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- Device judges your pulse and Tweets its findings to your parents and Ashton Kutcher
- Olympus PEN E-P1 production unit unboxed, we shudder with jealousy
- Sony investigating PSP phone?
- Tone-deaf robots teach each other to sing, passionately butcher a Happy Birthday rendition
- Lenovo S12 gets a VIA Nano option
- World’s Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed, is Computer-Controlled
- Disney Unveils Real-Life Animatronic Luxo Jr. Lamp
- Spanish firm GeeksPhone launches "One" Android set
- Official Q Bert Game Hits the iPhone
- The Ultimate Gaming Rig
| Device judges your pulse and Tweets its findings to your parents and Ashton Kutcher Posted: 28 Jun 2009 09:17 AM PDT
 What’s creepier than automatically informing Twitter every time your unborn child kicks his mother’s womb? Giving all your Twitter followers a live feed of your heartbeat, including canned messages to announce your death in case you cease pumping Cheeto-infused blood through your goth-nerdy veins. This Japanese DIY project has open source schematics and is designed to bypass a PC and send the news of your heart hiccups directly the the internet. Check out the appropriately dramatic video after the break. Continue reading Device judges your pulse and Tweets its findings to your parents and Ashton Kutcher Filed under: Household Device judges your pulse and Tweets its findings to your parents and Ashton Kutcher originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Olympus PEN E-P1 production unit unboxed, we shudder with jealousy Posted: 28 Jun 2009 06:20 AM PDT
Some jerk in the UK went and bought an Olympus PEN E-P1 camera from a store and had to go home and tell the whole internet about it. They even bothered to shoot an unboxing of the little Micro Four Thirds wonder, like we would care. Filed under: Digital Cameras Olympus PEN E-P1 production unit unboxed, we shudder with jealousy originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 08:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Posted: 28 Jun 2009 02:03 AM PDT
As recently as May Sony has itself stated that a PSP phone “could happen,” and now a report from Nikkei business daily states that Sony is planning on putting together a team as early as next month to build product that would act as a combination of a PSP and a Sony Ericsson handset. It makes plenty of sense, both as a differentiation from Nintendo and as a confrontation of the looming iPhone threat — and hey, it might also act as a decent salve over the lukewarm reception of the pricey PSPgo. Unfortunately, if Sony is just about to get started on this, we likely wouldn’t be looking at any resulting product for a while to come. Sony declined comment according to Reuters, which doesn’t mean a whole lot, but it’s worth keeping in mind that we’ve been hearing this sort of rumoring since back when the N-Gage (as a product) was still almost relevant. [Via Mac Rumors] Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Handhelds Sony investigating PSP phone? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Tone-deaf robots teach each other to sing, passionately butcher a Happy Birthday rendition Posted: 27 Jun 2009 11:38 PM PDT
After what must’ve been a few painful minutes of rehearsal, a few robots built by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research have preformed what we assume to be their first and last paid gig: a rendition of Happy Birthday to celebrate the 100th of the Science Museum in the UK. What’s interesting about these bots — outside of their horrible ear for music and laughable singing voices is the fact that they’ve actually been programmed to communicate and teach each other to sing through the process of singing to each other. Videos of both painful acts are after the break, and while we wouldn’t call it art, we shouldn’t throw stones: we’ve been in plenty of garage bands that sounded quite a bit worse. [Via robots.net] Filed under: Robots Tone-deaf robots teach each other to sing, passionately butcher a Happy Birthday rendition originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Lenovo S12 gets a VIA Nano option Posted: 27 Jun 2009 08:42 PM PDT
Wanna trade in some battery life and get a bit of extra speed in the deal? Lenovo is now offering its spanking new S12 netbook with a VIA Nano ULV 2250 processor and VIA Chrome9 HC3 graphics instead of the usual Intel Atom / GMA 950 combo, which should offer a little more pep (at least in some applications) and lops $50 off the original’s spendy $500 asking price. The Nano setup will draw more battery than the Atom, so you might want to invest that extra cash in another battery if you can track one down, but at least the $450 price includes a 6 cell as standard. Filed under: Laptops Lenovo S12 gets a VIA Nano option originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| World’s Biggest Alarm Clock Shakes You Out of Bed, is Computer-Controlled Posted: 27 Jun 2009 07:01 PM PDT
Built by reader “Kevin” for a contest, this computer-controlled alarm clock is touted as the world’s largest. To be more specific, he “mounted a large air cylinder to the head of [his] bed and a valve, controlled by a computer, which [he programmed] to wake [him] up in the morning.” Continue reading to see it in action.” Read the original here:
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| Disney Unveils Real-Life Animatronic Luxo Jr. Lamp Posted: 27 Jun 2009 07:00 PM PDT
Pixar’s Luxo Jr. has come to life at Disney’s Hollywood Studio in Orlando, Florida, “as part of Pixar’s “Living Character” exhibit that includes an inflatable version of the house from Up.” Video after the break.
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| Spanish firm GeeksPhone launches "One" Android set Posted: 27 Jun 2009 06:39 PM PDT
It looks exactly like a Samsung Omnia, but don’t be fooled — what you’re actually looking at here is Spain’s first go at producing an Android handset (which is especially ironic considering we just reported on the andromnia project). Our colleagues from Engadget Spanish were live in Barcelona today for the grand unveiling of the GeeksPhone One, a Cupcake-powered phone featuring a 625MHz PXA310 core, quadband EDGE plus HSDPA, WiFi, Bluetooth, AGPS, 3.2 megapixel primary camera plus a front-facing cam for video calling, and microSD expansion — sounds great, but the package is marred a bit by the fact that it’s rolling with a resistive 3.2-inch touchscreen. Hard to complain with the price, though — GeeksPhone expects to sell the set for somewhere between €250 and €300 (about $352 to $422) unlocked when it launches this fall. [Via Engadget Spanish] Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds Spanish firm GeeksPhone launches “One” Android set originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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| Official Q Bert Game Hits the iPhone Posted: 27 Jun 2009 05:07 PM PDT
Sony has unveiled the official Q*Bert game for Apple’s iPhone. Featuring “gameplay through 20 rounds across 5 challenging levels. Or, if you prefer your Q*bert smooooth, choose Modern mode for updated graphics.” Video after the break.
[via TouchArcade]
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| Posted: 27 Jun 2009 05:06 PM PDT
Many things stand out about Chat Sauvage’s self-proclaimed Ultimate Gaming Rig: a Creative Inspiron 5.1 surround sound system, Logitech G25 steering wheel, and last but not least, the racing seat taken from a ‘93 Trans Am. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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