The Week in Green is a new item from our friends at Inhabitat , recapping the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us. This week Inhabitat peered into the future of green tech as we liveblogged the most exciting moments from this year’s Greener Gadgets Conference .
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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: Solar cars, solar boats, solar… gold?
What do people look for in their gaming mice? We spoke with SteelSeries in the past about the company’s distrust of DPI as the last word in mouse quality. The company’s XAI Laser Mouse reflects this philosophy when it comes to design: the mouse is unpretentious, functional, and features software that will help you learn to use the mouse to its fullest.
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They won’t see you coming: the XAI Laser Mouse with LCD
If you work for Motorola, cover your ears and say “Blur Blur Blur Blur” at the top of your lungs over and over again for the duration of this post, because what we’re about to present is an unholy marriage the likes of which neither Sanjay Jha nor Peter Chou ever intended. It’s not the first time we’ve heard of a version of Sense finding its way onto Motorola hardware, but developer “thegeektern” over on AllDroid has posted a bunch of video and stills claiming to have ported an HTC Desire’s (n
Software company Opera has just released the release candidate of Opera 10.50 for the Microsoft Windows operating system. That’s an incredible pace considering that the first beta releases was a little bot more than 14 days ago although they did not make it in time to be included in Microsoft’s browser choice screen for Windows users who are running Internet Explorer as their default web browser (which we suspected was the reason for the fast paced development process). Could also be that they do not want the Chrome developer’s to come any closer version wise.
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Opera 10.50 Release Candidate For Windows
One of the images that says “science experiment” to the public is that of a rat finding its way through an experimenter’s maze. We tend to associate the ability of rats to quickly solve mazes with their navigational skills and intelligence. Mazes also present an interesting challenge to robotics researchers, who can use them to test the navigation skills of their creations
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My oil droplet is smarter than your lab mouse
Viliv’s S5 MID, the little machine that packs the Vaio P ‘s Z520 processor in a legitimately pocketable form-factor, just got a breath of fresh air. It’s an HID (human interface device) driver for Windows 7, boosting the machine’s touchscreen abilities and enabling the breadth of Windows 7′s tablet functionality. According to Uber Tablet this greatly enhances usability by, amongst other things, presenting the Windows tablet keyboard rather than relying on the accessibility version and enabling better calibration
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Viliv S5 MID gets accuracy-boosting HID driver for Windows 7
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. If you’re one of our more easterly readers, you’re probably getting sick of the stuff
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In Case You Missed It: Feb. 21-28
If you’re unhappily married, you might as well be single: At least if your goal in life is to have it all end via a fatal stroke. It’s just a meeting abstract with an accompanying press release , but the results seem pretty clear cut
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Weird Science finds marriage can kill
You know those time-lapse videos that compress days, weeks or years into minutes? The ones with flowers budding, blooming and then withering in seconds?
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Cartoon: Mommy, Where do Hashtags Come From?
We’ve had only tantalizingly brief (or is it briefly tantalizing?) chances to see LG’s glorious OLED television , but each and every time it’s left us with the feeling that our lives are poorer for not having one in our homes. Sure, that says as much about our tech addiction as it does about the 3mm-thick displays, but at least the deep-pocketed among us won’t have to wait too much longer to sate the need for 10,000,000:1 contrast ratios and 0.001ms response times
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LG’s 15-inch 15EL9500 OLED TV sets sail for Europe, scheduled to arrive this May
Filed under: Cult of Mac , Apple With TUAW’s Your First Apple series, we let you get a glimpse of our own histories with the Mac. My own history with Apple’s computers has been a bit convoluted
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My on-again, off-again Apple relationship
RUMOR ALERT! Let me just preface this post by saying we are filing it strictly in the rumor category. Nailing down the release date of the HTC HD2 has proved elusive with regards to actual T-Mobile information, only that “Spring” is the anticipated timeframe
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HTC HD2 Releasing Mid-March?
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Texting has never been so much fun, thanks to the high-speed magic of the keyboard that could: Swype. But I know there are a lot of sad pandas out there who want to Swype, but just can’t because they own a Nokia. Well, you can turn that from upside down, matey, as Swype is now available for S60 5th Edition through Nokia Beta Labs ! Now, now, before you get too excited, I have to let you know that it is currently only available for the Nokia N97, N97mini, X6, 5800, and 5230, with other devices coming later
All the engineers in the audience will be pleased to hear that Globalfoundries today announced that the very first 28nm ARM Cortex A9 dual-processor qualification vehicle has now been taped out.
