While Dell’s partnerships with MLB and OPI are content with merely printing new designs onto the laptop lid, creative director Douglas Little of D.L. & Co. took things a lot too far with this Swarovski Crystal-embedded sterling silver snake — adorning an etched Adamo 13 lid. We can’t decide if we’re offended by the gaudy display, or incredibly impressed with how audacious it is, so we’ll just leave our mouths hanging open and let you decide for yourself. What we do know is that it’s part of a series of one-offs produced for Bergdorf Goodman retail in some capacity, and we’re sure with a bit of recession-style haggling you should have no trouble squeezing one of these onto a second mortgage.
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Douglas Little’s Adamo series: the most expensive snake you’ve seen glued to a laptop all week originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Police in the US and in Egypt arrest dozens of people accused of links to an alleged identity theft ring targeting US banks.
We’re not sure that the keyboard meets the lofty standard set by the CLIQ / DEXT, but arguably the Moment’s single most important feature — the slide-out QWERTY keyboard — has decent feel. It’s very clicky and requires a surprising amount of pressure to actuate individual keys, but not enough to be frustrating — it just feels solid. Overall, the phone’s a little bulky and has a plastic overtone to it, but fortunately, the screen’s at least as good as the G1 and Magic for feel and there’s no “give” to speak of; OLED’s gorgeous (as always) indoors, but the true test of trying to view this thing in the sunlight might not come until we’ve had a chance to take delivery of a review unit. The software’s essentially stock Android with a few Sprint apps (including Sprint TV) peppered in for good measure. Check out our hands-on gallery, won’t you?
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Samsung Moment for Sprint first hands-on! originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We know it’s been tough finding a 23-inch, full HD monitor that’s just nondescript enough to cause not so much as a passing glance, but it looks like Mitsubishi finally has the monitor for you. In addition to that 1,920 x 1080 resolution, its new RDT231WLM-S model packs a decent 5 ms response time, a 1,000:1 contrast ratio, a full range of ports including HDMI and DVI, and an “ECO Professional” mode to cut down on power consumption whenever possible. Unfortunately, it also makes use of a TN panel, and it eschews any modern conveniences like a built-in webcam or USB hub — but, hey, at least it’s one monitor that won’t collect fingerprints left and right. No price or release just yet, but we’d expect those details to be fairly inexpensive and fairly soon.
[Via Akihabara News]
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Mitsubishi debuts power-saving RDT231WLM-S 23-inch monitor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We just got a pretty detailed look at Microsoft’s upcoming Dashboard update for the Xbox, which brings with it the Zune Video Marketplace and Last.fm music streaming, along with Facebook and Twitter social functionality. We were most impressed with Facebook, which includes a feature for spotting which of your Facebook friends have Xbox Live — a great way to grow that friends list and bring a bit of “synergy” to your life. Last.fm was a bit of a downer, since you can’t do anything else while listening to the music, but otherwise there weren’t many minuses to the presentation other than the lack of a firm release date. Check out Joystiq‘s full impressions at the read link before, or watch the whole demo on mind-blowing video after the break.
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Xbox 360′s new Zune, Last.fm, Facebook and Twitter features detailed on video originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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