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ViewSonic VPD31 3D convertor adds dimensions to your projector

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 06:03 AM PDT

ViewSonic has outed a new 3D processing box that promises to make content from Blu-ray, TV and the PS3 playable on its 3D DLP projectors. The ViewSonic VPD31 processor – coupled with the PDG-250 3D glasses – has a pair of HDMI v1.4a inputs and one HDMI v1.3 output to hook up to the company’s 3D ready DLP Link 3D/120Hz projectors.

The glasses too have had an update, with battery life boosted to 44hrs and recharging via a standard miniUSB port on the underside. They also boost effective range to 12m, and have shed some grams in weight, too.

The ViewSonic VPD31 is priced at £299 ($483). For more on 3D, check out the SlashGear 101: What is 3D TV? feature from this weekend.

Press Release:

ViewSonic delivers advanced 3D multimedia home entertainment solution

London, UK – 4 April 2011 – ViewSonic Europe Ltd, a global provider of computing, electronics and communications solutions, has today announced the availability of its latest 3D home entertainment solution, designed to convert 3D video content, including 3D TV, 3D Blu-ray movies and 3D PlayStation 3 gaming – so it can be displayed via ViewSonic's 3D ready DLP projector range. The combined capabilities of the VPD31 processor box and PDG-250 3D glasses will offer users an enhanced 3D viewer experience that also delivers advanced 3D gaming.

The VPD31 is compatible with ViewSonic's range of 3D ready DLP Link 3D/120Hz projectors and features dual HDMI v1.4a inputs and one HDMI v1.3 output to enable a scalable 3D projection without losing visual quality. To further enhance this 3D experience, ViewSonic's second generation PGD-250 3D glasses have been designed to be more stylish, foldable and light weight compared to other options on the market. With good resistance against ambient light interference and a long effective distance of 12 metres, the glasses also feature 44 hours of continuous use battery life and are rechargeable via mini USB port on the arm of the glasses.

Trevor Holt, European Product Manager – Projectors, ViewSonic Europe, commented: "After a slow start in 2010, Ovum has predicted that 2011 will see sales of 3D hardware rapidly grow as prices drop due to increased competition. Unlike a television, the VPD31 and projector solution is scalable allowing users to enlarge a 3D image to any size they choose without losing any quality at all. Following its pre-view at CES, the solution has been given great reviews from the gaming community making it one of the most sought after 3D solutions on the market."

The RRP is £299 inc. VAT

For further details of the VPD31 and PDG-250 glasses please visit: www.viewsonic.com


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Acer Aspire ICONIA Tab A100 hits Amazon pre-order

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:40 AM PDT

If you have, your heart set on a new Android tablet running, Honeycomb and you live in the UK you can pre-order one form Acer on Amazon right now. The tablet in question is the IOCNIA Tab A100 and the tablet is going for £299.99 with a ship date set for April 20.

The converted price will be a bit over $480 and if that price sticks when it hits the states it will be one of the more reasonably priced tablets around. If you have missed the other details on this tablet, the thing will have a 7-inch screen with capacitive touch capability and a resolution of 1024 x 600.

The tablet supports up to 1080p HD output thanks to the Tegra processor inside and it has 8GB of storage. At this low price, there is no 3G modem inside, but the machine has WiFi integrated. This tablet is also thin and very portable.

[via Android Community]


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Forget apps, Apple’s core iPad 2 experience needs to grow up

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:30 AM PDT

Shiny shiny, shiny Apple iPad; whiplash tablet in the dark. Forgive the Velvet Underground, but sometimes it really does feel like being a masochist would make the iOS user experience easier to stomach. Yes, Apple’s App Store may be the most bulging around, offering hundreds of thousands to titles whether you want to turn your iPad 2 into a recording studio, games machine or digital recipe book. Problem is, there’s still no way to turn the iPad into a proper, multi-user, family tablet.

The iPad 2 gets some stick for requiring a PC or Mac to set it up in the first place, but it’s arguably more disappointing that, from there on, it’s really focused on a single user. One email inbox, one calendar view, one set of Safari bookmarks: if you’re living in a commune then perhaps that’s okay, but for everybody else it leaves the choice of either opening up your messages and schedule to anybody curious enough to stab at the icon.

It’s something I touched on when I wrote my iPad 2 Skeptic’s Review last week, but it’s not a new frustration. Notifications, multi-user accounts, multitasking – they’re all complaints I leveled back in my original iPad review, when iOS 3.2 was new and shiny. Now we’re up to iOS 4.3.1 and most of the pain-points are still there.

