Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast with guest CrackBerry Kevin, live at 5PM ET!
Just wake up from a very restful week-long slumber? First of all, we’re envious of your good fortune. Second, Research in Motion made a few changes to its leadership chart. Third, you must be really hungry right about now. So grab a sandwich, come back in an hour and join Myriam, Brad, Sean Cooper and our very special guest Kevin Michaluk (yes, Mr. CrackBerry Kevin himself) as we discuss the northern news, as well as anything else that happened this week.
Be sure to send questions or comments you have for us or Kevin via Twitter (we’re @engadgetmobile), or make your voice heard in our Ustream chat room during the show!
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Daily Crunch: VR Drone Edition
Giant VR Helmet Is Very 90s, Yet Way Cooler Europe Launching Gigapixel Probe To Map Milky Way Effectology: Paranormal Spooooky Sounds Do A Barrel Roll: AR.Drone Challenges You To Become A Great Drone Pilot Kid-Tested, Grant Imahara Approved: Hexbrite Open Source Flashlight
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February 14th is Valen… Angry Birds day
Forget poking: from February 14th, show you love someone by flinging a mis-tempered avian toward them. It’s Valentines Day that Angry Birds will finally arrive on the ubiquitous social network — just in time to ensure half the coupled population of the world misses its dinner reservation, in order to get past one more level. The basic game will be free, but upgrades like the Mighty Eagle, double-sized birds, an earthquake weapon and a max-strength catapult will cost you. It’ll be launched in Jakarta around the same time you offer up that heart-shaped box of chocolates, so if you want to ensure the day remains romantic, we’d suggest waiting until the 15th before installing.
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Sony reveals new 3G/WiFi PS Vita bundles: free data, PSN games and memory cards for everyone
Sony’s PlayStation Vita hasn’t exactly sold like hotcakes over in Japan, so the company has sweetened the pot for the portable’s potential Stateside buyers. Those who placed pre-orders will get a couple of extra goodies for their $350. To go with the previously promised limited edition case, 4GB memory card and copy of Little Deviants, you’ll also receive 250MB of data from AT&T and a PlayStation Network game gratis as soon as you activate 3G on the device. Furthermore, folks buying a Vita on launch day can look forward to the same free data and PSN game, plus an 8GB memory card in exchange for their $300. So, that enough to get you on the handheld’s bandwagon? Sound off in the comments below.
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Jon Rubinstein Leaves HP After ?Fulfilling Commitment?
HP’s had quite a 2011 and Jon Rubinstein, former Palm CEO and a top-level executive at HP after the giant acquired Palm in 2010, was along for the ride. But according to a report out of AllThingsD, Rubinstein has officially left the company.
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Kinect-Powered Windows 8 Laptops Are Definitely in the Works [Laptops]
We’ve known that Kinect for Windows is coming for a while now, but The Daily got its hands on the first computers that have the technology built directly into them: More »
Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look
While not a game per se, I found Mitoza intriguing enough to spend quite some time with it. You start off with a seed, and are then presented with two choices: you can either click a flower pot, or click a cute little birdie.
If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You’re then presented with two further choices — a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices.
There’s no winning or losing, really. Each “game” usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed.
The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style.
All in all, it’s a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you’re at it.
Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HTML5 MP3 player lets you listen to your music library inside your browser
Just fire up http://antimatter15.github.com/player/player.html in your HTML5-compatible browser and browse to the topmost folder in your music library. The app will quickly build an index of all your tunes and let you start listening right inside your Web browser. Click on the filter library text, and you can enter a search string — results load as you type.
There’s a volume control, shuffle mode, play/pause control, and you can click and drag to skip forward or rewind during playback. As OMG! Ubuntu points out, you can even save the app to your hard drive and run it offline, which is pretty darn cool.
Not all browsers are equal when it comes to HTML5 implementation, of course. We found that Chrome worked the best, and Firefox was OK. It’s also worth noting that this music player comes from the same developer that created one of our favorite restartless Firefox 4 add-ons, drag2up.
HTML5 MP3 player lets you listen to your music library inside your browser originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Arduino Hack Pulls Bedroom Curtains For You, Could Make You Lazier
Looking for a good way to pull open those blind in the morning without needing to get out of bed? Arduino has you covered in this hack.
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Daily Crunch: Landscape Portrait Edition
Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer Must-Have For Minecraft Fans: Grass Block Mousepad Review: ThinkGeek iCADE iPad Arcade Game Bowers & Wilkins Announce The Tiny PM1 Audiophile-Class Compact Loudspeaker Do Not Swallow: Olympus Releases Tiny E-PL Promotional Cameras
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Intel’s Ultrabook Plan: Cheaper, With Touch Screens, and Marketed Like Crazy
Intel is pushing hard on the ultrabooks category, hoping to capture a little bit of the MacBook Air’s glory.
