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Good news, pre-orderers. ASUS‘ 15.6-inch Eee Top all-in-one PC is now shipping from legitimate e-tailers around the web. Just in case you’ve fogtotten just under six bills buys you a 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows XP Home. In other words, netbook components tucked within an LCD. Of course, we’d recommend holding off for the much larger, much more HD-friendly ET2203 and ET2003, but it’s your loot.

[Thanks, Jamil]

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ASUS 15.6-inch Eee Top all-in-one now shipping originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon and B&H have pre-order pages up for the hotly-anticipated Sigma DP2, and both conveniently list the camera at $649 — well, convenient for your information gathering needs, not necessarily for your wallet. B&H expects a May availability, while Amazon is going with a typically vague “1-2 months.” Maybe they both can be right.

[Via DigitalCameraInfo]

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Sigma DP2 up for pre-order, retailing for $649 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We know you’ve been losing sleep just wondering how on earth General Motors plans to get OnStar users to keep on using once their free year is up, but apparently someone up top has been doing a bit more than just mulling. Gearlive received quite the interesting survey from OnStar this week, with a paragraph clearly explaining how Twitter integration would work should it come to the in-car alert / communication system. Essentially, the system could be programmed to read back tweets directed at you and convert your voice to text in order to upload new tweets. Envision this: you tweet that you’re headed to Forks, Washington, and you ask your thousands of followers to name a good place to buy garlic. Magical, no?

Filed under: Peripherals, Transportation

Twitter integration could come to OnStar originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The past few days have seen the alleged leaks of a couple batches of Windows Mobile 7 screenshots, suggesting Microsoft’s already hard at work on the successor to 6.5 — something we’ve heard in the past, and given the state of 6.x, a rumor that isn’t difficult to believe. To say the leaks look sketchy, though, would be an understatement; most prominently, none of them match, with different styling elements applied to every capture. Best case, we figure these are mockups — not functional shots from an actual device or an emulator, but early, off-the-cuff stabs at a design language from a usability expert’s late-night Illustrator session somewhere deep within Redmond. We like some of what we’re seeing — there are definitely at least a few elements here that look thoroughly modern — but if there’s any basis in reality to these, we’re worried about the ill-conceived idea of putting battery strength and volume (or signal strength, depending on the shot) at the bottom of the display. Needless to say, there are very good reasons that kind of information gets consolidated to the top, not the least of which is that your thumbs aren’t transparent. At least ours aren’t, and if yours are, you should probably get that looked at.

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

Windows Mobile 7 screenshots (or mockups, or something) leaked? originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Don’t be deceived — Samsung’s N310 looks an awful lot tougher, bulkier and manly than it really is. ‘Course, it probably will handle gentle bumps a bit better than your average Wind / Eee / Mini xx machine, but it’s really only the embossed Sammy logo that’s built to withstand flying bullets. All kidding aside, we’ll invite you to visit the read link if you’re scouting a hands-on experience that just might change your life. Or at least the next 4 minutes of it.

[Via Slashgear]

Filed under: Laptops

Samsung N310 netbook gets hands-on treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remember that ARIR200 WiFi radio from back at CES? If not, you can take comfort in the fact that we’re the forgiving type, but Acoustic Research has rung in to inform the world that the so-called Infinite Radio is now on sale. For those with short memories, this radio brings along Slacker support, on-demand weather forecasts from WeatherBug, MP3tunes music locker streaming, an AM / FM radio tuner, USB and Ethernet connections and enough internal memory to hold ten hours of audio. The device is available now at regional chain stores and nationally online for $129.99, and if it’s the iPod-friendly ARIR600i you’re after, that’ll hit the market later in the year for $199.99. Full release is after the break.

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Portable Audio

Acoustic Research Infinite Radio now on sale for $129.99 originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The last we heard from the gang at TORC their tech was being used to snag third place in the DARPA Urban Challenge, and now Engineering TV has a couple programs highlighting some of the company’s more portable technology. Compared to other control units, WaySight is relatively small (under three pounds), and can be used to sight the robot either by selecting GPS waypoints via laser range finder in real time, or — if the GPS is unavailable — by sighting the robot and then the waypoint in relation to it. If the operator doesn’t find any of that appealing, the unit can be used to steer the robot using the unit’s built in accelerometer. The unit has a range of up to 400 meters. The AutoNav-Mini, which is installed on the robot, features a GPS unit, low level obstacle avoidance and detection sensors, laser range finder, radar, and more. This technology has all sorts of practical and legitimate uses, for sure — but none so satisfying as the fun we’d have chasing our little sister around the living room with it. Hit the read links for all sorts of crazy videos.

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TORC shows off WaySight and AutoNav-Mini for small, expensive robots originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re a bit light on specs here, but the VEDIA Idunn A1 is really going more for style points here, anyway. Designed by Polish jeweler Jaroslaw Westermark, the luxury MP3 player’s hand-made and features 18 carat gold, high-grade silver, and our favorite, Baltic amber. There’s only 10 of these being made and you’ll have to pre-order and wait two months. No word on price or what half-strain of genetic dinosaur code you’ll uwittingly find inside, splice with frog DNA, and … well, you know the rest.

[Via GadgetsCrunch]

Filed under: Portable Audio

VEDIA Idunn A10 luxury MP3 player made with amber, dino DNA probably not included originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh sure, we’ve already seen this thing spotted at Best Buy, but there’s just something especially titillating about photos with clarity. CNET’s UK branch managed to get their camera all up in the BD-P3600’s area, and they definitely enjoyed what they saw. For starters, the 7.1-channel analog outs are a real boon to those still using that circa-1999 AV receiver, and the bundled WiFi dongle means BD-Live is now entirely more accessible. Granted, we aren’t similarly impressed by the 40 second BD load time, but maybe we’re just spoiled by the hasty OPPO BDP-83. Head on down for a few more looks.

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Samsung’s sleek BD-P3600 Blu-ray player gets hands-on love originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sure, we’ve seen all those purtied up renders, but what does the Ulysse Nardin Chairman look like in the flesh? Well, they’re keeping it under wraps pretty tightly at BASELWORLD, not letting photographers near it, but our friendly tipster Greg’s phone “accidentally” snapped a couple pictures. He says there was no way to touch it or see it in action, but he was struck by the sheer enormity of the device. We’re looking forward to selling a few organs for a shot at one ourselves, but for now those two shots up top will have to suffice.

[Thanks, Greg]

Filed under: Cellphones

Ulysse Nardin’s Chairman caught in the wild! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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