There are plenty of people using their iPad and iPad 2 tablets as family slates, with games for the kids, streaming content for parents and a little web browsing for everybody, but without user accounts or a way to switch between multitasking environments it all falls short of its true potential. Say I’ve been switching between Safari, reading restaurant reviews, Google Maps, to see where they are, and my inbox, to invite people out for dinner; I can flick between the apps pretty quickly, with a double-click of the home button, but should anybody use the iPad in the meantime, there’s a fair chance I’ll lose one or more of my webpages, the open email I’m writing, perhaps the locations I’m looking at on the map.

What’s needed is a way to manage multiple users and – handy even if you’re the only person using the iPad 2 – multiple use-cases. Apple’s existing iOS multitasking system of freezing apps and leaving only certain core APIs running shouldn’t have any problem with this – my activities are simply frozen in state – but so far there’s no way to elegantly share the slate with family, friends or colleagues. You can’t have a different music library to that of your kids, a different photo gallery, even the shots you take with the iPad 2′s low-res cameras all get lumped in together.

If you buy into the idea that Apple is leading the tablet market right now, it certainly follows that rivals have stumbled after the iPad with their own short-sighted user experiences. Android 3.0 Honeycomb may have all the homescreen widgets and thumbnail previewed multitasking that iPad 2 owners can only dream of, but it’s still resolutely stuck to a single user account. From what we’ve seen of HP’s webOS based Touchpad, that looks to make the same single-owner mistake, while if the functionality is there in RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, the Canadian company hasn’t shown it off.

Salvation may – in part – be at hand. A recently spotted patent application from Apple suggests the company is exploring bringing Spaces – its virtual desktop feature in OS X – over to iOS. The accompanying graphics show a nine-pane preview of multiple desktops, a blend of live-widget multitasking and a way to split apart work, personal and other apps and groups of apps with simple gestures to move between them. No sign of any link with user-accounts, nor different iterations of core apps like Mail and Calendar, but at least I could split my dinner plan research off from someone checking Facebook. I’ve also heard from OEMs that Google is looking at multi-user support for a future Android 3.x release, though there’s no timescale for its arrival and the project is peppered with considerations like how to handle app purchases: should every user of the tablet be allowed to access the same paid-app?

With iOS on the iPad and Honeycomb, Apple and Google have recognized that tablets demand different interfaces from smartphones. What they’ve proved less cognizant of is that tablets generally occupy a very different, communalist role to our personal handsets. Perhaps Apple will address it with iOS 5.0 at WWDC 2011 later this year, but until then the iPad remains the tactile tablet users really don’t want anybody else to touch.


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Hackers access Epsilon email database exposing email addresses

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 05:10 AM PDT

Spam really, really sucks. None of us likes to get an email box full of ads from online pharmacies and other junk that no one really wants. One of the largest email marketing companies around that handle email lists for major companies like JPMorgan Chase & Co, Kroger, Capital One Financial, and TiVo has notified the companies that its email database has been breached.

Apparently, the breach occurred on March 30 and exposed the email addresses of the users the company markets too. That will likely mean if you use services for many of those firms you will be getting more spam than usual. Epsilon says that the information was hacked from the outside

An Epsilon spokesperson named Jessica Simon has declined to say how many other firms might be affected in the breach. Apparently, Epsilon is still investigation and offered no details on law enforcement agencies that are involved.

[via Bloomberg]


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Remote controlled car controlled by Kinect or iPad

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:58 AM PDT

I really like remote controlled cars, they are lots of fun. I know a lot of other geeks do too. I particularly like it when other people take a RC car and hack them to use controls they were never meant to have. A new RC car control hack has surfaced that uses one of two control methods.

The car can be controlled using a Kinect or it can be controlled using an iPad. The guy behind the hack used a custom-built HTML 5 app for his iPad that allows him to steer the car using the tilt sensor on the iPad. The app also uses the tilt sensors to activate the motor for forward or back.

The other method uses the Kinect and hand gestures that are mapped to virtual spaces the iPad uses. Both methods use an Arduino board to control the car with the controls wired to some opto-isolators. That Arduino controller is connected to a computer and the car waits for the app on the iPad or the Kinect waits to send input. Check out the video to see it in action.


