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IKEA Uppleva HDTV to retail for $960 in Europe beginning next month, US launch in 2013
Details continue to emerge as we approach the IKEA Uppleva’s June launch. GigaOM has discovered that the set will be available in sizes ranging from 24 to 46 inches and will be priced “around $960″ — with a scale relative to the display size, we presume
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IKEA Uppleva HDTV to retail for $960 in Europe beginning next month, US launch in 2013
The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer will make you wish you hadn’t tossed out that old TV set
You know the old saying: one man’s trash is another man’s oscillographic synthesizer. The de/Rastra project from Kyle Evans takes an old CRT set and turns it into an audio / visual work of art, courtesy of four force sensing resistors, an accelerometer and several switches
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The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer will make you wish you hadn’t tossed out that old TV set
Isis partners with Austin and Salt Lake City merchants, throws John Stockton elbow at Google Wallet
Mobile payment system Isis continues to rack up passengers on its merry bandwagon, gaining support from local merchants in two cities for its NFC wallet service. The carrier-based program announced that hundreds of merchant locations in Austin, Texas and Salt Lake City, Utah are entering the Isis fold — joining national entities such as Coca-Cola and Macy’s in its initial list of partners. The selection of participating local businesses runs the gamut from cafes and restaurants to a country club and the Utah Jazz
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Isis partners with Austin and Salt Lake City merchants, throws John Stockton elbow at Google Wallet
ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come
It was only last week that we learned of the varied battery life of ASUS’ phone that would be a tablet that would be a laptop . Now, a further trickle of its performance might has passed our way, giving us insight into the real-world chops of its dual-core S4 processor and companion Adreno 225 GPU. The tests, carried out by the fine folks over at Netbooknews , highlight the device’s strengths across a swath of the usual benchmarks, putting it just below AT&T’s One X variant in Quadrant with a score of 5,057 and Sunspider at 1,917ms.
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ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come
Comcast fires back over Xfinity TV on Xbox 360, says no way, no how it’s violating net neutrality
Complaints by Netflix’s Reed Hastings and a handful of politicians must have rankled Comcast CTO Tony Werner, as he just posted a particularly detailed explanation of why Comcast believes the Xfinity TV app on the Xbox 360 isn’t violating net neutrality . We’d previously heard the argument that the Xfinity app’s traffic is simply being routed through Comcast’s internal network and isn’t the same as the Internet data of Netflix , but Werner now contends that the Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP) tags that some think are breaking FCC rules by favoring Xfinity video are really just necessary switches
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Panasonic’s interactive plasma display means never having to clean another eraser
Will writing a sentence on the chalkboard 200 times ever be the same, once we switch over to interactive pen functionality? And how will such technologies affect the opening of The Simpsons ?
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Panasonic’s interactive plasma display means never having to clean another eraser
Google Docs gets new Research tool, lets you search without leaving your work
Google has already brought a pile of new fonts and templates to Google Docs this month, and it’s now back with another fairly big new feature. Open a document today and you’ll find a new Research tool on the side of your page (which can be toggled on and off), offering the ability to search for any topic and get results without having to leave the document you’re working on.
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Google Docs gets new Research tool, lets you search without leaving your work
Google’s Project Glass prototypes can transfer still images, do little else
This was probably a given, but there won’t be any freakishly detailed social profile overlay as you pass strangers on the street in the initial iteration of ” Google Glasses .” Instead, current prototype functionality includes features like photo sharing (directly from the eyewear to Google+), and…
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Google’s Project Glass prototypes can transfer still images, do little else
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announces cloud-based, virtualized Kepler GPU technology and GeForce GRID gaming platform
We’re here at NVIDIA’s GPU technology conference here in San Jose, California and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just let loose that his company plans to put Kepler in the cloud. To make it happen, the company has created a virtualized Kepler GPU tech, called VGX, so that no physical connections are needed to render and stream graphics to remote locations. So, as Citrix brought CPU virtualization to put your work desktop on the device of your choosing, NVIDIA has put the power of Kepler into everything from iPads to netbooks and mobile phones.
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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announces cloud-based, virtualized Kepler GPU technology and GeForce GRID gaming platform
PSA: LG Optimus Elite available today on Virgin Mobile USA for $150
If you were one of those who jumped on last week’s pre-order , chances are you’re eagerly waiting for this Virgin-branded Optimus Elite to show up at your doorstep today. For those who decided to wait it out, however, you’ll be happy to know LG’s Gingerbread slab is now up for grabs at “major” retail shops in the States as well as Virgin Mobile USA’s site.
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PSA: LG Optimus Elite available today on Virgin Mobile USA for $150
