Logitec's new wireless router is crazy-looking, crazy fast

The new Logitec (not Logitech) LAN-WH450N/GR offers four Gigabit Ethernet ports, 802.11a/b/g/n wireless networking that maxes out at a theoretical 450Mbps, and just about the wildest router design we've yet seen. Yes, it's justified by improved wireless throughput as a result of having three antennas sprouting out of the thin-bodied device, but who is Logitec trying to kid? It's a futuristic, desktop-straddling robocopter and everyone at that company knows it. Should you or the geek in your life be interested in obtaining one, the new routers are going on sale in Japan in mid-April for ¥19,000 ($230).

Logitec's new wireless router is crazy-looking, crazy fast originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Are you concerned about your headphone jack?

Yeah, me neither… But I’m sure that some of you out there are worried about dust, dirt or liquids invading the headphone jack of your phone or other device. The iCatchi is $6.95 accessory that plugs into the jack when you don’t have your headphones plugged in. It protects the jack from all sorts of [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/03/28/are-you-concerned-about-your-headphone-jack/

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Missouri Drops Extended Unemployment Benefits

When eligibility ends Saturday, Missouri will become the only state to voluntarily quit a federal stimulus program that offers extended benefits to people unemployed for more than a year. As a result, more than 34,000 residents could miss out on $105 million in benefits over the next nine months.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/31/135019030/missouri-drops-extended-unemployment-benefits?ft=1&f=1003

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Google demands veto on OEM Android changes, stretches definition of 'open source'

Google, according to reports from "a dozen executives working at key companies in the Android ecosystem" is finally locking down the open source and easily-fragmented Android operating system.

As it currently stands, Google hands over the 'final' code for each version of Android, and OEMs and developers then spend some time customizing the OS to fit their hardware, and to create a unique and marketable flavor. That's all set to change, however.

Over the last few months, according to several people familiar with the matter, Android licensees such as HTC, Motorola and Facebook, have been asked to sign 'non-fragmentation clauses.' This new contract caveat will give Google the right to review and pass judgment on all changes to the Android OS. Two executives at Facebook say that they're unhappy that Google gets to review its changes to Android -- which is understandable, given Facebook and Google are direct competitors -- and there have also been allegations that Google is preventing some Verizon devices from shipping because they include Microsoft's Bing instead of Google search.

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Remembering Critic And Opera Hero John Steane

The British writer's breathtaking knowledge and affable prose set him apart from all others, fueling the passions of opera fans everywhere. Read reminiscences from Steane's fans and friends and hear some of his favorite singers.

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2011/03/30/134980219/remembering-critic-and-opera-hero-john-steane?ft=1&f=1057

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Assad Attempts to Tighten His Grip in Syria

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/31/assad_attempts_to_tighten_his_grip_in_syria_253017.html

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Victorinox Swiss Army RescueTool Knife

This Swiss Army knife was developed over a five-year period in conjunction with emergency medical and rescue services personnel.� The Victorinox RescueTool has a window breaker and a seat belt cutter in addition to the more traditional Swiss Army tools.� Luminescent, bright yellow grip shells make it easy to see, and the nylon cord allows [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/03/28/victorinox-swiss-army-rescuetool-knife/

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Arizona Senate Race Waits to See if Giffords Will Run

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/03/31/arizona_senate_race_waits_to_see_if_giffords_will_run_253023.html

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Torus is an impressive 3D Tetris game powered by HTML5

As far as Tetris goes, most variations look quite similar. You're usually looking at a "wall" of bricks directly from the front. Torus takes that notion and throws it away; as you might have guessed from the name (or screenshot), this Tetris clone is played on a ring-like 3D surface.

You rotate the ring itself with the arrow keys, while a Tetris-like piece slowly (excruciatingly slowly, in fact) descends from the top. As soon as you make a solid line, it disappears.

