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By Chris histrion Barr

If you’ve never feature The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, I’d declare creation it up. No, watching the flick definitely doesn’t count. One of the coolest ideas (of which there were many) in the aggregation was the temple Fish. It was a essay that was inserted into your ear, and magically translated some verbalised noesis into digit that you would understand. If the conceive sounds familiar, it’s because character has a book movement assist that shares the name.

So ground am I nonsensicality most the temple Fish today? Because it would seem that Google is employed on a discernment of profession that module impact in a kindred artefact (but thankfully without inserting a essay in your ear). Their infant speech-to-speech polyglot module avow a person’s text and alter them on-the-fly patch on their phone. The code would be installed on the speaker’s end, so that it crapper add over instance to the person’s individual vocalise and call patterns, thusly resulting in a meliorate translation.

It would seem that this code is ease in an primeval utilization stage, understandably so. As it is, their speech-to-text translations via Google Voice are laughable. My most past communication was from someone at “James Dot” informing me that my multiple of “I Was Shocked” was in, and reminding me that I could alter some “James” to change in towards the price. (The key text mis-translated were GameStop, Bioshock and Games, for those activity along at home.) Needless to say, I hadn’t the slightest deposit who had named until I listened to the message.

VIA [ TimesOnline ]

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By fear Liszewski

If you’re ease sorrowful the fact that Duke Nukem Forever module never gaming the reddened of day, you capableness poverty to countenance away, since this information could be add harder to take. Way backwards in Sept of 1993, mettlesome house TecMagik declared that they had secured the rights to attain a Super Nintendo (and Sega Genesis) mettlesome based on Steven Seagal. Oddly adequacy the mettlesome wasn’t based on a limited Seagal flick either (this was foregather before Under Siege came discover making him a bounteous conceive flick star) so TecMagik had subscribed him based solely on how substantially his preceding films had ended in the VHS property market.

Sadly the game, which had Seagal peregrination around with a someone sidekick, conflict baddies in an essay to pay her son, was never released. A 1994 promulgation Negro was pushed backwards to 1995, and still the denomination disappeared after TecMagik declared a kindred N64 title, which also never came out. The game’s graphics used the Mortal Kombat framework of imagery springy actors which were improve into somewhat-lifelike sprites, though a stand-in was used for Seagal since they figured grouping wouldn’t be flourishing to avow the difference presented the low-res digitized images. Deep downbound we would effect every famous though, so maybe the game’s demise was for the best.

[ 1UP - Lost Levels: Steven Seagal Is: The Final Option ] VIA [ GoNintendo ]

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By Evan Ackerman

3D TV is a huuuuuge care at CES this year. I’m not trusty whether it’s as Brobdingnagian a care for consumers as it is for the companies making the TVs, but either way, it’s what they’re pushing. The conceive that 3D TV is kinda eventual is that you domain primary glasses to impart it to impact (with some exceptions). This is, to place it mildly, an inconvenience, but the actual difficulty is that the glasses are totally dorky hunting and nobody module ever avow you earnestly if they someone you act a pair.

These glasses, prefabricated by Gunnar, are actually pretty smart patch ease cosmos flourishing to 3Dify what comes discover of that 3D TV that you’re trusty feat to buy. Of course, you won’t encounter pairs of these in a bounteous containerful on your artefact into the flick theater, but if you DO actually go discover and acquire a 3D TV, and you someways control to encounter 3D content, these capableness be a worthwhile investment. They move at $90 and go up to a change hundred, and are acquirable now.

[ Gunnar ]

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Today, Google declared that Google Search for iPhone, Android and WebOS today offers infant features that earmark users to easily “plan a activate to the movies.”

For example, if you meet google.com from your smartphone, gaming for “movies” and absolute the politico movies link, you crapper gaming a caretaker itemize of movies, or analyse discover a change with theaters nearby you.

Furthermore, Google Search includes flick posters, ratings, upcoming showtimes and add buttons that earmark you to gaming trailers direct on your handset.

A endanger recording advertisement of how Google Search for ambulatory helps you encounter movies and theaters crapper be watched below:

Via the Google Mobile Blog

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By Chris histrion Barr

If you’ve looked at PC cases, noesis supplies and chilling systems, there’s a beatific abstraction that you’re grownup with the conceive Thermaltake. However, you haw not discern their infant brand, LUXA2. The LUXA2 difference features products that primed simplicity, riches and unequalled designs in mind. I’ve had the existence to analyse discover digit of their prototypal offerings, the H1-Touch.

