of operating essentially as a single dual-screen netbook (a hingeless, permanently-open one). Again, it’s a pure concept; there are no plans for commercialization that we could eke out, but we can’t imagine it’d be cheap since you’d effectively be buying two complete tablets. Follow the break for video! Gallery: MSI Dual Pad concept eyes-on Continue reading MSI Dual Pad concept eyes-on (video) MSI Dual Pad concept eyes-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Tablet shocker! MSI WindPad 100A packs Tegra 2 and will ship with Honeycomb
February 28, 2011 No Comment
At this point, MSI has been showing off its 10-inch Android tablet for a good half a year, but at least this time it’s coming clean with some specs, and they’re actually not half bad. Yep, the company brought its WindPad 100A to CeBIT and has announced that it, like most of the others , is powered by a dual-core Tegra 2 processor and will get some sweet Honeycomb when it hits the market in late May or early June. The model on hand at CeBIT was running some 2.X version of Android, and the hardware was identical to the one we saw back at CES . MSI’s told us that pricing hasn’t been set yet, but hopefully, like Moto’s Sanjay Jha just proclaimed, these tablet prices will be dropping come the second half of the year. Hit the gallery below for some closer hands-on shots. Gallery: MSI WindPad 100A at CeBIT 2011 Tablet shocker! MSI WindPad 100A packs Tegra 2 and will ship with Honeycomb originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Some 800 families were left homeless after Bolivia’s capital was hit with a “mega-mudslide” yesterday, CNN reports. No deaths or injuries were reported in the La Paz disaster, which was prompted by heavy rains. “So far we are talking about 5,000 (people) affected,” said a city spokesman last night,…
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Matthew Sparkes reported on TreeHugger before on how investments in cycling could save hundreds of millions in health costs . Others, however, are not so sure. A debate seems to be going on at the moment in the UK over whether cycling causes heart attacks. The tabloid Daily Mail newspaper reported that cycling is a major cause of heart attacks , while Matthew Sparkes (yup, the one and the same guy who reported here on health benefits) argues over at… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image credit: vastateparksstaff , used under Creative Commons license. We already know that for some people, choosing a partner has a lot to do with their dietary ethics— if your not vegan, no sex . But even for the non-vegans out there, sexual attraction and finding a partner are intrinsically tied up to ethical values and behavior. In fact, new research suggests that—for women at leas… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The Motorola XOOM is looked upon by many as the only challenger to Apple’s dominance in the tablet market. It’s the first dual-core Android Honeycomb powered tablet to market that has already received the root treatment but today has been subjected to a few kernel tweeks, overclocking it to run 50% faster than its default Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 27/02/2011 21:31 Number of articles : 3
Continue reading …CNN ‘Belief Blog’ Hypes Ad by Liberal Christian Group Asking ‘What Would Jesus Cut?’
February 28, 2011 No Comment
Imagine that Pat Robertson or Dr. James Dobson took out a full-page ad in a mainstream media publication hinting that Jesus himself is squarely behind the Republicans' efforts to curb spending and curtail the size and scope of the federal government. The media would certainly cover the interesting theological and political claims at hand but they'd also be certain to cite apolitical and/or liberal Christian thinkers who would decry the crass and cynical exploitation of Christ for political matters upon which Scripture is silent, such as the U.S. federal budget. Yet when it came to the liberal group Sojourners asking “What Would Jesus Cut” in an ad in today's Politico, CNN's Belief Blog failed to report the objections of concerns that conservative Christians and apolitical Christian theologians would raise From Dan Gilgoff's Feb. 28 CNN.com Belief Blog post (emphasis mine): A coalition of progressive Christian leaders has taken out a full-page ad that asks “What would Jesus cut?” in Monday’s edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.
Continue reading …Apple’s Tim Cook hints at cheaper iPhone, prepaid possibilities to come?
February 28, 2011 No CommentApple CFO Tim Cook got all buddy-buddy with Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi this week, talking about Apple’s business strategy — nothing out of the ordinary there — but this morning, that analyst decided to publicly paraphrase an intriguing part of the interview. Guess what? It sounds like a cheaper iPhone may indeed be in the cards: While Tim stopped short of explicitly stating that Apple would pursue a lower price iPhone, he did state that Apple was working hard to “figure out” the prepaid market and that Apple didn’t want its products to be “just for the rich,” but “for everyone”; he also stated that Apple “understood price is big factor in the prepaid market” and that the company was “not ceding any market.” Cook noted that Apple executives – including himself – had spent “huge energy” in China, noting that it is “a classic prepaid market.” He further noted that the handset distribution model was poorly constructed and that Apple would look to “innovate” and do “clever” things in addressing that market. As you can see, there aren’t any statements of fact here, just some general strategy ideas, but if Apple indeed plans to put an iPhone in every pot, it would be helpful if it didn’t have to rely on the carrier subsidy model . Apple’s Tim Cook hints at cheaper iPhone, prepaid possibilities to come? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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It’s been over a year since Sony introduced the world’s first 16.41 megapixel CMOS sensor for cellphones (pictured at right), but the company’s now finally back with another entrant in the megapxiel race : a 17.7 megapixel sensor. This one delivers more than just a higher resolution, though, as it’s also Sony’s first sensor with a bandwidth of 34.8Gbps (or about five times faster than previous CMOS sensors), which promises to allow for 120 fps video at full resolution — assuming the phone’s processor and storage are able to keep up, of course. What’s more, the new sensor is also said to boast some improved consumption and, according to Nikkei , it seems that Sony is planning to use it in digital cameras in addition to cellphones, although there’s no word as to when either of those will be available. Sony touts high-speed 17.7 megapixel CMOS sensor for cellphones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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