New Potato reveals TuneLink Auto Bluetooth-to-FM transmitter for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad
November 23, 2010 No Comment
We’ve never been on the volunteer cheerleading squad for FM transmitters; in our experience, they’re downright useless in cities or other areas that actually have a large amount of radio stations nearby. But we’ll hand it to New Potato Technologies — this may be the slickest implementation yet. The newly announced TuneLink Auto looks like a typical cigarette adapter charger at first glance, but within, there’s technology that accepts audio over Bluetooth and then sends it out over FM. This prevents users from having to connect a dongle of any kind to their iPad, iPod touch or iPhone, but the built-in USB port is actually capable of charging all three should you choose. There’s even a 3.5mm output jack for channeling the tunes to a 3.5mm input on your head unit, and the (necessary) accompanying iDevice app should hit the App Store soon for absolutely nothing. The hardware itself is available now from New Potato for $99.99, and it’ll hit “select retail locations” in a fortnight or so for the same amount. Gallery: New Potato TuneLink Auto Bluetooth-to-FM transmitter Continue reading New Potato reveals TuneLink Auto Bluetooth-to-FM transmitter for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad New Potato reveals TuneLink Auto Bluetooth-to-FM transmitter for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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North Korea bombarded a South Korean island near their disputed western sea border Tuesday, killing marines and wounding more than a dozen. It had warned the South to halt military drills in the area. (Nov. 23)
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Heatherette designer and former Club Kid Richie Rich wears upcycled eyewear by Highbrow. Photo: Highbrow Designer Jessica Sapick has long had a knack for creating accessories out of unusual materials, from wearing binder clips as barettes in grade school to handcrafting clip-on eyebrows made with recycled materials and broken and unusable eye glass frames–donated from New Eyes for the Needy , a charity that provides new and recycled eyeglasses to the vision-impaired–under her current accessory company named Highbrow
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Photos: FareShare “Approximately 28,000 supermarkets worth of food goes to landfill every year in Victoria,” suggests FareShare CEO Marcus Godinho. FareShare is a food rescue service in Melbourne, Australia, who were a joint winners of the 2010 Premier’s Sustainability Awards. So far this year they’ve saved 468 tonnes of food that would’ve otherwise been sent to landfill. Then 3,000 volunteers have cooked 1,114,461 meals for the needy, and doing so FareShare has supported 130 charities. As those impressive figures suggest, this is no ordinary do-gooder group, but a well-oiled, switched-on, dynamic organisation…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Jennifer Grey is perfect in last bid for ‘Dancing’ votes; Brits triumph at the International Emmys; Cowell says Tyler is a perfect ‘Idol’ replacement. (Nov. 23)
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Image: The Post Carbon Institute The Post Carbon Institute see their task as “leading the transition to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable world.” And one of their current projects is the upcoming publication of a 540 page book, The Post Carbon Reader. Containing essays on renewable energy and urban agriculture to social justice and community resilience from a who’s-who of provocative thinkers, the book is available for pre-ordering with a 20% discount. Or as a free, part download…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image Source: Mike Deal Dear Pablo: I am still holding out on getting new LED holiday lights because I feel bad about getting rid of the ones that I already have. Are the energy savings worth it? Many of us have a tangled mess of holiday lights in a box in the attic. Every year we bring it out, untangle them, spend hours searching for the one burned out bulb, and hang them on our houses. In addition to all of this effort, the lights use a lot of electricity. You would be surprised by how little of … Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Digital Storm’s liquid-chilled gaming PC includes 4.6GHz Core i7-980X, equally chilling price
November 23, 2010 No Comment
Mmm, overclocking. If you’ve been looking to treat yourself this holiday season, there’s hardly a better way than with a shiny new gaming PC. Better still, a shiny new gaming PC with a liquid-chilled processor… one that just so happens to be warrantied with a 4.6GHz clock speed. Digital Storm’s Hailstorm desktop is now available with a so-called Sub-Zero cooling system, which is described as a series of TEC peltier coolers that work in conjunction with other high-end liquid cooling components to keep Intel’s Core i7-980X from boiling over. On the high-end rig, you’ll also get 6GB of DDR3 memory, a trio of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (1.5GB) GPUs, a 1200-watt power supply and a bank-breaking $6,903 price tag. Cost-conscious consumers can opt for two lesser systems, with a $4,390 build being equipped with a Core i7-950 and the $3,899 unit creeping by with only a single GTX 460 GPU. But hey, what’s a few grand among friends? Promo vid is after the break. Gallery: Digital Storm’s liquid-chilled gaming PC Continue reading Digital Storm’s liquid-chilled gaming PC includes 4.6GHz Core i7-980X, equally chilling price Digital Storm’s liquid-chilled gaming PC includes 4.6GHz Core i7-980X, equally chilling price originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Pop-up MicroLite turns your janky remote into a well-lit, even jankier remote (video)
November 23, 2010 No Comment
” I think everyone in the known world will want them! ” That’s a potent, soul-stirring quite from Honolulu’s own Becky Gray, and her emotions tend to mimic our own. We mean, who wouldn’t want a pop-up MicroLite dongle affixed to the bottom of their remote? For a limited time of indefinite nature, free-spending consumers can actually get not one, not two, but three of these miracle workers for the tidy sum of just $19.99*, enabling them to light up a full trio of cut-rate remotes. Better still, you can use two of ‘em to illuminate the keyboard of your shiny new 13-inch MacBook Air — you know, because Apple decided this solution was better than its own integrated one. There’s an unrealistic video demonstration embedded just past the break, and it’s just a Billy Mays ( rest his soul ) short of awesomeness. Order now! * Along with a likely laughable shipping and processing fee, of course. Continue reading Pop-up MicroLite turns your janky remote into a well-lit, even jankier remote (video) Pop-up MicroLite turns your janky remote into a well-lit, even jankier remote (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Nov 2010 07:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Alaska’s contested Senate election went to state court Monday when Rep. Joe Miller sued the state over the way write-in ballots for his GOP rival have been counted. (Nov. 23)
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