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Pentru noi este o cifra importanta, si dorim sa va multumim tuturor celor care ati ales GTop, ca sistem de analytics,&lt;p&gt;vom incerca sa pastram in continuare un standard ridicat al statisticilor oferite.&lt;p&gt;Pe aceasta cale, dorim sa va anuntam ca lucram la un GTop nou, imbunatatit, care are multiple elemente utile pentru analiza statisticilor, un layout nou, si imbunatatiri legate de generarea si acuratetea statisticilor.&lt;p&gt;Pentru ca ne place sa fim flexibili, si ascultam cererile utilizatorilor, daca aveti anumite cereri de features, sau modificari care le-ati dori implementate in noul GTop, puteti sa dati un reply la acest mail, si&lt;p&gt;sugestia va fi analizata, iar daca va fi posibil implementata. GTop s-a bazat intotdeauna pe sugestiile utilizatorilor, si de fiecare data am ascultat, asa ca va asiguram - vom face la fel si de data asta.&lt;p&gt;In final, dorim sa va adresam din nou multumirile noastre, si speram sa ne reintalnim la urmatorul milestone - 20.000 site-uri active.&lt;p&gt;Regards&lt;br&gt;Echipa GTop.ro&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6534552519788348486-6447030388041056736?l=gadgets-on.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gadgets-on.blogspot.com/feeds/6447030388041056736/comments/default' title='Postare comentarii'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://gadgets-on.blogspot.com/2009/04/subject-gtop-implinit-10000.html#comment-form' title='0 comentarii'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6534552519788348486/posts/default/6447030388041056736'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/6534552519788348486/posts/default/6447030388041056736'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://gadgets-on.blogspot.com/2009/04/subject-gtop-implinit-10000.html' title='Subject - GTop a implinit 10.000'/><author><name>Admin</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/05084232091534725181</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534552519788348486.post-800346078486729397</id><published>2009-04-25T21:46:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-25T21:46:03.852-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4/26 Boing Boing Gadgets</title><content type='html'>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt; 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font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                 	Gadgets Reviews - The best and latest gadgets...Only the best news                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td width="110" bgcolor="#ebebeb" style="padding:10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedmyinbox.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedmyinbox.com/img/logo.gif" alt="Feed My Inbox" border="0" style="padding:0;margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;          &lt;tr&gt;           &lt;td style="padding:8px;"&gt;             &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/leatherupcom-motorcycle-gear.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   LeatherUp ÂÂ all motorcycle gear in one place                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 25, 2009 at 5:48 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/uimg/biketrip.jpg" align="left" alt="" /&gt;World of motorbikes and world of cars are two completely different parties that have to live together on the basics of common traffic regulations. While cars are safer and, well, easier to drive, motorcycles are so much more exiting, that we canÂÂ't discard them in the search for interesting gadgets. The appeal also hides in the fact that you canÂÂ't just jump on a bike and take off. Proper biker is well equipped. The helmets, the vests, the gloves, etc. all of it has to undergo tests and approving arrangements before they appear on the shelves. What we want then is a place where motorcycle equipment would be gathered together and sold for reasonable price. LeatherUp.com is what we came across recently.&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/pf-50wg-digital-frame.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Digital Frame with Wi-Fi from Buffalo                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 11:15 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/uimg/buffalo-wi-fi-digital-frame-300.jpg" align="left" alt="PF-50WG digital frame" /&gt;PF-50WG is the latest digital frame of Buffalo. It has an 8-inch LCD display at 800 x 600 resolution; it supports Wi-Fi 802.11b/g and is compatible with DLNA. Unlike iGala Wireless Digital Photo Frame that has 1GB internal memory, PF-50WG features 85MB internal memory and, moreover, you can expand it using a card reader supporting SD / SDHC / Memory Stick / CF / x D memory cards. Due to Wi-Fi connectivity, Microsoft Live and FrameIt support you will be able to display your photos or other information on the screen of the frame.&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/usb-flash-drive.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Statue of Liberty ÂÂ an USB Flash Drive                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 9:57 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/uimg/statue-of-liberty-flash-drive-300.jpg" align="left" alt="USB Flash Drive" /&gt;The greatest national symbol of America - Statue of Liberty - acquires new form of use. Now it is an USB flash drive. The idea of this original drive came to the Super Talent Company that tried to make it similar to the statue as much as possible. The USB Flash Drive presents the goddess in her lengthy dress staying on the base. You will see the USB connector if you pull off the statue from its base. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/charming-eco-friendly-mclaren-super-car.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Charming eco-friendly McLaren super car                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 8:51 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/uimg/McLaren-supercar.jpg" align="left" alt="Charming eco-friendly McLaren super car" /&gt;It is true; this amazing super car is a two years plan of McLaren Automotive to be code named P11. McLaren's new supercar, the P11 is expected to have a price tag of US $ 275,000. New safety standards seem to have been set by its new brainchild with high level of driving performance as well as its efficiency. The model was constructed from carbon fiber making it weigh as little as possible.&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/most-expensive-lamborghini-murcielago-.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Most expensive Lamborghini Murcielago                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 6:11 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/uimg/Most-expensive-Lamborghini-Murcielago-LP-640.jpg" align="left" alt="Most expensive Lamborghini Murcielago " /&gt;It stands to reason that a high performance sports car is supposed to be very expensive, but with this unbelievably fascinating model you will be surprised. It is a revamped sports car called Lamborghini Murcielago LP-640 with a price tag of $1 million while its interior part costs $427,000. Interiors include hand-finished aluminum accents, aluminum air vents as well as two-toned leather upholstery. There are also handle-less doors remotely operated and mini cameras mounted in the door mirrors.&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/eye-popping-space-solar-power-by-pg-e.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Eye-popping space solar power by PG&amp;E                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 1:18 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gadgets-reviews.com/uimg/space-solar-power.jpg" align="left" alt="Eye-popping space solar power by PG&amp;amp;E" /&gt;Is not it good to live in clean and green world. 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font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Spies Like Us: Gear for the Budding Bond                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 25, 2009 at 12:00 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;Fancy snooping around a Monte Carlo casino at 10 o'clock in the morning, wearing a tuxedo? 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font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                 	Engadget                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td width="110" bgcolor="#ebebeb" style="padding:10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedmyinbox.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedmyinbox.com/img/logo.gif" alt="Feed My Inbox" border="0" style="padding:0;margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;          &lt;tr&gt;           &lt;td style="padding:8px;"&gt;             &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/how-would-you-change-nokias-5800-xpressmusic/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   How would you change Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic?                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 25, 2009 at 3:43 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-front-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Nokia's first ever full touchscreen S60 phone has had quite the bumpy ride into reality. After launching here in North America, it was on the receiving end of &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/03/17/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-nam-firmware-update-puts-misbehaving-unit/"&gt;heavy pounding&lt;/a&gt; from early adopters who couldn't adequately take advantage of 3G services. Now that those issues are ironed out (and you've had five minutes to cool your jets), we're wondering how you'd tweak / change / overhaul the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/5800"&gt;5800 XpressMusic&lt;/a&gt;. Needless to say, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/nokia-5800-xpressmusic-review/"&gt;our own personal list&lt;/a&gt; would likely span a few pages (collated, double-spaced, 1-inch margins), but this post isn't for us. In fact, it has been specially crafted just for you, so feel free to let off some steam in comments below. Just keep it constructive, okay? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/how-would-you-change-nokias-5800-xpressmusic/"&gt;How would you change Nokia's 5800 XpressMusic?&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:43:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/how-would-you-change-nokias-5800-xpressmusic/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527310/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/how-would-you-change-nokias-5800-xpressmusic/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/msi-x-slim-x340-gets-dissected/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   MSI X-Slim X340 gets dissected                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 25, 2009 at 1:16 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.umpcfever.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fpostid%3D2301&amp;amp;sl=zh-CN&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/msi-xslim-04-24-09.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;They're still pretty hard to come by &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/msis-culv-packin-x-slim-x340-ships-this-month-in-us/"&gt;'round these parts&lt;/a&gt;, but it looks like the folks at &lt;em&gt;UMPC Fever&lt;/em&gt; have managed to track down one of MSI's shiny new &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/x340"&gt;X-Slim X340&lt;/a&gt; ultraportables and, like any good citizen of the internet, they've promptly gone and ripped it apart. As you might expect, there aren't exactly a ton of surprises, but it looks like anyone hoping to do a quick and easy 3G upgrade is out of luck, unless, as &lt;em&gt;SlashGear&lt;/em&gt; points out, they're willing to ditch the built-in WiFi to free up a PCI-E slot. Hit up the read link below for the complete, not always pretty breakdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.slashgear.com/msi-x-slim-x340-cracked-open-2441868/"&gt;Slash Gear&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/msi-x-slim-x340-gets-dissected/"&gt;MSI X-Slim X340 gets dissected&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:16:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.umpcfever.com%2Fnews%2F%3Fpostid%3D2301&amp;amp;sl=zh-CN&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/msi-x-slim-x340-gets-dissected/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527566/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/25/msi-x-slim-x340-gets-dissected/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 25, 2009 at 12:07 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"&gt;     &lt;tbody&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/win7-7100-1-1_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/" title="View Windows 7 RC 7100 making its way to OEMs, a torrent tracker near you on Engadget" target="_blank"&gt;Windows 7 RC 7100 making its way to OEMs, a torrent tracker near you&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; It seems a little early in the game to be talking Windows 7 release candidates, but that's just the way we like it. &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/nikon-d5000-ship-date-amazon_thumbnail.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Video: Sharp's Mebius LCD trackpad on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/video-sharps-mebius-lcd-trackpad/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/" title="View Nikon's D5000 DSLR (and its articulating display) shipping April 27th on Engadget" target="_blank"&gt;Nikon's D5000 DSLR (and its articulating display) shipping April 27th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/g1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Oh, goodie goodie! Merely ten days after the D5000 was formally introduced to the world, we're now being told that Nikon's first DSLR with an articulating display will be shipping in three short days.&lt;a target="_blank" title="View ASUS EeeBox PC B208 with discrete graphics, HDMI-out in June? on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface-setup-impressions-filled-with-mind-bogglingl/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/2009-02-11surfaceset_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface-setup-impressions-filled-with-mind-bogglingl/" title="View Microsoft Surface setup impressions: " filled="" with="" mind-bogglingly="" frustrating="" usability="" issues="" on="" engadget="" target="_blank"&gt;Microsoft Surface setup impressions: "filled with mind-bogglingly frustrating usability issues"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Microsoft's Surface has been shipping out to corporate customers for a year now, but we haven't heard much about the backend setup of the $17,000 table.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/" title="View Redrock Micro Hybrid Cinema Rigs turn DSLRs into filmmakers on Engadget" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top" colspan="2"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Other news of import&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             &lt;ul&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/" title="View Video: Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Kindle 2 on Engadget" target="_blank"&gt;Video: Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Kindle 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/" title="View Redrock Micro Hybrid Cinema Rigs turn DSLRs into filmmakers on Engadget" target="_blank"&gt;Redrock Micro Hybrid Cinema Rigs turn DSLRs into filmmakers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/armys-multimode-death-ray-knocks-out-ieds-vehicles-whiners/" title="View Army's multimode death ray knocks out IEDs, vehicles, whiners on Engadget" target="_blank"&gt;Army's multimode death ray knocks out IEDs, vehicles, whiners&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ul&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr align="center"&gt;             &lt;th width="50%" height="75" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/eng-hd-hires-logo-rm-eng-22.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;             &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="50%" height="75" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/recap-eng-mobile-300-rm-eng.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;             &lt;/th&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/24/china-blue-hd-players-revealed-second-stage-of-the-format-war-i/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgethd.com/media/2009/04/cbhdplayers_042309_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/24/china-blue-hd-players-revealed-second-stage-of-the-format-war-i/" title="View China Blue HD players revealed, second stage of the format war is officially on on Engadget HD" target="_blank"&gt;China Blue HD players revealed, second stage of the format war is officially on&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;China's alternative to Blu-ray finally has some hardware to show off, with players from TCL and Shinco making their debut this week. &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/24/t-mobile-germany-website-indicates-may-launch-for-cupcake/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/tmobile-cupcake-04-24-09_thumbnail.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/24/t-mobile-germany-website-indicates-may-launch-for-cupcake/" title="View T-Mobile Germany website indicates May launch for Cupcake on Engadget Mobile" target="_blank"&gt;T-Mobile Germany website indicates May launch for Cupcake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not exactly a huge surprise considering that the Cupcake-powered HTC Magic is confirmed to be coming out May 5th.&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;ul&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/24/myvu-crystal-review/" title="View Myvu Crystal review on Engadget HD" target="_blank"&gt;Myvu Crystal review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/23/philips-prestigo--srt9320-color-touchscreen-remote-ready-for-preo/" title="View Philips Prestigo SRT9320 color touchscreen remote ready for preorders, shipping someday on Engadget HD" target="_blank"&gt;Philips Prestigo SRT9320 color touchscreen remote ready for preorders, shipping someday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ul&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;ul&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/24/finland-ready-to-rock-lte-at-lower-cost-1800mhz/" title="View Finland ready to rock LTE at " lower="" cost="" on="" engadget="" mobile="" target="_blank"&gt;Finland ready to rock LTE at "lower cost" 1800MHz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/24/ericsson-ready-to-shell-out-heroic-sony-ericsson-cash-infusion-i/" title="View Ericsson ready to shell out heroic Sony Ericsson cash infusion if necessary on Engadget Mobile" target="_blank"&gt;Ericsson ready to shell out heroic Sony Ericsson cash infusion if necessary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/24/htc-touch-pro2-gets-thoroughly-tinkered-with-overseas/" title="View HTC Touch Pro2 gets thoroughly handled overseas on Engadget Mobile" target="_blank"&gt;HTC Touch Pro2 gets thoroughly handled overseas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ul&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/"&gt;The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 23:07:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527789/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/model-2-production-seen-as-unlikely-says-oqo-exec/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Model 2+ production seen as &amp;quot;unlikely,&amp;quot; says OQO exec                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 11:02 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/24/oqo-model-2-producti.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/ces09-oqo-model2_plus.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; The chances of seeing &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Model2/"&gt;Model 2+&lt;/a&gt;'s release seems dimmer and dimmer, as online retailer Build Your UMPC has &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/oqo-looking-for-buyer-model-2-future-in-limbo/"&gt;joined eXpansys&lt;/a&gt; in canceling pre-orders for the Model 2+. OQO's senior VP Bob Rosin confirmed bad news, saying a firm shipping date was partly the reason behind the vendor's decision. Furthermore, he said that it was "unlikely" any more Model 2+ units would be produced, though not indicating how many were currently manufactured and ready to go. Worried about the company's future? Yeah, us, too.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/tabletpcs/" rel="tag"&gt;Tablet PCs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/model-2-production-seen-as-unlikely-says-oqo-exec/"&gt;Model 2+ production seen as "unlikely," says OQO exec&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:02:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/24/oqo-model-2-producti.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/model-2-production-seen-as-unlikely-says-oqo-exec/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527765/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/model-2-production-seen-as-unlikely-says-oqo-exec/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/asus-p565-apparently-available-unboxed/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   ASUS P565 apparently available, unboxed                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 9:49 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/asusp565unboxing-rm-eng.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Lazarus be praised! The last time we heard about ASUS' &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/P565/"&gt;P565&lt;/a&gt; was back in February, when we mourned its &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/28/asus-p565-superphone-canned-due-to-garmin-partnership/"&gt;sad and supposed demise&lt;/a&gt;. Turns out that's not the case, as we've now got a hands-on with the GPS / PDA phone from Polish site &lt;em&gt;ASUSPDA, &lt;/em&gt;who claims (at least via machine translation) that it's been on sale for several months. The plethora of product / unboxing / interface pics look mighty legit, and as for the impressions, the reviewer seems very quite fond of it. Compliments are given for its general performance and design, though he does note the Glide interface isn't as seamless as you'd expect with a 816MHz processor inside. If you're interested in finding out for yourself, it looks like you can order the GSM / WCDMA-enabled device from &lt;em&gt;Qbit&lt;/em&gt; for around $566.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks, Jackob]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.pl/translate?js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=pl&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fasuspda.pl%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D185&amp;amp;sl=pl&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;history_state0=pl%7Cen%7Crecenzja"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - Unboxing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.qbitonline.com/product_info.php?products_id=7685&amp;amp;language=1"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - Product page&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/asus-p565-apparently-available-unboxed/"&gt;ASUS P565 apparently available, unboxed&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:49:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/asus-p565-apparently-available-unboxed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527601/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/asus-p565-apparently-available-unboxed/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/official-windows-7-rc-publicly-available-may-5th/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Official: Windows 7 RC publicly available May 5th                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 9:00 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/2-25-09-windows_7-desktop.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; We've seen &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/windows-7-rc-coming-may-5-for-public-consumption-out-now-for-ms/"&gt;plenty&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/"&gt;speculation&lt;/a&gt; on this date, but thanks to a quick email from Microsoft reps -- and a handy post on the &lt;em&gt;Windows Blog&lt;/em&gt; -- we now have confirmation. According to the cats and kittens in Redmond, the Windows 7 RC will be officially available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers on April 30th, and will be made publicly available on May 5th. End transmission... and bust out the champagne.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/official-windows-7-rc-publicly-available-may-5th/"&gt;Official: Windows 7 RC publicly available May 5th&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 20:00:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/official-windows-7-rc-publicly-available-may-5th/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527767/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/official-windows-7-rc-publicly-available-may-5th/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/virtualized-windows-xp-coming-to-windows-7-professional-and-ulti/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Virtualized Windows XP coming to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 8:12 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/winxp-virtual-rm-eng-2.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Color us intrigued. The gang at &lt;em&gt;SuperSite for Windows&lt;/em&gt; have revealed what they know about a pretty awesome &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Windows7/"&gt;Windows 7&lt;/a&gt; feature: XP Mode, a virtualized copy of &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/WindowsXP/"&gt;Windows XP&lt;/a&gt; with Service Pack 3. It'll reportedly be a free download for Professional and Ultimate Edition users, a shame it won't be coming to all versions. Unlike many other Virtual PC options, the environment won't require a separate workspace so you can run the individual apps as you would alongside those native to 7 -- in the example pictured, that's Word 2003 in XP mode next to Word 2007. It all sounds vaguely similar to the XP compatibility mode found in Vista, but if we're understanding this right, XPM should make legacy compatibility much less of a hassle. We haven't heard any reports of it being found in the leaked &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/"&gt;Release Candidate build&lt;/a&gt;, so if you're antsy to get a glimpse now, hit up the read link for a gallery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks, Axel]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/virtualized-windows-xp-coming-to-windows-7-professional-and-ulti/"&gt;Virtualized Windows XP coming to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate users&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:12:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://community.winsupersite.com/blogs/paul/archive/2009/04/24/secret-no-more-revealing-virtual-windows-xp-for-windows-7.aspx"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/virtualized-windows-xp-coming-to-windows-7-professional-and-ulti/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527724/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/virtualized-windows-xp-coming-to-windows-7-professional-and-ulti/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/philips-oled-wall-makes-its-video-debut/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Philips' OLED wall makes its video debut                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 7:57 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oled-info.com/another-oled-video-philips-oled-wall"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/philips-oled-wall-04-24-09.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;We already caught sight of some of Philips' new &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/philips-shows-off-lumiblade-oled-lighting-concepts/"&gt;OLED lighting concepts&lt;/a&gt;, but when it comes to something like a massive OLED wall there's really no substitute for a proper video, and Philips itself has now kindly provided one for all to enjoy. As you can see for yourself after the break, the wall reacts directly to folks passing by, which turns out to be a surefire to get folks dancing and more generally make fools of themselves -- all in the name of progress, of course. If that's not enough OLED for one day, you can also check out a slightly less entertaining video of Philips' OLED chandelier concept, which is a tad less interactive but considerably more likely to turn into an actual product.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/philips-oled-wall-makes-its-video-debut/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Philips' OLED wall makes its video debut&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"&gt;Displays&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/philips-oled-wall-makes-its-video-debut/"&gt;Philips' OLED wall makes its video debut&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:57:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oled-info.com/another-oled-video-philips-oled-wall"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/philips-oled-wall-makes-its-video-debut/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527636/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/philips-oled-wall-makes-its-video-debut/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/navy-shells-out-for-development-of-missile-killing-free-electron/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Navy shells out for development of missile-killing free-electron laser                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 7:09 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,516977,00.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/free-electron-laser-aip.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; You may think that the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Navy/"&gt;Navy&lt;/a&gt;'s just the baby brother to the two other US Armed Forces, but its weapon development record definitely shows otherwise. Just over two years after building an &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/18/navy-develops-8-megajoule-railgun-nukem-bows-down/"&gt;8-Megajoule railgun&lt;/a&gt;, the branch has penned two $7 million checks to defense contractors Boeing and Raytheon for the design and development of a free-electron laser (FEL). For what it's worth, such a device has been yearned for since a day after the dawn of time, as unlike chemical-based lasers, the FEL would be 100 percent electric and easier to move. For those unaware,this stormy petrel of a weapon would be used to blast down missiles in mid-flight, all while putting on a pretty impressive &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/16/university-of-michigan-creates-most-intense-laser-in-the-univers/"&gt;light show&lt;/a&gt;. 'Course, the Navy must also figure out how to build a massive energy generating ship in order to use it, but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here, okay?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Image courtesy of &lt;a href="http://www.aip.org/png/images/undulator.jpg"&gt;AIP&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/science/" rel="tag"&gt;Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/navy-shells-out-for-development-of-missile-killing-free-electron/"&gt;Navy shells out for development of missile-killing free-electron laser&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:09:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,516977,00.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/navy-shells-out-for-development-of-missile-killing-free-electron/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527018/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/navy-shells-out-for-development-of-missile-killing-free-electron/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-unboxed-takes-some-test-shots/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 gets unboxed, takes some test shots                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 6:34 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/retroleum/sets/72157617161875761/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/4-24-09gh1box.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Wow, it's been a great day for camera nerds -- the Nikon D5000 &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/"&gt;got a ship date&lt;/a&gt;, the Canon Rebel T1i &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/canon-rebel-t1i-trickling-out-to-stores/"&gt;started arriving in stores&lt;/a&gt;, and now the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/dmc-gh1"&gt;Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1&lt;/a&gt;'s been unboxed. That's a hat trick of hotly-anticipated DSLRs* right there, and the GH1 might be the most anticipated of the bunch. Sadly for would-be importers, the Japanese version here can't be set to display English menus, but we can still gawk at the pretty pictures, including an amazing &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/retroleum/3470109957/in/set-72157617161875761/"&gt;shot of the lens cap&lt;/a&gt; entitled "The Engadget Product Photo Effect." Hit the read link for the full set, including some test shots.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; *Yes, we know GH1's not technically a DSLR -- what would you call it?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [Thanks, Guillermo]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"&gt;Digital Cameras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-unboxed-takes-some-test-shots/"&gt;Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH1 gets unboxed, takes some test shots&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:34:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/retroleum/sets/72157617161875761" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-unboxed-takes-some-test-shots/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527683/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/panasonic-lumix-dmc-gh1-gets-unboxed-takes-some-test-shots/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/canon-rebel-t1i-trickling-out-to-stores/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Canon Rebel T1i trickling out to stores                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 5:56 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/7997291_PYXp8/1/519952380_ZuoB8#519952380_ZuoB8"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/4-24-09t1istore.