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Apple unveils new iPad 2 commercial touting tech that gets out of the way

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:21 AM PDT

Love or hate Apple, they have one of the most effective marketing machines on the planet. These geeks can take a commercial or product and spin it to appeal to just about anyone. The latest commercial for the iPad 2 has been posted to YouTube and it shows off what happens when technology gets out of the way.

The commercial is really just some shots of people using various apps on the iPad. The apps range from medical offerings that allow doctors to read the EKGs and vitals on several patients at one time to kids using an app to help them learn numbers and letters. The point being that there is a use for just about anyone for the tablet.

The commercial also shows off how easy it is to open and view image galleries and videos. The video and photo segments of the ad also show off how well the gestures for zoom work. The commercial seems pretty effective, what do you think? Check it out below.


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Logitech Wireless Mouse M325 debuts

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 04:06 AM PDT

In the world of peripherals and accessories for computers, Logitech has some of the best stuff around. The company makes everything from mice and keyboards to speakers and headphones. Logitech has unveiled a new wireless mouse for computer users looking to get something a bit easier to use with a notebook or a desktop.

The worst thing about a notebook for me is the track pad. The things just aren’t accurate and they lack the sensitivity I want in a pointing device. The M325 is an ambidextrous design wireless mouse that uses the tiny Logitech nano receiver that you can plug into a USB port and just leave. It has a special scroll wheel to offer precise scrolling and the battery promises to last 18 months.

That tiny nano receiver will also connect a Logitech keyboard as well so you only lose one USB port for both wireless devices. The wireless tech is 2.4GHz for less lag and interference. Logitech is mum on the sensitivity of the mouse, but it would be safe to assume 800dpi to 1200dpi max with my bet being 800dpi. You can pre-order the mouse right now for $39.99 and the ship date is unknown.

[via Logitech]


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Use Lemon juice to make a printer that uses invisible ink

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:55 AM PDT

When I was a kid, my friend had this pen with invisible ink. You could write a note with it and then the person you sent it to had a different pen that made the text show up. We though it was awesome because you could send notes and if you got caught it was just blank paper. If you want to relive that sort of mystery from your youth, Make has some instructions to recreate that invisible ink for the modern age.

To build your own ink jet you need a printer, concentrated lemon juice, a hacksaw, a rubber hammer, and some time on your hands among other things. The printer uses the lemon juice as the ink and to get the ink to show up you need a spray bottle with iodine tincture.

That iodine turns the paper purple but the lemon juice breaks up the iodine on the letters printed with it so they stand out clearly on the page. The giveaway for secret agents using this technique will be the lemony fresh scent and purple stained fingers.

[via Make]


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Commercial for the Touchwood SH-08C from NTT DoCoMo is cooler than the phone it advertises

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:42 AM PDT

The only time I ever watch commercials and actually look forward to them is during the Super Bowl. I like the commercials that are funny or otherwise interesting for one reason or another. A Japanese firm called Drill inc has shot what maybe the coolest commercial ever for a mobile phone to sell the glory of wood.

The commercial was for the NTT DoCoMo SH-08C smartphone that has a kidney shaped wooden case. The phone looks cool and since the specs are on a photo in Japanese, I am not sure what it’s all about. The phone isn't the cool part here though, it's the commercial.

The ad agency went to the woods and built a giant xylophone that they set up running down hill. A wooden ball was placed at the top of the xylophone ramp and then pushed down. As it plunks down the hill it plays Bach’s Cantata 147 also known as “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desire.” The director of the commercial says that the music is completely made with just the ball and the wooden xylophone planks, though some levels were adjusted. Check out the video below to see the commercial.

[via CNET]


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Ship in a bottle is made from Lego

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:26 AM PDT

My dad had a ship in a whisky jug sitting on the bar at our house when I was a kid. I looked at that thing more times than I can count trying to figure out how exactly they got the ship inside the bottle. Julie Morley has taken that ship in a bottle and made it a bit geekier by building the ship out of Lego. She even made us a time-lapse video so we can see how she made it.

The jug she used was just the right size for a bottle of pirate rum and to hold the Lego boat. She made her own building tools out of what appear to be wooden sticks with small Lego bricks glued to the tip. She could put one stick in to hold the ship steady and another stick with the parts attached to build the model up.

She says that the entire build process took her about three days to construct. She also notes that it took a week of planning and a large number of expletives to pull off. Check out the video below to see the build and the finished project.

