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Novothink rolls out Solar Surge iPhone / iPod touch charging case

Novothink rolls out Solar Surge iPhone / iPod touch charging case originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Glow: Location-Based "Feelings" for iPhone

Ever wonder how the people in your neighborhood are feeling? How about those that work downtown? Are people really happier on a Friday than a Monday? A new mobile application called Glow will tell you. Designed for the iPhone, this app lets you share your feelings using a simple star-based rating system that you manipulate using a swiping gesture. Once you’ve added your “feeling,” it’s displayed a map so you can see how those around you feel, too. The feelings on the map are represented by glowing colored orbs that range from blue (happy) to red (unhappy). In addition, an augmented reality street view lets you see those same feelings layered on top of real-world photos.

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How to Glow

When you first launch the app, five stars appear on the screen. Drag your finger across the stars to rate how you’re feeling at the moment. As you move from one star to five, the colors change from a darker red to a bright blue. Five stars represents you at your happiest while one star means you’re unhappy. Your feeling is then geo-located and tagged to a map. You can zoom in and out and around on the map to see how others in your area are feeling, too. If available, you can switch over to street view to see a sort of augmented reality view which superimposes feelings on top of the actual photos from that location.

For now, the application is limited to the iPhone. And because it was only released a couple of weeks ago, it suffers from the same problem that plagues most newly-launched social media websites: not enough users. That’s unfortunate because the concept, though simple, is definitely intriguing.

But Where’s the Sentiment Analysis?

That said, we wish the app would do even more. A sentiment analysis engine, for example, could analyze tweets and/or public Facebook updates to depict the overall feelings in a particular locale without having to rely on manual updates from iPhone users. These sorts of “feeling” algorithms are already in use on a number of services, including real-time Twitter search engines Tweetfeel and Tweet Sentiments, social media search platform SocialMention, Waggener Edstrom’s trend-tracker Twendz and several others. While it’s nifty that Glow lets you add real-time feeling updates to a map, not including an optional social layer that extracts feelings from social sites and services is an unfortunate (and potentially dooming) omission for what is otherwise a fairly clever concept and implementation.

However, despite its flaws, Glow is a great example of the new and unique types of applications that mobile phones and their location-awareness features make possible. We hope that future updates to the app will take this concept further and provide us with a true analysis of the feelings around us…even from those who don’t use Glow.

If you’re interested in trying Glow on your iPhone, you can download the app here. (Note that if you try to locate the app via the iPhone’s search, you should use the company name “Heckacopter” as the keyword – there are just too many apps with “glow” in the title!)

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Twitter-enabled LED table lets you get your Lite-Brite on from afar

Twitter-enabled LED table lets you get your Lite-Brite on from afar originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Texas Instruments unleashes new nHD DLP chipset, now with more pico

We didn’t think it could be done, but the fine folks at Texas Instruments have just unleashed a tiny, tiny beast in their all new DLP pico chipset. The nHD DLP chipset, as it’s known, boasts 640×360 resolution, a contrast ratio of “better than” 1,000:1, RGB LED wide color gamut (which should more faithfully reproduce colors), a new, and a lower powered processor. Overall, the package is 20 percent thinner and 50 percent lighter than the current generation DLP chipset. We hear the chipset should be available in the second quarter of 2010. The full press release is after the break.

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Texas Instruments unleashes new nHD DLP chipset, now with more pico originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Panasonic SDXC cards roadmap and Lumix camera lineup at CES 2010

You see those SDXC cards on the far right? Yeah, that’s 1TB and 2TB, dear friends, and word has it that Panasonic will let out the 1TB card by the end of this year. When you’ve calmed down, we’ve also got photos of the newly announced Lumix camera galleria to get the party going, notably the new FP and FH series in their various colors. Enjoy the gallery!

Panasonic SDXC cards roadmap and Lumix camera lineup at CES 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Samsung’s Pinetrail-boasting N220 netbook spied in France

We’ve been seeing a fair amount of netbooks equipped with Intel’s Pinetrail processors since they were announced early last week, and it looks like we’re going to be seeing at least one from Samsung in the very near future. This one — the N220 — was just spotted in France. The 10.1-incher packs (as you’d expect) an Atom N450 CPU, GMA 3150 graphics, 1GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth, plus a webcam and a 6 cell battery which should supposedly get around eleven and a half hours of battery life. It comes with Windows 7 installed, and as you can see from the photo, one of the available colors will be glossy green. It’s going for 350 euros in France, so, if the price stays comparable when (and if it) hits North American soil, we can expect it to cost somewhere in the realm of $500.

Samsung’s Pinetrail-boasting N220 netbook spied in France originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PaPaLaB’s YC-3300 camera sees same colors as human eyes

We can’t say that we’ve ever heard of PaPaLaB, but all it takes to get on the consumer electronics radar is doing something that no one has ever done before. It’s one of those “easier said than done” things, we’re guessing. Anywho, the Japanese outfit has just rolled out a camera system that has been proven to see the same colors as the human eye, a feat that was previously only achievable via huge, impractical camera rigs. The YC-3300, however, is far smaller and manageable than prior systems, and it has already been dubbed a “full-visible-color-gamut camera” by the powers that be. The creators expect it to primarily be used for photographing digital archives and for use in the medical field, but we’re already anxious to see such technology miniaturized further and ushered into the consumer market. Surely someone can make that happen before the next PMA kicks off, right?

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PaPaLaB’s YC-3300 camera sees same colors as human eyes originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Based on Sherwin Williams paint, I have theatre red leather sofa sectional and Totally Tan wall paint which looks more beigy yellow but it is in the red family as well. Is this a good blend? However, hardwood floor would probably be in the yellow family. Is red and yellow considered “neighbour” family?