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30.12.2007 24:00 Uhr
i-Snake: yet another flexible surgical robot
Filed under: RobotsA robot that crawls through your innards? Yeah, we've been there, done that on a number of occasions, but a new alternative being developed by a team at Imperial College London could reportedly "revolutionize keyhole surgery." The aforementioned crew has been granted some £2.1 million ($4.19 million) in order to further develop the i-Snake, which is a "long tube housing special motors, sensors and imaging tools." Apparently, the creation
30.12.2007 23:35 Uhr, Engadget,
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iPhones upgraded to 1.1.3 can't be downgraded?
Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsNot to say it's actually easy to get your hands on the rumored 1.1.3 firmware at this point, but in the event that you do, proceed with caution. Nate True, the guy that brought us a video walkthrough of the supposedly leaked goods, is reporting that he can't seem to downgrade to 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 after performing the install. Locked phones show an "Incorrect SIM" error -- a problem unlockers of yore are all too familiar with -- while previously unlocked
30.12.2007 21:51 Uhr, Engadget,
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Giant ASIMO replica to pilot Honda's transforming Rose Parade float
Filed under: Robots, Transportation
Generally we're a little too, um, preoccupied on New Year's Day to bother with such trifles as opening our eyes and watching the annual Rose Parade from Pasadena, but with Honda planning an ambitious float for 2008 that will feature a gigantic ASIMO replica riding a transforming Honda Ridgeline, well, at the very least we'll be setting our DVR. According to American Honda, which provides the Tournament of Roses with hundreds of vehicles and has won numerous awards for its entries in the past, its generators will cause "the hood of the truck to fold forward to become an
30.12.2007 20:21 Uhr, Engadget,
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Xbox Live "up and running," now with no caveats
Filed under: Gaming
After treading deeply into some crazy Orwellian statusbox doublespeak, it looks like Xbox Live is finally up and running with no lingering issues or caveats. According to Major Nelson, the entire Live team has been working "day and night" to get things sorted, and while we appreciate their efforts over the holidays, we're still of the opinion that Live members should be getting a free week or month -- you gotta deliver when you run a paid service.[Thanks to e
30.12.2007 19:06 Uhr, Engadget,
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RIAA not suing over CD ripping, still kinda being jerks about it
Okay, so we've done some digging into the RIAA's lawsuit against Jeffery Howell, in which the industry is claiming that ripped MP3s are "unauthorized copies," and it turns out that Jeffery isn't actually being sued for ripping CDs, like the Washington Post and several other sources have reported, but for plain old illegal downloading. As we're all unfortunately aware, that's pretty standard stuff; the big change from previous downloading cases is the RIAA's newfound aggressiveness in calling MP3s ripped from legally owned CDs "unauthorized copies" -- something it's been doing quietly for a while, but now it looks like the gloves are off. While there's a prett
30.12.2007 18:36 Uhr, Engadget,
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CDs gerippt - Von RIAA verklagt
Engadget macht uns auf einen Artikel der Washington Post aufmerksam, der wohl auch bei euch für verdutze Gesichter sorgen dürfte. Die RIAA, Lobby-Vertretung der amerikanischen Musikindustrie, lehnt sich bei einer aktuell in Arizona eingereichten Klage, ein weiteres Stück aus dem Fenster und versucht nun auch das Rippen gekaufter CDs zu unterbinden:
(..)the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer.
The industry's lawyer in the case, Ira Schwartz, argues in a brief filed earlier this month that the MP3 files
30.12.2007 18:05 Uhr, iFun.de,
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iPhone firmware 1.1.3 icon rearrangement on video?
