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We love a bit of Android, we love LEGO and we love remote-control gadgets, so the Emea Android team's app to remotely-control Mindstorms robots from an HTC Hero ticks all the right boxes. The project uses the Hero's accelerometer to direct the Mindstorms 'bot, taking advantage of the existing Bluetooth adapter in the LEGO kit's "brain".
Android LEGO Mindstorms R/C app gets video demo
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No CommentsGoogle “translator phone” project promises real-time translation
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No Comments
Google are apparently developing a live, speech-based translation system that would allow multi-lingual phone conversations to be interpreted in real-time. The technology – which Franz Och, Google’s head of translation services, reckons will “work reasonably well in a few years’ time” – combines voice recognition, speech-to-text and voice synthesis, all of which are separately available from the search giant but not yet in a combined fashion.
LG Arena Max LU9400 spotted in wild
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No CommentsDetails and a photo of the LG Arena Max LU9400 have leaked, courtesy of Korean site Cetizen. The handset – first sighted clearing WiFi certification – is believed to have a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, WiFi and GPS, together with a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset.
Sony 11Gbps wireless intra-connect cuts through cabling
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No CommentsThe wiring inside of our gadgets is one of those things you don’t generally think about, but Sony are pretty pleased with their latest interconnect system. They’re claiming to have produced the world’s first millimeter-wave wireless intra-connection technology, intended to replace the cables hooking up internal IC boards. In fact, they can manage 11Gbps over 14mm distances, from antennas just 1mm in size.
Dell Mini 10 WiMAX model passes FCC
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No CommentsDell’s Mini 10 netbook looks to be in line for a WiMAX update, at least going by the budget ultraportable’s most recent foray at the FCC. The 10-inch netbook has been submitted with an Intel WiFi-Link 6250 WiMAX adapter (as the Dell Inspiron Mini 1012).
ASUS O!Play Air HDP-R3 adds WiFi-N to 1080p media streamer
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No CommentsBack when ASUS announced their O!Play HDP-R1 media streamer in June 2009 we criticized it for leaving out WiFi. Now the company have launched a new version, and the ASUS O!Play Air HDP-R3 does indeed bring WiFi 802.11n to the table. The HDP-R3 is capable of playing back local 1080p HD content from attached memory sticks and hard-drives, as well as sucking streaming content over your high-speed wireless network.
ASUS Eee Top ET1610PT gets Atom D410 CPU
By Chris Davies on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 No CommentsASUS have quietly added a new Eee Top all-in-one touchscreen nettop, complete with Intel’s new Pine Trail CPUs. The ASUS Eee Top ET1610PT – and its non-touchscreen ET1610P sibling – both use Intel’s Atom D410 processor, paired with up to 2GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive.
SlashGear Week in Review – Week 6 2010
By Shane McGlaun on Sunday, Feb 7th 2010 No CommentsIt’s Super Bowl Sunday so the sports fans out there looking for something to do to kill some time until the game comes on can check out this week’s week in review. We saw some cool gear last week so let’s get right into it. You might think after Apple unveiled its iPad tablet the rumors would go away, but alas, that isn’t correct. Apple is rumored to be working on a new larger screen tablet that runs Mac OS X.
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It’s apparent that HTC’s kicking it up a notch with their naming system, with the surfacing of the HTC Incredible just moments ago on the internet. Some leaked snapshots and video of the device depict the high-end specs of the newly glimpsed phone from HTC, which should be operating on Verizon’s network.
Windows Phone 7 details leak: No multitasking, UI lock-down & Zune/Xbox integration?
By Chris Davies on Saturday, Feb 6th 2010 4 Comments
Microsoft have already confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 is going to make at least a partial debut at Mobile World Congress 2010 in a little over a week’s time, but so far all we’ve had is rumors as to what exactly they’ll be showing off. Now, according to PPCGeeks’ sources, more details are known: they reckon the new Windows Phone 7 UI will be the main draw at MWC, with Microsoft holding off on specific functionality, but they do have a run-down of what we can expect from the updated smartphone platform. Unfortunately, not all of it fills us with glee.
As we’ve heard rumored, there’s a lot borrowed from the Zune platform injected into Windows Phone 7. The smartphone UI – apparently codenamed “METRO” – looks much like that of the Zune HD we’re told, with a fresh new Start screen; it’s described variously as “very clean”, “soulful” and “alive”. Hopefully it really will be, since third-party or OEM UIs are apparently not to be permitted; that means no HTC Sense and no other apps such as SPB Mobile Shell.
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