digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Apple_partners_with_Intel_on_new_standard_could_abandon_USB’; Remember how Intel showed off its new, advanced optical standard — Light Peak — this past week on a Hackintosh? Well it turns out there’s more to that story than you probably know, and it all leads back to some revealing facts about the connection… literally and figuratively. Engadget has learned — thanks to an extremely reliable source — that not only is Apple complicit in the development of Light Peak, but the company actually brought the concept to Intel and asked them to create it. More to the point, the new standard will play a hugely important role in upcoming products from Cupertino.
Continue reading Exclusive: Apple dictated Light Peak creation to Intel, could begin migration from other standards as early as 2010
Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Handhelds, Laptops
Exclusive: Apple dictated Light Peak creation to Intel, could begin migration from other standards as early as 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve seen so many
mods around here that sometimes it’s truly hard to get excited over the minor stuff. Well, this doesn’t fall into that category in any way. A computer scientist at the University in Warwick has developed a method to use Microsoft’s
Xbox 360 to detect
heart defects and help prevent heart attacks. Based on a demo created by Simon Scarle a few years back when he worked at Rare studio, it’s based on a modded chip that — instead of producing graphics for the game — now produces data tracking how the electrical signals in the heart moves about damaged cells, creating a model of it. The model can then be used to help doctors to identify defects and disturbances in the heart’s beating. This significantly decreases the costs and complications of creating a model of the heart, which is currently done by supercomputers and is very expensive. Scarle’s project and findings were just published in the August issue of
the Journal of Computational Biology and Chemistry. Looks like we’ll all have a response the next time someone tells us that gaming is good for nothing, right?
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Gaming, Science
Computer scientist mods Xbox 360 to detect heart attacks, girls still mysteriously elusive originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Hey, thought that $99.99 Amazon deal for a Palm Pre was really snazzy? Well today, Walmart appears to go one better by cutting the smartphone’s price down to a staggering $79.99 (on contract and with mail-in rebate). If prices keep going this low, you can probably expect the Pixi to show up for about nothing (zero, zip, zilch) sooner rather than later. If you’ve been looking for a deal to get into the Pre, this is it… but too bad if you dropped $200 a few months ago.
[Via everythingpre]
Filed under: Cellphones
Pre drops to $79.99 at Walmart originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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When you simply have $120.69-too-much in your bank account, you can thank Uxsight for being there. You may already be entertaining guests with your variety of USB endoscopes, but to really make the picture complete (pun only slightly intended), you’re going to want this succulent USB iriscope. That’s right, now you can peer deeply, digtally into the eyes of your… er, “clients” (their words, not ours) as you check their health and generally freak everyone out. When you’re done, you can “compare the irises pictures when your client comes back to see their progress.” Now, we don’t know exactly what kind of procedure you’re going to be performing on said clients, but you’ll finally have a way to show them just what kind of mess you’ve made. We think Uxsight says it best about their product: “Natural image, attractive or charming.” Who can argue with that kind of logic?
[Via Coolest Gadgets]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
USB iriscope is just what you need for your next date originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Wacom sure has been busy with its Bamboo line, and now the impressions are starting to trickle in. The Pen & Touch is particularly interesting, marrying what is essentially an extra large touchpad with traditional digital pen tech — and to what effect? Well, the tester at BestTabletReview.com didn’t find much difference in accuracy or sensitivity with his old Graphire, and was particularly digging the 16:9 ratio over his old tablet’s 4:3 setup — making for more of a 1-to-1 penning experience. Of course, it’s probably more up to personal tastes as to whether you’ll really find the multitouch aspects of the unit worthwhile, but they aren’t touched on much here, and you could always just spring for the Pen-only edition if that’s the way you’re wired.
Filed under: Peripherals
Wacom’s Bamboo Pen & Touch unboxed and previewed originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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