Filed under: CellphonesJust yesterday we saw some pics of what was being touted as an iPhone running the as-yet-unannounced 1.1.3 firmware version, and now we've got word of some video proof from a pretty reliable source. Nate True, all-around modder and creator of the Walluminate light-up wallet, has a short vid up on his cre.ations.net site that claims to depict that handy home page icon rearrangement feature -- you know, the one that suggests an SDK to make u
30.12.2007 17:36 Uhr, Engadget,
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iPhone-Firmware 1.13 mit neuen Funktionen
Laut den Angaben verschiedener Foren soll in Kürze ein neues Update für das Apple iPhone verfügbar sein. Derzeit aktuell ist die Firmware 1.12 - mit dieser Version wird der Taschencomputer in Deutschland und den USA verkauft. Nach wie vor existiert das Problem bei der Freischaltung von einigen US-Geräten, die sich Interessenten in der Vorweihnachtszeit bei einem Flug über den großen Teich mitgebracht hatten. Auch das in Frankreich verkaufte Gerät
30.12.2007 17:06 Uhr, Toms Hardware,
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Warum iTunes in Gefahr ist
Seit dem Siegeszug des iPods begann auch der iTunes Store, sich einen der vordersten Plätze im Online-Musikvertrieb zu erobern. Einige der großen Musiklabels machen Apple aber in letzter Zeit das Music-Store-Leben durch verschiedene Streitereien um einiges schwerer. Der wachsende Konkurrenzdruck durch den kürzlich gestarteten Download-Dienst von Amazon, der DRM-freie Songs zu niedrigeren Preisen anbietet, ist nach der Meinung des Cnet-Autors Don Reisinger ein zunehmend bedrohlicher Faktor für Apple.
30.12.2007 17:06 Uhr, Maclife,
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US' largest solar photovoltaic system flipped on in Nevada
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Sure, we've seen monolithic solar farms before, but the 14-megawatt Nellis solar energy system is a beast that stands alone -- for now, at least. As of today, this farm is hailed as America's "largest solar photovoltaic system," but if all goes to plan, Cleantech America will grab those honors when it completes a massive 80-megawatt project
30.12.2007 15:36 Uhr, Engadget,
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Zweite Revision des Accelero S1 kommt
Der Schweizer Kühlerhersteller Arctic Cooling bringt mit den Accelero S1 Rev. 2 eine neue Version des passiven VGA-Kühlers auf den Markt. Der
Kühler ist fortan zu einer noch größeren Zahl von Grafikkarten kompatibel, unter anderem die Topseller
Radeon HD 3870, 3850, sowie GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) und 8800 GT.
30.12.2007 12:50 Uhr, ComputerBase,
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Art Lebedev stellen Optimus Tactus Tastatur vor
Das russische Designer-Team Art Lebedev hat wiedereinmal zugeschlagen: Erst kürzlich gelang deren revolutionäre Optimus Maximus Tastatur in den freien Verkauf, sogleich schicken die Entwickler ein neues Konzept hinterher. Mit dem "Optimus Tactus Keyboard" wird ein neuartiges Eingabegerät vorgestellt, das gänzlich aus einem Bildschirm besteht und frei angepasst werden kann.
30.12.2007 11:50 Uhr, Maclife,
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Graphene could be used in creating solar cells, LCDs
Filed under: Displays, Misc. GadgetsNot to sound alarming or anything, but apparently, we've only got a decade or so before our planet runs clean out of indium. Thankfully for us, a team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany are purportedly onto a replacement. For those in the dark, indium is a critical resource in "creating solar cells, LCD and other devices which must have transparent electrodes to carry out their function," but the aforementioned crew has seemingly been able to take graphene ("single layer 2D sheets extracted from the common material graphite") and build an acceptable alternative. The creation is 80-percent transparent to visible
30.12.2007 11:20 Uhr, Engadget,
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Apple will mit neuer Boombox HD Radio verbreiten
Manchen iPod-Besitzern klingt noch leise der Sound von Apples Lautsprecherbox iPod Hi-Fi in den Ohren, die im September 2007 mangels ausreichender Kundenakzeptanz eingestellt wurde. Vorige Woche berichteten wir von einem neuen Apple-Patent, das eine dem iPod Hi-Fi sehr ähnliche "Boombox" mit einem kleinem Display an der Vorderseite beschreibt. Laut Informationen von iLounge könnte dieses Patent schon bald in die Realität umgesetzt werden und in Form eines Produktes mit weiteren neuen Funktionen die Nachfolge der alten Lautsprecherbox antreten.
30.12.2007 10:22 Uhr, Maclife,
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Juli: Glänzende Geschäftszahlen bei Apple
Wie unsere Vorfahren weiden gleich drei US-amerikanische Internetseiten das iPhone sofort aus, nachdem sie es in Händen halten. Doch im Juli fixiert man sich nicht nur auf das Telefon, sondern auch auf die kommende Version 10.5 von Mac-OS X und auf Apples Geschäftszahlen.
