SmartQ V5 MID strives to be relevant, may succeed on some level
Not to be confused with the SmartQ 5 (how could you ever, right?), the SmartQ V5 MID is essentially a V7 with a less spacious screen. Within, you’ll find a 600MHz ARM11 processor, 256MB of DDR2 memory, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, 2GB of internal storage and an SD expansion slot. There’s also USB 2.0 connectivity, an HDMI output good for shooting out material at up to 1080p, a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and a 4.3-inch touchscreen (800 x 480). You’ll also find a format support list longer than your latest cellphone bill, though both a price and release date have remained elusive thus far. Here’s hoping it’s cheap enough to matter.
[Via PMP Today]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
SmartQ V5 MID strives to be relevant, may succeed on some level originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Toilet Waterfail [Image Cache]
Constructed during a ceramics festival in China, this toilet waterfall is…well…it’s darn convenient is what it is. [Izismile via Fortean Times via boingboing]
Posted: October 21st, 2009
at 8:00pm by Mark Wilson
Topics: Image cache, Toilet, Toilet waterfall, Waterfall, china
HiPhone F320: ‘a rotary phone and an iPod nano walk into a bar…’
With a name like HiPhone, it has to be good, right? Totally. The outfit famous for knocking off RIM’s BlackBerry Storm in impressive fashion is back, this time with a psychedelic mishmash that could make even the most hardened soul chuckle once or twice. The F320 is — as you can so clearly see above — a terribly funny combination of iPod nano and rotary phone, and while we wouldn’t trust the specifications for a minute, we’re told that it’s a dual-band GSM handset with a built-in multimedia player, FM tuner, camera, 2.6-inch touchscreen and Bluetooth. There’s no mention of a price (unless you’re willing to commit to buying a few hundred), but trust us, it’s better that way.
[Via PMP Today]
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video
HiPhone F320: ‘a rotary phone and an iPod nano walk into a bar…’ originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 20th, 2009
at 5:03pm by Darren Murph
Topics: HiPhone, HiPhone f320, HiphoneF320, IphoneClone, RipOff, china, chinese, f320, iphone clone, kirf, knockoff, phone
Newsmy A11HD portable media player tries hard to be special
Newsmy (or Newman, as it were) may not be a household name here in the States, but it’s good for pumping out new portable media players at a decent clip over in the Far East. Thankfully, there’s this amazing invention called the “internet,” which essentially enables folks all over the world to trade currency for product. For those interested in the ho hum player shown above — which features a 4.3-inch display (480 x 272), 720p TV output, an absurd list of supported file formats and 16GB of internal storage — it can be shipped your way for the intriguing price of $129.86. Oh, and did we mention that this thing can play “64 games?” Look out, iPod touch!
[Via PMP Today]
Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Newsmy A11HD portable media player tries hard to be special originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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First electromagnetic ‘black hole’ built on earth, nobody raps about it
An electromagnetic black hole — which sucks in the light surrounding it — has been built at Southeast University in Nanjing, China for the first time. The device works like cosmological black holes in that it has gravity which is intense enough to bend the surrounding space-time, causing any matter in the neighborhood to spiral inward and create the hole itself. The earth-built ‘black hole’ for microwave frequencies is constructed of 60 annular strips of meta-materials (yes, that’s the stuff of invisibility cloaks). Each strip is an intricately etched circuit board which seamlessly and smoothly connects to the strips next to it, creating both a shell and absorber section to the device. When an electromagnetic wave hits the device, it is trapped and guided through the shell region toward the core, where it is absorbed. The device, which was created by Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng, converts that absorbed light into heat, meaning that future possible applications could include new ways of harvesting solar energy. Hit the read link for a fuller description of this truly bad dude.
Filed under: Science
First electromagnetic ‘black hole’ built on earth, nobody raps about it originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 17th, 2009
at 11:24am by Laura June
Topics: Black Hole, BlackHole, MetaMaterial, UniversityOfNanjing, black, china, electromagnetic, hole, meta material, university of nanjing
