Loving your Xtreamer media player? The company’s gearing up for a much bigger, more versatile NAS complement that supports up to 4TB of storage across two bays, and anyone who’s bought last year’s model by November 1st will get a chance to pre-order this one for €59 (US $84) when the listing opens on that day. It’s bring-your-own-disk drives, but otherwise you’re getting a Windows 7 / Snow Leopard-compliant server that supports RAID 0 / 1, torrent management, 802.11n (with dongle), and a surveillance webcam for remote snooping that’s due out by Christmas of this year. After November 1st the price jumps to €99, and those who don’t have the current Xtreamer will have to pick up both as a €198 set. No ship date yet, but we’re supposed to be hearing more details, including full specs, in the coming days.

[Via Engadget Spanish]

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Xtreamer e-TRAYz NAS boasts up to 4TB storage, artistic license with English language originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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By Chris Scott Barr

I have the ability to do some pretty awesome stuff with my computer, however, I rarely use it to interact with other physical objects in my office. Generally, if you want to use your Personal computer to move other physical objects, you need some fancy hardware and/or a good bit of programming knowledge. Of course, if you’ve got mad MacGuyver skills, you can use nothing more than an optical drive and 8 lines of code to rock your baby to sleep.

Alright, so it doesn’t provide the most smooth rocking experience, but it’s good enough to put the baby in the video to sleep. I’m not necessarily going to advocate this hardware hack for two reasons. First, if anyone else sees this, you probably won’t live it down. Second, you might damage your cup holder.

[ YouTube ] VIA [ Technabob ]

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The NFL has ruled on the Dallas Cowboys punt blocking super-sized videoboard deciding to leave it where it is, 90 feet above the playing field, at least for this season. That’s no surprise to us, on the last EHD Podcast we figured no one would be able to tell Jerry Jones there’s a problem with his billion dollar baby, obstructed view seating and all. So far there’s just the one strike in the books, but if it happens again, it is a dead ball and the clock and down will both be reset. Haven’t seen the punt heard round the world yet? Check after the break for a clip of the kick that caused all the commotion, though we’re still waiting for a ruling on whether or not Gears of War tournaments on the thing are still legal.

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NFL to let Cowboys giant HD scoreboard stay as-is, at least for 2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG bared the fruits of its OLED labor last week with a new set of photos of its gorgeous 15-inch screen, and now comes word from Reuters that it’s gearing up to become consumer reality. The company will be showing off the model at next week’s IFA trade show, and then expects to begin selling it in Korea this November, followed by overseas sometime next year. Excited? You bet. Inexpensive? Price unknown, with Sony’s two-year old 11-inch XEL-1 still retailing for $2,500 in the US — and worse elsewhere — you can anticipate to be sacrificing a pretty penny for small-screen bliss. LG also plans to show off a 40-inch OLED in the “not too distant future,” but don’t anticipate to be seeing that hit retail shelves for a good long time to come.

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LG’s 15-inch OLED Television on sale in Korea this November, overseas in 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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By Andrew Liszewski

Need another reason to pick up the FlashBox digital video recorder I wrote about yesterday? Well here it is. The Phantom v12.1 CMOS-based high-speed digital camera is capable of capturing a whopping 6,933 frames per second at a resolution of 1280 x 720. According to Ben Cain’s HD CINEMA blog, the Phantom high-speed cameras where originally developed by Vision Research with the military in mind, but have been adopted by the film and TV industries for high-speed photography with great success.

Now shooting HD footage at almost 7,000 fps isn’t quite as easy as shooting with a consumer-level HD camera, but Ben has posted his current experiences and successes with using the Phantom v12.1 on a high-speed shoot for Starz on his blog. Interesting tidbit, it’s apparently better to use huge 5K lights on a high-speed shoot instead of 2Ks because you can actually see the light cool slightly in-between the alternating current’s 60 cycles on the high-speed footage, causing flicker. 5K lights on the other hand burn hot enough that their intensity isn’t visibly reduced in-between cycles. Crazy!

[ Phantom v12.1 ] VIA [ HD CINEMA ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

If you thought you had problems storing all the RAW files from your digital SLR camera, envision having to deal with the stream of data coming from a digital movie camera capturing footage at 24 frames per second or higher. That’s why researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS in Erlangen, Germany have developed the FlashBox which docks to a digital film camera, like the ARRI D21 or the Sony F35, and stores up to 500GB of footage on a couple of swappable SSDs.

At just 5.1 x 3.1 x 2.8 inches in size and 3.3 pounds the FlashBox is remarkably light and compact, but it can capture and store Bayer raw sensor data in resolutions up to 2048

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Whooo. (Not Wooo.) Amazing how a few well framed PR shots can reignite gadget lust, just when it seems extinguished. Sure, LG’s 15-inch OLED HDTV will probably follow the path of Sony’s $2,500 11-inch XEL-1 to the land of ridiculously overpriced trinkets that few can or will buy and eventually falls by the wayside when bigger, cheaper options become available. Still, checking out that ultra bright screen in these photos has us checking our bank account for an extra few grand, refreshing the feeling last experienced when we checked it out in person at CES. The appearance of these on LG’s Flickr stream would appear to support the summer mass production-December launch we’ve been promised, who else is wishing the 30-inch version wasn’t delayed until 2012?

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LG’s 15-inch OLED screen is still drop dead gorgeous, likely priced to kill originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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By Andrew Liszewski

What could be cooler than a cubicle filled with vintage G.I. Joe figures from the 80’s toy line? Why a cubicle filled with vintage G.I. Joe figures from the 80’s toy line playing amazingly detailed miniature arcade cabinets of course! Large J.W., as he’s known on Flickr, hand makes these minute marvels with a combination of plywood for the cabinets and balsa wood for detailing and each one comes complete with authentic graphics and even little controls.

And because each arcade machine is hand made to order, it takes about 3 or 4 days before they’re shipped out, so if you happen to order one using the contact info he’s provided on his Flickr pages try and be understanding, particularly since he sells them for just $20 to $25 a piece.

[ Flickr - Huge J.W.’s Mini Arcade Cabinets ] VIA [ technabob ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Keeping up the theme of stylish kitchen appliances with a splash of color we have these new Vera electric kettles by Casa Bugatti. Now we’re no strangers to Bugatti’s efforts in the kitchen, having previously brought you their Vela 3-Speed Blender, but the Vera kettle goes one step beyond just a lovely design.

You see the handle on the Vera incorporates a screen that provides information about the temperature of the water boiling inside. The high-tech handle can also be used to set a specific temperature for the water (between 45 and 100°C) or you can set a timer to ensure you wake up in the morning to piping hot water ready for your coffee. The Vera Kettle is expected to be in stock at WhereDidYouBuyThat.com sometime in mid-September in a variety of colors, but it will set you back about $300. It is a Bugatti after all.

[ Bugatti Vera Kettle ] VIA [ Apartment Therapy Unplugged ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

I’ll admit it, every once in a while I’ll go to town on a piece of mail bearing a bit too much personal info with a black Sharpie. Some might think I’m being a bit too paranoid, but what they don’t realize is that I’m really doing it for the Sharpie fumes. Which is why I can’t comprehend why someone would want to use this ID Guard Stamp instead. Sure it makes obscuring confidential or personal data a breeze by literally stamping over the info with a pattern of random characters, but it does it without those permanent marker fumes we all got addicted to back in grade school. Where’s the fun in that?

But those of you who’ve managed to admit they’ve a problem and left the Sharpie lifestyle behind can get the ID Guard Stamp in a 2.75

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