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Sure, the Nikon &lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/d5000"&gt;D5000&lt;/a&gt; might have gotten itself a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/"&gt;ship date today&lt;/a&gt;, but Canon's &lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/rebelt1i"&gt;Rebel T1i&lt;/a&gt; is doing one better and actually turning up in stores a couple weeks ahead of its scheduled mid-May debut. This particular specimen was spotted at Bromfield Camera in Boston, but we'd love to hear if you've seen this guy pop up elsewhere -- let us know!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [Thanks, Conrado]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"&gt;Digital Cameras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/canon-rebel-t1i-trickling-out-to-stores/"&gt;Canon Rebel T1i trickling out to stores&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:56:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/7997291_PYXp8/1/519952380_ZuoB8#519952380_ZuoB8"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/canon-rebel-t1i-trickling-out-to-stores/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527531/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/canon-rebel-t1i-trickling-out-to-stores/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/first-ion-based-netbooks-reportedly-on-track-for-june-debut/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   First Ion-based netbooks reportedly on track for June debut                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 5:22 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/23742/nvidia-ion-netbooks-confirmed-june.phtml"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-25-08-155566-pico_ion_360.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nothing is completely official just yet, but &lt;em&gt;Pocket-lint&lt;/em&gt; is reporting that its inside source at NVIDIA has "confirmed" that the initial batch of &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/ion"&gt;Ion&lt;/a&gt;-based netbooks will be announced at the big &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/computex"&gt;Computex&lt;/a&gt; trade show at the beginning of June, and that the first few netbooks could start shipping "as early as July." Of course, there's no word on any specific companies involved just yet, with the source only going so far as to say that the announcements will come from some "key players." Acer would seem to be about as close to a sure thing as there is, however, considering that it just recently launched the first Ion-based nettop, the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/AspireRevo/"&gt;AspireRevo&lt;/a&gt;, and that it's never passed up an opportunity to roll out yet another new nettbook in the past.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/first-ion-based-netbooks-reportedly-on-track-for-june-debut/"&gt;First Ion-based netbooks reportedly on track for June debut&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:22:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/news.phtml/23742/nvidia-ion-netbooks-confirmed-june.phtml"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/first-ion-based-netbooks-reportedly-on-track-for-june-debut/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527474/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/first-ion-based-netbooks-reportedly-on-track-for-june-debut/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-rolls-out-lime-green-ds-bundle-just-in-time-for-mother/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Nintendo rolls out lime green DS bundle just in time for Mother's Day                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 4:51 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geeksugar.com/3072893"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090424-dslite-01.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Talk about things you never knew you didn't want! If Mom hadn't much use for a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/20/nintendo-ds-to-come-in-lime-green-red-and-cool-ice-this-summer/"&gt;Nintendo DS Lite&lt;/a&gt; before, do you think that throwing in some cooking software is gonna change her mind? Neither do we. That said, if you're really stuck for a Mother's Day present (or just want one you can play Nintendogs on), this bad boy hits the shops May 3rd. You are now free to go back to reading &lt;em&gt;Garfield Minus Garfield&lt;/em&gt; and counting down the minutes 'til Happy Hour. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-rolls-out-lime-green-ds-bundle-just-in-time-for-mother/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Nintendo rolls out lime green DS bundle just in time for Mother's Day&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-rolls-out-lime-green-ds-bundle-just-in-time-for-mother/"&gt;Nintendo rolls out lime green DS bundle just in time for Mother's Day&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:51:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geeksugar.com/3072893"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-rolls-out-lime-green-ds-bundle-just-in-time-for-mother/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527366/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-rolls-out-lime-green-ds-bundle-just-in-time-for-mother/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-c64-purse-is-runway-caliber-fashion-accessory/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Nintendo / C64 purse is runway-caliber fashion accessory                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 4:19 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarnivore/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/jerinintendo2.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Look: there are &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/22/bag-tv-debuts-multimedia-mistake/"&gt;purses&lt;/a&gt;, and then there are &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/11/homemade-nes-purse-is-so-voguish-so-for-sale/"&gt;purses&lt;/a&gt;. Well, this one is none of those things. It's a decent looking bag to begin with, but then... well, things get really fantastic. Jeri Ellsworth took it upon herself to cram a Nintendo-on-a-chip and a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/c64"&gt;Commodore 64&lt;/a&gt;-on-a-chip (her own creation) into the bag, along with an LCD. Then she connected up some NES controllers, which are velcroed onto the outside of the bag. The result looks awesome, and is also actually useable. We haven't heard anything about these guys being offered for sale, but we're fairly certain that the august House of Dior will probably be ringing her up any day now. Seriously: this thing is a work of art. There's a video of Jeri talking about her creation after the break. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/04/jeris_nifty_nintendo_purse.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890"&gt;Make&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-c64-purse-is-runway-caliber-fashion-accessory/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Nintendo / C64 purse is runway-caliber fashion accessory&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/wearables/" rel="tag"&gt;Wearables&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-c64-purse-is-runway-caliber-fashion-accessory/"&gt;Nintendo / C64 purse is runway-caliber fashion accessory&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:19:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yarnivore" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-c64-purse-is-runway-caliber-fashion-accessory/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527222/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nintendo-c64-purse-is-runway-caliber-fashion-accessory/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface-setup-impressions-filled-with-mind-bogglingl/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Microsoft Surface setup impressions: &amp;quot;filled with mind-bogglingly frustrating usability issues&amp;quot;                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 3:48 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/2009-02-11surfaceset.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Microsoft's Surface has been &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/microsoft-surface-launching-april-17th-with-atandt/"&gt;shipping out to corporate customers&lt;/a&gt; for a year now, but we haven't heard much about the backend setup of the $17,000 table -- sure, we know it's fun when it's up and running all those custom apps, but what's it like after the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/20/first-microsoft-surface-shipped-international-unboxed/"&gt;unboxing&lt;/a&gt;? Incredibly frustrating, says FD kinesis's Gordon Miller. Hired to implement a &lt;a href="http://kinesismomentum.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/fd-kinesis-brings-real-estate-to-the-microsoft-surface/"&gt;Surface solution&lt;/a&gt; for a client, Miller and his team first spent 30 minutes on the phone with MS phone support trying to locate the power socket, and another lengthy period of time poking at an unresponsive touchscreen before realizing that the Surface doesn't respond to touch out of the box. Yep, you read that right -- Microsoft's $17,000 &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/microsoft-surface-one-day-your-computer-will-be-a-big-ass-table/"&gt;big-ass touchscreen table&lt;/a&gt; requires a keyboard and mouse to set up, something which isn't noted in any of the marketing or manuals. Ouch. Hopefully that'll get fixed before this thing &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/27/surface-to-hit-consumerdom-in-2011-maybe-sooner/"&gt;ships to consumers in 2011&lt;/a&gt;, but in the meantime, hit the read link for the entire harrowing tale -- it's a pretty fun read for a Friday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.- We actually talked to Gordon on the phone for a quick minute and he said that Microsoft's been in touch about the experience -- he's working on an new post about that which we'll link when it goes up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface"&gt;Daring Fireball&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface-setup-impressions-filled-with-mind-bogglingl/"&gt;Microsoft Surface setup impressions: "filled with mind-bogglingly frustrating usability issues"&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:48:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://kinesismomentum.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/skin-deep-usability" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface-setup-impressions-filled-with-mind-bogglingl/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527479/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/microsoft-surface-setup-impressions-filled-with-mind-bogglingl/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   OCZ gets official with Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 3:16 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://hothardware.com/News/OCZ-Technology-Announces-the-ZDrive-PCIE-SSD/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ocz-z-drive-pcie-ssd-1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Technically, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/OCZ/"&gt;OCZ&lt;/a&gt; outed this here PCI-Express SSD &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/05/oczs-z-drive-puts-1tb-of-blazing-ssd-capacity-in-your-pcie-slot/"&gt;way back at CeBIT&lt;/a&gt; in March, but it's just now making things super official. Now available with a fresh face and hard specifications, the Z-Drive is aiming to take on wares by firms like Fusion-io and provide blistering transfer rates to anyone who buys in. Essentially, this device removes the SATA bottleneck by employing the PCIe architecture and four Vertex controllers configured in four-way RAID 0 array. Curious about performance? Read speeds can hit upwards of 510MB/sec, while write speeds top out at 480MB/sec -- plenty respectable in our eyes. OCZ's planning to push these out in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities, and while final pricing is still being kept under wraps, we're told that it'll be kept "competitive."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallery: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/"&gt;OCZ gets official with Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/1515834/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ocz-z-drive-pcie-ssd-1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/1515833/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ocz-z-drive-pcie-ssd-2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/1515832/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ocz-z-drive-pcie-ssd-3_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/1515831/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ocz-z-drive-pcie-ssd-4_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/storage/" rel="tag"&gt;Storage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/"&gt;OCZ gets official with Z-Drive PCI-Express SSD&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:16:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://hothardware.com/News/OCZ-Technology-Announces-the-ZDrive-PCIE-SSD" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527088/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ocz-gets-official-with-z-drive-pci-express-ssd/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sony-sued-for-cheating-man-out-of-rumble-patents/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Sony sued for cheating man out of rumble patents                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:44 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/04/23/nj-inventor-accuses-sony-amp-lawyers-stealing-his-controller-feedback-idea-tricking-him-o"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/dualshock-patent-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Two years after we thought it was &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/02/sony-and-immersion-settle-suit-rumble-coming-to-the-ps3/"&gt;all over&lt;/a&gt;, it sounds like the saga of Sony, Immersion, and the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/19/sony-announces-dualshock-3-controller/"&gt;rumblin' DualShock&lt;/a&gt; has yet another chapter: a New Jersey electrical engineer named Craig Thorner is now suing Sony and its attorneys, claiming that he was more or less duped out of one of his patents in a shady deal designed to help Sony and PDP/Electrosource beat Immersion's cases against them. Oh yeah, it's a tangled mess -- Thorner first signed over his patent to Immersion, hoping to score a little slice of royalty pie when the lawsuit settled, but then took it back when he decided Immersion wasn't pursuing it hard enough and signed it over to PDP/Electrosource, who promised him $150,000. So where does Sony come in? Thorner says PDP and Sony were teamed up to beat Immersion, and that Sony was secretly the one licensing the patent but trying to remain out of the picture to keep the price down -- and he's got proof, in the form of a $150,000 wire transfer between the two companies. Not only that, but Sony's attorneys apparently promised Thorner that they could "wear two hats" during negotiations and represent both him and Sony, which is ten kinds of shady. You can guess what happened next: Sony lost, PDP settled, and Immersion sued Thorner for breaking his agreement -- and Sony's attorneys didn't help him defend the lawsuit. Did we say ten kinds of shady? Eleven kinds. Of course, it's doubtful that Thorner is totally innocent here, so it'll be interesting to see how Sony responds, but at this point we're treating the DualShock 3 as a miracle of nature and leaving it at that.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [Via &lt;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/23/n-j-inventor-says-sony-ripped-him-off-tricked-him-out-of-cash/"&gt;Joystiq&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/04/23/nj-inventor-accuses-sony-amp-lawyers-stealing-his-controller-feedback-idea-tricking-him-o"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - GamePolitics article (with PDF of the complaint)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202430165772"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - Law.com article&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sony-sued-for-cheating-man-out-of-rumble-patents/"&gt;Sony sued for cheating man out of rumble patents&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:44:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sony-sued-for-cheating-man-out-of-rumble-patents/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527343/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sony-sued-for-cheating-man-out-of-rumble-patents/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/t-mobile-germany-website-indicates-may-launch-for-cupcake/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   T-Mobile Germany website indicates May launch for Cupcake                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:18 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.t-mobile.de%2Fg1%2Fsoftware-update&amp;amp;sl=de&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;history_state0="&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/tmobile-cupcake-04-24-09.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;It's not exactly a huge surprise considering that the Cupcake-powered HTC Magic is confirmed to be coming out &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/17/htc-magic-up-for-pre-order-from-vodafone-due-out-may-5th-free/"&gt;May 5th&lt;/a&gt;, but T-Mobile Germany's website now looks to have also confirmed that the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/cupcake"&gt;Cupcake&lt;/a&gt; update itself will also be rolling out to G1 users sometime the same month -- in Germany, at least. That'll of course bring with it the much-desired on-screen keyboard, along with video recording, stereo Bluetooth support, and some new integration with Picasa and YouTube, among other fixes and additions. As you can see above, the update will "skillfully" install itself on your G1 as soon as it's available, so you needn't do anything except go on about your daily business in the meantime, or check the interwebs furiously for a means of &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/08/want-rc33-without-the-wait-theres-a-way-g1-user/"&gt;jumping the cue&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.talkandroid.com/954-t-mobile-germany-android-update/"&gt;Talk Android&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/t-mobile-germany-website-indicates-may-launch-for-cupcake/"&gt;T-Mobile Germany website indicates May launch for Cupcake&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:18:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.t-mobile.de%2Fg1%2Fsoftware-update&amp;amp;sl=de&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;history_state0="&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/t-mobile-germany-website-indicates-may-launch-for-cupcake/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527367/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/t-mobile-germany-website-indicates-may-launch-for-cupcake/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Engadget Podcast 143 - 04.24.2009                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:04 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/02/engadget-podcast.jpg" alt="" title="Engadget Podcast" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;In case you aren't &lt;em&gt;hip to the Twittersphere&lt;/em&gt;, Josh, Nilay, Paul and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/engadget"&gt;Engadget's own Twitter bot&lt;/a&gt; put out their feelers for listener questions this week, and got a lot of great material for discussion. Inquisitive minds wanted to know which wild conjectures these fine men believe about the Zune HD, how particularly evil Time Warner Cable is, and other matters related to Chinese phone manufacturers and The End Times. If you failed to seize upon this opportunity to ask, or found your own question heartlessly ignored, make sure to take advantage of the various avenues of contact listed below and ask away!&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Hosts:&lt;/strong&gt; Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Producer:&lt;/strong&gt; Trent Wolbe&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;Song:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PChnIc6Twik"&gt;Ghostbusters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;00:02:36 - &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/10/is-this-the-zune-hd/"&gt;Is this the Zune HD?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;00:23:08 - &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/10/time-warner-cable-lays-out-broadband-capping-plans-says-150-fo/"&gt;Time Warner Cable lays out broadband capping plans, says $150 for "unlimited" use&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;00:28:25 - &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/time-warner-cable-to-axe-docsis-3-0-trials-without-tiered-billin/"&gt;Time Warner Cable to axe DOCSIS 3.0 trials without tiered billing?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;00:33:53 - &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/time-warner-and-embarq-cant-compete-with-city-owned-isp-trying/"&gt;Time Warner and Embarq can't compete with city-owned ISP, trying to outlaw it&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;00:47:37 - &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/ugobe-files-for-bankruptcy-pleo-to-go-extinct/"&gt;Ugobe files for bankruptcy, Pleo facing extinction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;00:53:28 - &lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/kirf"&gt;Keepin' it real fake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;01:09:03 - &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/t-mobile-sidekick-lx-2009-video-hands-on/"&gt;T-Mobile Sidekick LX 2009 video hands-on&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Subscribe to the podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [&lt;a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73329281"&gt;iTunes&lt;/a&gt;] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in iTunes (enhanced AAC).&lt;br /&gt; [&lt;a href="http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss.xml"&gt;RSS MP3&lt;/a&gt;] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in MP3) to your RSS aggregator and have the show delivered automatically.&lt;br /&gt; [&lt;a href="http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss-aac.xml"&gt;RSS AAC&lt;/a&gt;] Add the Engadget Podcast feed (in enhanced AAC) to your RSS aggregator.&lt;br /&gt; [&lt;a href="zune://subscribe/?Engadget=http://podcasts.engadget.com/rss.xml"&gt;Zune&lt;/a&gt;] Subscribe to the Podcast directly in the Zune Marketplace&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Download the podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/podcasts/Engadget_Podcast_143.mp3"&gt;LISTEN (MP3)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/podcasts/Engadget_Podcast_143.m4a"&gt;LISTEN (AAC)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/podcasts/Engadget_Podcast_143.ogg"&gt;LISTEN (OGG)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Contact the podcast&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 1-888-ENGADGET or podcast (at) engadget (dot) com.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/podcasts/" rel="tag"&gt;Podcasts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/"&gt;Engadget Podcast 143 - 04.24.2009&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:04:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526675/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadget-podcast-143-04-24-2009/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 			&lt;tr&gt; 			&lt;td style="background:#ebebeb; border:#b0b0b0 1px solid;margin:1em auto;padding:1em;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media Files&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/podcasts/Engadget_Podcast_143.mp3"&gt;Engadget_Podcast_143.mp3&lt;/a&gt; (MP3 Audio, 44.8 MB)&lt;br/&gt; 			&lt;/td&gt; 		&lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cci-dirty-vegas-plays-orange-uk/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Keepin' it real fake, part CCI: dirty Vegas plays Orange UK                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 1:28 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handset/orange_vegas_in_black/detail/pay_as_you_go"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/04/orange-vegas-mobile-review.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Attention, Orange and the random supplier who's manufacturing these ripoffs: the world has moved on from the original &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/htctouch"&gt;HTC Touch's&lt;/a&gt; design language. Hell, we've actually moved on &lt;em&gt;twice&lt;/em&gt; now; once to the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/TouchDiamond/"&gt;Touch Diamond&lt;/a&gt;, and once to the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/TouchDiamond2/"&gt;Touch Diamond2&lt;/a&gt;. On that note, we're not sure what's possessing a Western European carrier to release a cheesy rip of a such a well-known late model phone -- whose manufacturer Orange has a great relationship with, no less -- other than the fact that they're looking to give entry-level customers a really inexpensive way to get into the touchscreen game. Indeed, the prepaid device will apparently run just &amp;pound;48.50 (about $71) when it launches, but in return, you're only getting a 1.3 megapixel camera, presumably EDGE data, and the mocking of everyone you've ever known -- including your own mother, who we understand uses an actual HTC Touch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mobile-review.com%2Ffullnews%2Fmain%2F2009%2FApril%2F24.shtml%2324023"&gt;mobile-review&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; If T-Mobile UK is more your style, turns out they're offering the very same device as the &lt;a href="http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/pay-as-you-go/t-mobile/vairy-touch-payg/overview/"&gt;Vairy Touch&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks, everyone!&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cci-dirty-vegas-plays-orange-uk/"&gt;Keepin' it real fake, part CCI: dirty Vegas plays Orange UK&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:28:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handset/orange_vegas_in_black/detail/pay_as_you_go"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cci-dirty-vegas-plays-orange-uk/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527303/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cci-dirty-vegas-plays-orange-uk/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-500gb-toshiba-usb-2-0-porta/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Engadget's recession antidote: win a 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD!                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 1:00 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/ConsumerStorageProducts/USBPortableExtHardDrive-250to500GB"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/toshiba-usb20-500gb-drive.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we've got an &lt;a href="http://www.sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/ConsumerStorageProducts/USBPortableExtHardDrive-250to500GB"&gt;500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable hard drive&lt;/a&gt;, complete with a swank black / white motif and a nearly unlimited amount of room for, um, &lt;em&gt;whatever the heck you want&lt;/em&gt;. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!&lt;a href="http://www.radiusearphones.com/store/product.php?productid=16150&amp;amp;cat=253&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Huge thanks to &lt;a href="http://www.sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/ConsumerStorageProducts/USBPortableExtHardDrive-250to500GB"&gt;Toshiba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; for providing the gear!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The rules:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave a comment below.&lt;/strong&gt; Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for "fixing" the world economy, that'd be sweet too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You may only enter this specific giveaway once.&lt;/strong&gt; If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you enter more than once, only activate one comment.&lt;/strong&gt; This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! &lt;/strong&gt;Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Winner will be chosen randomly.&lt;/strong&gt; The winner will receive one (1) &lt;a href="http://www.sdd.toshiba.com/main.aspx?Path=StorageSolutions/ConsumerStorageProducts/USBPortableExtHardDrive-250to500GB"&gt;500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD&lt;/a&gt;, model number HDDR500E03X. Approximate retail value is $139.99.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen. &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entries can be submitted until Friday, April 24th, at 11:59PM ET. &lt;/strong&gt;Good luck!&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/official-giveaways-rules/"&gt;Full rules can be found here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/announcements/" rel="tag"&gt;Announcements&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/storage/" rel="tag"&gt;Storage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-500gb-toshiba-usb-2-0-porta/"&gt;Engadget's recession antidote: win a 500GB Toshiba USB 2.0 portable HDD!&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-500gb-toshiba-usb-2-0-porta/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1518303/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-500gb-toshiba-usb-2-0-porta/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-manson-mb-1-guitar-sports-x-y-midi-controller-tons-of/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Video: Manson MB-1 guitar sports X-Y midi controller, tons of 'tude                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 12:24 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansons.co.uk/news/2009/30.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090424-mb-1-04.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;We're generally downright Ludditic when it comes to our music (we like it loud and bratty -- and no backing tapes, please) but one can't help but get a little giddy when confronted with a guitar that does, you know, &lt;em&gt;other stuff&lt;/em&gt;. Matt Bellamy's Manson MB-1 signature is not only a respectable ax in its own right, but it also features an X-Y controller (think Korg Kaoss Pad) for two dimensional control of damn near any FX plug-in you can get your hands on. Available in "Matt Black" and "Red Sparkle," this bad boy starts at &amp;pound;2,999 (that's almost $4,400, folks). But what do you expect for what &lt;em&gt;Music Radar&lt;/em&gt; has termed "easily the most technologically advanced signature guitar on the planet?" Or you could just &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/kaosspad"&gt;buy a Kaoss Pad and shove it in your Les Paul&lt;/a&gt;. But we wouldn't recommend that. Make sure you check out the stunning video demonstration after the break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/exclusive-video-matt-bellamys-new-signature-guitar-204375"&gt;Music Radar&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-manson-mb-1-guitar-sports-x-y-midi-controller-tons-of/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Video: Manson MB-1 guitar sports X-Y midi controller, tons of 'tude&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-manson-mb-1-guitar-sports-x-y-midi-controller-tons-of/"&gt;Video: Manson MB-1 guitar sports X-Y midi controller, tons of 'tude&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:24:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mansons.co.uk/news/2009/30.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-manson-mb-1-guitar-sports-x-y-midi-controller-tons-of/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527225/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-manson-mb-1-guitar-sports-x-y-midi-controller-tons-of/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cc-hiphone-nano-n3-is-crazy-beautif/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Keepin' it real fake, part CC: HiPhone Nano N3+ is crazy beautiful                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 12:03 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://chinagrabber.com/2-8-touchscreen-tri-band-flip-phone-w-dual-standby-shake-control-camera---hiphone-nano-n3.aspx"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/hiphone_nano_n3_plus-phone.