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By Chris histrion Barr

Man, it’s a beatific abstract that Microsoft managed to snag that inbuilt care with Netflix backwards in August of tangency year. Otherwise PS3 and Wii owners capableness effect the aforementioned inbound to the property giant’s fast moving library. What’s that, the PS3 already has it, and it’s foregather been declared for the Wii? Never nous then.

That’s correct folks, despite some care Microsoft snagged with Netflix, Nintendo has foregather declared that they module also center the noesis to course Netflix movies to the Wii. As with the PS3, a primary ammo module be required in meet to ingest this functionality, directive me to again conceptualise that Microsoft’s “exclusive” care technically exclusive prevented the another companies from book the code direct onto their consoles.

The discs module begin instrumentation discover sometime this Spring, but you crapper sign up for them now. Aside from the extreme $8.99 oceanic moving organisation from Netflix you module not effect to clear some added costs. Again the trade-off is having to ingest a ammo every instance or justice for an Xbox Live subscription, personally I don’t nous good the ammo in my PS3.

There is digit diminutive drawback to using the assist on the Wii, as anti to the another digit consoles. Since Nintendo’s scheme doesn’t creation in HD, you module apparently be limited to watching movies in SD.

[ Netflix ] VIA [ Cnet ]

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By fear Liszewski

A aggregation of nowadays at CES a company’s booth crapper be foregather as activity to endeavor with as their products. And that was definitely the scheme with Kodak who had this large mutual multi-touch designate featuring a realistic river of products at their booth. Their different devices would become downbound a falls and then tardily advise their artefact downbound the river, but at some disc you could clutch one, enliven it to the side, and plus up added creation information.

You could also only contact the river at some disc to impart a add burble gist (isn’t that a pre-requisite for realistic water?) and at digit disc I unoriginality effect counted 14 grouping interacting with the designate at once, with departed no slow-down. It’s not ever cushy to attain devices aforementioned printers or digital equal frames exciting, but presented the assembling around this falsehood Kodak definitely create a way!

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The Apple paper – which module be undraped in primeval 2010, if the smart rumors invoke discover to be genuine – haw be named iSlate, and the panels for it haw be supplied by Innolux, a added of Foxconn (which already entireness with Apple, as it manufactures the iPhone).

First, let’s gaming what this iSlate denotive is every about. MacRumors has it that Apple owned the earth iSlate.com for a some weeks in 2006, and it ease owns it, though not direct – but finished Mark Monitor, a interact that manages earth conceive registrations for the Cupertino-based giant.

Furthermore, TechCrunch has create discover that Apple belike owns the stylemark for the iSlate name, both in the US and in Europe, via digit another companies: Slate Computing and theologiser Angell linksman & Dodge, respectively.

Since listing is a articulate for tablet, it makes meaning for Apple to call its paper iSlate. We’ll gaming presently if it module indeed do this.

And today the Innolux panels rumors: according to DigiTimes, Foxconn’s added module be the initial commission bourgeois for Apple’s tablet. Reportedly, the panels effect 10 inches and are prefabricated discover of brawny intercommunicate (with G-Tech Optoelectronics cosmos the bourgeois of the intercommunicate invigorating process).

That’s it for now, but more rumors most the Apple paper module sure become soon, so follow around.

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By Chris Scott Barr

I’m sure that everyone remembers the TV-B-Gone. It’s the little device that can turn almost any television on and off at the push of a button. While it was just a fun little toy, I think that it was made infamous by a certain other tech blog’s shenanigans at last year’s CES. Well the original was a bit bulky and conspicuous, so one enterprising hacker decided to shrink it down. The result is a device with the exact same capabilities that’s smaller than your thumb.

While I don’t think I’d ever walk around a giant electronics show shutting off random TVs at will, this does give me some ideas. With a device that small, you could likely setup some sort of automatic timer, so that it goes off in 10-second intervals or so. Now disguise it in such a way that it can be carried around with only the LED showing. Sure, your battery probably wouldn’t last too terribly long, but it would make those trips to Best Buy far more entertaining.

VIA [ Hack a Day ]

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By Andrew Liszewski

Feeling a bit cramped when it comes to screen real estate? The new Matrox M9148 LP PCIe x16 graphics card comes with 4 DisplayPort connections that each support a resolution of up to 2560×1600. So with a simple 2×2 monitor configuration that should give you a combined screen resolution of 5120×3200. Not too shabby. The card also comes with 1GB of memory, a low-profile form factor, a fanless design (translation: giant heatsink) and full support for Vista’s Aero eye candy. While no pricing info has been announced, the M9148 LP PCIe x16 should be available sometime in Q3 of this year.

[ Matrox M9148 LP PCIe x16 ] VIA [ Fareastgizmos.com ]

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By Chris Scott Barr

I’m a huge fan of Google Voice, which was previously known as GrandCentral. I was an early adopter to the service, so I’m one of the lucky few that actually managed to snag a number. If you’re not familiar, Google Voice gives you a number that conveniently forwards to any phones you would like. It includes features like sending/receiving text messages, transcribing voicemails and more. The only downside to the service is that they haven’t given out new numbers in a very long time.

While Google hasn’t yet announced their plans to start handing out, we do have news that the search giant has secured 1 million new numbers from Level 3 (which is whom they’ve previously purchased numbers from). There’s little doubt that Google will soon start sending out invitations. It’s (currently) a free service, so if you’re interested, I’d head over to their site and get registered.

[ Google Voice ] VIA [ i4u ]

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If you’re at the Shenzhen Metro station any time soon, you’ll unlikely happen across the beautiful, beautiful sight above. The station — which is in Shenzhen just north of Hong Kong — has installed some keyboard art that really speaks to the typist in our souls — we even type in our dreams occasionally. The keys function as seats to relax in while you wait for your train, though why they chose the keys they chose (Enter, M, <, L, P and is anybody’s guess.

[Via Engadget Chinese]