Daily Crunch: Terrestrial Duel Edition
World’s largest telescope to open in Chile
The Polaroid 300 brings back instant photo printing
Self-leveling Acadalus tripod head keeps your horizons straight
You can now play Swords with your Wii (thankyouvermuch)
An ode to Radio Shack
Maingear, iBuyPower and CyberPower reveal Phenom II X6 1090T-based bargain desktops
It’s akin to clockwork, as they say — Maingear, iBuyPower and CyberPower have all decided to pump out new and / or revised gaming desktops based on AMD’s latest and greatest (and cheapest, some would argue) six-core processor, barely waiting 24 hours to do the honors. The Phenom II X6 1090T certainly has the whole low-price thing going for it, enabling this trio of PC builders to offer up complete systems starting at under $1,000. Maingear’s new Limited Edition Vybe packs a $999 price tag, USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps support, ATI’s Radeon 5000 series graphics, a DVD burner, 640GB WD Caviar Black SATA 6G hard drive and 4GB of DDR3 RAM. Over in CyperPower land, users can select a variety of 1090T-based rigs starting at just $699, while iBuyPower is revamping the Chimera 2-Q, Gamer Fire and Gamer HAF systems to include the new silicon and an all-too-tempting sub-$1k starting point. The whole lot is available to be customized right this moment, but we’re in no position to help you choose between options A, B, C, D, E or F. And G is looking mighty promising, too.
Maingear, iBuyPower and CyberPower reveal Phenom II X6 1090T-based bargain desktops originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: April 29th, 2010
at 8:47am by Darren Murph
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WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers
Hardly the most exciting Palm news you’re gonna hear this week, but the company that still owns itself for the time being has just updated its WebOS software on Verizon to the extremely granular version 1.4.1.1. The helpful changelog informs us there are no new apps, but pinch-zoom now works correctly in Doc and PDF views, a lag in the camera shutter sound has been rectified, and forwarding videos uploaded to YouTube on to your friends via email has also been made to work as it should. The most important fix of all, though, is to a keyboard input issue whereby a single key press would generate a letter twice — both Pre Central and one of our readers report that this problem appears to have been consigned to the past. Good stuff, now let’s see it go global, shall we?
[Thanks, subzero and Sam F.]
WebOS 1.4.1.1 now available for Verizon subscribers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: April 29th, 2010
at 7:58am by Vladislav Savov
Topics: FirmwareUpdate, MobileOs, OperatingSystem, OsUpdate, Palm pre, PalmPixiPlus, PalmPre, PalmPrePlus, PixiPlus, PrePlus, SoftwareUpdate, VerizonWireless, firmware, firmware update, mobile os, operating system, os, os update, palm, palm pixi plus, palm pre plus, pixi plus, pre plus, software, software update, update, verizon, verizon wireless, vzw, webos
JooJoo Now Available To Unsuspecting Europeans [Joojoo]
Perhaps JooJoo will be one of those things—you know, like David Hasslehoff or cheese fondue. Big in Europe. Maybe they’ll even sell more than 64? Available to France, Germany and the UK now, for €359.00/£319. [JooJoo via Blogeee] More »
Posted: April 28th, 2010
at 7:04am by Kat Hannaford
Topics: Europe, Fusion Garage, Fusion garage joojoo, JooJoo, Joojoo europe, Tablets, UK, crunchpad, eReaders, france, germany, tablet
Crumply Box, Crumply Tissue
Sometimes a container contains objects which just aren’t true to what they portray on the outside. Sometimes this difference is extremely drastic. Take tissues for example. Inside the box, they lay flat. They look nice, they’re in basically a flat-sided unit all laying there together. But wait! When they exit the box, they’ve got… bends! Crumples and dents! Well that’s just not fair to tell a person such a lie. Solution maker? John Brauer.
Designer John Brauer had an idea. He was walking around in Japan one day and he saw a tissue sticking out of a box, all bent up. He said to himself “what a lie that box is, fah!” So he set out to make a box of his own… a crumpled box! One that fit the bill.
And here that is. Made of a composite of PE and synthetic rubber, this box cover is made to cover most any box from anywhere around the world.
Get crumply!
Designer: John Brauer [ Buy it Here, Tissue is available for $32.00 @ YD Store ]
Tissue is available for $32.00 @ YD Store