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Yes, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/KIRF/"&gt;KIRF&lt;/a&gt; number two hundred is a special affair. The HiPhone Nano N3+ is one of those knockoffs that transcends the category and is just plain awesome all on its own. We can't vouch for its performance or build of course, but the N3+ &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/27/keepin-it-real-fake-part-clxix-the-iphone-gets-flipped/"&gt;clamshell&lt;/a&gt; is part &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/iPhone/"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;, part &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/RAZR/"&gt;RAZR&lt;/a&gt;, and part iPod, with a little bit of &lt;em&gt;Star Trek: TNG&lt;/em&gt; attitude thrown in for good measure. Seriously, though guys: we weren't kidding when we hinted (told you) that this would be a perfect birthday gift. June 15th. Think about it. Oh, and Happy 200th KIRFday, Engadget! One more glorious shot after the break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.pmptoday.com/2009/04/23/hiphone-nano-n3-flip-phone-unbelievably-apple-listically-beautiful/"&gt;PMP Today&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cc-hiphone-nano-n3-is-crazy-beautif/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Keepin' it real fake, part CC: HiPhone Nano N3+ is crazy beautiful&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cc-hiphone-nano-n3-is-crazy-beautif/"&gt;Keepin' it real fake, part CC: HiPhone Nano N3+ is crazy beautiful&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:03:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://chinagrabber.com/2-8-touchscreen-tri-band-flip-phone-w-dual-standby-shake-control-camera---hiphone-nano-n3.aspx"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cc-hiphone-nano-n3-is-crazy-beautif/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527111/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cc-hiphone-nano-n3-is-crazy-beautif/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/modder-brings-virtual-ons-dual-sticks-to-the-xbox-360-on-the-ch/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Modder brings Virtual On's dual sticks to the Xbox 360 on the cheap                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 11:35 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;u=http://gamerbook.net/wiki/電脳戦機バーチャロン_オラトリオ・タングラム&amp;amp;sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" alt="Modder brings Virtual On's dual sticks to the Xbox 360 on the cheap" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/virtual-on-controller-20090424-600.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Most fighting games are pretty badass, but fighting games that feature &lt;em&gt;giant robots&lt;/em&gt;? Overwhelmingly badass. Such was Virtual On, one of Sega's most beloved (and seemingly most quickly forgotten) franchises, where two anime-themed (and frequently &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/SegaSaturn/"&gt;Saturn&lt;/a&gt;-wearing) virtualroids duked it out in full 3-D and blew our minds with great graphics and a humbling dual-stick control scheme (push both forward to run ahead, apart to jump, together to crouch, etc.). With the game making its triumphant return to action on the Xbox 360, a Japanese gamer has created the above monstrosity by wedging a couple of candy packages onto the controller's analog sticks, then wiring up weapons buttons. With a little paint they'd almost pass for the arcade's controller, but we're not entirely sure that thin plastic would hold up to repeated deploys of Grys-vok's ICBM attack.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://xbox.joystiq.com/2009/04/23/scary-cool-diy-virtual-on-twin-stick-controller/"&gt;Joystiq&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/modder-brings-virtual-ons-dual-sticks-to-the-xbox-360-on-the-ch/"&gt;Modder brings Virtual On's dual sticks to the Xbox 360 on the cheap&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:35:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;u=http://gamerbook.net/wiki/%E9%9B%BB%E8%84%B3%E6%88%A6%E6%A9%9F%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%B3_%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/modder-brings-virtual-ons-dual-sticks-to-the-xbox-360-on-the-ch/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526991/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/modder-brings-virtual-ons-dual-sticks-to-the-xbox-360-on-the-ch/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-looks-like-a-trash-can-pumps-out-the-jams/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   X-mini Max II looks like a trash can, pumps out the jams                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 11:13 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-gets-a-design-makeover/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090424-xminimax-01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;If you've ever thought to yourself, "I could use a pair of tiny, tinny, and aesthetically-impaired portable speakers for my laptop or PMP," this is your lucky day. &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/X-Mini/"&gt;X-Mini&lt;/a&gt;, known for pushing sound through something that looks like a cross between alien hardware and a donut, is back on the scene with the Max II. A stunning departure from the usual fare, this thing ditches the wagon wheel in favor of something that one of Dark Helmet's minions might wear in &lt;em&gt;Spaceballs&lt;/em&gt;. Apparently, the new design also features a bigger driver meaning, you guessed it, "twice the bass." We didn't have the heart to point out that two times &lt;span&gt;bupkis&lt;/span&gt; is still &lt;span&gt;bupkis&lt;/span&gt;. We're not sure when this 2.5W sonic wonder will be released in the US, but we'll be keepin' our eyes peeled.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-looks-like-a-trash-can-pumps-out-the-jams/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;X-mini Max II looks like a trash can, pumps out the jams&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-looks-like-a-trash-can-pumps-out-the-jams/"&gt;X-mini Max II looks like a trash can, pumps out the jams&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:13:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-gets-a-design-makeover" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-looks-like-a-trash-can-pumps-out-the-jams/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527083/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/x-mini-max-ii-looks-like-a-trash-can-pumps-out-the-jams/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Windows 7 RC 7100 making its way to OEMs, a torrent tracker near you                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:53 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/win7-7100-1-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; It seems a little early in the game to be talking Windows 7 release candidates, but that's just the way we like it. Apparently build 7100 has made it into the wild, complete with release candidate plumage and naturally rapid dissemination. Word has it that this could be the RC version Microsoft is &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/windows-7-rc-coming-may-5-for-public-consumption-out-now-for-ms/"&gt;planning to release to its MSDN / TechNet subscribers&lt;/a&gt; on May 5th, but we'll have to wait until next month to find out for certain sure. The less scrupulous among us should have no trouble tracking down RC 7100 in the meantime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&amp;amp;prev=_t&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.itavisen.no%2F811648%2Fde-forste-bildene-av-windows-7-rc&amp;amp;sl=auto&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;history_state0="&gt;ITavisen&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Windows+7+RC+7100+Completed+Distributed/article14957.htm"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - DailyTech&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sevenforums.com/news/7710-windows-7-rc-7100-leaked-5.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - SevenForums&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/"&gt;Windows 7 RC 7100 making its way to OEMs, a torrent tracker near you&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:53:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1527101/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/windows-7-rc-7100-making-its-way-to-oems-a-torrent-tracker-near/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/etymotic-hf2-custom-fits-bundles-acs-ear-mould-customization-se/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Etymotic hf2 Custom Fit buds bundle ACS' customized ear-mould service                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:29 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/etymotics-headphones-custom-fit.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/etymotic"&gt;Eytmotic&lt;/a&gt;'s $180 hf2 earbuds with in-line controller for iPods and iPhones have been around for awhile. In that time, they've racked up plenty of gold statues and plaques to backup their claim of delivering "the most accurate, unaltered sound of any earphone or headset today." Now Etymotic has teamed up with ACS (Advanced Communication Solutions) to deliver silicon sleeves custom-moulded for your inner-ear to ensure a perfect, comfy fit while further isolating you from the ambient noise around you; a trick that allows you to pickup audio detail at lower volumes and thus spare your hearing. Of course, ACS' 15 minute customization service is available for other buds as well, but offering it within the hf2 Custom Fit bundle as a &amp;pound;90 (about $130) voucher redeemable at any of 300 approved ear impression outlets in the UK is a pretty shrewd move.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.techdigest.tv/2009/04/etymotic_shows.html"&gt;Tech Digest&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etymotic.com/aer/press/pr2009-hf2-CustomFit.pdf"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; [Warning: PDF]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/etymotic-hf2-custom-fits-bundles-acs-ear-mould-customization-se/"&gt;Etymotic hf2 Custom Fit buds bundle ACS' customized ear-mould service&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:29:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/etymotic-hf2-custom-fits-bundles-acs-ear-mould-customization-se/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526989/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/etymotic-hf2-custom-fits-bundles-acs-ear-mould-customization-se/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Movie Cowboy iPod media streamer goes heroic with DC branding                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:06 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalcowboy.jp%2Fproducts%2Fmc35uli%2Findex.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/movie-cowboy-dc-comics-ipod-dock.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; We won't front -- our heart goes into overdrive each time Japan's own &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/DigitalCowboy/"&gt;Digital Cowboy &lt;/a&gt;births a new product, and we're especially jazzed about its latest &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/15/movie-cowboy-stores-your-hd-media-outputs-on-the-go/"&gt;Movie Cowboy&lt;/a&gt;. Known for introducing markedly outr&amp;eacute; home entertainment gear, the company's freshest piece is an iPod-friendly HDD-based media streamer that inexplicably boasts branding from DC Comics. So far as we know, the DC-MC35ULI doesn't come loaded with a director's cut of &lt;em&gt;Watchmen&lt;/em&gt;, but it does provide room for a single 3.5-inch hard drive along with an Ethernet jack, USB 2.0 sockets, coaxial / optical digital audio outputs, HDMI, a few composite hookups, iPod streaming and charging capabilities and support for an array of file formats. Still, for &amp;yen;24,800 ($255), we'd definitely expect some built-in storage... or the promise of eternal invisibility, one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fav.watch.impress.co.jp%2Fdocs%2Fnews%2F20090424_153702.html"&gt;Impress&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallery: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/"&gt;Movie Cowboy iPod media streamer goes heroic with DC branding&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/1515666/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/movie-cowboy-dc-comics-ipod-dock-1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/1515665/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/movie-cowboy-dc-comics-ipod-dock-2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/1515664/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/movie-cowboy-dc-comics-ipod-dock-3_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/1515663/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/movie-cowboy-dc-comics-ipod-dock-remote_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"&gt;Home Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/"&gt;Movie Cowboy iPod media streamer goes heroic with DC branding&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:06:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://66.196.80.202/babelfish/translate_url_content?.intl=us&amp;amp;lp=ja_en&amp;amp;trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digitalcowboy.jp%2Fproducts%2Fmc35uli%2Findex.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526995/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/movie-cowboy-ipod-media-streamer-goes-heroic-with-dc-branding/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/artificial-muscle-makes-touchy-devices-burlier/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Artificial Muscle makes touchy devices burlier                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 9:44 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10225143-1.html?part=rss&amp;amp;tag=feed&amp;amp;subj=Crave"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" alt="Artificial Muscle makes touchy devices burlier" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/artificial-muscle-demonstration-20090424-500.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; In the future we envision artificial muscle driving our &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/bigdog"&gt;cybernetic soldiers&lt;/a&gt; and helping to &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/22/ucla-researchers-create-self-healing-power-generating-artificia/"&gt;repair&lt;/a&gt; our fleshier ones. In the present, though, it seems the tech is starting a little smaller, at least it is in the case of Artificial Muscle (the company), which has developed tech enabling a silicon film to expand or contract when a voltage is applied to it. It's currently being used to create small pumps and linear actuators and the like, and is now is being pitched as a solution for feedback in touch-sensitive devices. The silicon film is thin enough to be inserted beneath a touchpad or touchscreen, moving the surface appropriately depending on what you're stroking on-screen as shown in a video demonstration below. Impressively this tech will only cost "a couple dollars" to add to any given device, meaning even cheap netbooks could start coming with fidgity touchpads soon. Now &lt;span&gt;that&lt;/span&gt; is progress.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/artificial-muscle-makes-touchy-devices-burlier/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Artificial Muscle makes touchy devices burlier&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/artificial-muscle-makes-touchy-devices-burlier/"&gt;Artificial Muscle makes touchy devices burlier&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:44:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10225143-1.html?part=rss&amp;amp;tag=feed&amp;amp;subj=Crave"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/artificial-muscle-makes-touchy-devices-burlier/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526955/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/artificial-muscle-makes-touchy-devices-burlier/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/samsung-is-still-making-money-but-a-whole-lot-less-than-last-ye/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Samsung is back in the money, but a whole lot less than last year                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 9:21 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/23/samsung.income.down/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" alt="Samsung is back in the money, but a whole lot less than last year" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/samsung-omnia-revenue-20090424-235.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Hot on the heels of Apple announcing it's officially ripping this recession a new one and making &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/apple-reports-best-ever-march-quarter-with-a-1-21b-profit-call/"&gt;more money than ever&lt;/a&gt; (hooray!), Samsung has released its financials for the first quarter and things are a little more, erm, glum. (Boo?) The company has at least partially recovered from its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/recession-roundup-sony-warns-of-1-7b-loss-other-companies-not/"&gt;first ever loss&lt;/a&gt; in the fourth quarter of last year, making a tidy $459 million so far in 2009. That's the good news. The bad news, however, is that $459 million is 72 percent less than the company pocketed in the same quarter in 2008. But, profit is profit, and a 36 percent increase in revenue from the company's cellphone division is also promising -- especially given Nokia's recent &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/nokias-profits-drop-90-in-q1-2009/"&gt;bad news&lt;/a&gt;. Must be thanks to all those &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/samsung,omnia"&gt;Omnia&lt;/a&gt; fanboys and girls.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"&gt;Displays&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/samsung-is-still-making-money-but-a-whole-lot-less-than-last-ye/"&gt;Samsung is back in the money, but a whole lot less than last year&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:21:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/23/samsung.income.down" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/samsung-is-still-making-money-but-a-whole-lot-less-than-last-ye/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526971/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/samsung-is-still-making-money-but-a-whole-lot-less-than-last-ye/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Nikon's D5000 DSLR (and its articulating display) shipping April 27th                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 8:59 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-D5000-18-55mm-3-5-5-6G-Vari-angle/dp/B00267S7TQ/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/nikon-d5000-ship-date-amazon.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Oh, goodie goodie! Merely ten days after the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/D5000/"&gt;D5000&lt;/a&gt; was &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/14/nikon-d5000-articulates-its-way-into-reality/"&gt;formally introduced&lt;/a&gt; to the world -- and just hours after Amazon's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/18/nikons-d5000-up-for-pre-order-at-amazon/"&gt;pre-order page&lt;/a&gt; went live -- we're now being told that Nikon's first DSLR with an articulating display will be shipping in three short days. Starting on April 27th, the cam will begin making its way out to those who pulled the trigger early on... at least in kit form. We don't expect the body-only configuration to leave the docks for at least a week or so later, but you can rest assured we'll be giving one a go and letting you know if it's worth the cheddar.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks, Jonathon]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"&gt;Digital Cameras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/"&gt;Nikon's D5000 DSLR (and its articulating display) shipping April 27th&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:59:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/Nikon-D5000-18-55mm-3-5-5-6G-Vari-angle/dp/B00267S7TQ" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526982/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/nikons-d5000-dslr-and-its-articulating-display-shipping-april/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/china-blue-hd-players-revealed-second-stage-of-the-format-war-i/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   China Blue HD players revealed, second stage of the format war is officially on                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 8:27 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.sina.com.cn/e/2009-04-22/14003027404.shtml"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgethd.com/media/2009/04/cbhdplayers_042309.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; China's alternative to Blu-ray finally has some hardware to show off, with players from TCL and Shinco making their debut this week. Priced at less than 2,000 yuan ($292) they're reportedly 40% cheaper than the competition, and while the promised support from Warner Bros. has yet to materialize it plans to release 100 movies on the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/tag/cbhd"&gt;CBHD&lt;/a&gt; format by the end of the year. That's about all the machine translation could help us make out beyond the &lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/02/02/hd-nvd-is-chinas-home-grown-answer-to-blu-ray-but-does-it-have/"&gt;usual promise&lt;/a&gt; of lower licensing fees for Chinese manufacturers, but a better look at the latest (and by far most legit, although that's not saying much) Blu-ray fighter is beyond the read link.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://cdrinfo.com/Sections/News/Details.aspx?NewsId=25238"&gt;CDR Info&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/hdtv/" rel="tag"&gt;HDTV&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"&gt;Home Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/china-blue-hd-players-revealed-second-stage-of-the-format-war-i/"&gt;China Blue HD players revealed, second stage of the format war is officially on&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:27:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://tech.sina.com.cn/e/2009-04-22/14003027404.shtml"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/china-blue-hd-players-revealed-second-stage-of-the-format-war-i/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526680/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/china-blue-hd-players-revealed-second-stage-of-the-format-war-i/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/armys-multimode-death-ray-knocks-out-ieds-vehicles-whiners/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Army's multimode death ray knocks out IEDs, vehicles, whiners                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 7:32 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227045.500-microwaves-could-defuse-bombs-from-afar.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090423-armylaser-01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;While the US Air Force is dead set on shooting down missiles with &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/high-powered-jet-mounted-laser-one-step-closer-to-flying-the-te/"&gt;airborne lasers&lt;/a&gt;, it looks like their colleagues in the Army are busy cooking up a little something called the Multimode Directed Energy Armament System (see our artist's conceptual rendering, above). According to &lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt;, this device uses an ultra-short pulse laser to create an ionized channel through the air, which it can use to send bursts of energy, conduct electricity, or act as a waveguide for an intense pulse of microwaves. If you're looking to knock out an IED, an oncoming vehicle, or an enemy combatant, this bad boy should do the trick just fine. The Army's Armament Research Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) plans on having a working prototype operating in a the real world sometime in 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="javascript:void(0);/*1240522343201*/"&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/science/" rel="tag"&gt;Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/armys-multimode-death-ray-knocks-out-ieds-vehicles-whiners/"&gt;Army's multimode death ray knocks out IEDs, vehicles, whiners&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:32:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227045.500-microwaves-could-defuse-bombs-from-afar.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/armys-multimode-death-ray-knocks-out-ieds-vehicles-whiners/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526398/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/armys-multimode-death-ray-knocks-out-ieds-vehicles-whiners/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Video: Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Kindle 2                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 6:25 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/#continued"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/amazon-kindle-2-ipod-touch-blade-runner.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; You've probably heard the text-to-speech capabilities of the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/03/the-engadget-interview-tom-glynn-the-voice-of-the-kindle-2/"&gt;Amazon Kindle 2&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/10/apple-releases-ipod-shuffle-voiceover-kit-1-0-1-upgrade/"&gt;iPod shuffle&lt;/a&gt; by now. But you probably haven't heard them act out Leon's VK test from Blade Runner. Check the newest nerd-legend after the break, then come back and tell us about your mothers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Video: Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Kindle 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"&gt;Handhelds&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/"&gt;Video: Blade Runner starring the iPod shuffle and Kindle 2&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:25:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526896/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/video-blade-runner-staring-the-ipod-shuffle-and-kindle-2/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Redrock Micro Hybrid Cinema Rigs turn DSLRs into filmmakers                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 6:02 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Redrock-Micro-978333.html"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/redrock-micro-dslr2.0-rack.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Yep, you heard right -- the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/DSLR/"&gt;DSLR&lt;/a&gt; is totally the new camcorder. With the reality being that most mid- and high-end DSLRs from here on out will tout at least 720p movie modes, Redrock Micro is looking to make the most of a most opportune situation. The DSLR 2.0 line of its Hybrid Cinema Rigs enables the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EOS Rebel T1i, Nikon D90, and Panasonic Lumix HG1 to become filmmaking machines (at least on some level), and as we've seen, DSLR filmmaking is &lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/03/30/searching-for-sonny-first-feature-film-shot-on-a-dslr/"&gt;no laughing matter&lt;/a&gt;. The company sells all sorts of racks, rails and shoulder mounts, with solutions starting for as little as $195. Look, you've been putting off making that dust-collecting screenplay into a masterpiece of cinema for ages -- what legitimate excuse do you really have now?&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"&gt;Digital Cameras&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/"&gt;Redrock Micro Hybrid Cinema Rigs turn DSLRs into filmmakers&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 05:02:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Redrock-Micro-978333.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526384/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/redrock-micro-hybrid-cinema-rigs-turn-dslrs-into-filmmakers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/msis-x-slim-x340-culv-thin-and-light-lists-for-more-than-promis/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   MSI's X-Slim X340 CULV thin and light bait and switch?                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 5:16 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=4&amp;amp;id=105"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/msi-x-slim-1000-callout.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Uh, MSI. The $1,100 price tag you're showing for the X-Slim &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/x340"&gt;X340&lt;/a&gt; CULV-based thin-and-light laptop on your retail site is not "&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/01/msi-outs-full-specs-of-x-slim-x320-x340-and-wind-u123/"&gt;under $1,000&lt;/a&gt;" as you promised three weeks ago. Then again, maybe you'll slip in a lesser spec'd model by the time the "Out of stock" badge changes to "Shipping?" Know this MSI, we're watching you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks, Andrew R.]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/msis-x-slim-x340-culv-thin-and-light-lists-for-more-than-promis/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;MSI's X-Slim X340 CULV thin and light bait and switch?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/msis-x-slim-x340-culv-thin-and-light-lists-for-more-than-promis/"&gt;MSI's X-Slim X340 CULV thin and light bait and switch?&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:16:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.msimobile.com/level3_productpage.aspx?cid=4&amp;amp;"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/msis-x-slim-x340-culv-thin-and-light-lists-for-more-than-promis/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526853/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/msis-x-slim-x340-culv-thin-and-light-lists-for-more-than-promis/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/viliv-s5-reviewed-is-mostly-smiles-with-good-video-playback/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Viliv S5 reviewed, is mostly smiles with good video playback                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 4:46 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pocketables.net/2009/04/review-viliv-s5-premium.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/viliv-s5-review1-rm-eng.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; You've seen its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/21/viliv-debuts-s5-mid-s7-umpc/"&gt;introduction&lt;/a&gt;, its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/22/viliv-s5-unboxed-in-beautiful-epic-video/"&gt;unboxing&lt;/a&gt; -- in &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/viliv-s5-unboxed-and-handled-in-hong-kong/"&gt;two different languages&lt;/a&gt;, no less -- and maybe even fancied the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/19/viliv-s5-pre-order-details-firm-up-599-and-its-yours-may-8th/"&gt;pre-order page&lt;/a&gt;. Now &lt;em&gt;Pocketables &lt;/em&gt;has what appears to be one of the first full-fledged review of the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/VilivS5/"&gt;Viliv S5&lt;/a&gt;, and the verdict? It's quite a sturdy and well-built MID, with surprisingly good battery life and video performance from the Intel Atom Z520 processor (same one as found in the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/VaioP/"&gt;Vaio P&lt;/a&gt;). The virtual keyboard leaves a lot to be desired for, and it's a shame to hear the joystick's mouse functionality is limited to four directions, but despite these complaints and a $599 price tag, the conclusion is still a overwhelmingly positive for those who like the form factor. Hit up the read link for the full examination.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"&gt;Handhelds&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/tabletpcs/" rel="tag"&gt;Tablet PCs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/viliv-s5-reviewed-is-mostly-smiles-with-good-video-playback/"&gt;Viliv S5 reviewed, is mostly smiles with good video playback&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:46:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pocketables.net/2009/04/review-viliv-s5-premium.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/viliv-s5-reviewed-is-mostly-smiles-with-good-video-playback/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526706/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/viliv-s5-reviewed-is-mostly-smiles-with-good-video-playback/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ask-engadget-best-mobile-note-taking-device/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Ask Engadget: Best mobile note-taking device?                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 3:54 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" align="right" vspace="16" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ask-engadget.jpg" alt="" /&gt;Like it or not, the spiral bound notebook is going the way of the Dodo. Okay, so maybe that's absolutely incorrect and totally sensationalistic, but you catch our drift. If not, take a whiff of what reader Allan is cooking:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"My boss is a prolific note taker, filling many spiral bound notebooks with notes.  As I deal with more projects, I find myself moving in the same direction.  I would love the ability to search my notes, something not available with dead tree software. Is there a simple relatively cheap device that would allow me to take notes (preferably using hand writing), and then search them later? Ideally, I'd like something the size of a small internet tablet, but no smaller than an iPod touch. I'm looking for something far cheaper than a full-blown tablet PC, by the way."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, ladder climbers -- what's the deal here? What device would you recommend for wowing that suit in the corner office while making your note taking all the more efficient? When you're done answering, shoot us a question of your to &lt;strong&gt;ask at engadget dawt com&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/ask/" rel="tag"&gt;Ask Engadget&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"&gt;Handhelds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ask-engadget-best-mobile-note-taking-device/"&gt;Ask Engadget: Best mobile note-taking device?&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:54:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ask-engadget-best-mobile-note-taking-device/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526019/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/ask-engadget-best-mobile-note-taking-device/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/htc-touch-pro2-gets-thoroughly-tinkered-with-overseas/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   HTC Touch Pro2 gets thoroughly handled overseas                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:24 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://mobile-review.com/pda/review/htc-touch-pro2.shtml"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/htc-touch-pro2-russia-hands-on-rm-eng.