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Do you have some media to share with yourself (or with those in close vicinity)? The Linksys Wireless N Storage Router is a sleek and sexy refresh of the tried and true Wireless G, throwing in external R-SMA antenna connectors, USB connectivity (for your fave external drive) and an integrated media server. This bad boy can stream to PCs or UPnP AV digital media adapters, and it supports FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS file systems in both read and write mode. Available now for $109.99. Filed under: Networking
Linksys announces WRT160NL Linux-powered media sharing router originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Evan Ackerman
Always Innovating has taken a totally different approach to the burgeoning (and some might say cluttered) netbook market with their Touch Book tablet laptop… thing. Really, it’s a tablet personal that uses an 8.9″ touchscreen, but you can also use it with an attachable (more like, dockable) keyboard and touchpad that essentially turns it into more of a laptop.
There’s more besides the versatile form factor that differentiates the Touch Book from a netbook, though. Firstly, it’s always on, like a cell phone. No booting up, no shutting down, and it’s all solid say, so there’s no noisy fans. Somehow it manages to keep itself on for 10 hours with a single charge, thanks in part to a battery in the keyboard half as well as the screen half, even though the entire package still weighs under 3 pounds. As you might anticipate, it has b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth, plus an accelerometer and 3 external USB ports.
The only potential downside is that the Touch Book was not engineered to run Windows. It’s not just that it doesn’t come with Windows, it’s that Windows won’t work it. At all. Except maybe mobile versions of Windows. It unsurprisingly runs a custom distribution of Linux off of an SD card, which should easily provide enough functionality to do more or less everything you’d want to do with a mobile computer (web browsing, media, and light document editing). If you’re not happy with that, they’re also working on an Android version.
The Always Innovating Touch Book should be available sometime this month for $300, plus an extra $100 for the keyboard… It’s not a powerhouse compared to other netbooks in the price range, but it really speaks to what the core principle of a netbook is (or should be): flexible, mobile, inexpensive, basic computing.
[ Always Innovating ] VIA [ Gizmodo ]
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By Andrew Liszewski
Everything I know about golf I learned from the motion picture Caddy Shack, so while inclement weather can possibly lead to the best round of your life, there’s also the very real chance of something terrible happening while wandering around with what’s essentially a bag full of lightning rods. So before you head out on the links, you’ll want to make sure the weather’s going to play nice for 18 holes, and that’s where the Bushnell Golf FXi enters the picture. It receives constant weather updates for over 16,000 golf courses in the U.S. via a wireless USB transmitter attached to an internet-equipped Personal computer, and displays them on its monochrome LCD.
The weather data itself is provided by AccuWeather.com and includes everything from current, RealFeel and forecasted high and low temps, morning, afternoon and evening forecasts for up to 3 days, the UV index and even wind speed and direction. And as an added touch, the backlight on the display changes color to reflect the current temperature of your selected course so you can easily get an idea of the conditions at a quick glance. It’s a nice gift idea for a golf nut I suppose, but for $124.99 it’s kind of an pricey unitasker.
[ Bushnell Golf FXi Weather Forecaster ] VIA [ Uncrate ]
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With CableCARD enabled HDTVs being a complete bust and the crazy popular trend of mounting HDTVs on the wall, many wonder what they can do with their DVR or cable box. As you might expect, the crew over at Engadget HD is more than familiar with the options and lucky for you they actually wrote them down in an simple to digest format. So if you’re the do-it-yourself type and are looking to relocate your HD DVR or noisy Xbox 360, then by all means what are you waiting for, click on through. Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Engadget HD explains: Where to put your DVR when you wall-mount your HDTV originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We don’t know exactly how, but Belkin’s claiming its new Gigabit Powerline HD Starter Kit adapters can outpace the current 200Mbps standard speed of most other powerline devices (not all of them, mind you) by five fold. Of course, the caveat here is that the touted 1000Mbps is under ideal settings, and there’s no telling what other network traffic, interference, or problematic wiring could lower that figure — still, assuming all conditions are sound, we’re talking some hefty numbers for an HD streaming network run via your home’s electrical system. It’s available now in North America at a penny under $150 for a pair of adapters, with a European release in early August.
