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May 31st, 2011
Roku's line of boxes have come a long way from being used only to stream Netflix, and now the company has announced a plan to take its talents to casual gaming. Naturally, the first app out of the gate this summer will be the wildly popular and increasingly ubiquitous
Angry Birds. There's not a lot of details available yet and while we're told the gaming experience will be available on a new player launching this summer, whether or not the existing Roku hardware will get any gaming action remains to be seen. Roku CEO Anthony Wood is very excited about the company's gaming prospects saying "Just as we were the first to enable Netflix to stream instantly to the TV, we intend to be the catalyst for transforming the way people play casual games-starting with Angry Birds-on the biggest screen in the home". While we wouldn't bet against the upstart media streamer maker, it may be a bit tougher to compete with Xbox 360, PS3 and whatever
Nintendo has up its sleeve on their native turf.
Continue reading Roku brings casual gaming to its internet TV platform starting with Angry Birds this summer
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May 31st, 2011
Not to be outdone by their
flying cousins, some less mobile bots are taking on the challenge of juggling. After the break you'll find a pair of vids, including one featuring a creation from the Czech Technical Institute in Prague that can launch five balls between its two "hands" with the aide of a high-speed tracking camera. The other clip stars the "Blind Juggler," a somewhat more impressive machine that has no sensors or cameras. Instead, it relies on mechanical feedback and some fancy math to control the trajectory of the ball and keep it airborne. The Blind Juggler debuted back in 2009, but creators Philipp Reist and Raffaello D'Andrea introduced an interesting wrinkle for version 2.0 by turning the entire thing into a pendulum that passes the ball to itself. Clearly, the next step is face paint and red, foam noses -- bringing our most bed-wetting of night terrors to life.
Continue reading Robots master delicate art of juggling, prep for clown college (video)
Robots master delicate art of juggling, prep for clown college (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:04:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 31st, 2011
The Nintendo DS line has had many redesigns up to the present
3DS, but one thing that hasn't changed are the tiny, easily lost cartridges. Enter
Memorex's $20 Universal Game Selector Case, announced as part of its gaming accessory lineup for E3. The UGSC stores up to three games and hooks up to the cartridge port on any DS, letting you swap between them using a signal routing switch. We've seen cases similar to this in the past, but Memorex's take is the first to support 3DS titles as well. Based on the renders, the unit looks to make for a weird fit and some noticeable extra thickness (10.5mm to be exact), especially on the
DSi XL, but hopefully we'll get a better idea of how it feels in hand at
E3. From a functionality perspective, the case does seem rather useful for those with forgetful tendencies, if a bit underwhelming for anybody else. Memorex will also be displaying its new third-party PS3 and Wii motion controllers at the E3, which are viewable in the gallery below, and there's a press release with details after the break.
Continue reading Memorex intros Nintendo DS game-changing case, other not-so-game-changing accessories
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May 31st, 2011
AMD is presently detailing a rather extensive overhaul of its
Fusion APU line here at Computex, including the promise of
Llano-based computers becoming available in the next few weeks. One of the devices that's set to get the upgrade treatment is MSI's skinny
X370 laptop, a 13-incher with 1366 x 768 resolution and the current-gen 1.6GHz
E-350 Zacate processor inside. The intel about its future upgrade to a 1.65GHz E-450 chip came from
Notebook Italia and was confirmed for us by folks at both AMD and MSI's booths here at the show. We don't yet have the full details on what the next E-450 processor will be like exactly, but we gathered together a gallery of pictures of the X370, which recently started shipping for
$579. We were told to expect the refreshed model in either the third or fourth quarter of this year. If your interest has been piqued, jump past the break for some hands-on impressions.
Continue reading MSI X370 to be upgraded to AMD E-450 Fusion APU, we go hands-on
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May 31st, 2011
If you've been watching
our liveblog of Eric Schmidt at D9, you'll know that the Floyd's Coffee ad above isn't just a mockup -- this evening, the Google chairman announced his company's Groupon-like
Google Offers service will launch in Portland, Oregon tomorrow. We'll also see it in San Francisco and New York City this summer, delivering daily deals directly to our NFC-equipped
Nexus S smartphones.
Google Offers rolling out in Portland, Oregon tomorrow, SF and NYC this summer originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 May 2011 23:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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