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Screen Grabs: DJ Roomba mixes business with pleasure on Parks and Recreation
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

An automated vacuum cleaner that pumps out rap while tidying your mess? Call us crazy, but this very well may be the most intelligent thing the United States government has ever done.

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Screen Grabs: DJ Roomba mixes business with pleasure on Parks and Recreation originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google Phone makes first Twitter appearance?

Look familiar? For a story that broke on Twitter it’s only fitting that the first reported picture of the mythical, magical “Google Phone” would appear there as well. The tweeted image above appears courtesy of one Cory O’Brien, an account manager at a San Francisco Bay Area marketing agency that does not list Google as a client. That note of caution aside, the image above is an exact match to that leaked HTC Passion / Bravo image from October, only this time lacking the HTC logo on the top-side bezel. Besides the pic, O’Brien tweets that the “Google Phone = iPhone + a little extra screen and a scroll wheel. Great touch screen, and Android.” Granted, none of this is confirmed yet, but with Google releasing so many of the devices as part of its “mobile lab” concept, well, we expect to see plenty more sightings in the run up to the rumored January launch.

[Thanks, Alberto]

Google Phone makes first Twitter appearance? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Screen Grabs: Nokia N96 preserves the evidence on Dexter
Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

No this isn’t the first Nokia-wielding fictional character or celeb that we’ve seen in this space, but the N96 recently spotted in the hands of our favorite psychopath has us wondering: would Dexter Morgan try N-Gage? And wouldn’t he prefer something with a QWERTY keyboard? Come to think of it, we always thought of him as a smartphone guy. Then again, times are tough, and as a new father he has to make… sacrifices.

Update: We originally identified this one as the N81. Thanks to all you raving Nokia fanatics who pointed out the error.

Gallery: Screen Grabs: Nokia N81 preserves the evidence on Dexter

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Screen Grabs: Nokia N96 preserves the evidence on Dexter originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Screen Grabs: Palm Pre isn’t helping things be any less miserable on ‘Heroes’

Hey — it’s the Palm Pre hanging tough in the morally ambiguous hands of Nathan Petrelli! Does it help him decide who to crush or love when he gets up in the morning? Does it get reception when he flies into the upper atmosphere to change world events so dramatically that half the characters are confused and the other half have disappeared by the time he’s back in NYC? What’s going on, Nathan? You seem depressed. You want to go with a different carrier, don’t you? Got a hankering for the GSM?

[Thanks, Dylan]

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Screen Grabs: Palm Pre isn’t helping things be any less miserable on ‘Heroes’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Screen Grabs: Palm Pre stumps the experts on Numb3rs

The Palm Pre showed up on a recent episode of Numb3rs, and we can only assume that confused look on Charlie’s face is the simplistic calculator that ships stock with webOS. Or could it be something much more sinister?

[Thanks, Marshall]

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Screen Grabs: Palm Pre stumps the experts on Numb3rs originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Screen Grabs: Dell’s Latitude Z keeps ”Parks & Recreation’ intern busy

Man, Dell’s making a serious push to get its wares out to the masses this fall. Just days after we spotted an Adamo chillin’ in House M.D., a shiny new Latitude Z has now been spotted in NBC’s own Parks & Recreation. Granted, we can’t actually see that any work is being done (the default blue wallpaper isn’t exactly telling), but when you’ve got Amy Meredith Poehler running the grandiose city town of Pawnee, Indiana, you can only expect so much. But hey, look on the bright side — we’re pretty sure the proceeds from eBaying that Latitude Z would more than cover the flora she purchased while under the influence, wouldn’t you agree?

[Thanks, Andrew]

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Screen Grabs: Dell’s Latitude Z keeps ”Parks & Recreation’ intern busy originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Screen Grabs: Instinct HD captures evidence in NCIS: Los Angeles

It seems that LL Cool J is still too hip to be seen rockin’ the latest and greatest from Samsung, but evidently Chris O’Donnell had no qualms doing the honors. The recently loosed Instinct HD was recently spotted handling all sorts of detective word on this week’s episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, with the famed HD movie mode showing itself on a number of occasions. Truth be told, though — we get how a guy of O’Donnell’s affluence could swing $250 for a new featurephone, but is the average agent seriously in the same tax bracket?

[Thanks, Josh]

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Screen Grabs: Instinct HD captures evidence in NCIS: Los Angeles originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Xbox 360 Elite in white package in the wild, Pro SKU missing on back-of-box chart

Can’t say we’re all that surprised given other sightings, but one anonymous tipster has sent us pics from a local Best Buy of the 120GB Xbox 360 Elite in a shiny white package with a back-of-box chart that neglects to mention the Pro models, essentially striking it from the records. It’s still scanning at $399 for now, but having seen other retailers print flyers quoting $299, the computers very well may be updating just after some official Microsoft announcement, which wouldn’t surprise us at all if it happen sometime this week, just ahead of the PS3 Slim launch. Peruse the pics in higher-res format below.

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Xbox 360 Elite in white package in the wild, Pro SKU missing on back-of-box chart originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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