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; While we still don't have an official release date for HTC's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/TouchPro2/"&gt;Touch Pro2&lt;/a&gt; here in the states, the folks at Russian site &lt;em&gt;Mobile-Review&lt;/em&gt; have managed to get some extensive hands-on time with the unit. Props go to the quality of the voice calls and especially the QWERTY keyboard, noted via the machine translation as one of the most user-friendly in modern mobile devices. The same is not said here, however, for the plastic casing and steep pricing. They also don't really touch on TouchFlo 3D 2.0.XX -- that's apparently coming later in another article -- but hit up the read link for a plethora of pictures and a video of the updated UI in action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=4159"&gt;WMPoweruser&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/htc-touch-pro2-gets-thoroughly-tinkered-with-overseas/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;HTC Touch Pro2 gets thoroughly handled overseas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/htc-touch-pro2-gets-thoroughly-tinkered-with-overseas/"&gt;HTC Touch Pro2 gets thoroughly handled overseas&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:24:00 EST.  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font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                 	Boing Boing Gadgets                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;                 &lt;td width="110" bgcolor="#ebebeb" style="padding:10px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.feedmyinbox.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.feedmyinbox.com/img/logo.gif" alt="Feed My Inbox" border="0" style="padding:0;margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/table&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;          &lt;tr&gt;           &lt;td style="padding:8px;"&gt;             &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/62GneRQrbJk/hot-chair-on-chair-a.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Hot Chair On Chair Action: SFW (Kinda)                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 5:26 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/office6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="office6.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/office6-thumb-400x260-19778.jpg" width="400" height="260" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;"Check out what happens when Mr. Overstuffed decides to give a "full interview" to a hot colonial number named Tawny!"&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I thought "chair porn" was obscenely-priced fare from Herman Miller. I was wrong. It's also photos of suggestively-positioned furniture.* &lt;a href="http://www.furnitureporn.com/furnporn1.html"&gt;FurniturePorn&lt;/a&gt;'s design is wonderfully atrocious, as are the quality and clarify of the photos. My biggest gripe: not nearly enough content and zero video (hint hint). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The captions tell you all you have to know...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.furnitureporn.com/out2.html"&gt;"It's a beautiful day... for hot gay teen lawn chair slut humpin'!"&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.furnitureporn.com/bond1.html"&gt;"Baby did a bad, bad thing."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.furnitureporn.com/bond6.html"&gt;"I think deep down you want to be punished."&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Yes, it is. Yes, he/she did. And, yes, he/she sure does!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;*Yes, I realize Mark posted this &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2000/03/20/furniture-porn.html"&gt;9 years ago&lt;/a&gt;. It's worth revisiting.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Update&lt;/span&gt;:  &lt;strong&gt;NSFW&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1aodpb3vFU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1aodpb3vFU0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;(&lt;em&gt;thanks Inverse Square!&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6fdaada48571f3f73ea74334b0190ca4&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6fdaada48571f3f73ea74334b0190ca4&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/62GneRQrbJk" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/ZtHYIIJ0JT8/oqo-model-2-producti.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   OQO: Model 2+ production &amp;quot;unlikely&amp;quot;                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 5:10 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3401/3239372467_1395a61e1d.jpg?v=0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;small&gt;Photo: &lt;a href="http://www.umpcportal.com"&gt;Chippy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Rumors that OQO canceled pre-orders for its Model 2+ ultramobile PC are untrue, according to the company, but it said an online vendor &lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/buildyourumpc.com"&gt;buildyourumpc.com&lt;/a&gt; did so after it could not commit to a shipping date.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;"While we haven't canceled the orders, it is unlikely that we will be able to produce additional model 2+ units," said OQO senior vice president Bob Rosin. "So it did not seem worth trying to police that story, as it is accurate in a long-term sense."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A highlight at January's Consumer Electronics Show in January, the updated model was planned for summer release. Upgrades included an ultra-bright OLED display, Intel's popular Atom CPU, and up to 2GB of memory -- and a cheaper price tag. At $1,000 and up, however,  the pocket-size portable faces a weak market dominated by ultra-cheap netbooks.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The original OQO was announced in 2000, but did not appear until 2004. It was followed by the award-winning Model 02, introduced by Bill Gates at the 2007 CES in Las Vegas. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Rosin indicated that support services were presently unavailable, but would resume: "It is saddening that we are not able to provide repair and support services however there will be a solution to that available soon."&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=33e20eb2b02e2716a4525818151ae00a&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=33e20eb2b02e2716a4525818151ae00a&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/ZtHYIIJ0JT8" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/Dj99I1wpkCY/tantra-chair.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Tantra chair, for people who love sex                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 4:12 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="tantra chair.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/tantra%20chair.jpg" width="520" height="368" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If you love sex but can't find the perfect furniture to do it on, get the Tantra Chair. The web site has a very graphic, NSFW guide on different positions you can try on it. It's $1199, but the things you'll experience on it are priceless. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tantrachair.com/"&gt;Product page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=514b50bc38a58b8cb396a4639474257b&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=514b50bc38a58b8cb396a4639474257b&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/Dj99I1wpkCY" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/ieE-GbJQyGA/massage-chairs.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Review: How much $ should you spend on a massage chair?                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 4:10 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Picture 2.png" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Picture%202.png" width="350" height="185" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;You work long hours. You're getting old. Your shoulders are stiff, your back is sore from sitting all day or walking all day or exercising at the gym, or maybe just from sleeping. What you really need is a massage--like, ten times a day, at home where nobody can hear you snore or fart. So what do you do? Well, if you have the money, it's worth investing in a home massage chair--they range from a couple hundred bucks to several thousand--but the question is, how much should you spend? And is a $7000 chair really that much better than a $1000 one? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To find out, I tested out three massage chairs--Human Touch's &lt;a href="http://www.humantouch.com/ht2580.html"&gt;iJoy 2580&lt;/a&gt; Robotic Massage Chair ($999.99), Panasonic's RealPro Ultra &lt;a href="http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Personal-Healthcare/Massage-Chairs/model.EP30007KX.S_11002_7000000000000005702#tabsection"&gt;EP30007KX&lt;/a&gt; ($5,999.95), and Inada's &lt;a href="http://www.inada-massage-chairs.com/p-18-inada-sogno-dreamwave-plus-massage-chair.aspx"&gt;Sogno DreamWave Plus&lt;/a&gt; ($6,499). I'm the type of person who will sit go to a department store just to sit in massage chairs all day, or spend an hour and $80 getting a petite but extremely strong woman to push the kinks out of my back. My body is important to me, and I am willing to spend money and time to keep it intact. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="ijoy.png" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/ijoy.png" width="300" height="294" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The iJoy-2580, which hit retailers this April following the success of its predecessor iJoy-100, is a solid, basic massage chair. It has four major functions--kneading, rolling, compression, and percussion. The chair reclines and the rollers can be adjusted to move up and down along your back. What's really nice about it is that it's lined in lovely faux leather and suede without any weird robotic extensions, so it fits in nicely with the living room furniture. The controls and a cup holder are on the armrests, so you don't have to fumble for a remote, and there's an outlet for plugging in a laptop in case you can't relax without geeking out at the same time. I did find myself wishing on occasion that my arms and legs were getting some love, but overall, it's a great chair to fall asleep in. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="EP30007KX_Recline_Partial.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/EP30007KX_Recline_Partial.jpg" width="300" height="300" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Panasonic's EP30007 is huge (it weighs 181 lbs!), and it talks a lot. After 3D scanning my back to create a virtual map of my spine, it started working on my body from all different directions--pressure on my shoulders, air bags squeezing my calves and arms, rollers smoothing out my lower back... it felt like four dexterous robots were working my body. A woman's voice talked to me the entire time--she explained the features of the chair, what the chair bots were going to do to my body next, and how many minutes I had left. It was a slight buzz kill, but my body felt great. When I tumbled off the chair 15 minutes later, my back felt slightly less knotted up, which was awesome.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Casa Buscate-032873_Downsized.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Casa%20Buscate-032873_Downsized.jpg" width="300" height="225" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The DreamWave Plus is like the king of massage chairs. Inada sold the first home massager in 1962, and has been one-upping its competitors ever since with things like voice-activated controls, optical shiatsu point finders, and added functions that help lazy people stretch their back and hips without moving a muscle. But consumers pay the price--this bad boy costs nearly $7K after taxes. As James, the lively Chinese man who owns the little &lt;a href="http://www.1healthandrelax.com/"&gt;showroom&lt;/a&gt; that I tested it out in--pointed out, this one doesn't feel like robot hands, it feels like human hands. I felt like I was being cradled by a very strong but gentle man who wanted to massage me all day. "Ah, this is nice," I said out loud as it kneaded my sore butt. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Were the $6-7K Panasonic and Inada massages significantly more relaxing than the iJoy?* &lt;br /&gt; Yes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Do I have an extra $5000 to spare? &lt;br /&gt; No. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In conclusion, I would say: definitely spend as much as you can on a massage chair. The iJoy is well worth the grand it costs you, but if you have the extra cash, go for the high-end models because they'll save you trips to the chiropractor. Don't have much money at all? The cheapest massager I've ever tried is the &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/conair_body_bene_heated_neck_rest_nm8"&gt;Conair $20 neck rest&lt;/a&gt; on Amazon, but honestly, with that one, you get what you pay for. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;*HumanTouch, the company that makes the iJoy, also has a high-end $3K range massage chair. I just didn't try it out.&lt;/small&gt;  &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a8a1f98946a048258a7fac696164fb90&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a8a1f98946a048258a7fac696164fb90&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/ieE-GbJQyGA" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/z2nocdwqHi8/video-1000-frames-pe.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Video: 1,000 frames per second                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 4:10 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="521" height="293"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4167288&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4167288&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="521" height="293"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This demo reel of the I-Movix SprintCam v3 is neat enough here, but you should really &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/4167288"&gt;check it out in HD&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=0a6fa80bb1d3199c199dcb2d505c47e7&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=0a6fa80bb1d3199c199dcb2d505c47e7&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/z2nocdwqHi8" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/5fQrnTjf8Wg/video-these-are-the.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Video: These are the sort of mistakes I make when brewing beer at the BBGS                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 3:29 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="520" height="351"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4286176&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4286176&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=00ADEF&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="520" height="351"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks again to Justin, who gives the impression that I know what I'm doing in these videos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Tonight's meeting will orient mostly around planning upcoming projects: on deck are a bio-diesel-powered go-kart (although electric is also on the table), an evening of building your own theremins, and a lesson on distilling spirits.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It will also orient around drinking beer. I may also break out that new smoker and smoke some dank meats, yo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div&gt; &lt;em&gt;Previously:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/17/tonight-baker-boulev.html#previouspost"&gt;Tonight @ Baker Boulevard Geographic Society: How To homebrew beer ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/09/tomorrow-night-in-eu.html#previouspost"&gt;Tomorrow Night in Eugene: The inaugural assembly of the Baker ...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3e50b1b89872f2f0c0f5d76f06beb54d&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3e50b1b89872f2f0c0f5d76f06beb54d&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/5fQrnTjf8Wg" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/a29eSD0tuCg/tracking-contraband.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Tracking contraband cell phones in prison                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 3:00 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="nathanhodgeprisonphone.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/nathanhodgeprisonphone.jpg" width="200" height="301" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Nathan Hodge has a short piece on &lt;em&gt;Defense Tech&lt;/em&gt; talking about &lt;a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/04/electronic-warf.html"&gt;cell phones in prisons&lt;/a&gt;, and the technology that's used to jam or detect them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=68d8117d17cc9922ca3f298225256866&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=68d8117d17cc9922ca3f298225256866&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/a29eSD0tuCg" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/Aow25ez__q0/building-a-remote-co.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Building a remote control Nerf tank to terrorize your girlfriend                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:18 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="nerftank.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/nerftank.jpg" width="500" height="375" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Travis Schmidt built an R/C Nerf tank that has a camera on board for remote viewing&amp;mdash;and even onboard speakers for "psychological warfare". He's got an &lt;a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/RC-Nerf-Tank/"&gt;Instructable&lt;/a&gt; up to show you how he did it&amp;mdash;and a video showing how much his girlfriend is willing to put up with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=8a9ffd94ca09f950d11e3dcf13ac09d8&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=8a9ffd94ca09f950d11e3dcf13ac09d8&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/Aow25ez__q0" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/NZLwRDnE2f0/xmas-in-april-trim-i.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Xmas in April: Trim-It-Quick tree lights                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:08 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="trimitquick.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/trimitquick.jpg" width="476" height="366" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Run the extension cord with its outlets up the trunk of your tree, then connect each of Harlan's "&lt;a href="http://www.trimitquick.com/"&gt;Trim-It-Quick&lt;/a&gt;" light strands to the outlet for easy Christmas tree trimming that won't get tangled up. That's their big pitch anyway. I guess since each of the cords are fairly short, there's not as many chances for snags.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I'll let you figure it out, with kits starting at $60 (and going up to $190), while trimming my holiday tree the traditional way: by spitting rum nog at a dry pine while making it smolder with a green laser. (The laser represents the angel Gabriel's lightsaber.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=91e0b8b4e958bf635cf3aa4aed42f767&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=91e0b8b4e958bf635cf3aa4aed42f767&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/NZLwRDnE2f0" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/w1XNGCy90iM/chairs-of-the-future.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Gallery: chair designs from the future                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:00 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sofas, park benches, and loungers are pretty standard-looking these days, but what will we be sitting on in the future? From meditation pods modeled after anime to a slightly phallic motorized rocking chair, here are eight designs that hint at the possibilities. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Novague.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Novague.jpg" width="450" height="450" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href="http://www.novague.com/"&gt;Novague&lt;/a&gt;, a design studio in Prague, imagines a sleek white motorized chair that uses the rocking motion to generate electricity that powers an adjacent LED reading lamp hanging above the head. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Jeff Lawber.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Jeff%20Lawber.jpg" width="468" height="361" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranism/sets/72157616022119265/"&gt;Jeff Lawber&lt;/a&gt; created this concept using Rhino v4. He imagines it as a hybrid between a bean bag and a park bench; I would like to have one in my living room so I could teach my dogs to jump through hoops.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Alex Cozma.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Alex%20Cozma.jpg" width="500" height="344" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;3. These beautiful, assymerical flower petals by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranism/3398119674/in/set-72157616112064308/"&gt;Alex Cozma&lt;/a&gt; are designed for big open spaces, like parks and museums. Pretty. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Tokujin Yoshioka.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Tokujin%20Yoshioka.jpg" width="350" height="495" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;4. &lt;a href="http://www.tokujin.com/"&gt;Tokujin Yoshioka&lt;/a&gt; famously made this design-y chair out of natural crystals by submerging a nucleation-inducing fiber structure into giant water tanks. When I saw the installation in Tokyo last fall, it had grown quite a lot bigger than this, but still didn't look comfortable to sit in. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Frank Gehry for Emeco.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Frank%20Gehry%20for%20Emeco.jpg" width="450" height="301" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;6. This real 80% recycled aluminum bench designed by architect Frank Gehry really exists and will be auctioned to the public in May. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="3397255071_685ec7001b.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/3397255071_685ec7001b.jpg" width="500" height="369" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;7. Nimbus is great for those who want to meditate, simulate sitting on a cloud, or pretend they're Dragon Ball Z characters. Inspired by the Japanese anime, the chair-- imagined by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranism/sets/72157616111215066/"&gt;Bobby Lowe&lt;/a&gt;--uses Maglev technology to create the sensation of levitating. It also slowly rotates for those who want to check out the view. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="3398150405_36950e8f2e.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/3398150405_36950e8f2e.jpg" width="500" height="375" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;8. Do you wish you could lie on the grass all day without ever leaving your house? Designer &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tranism/sets/72157616126223770/"&gt;Sebastian Pulgar Arata&lt;/a&gt;'s astroturf-like lounger makes that possible. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;[Sources: 1, 6-&lt;a href="http://www.dezeen.com"&gt;Dezeen&lt;/a&gt;; 2, 5, 3, 7, and 8-&lt;a href="http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/13/relax-contest-winner-fluid-rocker/"&gt;Yanko Design&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3e90519cd655072629b3957ec677a6aa&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3e90519cd655072629b3957ec677a6aa&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/w1XNGCy90iM" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/v02MJzn-mRs/video-computer-chron.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Video: Computer Chronicles on diagnostic software (1992)                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 1:39 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="520" 	height="410" 	allowfullscreen="true" 	allowscriptaccess="always" 	src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" 	w3c="true" 	flashvars='config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/diagnosticso/format=Thumbnail?.jpg","autoPlay":true,"scaling":"fit"},{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/diagnosticso/diagnosticso_512kb.mp4","autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit"}],"clip":{"autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit"},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":false,"fullscreen":true,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"}},"contextMenu":[{"Item diagnosticso at archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}'&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Bill Dewald writes: "Thanks to the nostalgia trip induced by the &lt;a href="http://dorkyearbook.com"&gt;Dork Yearbook&lt;/a&gt;, I've been enjoying this program. I think you might, too." &lt;em&gt;Computer Chronicles&lt;/em&gt; has been made possible in part by the Software Publishers Association, provider of educational materials to help manage software. "Don't copy that floppy!"&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;From the &lt;a href="http://www.archive.org/details/diagnosticso"&gt;Archive.org page&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;blockquote&gt;Remember IRQ settings, INITs, TSRs and "out of memory" messages? The early days of personal computers were confusing for most users and so a whole new category of software grew up around solving those problems - diagnostic software. This show looks at several examples including WinSleuth, Quarterdeck's Manifest, QEMM, Mac EKG 2.0, Snooper, QA Plus, and Norton Utilities. Originally broadcast in 1992.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=ffc687e83d05d2a1675c399a9036ff0a&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=ffc687e83d05d2a1675c399a9036ff0a&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/v02MJzn-mRs" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/Z_5zcML3SSg/i-want-a-car-that-lo.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   I want a car that looks like Husqvarna's new lawnmower                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 12:57 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/090423-husqvarna-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="090423-husqvarna-01.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/090423-husqvarna-01-thumb-520x316-19757.jpg" width="520" height="316" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But &lt;a href="http://www.automower.com/node2923.aspx?nid=139624&amp;amp;pid=88560"&gt;not so much from the front.&lt;/a&gt; [Husqvarna]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6f488b25e75abac5e2c46194f44158b0&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6f488b25e75abac5e2c46194f44158b0&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/Z_5zcML3SSg" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/v29QTSxryhc/gallery-miniature-ch.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Gallery: Mini Chairs Carved from Champagne Cork                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 12:45 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="dwr chair.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/dwr%20chair.jpg" width="185" height="195" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Since Design Within Reach launched its now-annual Champagne Chair contest a few years ago, they've received thousands of handcrafted corks. It's not exactly rocket science, but rendering &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/21/miniature-paris-repl.html"&gt;anything in miniature&lt;/a&gt; is a skill worth celebrating (though getting a &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/07/chair-tattoos.html"&gt;tattoo&lt;/a&gt; of any cork chairs would be kinda nutty). This year's winning entries, including Jesse Menayan's club chair (left), are currently wrapping up a &lt;a href="http://www.dwr.com/display.do?ruleID=101077"&gt;U.S. tour&lt;/a&gt;. Can't make it out? No worries: The folks at DWR sent us some of their favorite teency seats from this year as well as contest's past, after the jump...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="paul_sherry_1.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/paul_sherry_1.jpg" width="300" height="288" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Paul Sherry&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Edward Christman_1.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Edward%20Christman_1.jpg" width="389" height="281" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Edward Christman&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Frank_Villanueva_3.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Frank_Villanueva_3.jpg" width="388" height="253" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Frank Villanueva&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Kalina_Toffolo-Redtop Architects_4.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/Kalina_Toffolo-Redtop%20Architects_4.jpg" width="389" height="256" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.kalinamarietoffolo.com/"&gt;Kalina Toffolo&lt;/a&gt;, Redtop Architects&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="morgan_hertzfeld_5.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/morgan_hertzfeld_5.jpg" width="249" height="314" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Morgan Hertzfeld&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="monika_gibson_6.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/monika_gibson_6.jpg" width="389" height="241" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Monica Gibson&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="yong_yoo- 7.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/yong_yoo-%207.jpg" width="389" height="278" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Yong Yoo&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="darin_white_ 8.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/darin_white_%208.jpg" width="249" height="341" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Darin White&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="dwr hall.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/dwr%20hall.jpg" width="499" height="372" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; DWR even decorated a hallway of their San Francisco offices with some of their fave entries. The quote speaks for itself. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=05616673a20471f0d69088eb3e9a85c3&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=05616673a20471f0d69088eb3e9a85c3&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/v29QTSxryhc" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/HT3n8nTef3Y/lime-green-nintendo.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Lime green Nintendo DS lite bundle readied for sale in US                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 11:24 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="f66f631961e84b44_Lime_Green_DS_Lite_Personal_Trainer_Cooking.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/f66f631961e84b44_Lime_Green_DS_Lite_Personal_Trainer_Cooking.jpg" width="550" height="428" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Finally.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.geeksugar.com/3072893"&gt;New Lime Green DS Lite Gaming Bundle From Nintendo&lt;/a&gt; [GeekSugar]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=985b8adbd4a2bc9b73927ab0dfa4bce2&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=985b8adbd4a2bc9b73927ab0dfa4bce2&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/HT3n8nTef3Y" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/d_q7HEvXQcA/orange-vegas-is-new.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Orange Vegas is new British cellphone, not obscure Nevadan protestant sect                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:54 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/orange_vegas.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="orange_vegas.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/orange_vegas-thumb-520x325-19743.jpg" width="520" height="325" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Big U.K. carrier Orange is to sell a tiny touchscreen dumbphone. With a 1.3MP camera, MP3 player and a no-contract $70 price tag, it could be the perfect upgrade for those who like minimalist stuff like cheap Nokias and the Moto F3, but who also enjoy the fruits of modern technology.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt;'s Charlemagne Sorrel writes at &lt;em&gt;Wired&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;This got us thinking. Once you have a touch screen, is it easier and cheaper to add features? After all, once you have the internal in place, its just software, right? You can churn out all manner of handsets at different prices and differentiate them with functions. A smartphone no longer needs to be made with a keyboard, just a better OS inside.&lt;/blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;He too finds it odd that such a basic machine is being called "The Vegas."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/offer/orange-vegas"&gt;Orange Vegas on Pay As You Go&lt;/a&gt; [via &lt;a href="http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/orange-vegas-ch.html"&gt;Wired&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=14e01098c38b3a606a2ecd672a75e661&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=14e01098c38b3a606a2ecd672a75e661&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/d_q7HEvXQcA" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/O78itZT4SOw/reports-oqo-cancels.