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| iPad line watch: the few, the proud? (updating, Woz on deck!)
April 3, 2010 at 7:15 AM
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| We just landed at Apple's 5th avenue flagship, "The Cube," and it's... a little bare. We count less than 15 people in line at this point (still headed by the inimitable Greg Packer), and most of them actually have pre-orders. Despite the minimal line situation, Apple has a huge section of The Cube's plaza cordoned off to make room for more, and the NYPD is here with barriers galore, ready to lay down the law. We're told the lines will be split between pre-orderers and non-pre-orderers at 6:30PM, at which point the scene will look truly pitiful. Presumably the crowd will grow later tonight and swell early next morning, as those pre-orderers with nothing to worry about shuffle in, breakfast in their bellies. Or maybe everyone just went to the beach for the weekend.
Have you spotted a line in your city? Send us a tip! Not planning on braving the beautiful spring weather for a shot at this revolutionary / magical device? Make sure to check out Josh's iPad-equipped Jimmy Fallon appearance later tonight.
Update: News is filtering in from all over -- check it after the break, and make sure to send in what you're seeing, wherever you are!
Continue reading iPad line watch: the few, the proud? (updating, Woz on deck!) iPad line watch: the few, the proud? (updating, Woz on deck!) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 01:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this ;| Comments | | |
| How would you change Alienware's M11x?
April 3, 2010 at 4:01 AM
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| | Call it the little laptop that could, or just call it Alienware's most adorable machine ever. Whatever you call it, Alienware's M11x made all sorts of waves when it splashed down into an essentially empty market segment earlier this year, offering hardcore gamers the opportunity to take their first-person shooters onto cramped buses and coach airline seats with more comfort than ever before. Of course, all that power comes at a price, and while we already expressed our own feelings on the thing, we're interested in knowing how you feel about seeing triple-digit FPS numbers on an 11-inch display. Is the experience better or worse than you anticipated? Have you ditched your desktop replacement for good? Are you wondering why on Earth you chose this over a netbook? Let us know how you'd overhau! l the M11x if you had the chance down in comments below. And make it good. How would you change Alienware's M11x? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 22:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | |
| iPad roundup: iDisplay extended desktop, plus Kindle and Time reader apps
April 3, 2010 at 1:31 AM
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| | Say what you will, the past couple of days have been littered with signs of a rapidly expanding set of functions that the iPad can perform. Latest on the block is the iDisplay desktop extender, which will turn any of your iPhone OS devices into a WiFi-connected second monitor, allowing you to finally unchain your Mac OS (Windows version forthcoming) desktop and take it on the move. Introductory price is $4.99 and you'll find an early hands-on experience at the TUAW link. Next up we have the Kindle for iPhone app contracting its name to just Kindle and making the expected jump to iPad compatibility with version 2.0, which comes with iBookstore-like page turning and, best of all, won't cost you a thing. We've also got word of Time Magazine pricing what's free on the iPhone at $4.99 per issue on the iPad, with the excuse being that you can "experience Time in a revolutionary new way." Good luck with that, we say. Continue reading iPad roundup: iDisplay extended desktop, plus Kindle and Time reader apps iPad roundup: iDisplay extended desktop, plus Kindle and Time reader apps originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  TUAW, mocoNews.net |  Shape Services, App Store (Kindle), Time | Email this&nbs! p;| Comments | | |
| iPad line watch: the few, the proud?
April 3, 2010 at 12:30 AM
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| We just landed at Apple's 5th avenue flagship, "The Cube," and it's... a little bare. We count less than 15 people in line at this point (still headed by the inimitable Greg Packer), and most of them actually have pre-orders. Despite the minimal line situation, Apple has a huge section of The Cube's plaza cordoned off to make room for more, and the NYPD is here with barriers galore, ready to lay down the law. We're told the lines will be split between pre-orderers and non-pre-orderers at 6:30PM, at which point the scene will look truly pitiful. Presumably the crowd will grow later tonight and swell early next morning, as those pre-orderers with nothing to worry about shuffle in, breakfast in their bellies. Or maybe everyone just went to the beach for the weekend.