[via Brothers Brick]


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Geek plays epic prank on wife for April Fools

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:12 AM PDT

The best April fools prank I ever got up to was when I was nine and I loaded up a few cigarettes in my dad’s pack cigarette loads. He happened to pull out one of the loaded cigarettes while we were driving down the street with me next to him. I had pushed the things so far down into the cigarette that he had to smoke most of it before it blew. Ashes went everywhere and he almost crashed the car. I spent the next week grounded. It was worth it.

A geek pranked his wife on April 1 and it was a good one. He got a hold of her phone while she was not around and changed his name in her contact list to AP Mobile to spoof her favorite news app. He then sent a text to her that said the Pentagon had confirmed the Roswell Crash as being alien.

It then went on to say that Obama would address the nation about UFOs at 1PM. Pete the prankster says that her jaw hit the floor. I bet it did, I wonder how long he let her stew before telling her it was a joke. I also wonder how long he has to sleep on the couch as a result.

[via Boingboing]


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Sony tablet due this summer with Android 3.0 Honeycomb says CEO

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 03:06 AM PDT

Sony’s public tablet plans have so far been limited to an ambitious hope to take the number two spot by the end of 2012, and the vague hint of 3D functionality. However, CEO Sir Howard Stringer has now apparently slapped a more solid date – as well as some bare specs – onto the rumors, with the Nikkei, quoted by Bloomberg, reporting a summer US launch for the first model.

According to Stringer, the Sony tablet will run Android 3.0 Honeycomb and land in the US first at the end of the summer. That’s presumably ahead of an EMEA release later in the year. No word on exact hardware specifications or what sort of functionality is expected, but rumors earlier in the year suggested a Sony “S1″ PlayStation slate would arrive in September.

That tablet was tipped to have a 9.4-inch display and run Honeycomb on NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 processor. It would also have a combination of VAIO-style content creation functionality, Qriocity media streaming and PlayStation gaming.

[via Android Community and via Engadget]


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ZShock Lunatik iPod nano watchband is for the rich geek

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:59 AM PDT

We have seen more than enough watchbands and cases that turn your new iPod nano into a watch that you can wear on your wrist. Typically, they are made from silicone or aluminum. If you are a geek with means and want something a bit fancier that silicone and metal we have your watchband.

This thing is called the ZShock Lunatik iPod nano watch and it will set you back a cool $18,000. What you get for that much green is a typical nano watchband with a case that surround the nano and a black silicone strap with a clasp. What sets this $18k watchband apart for the $40 masses is the hoards of diamonds used on the clasp and the face.

The case of the band is made from white gold and it reportedly takes 3-4 weeks for the maker to hand set all the diamonds around the face for the watch and on the clasp. You can choose different metals for the case and choose other styles of diamonds too.

[via BGR]


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Woman tweets pics of Southwest jet during emergency landing

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:48 AM PDT

If I am on an airline flight and hear a giant explosion and then a hole rips in the aircraft the things on my mind aren’t going to be lining up the best shots with my cell phone so I can tweet them. I guess if you think you are about to die tweeting pics is one way to make yourself feel better. With the bonus of getting a bit of fame if the plane ends up landing safely.

A woman named Shawna Redden was on a Southwest airlines flight that had to make an emergency landing in Arizona recently after a 6-foot long hole suddenly ripped into the top of the aircraft. I thought a hole on the aircraft meant that people got sucked out like in Lost, but this was rather uneventful other than a few people reportedly fainting. I wager more than a few pair of underwear were destroyed during the incident too.

It seems as far is in-air disasters goes this one was mild. No one was injured even though the aircraft made an emergency landing and the oxygen masks deployed. I will say this to Redden, you have balls and you make that yellow mask look good.

[via Mashable]


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Verizon’s XPERIA Play crosses FCC with SIM slot: 4G or World Phone?

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:26 AM PDT

Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA Play has crossed the FCC in CDMA form, on its way to a Verizon launch in the US. The gaming smartphone seems to have a surprise onboard too, with a SIM card slot noticed alongside the regular CDMA radio. Of course, a SIM slot means one of two things: LTE or World Phone functionality.

Verizon’s 4G LTE devices require a SIM card for network identification, though if Sony Ericsson has upgraded the XPERIA Play for the carrier’s LTE network then we’d be surprised that they haven’t made more of that fact in advertising the handset. Perhaps more likely is World Phone functionality, which would allow Verizon XPERIA Play owners to take their CDMA device abroad and use it on GSM 3G networks.

Otherwise, things look roughly in line with the GSM-only version of the XPERIA Play which we reviewed last week. Hopefully Sony Ericsson do some tweaking to the display before it arrives in the US, though, since poor screen brightness was one of our key complaints.

