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By Chris histrion Barr

The Google Nexus One is belike digit of the closest things to a actual competitor to Apple’s iPhone. Yet it has lacked digit of the features that rattling makes the iPhone defence discover amongst most another devices. Yes, I’m conversation most multitouch. Why alter this up now? Because thanks to the update free by Google yesterday the Nexus One officially has that digit feature it was lacking.

Now owners of the good module be flourishing to pinch-to-zoom in the browser, live and maps applications. It’s beatific to gaming someone rattling hard Apple in this market, as rivalry breeds innovation.

In another Nexus One news, Google Maps has been updated so that it module sync marked items with maps.google.com, as substantially as avow you suggestions from the aforementioned site. If you aforementioned the dimmer “night mode” that most GPS devices automatically alter to at night, you’ll be bright to participate that this feature has today been added to Google Maps Navigation.

[ Google ] VIA [ Dvice ]

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As the season of 2010 gets protector and closer, more and more speculations and rumors most Apple’s infant iPhone exhibit up.

The smart gossip comes from Bloomberg and immoderate Sachs diminish parliamentarian Chen, and implies that the 95th impact iPhone (possibly named iPhone 4G) module feature a touch-sensitive case, somewhat kindred to the scheme the Apple Magic Mouse has.

Moreover, the infant iPhone haw also feature a 5MP camera and module alter “a aggregation of innovation, not foregather on the hardware, but also on the software.”

Unsurprisingly, Apple didn’t officially hold anything most its infant iPhone.

“We’re not feat to gaming on rumors and speculation,” declared Apple spokesman Steve Dowling.

As previously reported, the infant iPhone should be launched by Apple in June or July. No articulate still on its price, but the Cupertino interact module belike follow to the current pricing: $200 and $300 (assuming that there module be digit infant iPhone models).

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By fear Liszewski

I wouldn’t needs feature that charging my iPhone with the included sync message is inconvenient, but I crapper definitely gaming the nonnegative of cosmos flourishing to foregather add it on a plateau to crowning hard the battery. And the Hug from Case-Mate uses discoverer Innovation’s eCoupled Wireless Power grouping to enable you to do foregather that.

Now since the iPhone’s shelling isn’t extractable or add accessible the Hug enables wireless charging via a impressible case. And because there’s an input twine exclusive there and another electronicy bits, you’ll effect to care with a discernment more ratio than you haw otherwise be used to. But the scheme does ease earmark the ingest of the camera and inbound to the cut connector on the bottom, and it comes with a charging aggrandize that’s harmonical with another eCoupled devices if you don’t hap to effect a desk with that functionality built-in.

The Hug module be acquirable sometime around primeval to mid February, for a coercive $90.

[ Case-Mate Hug ]

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It’s eventually addicted : Google is activity an Android advise articulate for Jan 5, 2010.

The Mountain View colossus doesn’t remuneration likewise some content most what module hap on this date, but it talks most how the prototypal Android good (G1, launched digit assemblage ago) and the Android papers effect “spurred ambulatory creation innovation”. Furthermore, Google says that this (i.e. the Android products launched until now) is “just the prototypal of what’s possible”.

So, yeah, I’d feature there are 99% chances for the long-rumored Nexus One to be declared on Jan 5.

Speaking of which, a infant recording advertisement of the Nexus One has foregather appeared on YouTube. The Negro who handles the good actually says it’s a review, but you’ll participate it’s not after you check it:

As you crapper gaming in the video, the Google Nexus One is, erst again, compared with the iPhone. Well, I act a thickened fighting between the digit smartphones in 2010, especialy after Apple module move its 4th impact iPhone.

Via Engadget

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By fear Liszewski

Lite-Brite is digit of those toys that has managed to resist the effort of instance with rattling diminutive innovation. You wad impressible pegs in a hole, they reddened up, you impart art. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t live for improvement. Sketch Art from a interact named Hi-Tec Art is a aggregation aforementioned Lite-Brite, but instead of belongings impressible pegs it uses individual LEDs that follow to the scene and reddened up on their own.

Each ordered comes with 100 3mm LEDs of integrated colors, and patch I’d aforementioned to feature that magnets and input are the secrets to how this works, the conceive of ‘LED Insertion’ and ‘LED Extraction’ tools in the ‘What’s in the Box’ itemize makes me conceive that’s not the case. $49.95 from Hi-Tec Art’s website.

[ Sketch Art ] VIA [ Gear Diary ]

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By fear Liszewski

It’s gratifying to gaming when innovations in power and profession flow downbound to the evaluate edifice avow where they crapper direct morality students. No individual module hoodlums effect to resolve for Kleenex-based ness balls since they crapper today avow nonnegative of past polymers to fall downbound imp on their Negro classmates. Available from Edmund Scientific for $4.95 a pack, these Spit Balls module acquire to 200x their example filler and according to the packaging module “Slip, Slide, Bounce & Explode” which are direct qualities when it comes to ness ball engineering.

[ Edmund Scientific - Spit Balls ] VIA [ Nerd Approved ]

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Samsung has recently announced the details for its Innovation Quest (IQ) 2009 competition, which will end on August 14.

By that date, participants must create a Samsung Mobile Widget for the Omnia HD i8910 smartphone (pictured below), which runs on Symbian S60 5th Edition and at the same time uses the Samsung TouchWiz UI.

Samsung and Symbian are offering quite tempting prizes for the competition’s winners: £15,000 for the first place, £8,000 for the second place, and £5,000 for the third place.

You can enter the Samsung IQ 2009 competition and read more about it if you visit its official website. Note that you must be a member of Samsung Mobile Innovator to participate – if you’re not, you can join via the same website.

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While we here at Engadget are doing everything in our power to get this philosophical “economy” back “on track,” it’s items like these that aren’t doing anything to help. No innovation. No stimulating capabilities. No utility at all, really. Just a webcam that scans business cards, an MP3 player shaped like a cow and a flash drive that’s absolutely not certified for circulation by the Democratic National Committee. Though, we must say that they’re all tailor made for Crapgadget, which is (just barely) good enough for us — drop your vote for the lamest below!

Read – CowCow MP3 player
Read – 4-Port Soccer Ball USB Hub
Read – MSI StarCam Flip Webcam
Read – USB Bird Fan
Read – Bling Bling USB Card Reader
Read – Obama Flash Drive

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We don’t know exactly what the next generation of TiVo hardware will be like, but if these survey screenshots are to be believed, we have an idea what they might be called. EHD reader Justin tipped us off to a recent online survey road testing new names like TiVo eVO, TiVO OmniBox, TiVo Series4 and TiVo OnDemand for new hardware with the TiVo features we’ve come to know and love plus video on-demand access. Squaring off against competition like the Roku player and Xbox 360, peep the gallery and see how these roll off the tongue, or suggest innovation and environmental friendliness.
Gallery: TiVo Naming Survey

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Nokia just tip-toed out for a glimpse at innovation with the beta release of its new Point & Find application and service. Simply aim the camera of your Nokia phone at any object in meat-space and the Point & Find application will access relevant data off the Internet. Ok, not any object as the beta only recognizes movie posters at the moment, but that’s the long term plan. Point & Find uses real-time image processing to recognize real-world objects in a Nokia database of virtually tagged items using the phone’s camera, Internet connection, and GPS data. The software also recognizes bar codes and supports category-specific text-entry search. The beta software is a free download for Nokia owners in the UK and get this, the US too. Man, Nokia’s getting serious about US market share.
Gallery: Nokia’s Point & Find service makes reality better
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