Image via Fujitsu Constantly fascinating is the area of harvesting energy from our own bodies to power devices. A steady stream of concepts from designers and prototypes from labs keeps us entertained, though few are really viable Fujitsu hopes that its latest breakthrough in harvesting energy from both light and heat could be the next big thing for microenergy harvesting via wearable technology. Without the need for electrical wiring or battery replacements, the company hopes it could be part of commercial products by 2015. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Two haikus: FCC archives, The Creative ZiiO 10 . Seven was there first . Manual reminds A lack of Android market. Gallery’s below. Gallery: Creative ZiiO 10 in FCC Creative ZiiO 10 follows little brother into the halls of FCC originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Erekat asks for recognition of Palestinian state, but ministers convening in Brussels expected to say EU ‘will not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the parties’
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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has warned Italian lawmakers against bringing down his government, pleading that political stability was necessary for the country. He was fighting for survival ahead of key confidence votes set for Tuesday. (Dec. 13)
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Image credit: meddygarnet , used under Creative Commons license. (This photo does not show a representative of any of the companies mentioned in the post.) Some time ago my friend and colleague Jerry Stifelman noted that just because something saves the world, that doesn’t make it popular , and he was right. Product and service quality are every bit as important as environmental credentials if g… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …MSI to reintroduce WindPad tablets at CES, claims Oak Trail improves performance and battery life
December 13, 2010 No Comment
You’ll remember that back at Computex MSI introduced two tablets or so-called WinPads — there was the Windows 7 / Atom slate and another one of the Android / ARM variety . Well, MSI is planning to resurrect those with some slight improvements for CES, and this time it’s gearing up to actually release them both. First up is the 10.1-inch Windows 7 Home Premium version, which will be one of the first Intel Atom Oak Trail -powered devices out there, says the company. According to MSI’s Director of North American Sales Andy Tung, Intel’s tablet solution does show both battery life and performance improvements over the current Atom chips, but it’s “not extremely significant.” Based on our discussion with Tung, we got the feeling that it’s a step in the right direction for Atom but still not as long-lasting as it needs to be to compete with ARM-based tablets. Beyond that, the tablet measures less than an inch thick and will have a 1024 x 600-resolution, multitouch display, mini-HDMI and mini-USB ports, an SD card slot, and an accelerometer. Tung wasn’t ready to reveal pricing, but he said it should be available in early 2011. On the Android side of things, MSI’s got a dual-core Tegra 2-powered 10.1-inch, 1280 x 800-resolution slate prepped with the same selection of ports and features — although, this one is slightly thinner and also has a drop-proof design. So, what version of Android will it run? Well, that depends on Google’s timing, says Tung. If Android 3.0 or Honeycomb is available by the February / March timeframe MSI will go with that option — however, if it’s not, it will go with Gingerbread , so it can hit the market earlier in 2011. We have to say both tablets sound rather intriguing, but will they be able to go up against the hundreds of others coming at CES: The Tablet Year ? We’ll know more in Vegas, that’s for sure! MSI to reintroduce WindPad tablets at CES, claims Oak Trail improves performance and battery life originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …I caught this over on TalkLeft last night . If this is true, it certainly seems to indicate something rather nefarious might be happening. Looks like they just want an excuse, any excuse, to indict him and hold him in American custod y: Via CBS News , Mark Stephens, attorney for Wikileaks’ Julian Assange, appears on David Frost’s al Jazeera TV show and says they’ve received word a grand jury has been empaneled in Alexandria, VA to investigate criminal charges. “We have heard from the Swedish authorities there has been a secretly empaneled grand jury in Alexandria…just over the river from Washington DC, next to the Pentagon,” Stephens said. “They are currently investigating this, and indeed the Swedes we understand have said that if he comes to Sweden, they will defer their interest in him to the Americans. Now that shows some level of collusion and embarrassment, so it does seem to me what we have here is nothing more than holding charges…so ultimately they can get their mitts on him .
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Every year a panel of leading conservative media observers and experts picks the most-biased media quotes for the Media Research Center's annual awards for the year's “worst reporting.” And these judges have done so again this year to decide the 2010 award “winners” with the choices to be announced on Monday, December 20. But now you too can participate via a separately-compiled Web ballot!
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Cobra’s PhoneLynx BT 215 Bluetooth adapter keeps your RCA landline handset ringing (in a sense)
December 13, 2010 No Comment
So, your RCA 25055RE1 cordless landline phone is a lot more comfortable to hold upside your cranium for hours on end compared to that [insert smartphone here], but you aren’t about to reinstate the phone service that you axed half a decade ago. What’s a boy (or girl) to do? Enter Cobra’s PhoneLynx BT 215, a Bluetooth-to-home phone adapter that funnels any call you receive on your cellphone to any handset that you connect to the peripheral. Better still, it’s capable of distributing calls to multiple landline handsets at once, enabling the whole family to talk to Uncle Rickie when he phones in this holiday season. Oh, and did we mention that it creates a dial tone when you pick up the aforesaid RCA handset while also pushing calls out via your cellphone? You can get your retro on now for around $35. Cobra’s PhoneLynx BT 215 Bluetooth adapter keeps your RCA landline handset ringing (in a sense) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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