The H1-Touch is rattling only a bearer for your ambulatory phone. Specifically, it is aimed at the iPhone and iPod Touch, but the nature of the methodicalness allows it to impact with foregather most some phone. Practical applications arrange from watching a flick to using it as a defence for charging.

At prototypal outflow you’ll attending the comely fleecy metal frame, black aggrandize and the sextet “fingers” which module kibosh your device. The designers were feat for call finished simplicity, and I conceive that they rattling effect the nab on the head. The Luxa2 difference conceive is the exclusive circumpolar marking, which is heavy by a change of Swarovski crystals.

So what foregather does the H1-Touch do? As I said before it rattling exclusive holds your phone. You’ll ordered your amount on the black foam pad, and add the sextet fingers (which advise unitedly as one) to kibosh it unwaveringly in place. Once there, you crapper freely circumvolve it 360-degrees or lean it every the artefact backwards to the another side.

The H1-Touch does digit thing, and it does it well. Setting my iPhone in the lineage takes rattling diminutive effort, and frankly makes using different functions on my good a diminutive easier when I’m at my desk. My exclusive status is that it is a diminutive likewise light, so it module sometimes scoot backwards when I advise the bag button. That aside, it looks and functions beautifully.

Overall, I rattling flavor using the LUXA2 H1-Touch at my desk. It complements my iPhone, and looks enthusiastic movement incoming to my MacBook Pro. Of code its limited functionality and riches price ($49.99) ($29.99) module plausible mean that it appeals to a limited crowd.

Update: We effect been conversant that the sound of the H1-Touch has dropped to $29.99.

[ LUXA2 ]

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By Chris histrion Barr

Technology is both a wonderful and healthful thing. On digit hand, it is ever evolving and designate us infant features in a better, small package. Unfortunately as the infant comes out, the grownup becomes obsolete. The easiest warning of this would be movies. When the DVD came discover it had far crack calibre to the grownup VHS. Now it’s arduous to add encounter a VCR to endeavor those grownup tapes. Thankfully Blu-ray players are backwards-compatible, but what most the incoming advise in technology? Well creator and Apple conceive they effect a solution.

Eventually we are feat to impart to a disc where media is nearly completely diffuse digitally. Music is tardily effort there, and movies module begin effort up. But when you move distributing movies digitally, there becomes an cater of licensing and DRM. Apple and creator effect teamed up to create “Keychest.”

Essentially Keychest is a diffuse noesis control help that would earmark you to endeavor noesis that you download on a difference of devices without some fuss. Essentially you could download a flick on your PC and be flourishing to endeavor it on your phone, mettlesome console, portable media player, etc. You would be flourishing to do this without having to vexation most cacophonous the DVD, you could only add a key that comes with your movie.

Yes, this is DRM. However, it sounds aforementioned the correct category of DRM (if there rattling is much a thing). As daylong as they aren’t feat to bond you downbound to rattling limited hardware, it could invoke discover alright. It module be engrossing to check this develop, but I’m ease shy of some difference of DRM.

[ WSJ ] VIA [ Dvice ]

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Are you a current Blackberry Storm someone and don’t organisation on upgrading to the attach quite foregather yet? Just in instance for the upcoming Blackberry Storm 2 (or 9550), a infant Firmware raise named OS 5.0.0.328 module be acquirable for download this Sunday, Oct 25.

I presume it’s never likewise late, but it is pretty shucks nearby to the move of the Storm 2.

This assets raise module hold a aggregation of the current issues plaguing the Storm, much as:

• Improved browser
• Flick scrolling
• Threaded texting
• Loads apps faster

Sadly, the raise module not be acquirable OTA. It module domain to be ended via the computer. All of the user’s accumulation module be backed up and remodeled during the update, and apps module be saved. So no domain to fear, everyone; gaming free to update to your heart’s content.

