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ThinkFlood RedEye turns your iPhone into a universal remote

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 No Comments

Repurposing an iPhone or iPod touch as a remote control isn’t a new idea – Sonos have one of the more impressive implementations we’ve played with – but if you don’t want device-specific control and would prefer a universal remote, ThinkFlood have one such option. Coming out of private beta and going on general sale this week, the ThinkFlood RedEye looks like an iPhone dock but squeezes in a WiFi adapter and IR blaster. An app installs on your iPhone (or iPod touch), the phone connects via WiFi to the dock, and you can mimic any IR remote.

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Entourage eDGe dual-screen Android ebook reader gets video hands-on

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 1 Comment

The Barnes & Noble nook will – when it finally starts shipping – be the first dual-display ebook reader that we’re aware of, but over in Taipei Entourage have been showing off their own version of a dual-display machine, the eDGe. Their form-factor is strikingly different from the nook – it looks like a particularly chunky book – with two similarly sized displays, e-ink on the left, a color touchscreen on the right, and NetbookNews grabbed some hands-on time with the working prototype recently.

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mbed microcontroller gets first baseboard: connectivity-packed LPCXpresso

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Dec 2nd 2009 No Comments

Remember the Twitter-reading robot fish from back in September? At its core was an mbed microcontroller, a $60 alternative to the Arduino intended for rapid prototyping, and we’re now seeing the first of the optional baseboards for the mbed filter through. Embedded Artists’ have come up with the LPCXpresso, a ‘board positively bristling with connectivity and inputs that includes an OLED display, accelerometer and light sensors, joystick and wireless.

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iWallet packs biometrics & Bluetooth alarm to keep your cards safe [Videos]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

“There has been a need,” so iWallet claims, “for new product innovation in the personal wallet industry for a long time.” Leaving aside sarcasm about whether there’s such a thing as the “communal wallet industry”, iWallet reckon their eponymous wallet is the solution to identity theft, a carbon-fiber clamshell case secured with a biometric fingerprint scanner and optionally fitted with Bluetooth to act as an alarm.

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Qt 4.6 with multitouch released plus second Maemo 5 tech preview [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

qt logo Nokia have pushed Qt 4.6 out of the door, complete with support for multitouch and gestures, a new Animation Framework, and a new OpenGL paint engine. The app and UI framework also gains compatibility with a broader range of platforms, including Windows 7, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Symbian and Maemo 6. Meanwhile Maemo 5 support continues to develop, with Nokia releasing a second technology preview today.

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Inventec N18 Android MID supposedly just $350 [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 No Comments

Rumor may have it that Inventec have slashed R&D for MIDs, but that doesn’t appear to have prevented development of this clamshell Android device. The Inventec N18 (on the left) is a 250g mini-notebook running Google’s Android OS, with a 528MHz processor (the same as inside the HTC Hero, we’re told), a 4.8-inch WVGA touchscreen and WiFi.

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HTC HD2 multitouch API offers true gesture support [Video]

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Dec 1st 2009 1 Comment

HTC’s injection of multitouch support into the HTC HD2 is one of the things that most impressed us about the smartphone, but so far the company have been reluctant to share the magic with third-party developers. One of the oft-missed benefits of Windows Mobile, however, is a huge developer community who’ll go in and dig out what they’re not being given, and xda-developers’ l3v5y has come up with an API for multitouch.

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WiFi Robot Spybot is basically a DIY Rovio [Video]

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

Want a WowWee Rovio but either can’t justify the price-tag or fancy building something yourself? Over at Instructables there’s a guide to pretty much doing just that, with an off-the-shelf radio controlled car, Barracuda Controller, WiFi router and IP webcam. The end result is a vehicle you can remotely drive while seeing exactly what the car sees.

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BlackBerry Pearl 9100 stars in pre-announce video demo

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

Leaked photos are one thing, but we do enjoy a video of a pre-release device to really see how it fits in the hand. Having seen the BlackBerry Pearl 9100 (aka Striker) a little over a week ago, now comes a video of the compact smartphone in action courtesy of Salomondrin. No word on how he acquired the Pearl 9100, but he gives a decent overview of its form-factor and the changes from earlier handsets.

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Social networking and the mobile context

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 30th 2009 No Comments

There’s a growing call to deliver desktop experiences on mobile devices, and in general that’s a good thing. I don’t want to be limited to cut-down, plain-text “mobile” versions of websites when I have a large smartphone display and speedy 3G connection that could readily handle the full version, and the push for full-HTML browsers (and things like Flash support) has already trickled down from a must-have on smartphones to a common feature-phone element. What’s lagging behind, it seems, is an understanding of how mobile device use differs from desktop use, and nowhere is that more evident than in social networking integration. Several devices promise to bring your online social life to the screen that’s always with you, but the experience is patchy at best.