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Acer Aspire S7 review (13-inch): great Ultrabook, a shame about the battery life
Author: Jamie Colby
Back in June, when Acer initially announced the Aspire S7 Collection, two things appeared noteworthy: these were the business’s very first touchscreen Ultrabooks, for one, and they were conveniently its best-made. Whereas the earlier S3 and S5 skew a little bit dull, the S7 is made from aluminum, with either a metal or Gorilla Glass lid, depending on whether you choose the 11 – or 13-inch variation. What’s more, it has a 1080p IPS display, which looked simply as nice in our initial hands-on as the spec slab would have you think. Throw in an option of Core i5 and i7 processors and a RAID 0 SSD configuration, and you can effortlessly anticipate the same quick performance we tape-recorded on the S5. So is this it? Has Acer finally built an Ultrabook we can heartily recommend? Even more to the point, does the 13-inch model get enough things right to justify that $ 1,400 starting rate? Learn in our review after the break.
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Toshiba Excite 10 review: a 10-inch ICS tablet that puts the Thrive to shame
Author: Matthew Baker
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In the tablet market, big as it is, one notion generally holds true: thinner equals better. Toshiba, for example, surely tried to equate a svelte silhouette with a premium product in its super-slim Excite 10 LE. And indeed, its 1.18-pound body and solid Honeycomb experience add up to tablet that puts Toshiba’s earlier Thrives to shame. That $ 530 model is definitely priced like a high-end tablet, but it’s accompanied by a new, lower-priced Toshiba slate, the Excite 10.
For $ 450, you get a tablet with a tad more meat on its bones, but that increase in weight and thickness comes with some more powerful specs: a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor with 1GB of RAM — not to mention Ice Cream Sandwich. While you can probably guess which of these slates makes a stronger contender (hint: the one without the “LE”), figuring out the Toshiba Excite 10′s place in the grand hierarchy of tablets takes a little more exploration. Luckily, that’s what we’re here for, so join us past the break as we do our best to get through the review without a single “excite” pun.
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Toshiba Excite 10 review: a 10-inch ICS tablet that puts the Thrive to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jun 2012 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Custom-built ‘Triport Spire’ puts our Lego skills to shame
Author: Tyler Evans
It’s no secret that we have a certain affinity for brick-based building at The Verge. Lately we’ve been be wasting away in our own Minecraft world, but we can always make time to admire the insane Lego creations that some people come up with. Tim Goddard, perhaps better known by his Flickr user name Rogue Bantha, is one such builder. His latest project is the insanely detailed “Triport Spire”: a sci-fi inspired space port. Not one to leave well-enough alone, Goddard decided to include motorized elevators, working lights in the hangers, and even a small fleet of spaceships to round out the design. We’re not sure how many pieces the build included, or how long it took Goddard to create the “Triport Spire,” but the level of detail is really…
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FPV servo controlled plane grabs epic vacation footage, puts old family videos to shame (video)
Author: Antonio Pierce
By the time winter rolls around, Alistair Roberts will probably remember his summer vacation a heckuva lot better than the rest of us. Why? Because he brought an FPV plane to record his mountain biking holiday in the Spanish sun. With a GoPro camera mounted on the servo-powered cradle, Alistair piloted the plane by moving his head and using a remote control — all while streaming first person video from the cockpit into a pair of goggles. By pairing the high tech toy with another GoPro on his dad’s mountain bike, and a stationary camera on the ground, Alistair was able to create a truly amazing vacation video from 1200 – 1500 feet in the air traveling around 20kmph (12mph) — way cooler than any of the ones our dads recorded back in the day. Check out the video after the break.
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FPV servo controlled plane grabs epic vacation footage, puts old family videos to shame (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nao robot grabs a head-mounted camera, puts your photographic skills to shame
Author: Jesus Sargent
You see, herein lies the problem. At a glance, Nao looks humane. Even kind. In fact, it’s bruited that he’s helped on a few missions in his day. But underneath, he’s a cold-blooded talent snatcher, and thanks to a little push from one Raghudeep Gadde, he might just capture your vacation in a manner that’s superior to your own. As the story goes, this here scientist at the International Institute of Information Technology in Hydrabad, India, converted the humanoid into quite the shooter. He strapped a camera on its dome, and then programmed it to follow a pair of iron-clad photographic guidelines: the rule of thirds, and the golden ratio. Purportedly, Nao does a ton of analysis before finally deciding on how to compose and capture a shot, and for his next trick, he’ll run circles around your existing Lightroom actions. So much for perfecting your craft, eh?
Nao robot grabs a head-mounted camera, puts your photographic skills to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jul 2011 17:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Aussie Retailer May Shame Rivals By Offering Free HDMI Cables
Author: Matthew Wilson
The cable controversy continues, and people will continue buying $ 50 3-foot HDMI cables, but anyone with sense isn’t paying more than a dollar or two per foot. One Australian retailer is fed up with their fellow electronics stores’ habit of trying to sell expensive cables with new TVs and computers, and has decided they’re going to show them by just giving the cables away.