[via Android Community]


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iPhone 4, Apple TV and more get new PwnageTool jailbreak

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 02:02 AM PDT

New versions of the iPhone Dev Team’s PwnageTool and redsn0w iOS jailbreak tools havebeen released, to handle iOS 4.3.1. Offering a jailbreak option for the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 (GSM version), along with the third- and fourth-gen iPod touch, first-gen iPad and second-gen Apple TV – but not the Verizon iPhone 4 or the iPad 2, yet – it’s an untethered solution meaning you don’t have to plug your device into a PC/Mac whenever you want to restart it.

Right now, only the PwnageTool works on the Apple TV, and those using ultrasn0w to unlock their device should steer clear altogether. If not, you could lose your unlock completely; the Dev Team is working on a new version of ultrasn0w that will play nicely with custom IPSW files.

As for the iPad 2, that requires a bootrom or iBoot-level exploit be discovered, so a jailbreak using the new tools are still works-in-progress. Nonetheless, the app as a whole is said to be far easier to use for both OS X and Windows, as long as you have one of the compatible devices.


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Acer Iconia Tab A100 priced and dated

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 01:45 AM PDT

Acer’s smaller Iconia Tab A100 Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet has been priced and dated courtesy of Amazon UK, with the 7-inch slate expected to ship from April 20. Priced at a competitive £299.99 ($485), the A100 has a 1024 x 600 capacitive touchscreen, 8GB of internal storage and a Tegra 2 processor paired with 512MB of RAM.

We grabbed some hands-on time with the Iconia Tab A100 back at MWC 2011, when it was still running Froyo rather than Honeycomb, and came away tentatively impressed. Acer’s design is certainly compact, and there are twin cameras – a 5MP auto-focus camera on the back side, and a 2MP front-facing camera on the front – along with WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1 and an HDMI port. There’s no mention of 3G in the Amazon product page, only the generic “wireless”, which leads us to assume that this is WiFi-only.

Even so, £300 is a pretty good deal. The WiFi-only Samsung Galaxy Tab is the same price, though is only running Froyo, while Dell’s Streak 7 packs 3G for the same money but also lacks Honeycomb and makes do with a mere WVGA display.

[via Android Community]


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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer gets officially detailed

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 01:18 AM PDT

ASUS had already revealed the Eee Pad Transformer, priced it, and let us get our filthy mitts on it, so the only thing left is the official product page. That’s now online, complete with all the hardware details you might need along with a comprehensive run-down of the software ASUS will be pre-installing onto the convertible Android tablet.

That includes the Polaris Office suite, for creating and editing documents, spreadsheets and presentations, along with ASUS’ own Waveshare app, launcher UI and MyCloud storage management software. You can see most of those apps in the live walkthrough video below.

Full specs, meanwhile, include a 10.1-inch IPS 1280 x 800 capacitive touchscreen – fronted by toughened glass and with 178-degree viewing angles – along with a Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of memory, GPS, twin cameras, WiFi and a battery good for up to 16hrs when paired with the removable keyboard dock. The initial models will lack 3G, but that will be offered optionally in around two months time.

[via NotebookItalia]


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Nintendo squashes 3DS Phone talk: “Phones are not by definition entertainment devices”

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 12:43 AM PDT

Nintendo has dashed hopes that it might follow in Sony’s footsteps and deliver a gaming smartphone, with Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime suggesting that the company lacks “a competitive advantage in telephony.” Despite ongoing rumors around Nintendo’s mobile plans, and the increase in convergent devices as handsets like the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play reach the market, Nintendo “have no desire to get into telephony” Fils-Aime insists, saying that instead “we believe that we will earn our way into someone’s pocket without having to offer that (phone capability) as an additional factor.”

Speaking to CNN, the outspoken gaming exec suggested phones lack the imagination and interest Nintendo buyers expect. “We don’t want to be in the phone business,” Fils-Aime said. “We don’t see that as an opportunity. Phones are utilities. Phones are not by definition entertainment devices.”

The Nintendo 3DS was originally tipped to have integrated 3G, with some speculation around a bundled data package (though not voice connectivity) that would have allowed gaming while on the move. Instead, Nintendo stuck with WiFi, and added the peer-to-peer StreetPass system which can create ad-hoc network connections between consoles. A deal with AT&T in the US will see the 3DS logging on to the carrier’s range of WiFi hotspots this summer.