Have you spotted a line in your city? Send us a tip! Not planning on braving the beautiful spring weather for a shot at this revolutionary / magical device? Make sure to check out Josh's iPad-equipped Jimmy Fallon appearance later tonight. iPad line watch: the few, the proud? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |&n! bsp; &n bsp;| Email this | Comments | | |
| Quake II GWT port proves HTML5 isn't just for video
April 3, 2010 at 12:07 AM
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| There's no question that HTML5 is good for more than just video, but if anything will put that misconception to rest, it's Quake II running in a browser. Apparently built by a trio of Google developers in their spare time, the Quake II GWT port uses a HTML5 canvas and WebGL for graphics acceleration (also seen demoed on the N900), which seem to get the job done remarkably well -- although it's still a long ways from running on certain non-Flash-equipped devices. Then again, this project was revealed on April 1st, but quite a few folks have already reported success in getting it up and running -- so, unless there's a global conspiracy to dash our hopes and dreams (always a possibility), it seems to be the real deal. Head on past the break to check it out in action. Continue reading Quake II GWT port proves HTML5 isn't just for video Quake II GWT port proves HTML5 isn't just for video originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Google Code | Email this | Comments | | |
| See Josh, Jimmy Fallon, and an iPad tonight at 12:37AM ET!
April 2, 2010 at 11:04 PM
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| Hey friends, that's right, our commander in chief, Joshua Topolsky, will be hanging out on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight... and he's bringing an iPad. Also along for the ride? Avatar star Sam Worthington and the band Liquid Liquid! Tune in to your local NBC station tonight (we've got the times listed below) -- and we'll be sure to post some video as soon as it's available.
Showtimes:
12:37AM Eastern
11:37PM Central
11:37PM Mountain
12:37AM PacificSee Josh, Jimmy Fallon, and an iPad tonight at 12:37AM ET! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | |
| iPad apps: defining experiences from the first wave
April 2, 2010 at 9:20 PM
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There are now over 1,348 approved apps for the iPad. That's on top of the 150,000 iPad-compatible iPhone programs already available in the App Store. When Apple's tablet PC launches, just hours from now, it will have a software library greater than that of any handheld in history -- not counting the occasional UMPC. That said, the vast majority of even those 1,348 iPad apps are not original. They were designed for the iPhone, a device with a comparatively pokey processor and a tiny screen, and most have just been tweaked slightly, upped in price and given an "HD" suffix -- as if that somehow justified the increased cost.
Besides, we've seen the amazing potential programs have on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and webOS when given access to a touchscreen, always-on data connection, GPS, cloud storage and WiFi -- but where are the apps that truly define iPad? What will take advantage of its extra headroom, new UI paradigms and multitouch real estate? Caught between netbook and smartphone, what does the iPad do that the iPhone cannot? After spending hours digging through the web and new iPad section of the App Store, we believe we have a number of reasonably compelling answers.Continue reading iPad apps: defining experiences from the first wave iPad apps: defining experi! ences from the first wave originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | |
| Windows Phone 7 is the new name, 'Series' gets voted off island
April 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM
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| | Regardless of how you feel about Microsoft's rejuvenated mobile push this year, hatred of the "Windows Phone 7 Series" moniker has been nearly universal -- it's too long, it trips you up every time you try to say it (seriously, just listen to any of our podcasts), and the "Series" bit doesn't make a whole lot of sense anyhow. Happily, Microsoft has heard the world loud and clear on this one, officially changing the name today to the simpler, happier, more logical "Windows Phone 7." The branding move doesn't have any technical or strategic significance, as far as we can tell -- it truly is just a name change, that's all -- so you can expect the same software to launch later this year that we've already been anticipating... you just won't have to deal with a tongue twister every time you're trying to tell a friend about it. Windows Phone 7 is the new name, 'Series' gets voted off island originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Twitter (Windows Phone official account) | Email this | Comments | | |
| Verizon hopes to bring 3D programming to FiOS TV customers by year-end 2010
April 2, 2010 at 7:01 PM