Not all pieces are Tetris-like; some of them wouldn't really work with a regular Tetris game but are a good fit for Torus' 3D format.

Torus is ideal for playing at the office, because it has absolutely no soundtrack. The game is dead-quiet. It's also very very slow (slow enough for me to mention it twice in one post) so you can safely look away for a moment and then keep playing. Also, as soon as the game loses focus, it automatically pauses.

Bottom line: It's an impressive demo of the power of HTML5; if it were a bit faster, it would have some serious addictive potential.

Torus is an impressive 3D Tetris game powered by HTML5 originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Omnibox Site Search for Chrome googles your current website

You still can't sync custom search engines in Google Chrome, and that makes tasks like site-specific searches a pain. There are loads of extensions available which can handle the chore, of course, and one worth checking out is Omnibox Site Search.

Once installed, you simply type the letter s and press space to invoke a Google-powered site search for the domain you're currently visiting. The top five matches load in a flash, and you can also click through to Google via the top link for complete results. It's a fast, simple way to get results which are limited to a specific domain -- and as we know from experience, Google search is nearly always a lot better than most on-site search boxes.

Omnibox Site Search for Chrome googles your current website originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cream, Sugar and Some Endo-Exothermic Phase Change Material for Your Hot Coffee? [Coffee]

Coffee Joulies are stainless steel beans filled with a phase change material that absorbs heat as it melts—cooling down horrifically hot coffee—and then releases that heat as it re-solidifies—then keeping your coffee warm for longer. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/KgJJUncpSSs/cream-sugar-and-some-endo+exothermic-phase-change-material-for-your-hot-coffee

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Jetbus is a retro-tastic physics game, with a bus

Once upon a time, there used to be a DOS game with a caveman and a human powered helicopter. The caveman would shuttle around the screen, madly trying to get customers to where they wanted to go.

Jetbus is not that game, but it's obviously inspired by it. You're driving a yellow school bus which has jets. I guess the jet engine takes quite a bit of space inside the bus, because you can only pick up one person at a time.

There are several doors on the screen, each with its own number. As you pick up a person, the status bar at the bottom of the screen shows you which number door you have to take them to.

You must fly your bus carefully, because if it gets bumped around too much, you lose. You earn money on each level, and can visit the garage to buy better jets and damping, power-ups, or even a whole new vehicle.

So while this game isn't made as well as the original that inspired it, it does provide a few minutes of fun. And now, which one of you guys remembers the original and feels like pointing to it in the comments?

Jetbus is a retro-tastic physics game, with a bus originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google +1 Is Rolling Out Today [Google]

Google +1, what was once rumored to be Google's big social project and later transformed into a toolbar, is now live and is, well, neither of those two. Instead it's literally a +1 button next to all the searches where you can give props to searches you enjoy. You'll be able to see what your friends +1 and what the public +1's too. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SwGmn4sduvw/google-%252B1-is-rolling-out-today

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Google +1 Is Rolling Out Today [Google]

Google +1, what was once rumored to be Google's big social project and later transformed into a toolbar, is now live and is, well, neither of those two. Instead it's literally a +1 button next to all the searches where you can give props to searches you enjoy. You'll be able to see what your friends +1 and what the public +1's too. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/SwGmn4sduvw/google-%252B1-is-rolling-out-today

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Fox Wants Its Channels Removed From Time Warner's iPad App [Iptv]

In the latest turn of this IPTV drama, Fox has issued a cease-and-desist Time Warner remove any Fox-owned channels from its streaming iPad app, which pushes live TV to customers. In return, Time Warner has taken a populist approach, imploring the masses to show their support for the app. [Bloomberg and Time Warner via Engadget] More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/ZcRGDCUpu2Q/fox-wants-its-channels-removed-from-time-warners-ipad-app