Software pricing is another sticking point. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has recently struck out at smartphone game prices, suggesting that developers and publishers are putting too little value on the cost of software. “Is maintaining high value games a top priority, or not?” he asked at GDC 2011 last month. ”When I look at retailers and I see the $1 and free software, I have to determine that the owner doesn't care about the high value of software at all.”

Nonetheless, gaming phones haven’t always been anathema at Nintendo. The company worked with Nokia at one point on a gaming handset project that reached the prototype stage, though was cancelled by the Japanese company’s board before ever getting near the market.


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Apple iPod nano seventh-gen regaining camera?

Posted: 04 Apr 2011 12:06 AM PDT

An image of what’s purported to be Apple’s next-gen iPod nano chassis has leaked, with a space in the back panel for a camera. The picture, sent to Apple.pro, shows a nano casing in the same square style as the existing 6th-gen model, but seemingly with camera functionality restored from the 5th-gen version.

Apple stripped out the camera from the nano in the last generation, when the iPod slimmed down considerably and gained a renewed focus on audio rather than attempting to cover video and content creation (rivaling the iPod touch). With this new shot, it suggests Apple is looking to restore video recording (we’re guessing, if this is all legitimate, that they’ll use the same 720p-capable CMOS as in the iPod touch).

However, without FaceTime – which seems a tough prospect for inclusion given the small space on offer – the seventh-gen iPod nano would still not fit into Apple’s video conferencing range. Apple is expected to unveil its new iPod range in roughly September this year.

[via 9 to 5 Mac]


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Google Doodle Ice Cream Sundae Lends to Android Rumor

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 08:27 PM PDT

Well it’s that time again, as it’s been more and more often over at the Google Pod, for them to honor another event in their loving “Doodle” way. This time it’s in honor of the 119th anniversary of the first documented ice cream sundae. That’s all well and good – but isn’t that sort of an odd number of years to celebrate? We think so, and Android Community thinks so – so what’s the REAL deal? We’re banking on the next version of Android being called Ice Cream Sundae.


The pattern goes like this: 1.5 Cupcake, 1.6 Donut, 2.1 Eclair, 2.2 Froyo, 2.3 Gingerbread, 3.0 Honeycomb, and what’s next? The letter “I” is next. It’s almost certainly Ice Cream, but because they’ve already gone with Froyo for one of their earlier iterations, they’ve got the differentiate the image. How about adding a few more scoops and some toppings? Sounds tasty!

This is one of those rumors that really doesn’t affect the world one way or another, but is certainly a fun little tidbit to think about. Ice Cream or Ice Cream Sundae or Ice Cream Sandwich or whatever you call it is certainly a few months away, at least, since Gingerbread isn’t even on more than a couple devices out in the wild right this moment (legally, that is.) Therefor, who knows? Let’s celebrate the moment with whichever tasty treat we choose!


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SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – April 3, 2011

Posted: 03 Apr 2011 08:17 PM PDT

This week we had a fun filled April Fools Day which brought with it lots of tech news pranks and hijinks. We also had several product reviews that you don’t want to miss including the Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play, the HTC Desire S, and the HTC Arrive. Perhaps most notable of the week is Google’s push towards anti-fragmentation of its Android platform. Continue after the cut for the video review and the full top ten list.

10. April Fools Tech Roundup

9. Google vs. CNN on Facial Recognition App
Google Working on Facial Recognition App [UPDATE: False!]
Google's Facial Recognition App Found Falsified by CNN [Update: CNN statement]
Face-Recognition app lights firestorm between Google and CNN [Updated]

8. Google +1 Button
Google +1 embeds recommendations into search [Video]
Google +1: So Simple These Babies Get It

7. HTC April 12 Event: Pyramid or Honeycomb tablets?

6. HTC Arrive
HTC Arrive Review

5. HTC Desire S
HTC Desire S Review

4. iPad 2: The Skeptic’s Review

3. Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play
Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play Review
Sony Ericsson confirms XPERIA Play shipping delay; will miss April 1 release on some carriers
Sony Ericsson XPERIA Play on sale now: Are you buying?

2. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Official Launch, Price and Date
ASUS Eee Pad First Impressions and Video
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Walk-Through Video
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer At Best Buy Soon For $400

1. Google Pushing For Anti-Fragmentation Of Android Platform
Google Android Anti-Fragmentation Push is Vital
Google puts Android on lock-down: Non-fragmentation contracts, standardized ARM chips, more


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