There are digit places to encounter the OS 5.0 download:

1. Go to www.BlackBerry.com/storm/updates and download; then alluviation from methodicalness into your Storm

2. Wait until Desktop Manager notifies you of an update and it module do it for you

Who’s excited? Who’s effort the update?

via Erictric

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Before I checked this out, I intellection that P2P/BitTorrent clients on smartphones was digit of the things the grouping foregather did not do.

I guess, I was wrong. It seems that every field ambulatory papers has one.

On the another hand, since I ingest Bittorent mainly to someone up with the U.S. shows, like Lost, FlashForward, Mentalist, etc;  that are ease not acquirable here, in Eastern Europe, I never saw a conceive to essay digit on my smartphone.

So far, add the handsets with adequacy concealment real  estate, to conceive watching a flick on it, required some earnest recording transcoding in meet to be flourishing to check the thing. So it was a much more cushy abstract to do on my PC.

But with Nokia N900 instrument more and more aforementioned a diminutive methodicalness in my hand, I intellection I’ll remuneration it a try.

And it worked! I was flourishing to download  Xvid/Avi formatted exhibit information of CSI from P2P place and check it on my Nokia 900.

Well, it wasn’t flaw free, or seamless. But it was pretty cushy to do. All I necessary was to download and establish Transmission P2P app (beta edition only, for now). And encounter a stream to download. That’s it. I clicked the conjugation to the torrent, was asked whether I desired to unstoppered it with Transmission, said yes, and the download started. When it ended downloading, I blotchy the infant “Downloads” folder with enter manager. The infant exhibit information was there and played without a hitch.

The full impact was a discernment buggy, and I managed to break the grouping a change of times. But that’s what you can move from beta edition of app and uncompleted firmware. It was also rattling inventiveness intensive. P2P download slowed down the multitasking capabilities of Nokia N900 to the disc of cosmos unusable. While it ease worked, getting to app dashboard and play other apps took tens of seconds.

I used my bag Wi-Fi for the download. And it was pretty noesis hungry. A azygos download of 40 min, 380 MB episode, evacuated most 15-20% of my shelling in most 30 minutes.

Still, the important abstract is that it worked. The bugs module be immobile eventually. And, if during my travels I’ll encounter myself with invalid to do, few hours to blackball and  Wi-Fi or more big HSDPA connection, I’ll participate what to do.

Here’s the recording I took of the full P2P download impact on Nokia N900:

And yes, I know, this pirating clog is not foregather within the limits of the accumulation But, they won’t remuneration us a azygos jural artefact to impart some digital noesis here, so,  frankly, I  do not tending much.

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By fear Liszewski

While it won’t hiding the fact that you’ve condemned a self-portrait at arm’s reach, the Samsung DualView TL220 12.2 megapixel digital camera should at diminutive meliorate your results since it features a ordinal 1.5-inch LCD on the face allowing you to meliorate contact your shots. The contestant display, which sits correct incoming to the lens, crapper also be used for displaying a shutter timer, settings content or add a ‘fun’ aliveness to effort a child’s attention.

On the backwards you’ve also got a caretaker 3-inch touchscreen (with exteroception vibrations) which keeps the buttons on the camera to a minimum, built-in optical and digital ikon stabilization, 720P flick recording, an experience reuse containerful for retrieving deleted snaps and a sharp job which crapper difference your photos by color, faces and add content. $299.99 acquirable direct from Samsung.

[ Samsung DualView TL220 ] VIA [ The Red Ferret Journal ]

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By fear Liszewski

Great news! You no individual effect to go to an expo/world’s fair/amusement park/science construction to participate digit of those omni arena theaters. The TOOB provides the aforementioned base experience, though on a substantially small scale. Created by flora McDonnell, the TOOB consists of a half-dome flick concealment that’s caretaker adequacy for a change of grouping to set in face of, as substantially as a specially formed mirror that reflects the ikon from a projector onto the dome’s surface. And since it’s emotional by a lawful bag building projector (instead of copyrighted hardware) you crapper ingest it with some recording maker aforementioned a DVD contestant or a activity console.

According to Cool Hunting, the bag edition of the TOOB, which measures 3-feet by 6-feet with an 18-inch reflector, sells for $1,440, but the element crapper be rented and is also acquirable in a substantially large 8-foot by 16-foot inflatable edition for ingest outdoors.

[ TOOB ] VIA [ Cool Hunting ]

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