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Belkin’s Gigabit Powerline Adapter ups the ante for electrical outlet networking originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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D-Link wasn’t exactly dishing out a ton of details when it showed off its DCS-1100- and DCS-1130 network cameras back at CES, but it’s now finally gotten fully official with ‘em, and the new mydlink website that they’re tied to. As you can see above, one of the cameras, the DCS-1130, packs some built-in WiFi (802.11n, no less), while the other keeps things wired to save a few bucks and please those still wary of wireless security. Otherwise, each are seemingly identical, and pack a 16x digital zoom, motion detection, a built-in microphone, support for 3GPP mobile surveillance (provided you have appropriate router) and, of course, support for remote monitoring from D-Link’s new mydlink.com website, which apparently thinks it’s 1999 and only supports Internet Explorer. If that’s not too big a drawback, you can pick up the wired version now for $180, or grab the WiFi model for $230 at the end of the month. Filed under: Digital Cameras, Networking
D-Link gets official with mydlink-enabled network cameras originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Looking for a more official announcement than a forum post? Beyond the read link awaits Popcorn Hour’s official press release for the C-200 containing some of the details we so desperately wanted, like a July release window and price of $299. Otherwise the details remain the same with support for almost each codec we could ask for and a front mounted drive bay ready for HDD or optical drives of your choosing. We sent over a query about the Blu-ray and Blu-ray live support mentioned, but were unable to nail down any new details — we’d bet on being able to play back your de-AACS’d rips & backups but that’s about it. Any other questions that need answering once we score some hands on time with this do it all media box?
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Popcorn Hour prices C-200 media streamer at $299, launches next month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The followup to the popular PopcornHour media streamer series has finally been announced, and the list of features makes it look worth the wait. Revealed in a post on the Networked Media Tank forums the C-200 contains an upgraded Sigma SMP8643 667 Mhz processor, HDMI 1.3 out, two SATA slots, a drive bay for mounting your own HDD, DVD or even Blu-ray drive (requires internal HDD or 1GB USB stick) and supports a list of networking standards, codecs and containers far too long to recount here. At first glance, only DivX jumps out as missing from the list, have a look at the forum posting and let us know if you spot. Of course, there’s already a video unboxing available, seen after the break (along with the copied list of specs) or check out the full Google translated early hands on impressions from HomeTheater.co.il. The most pressing questions of when will these be available and for how much, will have to be answered at another time.
[Via HomeTheater.co.il & Geek Tonic]
Continue reading PopcornHour’s latest C-200 media box is Blu-ray (& anything else) ready
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PopcornHour’s latest C-200 media box is Blu-ray (& anything else) ready originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Remember that Novatel MiFi 2352 we got our hands on a few months back? Well, it looks care about it got a little makeover just in time for yesterday’s launch on Telefonica Espana. While we’re digging the look of the thing, it’s what’s going on under the hood that really piqued our interest: Adding to the usual WiFi connectivity and encryption, this guy sports two processors, a separate Linux OS and additional flash RAM for hosting and running third party apps accessible to its WiFi clients. If anything, this advocates that Novatel has “big plans for the platform,” as SlashGear notes. While available apps are currently limited to Alcatel-Lucent’s Nonstop Laptop Guardian (a user admin package for enterprise users) we’re looking forward to seeing what the company and its partners cook up in the future. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s commence with the unboxing. Shall we? Video’s after the break. Continue reading Video: Novatel Wireless’ GSM MiFi 2352 launches on Telefonica Espana
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Video: Novatel Wireless’ GSM MiFi 2352 launches on Telefonica Espana originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:43:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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By Andrew Liszewski
According to his blog, Ben Heck has just finished a revision 2 version of his Commodore 64 laptop. The updated model includes the newer version of the 1541 Ultimate SD card ‘disk drive’ and USB and ethernet ports that are now open and easily accessible on the front of the laptop. The ideal part though is that the laptop will actually be auctioned off for charity (the American Cancer Society he believes) and Ben promises to post more details about how you can maybe make this your own as they become available.
[ BenHeck.com - Commodore 64 Original Hardware Laptop Revision 2 For Charity! ] VIA [ TechEBlog ]
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