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| | A smattering of pay-TV providers have already announced their intentions to start piping out 3D programming to their users (starting next week with The Masters), but up until now, neither of America's (two) major fiber operators had bit the three-dee bullet. Verizon's own Shawn Strickland, vice president of FiOS product management, has come forward today with a bit of news on the matter, and it's the kind of stuff you want to hear if you're a) lucky enough to already be in a FiOS TV market and b) one who cares about the third dimension. He notes that his company is "monitoring the early sales of 3D TVs and expects to announce a 3D offering well in advance of the holiday TV-shopping season," further saying that Verizon is already in "active discussions with a number of companies in the emerging 3D value chain." He makes no bones about the hurdles along the way, suggesting that "technological challenges remain, as technology that enables TVs and set-top boxes to adjust the set to display 3D content has not been perfected or distributed, causing a major viewing hassle for consumers." That said, we're pretty stoked about having a 3D FiOS TV offering "in the market in time for the holiday," with the company aiming for a product that has "fully automated HDMI format-switching capability that switches between 2D and 3D, not via ponderous access to the TV's setup menu." Now, let's see how many of these wishes come true, ! cool? Verizon hopes to bring 3D programming to FiOS TV customers by year-end 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | PR Newswire | Email this | Comments | | |
| Fujitsu's robot bear designed to win over the elderly, but we're on to it
April 2, 2010 at 5:18 PM
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| Man, what is it with Japan, robots, and the elderly? We've been hearing about projects like RI-MAN and Ninomiya-kun for years now. And sure, it looks good on paper -- design an ultra-realistic (or ultra-cute) robot, stick it in a room with the unloved elderly person in your life, and forget about the lot of 'em. The problem? Apparently the aforementioned "olds" don't like it one bit. In fact, it seems that they'd prefer a stuffed animal. Not to be outdone by this admittedly low-tech solution, Fujitsu has built a prototype Teddy that features a camera for face tracking, a n! etwork of touch sensors, and a catalog of 300 responses to various stimulus -- "which range from giggling and laughing, waving its paws around, and pretending to fall asleep complete with recorded snores," according to SlashGear. Another possible use for the as-yet-unnamed bear would be for school children. Who wuvs our cuddly robot overlords? We do, don't we? Yes we do...Fujitsu's robot bear designed to win over the elderly, but we're on to it originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  SlashGear | AFP | Email this | Comments | | |
| Seiko's 'active matrix' E-Ink watch exemplifies awesome, might just be the future (video)
April 2, 2010 at 4:13 PM
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| | Seiko's been doing the whole E-Ink wristwatch thing for years now, but the vast majority of 'em could really only be viewed when looking directly down onto the so-called dial. The appropriately named "Future Now" EPD watch aims to change all that, with an "active matrix" E-Ink display that allows for the same 180 degrees of visibility that you've come to expect in the average LCD panel. The all-black watch made its debut at Basel World 2010, boasting a grand total of 80,000 pixels, each of which are capable of displaying four shades of grey. Seiko's also trumpeting the achievements in power reduction, though we aren't informed of exactly how long this thing can shuffle minutes away before needing a recharge. Either way, we couldn't be more anxious to see this gem hit store shelves -- hop! on past the break for a quick look at exactly what we mean. Continue reading Seiko's 'active matrix' E-Ink watch exemplifies awesome, might just be the future (video) Seiko's 'active matrix' E-Ink watch exemplifies awesome, might just be the future (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  E-Ink-Info | Seiko Watches | Email this | Comments | | |
| iPass? The best present and future alternatives to the Apple iPad
April 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM
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| | When Steve Jobs introduced the iPad he was quick to shake his finger in the nose of the other devices out there attempting to fill the gap between cell phone and full-sized laptop, and in particular those market-dominating netbooks. In Apple's opinion, the iPad may be the gadget for surfing the web, watching movies, reading books and running apps, but it's surely not the only game in town. And if you aren't sold on the iPad, but happen to be someone who's looking to buy a secondary computing device to use while traveling or while simply lying on the couch, your choices at the moment come down to netbooks and... well, more netbooks. And that's not such a bad thing, especially if you need a feature Apple's tablet can't offer, like multitasking, a keyboard, or Flash support. So, before you get up on Saturday morning and run off to purchase that iPad, you may want to peruse the best current (as well as coming) alternatives we've rounded up after the break. Continue reading iPass? The best present and future alternatives to the Apple iPad iPass? The best present and future alternatives to the Apple iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |&! nbsp; | Email this | Comments | | |
| Defective graphene sheets look poised to succeed silicon
April 2, 2010 at 2:46 PM
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| As circuitry gets smaller and approaches the effective limitation of silicon's computing power, and Moore's Law begins to look like it has an expiration date, we get closer and closer to needing an alternative. Graphene is held to be the answer; sheets of carbon a single atom thick that could be stacked and composited to create processors. Two professors at the University of South Florida, Matthias Batzill and Ivan Oleynik, have found a new way to turn those sheets into circuits by creating nanoscale defects. These strips of broken atomic rings wind up having metallic properties, thus making them act like microscopic wires. IBM is already teasing us with the possibilities of graphene and now, with a more practical way to make graphene-based electronics, we'd say Moore's Law still h! as at least another couple decades left.
