Dolphin HD 5.0 for Android brings new updates
Mobotap has released a new version of its browser for Android. Dolphin HD has reached version 5, and it brings a slew of updates. The web browser currently competes with alternatives like Miren and Firefox Mobile. Unlike the alternatives, however, Dolphin HD uses the Android’s built-in web rendering. This means…
Meet the periodic table’s newest official elements [Chemistry]
Elements 114 and 116 are now the heaviest elements that we know for a fact exist. They can only exist for less than a second, but they get us ever closer to the fabled island of stability. More »
Android’s Dream: Astro Boy
When treated as protagonists, Androids fill a tale with themes of the roles and definitions of humanity. When included as tertiary characters they are often symbols for "the other."
Newest Kinect hack: a grocery cart that loyally follows disabled shoppers (video)
Microsoft’s Kinect is the gift that keeps on giving for hackers, spawning everything from glasses-free teleconferencing to Tesla coil manipulation to uh, well, Android dance parties. But Luis de Matos’s wi-Go project is one of the most socially conscious we’ve seen: it adds a laptop and (despite its name) a Kinect to a shopping cart, enabling the cart to follow a wheelchair user. Improving on the B.O.S.S. bot we saw a half-decade ago, the wi-Go could allow anyone — including the disabled or elderly — to shop independently, regardless of physical capability. De Matos doesn’t offer many technical details, but see the video above for a before-and-after demonstration.
Newest Kinect hack: a grocery cart that loyally follows disabled shoppers (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 05 Jun 2011 02:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Windows logo planted on upcoming Apple Store in Germany (video)
A quick glance at the above photo might have you believing that’s the site of a Microsoft Store being constructed; actually, it’s an Apple Store. Yesterday, in the Jungfernstieg section of Hamburg, Germany, a group going by the name of “.WAV Collective” apparently vandalized the soon-to-be Apple retail location. They casually went up to the building posing as a team of construction workers, cordoned off a work site, and proceeded to screw pre-made panels, forming a Windows logo, to the side of the store’s black veil — all in broad daylight. Looks like the old question of Mac vs. PC just got a bit more confusing over in Europe. Don’t believe us? Have a look at the collective’s own video recap of the events posted after the break.
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Windows logo planted on upcoming Apple Store in Germany (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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UN Declares Internet Access a Human Right
Since it’s weekend, let’s start with some good news we can all be happy about. The United Nations has declared internet access a human right, and has called upon all nations to not instate any laws that have the power to cut people off the internet, with France and the UK being singled out because they passed three strikes laws.
Eee Pad Transformer caught playing nice with PS3 controller (update: hands-on video)
Earlier this week the Eee Pad Transformer scored itself a sweet upgrade in the form of Android 3.1, and with it came USB host support. When we did our hands-on with the Honeycomb update we couldn’t demo the feature because, well, the Xoom doesn’t have any USB ports. But that Transformer keyboard dock has a pair of 2.0 jacks and someone was kind enough to post a YouTube vid of a PS3 controller and the ASUS tablet getting their game on. Theoretically, this should work with any USB gamepad, including those for the Xbox 360. The only drawback? You’ve got to be wired in — no Bluetooth support here. Follow the break to see it in action and satisfy your Android-loving curiosity.
[Thanks, Ben]
Update: We managed to have a quick go on the same setup at Computex, and the tethered PS3 controller worked perfectly. Unsurprisingly though, we had no luck with the Bluetooth connection. Quick hands-on video after the break.
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Hassell High-Speed Concept Train Serves Australian Luxury at Ludicrous Speed [Video]
With its double-decker design and posh interior perks, this concept train from Australian firm Hassell could one day zip the denizens of the land down under across the outskirts of their island continent at hundreds of miles per hour. More »
Duplicate Commander Removes Duplicate Files, Replaces Them with Hard Links [Downloads]
Windows: If you manage photos, music, or even lots of documents, you know what its like to have copies of the same file in different folders. Duplicate Commander can scan those folders and remove the duplicates, but it can also take things a step further and replace the dupes with hard links, so you’ll never open a folder and wonder where the original document lives. More »
NASA’s next-gen spacesuit could have an in-helmet display [Space]
Though NASA holds the keys to some of the most sophisticated technologies ever to make it into low Earth orbit, the spacesuits that astronauts wear up there are still in many ways similar to those worn during the Apollo missions of the 1960s and 1970s. More »
This Week’s Best Apps [Video]
In this week’s app roundup: HDR Video, ported to the iPhone; iWork, shrunkified; Coca Cola, documented; Sports pictures, sent to your phone; 3G and Wi-Fi connection, checked; videos, time machined; ideas, connected; puzzles, hardest ever and much, much more. More »
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest
A 21-year-old page loses her job after walking onto the Senate floor during the speech from the throne to protest against Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing app now available to download
RIM has officially released a free app for users in Canada and the States called “BlackBerry Mobile Conferencing”. The app integrates with your calendar in your BlackBerry and lets easily schedule and join a conference call. A reminder notification will pop up when a conference is starting but if you loose the connection RIM has built in the ability to rejoin the call with one-click.
Get it here in the BlackBerry App World.
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A heat-resistant worm that can live miles beneath the Earth’s surface [Extreme Life]
Until recently, most scientists believed that only single-celled creatures were capable of enduring life in the hot, high-pressure zone beneath Earth’s crust. Now they’ve discovered tiny worms (pictured above) who live as many as 2.2 miles below ground. What else will we find living deep inside the Earth? More »
UV levels extra high this summer
Ultraviolet rays that can cause sunburn and skin cancer are at unusually high levels in Canada this year, due to record ozone loss above the Arctic this past winter, Environment Canada warns.
Find Out if Your Sony Information Was Leaked Right Here [Psa]
Sony’s been hacked again, with over a million SonyPictures.com accounts lifted, containing vital personal information like home addresses. Is yours included? We’ve got an exclusive, easy database to check. Just enter your email address, and see if you’ve been compromised: More »
BlackBerry Torch 2 preview! (video)
We’ve already seen the BlackBerry Torch 2 in photos courtesy of Mr. Blurrycam, but a little birdie from Negri Electronics was kind enough to send over a pre-release device for us to get under our own glass for a little photo shoot. Though it has a virtually identical form factor to the original, the Torch 2 bumps the specs in almost every department from the camera to the RAM. Oh, and it’s running the next-gen BB OS 7 — which is really OS 6.1, and still lacks any QNX DNA. Read on past the break for a full preview of this yet-to-be-announced slider, and some glorious HD video if the beautious shots aren’t enough to whet your BBM-hungry appetites.
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