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Wireless USB Box Streams Video from Laptop to TV
Author: Ian Simpson
Link, from Imation, is a dead-simple way to get movies off your computer and onto your TV. It consists of two parts: a USB-dongle for the computer and a receiver that hooks into your TV. The pair talk to each other wirelessly and stream whatever is on the computer’s screen over to the television.
The connection is via Wireless USB, or WUSB, and will stream video up to 720p resolution and still images up to 1080p. It also sends stereo sound, and the whole lot is piped into the TV via an included HDMI cable.
Unfortunately, the one thing Imation doesn’t want to share is the price. If this thing is under $100, it might be in with a chance. With the rumors hotly tipping a new, $99 Apple TV at next week’s Apple Event on September 1st, anything that costs more than that may as well just go home now.
Link product page [Imation. Thanks, Michelle!]
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- WUSB
- Imation Ships First Wireless USB Hard Drive
- Cheap, Home Made Wi-Fi Tether
- Iogear Announces Wireless Kit for Monitors and Projectors
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I-O Data Hard Drive Slurps Video Direct From Camcorders
Author: Mark Jeffries
I-O Data’s new hard drive not only hooks up to your computer but connects direct to your camcorder and slurps in any video that might be there, all without an intermediary PC.
The 500GB will work with the JVC Everio, the Sanyo Zakuti Sony’s Handycams, and hooks up via USB. There is also a port for connecting it to a TV via HDMI cable, so you can watch the footage straight back, again without a computer.
Weirdly, the specs say it won’t work with a Mac, but we’d guess that it probably works fine as a hard-drive: You just won’t get any fancy extra features. The HDPN-U500 (it’s clunky name) will be available in “late September” for ¥14,600, or around $170 of your American dollars.
Portable Hard Disk Camcorder [I-O Data via Akihabara News]
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Confirmed: Apple Event Scheduled for September (Updated)
Author: James Cliff
Apple invited members of the press Wednesday morning to a special event scheduled for Sept. 1. Rumor has it that Apple is preparing to announce a major revamp for the Apple TV and upgrades for the popular iPod Touch, according to multiple reports.
The event will kick off 10 a.m. at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts theater, where Apple has held its annual iPod event for several years.
Citing two anonymous sources, Bloomberg claims that Apple will introduce the new products along with a new iTunes rental service for TV programs, as Wired.com’s Epicenter reported Tuesday.
Repeating previous rumors about Apple TV, Bloomberg said a new version of the device would cost $100 and include a smaller hard drive, as it will be designed primarily for streaming content from iTunes. Other reports have claimed Apple would rebrand the device iTV and ship it with its mobile operating system iOS, which could potentially mean the television device will have an app store to enhance its functionality.
Bloomberg’s report also claims Apple will announce an upgraded iPod Touch, sporting a high-resolution display like the iPhone 4. Previous rumors suggested that, like the iPhone 4, the next iPod Touch will include dual cameras.
Apple’s annual September event has for several years been devoted to iTunes and iPods. It would make sense for Apple to unveil a new Apple TV at this year’s event, because a TV-streaming media service would likely be accompanied by a new version of iTunes capable of online storage.
It’s also likely that Apple will release a software update for iPad customers, iOS 4, which will bring multitasking capability and other features to the popular tablet.
Updated 11 a.m. PDT: The event has been confirmed for Sept. 1, not Sept. 7 as Bloomberg originally reported.
See Also:
- Apple May Be Internally Testing Next-Gen iPod Touch, iPad
- Ten Things Missing From the iPad
- Why iOS Could Make Apple TV Succeed
- Rumor: New $100 Apple TV Takes Aim at the Cloud
- Rumor Repeat: Apple TV to Gain iOS-Based Overhaul
Photo: Steve Jobs introduces iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010
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Confirmed: Apple Event Scheduled for September (Updated)
Author: Brittany Turner
Apple invited members of the press Wednesday morning to a special event scheduled for Sept. 1. Rumor has it that Apple is preparing to announce a major revamp for the Apple TV and upgrades for the popular iPod Touch, according to multiple reports.
The event will kick off 10 a.m. at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts theater, where Apple has held its annual iPod event for several years.
Citing two anonymous sources, Bloomberg claims that Apple will introduce the new products along with a new iTunes rental service for TV programs, as Wired.com’s Epicenter reported Tuesday.
Repeating previous rumors about Apple TV, Bloomberg said a new version of the device would cost $100 and include a smaller hard drive, as it will be designed primarily for streaming content from iTunes. Other reports have claimed Apple would rebrand the device iTV and ship it with its mobile operating system iOS, which could potentially mean the television device will have an app store to enhance its functionality.
Bloomberg’s report also claims Apple will announce an upgraded iPod Touch, sporting a high-resolution display like the iPhone 4. Previous rumors suggested that, like the iPhone 4, the next iPod Touch will include dual cameras.
Apple’s annual September event has for several years been devoted to iTunes and iPods. It would make sense for Apple to unveil a new Apple TV at this year’s event, because a TV-streaming media service would likely be accompanied by a new version of iTunes capable of online storage.