T-mobile have now confirmed, via their Scoop page , that the upcoming T-mobile G2 will rock an 800MHz Scorpion processor (as part of the new MSM7x30 Snapdragon chipset), run the Android hotness that is Froyo (sans Sense, as previously thought ), and will also be “ready” for flash 10.1. Now, those in the audience with an insatiable appetite for teh megahurtzes will probably be disappointed to hear that the clock is a full 200MHz slower than the usual 1GHz Snapdragon that most all high-end phones are gifted with.
T-mobile is really going to draw out this whole limited knowledge launch of the G2 . This time, though, we have some confirmation on what you can actually expect. It is well known that this will be the first HSPA+ phone , and T-mobile is telling you to “brace yourself for blazing-fast downloads, browsing and search” on the “fastest smartphone experience in America.” Another note, and I do not get sick of posting this, vanilla Android 2.2 out of the box with one-touch quick keys (for quick access to Google shortcuts and applications) and Adobe Flash Player 10.1 ready (which probably means you will have to download it from the market yourself). T-Mobile is also confirming that that Qualcomm MSM 7230 Scorpion silicone will be clocked at 800 MHz. I know some of you wish it was clocked up to 1 GHz, but you need to remember that GHz isn’t everything. Nothing really new there, but some official confirmation is always good. The rest of the scroll box, from the Scoop page, can be found below. Don’t forget to leave your thoughts in the comments! T-Mobile SCOOP
Unconfirmed reports are coming in via Twitter that T-Mobile is currently out in the Seattle areas. No information is known at this time, stay tuned for details!
According to a post at the Windows Phone 7 blog , Microsoft’s latest operating system is now fully cooked and ready to consume.
In case you aren’t interested in the T-Mobile G2 or the HD7 , perhaps the MyTouch HD aka “Emerald” suits your fancy? A trusted tipster has dropped off word that the release date for the next phone in the myTouch lineup will drop November 3 rd at your local T-Mobile store. That lovely little roadmap we’ve been following so closely I believe if I am reading it correctly states that the Emerald is dropping November 5 th , then again it could be a 3, its blurry as can be in this picture.
A trusted source dropped off a piece of info a few days ago which we’ve been wanting to get up but when we saw an article this morning over at Engadget , it peaked our curiosity even more. This one goes out to all you Windows Phone 7 fans who are looking to see what phone Magenta might be picking up to deliver the brand new Windows Phone goodness
So we’ve seen images , have a great guess at a release date and a pretty decent idea as to what to expect inside the device . How about price, you guys want to know price don’t you
Another day, another rumor. Yesterday we heard about merging with Sprint , but what about surpassing them? Well, it is very possible that that could happen if this particular rumor came true. It’s not the first time we have been on this roller coaster, but yet another analyst says the iPhone is coming to T-Mobile. Tee Examiner’ s source says “There were talks about it, then strong rumors. Then, there were problems with the carrier. But now, the iPhone will definitely be available for T-Mobile.” Is there any reason to believe this iPhone rumor over any other iPhone rumor
iOS 4.1, which has had a few beta releases over the last couple months, has been released. It’s nothing too major, but let’s go down the additions: Updated Game Center HDR photos HD video uploads over WiFi TV show rentals It should be arriving next week.
Just last week, a couple of much-trusted birdies popped into the MobileCrunch office, claiming to have some details on SkyFire (a Flash-friendly mobile browser already available on a number of smartphone platforms) and its impending iPhone release. “They’ve entered the very final round of testing!” they said. “It’s going to get submitted to Apple early next week!” We’re one day past what we’d personally consider “early next week”, but sure enough: SkyFire has just announced that they’ve submitted the browser for Apple’s oh-so-important stamp of approval.
It seems like just yesterday, we were fighting our way through traffic on the way to Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna press conference. Today, we’re joining Apple for something a bit less out-of-the-blue: their annual September product announcement in San Francisco.
Now I know that the Froyo update for the Incredible was released on the 27th of this month, but that was just one of those limited-release roll-outs used to weed out any major faux pas before making it available to the great unwashed. If you weren’t lucky enough to get that joyous notification this past week, well, hold onto your hats, coz word on the web/streets is that the Froyo update is now being pushed out to all users. If this is the first you’ve heard of the Froyo update, and you’re peachy-keen (and you should be) to get it onto your device ASAP, then Android Central have a how-to on manually updating your phone.
T-mobile continues to bring the latest update to their 3G network to more cities today, with the “4G-like” HSPA+ speeds now available in: Boston, Mass. Erie, Penn.
