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Thousands of Saskatchewan teachers are preparing to vote on whether they should take strike action if contract talks don’t soon produce an agreement with the provincial school boards association.

Never mind the cringe-inducing advertising, ASUS has given us a much better reason to care about its Tegra 2-toting Eee Pad Transformer: a $400 price

ASUS, you naughty tablet maker, you. Not content with giving your Eee Pad Transformer its own sitcom, you’re now coming at the US with an aggressive price and some rather eye-catching promo material to boot. Reminding the world that most tablets come without a keyboard and highlighting your tailor-made solution is all well and good, but did you have to make your “generic” slate look so iPad-ish?

[Thanks, Rob]

ASUS claims Transformer is better than a generic tablet, is probably right originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Uh, is that Bumblebee hiding in the corner?

I put functional in quotations because the boot-jets don’t work, it won’t stop a single bullet (or rock), and the arc reactor is just a bunch of LEDs. Oh, and the briefcase looks like a homemade bomb. Besides that though, totally legit. The suit consists of 384 individual pieces of armor, over 4,000 LEGO Technix pieces and took more than 1,200 man-hours (that’s like 2,000+ woman-hours) to design and construct. 1,200 hours — good lord, that’s 50 days. I haven’t spent 50 days making anything! Unless ‘my friends and family disappointed’ counts, in which case I’ve been at that shit for years.

Hit the jump for a video of the briefcase to Iron Man suit transformation in action (complete with dryer-vent pipe arms!)

Iron Man Mark V Briefcase Armour [cosplay] (with a ton more pics and info about the build)
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Fully Functioning DIY Iron Man Mark V Transforming Briefcase Suit [obviouswinner]

Thanks to Mark, who always handcuffs his briefcase to himself so people think he’s carrying around some important shit. Smart thinking — if you want your arm chopped off!

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When Motorola announced that the XOOM was coming to Canada they didn’t actually give a release date, they only stated sometime “mid-year”. It was Future Shop and Best Buy that revealed on their websites that the Android 3.0 tablet had an estimated date of first on April 8th, then got pushed back April 15th. With […]

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For those stuck between the flexibility of HDD storage and the archiving ease of BDXLs Panasonic is finally ready to bridge the gap with its new triple layer BD-RE XL discs, set to arrive April 15th in Japan. Being the first rewriteable BDXL is the LM-BE100J’s claim to fame, which works out since the 10,000 yen ($118 US) asking price means buying two is probably out of the question. The latest burners from Pioneer and Buffalo already support the new discs, owners of other hardware may want to double check their spec sheets before ordering.

Panasonic’s first rewriteable 100GB BD-RE XL discs launch later this month originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ready to taste a sweet Honeycomb tablet with a Sony twist? You’d better be — Japan’s Nikkei is quoting Sony chief executive, Sir Howard Stringer, saying that the company’s first Android 3.0 tablet will be on sale by the end of summer. Better yet, it’ll pop for retail in the US first, according to the report. This lines up nicely with the reported September launch of a PlayStation Certified Tegra 2 “S1” tablet featuring a 9.4-inch display and unique “wrap” design that we first told you about back in February. Or will it be the S2 clamshell? Who knows, Howard isn’t saying. The new tablet tattle was apparently uttered at the same event where Howard spilled the beans about Apple’s plan to use Sony sensors. Come on Howie, quit the teasing and just come out with it you saucy Welsh minx.

Update: Sony told Japanese site AV Watch that it will release the tablet before the end of this year. It’s unclear if the comment relates to the domestic Japanese model or if it’s meant to temper expectations after the company’s rogue CEO spoke out of turn. Regardless, it’s coming.

Sony’s Howard Stringer confirms Honeycomb tablet in US by summer (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Apr 2011 05:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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After being heckled and booed in Detroit, Charlie Sheen made some changes to his road show before hitting the stage Sunday night – and this time, it ended with a standing ovation.

Charlie Sheen and his “goddesses” took the stage to thunderous applause Saturday night for the first leg of his “Torpedo of Truth” tour. The 70-minute show hadn’t even ended when the first reviews were in, and they were brutal.

Engineers have tried to stem a leak of highly radioactive water with a new method, a polymer-based mixture, after concrete failed to seal the crack at a Japanese nuclear power plant crippled by last month’s earthquake and tsunami.

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Last week it was research firm IDC stating by 2015 Google’s Android OS would capture 45.4% of the smartphone market share. Coming in a strong 2nd place is Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 OS with 20.9%. iOS and BlackBerry will be competing for 3rd and 4th place in a few years. However, competing research firm […]

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