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Dual-screen gScreen laptop gets pictured, hopefully launching this year
gScreen Prepares for the Future With Dual-Display Spacebooks
Favorite Random Food Tweets [Taste Test]
Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail
WPA networks cracked in just under a minute, researchers claim
Amazon Germany Lists 250GB Xbox 360 Elite Package [Xbox 360]
Microsoft Xbox 360 Makes Appearance on Amazon Germany
Ask Engadget: Best ultraportable laptop for gaming?
Easy Baking with a 100-Watt Light Bulb Takes Me Back [Easy Bake Oven]
OneRiot Fights Its Way To A New $7 Million Round

Dual-screen gScreen laptop gets pictured, hopefully launching this year

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:38 PM PDT

We were pretty skeptical of gScreen’s plans to produce a line of dual-screen laptops rocking when we first heard about them in February, but here we are, looking at the first picture we’ve seen of the Spacebook laptop. We’re told it has two 15.4-inch displays — since the company knows you don’t always need both screens, the second stows away behind the first and slides out when you need it, just like the Lenovo W700ds. Except, you know, with a full-size screen. Inside, you’ll have a selection of Core 2 Duos, 4B of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 900M GT graphics, and a 7200rpm drive — all of which explain why it’s expected to cost just south of $3,000. gScreen’s planning on having this on sale by the holidays, along with a dual-13-inch model — let’s hope the company can pleasantly surprise us yet again.

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Dual-screen gScreen laptop gets pictured, hopefully launching this year originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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gScreen Prepares for the Future With Dual-Display Spacebooks

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:09 PM PDT

There is a notebook in here somewhere, we’re sure of it. But, if we’re going off the screen, or screens for that matter, we’d be a bit surprised to find one. gScreen has previewed their upcoming line of dual-screen Spacebook notebooks, according to the people over at Gizmodo. They’re 15.4-inches of goodness, that utilize two full-sized screens that sit side-by-side when needed, or can be pushed together so the user can enjoy a single image. They look pretty much amazing, and the specs aren’t anything to scoff at, either.

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The chassis itself is built around a 15.4-inch design, but it’s bigger in a lot of ways due to the sliding mechanisms needed for the screens movements, as well as the screens themselves. The notebooks will ship with Intel Core 2 Duo processors, 4GB or RAM and NVIDIA’s GF900M GT graphic components. On the hard drive front, customers will have a choice of different 7,200 RPM HDDs, and battery sizes are going to be between the 6- and 9-cell kind.

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gSeries is hoping to have the first part of distribution set up for December, selling available units through Amazon.com and other online retailers. The company, which probably finds a lot of time to work on these amazing notebooks up there in Alaska, are also planning 13-, 16-, and 17-inch units. As for pricing, there isn’t an official word on this, but gScreen founder Gordon Stewart is hoping to keep costs relatively low, as in the $3,000 benchmark area. So get those wallets ready folks.

[via Gizmodo]

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Favorite Random Food Tweets [Taste Test]

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 08:00 PM PDT

c98af18dcaTweets.jpg Favorite Random Food Tweets [Taste Test] With apologies to @mattbuchanan and @jesusdiaz, my favorite random food tweeter is Jacqui Cheng from Ars. Our boys might be quicker with the pics, but hers are always way more unexpectedly (possibly even unintentionally) funny. Keep ‘em coming, Jacqui. [Twitter]

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Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:50 PM PDT

8e741387f4cktail.png Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail This post was written by Frank Gruber, who cofounded TECH cocktail, a startup that looks to help people involved with technology connect at events, which it throws around the country. Tonight’s event is being held in Washington DC, where nine startups are presenting to tech enthusiasts from throughout the region.

Though situated in the heart of Government 2.0, the private sector in Washington, D.C. has been a wellspring of new startups each quarter. TECH cocktail, a community building organization, looks to help entrepreneurs by giving them a place to share their latest creations with the local technology community. The first couple of TECH cocktail events in Chicago were covered here in July and October 2006. Since then, TECH cocktails have been guzzled down like dirty martinis quarterly in D.C. and Chicago and annually in Boulder, Boston and other smaller technology communities.

TECH cocktail D.C. 6 is being held tonight and is supported by local companies like AOL, which will be showing off the new AIM product with its real-time lifestream. AOL is joined by Boalt, TransFS, Jess3, iStrategyLabs and a handful of other local supporters who help make it possible for TECH cocktail to promote the startup scene.

The start-ups demoing will include the following:

aa468ae888dymate.png Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail AddyMate a free web service that helps you manage & communicate with all your contacts across various web services, social networks & computers from one central connected address book that self-updates when you or your contacts change your personal information. It also offers various privacy settings to help group together family, friends, co-workers & others.

2f4586248codrive.png Nine Startups Present To The DC Tech Community At TECH Cocktail CostToDrive or C2G is an application that uses a "galculator" to help people quickly and easily discover how much it costs to drive anywhere in the United States. You might want to check with CostToDrive before you gas up the family truckster for a Sunday drive. There is also a CostToDrive iPhone application coming soon.