It’s also likely that Apple will release a software update for iPad customers, iOS 4, which will bring multitasking capability and other features to the popular tablet.
Updated 11 a.m. PDT: The event has been confirmed for Sept. 1, not Sept. 7 as Bloomberg originally reported.
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- Apple May Be Internally Testing Next-Gen iPod Touch, iPad
- Ten Things Missing From the iPad
- Why iOS Could Make Apple TV Succeed
- Rumor: New $100 Apple TV Takes Aim at the Cloud
- Rumor Repeat: Apple TV to Gain iOS-Based Overhaul
Photo: Steve Jobs introduces iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010
Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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Confirmed: Apple Event Scheduled for September (Updated)
Author: Jenny Zhao
Apple invited members of the press Wednesday morning to a special event scheduled for Sept. 1. Rumor has it that Apple is preparing to announce a major revamp for the Apple TV and upgrades for the popular iPod Touch, according to multiple reports.
The event will kick off 10 a.m. at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts theater, where Apple has held its annual iPod event for several years.
Citing two anonymous sources, Bloomberg claims that Apple will introduce the new products along with a new iTunes rental service for TV programs, as Wired.com’s Epicenter reported Tuesday.
Repeating previous rumors about Apple TV, Bloomberg said a new version of the device would cost $100 and include a smaller hard drive, as it will be designed primarily for streaming content from iTunes. Other reports have claimed Apple would rebrand the device iTV and ship it with its mobile operating system iOS, which could potentially mean the television device will have an app store to enhance its functionality.
Bloomberg’s report also claims Apple will announce an upgraded iPod Touch, sporting a high-resolution display like the iPhone 4. Previous rumors suggested that, like the iPhone 4, the next iPod Touch will include dual cameras.
Apple’s annual September event has for several years been devoted to iTunes and iPods. It would make sense for Apple to unveil a new Apple TV at this year’s event, because a TV-streaming media service would likely be accompanied by a new version of iTunes capable of online storage.
It’s also likely that Apple will release a software update for iPad customers, iOS 4, which will bring multitasking capability and other features to the popular tablet.
Updated 11 a.m. PDT: The event has been confirmed for Sept. 1, not Sept. 7 as Bloomberg originally reported.
See Also:
- Apple May Be Internally Testing Next-Gen iPod Touch, iPad
- Ten Things Missing From the iPad
- Why iOS Could Make Apple TV Succeed
- Rumor: New $100 Apple TV Takes Aim at the Cloud
- Rumor Repeat: Apple TV to Gain iOS-Based Overhaul
Photo: Steve Jobs introduces iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010
Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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Confirmed: Apple Event Scheduled for September (Updated)
Author: Randy Miller
Apple invited members of the press Wednesday morning to a special event scheduled for Sept. 1. Rumor has it that Apple is preparing to announce a major revamp for the Apple TV and upgrades for the popular iPod Touch, according to multiple reports.
The event will kick off 10 a.m. at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts theater, where Apple has held its annual iPod event for several years.
Citing two anonymous sources, Bloomberg claims that Apple will introduce the new products along with a new iTunes rental service for TV programs, as Wired.com’s Epicenter reported Tuesday.
Repeating previous rumors about Apple TV, Bloomberg said a new version of the device would cost $100 and include a smaller hard drive, as it will be designed primarily for streaming content from iTunes. Other reports have claimed Apple would rebrand the device iTV and ship it with its mobile operating system iOS, which could potentially mean the television device will have an app store to enhance its functionality.
Bloomberg’s report also claims Apple will announce an upgraded iPod Touch, sporting a high-resolution display like the iPhone 4. Previous rumors suggested that, like the iPhone 4, the next iPod Touch will include dual cameras.
Apple’s annual September event has for several years been devoted to iTunes and iPods. It would make sense for Apple to unveil a new Apple TV at this year’s event, because a TV-streaming media service would likely be accompanied by a new version of iTunes capable of online storage.
It’s also likely that Apple will release a software update for iPad customers, iOS 4, which will bring multitasking capability and other features to the popular tablet.
Updated 11 a.m. PDT: The event has been confirmed for Sept. 1, not Sept. 7 as Bloomberg originally reported.
See Also:
- Apple May Be Internally Testing Next-Gen iPod Touch, iPad
- Ten Things Missing From the iPad
- Why iOS Could Make Apple TV Succeed
- Rumor: New $100 Apple TV Takes Aim at the Cloud
- Rumor Repeat: Apple TV to Gain iOS-Based Overhaul
Photo: Steve Jobs introduces iPhone 4 at WWDC 2010
Jon Snyder/Wired.com
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USB Dongle Claims to Deliver First Easy Hack for PS3
Author: Randy Miller
If it works as advertised, a USB dongle could soon break the PlayStation 3’s seemingly hackproof seal.
An obscure group called PS Jailbreak is selling a USB dongle that will supposedly modify the PS3 so users can dump backed up (aka pirated) games onto the system’s hard drive to play them just like legitimate copies.