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   OQO reseller cancels Model 2+ pre-orders                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:37 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Picture 2.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/oqo2/Picture%202.jpg" width="277" height="253" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;OQO's handheld computers are the best anyone's ever made, making history of Sony's similar Vaio UX and still outperforming most of this year's rival "mobile internet devices." Though one of the highlights of this year's CES, however, the latest 2+ model now seems doomed: pre-orders have been canceled.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Twittered &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/04/oqo-seeks-buyer"&gt;UMPC Portal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;'s Chippy: "All OQO 2+ pre-orders will be canceled. Looks like receivership to me. Waiting for official OQO feedback still." This follows &lt;a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?RSS&amp;amp;NewsID=114299"&gt;earlier reports&lt;/a&gt; that it was seeking a buyer. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is a terrible shame. The OQO Model 02 was widely renowned as the world's first pocket computer that could actually get a gentleman laid, and it will be sad to see it go.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=7014735dbce15236aea49b8e39fc3879&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=7014735dbce15236aea49b8e39fc3879&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/O78itZT4SOw" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/VAgaXSTFcmc/zebrawood-iphone-3g.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Zebrawood iPhone 3G case                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:33 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="MURHHHRHRHHRHRHRR.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/MURHHHRHRHHRHRHRR.jpg" width="520" height="241" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At $85, it's not exactly a recession special, but Substrata's zebrawood iPhone 3G case is among the prettiest. Here's the pitch:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt; It is designed to add a natural aesthetic to your iPhone 3G, while protecting it from scratches when it is in your pocket, purse or bag. The contours are shaped and sanded to compliment the curves of the iPhone and the interior is sized to hold it snugly. This one of a kind case would make a wonderful gift for the iPhone user. &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24051500"&gt;Wood iPhone Case - Custom handmade box for iPhone 3G&lt;/a&gt; [Etsy via &lt;a href="http://www.7gadgets.com/2009/04/24/mini-wooden-soccer-game/11212"&gt;7Gadgets&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://www.ohgizmo.com"&gt;Oh Gizmo&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=df36eb3dbc34d137b6b742daf5b378fe&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=df36eb3dbc34d137b6b742daf5b378fe&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/VAgaXSTFcmc" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/7FmrfTMMQhE/recently-on-offworld-21.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Recently on Offworld                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:29 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/effinghail-thumb-250x292-19747.jpg" width="250" height="292" alt="effinghail.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Recently &lt;em&gt;Offworld&lt;/em&gt; has gone crafty with new guest blogger Tiff Chow digging up LucasArts inspired &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/day-tentacle-sam-max-amigurumi.html"&gt;amigurumi for both &lt;em&gt;Day of the Tentacle&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Sam &amp; Max&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, which also led us to home-stitched &lt;em&gt;LittleBigPlanet&lt;/em&gt; Sack-people based on &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/ooh-la-la-indeed-maggie-wangs.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Space Channel 5&lt;/em&gt; and 60s cereal mascot Fruit Brute&lt;/a&gt; (!), and Anna the Red debuts her most adorable bento yet making &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/castle-crashers-bento.html"&gt;The Behemoth's &lt;em&gt;Castle Crashers&lt;/em&gt; fully edible&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We've also gone arty with Hellen Jo and Calvin Wong's &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/hellen-calvin-nes-instruction-manual.html"&gt;faux-NES-manuals for their recent Giant Robot art show game&lt;/a&gt;, Ben Ross's delightful &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/yeti-knight-adventures.html"&gt;Yeti Knight adventure game tumblr&lt;/a&gt;, and an LA exhibition opening Saturday with &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/jab-strong-fierce-iam8bit.html"&gt;40 designers and illustrators showing &lt;em&gt;Street Fighter&lt;/em&gt; inspired art&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;We also listened to (and downloaded sheet music for) the entirety of &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/doing-well-by-doing-goo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;World of Goo&lt;/em&gt;'s original soundtrack for solo piano&lt;/a&gt; and a &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/listen-dutycycles-jens-and-the.html"&gt;chiptune sampler EP for an Ubuntu Linux release party&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And we saw an attempt to bring &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/bleed-for-me-undoing-atari-260.html"&gt;CRT imperfections back into razor sharp Atari 2600 emulation&lt;/a&gt;, heard about the &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/brick-this-city-devastating-ne.html"&gt;playful destruction coming to the newly announced &lt;em&gt;Lego Rock Band&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, saw PopCap favorite &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/sure-shot-popcaps-peggle-integ.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Peggle&lt;/em&gt; officially integrated into &lt;em&gt;World of Warcraft&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and finally, played &lt;em&gt;Effing Hail&lt;/em&gt;, a new indie browser game that makes a &lt;a href="http://www.offworld.com/2009/04/gimme-indie-game-effing-hail.html"&gt;game of cleanly illustrated textbook infographics&lt;/a&gt; (pictured).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=5906753b0fe405f539db020e612a9e30&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=5906753b0fe405f539db020e612a9e30&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/7FmrfTMMQhE" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/HH7UHLrRPao/changing-icon-from-g.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Changing icon from green blob to sunflower results in AppStore approval                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 10:19 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="crudetoprude_button.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/crudetoprude_button.jpg" width="464" height="350" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;When Alkali Media's "CrudeBox" was submitted to Apple for inclusion in the AppStore, it got rejected. The selection of rude sounds it makes -- click an icon to make it fart, sneeze, belch, "wet fart," ans so on -- was "offensive."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So they just resubmitted it with a different name and bright, colorful graphics, and it was approved.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;... we received word that once again Crudebox was too obscene and offensive for the iTunes App Store. After moving past the inevitable feeling of frustration towards Apple, we decided to poke some fun at Apple's app approval team. What if we were to submit the same sounds as before, except this time around we make the app look extra flamboyant and change the name to the ironically appropriate, Prudebox?  &lt;p&gt;Eight days later we would received an e-mail from Apple stating that our recently submitted application, Prudebox, has passed the approval process and is now ready for sale.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is perhaps why Apple has to black-box its Appstore process: because it would be simply be heaped with ridicule if people saw the specifics of each approval.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.alkalimedia.com/2009/04/21/"&gt;Crudebox Renamed PrudeBox, Goes All the Way on the Third Try&lt;/a&gt; [Alkali via &lt;a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/24/a-secret-look-into-the-iphone-app-review-process-its-run-by-eight-year-olds/"&gt;CrunchGear&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=4f8f7d4739a7faa4397e01e53465c7ab&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=4f8f7d4739a7faa4397e01e53465c7ab&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/HH7UHLrRPao" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/Kya894o-3Ho/turntable-to-mp3-no.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Turntable to MP3, no computer required                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 9:39 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="DP200USB_Large_Angle_rdax_1000x715.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/DP200USB_Large_Angle_rdax_1000x715.jpg" width="350" height="250" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Denon's DP-200USB turntable converts, encodes and saves MP3 files directly to hard disks or thumbdrives inserted into it: no computer necessary. Be sure to read the sole review, however, from an S. Trudgen of California, who writes, "My first impressions of this turnable have been mostly favorable....the "autosplitter" function breaks up your music into tracks [but there are] things that are really annoying/dumb."&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001R27MKG/ref=nosim/10191463-rg2262-00-20"&gt;Denon DP-200USB Fully Automatic Turntable with MP3 Encoder&lt;/a&gt; [Amazon via &lt;a href="http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2009/04/denon_dp200usb.php"&gt;Cool Hunting&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=9e9365790a297fac2821210766de016a&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=9e9365790a297fac2821210766de016a&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/Kya894o-3Ho" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/xAuihEs49lw/retro-filters-add-ol.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Retro filters add old CRT look to classic games                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 8:46 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="endur.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/endur.jpg" width="520" height="254" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A few days ago, Joel linked to NFGForum's articles on &lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/04/20/why-pixel-art-looked.html"&gt;why oldschool games don't look the same on LCD displays&lt;/a&gt; -- it's because old CRT sets' light guns created inadvertent anti-aliasing effects, scanlines created an illusion of greater detail, images could be arbitrarily scaled, and so on. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;So how do you get it back, given that modern pixels are sharp, square, and contiguous? Fancy filters, of course! Ian Bogost &lt;a href="http://www.bogost.com/games/a_television_simulator.shtml"&gt;reviews a version of Atari 2600 emulator &lt;em&gt;Stella&lt;/em&gt; modified to render the display like an old TV&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;In Enduro, the color bleed effect is evident again. Here you see not only how much more realistic the car sprite would have appeared on a television, but also how the multiple colored lines on the horizon would have blended with one another, creating a more credible sunset.  &lt;p&gt;Despite being mighty impressive, the results in a live game are far more remarkable. Edward and his colleagues have done a fantastic job.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;They are currently working with the maintainer of the free, open-source Stella emulator to patch their changes into the main build, where the effects will be available as a configurable option.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There are many techniques used to &lt;a href="http://nfgworld.com/mb/thread/661"&gt;give a new (old) look to old sprites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The debate over how to view these old games -- with the presentation technology emulated vs. "As the creator intended" -- serves as backdrop to &lt;a href="http://forum.insomnia.ac/viewtopic.php?t=2212"&gt;vigorous discussions&lt;/a&gt;, over the technical minutiae of pixel rescaling. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=a5ac05773e0ca56cd99fe6c64473db58&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=a5ac05773e0ca56cd99fe6c64473db58&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/xAuihEs49lw" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/lvB9TxyTU2A/the-most-cynical-apo.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   &amp;quot;The most cynical apology I have ever seen&amp;quot;                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 2:37 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Picture 1.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/babyshaker/Picture%201.jpg" width="226" height="216" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Apple's refusal to discuss how and why it approves applications for the iPhone works with us geeks, because there's no stake beyond our own curiosity and the business interests of developers. But in refusing to discuss how and why it approved &lt;em&gt;Baby Shaker&lt;/em&gt;, it's come up against an organization that just isn't going to take that sort of nonsense. From &lt;em&gt;Information Week:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt; Apple's refusal to disclose how the application found its way onto the App Store was one of several complaints the &lt;a href="http://www.thebrainproject.org/default.asp"&gt;Sarah Jane Brain Foundation&lt;/a&gt; had with the company's apology, which the group called "stale."  &lt;p&gt;"Who is this apology directed to?" said Patrick Donohue, founder of the foundation. "It's directed at the media to kill the story. This is the most cynical apology I have ever seen." &lt;br /&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Donohue founded the SJBF after his three year-old daughter was shaken by a nurse as an infant and left brain-damaged: one can well imagine that Apple's isn't the &lt;em&gt;first&lt;/em&gt; apology he's ever heard.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;SJBF insists that Apple offer an accounting of the circumstances that led to it approving the $1 program, in which the user shakes a crying baby until it is dead. Apple has denied approval to racy novels, TV show &lt;em&gt;South Park&lt;/em&gt; and many other candidate applications on grounds of potential offensiveness.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/iphone/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217100229"&gt;Apple Apology For Baby Shaker Criticized&lt;/a&gt; [InformationWeek]&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=204aed6f269954093b7c523f89f2a085&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=204aed6f269954093b7c523f89f2a085&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/lvB9TxyTU2A" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	              &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="25"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/table&gt; 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font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Sharp Mebius NJ70A import now up for pre-order at Dynamism, LCD trackpad in tow                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 1:09 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dynamism.com/#Product=mebius_nj"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/mebius_nj_01.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; If the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/video-sharps-mebius-lcd-trackpad/"&gt;recent footage&lt;/a&gt; of Sharp's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/MebiusNJ70A/"&gt;Mebius NJ70A&lt;/a&gt; and its LCD multitouch trackpad has gotten you hot, bothered, and reaching for your wallet, Dynamism is now taking pre-orders for the Japanese import netbook. The 4-inch touchscreen notwithstanding, you're looking at a 1.6GHz Intel Atom machine and the usual, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/sharps-mebius-pc-nj70a-packs-lcd-trackpad-for-the-whiz-bang-cro/"&gt;ho-hum specs&lt;/a&gt; that go along with it -- not an easy pill to swallow when you're staring down a $999 price tag. Ship date is June 5th, and you might want to take that time to brush up on your skills with a Japanese International Layout keyboard if you're seriously considering the purchase.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallery: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharp-mebius-pre-order/"&gt;Sharp Mebius NJ70A now up for pre-order at Dynamism, LCD trackpad in tow&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharp-mebius-pre-order/1514407/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/mebius_nj_05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharp-mebius-pre-order/1514406/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/mebius_nj_04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharp-mebius-pre-order/1514405/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/mebius_nj_03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharp-mebius-pre-order/1514404/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/mebius_nj_02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/sharp-mebius-pre-order/1514403/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/mebius_nj_01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sharp-mebius-nj70a-import-now-up-for-pre-order-at-dynamism-lcd/"&gt;Sharp Mebius NJ70A import now up for pre-order at Dynamism, LCD trackpad in tow&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:09:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dynamism.com/#Product=mebius_nj"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sharp-mebius-nj70a-import-now-up-for-pre-order-at-dynamism-lcd/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526403/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/24/sharp-mebius-nj70a-import-now-up-for-pre-order-at-dynamism-lcd/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 24, 2009 at 12:12 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"&gt;     &lt;tbody&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-37-motionblur-600_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Engadget shreds on the Zero S all-electric motorcycle (with video!) on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/"&gt;Engadget shreds on the Zero S all-electric motorcycle (with video!)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's not the first. It's not the fastest ... It is, however, one of the very few you can order today and, when it ships next month, ride it (legally) on the highways and byways of all 50 states. &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-sells-a-million-g1s-in-the-us/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/g1_main_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Video: Sharp's Mebius LCD trackpad on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/video-sharps-mebius-lcd-trackpad/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View T-Mobile sells a million G1s in the US on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-sells-a-million-g1s-in-the-us/"&gt;T-Mobile sells a million G1s in the US&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We don't know why T-Mobile isn't trumpeting this, but Deutsche Telekom's Q1 results are out, and the multinational carrier says that over one million G1s&lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/g1"&gt; have been sold in the US.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View ASUS EeeBox PC B208 with discrete graphics, HDMI-out in June? on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/11-14-08-ubuntu_wind_thumbnail.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' is gold, ready for download on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/"&gt;Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' is gold, ready for download&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Sure, you can't pronounce Ubuntu, but the latest release is ready for download anyway.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top" colspan="2"&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Other news of import&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;             &lt;ul&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View ASUS EeeBox PC B208 with discrete graphics, HDMI-out in June? on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/"&gt;ASUS EeeBox PC B208 with discrete graphics, HDMI-out in June?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View MSI, others to showcase Android-based netbooks at Computex? on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/msi-others-to-showcase-android-based-netbooks-at-computex/"&gt;MSI, others to showcase Android-based netbooks at Computex?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Engadget is looking for a lead designer / developer! on Engadget" href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-is-looking-for-a-lead-designer-developer/"&gt;Engadget is looking for a lead designer / developer!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ul&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr align="center"&gt;             &lt;th width="50%" height="75" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/eng-hd-hires-logo-rm-eng-22.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;             &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th width="50%" height="75" align="center" colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/recap-eng-mobile-300-rm-eng.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;             &lt;/th&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/23/sony-still-pushing-the-potential-of-bd-live-but-is-anyone-liste/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgethd.com/media/2009/04/ps3v220-20_bd-live_042309_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Sony still pushing the potential of BD-Live, but is anyone listening? on Engadget HD" href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/23/sony-still-pushing-the-potential-of-bd-live-but-is-anyone-liste/"&gt;Sony still pushing the potential of BD-Live, but is anyone listening?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Still believe in the potential of BD-Live? Sony does, exec David Bishop called this the "Pong" stage of development in the technology during an industry demo yesterday on its lot. &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td width="75" valign="top"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/23/verizon-rolls-out-samsung-trance/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/04/samsung-trance-ofc_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td valign="top"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Verizon rolls out Samsung Trance on Engadget Mobile" href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/23/verizon-rolls-out-samsung-trance/"&gt;Verizon rolls out Samsung Trance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The rumored Trance just hit the wires, offering pretty much everything we'd expected from the leaks.&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;ul&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View ESPN presenting X Games 3D the Movie this summer on Engadget HD" href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/23/espn-presenting-x-game-3d-the-movie-this-summer/"&gt;ESPN presenting X Games 3D the Movie this summer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View PBS launches online video portal on Engadget HD" href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2009/04/23/pbs-launches-online-video-portal/"&gt;PBS launches online video portal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ul&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt;             &lt;ul&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Alltel pulls BlackBerry Pearl 8230 into the fold, $79.99 in early May on Engadget Mobile" href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/23/alltel-pulls-blackberry-pearl-8230-into-the-fold-79-99-in-earl/"&gt;Alltel pulls BlackBerry Pearl 8230 into the fold, $79.99 in early May&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;                 &lt;li&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" title="View Aliph Jawbone Prime hands-on and unboxing on Engadget Mobile" href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/22/aliph-jawbone-prime-hands-on-and-unboxing/"&gt;Aliph Jawbone Prime hands-on and unboxing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;             &lt;/ul&gt;             &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;         &lt;tr&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;             &lt;td colspan="2"&gt; &lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/tbody&gt; &lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/"&gt;The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:12:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526517/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-daily-roundup-heres-what-you-mightve-missed/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dodge-circuit-ev-goes-for-a-test-drive/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Dodge Circuit EV goes for a test drive                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:23 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/04/22/dodge-circuit-ev-first-drive-electric-car-makes-grand-promises/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/sae-dodge-ev-8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Value your bodily safety too much to get within shouting distance of an &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/"&gt;electric motorcycle&lt;/a&gt; or a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/07/engadgets-wild-ride-in-the-p-u-m-a/"&gt;two-seat Segway&lt;/a&gt;? Our friends at &lt;em&gt;AutoblogGreen&lt;/em&gt; have you totally covered with a test drive in the utterly safe, normal and boring Dodge Circuit EV. It's based on the same powertrain that &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/chrysler"&gt;Chrysler&lt;/a&gt; is stuffing into all of its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/24/chrysler-jeep-and-dodge-electric-vehicle-plans-get-outed/"&gt;ENVI vehicles&lt;/a&gt;, but with the lightweight Lotus-derived frame on top, there's quite a bit of get-up-and-go to it. Unfortunately, the cabin is a bit cramped, and Chrysler still has some bugs to work out with its EV platform. Right now the regenerative braking bites right away, instead of letting the car coast, requiring constant use of the accelerator to keep moving, but Chrysler is working on it. There are still big questions on price and availability, but so it goes with most electric vehicles -- at least this one seems fairly ready to go.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Note:&lt;/strong&gt; Gallery jumps to &lt;em&gt;AutoBlogGreen&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"&gt;Transportation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dodge-circuit-ev-goes-for-a-test-drive/"&gt;Dodge Circuit EV goes for a test drive&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:23:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2009/04/22/dodge-circuit-ev-first-drive-electric-car-makes-grand-promises" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dodge-circuit-ev-goes-for-a-test-drive/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526270/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dodge-circuit-ev-goes-for-a-test-drive/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/microsoft-profits-sink-for-the-first-time-in-23-years/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Microsoft profits sink for the first time in 23 years                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 10:19 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY09/earn_rel_q3_09.mspx"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/msft-mwc-live0367.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; In a not totally surprising -- yet still kind of striking -- turn of events, Microsoft is reporting that its sales have fallen for the first time in 23 years. You read that right, &lt;em&gt;23 years&lt;/em&gt;. According to numbers that the company has just released, sales fell 6 percent year-over-year, while overall net income dropped a staggering 32 percent. Those numbers are significant, but what's more telling is where those losses are coming from. Namely? Netbooks. Apparently, in the midst of a global downturn consumers really are buying cheaper, especially when it comes to tech, which puts a fairly significant crunch on Redmond's bottom line. A &lt;em&gt;CNN&lt;/em&gt; reports suggests that the presence of Linux on those devices has contributed to the hurt here, but it's more likely that the combo of a market still unwelcoming to Vista and the wide popularity of &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/XP/"&gt;XP&lt;/a&gt; on the low-power systems has more to do with these dipping profit margins. Oh, and that general, awful market depression. Still, it should serve as some kind of wake up call to Microsoft that just being the biggest doesn't guarantee that the money will keep rolling in the way it has in years past -- clearly the big picture isn't as sharp as it's always been. Hey &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Windows7/"&gt;Windows 7&lt;/a&gt; -- no pressure, right?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; We've tweaked some language in the post that made the situation sound more dire than intended. Don't worry everyone, we know Microsoft isn't going anywhere.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [Via &lt;a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/23/technology/microsoft_earnings/index.htm?postversion=2009042316"&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/microsoft-profits-sink-for-the-first-time-in-23-years/"&gt;Microsoft profits sink for the first time in 23 years&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:19:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/msft/earnings/FY09/earn_rel_q3_09.mspx"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/microsoft-profits-sink-for-the-first-time-in-23-years/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526582/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/microsoft-profits-sink-for-the-first-time-in-23-years/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-rather-uneventful-yet-somehow-exciting-evolution-of-wii-mo/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   The rather uneventful (yet somehow exciting) evolution of Wii MotionPlus                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 9:05 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15566583&amp;amp;postcount=473"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/motionplus042309.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Some recently unearthed European legal filings show us the timeline of development for Wii's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/MotionPlus/"&gt;MotionPlus&lt;/a&gt;. Well -- it shows us what could have been, anyway. The image, starting to the left, shows the oldest version, with an insanely hideous curve that was dispensed with in favor of an outwardly leaning shape in the next iteration, while the far right shows what we essentially ended up with: a tiny little lip that some theorize may be a design element intended to help keep the jacket in place. We'll say this much: we sure are glad they didn't use that initial design. Yuck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://nintendo.joystiq.com/2009/04/23/the-evolution-of-motionpluss-shape/"&gt;Joystiq&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-rather-uneventful-yet-somehow-exciting-evolution-of-wii-mo/"&gt;The rather uneventful (yet somehow exciting) evolution of Wii MotionPlus&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:05:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15566583&amp;amp;postcount=473"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-rather-uneventful-yet-somehow-exciting-evolution-of-wii-mo/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526195/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-rather-uneventful-yet-somehow-exciting-evolution-of-wii-mo/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-windows-7-hack-purports-to-be-unfixable/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   New Windows 7 hack purports to be &amp;quot;unfixable&amp;quot;                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 8:02 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042309-researchers-show-how-to-take.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/02/2-25-09-windows_7-desktop.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;A hack that's "unfixable" is a pretty bold claim, but that's just what researchers Vipin Kumar and Nitin Kumar have announced at the now-happening Hack in the Box security conference, and they seem ready to back it up. Apparently, they've devised a means to gain control of a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/windows7"&gt;Windows 7&lt;/a&gt; computer during the boot up process though the use of a tiny 3KB program dubbed VBootkit 2.0 (a follow-up to a similar Vista hack), which loads itself into the system memory and bypasses the hard drive altogether, making it extremely difficult to detect. Once loaded, an ill-intentioned individual could potentially change passwords, access protected files, or do just about anything else and then leave without a trace. The one fairly big drawback to the hack, however, and upside for most users, is that it can't be performed remotely, so it'll likely only be a significant concern for businesses or other folks using computers in public places -- unless, of course, Microsoft finds a way to fix the "unfixable."