It still won’t sell you one, but Carmangi has just launched the official website for its Android-based
WebStation tablet / MID, and cleared up a few remaining details in the process. As we’d heard, this one packs a 7-inch glass touchscreen and some of the usual niceties like WiFi and GPS, but it looks like the rest of the specs are decidedly par for the course, including a 624MHz Marvell PXA303 processor, 128MB of RAM, 256MB of flash storage, and 3G connectivity in the form of a USB dongle only. You will get a complimentary 8GB microSD card to boost that storage, however, and you’ll soon apparently be able to get it in your choice of pink or black in addition to the basic white — the company even has its own “Camangi Market” for apps, though it’s looking a little sparse, and not all that unique at the moment.
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The field of “spintronics” – a future means of computing – is shown to work at room temperature for the first time.
The high-end audio market has always been more about marketing than about music, but it’s hard to say if we’ve ever seen a product as phenomenally insane as the LessLoss BlackBody, a $959 block of plastic that designer Louis Motek says “takes advantage of the quantum nature of particle interaction” to improve your stereo’s sound quality by simply being in the same room. How? “Your gear’s radiation is transformed into room-temperature blackbody radiation.” Yeah — and that’s just the tip of this crazy iceberg. We can’t say we believe it for a second, but LessLoss says that the BlackBody is so effective at altering “electromagnetic ambient conditions” that the quality improvement is obvious to “even non-audiophiles” listening to “a noisy home PC playing through your average SoundBlaster.” That sounds like a challenge to us — hit us up, LessLoss.
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To think, it’s been over five years since we last tackled how to get music off your iPod, as opposed to the other way around. Back then, the classic model had only recently added the infamous click wheel (while still rocking the monochrome screen, mind you), iPod nano was still called the mini, and viewing photos was a brand new feature worthy of having its own line. It’s time to take another look at how to transfer media of all sorts — audio, video, and pictures — from a variety of iPods and iPhones back to your Windows or Mac OS X machine.
How-to: get music, videos, and photos off your iPod or iPhone originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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It may only produce enough power to heat an electric kettle at the moment, but Norway’s Statkraft says that its new, first-of-its-kind osmotic power plant could be producing as much energy as a small wind farm by 2015, and continue to grow from there on out. To do that, the company guides fresh water and salt water into separate chambers that are divided by an artificial membrane, and when the process of osmosis takes place — salt molecules pulling freshwater through the membrane — the pressure is increased on the sea water side. That, of course, doesn’t get you power on its own, but the pressure is apparently enough to drive a power generating turbine, and if you have enough of those you have a power plant. A bit of effort, to be sure, but the process doesn’t emit any greenhouse gases, is completely renewable, and it doesn’t depend on the wind or the sun being out.
Norway’s Statkraft kick-starts world’s first osmotic power plant originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:08:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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