30.12.2007 09:35 Uhr, Macwelt,
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Ziova intros ClearStream CS615 HD media streamer
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
It's been a tick since Ziova cranked out a new media streamer, but its ClearStream CS615 looks pretty promising. Interestingly, this one doesn't feature any built-in wireless capabilities nor a DVD drive, but it seems as if the firm's CEO is aiming this unit at folks who didn't want to go cordless, anyway. You will, however, find USB 2.0 and 10 / 100 Ethernet ports along with a caddy for an internal 3.5-inch HDD, and the support for WAV, H.264, FLAC, OGG, LPCM, WMA, AAC, AC3, DTS, MPEG1/2/3/4, WMV9, QuickTime, JPG, BMP, GIF
30.12.2007 08:05 Uhr, Engadget,
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30.12.2007 5:00 Uhr
Reboot your home theater remotely with PS Audio PowerPlay
Filed under: Home EntertainmentWhile the corporate IT world has long had access to remotely-controlled power for servers and data centers, it's pretty cutting-edge stuff for home theater, with PS Audio releasing the first line of Internet-connected power management devices. Ranging in price from $600 to $1,995 and scheduled to release in Spring 2008, the four products in the PowerPlay line differ in number of switchable and isolated plugs, but all offer a web interface to toggle power, schedule reboots, and monitor power quality. There is an RS-232 port
30.12.2007 04:35 Uhr, Engadget,
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Girl unwraps iPod, finds heavy-handed social commentary instead
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
As the unfortunate trend continues, yet another kiddo has found their Christmas PMP replaced with something that's, well, not a PMP. In today's episode, we find a Washington, D.C. girl that unwrapped an iPod earlier this week and discovered that the only Apple produc
30.12.2007 02:05 Uhr, Engadget,
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30.12.2007 2:00 Uhr
Xbox Live "up and running," flush with irony
Filed under: Gaming
Since Microsoft knew you were tired of having your holiday break marred by the annoyingly frequent news of Xbox Live outages, they've decided to redefine the verbage, newspeak style. Apparently the term "Status: Up and running" has now been expanded to include a laundry list of "intermittent issue" caveats some users might be experiencing, including but not limited to trouble with: "Tournaments, Storage Downloads, Gamer Tile, Statistics through Arbitration, Match Making, and Messaging." If you're hoping to play Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4 online (you rebel, you) you're most likely even more out of luck. There are also far-reaching problems that
30.12.2007 01:35 Uhr, Engadget,
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Reminder: get in your nominations for the 2007 Engadget Awards!
Filed under: Announcements
Just in case you missed it: we're in the process of collecting nominations for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we're asking for your nominations! If you've never seen a gadget in a Stella McCartney gown break down in tears thanking its development team on live national television, well, it's really something to behold -- don't deprive your favorite devices the opportunity. Permalink |
30.12.2007 01:05 Uhr, Engadget,
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RIAA suing citizen for copying legally purchased CDs to PC
Filed under: Portable AudioSure, we've heard RIAA-admiring lawyers affirm that ripping your own CDs is in fact "stealing," but it seems the aforementioned entity is putting its money where its mouth is in a case against Jeffrey Howell. Reportedly, the Scottsdale, Arizona resident is being sued by the RIAA, and rather than Mr. Howell just writing a check and calling it a day, he's fighting back in court. Interestingly, it seems that the industry is maintaining that "it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into their computer." Ira Schwartz, the industry
30.12.2007 01:05 Uhr, Engadget,
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30.12.2007 1:00 Uhr
Becker Traffic Assist 7827 loose in the UK
Filed under: GPS
Not that it's been that long since we heard from Becker or anything, but it's never too early for yet another numerically named navigation unit, right? Available now in the UK, the Becker Traffic Assist 7827 sports a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 resolution touchscreen, 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, a SiRFstarIII GPS chipset, integrated TMC receiver for traffic avoidance, an SD expansion slot and USB connectivity. Additionally, you'll find a rechargeable battery good for around five hours, a 2GB SD card with maps for 37 European countries, a headphone jack and a multimedia
30.12.2007 00:35 Uhr, Engadget,
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