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/23/windows.7.hack.program/"&gt;Electronista&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-windows-7-hack-purports-to-be-unfixable/"&gt;New Windows 7 hack purports to be "unfixable"&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:02:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/042309-researchers-show-how-to-take.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-windows-7-hack-purports-to-be-unfixable/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526376/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-windows-7-hack-purports-to-be-unfixable/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/creative-travelsound-i85-adds-external-speaker-fm-tuner-to-ipod/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Creative TravelSound i85 adds external speaker, FM tuner to iPod nano                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 7:34 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?pid=13059"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/creative-travelsound-i85.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; There's really no easy way to say it -- &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Creative/"&gt;Creative&lt;/a&gt;'s TravelSound i85 is bordering on unsightly, so devout fashionistas should probably look elsewhere. For those who always put design second and utility first, this here device adds a portable speaker and FM tuning abilities to Apple's fourth-generation iPod nano (the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/09/ipod-nano-4g-hands-on/"&gt;tall, thin one&lt;/a&gt;, for those unaware) and even includes a built-in rechargeable battery for pumping out up to 15 hours of house jams. Aside from operating as a gaudy wrist adornment, it can also double as a stand (horizontally or vertically), though there's no Dock Connector pass-through (just a miniUSB plug). Worth $99.99? That's between you and the monster underneath your bed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.fareastgizmos.com/mp3/creative_travelsound_pocketsized_speaker_for_ipod_nano_with_fm_radio.php"&gt;FarEastGizmos&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/creative-travelsound-i85-adds-external-speaker-fm-tuner-to-ipod/"&gt;Creative TravelSound i85 adds external speaker, FM tuner to iPod nano&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:34:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?p"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/creative-travelsound-i85-adds-external-speaker-fm-tuner-to-ipod/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526221/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/creative-travelsound-i85-adds-external-speaker-fm-tuner-to-ipod/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/switched-on-apps-like-to-movit-movit/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Switched On: Apps like to Movit, Movit                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 7:05 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/bloggers/ross-rubin"&gt;Ross Rubin&lt;/a&gt; contributes &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/switchedon"&gt;Switched On&lt;/a&gt;, a column about consumer technology.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/01/01-07-09movitmini.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Not every company producing smartphones cares much about other kinds of portable devices, but those that do can heed a lesson from Apple. By leveraging the popularity, platform, and distribution of the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/iPhone/"&gt;iPhone&lt;/a&gt;, Apple deftly created the market for &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/iPodtouch/"&gt;iPod touch&lt;/a&gt; applications. One would now be hard-pressed to name another non-cellular handheld device that has access to as many modern applications as Apple's flagship digital media player. Under some definitions, it has become the first mass-market Mobile Internet Device (or &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/MID/"&gt;MID&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Targeting both phone and non-phone platforms has allowed Apple to greatly increase the installed base for iPhone applications. Last month, Apple announced that it had shipped 17 million iPhones, and 13 million iPod touches, increasing the base of devices for "iPhone" applications 76 percent.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Convergent devices like the iPhone and iPod touch are often looked at in terms of their potential to cannibalize a wide swath of other kinds of portable devices. These include the popular (digital cameras, portable navigation devices, handheld gaming platforms), the obscure (remote controls for presentation programs and the Sonos multi-room music system), and the humble (alarm clocks, calculators and pedometers).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/switched-on-apps-like-to-movit-movit/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Switched On: Apps like to Movit, Movit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"&gt;Handhelds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/switched-on-apps-like-to-movit-movit/"&gt;Switched On: Apps like to Movit, Movit&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:05:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/switched-on-apps-like-to-movit-movit/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1523706/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/switched-on-apps-like-to-movit-movit/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/palm-pre-spotted-in-the-wild-possibly-running-youtube/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Palm Pre spotted in the wild, possibly running YouTube                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 6:34 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.everythingpre.com/articles/2009/4/23/palm-pre-in-the-wild-youtube-app/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/4-23-09palmpreyt.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; It's not clear exactly where these pics came from, but here's the &lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/pre"&gt;Palm Pre&lt;/a&gt;, running what appears to be a YouTube app and the email app. We're of two minds on these: there's no doubt there are &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/palm-pre-spotted-just-minding-its-own-business-in-san-fran/"&gt;devices&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/17/palm-pre-finds-a-totally-unofficial-home-in-china/"&gt;in the wild&lt;/a&gt;, so these shots could be totally real, but something about them just feels off -- that "Search All Videos" font seems way more Sprint than Palm, for example. Here's hoping we find out what's what real soon. One more shot after the break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update:&lt;/strong&gt; One more pic &lt;a href="http://discussion.treocentral.com/palm-pre/178982-new-pre-pictures.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, showing it off next to an iPhone.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/palm-pre-spotted-in-the-wild-possibly-running-youtube/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Palm Pre spotted in the wild, possibly running YouTube&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/palm-pre-spotted-in-the-wild-possibly-running-youtube/"&gt;Palm Pre spotted in the wild, possibly running YouTube&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:34:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.everythingpre.com/articles/2009/4/23/palm-pre-in-the-wild-youtube-app" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/palm-pre-spotted-in-the-wild-possibly-running-youtube/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526426/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/palm-pre-spotted-in-the-wild-possibly-running-youtube/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/apples-app-store-hits-a-billion-downloads/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Apple's App Store hits a billion downloads                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 6:06 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="1" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2009/04/app-store-billion-sm.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Here's to another billion -- and not just &lt;a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/04/10/apple-anxiously-awaits-the-selling-of-their-billionth-app-downlo/"&gt;from the App Store&lt;/a&gt;. Windows Mobile, Symbian, Android, webOS, BlackBerry -- we're expecting every bit as much out of you guys, so let the games (and the productivity apps, utilities, flatulence simulators...) begin.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"&gt;Handhelds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/apples-app-store-hits-a-billion-downloads/"&gt;Apple's App Store hits a billion downloads&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:06:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/billion-app-countdown" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/apples-app-store-hits-a-billion-downloads/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526410/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/apples-app-store-hits-a-billion-downloads/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/giant-keyboard-art-in-shenzhen-metro-station-offers-tech-friendl/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Giant keyboard art in Shenzhen metro station offers tech-friendly seating                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 5:51 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://74.125.91.132/translate_c?hl=en&amp;amp;sl=zh-CN&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;u=http://lamkiuwai.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_12.html&amp;amp;prev=hp&amp;amp;usg=ALkJrhgdtglZ43yyPyMh6UXw4ypFjzSGiw"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/chinastation20090412.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;If you're at the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Shenzhen/"&gt;Shenzhen&lt;/a&gt; Metro station any time soon, you'll unlikely happen across the beautiful, beautiful sight above. The station -- which is in Shenzhen just north of Hong Kong -- has installed some &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/keyboard%2C+art"&gt;keyboard art&lt;/a&gt; that really speaks to the typist in our souls -- we even type in our dreams occasionally. The keys function as seats to relax in while you wait for your train, though why they chose the keys they chose (Enter, M, &amp;lt;, L, P and ;) is anybody's guess. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;js=n&amp;amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fchinese.engadget.com%2F2009%2F04%2F21%2Fchina-metro-keyboard-art-00%2F&amp;amp;sl=zh-CN&amp;amp;tl=en"&gt;Engadget Chinese&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/giant-keyboard-art-in-shenzhen-metro-station-offers-tech-friendl/"&gt;Giant keyboard art in Shenzhen metro station offers tech-friendly seating&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:51:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://74.125.91.132/translate_c?hl=en&amp;amp;sl=zh-CN&amp;amp;tl=en&amp;amp;u=http://lamkiuwai.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_12.html&amp;amp;prev=hp&amp;amp;usg=ALkJrhgdtglZ43yyPyMh6UXw4ypFjzSGiw"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/giant-keyboard-art-in-shenzhen-metro-station-offers-tech-friendl/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525967/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/giant-keyboard-art-in-shenzhen-metro-station-offers-tech-friendl/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-announces-tiny-new-embedded-sim-for-connected-devices/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   T-Mobile announces tiny new &amp;quot;embedded SIM&amp;quot; for connected devices                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 5:28 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;amp;newsId=20090422006713&amp;amp;newsLang=en"&gt;&lt;img vspace="16" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/4-23-09tmo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Sure, SIM cards are small, but they're not tiny, and fitting the entire assembly into an embedded device requires a lot of space -- so T-Mobile's new embedded SIM system should make it possible to build even smaller &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=connected+devices"&gt;connected devices&lt;/a&gt; like hospital monitors and smart energy meters that can report back to a server. The new SIMs are the size of a pinhead and made of silicon instead of plastic, which allows them to be coded at the factory and hard-mounted directly to a device, skipping the provisioning and installation steps that would come with regular SIMs. Devices with the new SIMs are expected to be out and sending data over T-Mo's network in as little as six months -- the first is an energy meter from Echelon that should hit soon.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/wireless/" rel="tag"&gt;Wireless&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-announces-tiny-new-embedded-sim-for-connected-devices/"&gt;T-Mobile announces tiny new "embedded SIM" for connected devices&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:28:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;amp;newsId=20090422006713&amp;amp;newsLang=en"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-announces-tiny-new-embedded-sim-for-connected-devices/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526227/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-announces-tiny-new-embedded-sim-for-connected-devices/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   AMD Phenom II X4 955 and 945 benchmarked to high heaven                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 5:06 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Just when you though you'd had your fill of insanely detailed benchmarks of processors you may or may not have ever heard of, AMD's new Phenom II X4 955 and 945 hit the scene to get those overclockers all in a tizzy. The top of the line is the 955 "Black Edition" at 3.2GHz, while the 945 plays with a petty 3GHz. And the verdict? They're clearly AMD's fastest so far, but that might not be fast enough. AMD offers great value, but only really matches Intel's Core 2 offerings on performance -- Core i7 is still out in front. There is the fact that &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/PhenomII/"&gt;Phenom II&lt;/a&gt; offers a nice upgrade path for certain people who already do the AMD thing and are looking to upgrade, along with "enthusiasts" who are "enthused" by easy-access overclocking, but overall it looks like AMD is still playing catch-up with Intel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://hothardware.com/Articles/AMD-Phenom-II-X4-955-Black-Edition/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - HotHardware&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/pii955/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - Neoseeker&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=696"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - PC Perspective&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://techreport.com/articles.x/16796/1"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - Tech Report&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.techspot.com/review/162-amd-phenom2-x4-955/"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - TechSpot&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/processors/AMD_Phenom_II_X4_955_1.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt; - EXTREME Overclocking&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/"&gt;AMD Phenom II X4 955 and 945 benchmarked to high heaven&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:06:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526197/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/philips-shows-off-lumiblade-oled-lighting-concepts/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Philips shows off Lumiblade OLED lighting concepts                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 4:46 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oled-display.net/philips-show-world-first-oled-based-interactive-lighting-concepts"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/philips-oled-04-23-09.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;As promised, Philips has now taken the wraps off its first few &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/17/philips-oled-lumiblade-showcased-in-variety-of-shapes-sizes-a/"&gt;Lumiblade OLED lighting concepts&lt;/a&gt; which, judging from Philips' boasting, could well change your life and ours. Now on display at the Euroluce International Lighting Fair in Milan, the concepts are divided into consumer and professional groups, the former of which includes ceiling-mounted products like the one pictured above, as well as some slightly more straightforward desk lamps like the one pictured after the break. What's more, each lighting device also boasts at least some degree of interactivity, including the ability to recognize hand gestures or, in the case of the professional lighting fixtures, react to passers-by. Interestingly, however, none of the products are actually full-on OLED lamps, with each also supplemented by some LUXEON Power LEDs to provide some more usable lighting. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/philips-shows-off-lumiblade-oled-lighting-concepts/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Philips shows off Lumiblade OLED lighting concepts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"&gt;Household&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/philips-shows-off-lumiblade-oled-lighting-concepts/"&gt;Philips shows off Lumiblade OLED lighting concepts&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:46:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.oled-display.net/philips-show-world-first-oled-based-interactive-lighting-concepts"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/philips-shows-off-lumiblade-oled-lighting-concepts/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526250/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/philips-shows-off-lumiblade-oled-lighting-concepts/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/husqvarnas-sms-enabled-automower-260-acx-ur-lawnz-mowed-kk/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Husqvarna's SMS-enabled Automower 260 ACX:  ur lawnz mowed kk?                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 4:23 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.automower.com/node2923.aspx?nid=139624&amp;amp;pid=88560"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090423-husqvarna-01.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Good news for unmanned lawnmower enthusiasts (we know there are at least two of you out there). Husqvarna's latest, the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Automower/"&gt;Automower&lt;/a&gt; 260 ACX, can be programmed to send you an SMS text message if something should interrupt the mow job -- because sometimes looking outside to see if your robot is still tending to the lawn is just too much to ask. This bad boy gets an hour on a single charge -- which should be plenty of time to take down about half an acre of lawn -- and upon returning to its docking station, the battery is recharged in roughly forty minutes. Recommended retail price: &amp;euro;4,000 (that's over $5,200). No word yet on a stateside release.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=c2f176b8-649e-43f6-a285-0de66de4d936&amp;amp;alertid=6b9f7a7f-e241-4d07-8310-814f56116e53&amp;amp;bhcp=1&amp;amp;bhhash=1"&gt;News Market&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"&gt;Household&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/husqvarnas-sms-enabled-automower-260-acx-ur-lawnz-mowed-kk/"&gt;Husqvarna's SMS-enabled Automower 260 ACX:  ur lawnz mowed kk?&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:23:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.automower.com/node2923.aspx?nid=139624&amp;amp;p"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/husqvarnas-sms-enabled-automower-260-acx-ur-lawnz-mowed-kk/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526193/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/husqvarnas-sms-enabled-automower-260-acx-ur-lawnz-mowed-kk/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/japan-getting-wii-video-service-may-1st-complete-with-dsi-conne/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Japan getting Wii video service May 1st, complete with DSi connectivity                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 4:02 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/23/wii-video-service-launches-in-japan-may-1-features-dsi-connecti/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/wiinoma042309.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;We haven't been hearing a whole lot about the planned &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/25/video-distribution-coming-to-japan-wiis-early-2009-overseas-lat/"&gt;video distribution service&lt;/a&gt; for the Wii as of late, but looks like folks in Japan will soon be able to try it out first hand, as the service is set to launch in the country on May 1st. Dubbed the "Wii no Ma Channel," the service is rolling out with a little help from advertising firm Denstu, and includes both free and paid content, as well as some other various services and special offers from sponsors. Even more interesting, however, is word that a free DSi app will launch alongside the service, which will let you download video from the Wii to the DS, and even download coupons from advertisers, which can then be scanned directly from the screen. Head on past the break for a quick video overview -- which, of course, doesn't include any word of a launch 'round here.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/japan-getting-wii-video-service-may-1st-complete-with-dsi-conne/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Japan getting Wii video service May 1st, complete with DSi connectivity&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/homeentertainment/" rel="tag"&gt;Home Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/japan-getting-wii-video-service-may-1st-complete-with-dsi-conne/"&gt;Japan getting Wii video service May 1st, complete with DSi connectivity&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:02:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/23/wii-video-service-launches-in-japan-may-1-features-dsi-connecti" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/japan-getting-wii-video-service-may-1st-complete-with-dsi-conne/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526159/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/japan-getting-wii-video-service-may-1st-complete-with-dsi-conne/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/pentax-teases-a-new-k-series-cam-for-may-21/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Pentax teases a new K-series cam for May 21                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 3:39 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.photographybay.com/2009/04/23/pentax-k7d/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/4-23-09pentaxtease.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Looks like those &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/19/new-pentax-dslr-shots-blur-the-boundaries-of-mr-blurrycam/"&gt;ultra-blurry photos of a new Pentax cam&lt;/a&gt; weren't just a Sunday morning fever dream -- the company's now teasing the release of a new K-series DSLR on May 21. Obviously official details on what's alleged to be the K7D are incredibly light, but there are already some rumored specs floating around -- a square sensor with a 1.3 crop factor that may or may not be related to the one in the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/k20d"&gt;K20D&lt;/a&gt;, 1.0x viewfinder, new AF system, 3-inch screen, and 720p video are the highlights, but honestly, it's all conjecture at this point. We'll keep our ears to the ground -- and our fingers crossed that this thing &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/15/pentaxs-white-k2000-dslr-now-shipping-to-style-minded-photogs/"&gt;comes in white&lt;/a&gt;. Check a non-blurry pic of... something we were sent on Sunday after the break.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/23/pentax.k7d.teaser/"&gt;Electronista&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/pentax-teases-a-new-k-series-cam-for-may-21/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Pentax teases a new K-series cam for May 21&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"&gt;Digital Cameras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/pentax-teases-a-new-k-series-cam-for-may-21/"&gt;Pentax teases a new K-series cam for May 21&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:39:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.photographybay.com/2009/04/23/pentax-k7d" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/pentax-teases-a-new-k-series-cam-for-may-21/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526151/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/pentax-teases-a-new-k-series-cam-for-may-21/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/eizos-flexscan-ev2023w-ev2303w-lcd-monitors-turn-off-when-hum/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Eizo's FlexScan EV2023W / EV2303W LCD monitors turn off when humans are away                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 3:17 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090422/169149/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/flexscan-ev2023w-h-eizo.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Not that we haven't &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/01/akhters-loco2pc-looks-like-an-ugly-monitor-doesnt-need-much-p/"&gt;seen&lt;/a&gt; LCD monitors get &lt;a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ct=res&amp;amp;cd=2&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2F2009%2F02%2F27%2Fdells-g-series-led-backlit-lcds-now-available-in-renewable-quan%2F&amp;amp;ei=o33wSbaiLciLtgeprNSqDw&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNGsu-0se5eBYrmSN-ms1vffZoFaOA"&gt;less demanding&lt;/a&gt; when it comes to energy, but we've yet to see a company take eco-friendliness this far. Professional LCD maker &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Eizo/"&gt;Eizo&lt;/a&gt; has just announced a new pair of panels (the 20-inch FlexScan EV2023W-H and the 23-inch EV2303W-T) that boast a "human presence sensor." As the phrase implies, these displays are designed to shift to power saving mode when it realizes that its master has vacated the area, and when they return, it automatically flips back on in order to keep from being bashed by one of many USB-connected peripherals. Unfortunately, it seems the human detection timer can't be changed from 40 seconds, and no, there are no current plans to implement a robot presence sensor once &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/robotapocalypse/"&gt;the Apocalypse&lt;/a&gt; is realized.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.fareastgizmos.com/eizo_nanao_flexscan_monitors_motion_sensor_saves_energy_by_activating_the_screen_only_when_a_user_is_present.php"&gt;FarEastGizmos&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"&gt;Displays&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/eizos-flexscan-ev2023w-ev2303w-lcd-monitors-turn-off-when-hum/"&gt;Eizo's FlexScan EV2023W / EV2303W LCD monitors turn off when humans are away&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:17:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/20090422/169149" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/eizos-flexscan-ev2023w-ev2303w-lcd-monitors-turn-off-when-hum/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525895/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/eizos-flexscan-ev2023w-ev2303w-lcd-monitors-turn-off-when-hum/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dell-mini-10-gets-six-cell-battery-option-added-pizzazz/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Dell Mini 10 gets six-cell battery option, added pizzazz                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 2:54 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dncwea1&amp;amp;cs=19&amp;amp;dgvcode=ss&amp;amp;c=US&amp;amp;l=EN&amp;amp;dgc=CJ&amp;amp;cid=24471&amp;amp;lid=566643&amp;amp;acd=10550055-2403526-"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/dell-mini10-04-23-09.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;Dell's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/mini10"&gt;Mini 10&lt;/a&gt; netbook has been a bit more of a &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/30/dell-finally-adds-720p-lcd-option-to-inspiron-mini-10/"&gt;work in progress&lt;/a&gt; than some early adopters may have hoped, but it is at least getting increasingly more usable, with Dell now finally offering the oft-requested six-cell battery as a selectable option. That'll set you back just $30, and should give you a sizable boost over the stock three-cell battery, which is lucky to get three hours on a charge. If you're looking for a little something extra, you can now also now get the netbook emblazoned with some of the snazzy designs seen on other Dell laptops, although those will set you back up to $60 extra compared to the basic black or white options.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://portablemonkey.com/article/dell-mini-10-6-cell-battery-now-available/"&gt;Portable Monkey&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dell-mini-10-gets-six-cell-battery-option-added-pizzazz/"&gt;Dell Mini 10 gets six-cell battery option, added pizzazz&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:54:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dncwea1&amp;amp;cs=19&amp;amp;dgvcode=ss&amp;amp;c=US&amp;amp;l=EN&amp;amp;dgc=CJ&amp;amp;cid=24471&amp;amp;l"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dell-mini-10-gets-six-cell-battery-option-added-pizzazz/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526055/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/dell-mini-10-gets-six-cell-battery-option-added-pizzazz/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/atandt-callvantage-fare-thee-well-we-hardly-knew-ye/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   AT&amp;amp;T CallVantage: fare thee well, we hardly knew ye                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 2:31 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/04/20/daily39.html?ana=yfcpc"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090423-callvantage-01.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; CallVantage may have survived being &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/02/10/vonage-settles-suit-against-callvantage/"&gt;sued by Vonage&lt;/a&gt;, but there's one thing it couldn't survive -- progress. After thrilling us for some time now by magically transmitting people's "voice" over something called the "internet," AT&amp;amp;T's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/VoIP/"&gt;VoIP&lt;/a&gt; service will begin weening off customers over the course of this year. Folks will be able to switch to either another AT&amp;amp;T service, transfer to another service provider, or drop off the communications grid altogether -- where they will finally have the opportunity to spend their lives in solemn contemplation, with nothing but the babbling brook, the sweet sound of songbirds, and a journal of their thoughts to keep them occupied. The company says that it's pulling the plug to concentrate on its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Uverse/"&gt;U-verse&lt;/a&gt; voice service, which can only mean one thing: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/18/atandts-watson-wants-you-to-talk-your-tv-into-changing-the-channe/"&gt;Watson's&lt;/a&gt; got to them. We knew that guy was up to no good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.mobiletechnews.com/info/2009/04/23/112624.html"&gt;MobileTechNews&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/household/" rel="tag"&gt;Household&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/networking/" rel="tag"&gt;Networking&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/atandt-callvantage-fare-thee-well-we-hardly-knew-ye/"&gt;AT&amp;amp;T CallVantage: fare thee well, we hardly knew ye&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:31:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://triad.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2009/04/20/daily39.html?ana=yfcpc"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/atandt-callvantage-fare-thee-well-we-hardly-knew-ye/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526027/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/atandt-callvantage-fare-thee-well-we-hardly-knew-ye/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-ne/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Samsung does things backwards, gets official with N110 / N120 netbooks                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 2:09 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;amp;newsId=20090423005711&amp;amp;newsLang=en"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/samsung-n110-netbook-small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; It's odd, really. Shortly after Samsung's &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/N110/"&gt;N110&lt;/a&gt; ($469) and &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/N120/"&gt;N120&lt;/a&gt; ($459) netbooks went &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/20/samsungs-10-1-inch-n120-netbook-now-on-sale/"&gt;on sale&lt;/a&gt; and saw reviews, the creating company has at long last come forward with official press shots, specifications and pricing. Not surprisingly, both machines are confirmed as "on sale now," with the pair sporting a 1.6GHz Atom N270, 1GB of DDR2 memory, a 10.1-inch WSVGA display, 160GB hard drive, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, three USB 2.0 sockets and a 1.3 megapixel camera. If you're wondering how the N120 got ten points closer to the top rung, it ups the ante ever-so-slightly with a "2.1-channel" sound system, a six cell Li-ion battery and a 97 percent full-size keyboard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallery: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-netbooks/"&gt;Samsung does things backwards, gets official with N110 / N120 netbooks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-netbooks/1513629/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/samsung-n110-netbook-press_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-netbooks/1513628/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/samsung-n120-netbook-press_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-ne/"&gt;Samsung does things backwards, gets official with N110 / N120 netbooks&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:09:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;amp;newsId=20090423005711&amp;amp;newsLang=en"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-ne/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525959/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/samsung-does-things-backwards-gets-official-with-n110-n120-ne/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-is-looking-for-a-lead-designer-developer/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Engadget is looking for a lead designer / developer!                