Energy Sistem knows that there’s no better way to kick-start your Friday morning than a handful of awfully similar looking renders for handheld media players! And while we’re at it, we might as well mention that they are, in fact, renders of the new 52 Touch TV-out line. Featuring a 2.8-inch TFT touch-screen, speaker, TV-out, FM transmitter for the car, microphone, and support for DivX and XviD, FLV, RM / RMVB, MP3 / WMA / WAV music files, images and TXT files, this is pretty much everything you hoped for in a media player, and nothing else
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Energy Sistem launches 52 Touch line of MP5 renders featuring TV output
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Digitimes is reporting that both Acer and ASUS are currently in somewhat of a holding pattern in regards to their new laptops. The report says that both companies are holding off on releasing new laptops until current inventory is depleted, and demand has built up for new models. This would mark somewhat of a new strategy for the companies, which have, in the past, often added new models so quickly that choosing between them could be difficult.
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New Acer and ASUS laptops not coming until the middle of August, says Digitimes report
As smartphones continue to extend their pocket-swelling domination of the mobile market, it should come as no surprise that people are less worried about talking and more concerned with doing other stuff on their handsets than ever before. But, still, if you want some hard numbers to make you feel better about making such conclusions, the Pew Research Center ’s 2010 Mobile Access survey has ‘em
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Pew’s 2010 Mobile Access survey shows more people are doing more things on their phones
Service robots are nothing new (and neither are dancing robots , for that matter) but unlike our old friend CAFERO , FURO has something of a human face. Of course, this is supposed to soothe and reassure us, but like the old robo-teddy we’re pretty much convinced that this is yet another harbinger of doom .
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FURO robot waitstaff lull Koreans into a sense of complacency
While we’ll let competitors tell us whether the chip’s “an industry first,” Sharp’s certainly serious about devices with twin screens — this new LR388G9 controller chip pumps pixels simultaneously to each of two 1,024 x 480 LCDs.
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Sharp’s LR388G9 LCD controller suggests more products with dual screens
While range is an unfortunate limiting factor for electric vehicles , slow recharging time is perhaps even more troubling. Going 100 miles on a charge would be okay if you could stop at the corner electron stand and top up your cells while hitting the potty, and JFE Engineering’s quick charger gets makes that a reality, able to charge an EV’s batteries to 50 percent in just three minutes. Five minutes gets you a 70 percent charge, but from there things go downhill, with 30 minutes required for an 80 percent charge
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JFE Engineering’s quick auto charger does 50% charge in three minutes, hits parking lots in March
It’s Monday, and we know that getting the week started can be tough. We’re here to help by letting you peek into the recording booth when the Engadget HD podcast goes to tape at 4:30 pm . Think of it as a kind of time machine that will help you power through your day by reviewing what happened in the week HD-wise
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Join the Engadget HD podcast live on Ustream at 4:30 PM
We oftentimes hear raw numbers of apps bandied about in mobile OS comparisons , but we rarely get any idea of just how many developers are behind the scenes working for each platform. This is the void of knowledge filled by AppStore HQ today, who have gone to their dev directory — claimed to be a complete listing of all 55,000+ coders whose work is currently available for consumption in the Apple App Store or Android Market — and stacked them into neat piles of Apple, Google and Gapple programmers
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iOS has a bigger dev army than Android, but will cross-platform apps rule the day?
Sure, Pandigital’s Novel may be delayed until next month because of some firmware issues — and we haven’t heard the most positive things about the 7-inch LCD based e-reader / tablet — but we had to check it out for ourselves. At $149, the all-plastic reader isn’t going to win any build quality awards (it’s also rather heavy for what it is), but the Android 2.1-powered gadget does have a pretty attractive user interface. In use, however, the resistive screen had to be pressed quite firmly to make selections and the software was noticeably sluggish
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Pandigital Novel preview
We’ve seen Liquavista displays plenty of times at various trade shows, but so far they’ve always been locked up indoors. Now they’ve gone outside to enjoy the weather, and ARMdevices.net was there to capture the results. The low-power color and monochrome screens are shown looking at least as good in the wild as they do in captivity, and when placed next to a traditional LCD (in the laptop on the right) the difference is clear.
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Liquavista displays go out in the sun, look better than all right (video)