[Photo credit: Y. Lin]Defective graphene sheets look poised to succeed silicon originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Physorg | Email this | Comments | | |
| iPad roundup: Letterman licking, Colbert chopping, MobileMe and Remote support
April 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM
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| | Let's get straight to the meat. The iPad was doing the talk show rounds last night, with heavy hitters David Letterman and Stephen Colbert one-upping each other on who can do the sillier thing with it. Letterman went with the old school "if you don't know what to do with it, lick it" routine, while his competitor brought out a more sophisticated salsa preparation act. Pick your favorite from the videos after the break. In more material news, Apple has announced that MobileMe now includes the iPad among its supported devices, while some eager souls over at MacStories have spotted that iTunes 9.1 now references an "iPad! remote," which suggests the nearly 10-inch tablet will soon be able to function as one of the most luxurious channel changers around. And you thought you wouldn't find a use for it. Continue reading iPad roundup: Letterman licking, Colbert chopping, MobileMe and Remote support iPad roundup: Letterman licking, Colbert chopping, MobileMe and Remote support originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink!  TUAW, MacUser | Apple, MacStories | Email this | Comments | | |
| Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, personal computing pioneer, loses battle with pneumonia
April 2, 2010 at 1:37 PM
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|  Sad news out of Georgia this morning, Dr. Ed Roberts, pioneer of personal computing, has died of pneumonia at the age of 68. Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970. In 1974 his company released the $395 Altair 8800. It was based on Intel's revolutionary 8080 processor and, after being featured on the cover of Popular Mechanics (included after the break), would become the world's first truly popular personal computer. It would be on this machine that the former Micro-Soft would get its start, with Bill Gates and Paul Allen being contracted by Roberts to write Altair BASIC, a version of the simple programming langu! age that Allen delivered by hand on paper tape to the MITS office in Albuquerque.
Those two are remembering him today with the following statement:
Ed was willing to take a chance on us -- two young guys interested in computers long before they were commonplace -- and we have always been grateful to him... The day our first untested software worked on his Altair was the start of a lot of great things. We will always have many fond memories of working with Ed in Albuquerque, in the MITS office right on Route 66 -- where so many exciting things happened that none of us could have imagined back then. Our thoughts go out to the Roberts family this morning.Continue reading Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, personal computing pioneer, loses battle with pneumonia Dr. Henry Edward Roberts, personal computing pioneer, loses battle with pneumonia originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  BBC | Email this | Comments | | |
| HP and Dell said to be investing less in 10-inch netbooks, looking to bigger and better things
April 2, 2010 at 1:04 PM
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| | The latest word from our favorite rumor rag DigiTimes suggests that HP and Dell are both curtailing investment in the 10-inch netbook market, with their sights now set on the chunkier 11.6-inch size class. Additionally, with profits from machines built on Intel's Pine Trail platform appearing lower than expected, both are also said to be contemplating AMD's alternatives, presumably in the shape of the Neo CPU and Radeon integrated graphics. HP is even claimed to be considering quitting the 10-inch space entirely, which wouldn't be that unusual given the progressive obsolescence we've witnessed with the 7- and 9-inch predecessors of the current de facto netbook standard. Not to worry, though, Acer, ASUS and Sam! sung are still deeply involved, and the 10-inch mini laptop isn't about to disappear on us anytime soon. What may happen, according to the source, is that we could see fewer smartbooks popping up as a result, which just means we'll have to find some other way to sate those media consumption needs. HP and Dell said to be investing less in 10-inch netbooks, looking to bigger and better things originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |&nb! sp; DigiTimes | Email this | Comments | | |
| Chevy Volt passes key production milestone, US government buying first 100?