We write this with such cautious language because hackers have hailed the PlayStation 3 as a console Everest. Sony baked extremely strong security into the system, and though the PS3 has been hacked by a few tinkerers (including George Hotz, the first person to unlock the iPhone), no tried-and-true mod has emerged.
Until we can get our hands on a one of these USB dongles, color us skeptical. (The fact that the “PS Jailbreak” website doesn’t seem to be working right now doesn’t give us much confidence.) Meanwhile, check out the video above claiming to demonstrate the mod running a backup copy of a game and let us know what you think.
PS Jailbreak via Engadget
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Pogoplug Goes Wireless
Author: Antonio Pierce
The Pogoplug is a little box that lets you access your hard drive’s contents over the internet. You plug the drive into the Pogoplug, plug the Pogoplug into your router and you’re done: always-on, use-anywhere access to your files. Now, a new Wi-Fi adapter means you don’t even need to put it near your router.
The dongle costs $29 and plugs into the main unit. It lets the Pogoplug hook up to your network via 802.11 b,g or n instead of Ethernet, so you can stow both the Pogoplug and a stack of USB hard-drives in a closet and forget about them. Best of all, if you already have a Pogoplug, the company will give you a wireless adapter, free.
For accessing your data from outside the home, this should make no difference at all to speed: the limiting factor will be your home connection’s upload rate, likely a lot slower than even the slowest home Wi-Fi network. Even at home on a wireless-n network, you’ll get the best speeds unless your computer is wired direct to the router.
The Pogoplug adapter will ship in three to four weeks in the U.S. only.
Pogoplug Wireless Adapter [Pogoplug]
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Axon Haptic Tablet Lets You Install Any OS
Author: Ang Nguyen
The Axon Haptic is a tabula rasa of a tablet. It comes as an empty, OS-less shell, waiting for you to install your choice of operating-system. The hardware of this ten-inch tablet is designed to work with almost any OS, from various Linux flavors through Windows to OS X. Yes, this little baby is hackintosh-ready.
The trick is the EFI bootloader, which is what lets the machine boot into a Darwin OS (of which OS X is the best known example). This is the tricky part of any hackintosh installation, and it essentially tricks the Mac OS into thinking it is running on Apple hardware.
The machine itself is pretty much a stock netbook, only with a resistive touch-screen and in a tablet form-factor. It packs a 1.6-GHz Atom N270 processor, the ten-inch screen, a 320GB hard drive, 2GB RAM, 802.11n Wi-Fi, a webcam, optional Bluetooth and – yes – a stylus. The is also an optional “3G CDMA Verizon SIM slot”, which is odd because CDMA doesn’t use SIMS.
It’s an interesting take, and will presumably fall outside of Apple’s legal reaches if it actually makes it into stores. Then again, maybe there’s no market for this kind of thing. Remember the Psystar “Mac”? That was hardly a runaway success.
The Haptic is available for pre-order now, for an optimistic $750.
Axon Haptic [Axon Logic via CrunchGear]
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- Psystar 'Rebel EFI' Patch Installs Snow Leopard on Any PC
- EFiX Dangles Hacking Dongle Before Apple's Lawyers
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29 Years Ago, A Revolution in Computing
Author: JohnnyBells
Photo by Ruben de Rijcke; used under Creative Commons Attribution license.
Even if you’re a Mac addict with a bumper sticker reading “I hate Bill Gates,” you have to tip your hat to the IBM PC, which debuted 29 years ago today. You may scoff, and point out that the Apple II, or Apple ][ if you must, had been out for over four years when the IBM PC first went on sale. But the PC was more powerful and, because it used off-the-shelf parts, cheaper, and so was really the first genuine personal computer that garnered interest from the general public.
The technical specs for the original IBM PC seem laughable today, of course: its 16k of standard memory, upgradable to 256k; its two 160k floppy drives (and of course no hard drive); its optional color monitor; and of course its $1,565 base price tag, which accounting for inflation would be over $3,600 today. But it really was a revolution, first in the business world and then later in people’s homes.
It wasn’t in 1981 when my family got an IBM PC — I think it was ‘82, but I honestly don’t remember the date. It seems a little ridiculous to write this on a machine that, roughly, is to that PC as a Lamborghini is to a Model T — only with better gas mileage — but that PC changed my life. I was already a fan of Star Trek (at the time you didn’t need to specify which series you meant) and Star Wars, and I was nine, so having a computer in my house was just about the coolest thing ever. It had CGA graphics, which meant it could have up to four colors on screen at a time, one of which was black, and there were two palettes for what they advertised as a total of eight colors, but since black was in both it was really seven. The important thing is that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
I was already learning to program in BASIC at school on the Atari 400 and 800, and having a PC at home opened the world of programming up for me. Turbo Pascal was like a godsend, giving me programming capabilities I’d only dreamed of. And so began a career that lasts to this day. Yes, I’m your friendly neighborhood Assistant Editor, but I’m also a mild-mannered programming geek by day.
So lift a glass in toast to the original IBM PC tonight! It may be utterly obsolete and fit only for museum displays, but it’s pretty likely that whatever you’re reading these words on would be very different if it hadn’t come around when it did.
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