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An Incoherent Libya Policy

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You don't just walk up to the local bully and slap him across the face. If you are determined to confront him, then you try to knock the living daylights out of him. Otherwise, you are better off to leave him alone.Anyone who grew up in my old neighborhood in Harlem could have told you that. But Barack Obama didn't grow up in my old neighborhood. He had a much more genteel upbringing, including a fancy private school, in Hawaii. Receive news alertsMaybe that is why he thinks he can launch military operations against Moammar Qaddafi, while promising not to kill him and promising that...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/03/30/measuring_force_109390.html

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Obama Aims To Reduce Foreign Oil Reliance

With gas prices going up and trouble with the nuclear plant in Japan, President Obama said in a speech that the U.S. must become less dependent on foreign sources of energy. He wants to cut American oil imports by a third over the next decade.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/30/134987903/obama-aims-to-reduce-foreign-oil-reliance?ft=1&f=1014

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Google Street View invades historic landmarks, makes it unnecessary for you to ever leave the house

The vagabonds of Google's Street View team have struck again, this time conquering classical French and Italian landmarks for their mothership's immense pictorial collection. As of today, you're able to drop your little yellow avatar in Google Maps right atop such famous locales as the Colosseum of Rome or Florence's Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, whereupon you'll be transported right to it (or, in the case of the Colosseum, inside it) in the same way as if they were any old street addresses. This follows, of course, Google's introduction of an intriguing indoor version of Street View for some of the world's most prestigious museums recently and continues the company's trend of bringing the arts, in this case classical architecture, to a wider audience. We just wonder what reason said audience will have to ever step outside with all this splendor at its fingertips indoors.

Google Street View invades historic landmarks, makes it unnecessary for you to ever leave the house originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 07:19:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Adobe patches latest Flash and Reader vulnerabilities

Just recently, new critical vulnerabilities were reported in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Reader. While Google and Adobe managed to deliver an update to secure Chrome users, it took a few more days to put together the necessary bits for the general Flash and Reader using public.

Fortunately, the work is now complete, and Adobe has posted updated downloads for both products. You should be notified via the Adobe Updater that a new version is available, but you can always download manually as well. We'd recommend doing so immediately rather than waiting on a notification.

You can find the updated Flash Player and Reader downloads on Adobe's site, and Windows versions are available on Filehippo (Reader and Flash) as well.

Adobe patches latest Flash and Reader vulnerabilities originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:17:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Founders Of MP3.com, mSpot On Amazon?s Music Locker: All Eyes On The Labels

I penned a blog post earlier today covering the potential impact that Amazon's new digital music locker will have on startups that have been letting people upload their music to the cloud for years (but charge more for it than Amazon does unless they need to store literally tens of thousands of songs). I got a response from the founders and head honchos of two of those startups in the line of fire, MP3Tunes CEO Michael Robertson, who already has a long and fascinating career (and legal history) in the world of digital music behind him, and Daren Tsui, CEO and co-founder of mSpot.

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/n_MKMve5E9A/

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Cellphones and the Brain: Faith, Hope and Calamity

It's now official: Everything that the Federal Communications Commission has ever told us about the safety of cellphones is almost certainly wrong. When the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse recently reported that simply holding a turned-on cellphone next to the ear for 50 minutes caused significant changes to brain chemistry, many stalwarts in the scientific community were stunned.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/72160.html

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Weekly Standard: Health Care Will Be 2012's Focus

As the 2012 presidential election looms on the horizon, James C. Capretta and Yuval Levin of The Weekly Standard argue that the most important issue for GOP presidential hopefuls to concentrate on is developing a platform for health care reform.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134947303/weekly-standard-health-care-will-be-2012s-focus?ft=1&f=1057

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Weekly Standard: Obama Has Come A Long Way

President Obama spoke on matters relating to Libya on Monday night, a move that many were waiting for. William Kristol of The Weekly Standard argues that it was just the kind of speech that the country needed to hear, and shows that Obama is ready to throw his hat into the ring of traditional American foreign policy.

