Pixel Qi partners with Chunghwa Picture Tubes to manufacture new transflective LCD models
December 21, 2010 No Comment
The characteristic most often associated with Pixel Qi screens — aside from their prized daylight-readable quality — up to this point has been scarcity . Hoping to correct that supply shortage, Mary Lou Jepsen’s team has today announced a partnership with Taiwanese manufacturer Chunghwa Picture Tubes to, well, produce some picture tubes. Apparently, “the teams have been working together quietly all fall” and now they’re ready to make things official, while also announcing that three new panels will be coming to market at various points during 2011. The first of those, a 7-inch screen with a 1024 x 600 resolution, is set to make its debut at CES 2011 in early January, with mass production coming in the second quarter of the year. Another note of interest is the tally of three million Pixel Qi displays shipped over the past three years — let’s hope we can double that number through 2011, eh? [Thanks, LifeBringer] Continue reading Pixel Qi partners with Chunghwa Picture Tubes to manufacture new transflective LCD models Pixel Qi partners with Chunghwa Picture Tubes to manufacture new transflective LCD models originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Curious timing, no? This morning, Cupertino’s PR department has blasted out a blurb stating that the newfangled Apple TV — which only started shipping three months ago — is expected to cross the one million mark in sales prior to Christmas Day. The obvious remark is hard to ignore: “That’s a lot for a hobby .” And yeah, it is. But it probably has more to do with trends in consumer purchasing and a delightfully low $99 price point than anything else, and if you doubt that logic, you should probably have a sit-down with Roku CEO Anthony Wood. The folks at Business Insider did, and Wood confessed that Roku media streamer sales have actually doubled since the introduction of the second-gen Apple TV. As the story goes, Jobs did the whole sector a solid by refocusing consumer attention on the set-top box realm, and with the most basic Roku retailing for just $59 , it’s pretty clear that the outfit drives a tough bargain. Roku’s also expecting to sell its one millionth box by the close of this year, but of course it’s had a lot longer than three months to do so. Still, for an up and comer, selling one million of anything (let alone looking at $50 million or more in annual sales) is quite the achievement. Continue reading New Apple TV, Roku media streamers race to break one million in sales New Apple TV, Roku media streamers race to break one million in sales originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …TRENDnet TEW-690AP wireless access point has a theoretical 450Mbps top speed, a real $200 price
December 21, 2010 No Comment
It’s a sad fact of our digital lives that no matter how stylish we make our daily-used devices, we’ll still need some antenna-riddled ogre in the corner of the room to blast out the WiFi goodness. Enter TRENDnet ‘s latest contender, the TEW-690AP (even its name betrays an absolute lack of charisma), which has three spatial streams per antenna to deliver a max theoretical throughput of 450Mbps. It goes up to a full gigabit should you find any reason to connect via its wired Ethernet port, while a few extra bells and whistles — like a repeater mode, WiFi Protected Setup with compatible devices, and up to four unique, encrypted SSIDs per wireless band — complete the $200 value proposition. Whether you say yay or nay, look out for more from these guys at CES , they’re promising to announce some more “first to market” wireless innovations. Continue reading TRENDnet TEW-690AP wireless access point has a theoretical 450Mbps top speed, a real $200 price TRENDnet TEW-690AP wireless access point has a theoretical 450Mbps top speed, a real $200 price originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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It took awhile for Fujitsu’s Lifebook T580 to hit the US market, but at last, the 10.1-inch, three-pound Tablet PC has landed on this side of the Atlantic. The netvertible, if we can even call it that, is about double the price of the usual convertible netbook, and for good reason — the system eschews Atom for Core i3 / i5 processor options and also has an capacitive display with an N-trig digitizer , which can support both pen and finger input. The $1,149 “Express Buy” model packs a Core i3-380UM processor, 2GB of RAM, 160GB of storage, and a 5,800mAh six-cell battery, while going on up to the Core i5-560UM CPU adds an extra $250. The T580 sure does seem to fill a pretty niche market these days, which is why we’re guessing Fujitsu dropped the early “slate-beating” descriptor, but there’s got to be some out there that still want the power of a mainstream system in a shrunken Tablet PC form factor, right? Fujitsu Lifebook T580 Tablet PC now on sale in North America originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Hulu Plus not happening on cable-provided TiVo Premiere DVRs, Scrooge wins again
December 21, 2010 No Comment
