Image Credit: Enviu Here’s a challenge for the new year: Help co-design solutions for mobile phones to improve sustainability. Imagine a phone that does not need to be charged, one that measures the drinking water quality in remote areas, one with an app that helps you save energy or one that does not leave behind any e-waste at the end of its life. Enviu , the Dutch innovators behind the sustainable dancefloor , the
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Big cot encampments and huge lines gave way to orderly, single-file queues and thawing tensions as flights left New York-area airports on time Wednesday, but clusters of tired, resigned passengers were still camped out waiting to go home. (Dec. 30)
Continue reading …Creative Zen Touch 2 passes FCC, adds yet another new button arrangement to Android world
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Oh Android, is there any device you won’t grace for the cheap thrill of adding to your army of followers? Creative’s Zen Touch 2 served up most of its specs a couple of months back, including a resistive touchscreen and the use of Android 2.1 as its OS, but today it’s formalized its US intentions with a bit of FCC certification action. The 3.2-inch PMP’s 802.11b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth 2.1 wireless transceivers all checked out okay, though the exhaustive teardown also revealed a “vibrator” module and an 1150mAh battery contained within its plasticky walls. Another note of import was that two variants, one equipped with GPS and one without, were offered to the FCC, in line with the company segmenting the Zen Touch 2 into “standard” and “enhanced” editions. If you’re in the UK, you can have one of these music players shipped to you tomorrow, but the US online store only lists it by name and doesn’t yet have a full listing. Shouldn’t be long now. Continue reading Creative Zen Touch 2 passes FCC, adds yet another new button arrangement to Android world Creative Zen Touch 2 passes FCC, adds yet another new button arrangement to Android world originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea has faster, more powerful tanks prowling the world’s most heavily armed border and 200,000 special forces poised to carry out assassinations and cause havoc in South Korea, a major military review said yesterday. Seoul’s Defence Ministry report, released every two years, signals that the North’s military threat has expanded. It comes as President Lee Myung-bak’s administration scrambles to respond to criticism that it was unprepared for a November 23 North Korean artillery attack on a front-line island that killed four people. That attack, along with an alleged North Korean torpedoing of a warship in March, has prompted South Korea to define the North in the…
Continue reading …LG ST600 Smart TV Upgrader brings DLNA, apps, and a web browser to formerly dumb displays
December 30, 2010 No Comment
If you buy any of LG’s latest HDTVs , you’re pretty much assured it’ll have a big sticker saying “Smart TV” somewhere along its fascia assuring you of its internet connectivity and compatibility. But, if you’re still rocking some old school piece of visual tech that isn’t yet past its “watch by” date, you’ll be needing a set-top box of some kind to get on the web without leaving your couch. Naturally, LG would like to be the one to Smarten up your viewing habits there too, and so it’s just unveiled its new ST600 sidekick for older television sets. It adds DLNA connectivity for some wireless media transfer fun, grants access to a “vast range” of premium content as well as local programming, throws in a web browser, and finishes things off with LG’s TV Apps selection. Of course, this is the week of the pre-CES announcement , hence we’ve no pricing to share yet, but the way the company’s talking about it, the ST600 sounds like it might make an aggressive MSRP its standout feature. Sadly, that’s a bit of a distant hope for now as this Upgrader isn’t expected in shops until Q2 2011. Who knows if we’ll even be watching TV by that time? Continue reading LG ST600 Smart TV Upgrader brings DLNA, apps, and a web browser to formerly dumb displays LG ST600 Smart TV Upgrader brings DLNA, apps, and a web browser to formerly dumb displays originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Women’s rights activists gather outside Tel Aviv courthouse to support complainants in case against former president, set to receive verdict on rape charges. ‘He prays three times a day, with greater resolve than ever,’ says PR advisor
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Manama: Senior officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA and many people keep visiting US embassies in their countries to establish links with the US intelligence agency, Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks whistle-blowing website, said. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange told pan-Arab Al Jazeera channel in an interview on Wednesday evening. The interviewer, Ahmad Mansour, said during the second part of the interview, that Assange…
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BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) – Residents fled floods in Australia's north-east Thursday as rising waters swamped towns, roads and railways in an “unprecedented” multi-billion-dollar disaster. As hundreds of displaced residents sheltered in evacuation centres and towns battened down for some of the worst deluges on record, Queensland state premier Anna Bligh warned the crisis could drag on for days or weeks. “This is a disaster on an unprecedented scale,” Bligh told reporters. “This is a massive…
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We’re guessing we’ll see a more official announcement about these soon enough, but for now we’ll have to make do with some product pages that have quietly turned up on Gigabyte’s website for two new Atom N550-based netbooks: the M1005 and Q2005. As Netbook News notes, the latter of those (pictured above) looks to be remarkably similar to the Jolicloud Jolibook , also based on the same dual-core N550 processor, while the M1005 appears to be a relatively minor update to the company’s M1022 model, right down to the same docking station (check it out after the break). Still no indication of pricing or availability for either of them, but you can find the complete specs for each at the links below. Continue reading Gigabyte slips out Atom N550-based M1005, Q2005 netbooks Gigabyte slips out Atom N550-based M1005, Q2005 netbooks originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Dec 2010 02:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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IDF submarine divers’ course cadets take time out from arduous training to meet with Holocaust survivors and commemorate their experiences. ‘We have been through tough course but hearing what survivors went through we realize it was nothing in comparison,’ says one cadet
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