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NPD: Xbox 360 wins US sales war in a downbeat February

By Vladislav Savov on March 12, 2010

The cosmos must clearly have approved of Microsoft’s actions over this past month, as today we’re hearing the Xbox 360 broke out of its competitive sales funk to claim the title of “month’s best-selling console” … for the first time in two years. Redmond’s own Aaron Greenberg describes it as the best February in the console’s history, with 422,000 units sold outshining the consistently popular Wii (397,900) and the resurgent PS3 (360,100 consoles shifted, which was a 30 percent improvement year-on-year). In spite of the happy campers in Redmond and Tokyo, the overall numbers for the games industry were down 15 percent on 2009’s revenues, indicating our collective gaming appetite is starting to dry up. Good thing we’ve got all those motion-sensing accessories coming up to reignite our fire.

NPD: Xbox 360 wins US sales war in a downbeat February originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Is Amazon hiring devs to build a robust web browser for Kindle?

By Joseph L. Flatley on March 9, 2010

Are you a software dev with a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, familiarity with current Web standards, and experience with browser engines, Linux on embedded devices, and Java? If so, do we have the job for you. Lab126, the group at Amazon responsible for the Kindle, wants you to help “conceive, design, and bring to market” a new embedded browser on a Linux device. Might this be a sign that the company is ready to start taking web browsing on the e-reader seriously? We don’t know, but it sure sparked some interesting discussion over at All Things Digital. As Peter Kafka points out, a decent browser for the thing is pretty much a no-brainer in light of the Apple iPad. On the other hand, the idea of a robust browser on the Kindle has its own complications. What about subscription content like the New York Times — why would anyone pay for something that’s available for free on the web, if you’re using the same device to view both? And what about all that new data traffic? Surely AT&T will have something to say about that. Of course, we’ve been hearing enough scuttlebutt about a mysterious next-gen device being developed at Amazon that perhaps this has nothing to do with the Kindle whatsoever. Who knows? These are all questions that will have to be answered sooner or later, but in the meantime we can say with some certainty that E ink is definitely not the best way to troll 4chan.

Is Amazon hiring devs to build a robust web browser for Kindle? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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AT&T USBConnect Turbo and Velocity are carrier’s first LG and GPS modems, respectively

By Chris Ziegler on March 4, 2010

Location-based services have finally melted our brains to the point where we’re completely useless without immediate and constant access to Google Maps or a reasonable facsimile — we couldn’t fold a paper map if we tried, and even if we could, we’d spend an hour looking for the pulsing blue dot. That’s why we’re so delighted to hear that AT&T has finally outed its very first GPS-enabled USB modem, the USBConnect Velocity from Option, that includes a so-called Option GPS Control Panel for injecting your whereabouts into popular services like Yahoo and Bing (Google, curiously, isn’t mentioned). The other newbie to the lineup is the USBConnect Turbo — AT&T’s very first modem from LG — with an “ergonomic design” and versatile connector for even the most awkward ports (MacBook, we’re looking straight at you). Both devices will be available on the 7th of the month; the Turbo will be free on contract after rebate while the Velocity comes in at $29.99.

AT&T USBConnect Turbo and Velocity are carrier’s first LG and GPS modems, respectively originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Celestial fashion: weather-dependent dresses

By on February 25, 2010

Sure, you know that you need a rain jacket if it’s going to rain, but what do you think about a dress that changes light intensity if it’s sunny or cloudy outside? Artist Valérie Lamontagne has created a series of dresses that change based on the weather.

Posted in What’s New | Tagged camera-keeps, cloudy-outside, cycles, data, dress, earmuff-style, fusion-reactor, lamontagne, over-the-past, pattern-make, puts-it-out, sunny-or-cloudy, weather, yanko design | Leave a response

ZoomIt lets your iPhone read SD cards, finally

By on February 9, 2010

Want to expand the storage of your iPhone?

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Take a tour of the International Space Station, right here

By on February 9, 2010

Let’s take a fascinating video tour of the International Space Station (ISS), where we float in microgravity from the Soyuz on one end all the way to the Space Shuttle on the other.

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Impressioner helps make a perfect copy of a car key

By on February 4, 2010

Locksmiths and tech-aware thieves are going to have a field day with the Electronic Key Impressioner, capable of gathering the data needed to make a perfect copy of a car key. Insert the device into a lock, and it records what it sees. Take the device back to your computer and plug it in via USB, and the included software can determine the key code from the position of the lock’s tumblers

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40 finches go all Jimi Hendrix on electric guitars, but is it art?

By on February 4, 2010

What happens when you lock a flock of 40 zebra finches into a closed museum space with a couple of live Gibson Les Paul electric guitars and other various musical instruments? Some might call it music, but unless these birds break into a rousing chorus of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” we’re not about to start calling it art. On the other hand, maybe the phrase “Bird lives” has suddenly taken on new meaning

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