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Daily Crunch: Desert Surveillance Edition
At Last You Can Fabricate Your Minecraft Creations The Gem Hsin Topaz Speakers Do Multifunction Right Scientists Create Microscopic, Lens-less Camera This Case Lets You Attach An SLR Lens To Your iPhone The Gem Hsin Topaz Speakers Do Multifunction Right
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Review: GPS running watches offer improvements
NEW ORLEANS — My accessories for last month’s Mardi Gras Marathon in New Orleans included a pair of bead necklaces and three watches.
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Tweet from anywhere on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with TwitkaFly [jailbreak apps]
Twitkafly allows you to tweet from virtually anywhere with a quick swipe or tap on your jailbroken iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Twitkafly will add a Twitter shortcut to your notification center and allow you to program a quick gesture for composing straight through Activator. The interface is clean and very iOS 5 like. It isn’t bogged down with too many buttons or cheesy graphics.
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This 16GB Class 10 Micro SDHC Is Your Itty-Bitty Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]
Smaller is better, right? Small laptops. Small phones. Small cheeseburgers. You get the point. Why haven’t people embraced MicroSD in the same way? It’s soooooooooooooo much smaller than a standard SD card, which makes it better, right? More »
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Intel bolsters video patent portfolio with purchase from RealNetworks
Silicon juggernaut Intel has inked a multi-million dollar deal with RealNetworks, agreeing to purchase scores of video-related patents and annex an entire software team. Specifics of the accord have Intel shelling out $120 million in exchange for 190 patents, 170 patent applications and a video codec development squad. In addition, the two companies have signed a “memorandum of understanding,” agreeing to collaborate on future development of the licensed software. RealNetworks states that the sale “will [not] have any material impact on its businesses” and it will retain “certain rights” to the sold technologies. Intel says the sale will improve its ability to “offer richer experiences and innovative solutions [...] across a wide spectrum of devices.” The full PR is queued up for you after the break.
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15 Worst Internet Privacy Scandals of All Time
In honor of National Data Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we’ve put together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all time.
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Top 10 Reason’s to Use a Blog in the Classroom
Top 10 Reason’s to Use a Blog in the Classroom as produced, written and directed by the grade 10 communications technology class.
Enable iTunes Home Sharing on Macs and iOS Devices
Like Apple’s $25-per-year iTunes Match service, iTunes Home Sharing lets you stream media from an iTunes library to your iOS device, Apple TV, or another computer — but Home Sharing is completely free.
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Burrito Bison is a simple game for gummy bear lovers
Burrito Bison is a pretty simple game, but if you’re into gummy bears you might find it addictive.
As you may have guessed from the name, you’re a bison (not a burrito, though). In the course of your day-to-day grocery shopping, you’re abducted into a bag of gummy bears, and must now fend for yourself.
At the beginning of each round you launch yourself onto the marching gummy (gummi?) bears, while you’re being watched by a huge crowd of even more gummy bears. Your goal is to keep bouncing on the bears and earn more and more money while you do it. Every time you hit a gummy bear, you lose some momentum. If you hit the floor, you basically lose all of it.
But don’t give up just yet! You have an emergency thrust which you can use to gain some momentum and keep bouncing on those bears. This extra thrust gets refilled as you hit more bears.
There are also special gummy bears that give you extra thrust or extra money. The money comes in handy at the end of each round, when you can shop for cool stuff to make your bison even more effective against those gummy bears.
It’s a fun and colorful game that kept my interest for quite some time, and almost sent me running to the closest store to get some gummy bears!
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Personal Tech Live with Rob Pegoraro
Rob Pegoraro answers your questions on recent gadget reviews, technology news and provides personal tech buying and fixing advice.
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World’s Largest Game Controller is Freaking Huge (and Awesome)
You may have played Super Mario Bros. on a 65-inch television before, and you might have even collected coins on an HDTV much larger. But have you ever chucked fireballs at Bowser using a 12-foot wide Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) controller? Sure it’s insanity, but it’s also possible on the world’s largest game controller, a massive…
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Slinging
Slingbox lets you watch your television remotely. The Slingbox hardware device captures the source image and audio at your home and squirts it into the Internet. Proprietary software is used to replicate a television-like experience on laptops or other devices like smartphones.
AVG launches LiveKive cloud sync and backup tool
A while back, we told you about AVG’s new LiveKive service, a new cloud synchronization and backup tool which appears to have been named after a vat in which mash is made during the brewing process. But enough about AVG’s odd choice of monikers — LiveKive has launched and is now ready to accept your files into the AVG cloud.