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 2:00 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/engadget_logo_1.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; You guys may not know this, but we have some really, &lt;em&gt;really&lt;/em&gt; cool stuff coming up in the world of Engadget -- and not just on the editorial front. In fact, we're currently looking for a &lt;span&gt;salaried, full-time&lt;/span&gt; designer with backend / developer chops to join us in the creation and maintenance of said cool stuff. If you're an incredibly smart, talented, hard-working human that loves Engadget, happens to have killer design sense, &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; knows their way around a screen full of code -- we'd like to speak to you. Keep in mind that we'll only be looking at candidates with a portfolio, and we're going to be seriously scrutinizing the work that we see. Read on for a list of our requirements.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-is-looking-for-a-lead-designer-developer/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Engadget is looking for a lead designer / developer!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/announcements/" rel="tag"&gt;Announcements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-is-looking-for-a-lead-designer-developer/"&gt;Engadget is looking for a lead designer / developer!&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-is-looking-for-a-lead-designer-developer/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1524895/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-is-looking-for-a-lead-designer-developer/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-sells-a-million-g1s-in-the-us/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   T-Mobile sells a million G1s in the US                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 1:47 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deutschetelekom.com/dtag/cms/content/dt/en/654792;jsessionid=29B19D0B97E985AC56DC095CAC2818A2"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/g1_main.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; We don't know why T-Mobile isn't trumpeting this, but Deutsche Telekom's Q1 results are out, and the multinational carrier says that over one million &lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/g1"&gt;G1s&lt;/a&gt; have been sold in the US, making up a majority of the 1.5 million 3G devices currently active on T-Mo's network. That's quite an accomplishment in just six months, considering the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/24/t-mobile-g1-launch-day-roundup/"&gt;Android handset launched&lt;/a&gt; without nationwide 3G coverage -- it's better now, but we're talking just 21 cities back in October. Of course, a million's just a drop in the bucked compared to the number of Blackberrys, iPhones, and Windows Mobile devices out there, but we've got enough of a soft spot for &lt;a href="http://engadget.com/tag/anroid"&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt; to overlook it -- now let's get &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/05/nyt-t-mobile-to-release-android-powered-home-phone-tablet-pc-n/"&gt;some&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/t-mobile-market-testing-terrible-names-for-the-htc-magic-sapph/"&gt;more&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/11/htc-fiesta-is-an-android-phone-so-says-bluetooth-sig/"&gt;devices&lt;/a&gt; out the door and really boost that marketshare number, shall we?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/04/23/t.mo.hits.1m.g1.phones/"&gt;Electronista&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"&gt;Cellphones&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-sells-a-million-g1s-in-the-us/"&gt;T-Mobile sells a million G1s in the US&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:47:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deutschetelekom.com/dtag/cms/content/dt/en/654792;jsession"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-sells-a-million-g1s-in-the-us/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1526078/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/t-mobile-sells-a-million-g1s-in-the-us/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/nintendos-game-boy-turns-20/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 1:22 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="600" height="405"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/8TI64McyYF4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/8TI64McyYF4&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="600" height="405"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt; In case you hadn't heard, Nintendo's trend-setting handheld, the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/GameBoy/"&gt;Game Boy&lt;/a&gt;, just had its 20th birthday -- and that's no small thing for a game console. We won't bore you with stories from our childhood about wasted time and missed opportunities spent chasing the dragon that was &lt;em&gt;Tetris&lt;/em&gt;, but we will entertain the hell out of you with this vintage ad touting the system's launch from way back in the totally excellent year of 1989. We know what you're thinking: does the robot create the kid or just warp him there? And if he &lt;em&gt;does&lt;/em&gt; create him, does that mean he's some kind of metallic god? And does that mean that the kid kills god? And... why is the robot dancing? Hey -- &lt;em&gt;now you're playing with power.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/nintendos-game-boy-turns-20/"&gt;Nintendo's Game Boy turns 20&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:22:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/nintendos-game-boy-turns-20/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525940/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/nintendos-game-boy-turns-20/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-atandt-tl92278-dect-6-0-phone/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Engadget's recession antidote: win an AT&amp;amp;T TL92278 DECT 6.0 phone!                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://telephones.att.com/telephones_ui/phone_store/dsp_product.cfm?itemID=3930&amp;amp;parent=23655"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/att-tl92278-dect-phone.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We'll be handing out a new gadget every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we've got an AT&amp;amp;T &lt;a href="http://telephones.att.com/telephones_ui/phone_store/dsp_product.cfm?itemID=3930&amp;amp;parent=23655"&gt;TL92278&lt;/a&gt; Bluetooth-enabled DECT 6.0 home telephone for those of you not quite ready to kick the landline habit. Read the rules below (no skimming -- we're omniscient and can tell when you've skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!&lt;a href="http://www.radiusearphones.com/store/product.php?productid=16150&amp;amp;cat=253&amp;amp;page=1"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Big thanks to &lt;a href="http://telephones.att.com/telephones_ui/phone_store/dsp_product.cfm?itemID=3930&amp;amp;parent=23655"&gt;AT&amp;amp;T&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; for providing the gear!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;The rules:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leave a comment below.&lt;/strong&gt; Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for "fixing" the world economy, that'd be sweet too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You may only enter this specific giveaway once.&lt;/strong&gt; If you enter this giveaway more than once you'll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you enter more than once, only activate one comment.&lt;/strong&gt; This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you'll be fine.&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! &lt;/strong&gt;Sorry, we don't make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Winner will be chosen randomly.&lt;/strong&gt; The winner will receive one (1) AT&amp;amp;T TL92278 Bluetooth-enabled DECT 6.0 home telephone. Approximate retail value is $89.95.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen. &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entries can be submitted until Thursday, April 23rd, at 11:59PM ET. &lt;/strong&gt;Good luck!&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/official-giveaways-rules/"&gt;Full rules can be found here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/announcements/" rel="tag"&gt;Announcements&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-atandt-tl92278-dect-6-0-phone/"&gt;Engadget's recession antidote: win an AT&amp;amp;T TL92278 DECT 6.0 phone!&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:00:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-atandt-tl92278-dect-6-0-phone/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1518297/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadgets-recession-antidote-win-a-atandt-tl92278-dect-6-0-phone/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/robots-star-in-swiss-play-about-a-nerd/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Robots star in Swiss play about a nerd                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 12:43 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wesay.com/Top_Photos/Far-Out/234200948172356/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/robotplayapr09.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;We're not the biggest theatre-goers around here (though we've been known to take in the odd &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/12/taiwan-casts-robots-in-phantom-of-the-opera-lloyd-webber-seen-k/"&gt;Phantom of the Opera&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;performance), but this is one play we would jump at the chance to see. Called -- quite fittingly -- &lt;em&gt;Robots&lt;/em&gt;, the musical stars three autonomous robots developed by Bluebotics, a company which specializes in service bots. The story revolves around a lonely human man who lives in isolation with just his robots, and what happens when a woman threatens to visit him in the not too distant future. Yeah, like we haven't heard this one a million times. The play opens on May 1st at the Barnabe Theatre in Servion, Switzerland, and will run until May 17th. &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/robots/" rel="tag"&gt;Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/robots-star-in-swiss-play-about-a-nerd/"&gt;Robots star in Swiss play about a nerd&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:43:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wesay.com/Top_Photos/Far-Out/234200948172356" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/robots-star-in-swiss-play-about-a-nerd/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525893/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/robots-star-in-swiss-play-about-a-nerd/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Engadget shreds on the Zero S all-electric motorcycle (with video!)                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 12:08 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/zero-s-electric-motorcycle-test-ride-and-review/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" alt="Zero S electric motorcycle test ride and review" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-37-motionblur-600.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; It's not the first. It's not the fastest. It's not the lightest, the strongest, the cheapest, or even the best looking electric motorcycle out there. It is, however, one of the very few you can order today and, when it ships next month, ride it (legally) on the highways and byways of all 50 states. Europe, too. Among that very limited group the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/08/zero-s-electric-motard-set-to-release-later-this-month/"&gt;Zero S electric supermoto&lt;/a&gt; (or electrimoto as we've taken to calling it) is certainly a standout, completely custom-built around battery and motor, and we were lucky enough to take it for a spin on a hazy, dingy, frequently traffic'd New York City side street -- just the sort of conditions a two-wheeled urban warrior/commuter relishes. Read on for our full impressions and a video that will take you along for the ride.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gallery: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/zero-s-motorcycle/"&gt;Zero S Motorcycle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/zero-s-motorcycle/1513215/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-01_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/zero-s-motorcycle/1513236/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-02_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/zero-s-motorcycle/1513222/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-03_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/zero-s-motorcycle/1513237/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-04_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/photos/zero-s-motorcycle/1513238/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/zero-s-20090423-05_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Engadget shreds on the Zero S all-electric motorcycle (with video!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"&gt;Transportation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/"&gt;Engadget shreds on the Zero S all-electric motorcycle (with video!)&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:08:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525728/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/engadget-shreds-on-the-zero-s-all-electric-motorcycle-with-video/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/olpc-graduate-pixel-qi-announces-3qi-three-in-one-screen-will-de/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   OLPC graduate Pixel Qi announces 3Qi three-in-one screen will debut next month                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:50 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10225268-1.html?part=rss&amp;amp;tag=feed&amp;amp;subj=Crave"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/olpc_xo_2_1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; After spinning off from the OLPC project last year with that fancy dual-mode display technology in its pocket, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/PixelQi/"&gt;Pixel Qi&lt;/a&gt; has been pretty much talk. Now there's more talk, but at least it comes with a timeline: next month. That's when Pixel Qi founder Mary Lou Jepsen believes the much-anticipated 10-inch 3Qi display should hit the scene, combining a low-power black and white mode, e-paper mode and high-resolution color LCD mode into one glorious, sunlight-readable (and hopefully &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/10/olpc-spin-off-plans-75-laptop/"&gt;outlandishly cheap&lt;/a&gt;) screen. They'll just be shipping samples initially, but should have the screen producing in volume sometime this summer. Mary Lou also has some big words on the future of displays, claiming that they're working on screens that act like a chip on the motherboard, saving power and improving visuals -- we're not sure what that entails, but it sounds pretty neat. She also says that "screens shouldn't be TVs," and that touch and multitouch are key. It doesn't sound like any of that is in the 3Qi, but hopefully it's all going to be ready to go for the Nick Neg crew by the time &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/olpc-xo-2-to-include-multitouch-and-possibly-haptic-screen-from/"&gt;OLPC XO-2&lt;/a&gt; (pictured) rolls around.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/displays/" rel="tag"&gt;Displays&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/olpc-graduate-pixel-qi-announces-3qi-three-in-one-screen-will-de/"&gt;OLPC graduate Pixel Qi announces 3Qi three-in-one screen will debut next month&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:50:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10225268-1.html?part=rss&amp;amp;tag=feed&amp;amp;subj=Crave"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/olpc-graduate-pixel-qi-announces-3qi-three-in-one-screen-will-de/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525921/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/olpc-graduate-pixel-qi-announces-3qi-three-in-one-screen-will-de/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-silicon-film-ferroelectric-may-pave-way-for-instant-on-compu/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   New silicon film ferroelectric may pave the way for instant-on computers (or maybe not)                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:29 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/MetalOxide.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/090423-largeferroelectric-01.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;While the gang at Toshiba are still trying to bring &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/toshiba-makes-progress-on-feram-still-no-tangible-product-in-si/"&gt;FeRAM&lt;/a&gt; to the masses, a team of researchers at Cornell University have devised a new ferroelectric material composed of silicon and strontium titanate that they say can be used (someday!) to build "instant on" transistors. And you know what that means -- instant on computers for students, and instant on death rays for &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/robotapocalypse"&gt;future robot armies&lt;/a&gt;. To coax the generally mild-mannered strontium titanate into acting "ferro-electrified" (not an actual scientific term), researchers grew it onto a silicon substrate using a process known as epitaxy. The material literally squeezed itself within the spaces of the silicon molecules, which gave it ferroelectric properties. As you may have guessed, this research was partially funded by the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/OfficeofNavalResearch/"&gt;Office of Naval Research&lt;/a&gt; -- so the "death ray" remark may not be so off base, after all. We'll keep an eye out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Cornell%20University%20Creates%20Silicon%20Film%20Ferroelectric%20%20Instanton%20Transistors%20May%20Be%20Next/article14919.htm"&gt;Daily Tech&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/storage/" rel="tag"&gt;Storage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/science/" rel="tag"&gt;Science&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-silicon-film-ferroelectric-may-pave-way-for-instant-on-compu/"&gt;New silicon film ferroelectric may pave the way for instant-on computers (or maybe not)&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:29:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/April09/MetalOxide.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-silicon-film-ferroelectric-may-pave-way-for-instant-on-compu/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525835/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-silicon-film-ferroelectric-may-pave-way-for-instant-on-compu/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/x-mini-happy-arrives-for-quasi-spherical-mp3-playback/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   X-mini Happy arrives for quasi-spherical MP3 playback                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:08 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/04/23/x-mini-ii-gets-an-mp3-player/"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/xminihappy_500x295.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; There's just something slightly alien to the X-mini, and this latest "Happy" model does little to assuage our unfounded fears of it. What's new this time around is MP3 playback, thanks to an SD card slot. Size and shape-wise it's almost identical to its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/22/the-portable-rollable-x-mini-ii-speaker-gets-a-refresh/"&gt;X-mini II predecessor&lt;/a&gt;. Happy can handle about 6 hours of playback, or 11 hours of speaker work, on a charge, and the USB cable not only charges the ball but also allows the unit to work as a slightly-less-difficult-to-misplace SD card reader. You can also still daisy chain Happy speakers like with the X-mini II. Happy is currently in prototype stage, and should hit the market sometime around Q3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks, Yutaka]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/x-mini-happy-arrives-for-quasi-spherical-mp3-playback/"&gt;X-mini Happy arrives for quasi-spherical MP3 playback&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:08:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/04/23/x-mini-ii-gets-an-mp3-player" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/x-mini-happy-arrives-for-quasi-spherical-mp3-playback/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525882/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/x-mini-happy-arrives-for-quasi-spherical-mp3-playback/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/takashi-murakami-and-louis-vuitton-make-qr-codes-fun-again/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton make QR codes fun again                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 10:44 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://setjapan.com/"&gt;&lt;img border="0" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/lv_murakami_qr.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Bland, black and white &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/QRcodes/"&gt;QR codes&lt;/a&gt; got you down? Well leave it to artist Takashi Murakami to shake things up. Creative agency SET has laced the psychedelic-anime expert's playful, colorful imagery into versions of the machine-readable code for Louis Vuitton that -- amazingly -- still work. The company has also done similar work for Coca-Cola, though nothing quite as luxuriously squeezable as this multi-colored panda. Now, if someone could just dress up those drab bar codes...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; [Via &lt;a href="http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/takashi-murakam.php"&gt;DVICE&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gadgets/" rel="tag"&gt;Misc. Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/takashi-murakami-and-louis-vuitton-make-qr-codes-fun-again/"&gt;Takashi Murakami and Louis Vuitton make QR codes fun again&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:44:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://setjapan.com" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/takashi-murakami-and-louis-vuitton-make-qr-codes-fun-again/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525818/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/takashi-murakami-and-louis-vuitton-make-qr-codes-fun-again/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/sonic-shoves-qflix-dvd-burners-into-more-dell-desktops/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Sonic shoves Qflix DVD burners into more Dell desktops                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 10:22 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dddonb4&amp;amp;c=us&amp;amp;l=en&amp;amp;s=dhs&amp;amp;cs=19&amp;amp;kc=productdetails~desktop-studio-slim"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/qflix-dell-studio-configura.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; We know you're struggling to believe your eyes, but those &lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/10/22/pioneer-intros-dvr-2920q-and-dvr-x162q-qflix-enabled-dvd-burners/"&gt;Qflix burners&lt;/a&gt; actually are still &lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/11/03/plextor-reveals-px-q840u-px-806sa-qflix-enabled-dvd-burners/"&gt;hanging around&lt;/a&gt;. For those who missed all the action last year, these devices enable users to download a DRM-laced film onto their PC and burn it onto a specially-keyed DVD for playback. In other words, you can forget about toasting flicks to that dusty stack of DVD-Rs you've got laying around from late '05. For whatever reason, Dell has seen fit to &lt;a href="http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/09/16/dell-offers-up-qflix-drives-to-burn-cinemanow-movies-to-dvd/"&gt;extend its partnership&lt;/a&gt; with Sonic Solutions by offering internal Qflix drives on the Studio XPS Desktop, Studio XPS 435, Studio Desktop and Studio Slim Desktop. The wild part? Its actually charging &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; for having you clean out its inventory.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/peripherals/" rel="tag"&gt;Peripherals&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/sonic-shoves-qflix-dvd-burners-into-more-dell-desktops/"&gt;Sonic shoves Qflix DVD burners into more Dell desktops&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:22:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=dddonb4&amp;amp;c=us&amp;amp;l=en&amp;amp;s=dhs&amp;amp;cs=19&amp;amp;kc=productdetails~desktop-studio-slim"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/sonic-shoves-qflix-dvd-burners-into-more-dell-desktops/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525735/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/sonic-shoves-qflix-dvd-burners-into-more-dell-desktops/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   ASUS EeeBox PC B208 with discrete graphics, HDMI-out in June?                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 9:59 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=P8kfcw5ebYfnTRHF"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/ty5egevndfj2cqms_500.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; If we're to believe a pre-sales agent's response to a query about the availability of the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-dual-core-atom-and-hd-4350-graphics-un/"&gt;EeeBox PC B208&lt;/a&gt;, then ASUS' little HD nettop with dual-core Atom 330 processor, ATI Radeon HD 4530 graphics, and HDMI-out should pop for retail in June -- for the UK anyway. A box that looks to be the ideal low-cost ($500ish), quiet (26dB), home theater PC riding your in-house 802.11n WiFi or gigabit Ethernet network. With Acer's Ion-powered &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/aspirerevo"&gt;AspireRevo&lt;/a&gt; hitting the UK in May, ASUS had better hope for a June launch at the latest.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Thanks, Thomas C.]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/"&gt;ASUS EeeBox PC B208 with discrete graphics, HDMI-out in June?&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=P8kfcw5ebYfnTRHF"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525733/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/asus-eeebox-pc-b208-with-discrete-graphics-hdmi-out-in-june/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' is gold, ready for download                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 9:24 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/11-14-08-ubuntu_wind.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Sure, you can't pronounce &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/ubuntu"&gt;Ubuntu&lt;/a&gt;, but the latest release is ready for download anyway. Ubuntu 9.04, aka Jaunty Jackalope, comes with the promise of faster boots, better power management, immediate system access after hibernation, a new system-wide notification service, and broader device support for intelligent switching between WiFi and 3G networks. 9.04 is available in desktop, server, and netbook builds. Right, &lt;em&gt;netbooks&lt;/em&gt;, Linux distros run just fine on netbooks regardless of what &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/06/microsoft-boasts-that-96-of-netbooks-now-run-windows/"&gt;Microsoft and analysts&lt;/a&gt; have to say.&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"&gt;Desktops&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"&gt;Laptops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/"&gt;Ubuntu 9.04 'Jaunty Jackalope' is gold, ready for download&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:24:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525741/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/ubuntu-9-04-jaunty-jackalope-is-gold-ready-for-download/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-strikes-rod-controller-adds-new-depth-to-videogame-fishin/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   The Strike's rod controller adds new depth to videogame fishin'                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 8:59 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/209846/the-strike-hands-on-preview/"&gt;&lt;img hspace="4" border="0" vspace="4" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/the-strike-rod-20090423-600.jpg" alt="The Strike's rod controller adds new depth to videogame fishin'" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; Like bass fishin'? Sure, we all do, but we're not always lucky enough to be able to get out to the lake whenever we want. Enter the fishin' videogame, a genre that by all rights should be tediously awful, but yet has proven to be amazingly popular (why, even Link is into it). The latest and greatest looks to be The Strike from Griffin International, and part of what makes it special is a motion-sensing rod attachment that works a lot like a longer &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/wiimote"&gt;Wiimote&lt;/a&gt; with a reel for hauling in your big catch. It has rumble and force-feedback so you can feel the strikes and, while it seems less than instantly responsive on &lt;em&gt;G4TV&lt;/em&gt;'s video embedded below, looks set to offer the most immersive virtual fishing experience yet. Game and rod on the Xbox 360 will cost $69.99 (it'll hit Wii and PC too), but sadly you're going to have to wait until the end of 2009 to get your feet wet in this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10225228-1.html?part=rss&amp;amp;tag=feed&amp;amp;subj=Crave"&gt;Crave&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-strikes-rod-controller-adds-new-depth-to-videogame-fishin/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;The Strike's rod controller adds new depth to videogame fishin'&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-strikes-rod-controller-adds-new-depth-to-videogame-fishin/"&gt;The Strike's rod controller adds new depth to videogame fishin'&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:59:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gamepro.com/article/previews/209846/the-strike-hands-on-preview" /&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-strikes-rod-controller-adds-new-depth-to-videogame-fishin/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525714/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/the-strikes-rod-controller-adds-new-depth-to-videogame-fishin/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/canon-50d-firmware-update-fixes-vertical-banding-issues/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Canon 50D firmware update fixes vertical banding issues                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 8:24 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos50d/firmware.html"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/10-14-08-canon_50d_small.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Listen up Canon users, the mothership just issued firmware updates for its &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/50d"&gt;EOS 50D&lt;/a&gt;, Rebel XSi (450D), and Rebel XS (1000D) DSLRs. The updates provide support for the AF assist beam on Canon's Speedlight 270 EX flashgun. More importantly perhaps, is firmware version 1.0.6 that "addresses the vertical banding noise phenomenon" for owners of the 50D. By &lt;em&gt;addresses&lt;/em&gt; we presume Canon means &lt;em&gt;fixes&lt;/em&gt; but we won't know until we hear your feedback. Well?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0904/09042301canonfirmwareupdates.asp"&gt;Digital Photography Review&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/digitalcameras/" rel="tag"&gt;Digital Cameras&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/canon-50d-firmware-update-fixes-vertical-banding-issues/"&gt;Canon 50D firmware update fixes vertical banding issues&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:24:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://web.canon.jp/imaging/eosd/firm-e/eos50d/firmware.html"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/canon-50d-firmware-update-fixes-vertical-banding-issues/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525713/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/canon-50d-firmware-update-fixes-vertical-banding-issues/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/broadcoms-first-bluetooth-3-0-chip-gets-certified/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Broadcom's first Bluetooth 3.0 chip gets certified                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 7:48 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php?id=s378967"&gt;&lt;img vspace="16" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2007/10/10-15-07-broadcom_logo.