Source: http://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134949257/weekly-standard-obama-has-come-a-long-way?ft=1&f=1057

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Beautiful Cardboard Hasselblad Almost as Well Made As Real Thing

Yes, you could make a pinhole camera from a shoebox. In fact, as a highly skilled (and likely highly attractive) Gadget Lab reader, you could probably chop up some cardboard and glue it into the shape of a real camera. But would you first screen-print the corrugated cardboard, and then cut the sections with a [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/03/beautiful-cardboard-hasselblad-almost-as-well-made-as-real-thing/

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HTC Arrive Windows Phone 7 Review

The HTC Arrive is the second landscape QWERTY slider to run Windows Phone 7 (the first was the LG Quantum), but HTC’s first try at this combination of form-factor and OS. It’s also the first CDMA Windows Phone 7 device, so this phone has a lot of “firsts” going for it. Quick Specs: OS: Microsoft [...]

Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/03/29/htc-arrive-windows-phone-7-review/

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CrunchGear Week In Review: Direction Edition

Here are some of last week’s stories on CrunchGear: Review: The Nintendo 3DS, The Next Step In Portable Gaming Evolution Twimal: Super-Cute Twitter Toy Pet Reads Tweets For You iPhly Radio Control For iPhone Meridian For iPhone: In-store, turn-by-turn maps to merchandise Solarball Cleans 3 Liters Of Water A Day

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/28/week-in-review-direction/

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Mitoza is a fun, freaky Web toy with an artistic look

While not a game per se, I found Mitoza intriguing enough to spend quite some time with it. You start off with a seed, and are then presented with two choices: you can either click a flower pot, or click a cute little birdie.

If you click the flower pot, a flower pot appears and the seed is planted inside. You're then presented with two further choices -- a water can or a bottle of fertilizer. Each choice you make causes your creation to morph, and presents you with two other choices.

There's no winning or losing, really. Each "game" usually lasts around four or five choices, at which point the plant/animal dies in some creative (but not too gruesome) way. At this point you instantly start over with a new seed.

The graphics are captivating; the whole thing has a cinematic feel to it, with a bit of artificial camera shake added for style.

All in all, it's a fun, peaceful way to spend a few minutes, and it might even make you think a little bit while you're at it.

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Mobile torrenting: how to manage and stream downloads from your phone

While exciting progress is being made in the realm of high-speed mobile data, it will be a long time indeed before wireless operators can catch up with wired bandwidth and ubiquity. For the time being, mass data transfer will be one of the few things that will stay within the realm of home and office computing, on DSL and Cable connections.

Still, just because you run your BitTorrent client on your desktop, laptop, or NAS, doesn't mean that you can't manage your torrents while on the move! If you see a poster for Pioneer One during your daily commute, you can whip out your smartphone and add the latest episode to your at-home torrent client.

And again, while it isn't wise to torrent on your smartphone, you can send a file from your PC to your phone; you can even stream a TV show, movie or song from home to your mobile device.

In this guide we'll cover Windows, Mac and Linux on the PC side of things, and Android, iOS, Symbian, BlackBerry, and Web apps on the mobile side. Let's jump in!

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Mobile torrenting: how to manage and stream downloads from your phone originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sigma confirms pricing and availabilty for DP2x compact camera: $800, late-April

Sigma provided most of the details for its new DP2x compact camera when it announced it back in February, but it left out two key ones: pricing and availability. It's now finally (mostly) come clean on both those counts, however, and announced that the high-end compact will run $800 and be available in "late April." As for the camera itself, you'll get a 14-megapixel FOVEON X3 sensor that's said to be twelve times larger than those found in similarly-sized cameras, along with a fixed 24.2mm F2.8 lens, full manual controls with RAW image support, and an new AF algorithm that promises "high-speed" autofocus. Full press release is after the break.

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Sigma confirms pricing and availabilty for DP2x compact camera: $800, late-April originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 29 Mar 2011 05:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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