April 2, 2010 at 11:38 AM
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| The Chevy Volt has already passed quite a few significant milestones on the long road to production, and it's now crossed another big hurdle, with the first pre-production vehicles rolling off the line at the Detroit Hamtramck Assembly Plant. Those won't actually be sold, of course, but they are necessary to ensure that all the points in the production line are up to standards before the retail models go into production later this year. That's not only Volt news of the day, however, as the Obama administration has also announced plans to buy "the first 100 plug-in electric vehicles to roll off American assembly lines" next year, which would seem to leave the Volt as the only option. It seems that's not quite a done deal just yet though, with GM saying that while it's "pleased to see that the Federal govern! ment is interested in the greening of their vehicle fleet," it currently has "no further details regarding these purchases." Chevy Volt passes key production milestone, US government buying first 100? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | GM! , Autoblog | Email this | Comments | | |
| iBooks app meets App Store, produces US-only iBookstore offspring
April 2, 2010 at 10:11 AM
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| Get ready to welcome some amazing wood grain effects into your lives, future iPad owners, for the iBooks app has just landed at the App Store. Proudly proclaimed as being "designed exclusively for the iPad," this app gives you direct access to the iBookstore, which will offer free samples of books ahead of purchase and a brand new way for you to channel money into Cupertino pockets. Built-in search, highlighting and bookmarking features are augmented by text-to-speech functionality and ePub format support. Funnily enough, iBooks will only support DRM-free ePub files sourced from outside the iBookstore, but no mention is made as to whether its own wares will be similarly unimpeded. Speaking of restrictions, the whole operation is still limited to the United States, leaving the Stephen Frys of this world sighing wistfully from across the pond.
[Thanks, Brian]iBooks app meets App Store, produces US-only iBookstore offspring originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | App Store (open iTunes) | Email this | Comments | | |
| WSJ iPad subscription officially $17.29 per month -- is Murdoch insane?
April 2, 2010 at 8:56 AM
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| | So we now have the official price for the WSJ iPad app subscription: $3.99 per week with a monthly credit card charge of $17.29. For that you get subscriber-only content areas such Business and Markets with access to a 7 day archive that can be downloaded and read at any time. It also offers personalization features and the ability to save sections and articles for later reading. And hey, it's actually a bit less than the rumored $17.99 rate. Without the subscription, the free WSJ iPad app is limited to top articles and market data. Here's the catch: a subscription to both the print and online versions of the Wall Street Journal will currently set you back just $2.69 per week (plus 2 weeks free) for a monthly bill of $11.67... eleven dollars and sixty seven cents. Granted the WSJ claims that the 80% discount is a! limited time offer but these newsstand discounts are always available in some form. Greed or insanity? Either way, a pricing model like this won't save print. WSJ iPad subscription officially $17.29 per month -- is Murdoch insane? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | WSJ (print + online),! WSJ (iP! ad)< !--//--> | Email this | Comments | | |
| Magnetic waves distort the brain's ability to make moral judgments, tell which way is north
April 2, 2010 at 8:24 AM
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|  Morality isn't a topic discussed 'round these parts too often, but you mix in the geniuses at MIT and a boatload of magnets, and well -- you've got us interested. According to research conducted by neuroscientists at the institution, people's views on morality can actually be swayed by interfering with activity in a specific brain region. Past studies found that the right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is extremely active when people think about the intentions, thoughts and beliefs of others, and in the new project, gurus disrupted activity in the right TPJ by "inducing a current in the brain using a magnetic field applied to the ! scalp." The result? The subjects' ability to make moral judgments requiring an understanding of someone else's intentions (a failed murder attempt, for example) was impaired. MIT's own Rebecca Saxe noted that the process introduced a certain level of "bias" more than an outright change of perception, but still, this definitely sounds like an awesome way to get just about anything you ever wanted. Within reason, of course.Magnetic waves distort the brain's ability to make moral judgments, tell which way is north originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Popular Science | MIT | Email this | Comments | | | | 
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