Archive for January 23rd, 2008 An electronic musician from Uruguay converted a “retro-styled pilot suitcase” into a fully-functional PC, spending just $600. It comes complete with AMD 3200 processor, 1GB of memory, 120GB SATA HDD, and 15-inch Viewsonic LCD. Click here for first picture in gallery.
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 “Aion” could quite possibly a kitchen of the future. Featuring specialized plants that reportedly “provide a renewable supply of clean water and vegetable soap.” Click here for one more picture.
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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Laptops  You’ve read about it, you’ve heard about it and you’ve even seen its ghost sneaking out from your closet at night, but now you can finally buy this beast of a machine with its all new hardware. The Pavilion HDX — which stretches the very definition of a laptop — is available right now at HP’s website, complete with an optional (but really required, you know?) 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme processor, 20.1-inch WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200) display, 4GB of DDR2 RAM, a 512MB NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS and optional HD DVD / Blu-ray drives. Sure, you can claim one as your own for “just” $1,999.99, but HP’s “recommended configuration” puts you at $3,645.97. You gotta pay to play, right? [Thanks Vance and Andrew]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Laptops  We already had a hunch that these were just around the bend, but it seems that today’s the day for pre-orders to start. Sony’s SZ7 lineup — which consists of the VGN-SZ780, VGN-SZ740, VGN-SZ680 and VGN-SZ640 — is now up on the firm’s own website, and while the estimated ship dates range from next week to unknown, there’s no feeling like securing your spot in line. Head on down to the read link if you’ve been pinching that holiday bonus ’til these hit the e-streets — just make sure you’ve got $1,429.99, at the very least. [Thanks, Titanas]
Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Desktops, Laptops, Peripherals  Confirmed details are scant, but Microsoft’s Nick White over at the official Windows Vista blog says that Windows and Dell with introduce (PRODUCT) RED “products” later this week. Rumor has it that Dell will ship an XPS One all-in-one, XPS M1330 and XPS 1530 laptops (already available in plain ol’ red), and even a Dell 948 AIO printer in fancy RED editions. Besides the paint, the PCs will feature a special edition of Vista Ultimate with — you guessed it — a RED-themed desktop and sidebar gadgets. Perhaps best of all, Dell and Microsoft will donate $80 from the purchase of a RED XPS One, $50 from each RED laptop, and $5 from each printer directly to the Global Fund to fight AIDS in Africa at no additional cost to you. However, let’s wait for the official details before the back patting gets out of control. [Via istartedsomething, thanks Long Z.]
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Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments Filed under: Cellphones, Features, Portable Video  In case you haven’t been following all the drama over at Engadget Mobile, Taiwanese smartphone kingpin HTC is seeing a rather unexpected customer backlash over sub-par video playback in recent devices employing Qualcomm’s MSM7xxx chipsets — apparently, handsets like the popular TyTN II and Touch Cruise were purposely shipped without drivers that would take advantage of the embedded ATI Imageon acceleration hardware. And now, instead of issuing a mea culpa or at least providing the drivers for a small fee, HTC has basically suggested in a recent statement that consumers will need to upgrade to future products if they want “high-resolution video support.” Obviously customers are outraged, with the statement only fueling further talk of a class action lawsuit. We think it’s time for the Engadget community at large to weigh in on this snowballing controversy: what (if anything) should HTC have done differently in order to maintain the proactive, customer-friendly image that it has up to this point been known for?
Filed under: Cellphones  The well known and respected iPhone hacker Nate True has discovered some very, very interesting information concerning Apple’s latest update, 1.1.3. According to Mr. True, the boys and girls in Cupertino have all but prepped the device’s OS for native applications, altering the functionality of SpringBoard to display additional apps, changing the ownership of applications to a unified “mobile” user, and moving the location of preferences to the accompanying non-root directory. Additionally, SpringBoard now boasts widget support via a class called SBWidgetApplication. All of these technical and seemingly minor details will apparently make it easier for developers to create new applications for the phone, though Nate says they’ll also break existing native apps in the process. All we ask is that developers get those NES and SNES emulators ported quickly and safely to the new system.
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Wow, it looks like the cat-and-mouse game of DRM exploits is starting to inflict some collateral damage — the DTrace debugging tool built into Leopard is apparently locked out of iTunes and any other app that opts-out. Reasons aren’t clear, but it sure looks like Apple is trying to keep interested parties from seeing the inner workings of FairPlay and other DRM-enabled apps — which probably makes the RIAA happy, but makes it harder for devs to get work done. In the words of one DTrace developer, the lockout is “antithetical to the notion of systemic tracing, antithetical to the goals of DTrace, and antithetical to the spirit of open source.” That’s pretty harsh — but given Apple’s new love for 
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