HTC Europe director Mark Moons caused quite a stir this morning when he tweeted that the company would begin rolling out Android Froyo updates to devices tomorrow, starting with the Desire , but we wouldn’t get too excited yet — HTC tells us that it’s possible a rollout will begin tomorrow, but nothing’s finalized yet pending some final testing. We’ve certainly got our fingers crossed — and we’re sure Desire owners the world over will be hitting that System Updates button nonstop for the next few days
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HTC beginning Froyo rollout tomorrow? Maybe, maybe not
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At the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo, Satoshi Nariai demonstrates something called the head-mounted Mobile Video Communication System. With acceleration and position sensors built into a head-mounted display, the remote camera moves in relation to your head’s movements. The researcher sees this being used primarily for videoconferencing where he thinks it will promote effective communication by allowing eye contact
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Head-mounted display controls video camera, keeps you painfully single
Not interested in paying $4.99 for an issue of a magazine on your iPad? Well, Time Inc. execs don’t seem to be too keen on the idea either.
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Time Inc. execs said to be frustrated over lack of iPad magazine subcriptions
Someone should really tell T-Mobile USA it’s got a rather large hole that needs plugged. Hot on the heels of the (presumably) T-Mob-bound G1 Blaze leak comes this duo, which includes a purported leak of the myTouch HD (or 3G HD) as well as a web portal that quite clearly prepares us for the launch of the carrier’s first HSPA+ smartphone
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Purported myTouch HD leaks out alongside promise of T-Mobile’s first HSPA+ smartphone
President Eisenhower, in his famous farewell speech in 1961, warned against the the acquisition of unwarranted influence by the ” military industrial complex .” If he had given those remarks some sixty years later, he might have worked academia into the phrase — especially if he knew about the snakes ! Certainly one of the more viscerally unnerving wargadgets we’ve encountered over the last few years, the creepy-crawly automatons of the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute are a big hit at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, where three of ‘em have been arrayed onto a circular base to form the Robotic Tentacle Manipulator, a hand that could be used for opening doors or handling IEDs, possibly while mounted on the iRobot Warrior . The “opening a door” problem, as it is called, has perplexed the field of robotics for quite some time now — and it might one day be solved using technology like this.
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Carnegie Mellon’s robot snakes converge into creepy hand-like wargadget
If there’s one thing the world needs it’s a few more tablets , tablets with fancy multitouch screens, and that’s exactly what Synaptics is helping to spread.
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Synaptics shows off multitouch screens for multitouch tablets up to 10.1-inches
Look everyone, it’s the littlest handset come to deliver Android cheer. Last month we got word that Modu was working on a touchscreen device dubbed the T-Phone , featuring full 3G and microSD expansion, also referred to as the Modu 2 . Now we have video of what looks to be the same phone out in the wild, running an early version of Android (possibly 1.6) and looking rather fit next to an iPhone and an HTC G2
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Modu’s T-Phone captured in the wild chilling with Android? (video)
Oh sure, VoIP on the iPod touch is hardly breaking news these days, but what if you could actually slap on a regular SIM card and make calls on said device? That’s what Yosion’s appropriately named Apple Peel 520 claims to do. Powered by an Infineon baseband chip, this adapter not only offers voice calling and text messaging (presumably requiring a jailbroken iPod touch for the apps; GPRS not possible yet), but it also doubles up as an 800mAh battery and provides 4.5 hours of call time or 120 hours of standby juice.
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iPod touch becomes iPhone using Yosion’s Apple Peel 520?
We’ve already gathered that Verizon, Moto, and HTC all seem to be pretty well committed to bumping most of their Droid models to Froyo (as well they should), but things are starting to get real — really real. First off, we’ve been fed a shot of a tipster’s Droid X that has apparently already been blessed with 2.2 over the air; the baseband version is a tick older than the one in a shot leaked over on My Droid Life , but it’s anyone’s guess how Motorola is staging this and what the final gold binary really contains. We’ve also seen a 2.2 ROM for the Droid Incredible leak recently ( and the Droid before that ), so uncorroborated rumors we’re seeing that three of the four retail Droids will be getting 2.2 by the 15th of next month aren’t necessarily crazy
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Android 2.2 upgrade for Droid X may already be trickling out, other Droids shortly?
We’ve seen quadriplegic transportation directed by brainwaves , speech and even the occasional Wiimote , but your best bet might be to follow your nose.
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The nose knows… how to let quadriplegics move and speak (video)