The chain, Kogan, notes that the cheapest cables will perform the same as others, and that the other stores are pretty much deliberately ripping you off with their talk about specs and so on. So, you buy a TV, you get an HDMI cable. They might expand it to PCs as well, though of course
I think our readers are pretty savvy, so they won’t get conned on something like cables, but the average window shopper or out-of-touch TV buyer might easily get upsold to a hundred dollar purchase they don’t need. It’s good to see a retailer fighting the good fight here.
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Mizzou Professor says nantenna solar sheet soaks up 90 percent of the sun’s rays, puts sunscreen to shame
Author: Jenny Zhao
Photovoltaics suffer from gross inefficiency, despite incremental improvements in their power producing capabilities. According to research by a team led by a University of Missouri professor, however, newly developed nantenna-equipped solar sheets can reap more than 90 percent of the sun’s bounty — which is more than double the efficiency of existing solar technologies. Apparently, some “special high-speed electrical circuitry” is the secret sauce behind the solar breakthrough. Of course, the flexible film is currently a flight of fancy and won’t be generating juice for the public anytime soon. The professor and his pals still need capital for commercialization, but they believe a product will be ready within five years. Take your time, guys, it’s not like global warming’s getting worse.
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Mizzou Professor says nantenna solar sheet soaks up 90 percent of the sun’s rays, puts sunscreen to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 17 May 2011 07:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Chicago’s Adler Planetarium to start projecting 8K by 8K images from this July, put cinema screens to shame
Author: Stefanie Jenkins
Okay, so it’s not quite 8K video, we’re not there yet, but the Adler Planetarium and its brand new Grainger Sky Theater are about to show us what 64 megapixel images look like on a big screen. Described as the “largest single seamless digital image in the world,” the picture inside the planetarium will come from 20 projectors hooked up to 45 computers processing data, and should provide the most lucid and captivating view unto our universe that one can get without actually exiting the Earth’s atmosphere. The new show kicks off on July 8th, having been put together with aid from NASA and IBM among others. Jump past the break for the full press release.
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Chicago’s Adler Planetarium to start projecting 8K by 8K images from this July, put cinema screens to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rihanna ft Drake – What’s My Name (Official Music Video) SPOOF – What a Shame!
Author: Brittany Turner
Get this song on iTunes: bit.ly Download my FREE iPhone/iPod App! bit.ly Add me on Facebook! apps.facebook.com Follow me on Twitter! twitter.com — GIVEAWAY RULES / HOW TO WIN THE PRIZES 1. You must be subscribed to my videos! 2. Press the Thumbs Up button directly below this video. 3. Click my Facebook URL above and press the “Like” button to become a fan. After you did this, leave a video comment FILLING IN THE BLANK: “It’s a bird. It’s a plane. NO IT’S ______!” — Filmed By CYR – www.youtube.com Guitar Dude MIKE – www.youtube.com Boss JOHN BASEDOW – www.youtube.com Employee RYAN – www.youtube.com Girl Laughing JESS – www.youtube.com — MY STATEMENT TO ARTISTS, LABELS & AFFILIATES: This video is a parody of the official song / music video. No copyrighted content in any form was used in this video. I engineered the thumbnail using stills from the real music video to display the video I am making light of. Since this is a parody it is legal under fair use law and backed by the courts. Any argument regarding underlying composition is also protected for me by the courts since this completely original parody is a transformative work thus contains a new meaning within. Also, please be aware that this video does more good than bad regarding the single’s exposure. My audience may not already know the song and will now be more inclined to search for and purchase it as well as share it with their friends. This video is a direct avenue for me to build hype for the single …
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Audi Auto Union Type C e-tron study puts your pow-pow-Power Wheels to shame
Author: Jenny Zhao
Top speed of 18mph, and a range of 15 miles? Charges in only two hours? No, this isn’t the future of transportation we’re talking about here, it’s a toy. A toy from Audi, of all places. The company has created this electric-powered and half-scale recreation of an Auto Union Type C, grand prix racer of the late 1930s, and done it in e-tron guise, applying the moniker from its grown-up line of EVs, like the luscious e-tron Spyder. This one’s intended for kids of all ages — so long as they’re shorter than 5’11” — and it will be on display at the International Toy Fair in Nuremberg. At this point there’s no mention of a plan to produce it nor a price if Audi did, but surely it’s one of those “if you have to ask” things — that body is entirely made of carbon fiber, and that stuff doesn’t come cheap.
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Audi Auto Union Type C e-tron study puts your pow-pow-Power Wheels to shame originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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