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Well, that fast -- just a day after the Bluetooth SIG officially announced the new &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/21/bluetooth-3-0-hs-gets-official-adds-speed-with-802-11/"&gt;Bluetooth 3.0 specification&lt;/a&gt;, Broadcom's announced that its BCM4325 chip has been certified and is ready to go. As you'd expect from a chip that uses the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/13/bluetooth-3-0-to-use-wifi-for-high-speed-file-transfers/"&gt;new high-speed multi-protocol standard&lt;/a&gt;, the 4325 does WiFi as well as Bluetooth, with a dash of FM thrown in for good measure. Handshakes all around -- now let's get this thing in some devices, shall we?&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/wireless/" rel="tag"&gt;Wireless&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/broadcoms-first-bluetooth-3-0-chip-gets-certified/"&gt;Broadcom's first Bluetooth 3.0 chip gets certified&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:48:00 EST.  Please see our &lt;a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"&gt;terms for use of feeds&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h6&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.broadcom.com/press/release.php"&gt;Read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/broadcoms-first-bluetooth-3-0-chip-gets-certified/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"&gt;Permalink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1525456/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"&gt;Email this&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/broadcoms-first-bluetooth-3-0-chip-gets-certified/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"&gt;Comments&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/video-wiinxtbalance-tools-around-doesnt-fall-down/" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Video: WiiNxtBalance tools around, doesn't fall down                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 7:07 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.epokh.org/blog/?p=215"&gt;&lt;img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2009/04/wiimotehackapr09.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div align="left"&gt;This little bot-- the &lt;span&gt;NXTway-GS -- is a self-balancer, and he's pretty cute, to boot. Thanks to some clever modifications, he's now controllable via &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Wiimote/"&gt;Wiimote&lt;/a&gt;. Using the &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/LEGONXT/"&gt;LEGO NXT&lt;/a&gt; system, and some custom firmware, the little dude is connected to a computer via Bluetooth. The video of the robot in action is after the break -- but if you want to see full instructions for making one of your very own -- hit the read link. And may we suggest you slap a powdered colonial wig on yours? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://hackaday.com/2009/04/21/wii-controlled-segway-style-nxt-bot/"&gt;Hack A Day&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/video-wiinxtbalance-tools-around-doesnt-fall-down/" rel="bookmark"&gt;Continue reading &lt;em&gt;Video: WiiNxtBalance tools around, doesn't fall down&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/gaming/" rel="tag"&gt;Gaming&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/robots/" rel="tag"&gt;Robots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/video-wiinxtbalance-tools-around-doesnt-fall-down/"&gt;Video: WiiNxtBalance tools around, doesn't fall down&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:07:00 EST.  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On the lower end is the 198 yuan (US $29) MV622, with a 2.4-inch LCD screen, 2GB storage and three colors to choose from (pictured). The MV651 has a larger, 3-inch screen with 400 x 240 resolution, TV-out, FM radio, and 4GB capacity for 299 ($44) yuan. The MV652 adds touch screen -- the only one to do so, it seems -- and e-book reading functionality, all for a price tag of $51 for 4GB / $58 for 8GB. The 4.3-inch MV881 lacks touch screen but otherwise boasts similar specs to its predecessor -- it'll set you back $58 (4GB) to $73 (8GB). The only one sporting 720p video and S-video out is the 8GB MV882 for $58. All units support e-dictionary, some game functionality, and a hefty number of audio / video codecs. Call it a hunch, but we don't expect a good lot of these -- if any -- to be making a stateside appearance anytime soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Via &lt;a href="http://www.pmptoday.com/2009/04/22/msi-mv622-mv651-mv652-mv881-mv882a-all-cheap-pmps/"&gt;PMP Today&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;p&gt;Filed under: &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Audio&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portablevideo/" rel="tag"&gt;Portable Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/msi-unveils-army-of-cheap-pmps-for-china/"&gt;MSI unveils army of cheap PMPs for China&lt;/a&gt; originally appeared on &lt;a href="http://www.engadget.com"&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt; on Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:30:00 EST.  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font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Review: A Day with the Strida Folding Bike [Verdict: Wear a Cup]                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 8:33 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/strida.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="strida.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/strida-thumb-468x305-19733.jpg" width="468" height="305" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After eying the Strida for a good two years, I finally had the chance to ride and manhandle one this week, when I demo'd the folding bike at &lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/20/sf-bay-area-pop-up-m.html"&gt;Pop-Up Magazine&lt;/a&gt;. The short of it:  The Strida excels at being one of the quickest, easiest folders I've broken down and put back together -- but it is also one of the most testicle-threatening little bikes I've ridden.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Details after the jump, but for now enjoy this Strida commercial from Japan (awesome, despite the fact I have no idea what they're saying). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/b6iy_NUN66k&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/b6iy_NUN66k&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'm no stranger to the range of decent to not-so-decent folding bikes from makers like &lt;a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgets/gadgetreviews/magazine/15-06/pl_test"&gt;Dahon, Brompton, Breezer and Birdy&lt;/a&gt;. Not one of them is perfect for every ride or rider. Dahon offers excellent sporty components (for a price). Brompton makes a luxurious city cruiser (a bit on the heavy side). Point being: if you want to be George Jetson, you've got to be comfortable with some trade-offs.  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Good:&lt;/strong&gt; Instead of a greasy chain, the Strida features a Kevlar belt drive (great if you're commuting to work in decent pants). The ergonomic grips provide excellent padding for your palms and the seat is equally comfy. After about an hour in total, I was able to get the folding and unfolding down to about 15 seconds give or take. Intelligent design: magnets on each of the wheels hold the two wheels together when folded (some of Dahon's bikes do this, too). The disc breaks are solid, which leads me to the...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Not-So-Good:&lt;/strong&gt; Slamming the breaks, especially on a downwhill, will forcefully thrust your junk into the frame. There is no way to avoid this. Believe me. The triangular design is unique and smart, but creates a roadblock your manstuff will simply not appreciate. On the plus side, if you learn to break slowly, incrementally and carefully over time, the frame-smacking can be avoided. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good-to-Know, also&lt;/strong&gt;: This ride wasn't designed for hills, at all. It's a single-speed with tiny wheels and a seat that doesn't necessarily offer the longest of strides a particularly tall rider would want (not an issue for me, just saying).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Overall, for &lt;a href="http://www.dwr.com/product/product-groups/transportation-study-solutions/strida-folding-bike-5-0-w-bag.do"&gt;$800&lt;/a&gt;, you can sit atop a user-friendly, smooth-riding folder that's great for mostly-flat commuting. But again, that's only provided you ride safely. And by safely, I mean: break like a surgeon or wear a jockstrap and cup. Or maybe both. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3d1acc6b2e4d428e144c6679be47dcb2&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3d1acc6b2e4d428e144c6679be47dcb2&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/4iTeZLYm3ec" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/yn_iw4MRTEA/review-black-diamond.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Review: An evening with Black Diamond's Orbit lantern                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 5:21 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="620705 Orbit WHITE horz.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/620705%20Orbit%20WHITE%20horz.jpg" width="520" height="357" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I live in a quiet, hilly neighborhood in San Francisco near two parks with great running trails and killer views of the bay. Neither park has street lights, though, so it's a good idea to head out with a flashlight. Black Diamond Equipment makes a compact, 1-watt LED lantern called the Orbit. It emits this smooth, circular ambient light about six feet in diameter that makes everything from pavement cracks to poop smears surprisingly visible even when it's pitch dark out. It also stands upright, which is great if you're just hanging out in one spot, and the light is consistent and smooth, unlike the flickery yellow of most flashlights and candles. The Orbit is actually designed for outdoorsy stuff like camping and backpacking, so it has little hooks that attach to tents and trees and is super lightweight (3oz). I like that you can adjust the brightness with the on/off button and pull the base of the lantern out to extend it from 4 to 5.5 inches in length. It runs on four AAAs or an optional rechargeable battery. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At $30, it's one of the neatest-looking, practical flashlight alternatives out there. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.blackdiamondequipment.com/gear/orbit.php"&gt;Product page&lt;/a&gt; [Black Diamond Equipment]&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c976e7582cffc182ee68da9b9213ee2d&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c976e7582cffc182ee68da9b9213ee2d&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/yn_iw4MRTEA" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/bcVrxLUbXrU/george-will-steve-jo.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   George Will: Steve Jobs is an infantile poser                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 3:53 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="george_will_2.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/george_will_2.jpg" width="209" height="300" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The excellent conservative writer George Will has an amusing, if very old-mannish rant up about denim, which to him is an emblem of America's disordered national psyche. There's a great bit in the middle, echoing a line from a &lt;a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123751483315591559.html"&gt;Daniel Akst piece&lt;/a&gt; from the WSJ:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;Long ago, when James Dean and Marlon Brando wore it, denim was, Akst says, "a symbol of youthful defiance." Today, Silicon Valley billionaires are rebels without causes beyond poses, wearing jeans when introducing new products. Akst's summa contra denim is grand as far as it goes, but it only scratches the surface of this blight on Americans' surfaces. Denim is the infantile uniform of a nation in which entertainment frequently features childlike adults...&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There's a &lt;a href="http://lileks.com/bleat/?p=1908"&gt;good response&lt;/a&gt; from Bleat. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;Yes, it's really Akst's thought with the dial up to 11. But there is no picture of Akst in a bow tie that you just know is being worn with a matching elastic belt.&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c760039a4595aa6c3112e269fa79f475&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c760039a4595aa6c3112e269fa79f475&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/bcVrxLUbXrU" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/yC6JjhRjT-k/vaja-case-for-vaio-p.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Vaja case for Vaio P                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:20 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="vajavaiop.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/vajavaiop.jpg" width="520" height="302" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Vaja, maker of stunning cases for MacBooks and Sony Vaios, added the Vaio P to its offerings. I'm tempted, but it's $120! On the other hand, I did pay $700 for a netbook. After the jump, the latest hardcover edition.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vajacases.com/home/home_en.html"&gt;Product Page&lt;/a&gt; [Vaja via &lt;a href="http://jkkmobile.blogspot.com/2009/04/vaja-cases-for-vaio-p.html"&gt;jkk&lt;/a&gt; via &lt;a href="http://i.gizmodo.com/5223781/a-gorgeous-vaio-p-case-from-vaja"&gt;giz&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="ivolution_Suit_SP.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/ivolution_Suit_SP.jpg" width="504" height="319" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="medium_3467459902_1ce381cb18_o.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/medium_3467459902_1ce381cb18_o.jpg" width="504" height="319" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="medium_3467460222c60ce_o.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/medium_3467460222c60ce_o.jpg" width="504" height="415" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6d1dc02a687f49dacdc19ef346d860de&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6d1dc02a687f49dacdc19ef346d860de&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/yC6JjhRjT-k" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/L6h3e5v-Ca8/electronic-mogwai.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Electronic Mogwai                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:02 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="a3bd_gremlins_gizmo_plush.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/a3bd_gremlins_gizmo_plush.jpg" width="400" height="340" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It features "motion and singing," and you can feed it after midnight. $23 from ThinkGeek.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/b89a/?cpg=wnrss"&gt;Singing Gizmo Gremlins Plush &lt;/a&gt; [ThinkGeek]&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;object width="520" height="320"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4A5RpztQf-A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4A5RpztQf-A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="520" height="320"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=e6f980082169a4fce0c5499d6603a78c&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=e6f980082169a4fce0c5499d6603a78c&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/L6h3e5v-Ca8" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/48cBG6xxVTc/the-cutting-edge-of.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   The cutting edge of East German electronics, circa 1990                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 10:35 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="eastgermany.jpg" src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/eastgermany.jpg" width="520" class="mt-image-center" style="text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Karlheinz Jardner &lt;a href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-41629.html"&gt;visited the east&lt;/a&gt; immediately after the wall came down. [Spiegel.de]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=fa56adc8b9baa6ca75aa9bac8cec3906&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=fa56adc8b9baa6ca75aa9bac8cec3906&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/48cBG6xxVTc" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/ZFTgyACuOxo/windows-7-starter-ed.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Windows 7 Starter Edition: The Final Insult                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 9:39 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cult of Mac&lt;/em&gt;'s Pete Mortensen is the latest to explain why "Windows 7 Starter Edition"  is going to make cheap PCs suck.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt; I never feel like Apple is needlessly squeezing pennies out of me by charging more for the features that make it worthwhile to upgrade. ...  Starter is intended to make people want to buy the nicer versions of Windows 7. I think it's net effect is more likely to be that people seriously consider alternatives. &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;On the contrary, Windows 7 Starter Edition reveals why the alternatives can't beat Microsoft: because consumers just don't care. This disinterest is so profound that Microsoft can not only design an intentionally bad product, but &lt;em&gt;market&lt;/em&gt; it as such. It knows that most people will pay extra to stay rather than switch, regardless of whether the proposed alternative is &lt;a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/"&gt;better&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/"&gt;cheaper&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://cultofmac.com/windows-7-starter-a-comically-bad-idea/10193"&gt;Windows 7 Starter: A Comically Bad Idea&lt;/a&gt; [Cult of Mac]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=65bde76a1623025b68903e6f3fd2dc03&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=65bde76a1623025b68903e6f3fd2dc03&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/ZFTgyACuOxo" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/VtRpaEpYr7M/amazon-deletes-revie.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Amazon deletes reviews that expose other reviews as paid-for                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 9:12 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you claim, in a review at Amazon, that its third-party sellers attempted to bribe you to get a good write-up, what will happen? Amazon will &lt;a href="http://consumerist.com/5223821/amazon-deletes-reviews-that-mention-pay-for-play-review-schemes"&gt;delete your review&lt;/a&gt;, of course! [Consumerist]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=6f321b664d3d801f385aeb577ad9a9bd&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=6f321b664d3d801f385aeb577ad9a9bd&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/VtRpaEpYr7M" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	            &lt;table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/Kf4DpIsCtpI/review-an-hour-with-2.html" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Review: an hour with Griffin's TuneFlex AUX                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 22, 2009 at 10:29 pm                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/Picture 1-19697.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://gadgets.boingboing.net/assets_c/2009/04/Picture 1-thumb-250x130-19697.jpg" width="250" height="130" alt="Picture 1.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Griffin's TuneFlex solves a problem: the iPod Touch and iPhone's lack of physical controls, which matter when attention is best given to the road ahead. A base unit plugs into the ciggie lighter and the stereo's auxiliary input, while a remote control (play/pause, FF and rewind) attaches to the steering wheel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It works well enough, with two minor drawbacks. First, it's big and cumbersome enough that you might want to not bother with the steering attachment, and just leave it knocking about in the console. Second, the base station caused en error to popup on our first-gen iPhone, which complained that it wasn't compatible. It worked perfectly, however, after the warning was dismissed. Apart from that, it's perfect.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;It's also compatible with normal iPods, should you just want a fancy recharching mount or remote.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At $80, though, it seems expensive given what little it does, even if it does it very well.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/tuneflex-aux-with-smartclick"&gt;Product Page&lt;/a&gt; [Griffin]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;br clear="both" style="clear: both;"/&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=c675a6f569349069f781c082f3303255&amp;amp;p=1"&gt;&lt;img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=c675a6f569349069f781c082f3303255&amp;amp;p=1" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~4/Kf4DpIsCtpI" height="1" width="1" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt; 	              &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="25"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;             &lt;/table&gt; 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font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Free Calls on Skype                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 11:10 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img height="93" width="377" alt="skype-free-on-3-uk.jpg" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/skype-free-on-3-uk.jpg" class="mt-image-right" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;3 UK is opening up its network to allow &lt;i&gt;anyone &lt;/i&gt;with a 3 SIM and a compatible handset to have unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages without ever having to pay. 3UK announced that on May 1st users with a 3UK SIM and a 3-provided Skype-enabled handset will be able to use &lt;a href="http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/snapshots/snapshots.aspx?Company=Skype"&gt;Skype&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;b&gt;free&lt;/b&gt;.  Additionally, previous deals for free Skype required a monthly topup of £10 on pay-as-you-go and there will be no data charges. Thus, Skype will be 100% free, subject to their fair use policy of course. &lt;img alt="" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt-static/plugins/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/regular_smile.gif" /&gt; There is just a one time fee of £1.99 for a SIM card.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Anyone with a compatible unlocked 3G handset in the UK, can take advantage of free Skype calls, whether or not their phone is from 3. This is a huge barrier-busting move by 3 that changes the game. Forget about using AT&amp;amp;T on your iPhone who is preventing &lt;a href="http://www.tmcnet.com/tmcnet/snapshots/snapshots.aspx?Company=Apple"&gt;Apple&lt;/a&gt; from allowing Skype to run over the 3G data connection. Simply get an unlocked iPhone, stick in a 3 SIM and enjoy free Skype calls! Of course, this "free" calling deal only applies to the UK. Why do the Brits get all the fun? &lt;img alt="" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt-static/plugins/FCKeditor/fckeditor/editor/images/smiley/msn/sad_smile.gif" /&gt; No worries, I'm sure this is just the first step before the U.S. gets in on the free Skype calling action.&amp;#160;I wonder if there might be some synergies with the &lt;a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype/skype-for-sip-marries-skype-and-ip-pbxs.asp"&gt;new Skype for SIP&lt;/a&gt; program (of which I'm a beta tester)? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; According to 3 UK, "By removing these key barriers to Skype-to-Skype calls, 3 UK is creating a compelling reason for new customers to join 3 and to enjoy all the products and services available on the UK's biggest mobile broadband network."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; According to &lt;a href="http://three.co.uk/Company/3G_Network/Skype"&gt;3 UK&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;div&gt;We've been working with Skype for over two years now and we've learned a lot about how our customers use the service. We know that a keen mobile Skype user is an instinctive, active communicator. They want to take full advantage of free mobile calls.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Increasingly Skype use is linked to other internet communications activities, such as Facebook, Twitter and a host of other services for which our customers will happily pay a fixed fee for unlimited use.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; While others have looked at Skype as a potential threat to voice and text revenues we see another advantage. Did you know when you call a friend on a different mobile network their network will charge your operator a fee for carrying the call?  This is called a Mobile Termination Rate or MTR and is currently charged at around 4.7p or more for every minute of the call. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; This fee is regulated by the industry regulator Ofcom but we think they're still too high. Without these fees we'd be able to offer our customers much better value and that's where Skype comes in.  With Skype, MTRs don't apply so we can give our customers all the minutes they like without over charging them.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; At 3, we believe our customers should be able to choose how they communicate because that's mobile as it should be; simple, useful and always good value.&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Kevin Russell, Chief Executive Officer of 3 UK, said "Communication through the internet is exploding. Internet calling or VoIP, social networking, instant messaging and email are used by millions in the UK every single day. They are open to all on their PCs and laptops. We want people to be free to communicate from their mobiles in the same way as they do from their PCs.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "In future you will be able to buy a 3 SIM for unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls for less than the price of a cup of coffee and talk for as much as you want without ever paying us another penny. We won't ask you for a top-up or a monthly commitment. If you want to talk on a mobile for free, just join us and give it a go. This is for everyone."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Josh Silverman, President of Skype said, "Demand for mobile access from our users has never been higher. The introduction of unlimited Skype-to-Skype calls and instant messages across all 3 price plans is a really exciting move from a key partner. 3 UK clearly understands the desire for people to use Skype wherever and whenever they want. This is the first mobile network to show this kind of innovation to enable their customers to access Skype.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "We believe this is how the future looks for the Internet on mobile. With this bold move 3 UK has again shown their willingness to be the customer champion for mobile services in the UK."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Currently, 3 UK's growing Skype community enjoys 1.5 million minutes of free Skype-to-Skype calls every day. The launch of the first 3 Skypephone in October 2007 really kick-started the growth of free internet calling on the 3 network. With over 433 million people registered on Skype worldwide, the new free Skype-to-Skype offer from 3 opens up a world of free calling.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Two years experience of providing open access to Skype-to-Skype calling has enabled 3 and Skype to better understand the behaviour of mobile Skype users. Success with an easy-to-use Skype experience on more specialised internet-enabled handsets, such as the INQ1 and the 3 Skypephone collection; has proven to 3 that enabling customers to make free Skype calls to other Skype users on their mobiles or PCs is a real benefit.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; 3 UK has found that regular Skype users:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Are less likely to churn than non-Skype users&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Use more traditional voice minutes than non-Skype users in addition to calling their Skype contacts&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Use Skype IM, but also send more SMS than non-Skype users&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Are more likely to browse the internet on their mobile&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Are higher margin customers&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Are twice as likely to access social networking sites as non-Skype customers&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; "Today we are moving in a clear direction towards making Skype-to-Skype calling available to all UK mobile consumers," said Mr Russell. "We know that Skype users are instinctive communicators, keen social networkers and mobile internet users. They love the things that we are building the UK's biggest mobile broadband network for.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; "Our network is built to deliver the benefits of the internet to the mobile. 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margin:0;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/voipgadgets/~3/h5yas5RisAo/plantronics-voyager-pro.asp" style="color:#011c9f; font-size:20px; line-height:23px; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;                   Plantronics Voyager PRO                  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br&gt;                   &lt;span style="color:#666666; font-size:11px; padding:0; margin:5px 0 0 0;"&gt;                   April 23, 2009 at 10:59 am                  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;                 &lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td height="20"&gt;&lt;hr width="100%" size="1" noshade style="padding:0; margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/td&gt;               &lt;/tr&gt;               &lt;tr&gt;                 &lt;td class="content"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img height="297" width="356" style="" class="mt-image-none" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/plantronics-voyager-pro.jpg" alt="plantronics-voyager-pro.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Plantronics Voyager Pro is the successor to the much-loved Plantronics Voyager 510 Bluetooth headset, which goes on sale today, although, Best Buy started selling its stock a bit early. I have a review unit which I plan on testing and giving my thoughts/opinion on in the new few days. I reviewed its predecessor, the &lt;a href="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/gadgets/plantronics-voyager-510usb-bluetooth-headset-review.asp"&gt;Plantronics Voyage 510&lt;/a&gt;, which had a cult following. I was a big fan of the Voyager 510 and have one on my desk. It is an excellent headset and one of the first to feature PC audio support via a Bluetooth dongle allowing you to use the headset on your mobile phone or your PC, supporting all your PC sound applications, including VoIP apps such as Skype.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;img height="363" width="327" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px; float: right;" class="mt-image-right" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/plantronics-voyager-pro-2.jpg" alt="plantronics-voyager-pro-2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The new $99 Voyager Pro is pretty similar to the 510, though it is clearly targetting the Jawbone 2, with their AudioIQ&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; technology which Plantronics claims results in superior sound quality which combines noise cancellation and wind reduction. I heard a few people that had early units say it's sound is even better than the Aliph Jawbone 2. Can't wait to test and see if that is indeed the case. [&lt;i&gt;Note: the Jawbone Prime is newer, so will have to compare with that as well]&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Plantronics stated, "Today's headset users expect great noise cancellation and Plantronics Voyager PRO delivers it with AudioIQ&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; and a unique adjustable dual-microphone boom. While other &lt;a href="http://www.tmcnet.com/channels/headsets/" title="Headsets Channel"&gt;headsets&lt;/a&gt; deliver noise cancellation at the expense of overall audio quality, the boom provides the advantage of capturing your voice close to your mouth so the AudioIQ&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;  technology can more effectively remove ambient noise, while still maintaining the natural sound of your voice."&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Plantronics Voyager PRO features three layers of WindSmart technology. Dual external stainless steel microphone screens and acoustic fabrics that surround the microphones together help to eliminate wind noise. The AudioIQ&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt;  DSP algorithms also intelligently decipher your voice from the wind to enhance the sound quality.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;img height="306" width="324" style="" class="mt-image-none" src="http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/plantronics-voyager-pro-3.jpg" alt="plantronics-voyager-pro-3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; The Voyager PRO also features a custom speaker that delivers 
