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Can WinPho 7 Close the App Gap?

Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is in the wild, and one of the big questions about the launch involves the app ecosystem for the new mobile operating system. Microsoft promised about 1,000 apps on launch day, and it appears the company has managed to cover most of the bases for big-name apps, with offerings such as Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, YouTube, Shazam, Yelp, Foursquare, Seesmic, The Weather Channel and others.

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Sharp Touch Wood concept turns real with limited run of 15,000 handsets on NTT DoCoMo

You might have expected Sharp's pebble-shaped Touch Wood concept to remain just that, a concept, but the eclectic Japanese market has found a spot in its heart to fit 15,000 units of the curvy, wood-trimmed cellphone. Built from locally sourced cypress timber, each handset will have its own unique pattern and color, while the innards will be filled with a five megapixel imager, a 3.4-inch (854 x 480) display, a MicroSDHC expansion slot, and your usual GSM and 3G wireless radios. You can get yours through NTT DoCoMo some time around February or March.

Sharp Touch Wood concept turns real with limited run of 15,000 handsets on NTT DoCoMo originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kinect Has a Thousand Eyes Viewed With Night Vision Goggles

Kinect Night Vision

Imagine Microsoft Kinect reaching out with invisible fingers to bathe your living room in a thousand points of light.

No, it's not some weird accessory inspired by George H. W. Bush, or Kinect's super-secret disco-ball dance-party mode. Joystiq noticed a YouTube video in which someone puts their video camera in night-vision mode, dims the lights, and scans their living room, unearthing a galaxy of tiny, tightly-spaced tracking dots.

It's kind of eerie to watch, but also kind of cool. That's what's crawling your body when you stand before the sensor, scouring every inch of your play-space with pinpoint sensors. I keep expecting someone to jump up from behind the couch and go "yarggllleatyourbrainzzz," or maybe just "boo."

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Engadget Podcast 218 - 11.07.2010

Hey. Were you living under a rock this week? Were you living in some sort of bomb shelter or trashy warehouse where you couldn't keep up with the week's consumer electronics news? If you were, the Engadget Podcast is a great place to catch up on what you missed in a fun, cool, easy-to-swallow way. Whether it's your first or your 218th, please make sure to welcome this week's edition to your media player of choice - now!

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, Nilay Patel
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Enter Sandman
Lounge music: Something About Us

00:04:03 - Google TV review
00:11:00 - Sony Internet TV with Google TV review
00:17:00 - Sony Internet TV Blu-ray Disc Player with Google TV review
00:21:03 - Logitech Revue gets OTA update, a cure for the framerate jitters?
00:23:24 - Kinect for Xbox 360 review
00:44:53 - Samsung Galaxy Tab review
00:59:45 - T-Mobile myTouch 4G review
01:13:05 - Skyfire disappears from iTunes App Store due to technical difficulties (update: 'sold out')


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Switched On: The iPadification of Mac OS

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

The title of Apple's recent Back to the Mac event turned out to have multiple meanings. The first was heralding a shift of Apple's event focus to the product that was once synonymous with the company. But it also had a more literal connotation, that traits associated both with iPad software and hardware would now be finding their way back to the Apple's computers. But the impact of this round trip could have different implications for hardware and software.

Apple's new MacBook Air was cited as taking on traits associated with the iPad such as thinness, flash storage, longer battery life, and instant on. The new MacBook Air also dispenses with an optical drive, but so did the previous MacBook Air, and indeed so do nearly all netbooks and quite a few other "thin and light" notebook PCs. Most would agree that the new hardware choices produce desirable traits in an ultramobile notebook.

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Switched On: The iPadification of Mac OS originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:50:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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