We won’t cancel our trips to Vegas just yet, but Boxee is planning on giving users an early peek at its new beta release — with all new UI, queue, navigation and search features — December 7 at the Music hall of Williamsburg. Beta Unveiling visitors will be the first to get their hands on the new version and see new applications being launched by partners, leading to early access beta testers giving it a four week shakedown run before the planned wide release January 7 at CES. Any ideas what form Boxee might take in this next step on its road to commercial viability?
Boxee shows off its new look at Beta Unveiling jam December 7 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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EnerDel, who we last saw soaking up some of that
Joe Biden stimulus money, is teaming up with the U.S. Army to develop a battery solution for a hybrid
Humvee. Of course, your High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle is by its nature very large and very heavy — great for dropping out of airplanes, perhaps, but not so great a candidate for electric power. Two of the company’s battery chemistries will tested in the program, including lithium-manganese spinel (for extending electric vehicle range and electronic systems runtime) and lithium-titanate system (for the hard acceleration and braking required). In addition to “extreme performance simulations” that re-create battlefield conditions, a hybrid vehicle can also sport a “stealth” mode, which kills the diesel generator altogether, allowing the vehicle to run silently with a low thermal signature. And if that weren’t enough, the vehicle is also being designed to perform as a highly portable, temporary power plant for field hospitals or command posts. The program is expected to last eighteen months. PR after the break.
[Via CNET]
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U.S. Army and EnerDel team up for electric-hybrid Humvee originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It’s DROID launch day and you know what that means — we’re doing the podcast live. Join Josh, Paul, Nilay, and a cast of USTREAM thousands just below the break — it’s been a wild week, don’t miss it!
Update: A riot as always — and if you missed it, don’t worry, as our regular podcast post will be up tomorrow.
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The Engadget Podcast, live — now! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Dell certainly managed to cram plenty of inventive, even far-fetched touches into its
Adamo XPS laptop, but it looks like it went even further out on a limb during the prototype stage, as
PC World was able to discover during a brief hands-on time with a few cast off concepts. As you might expect, one of the ideas Dell toyed around with was a full-fledged touchscreen trackpad, which was apparently rejected because Dell couldn’t justify the cost of the panel based how much people would actually use it. Another, possibly even more ambitious concept is one that would have completely replaced the traditional keyboard with a series of capacitive-touch buttons (pictured after the break), which would have allowed for a true zero-profile design, albeit at some potential expense to usability. Hit up the link below for a look at a few more prototypes.
[Via SlashGear]
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Unused Adamo XPS prototypes reveal touchscreen trackpads, key-less keyboard originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Think it’s only gamers that require mice with
more buttons than a scientific calculator? Then you’ve probably not met a die hard OpenOffice user, who now finally have a mouse to call their own in the form of the OpenOfficeMouse. Developed by WarMouse in partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, this corded point-and-clicker packs no less than 18 programmable buttons (each with double-click functionality), along with support for up to 63 separate profiles, a clickable scroll wheel, an adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI, and, get this, a built-in analog joystick that can itself be used to store up to sixteen different keys or macros. Still no firm word on availability, it seems, but you can expect to pay $74.99 for this one.
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OpenOfficeMouse isn’t free, isn’t pretty originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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