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HP's TouchSmart 2 all-in-one PC now shipping {Engadget}
Jun 25th 2008 7:29AM Anyone know if it's really multi-touch? The demo shows 2-finger scrolling, but that's not multi-touch. laptop pads have been able to do that for years.
Sexy thing, but once you get past the cool interface, I wonder how cool it will be in 6 months. Most apps that companies include are usually played with for a bit then never used again. HP doesn't update their software with new features, so the apps aren't going to evolve to compete against new entries. They'll simply come out with a next gen PC with version 2.0, forcing you to buy a new PC to get new bells and whistles.
Study finds that we're all arrogant jerks, can probably fix its own damn iPod next time {Engadget}
Jun 19th 2008 6:54PM "We're sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States".
WHAT THE F??????
Goodbye, Engagdget. Take your American isolationistic ignorant attitude and shove it.
Microsoft's LaserTouch prototype brings hand control to any display {Engadget}
May 24th 2008 2:30AM You're all missing it. This is a rip-off of the demo that Johnny Chung Lee did with the Wii controller. He's a uni student and was happy to just come up with the ideas hoping others would put them to use and make cool games for the Wii that he could play. Check out http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/ and watch the cool youtube videos. This "Microsoft" invention is Johnny's "Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote" demo.
Clearly someone at Microsoft saw it and they're turning it (or trying to turn it ) into something that they can patent, copyright, and sue everyone else with.
I'd feel sad for the uni guy but he must have been warned a zillion times already that his ideas were frikking brilliant and he needs to protect them.
Australia's Foxtel preps HD+ service, iQ2 HD STB for June launch {Engadget HD}
May 2nd 2008 6:45AM What a joke - Foxtel have been selling less-than-SD pictures (pre-filtered and compressed to reduce bandwidth) for years and calling it "Digitial". I guess caveat emptor, but the masses seem to suck it up nonetheless. It's only in the last 2 years that people have been buying 42"+ screens have they noticed how bad the picture is - unwatchable compared to free-to-air in discerning viewer's eyes.
Now they're going to sell HD at an even higher cost to Joe Consumer, who will lap it up without complaint, who will be paying so much each month that it would fund a replacement 50" TV every 3 years.
And this from a company that has now intruduced commercials onto pay TV using the rationale that it would "...help to keep the costs down"!
Well done, Foxtel. More power to your business model that rakes in the dosh.
Australians, you're little better than sheep.
BMW's ConnectedDrive brings the whole internet to your car... on EDGE {Engadget}
Feb 24th 2008 9:01AM I had a 5 series for a few years and the entire car communicates on a serial bus. At the time (about 3 years back) there was lots of hacker activity on trying to connect a PC to the bus so that commands could be intercepted and sent. Theoretically, you can have a PC send commands to control the radio, windows, door locks etc. But you could also pretend you're another part of the car and send commands like "I'm the car speed sensor, and we're travelling at 0 kph". It fools things like the touch screen into thinking that it's ok to accept commands because the car's not moving. Pretty simple, really.
The hundred gadget giveaway, grand prize round: Insignia NS-LCD37 LCD HDTV {Engadget HD}
Sep 14th 2007 7:01PM Anyone know if these work in Australia? So many cool gadgets on this site, so few arrive in the Antipodes...
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