It’s a little hard to know exactly who to blame here, but one thing is for sure: consumers lose. Last week Suddenlink started deploying TiVo Premiere DVRs to its customers minus Netflix , saying that it was the agreements Netflix has with studios that prevents its streaming service from being deployed on a cable company DVR. At the time it was hopeful that Hulu Plus could still work, but now it’s confirmed that its customers won’t get that either, blaming the same sort of agreements between Hulu and its content providers. Frustrating? Absolutely — but there is one obvious work-around: buy your own darned TiVo Premiere, get access to Netflix and Hulu Plus, and stop paying your cable provider that monthly rental fee. Hulu Plus not happening on cable-provided TiVo Premiere DVRs, Scrooge wins again originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Satellite-borne lasers tracking woodland happenings, who knows what else
December 21, 2010 No Comment
It may shock your senses, but this actually isn’t the first time we’ve heard of lasers being used to track birds and their habitats. But this go ’round, an Idaho University team is using a satellite-borne laser in an effort to “predict in which part of a State Forest the birds might be living.” In particular, the crew is developing methods that’ll help them track the North American pileated woodpecker, namely because these creatures are pegged as being great indicators of overall bird diversity. Currently, the laser is only capable of analyzing vital characteristics of a woodland, but scientists are using this information to take a stab as to where the aforementioned birds would be. Essentially, this laser spotting approach enables gurus to spot highly dense sections of forest — plots where the pileated woodpecker loves to hang — from above, dramatically cutting down the hide-and-seek that would previously take place on foot in much larger areas. Now, if only they could get lasers onto the birds , we’d have an all new brand of rave to consider. Satellite-borne lasers tracking woodland happenings, who knows what else originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:58:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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We know how it is, you want to be a hotshot developer, but all that coding sounds like daunting work. Never mind, Apple’s got your back with its new iAds producer, which automates all the HTML5 and CSS3 stuff into the background and leaves you to focus on the crucial task of picking out templates and components for your perfect iAd . To be fair to this new dev tool, it does more than merely dumb down the design process. It also includes “sophisticated” JavaScript editing and debugging, a built-in simulator for testing your creation, and a project validator that checks your code for common errors. Hit the source link to give it a try. Apple iAds Producer produces iAds for iOS devices originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 06:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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The original Google phone got us all excited a couple of weeks back when an OTA update was presumed to be the oven-hot Gingerbread upgrade, only to disappoint us. Now we’ve got the most lucid statement from the Android chefs yet on when the real Gingerbread Nexus One will stand up, which is placed in the relatively ill-defined window of “the coming weeks.” Hey, better weeks than months, right? Nexus One will get Gingerbread OTA update ‘in the coming weeks’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Microsoft axes Office Genuine Advantage, says program has ‘served its purpose’
December 21, 2010 No Comment
It’s not offering any indication that Windows Genuine Advantage will follow suit, but Microsoft has just made the rather surprising move of shutting down its longstanding Office Genuine Advantage program. As with Windows Genuine Advantage, that program was designed to combat piracy and, as any Office user can no doubt attest, it wasn’t shy to make its presence known — warnings like the one above popped up when downloading templates from Office.com, for instance. Why the change? Microsoft isn’t exactly offering too many details, with a spokesperson only going as far to say that the program has “served its purpose,” and that Microsoft is “making several new investments that will allow us to engage with customers and help victims of fraud.” In the meantime, however, it looks like you can now simply go about your business without a warning to be found. Microsoft axes Office Genuine Advantage, says program has ‘served its purpose’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Toshiba’s Regza GL1 3DTVs going on sale in Japan tomorrow, no glasses required
December 21, 2010 No Comment
The panacea of glasses-free 3D displays (or content ) might not yet be upon us, but Toshiba’s doing its best by putting the two models in its Regza GL1 family up for sale in Japan. Tomorrow marks the debut of the smaller 12GL1, spanning a 12-inch diagonal and offering the unconventional resolution of 466 x 350. That’s expected to be priced at
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