The Dell Alienware m18x r2 18.4-inch laptop is currently available for $1,949 on LogicBuy. Powered by a 2.3GHz Intel Core i7-3610QM processor, the laptop features a 18.4-inch WideFHD 1920 x 1080 WLED display, a 2GB nVidia GeForce GTX 660M graphics, a 6GB DDR3 RAM, a 500GB 7200RPM hard disk drive, a slot-load DVDRW, a 12-cell battery, Creative Sound Blaster Recon3Di with THX TruStudio Pro Software and the Microsoft Windows ......Continue Reading
Cellphones , Peripherals , Tablet PCs Insert Coin: CordLite illuminated iPhone cable (video) In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. On average, North American consumers will spend a lifetime total of five days on failed attempts to pair ......Continue Reading
Robots Robot uses glue gun to make tools, hopes to ace Survival Skills 101 Looking through Engadget’s annals of robotic achievements, we see droids juggling , dabbling in competitive sailing and even manning prisons . Cool as they are, those functions aren’t going to mean a thing when Mr. Automaton is lost in the wilderness, damaged and without a helping human hand in sight. Researchers at ETH Zurich are ......Continue Reading
Cellphones China clears Google acquisition of Motorola, eliminates last barrier to Googorola bliss The final significant roadblock to Google’s buyout of Motorola has been cleared, as Chinese regulators have just given their rubber stamp. Their approval follows a few months after the simultaneous American and European clearances, and virtually all that’s left now is to formally close the deal and start integrating the two mobile giants. It might still ......Continue Reading
Cellphones T-Mo delays HTC Amaze 4G online orders due to ‘unforeseen issue,’ has other recommendations Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC. According to a recent email acquired by TmoNews , it looks as if the Magenta carrier is delaying ......Continue Reading
Cellphones , Wireless Dish warns the FCC its 4G LTE might come in earnest as late as 2016 Dish has been tranquil about facing a longer FCC review period for its planned LTE-based 4G network , and now we might have an idea as to why. The satellite TV giant is telling the FCC that it only expects coverage to reach up to 60 million potential customers “within four ......Continue Reading
Tablet PCs Apple files (again) for a preliminary ban against the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside. It isn’t the first one, either, Cupertino filed something similar back in February, though it didn’t quite pass ......Continue Reading
Cameras Raspberry Pi team shows off pics of (and taken with) prototype camera add-on While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above. The add-on is slated to ship later this year and plugs into ......Continue Reading
Misc. Gadgets Researchers tout efficiency breakthrough with new ‘inexact’ chip Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research ......Continue Reading
As much as we all complain about trolls, have you ever really taken the time to get to know one? Or, better yet, to get to know Patton Oswalt’s hilarious rendition of real-life, under-the-bridge type internet trolldom? You should! You can: The rest of this week’s top web comedy videos, including TMI, Fifty Shades of Grey, and one last round of hating being female, can be found over at ......Continue Reading
Station Saint-Martin along Paris’s Metro Line 8 & 9 was closed in 1939, at the start of WWII, and although reopened once the war had ended, the station was ultimately shutter for good due its close proximity (100m) to another Metro station. Since then, it has sat empty and unused, a seeming ghost land, another sooty stretch of tile and tracks.
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An advocacy group known as One has designed a sorta genius giant towable inkjet printer that prints messages of peaceful protest, in non-toxic water-soluble paint, on city streets. In anticipation of the upcoming G8 Summit, the One Street Tweeter, as it is known, has already begun printing messages around Maryland and Washington D.C. And, if you having something to say about ending poverty and hunger—the Street Tweeter’s pet political ......Continue Reading