LiveKive takes aim at services like Dropbox and SugarSync, though at the moment it’s lagging behind in terms of features. As it stands, LiveKive is only compatible with Windows and OS X. There are no mobile clients yet, though with AVG’s strong presence on Android we wouldn’t be surprised to see an app arrive in the near future.
The company is offering a heck of a deal right now, however. If you sign up for a paid account during the launch phase, you can score unlimited storage for $80 for a whole year. You can’t even score 50GB per year at that price from Dropbox, so if cost and space are more important to you than cross-platform availability, LiveKive might be worth checking out.
If you’re not interested in ponying up any cash at the moment, you can still get a 5GB account free of charge. Just head on over, and create a LiveKive account.
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Google Created Gmail’s Perfect Logo the Night Before It Was Due [Gmail]
Every one of us knows the stomach terror of starting a project right before it’s due. But what if your assignment is Gmail’s logo, your teacher is Google, and it’s due tomorrow? Suddenly school doesn’t seem that bad. More »
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How you and Google are losing the battle against spam in search results
Google is facing withering criticism from tech bloggers and search-engine experts who say the world’s premier gateway to digital information is increasingly being gamed by spammers. Google, they say, is losing.
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Stop What You’re Doing and Explore Mars Right Now [Nasa]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to walk around on Mars? For 99.99999% of us, this may be as close as we ever get. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has given us the honor of taking the lid off of this awesome, interactive eye-candy. Basically it’s Google Earth, for Mars. More »
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AT&T’s proposed spectrum transfer mapped out in T-Mobile magenta
AT&T’s proposed spectrum transfer mapped out in T-Mobile magenta originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Google Offers expands to five new locales, hipsters in Portland nonchalantly recall being first
Google Offers expands to five new locales, hipsters in Portland nonchalantly recall being first originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cortexa’s ZE Home Controller: recreate Demon Seed for a fraction of the cost
Your home is the next frontier for gadgeteers across the world and Cortexa’s leading the way by releasing a new kit that’ll turn your house into Proteus IV in a matter of minutes. The EZ Home Automation Ready Controller can manage lighting, security cameras and thermostats from the comfort of its Flash-based (aww) web-interface or iOS app. It’s also retailing an EZ-Wave Starter package with ten dimmers, thermostat, energy monitor, controller and two lamp modules for quick fitting. You’ll also be able to save on energy bills, cutting your power down when you’re out and about or by setting custom actions for those lightbulb-left-on-moments. Cortexa’s building a HTML5 interface as well as support for Hal and Lutron-based systems, which are due to arrive in “a few weeks.” The starter kit will set you back $1,800, while remote access costs $50 a year (or $5 a month). After the break we’ve got PR for everyone who wants to really freak out the kid you paid to come house-sit when you’re on vacation.
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Panasonic intros a pair of 12.1-inch Let’s Note Laptops
Panasonic intros a pair of 12.1-inch Let’s Note Laptops originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lethal Protection Life-Phorm Pro Demo At CES 2012
The Life-Phorm Pro is a positioning device for smartphones, tablets and cameras that can change shape and cling to many different surfaces. Check out our hands-on demo from the show floor of CES 2012.
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The Power A Batarang Wired Xbox 360 Controller Is Your Not-A-Real-Batarang Deal of the Day [Dealzmodo]
So how do we feel about Microsoft and Sony waiting until 2013 or 2014 to put out their new systems? With the pace of phones moving so quickly, tablets popping out like companies have indigestion and even laptops becoming more ultra every year, it seems like game consoles have become forgotten technology. But! We would scream foul if xboxes and pee ess threes were updated every year right? Maybe? Probably. I’m just surprised at how much I still enjoy my Xbox still. I guess game consoles have evolved to a point past just games. Is that fulfilling their destiny or ignoring their strengths? I DON’T KNOW. I also don’t know why you would buy a third party controller for the Xbox because the one that comes with it is so awesome. To each his own! So to you, own eacher, here’s the Xbox Power A Batarang Wired Controller for $26. -CC More »
New software uses facial recognition to defend against prying eyes
Having the right programs and hardware to keep the information on your display safe from prying eyes is never a bad idea, and new software from Oculis Labs offers a very interesting take on how to do just that. It’s called PrivateEye, and it utilizes facial recognition to automatically pixelate the contents of your display when you look away.
If you step away from your system and someone else decides to sit down and poke around, PrivateEye will present a confusing jumble of garbled text. It’ll even notify you if someone tries to peek over your shoulder — and display a picture of your peeping Tom, throw up an alert, or sound an alarm.
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Faster Forward: Reviewing The Post’s iPad app
The Washington Post has an iPad app, and it’s much better than the iPhone program I panned in March.
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