WPA networks cracked in just under a minute, researchers claim

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:42 PM PDT

To think it was just a few months ago that we thought taking 15 minutes to crack WPA encryption was a feat. Researchers from Kobe University in Japan are claiming they can best that by a wide margin by cracking any WPA-protected connection using the TKIP algorithm within just one minute flat. The details will be revealed at a tech conference on September 25th. Feeling paranoid? Bump up your encryption to the still-secure AES algorithm or WPA2… and if you’re just wanting to live life on the edge, consider downgrading to WEP — it’s as good as open at this point anyway.

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Amazon Germany Lists 250GB Xbox 360 Elite Package [Xbox 360]

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:30 PM PDT

Amazon, who’s previously listed/leaked the PS3 Slim before its announcement, has listed a mysterious 250GB Xbox 360 Elite on their German site, packaged with Forza Motorsport 3 for EUR 280 (about $400).

The new Xbox 360 lineup is starting to solidify: We’ve got the $250 Xbox 360 Pro, the $300 120GB Elite, and now a 250GB version (Xbox 360 Even More Elite?) that may retail for $350 by itself. 250GB is more than twice the PS3 Slim’s 120GB capacity, although what that extra space would be used for is anyone’s guess. [Engadget]

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Microsoft Xbox 360 Makes Appearance on Amazon Germany

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:28 PM PDT

It’s looking more and more like online retailers are letting the ball slip on these kinds of things; or maybe it’s crafty marketing by the manufacturers, to get people enticed by early leaks and what not. We can’t say for sure, and wouldn’t that ruin the surprise? And let’s face it, after days like today and the official price reduction of the current line of Xbox 360s, we need some more rumors and speculation. Thankfully, we’ve got Amazon Germany.

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Amazon Germany outed the PlayStation 3 Slim a full 20 days before it was launched, and so it seems right on some kind of path that the next iteration of the Xbox 360 would find its way to their electronic pages. But is there any truth to it? If we’re to believe what’s shown, we can expect a 250GB hard drive, two wireless controllers, and Forza Motorsport 3. Price wise, it’s listed at 247 euros, which equals about $397. Of course there isn’t a release date to be found anywhere, but if we’re going off game releases, then there won’t be any signs of this until about October, unless Microsoft gets around to announcing something in the coming month.

To be honest, we’re not sure what to make of this. Mostly because Microsoft seemed pretty overjoyed to be down to only two consoles, but that could be because they’ve got a new one on the way, with more than double the storage, plus extras. On the flip-side, it doesn’t make much sense for Microsoft to put a new console on the market, for an additional $100, when the sweet spot at this point seems to be $299. Unless, of course, rumors about that 250GB PS3 Slim are true, and we’re about to see a whole new leg of the console war heat up.

[via Engadget]

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Ask Engadget: Best ultraportable laptop for gaming?

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:03 PM PDT

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Ron, who would just be happy with an ultraportable with an actual, bona fide, worthwhile GPU.

“I am looking for a 12- or 13-inch ultraportable that can also play modern games at a reasonable level, for less than $1,000. I know the brainiacs out there can help me out. Love the site, thanks!”

We know for sure that Dell’s Studio XPS 13 has the guts to pull off a few modern titles, but we know there are far more options out there than that. So, who here has a super small laptop with a discrete GPU worth bragging about? Don’t hold back now, vaquero.

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Easy Baking with a 100-Watt Light Bulb Takes Me Back [Easy Bake Oven]

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 07:00 PM PDT

The combination of my Peter Pan complex and our weeklong celebration of food meant one thing: Calling in an Easy Bake Oven. Turns out, no matter how old you are, cooking with a light bulb is (sorta) fun. [Hasbro]

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OneRiot Fights Its Way To A New $7 Million Round

Posted: 27 Aug 2009 06:35 PM PDT

screen-shot-2009-08-27-at-63625-pm OneRiot, the real-time search engine, has just announced a new $7 million Series C funding round led by Appian Ventures, Commonwealth Capital Ventures, and Spark Capital. The company blog has just posted more information.

While the real-time search space is particularly hot at the moment, OneRiot has been focusing on opening up and expanding its APIs to allow others to tap into its data. Partners include Yahoo and Microsoft, who of course, will also soon be much closer in the search space. Meanwhile, search titan Google is said to be very interested in the real-time space and is exploring its own way of doing things. And then of course there is Twitter which currently offers search based on its Summize acquisition, but is also said to have something bigger in the works.

Much of the Twitter Search expansion talk revolves around looking at the link data (something which Twitter was apparently doing the other day before it pulled the test down). That also happens to be what OneRiot specializes in, scouring the real-time space, crawling for links, rather than simply status updates. But they’re also clearly aware of the power of Twitter in the real-time space, as they recently launched a RiotFeeds product that breaks down links from Twitter into different categories.

The company last raised a large $15 million round in the summer of 2007, before it was even known as OneRiot. Back then, it was known as Me.dium, and was more of a StumbleUpon-type product. This new round brings the company’s total funding to $27 million over three rounds. This new money will be used to improve three key area of the service: Speed, scale and relevance, we’re told.

OneRiot’s CEO is Kimbal Musk, Elon Musk’s younger brother.

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