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- Google gets Keyhole
- Google has acquired spy in the sky software company Keyhole, which developed software and a multi-terabyte database of mapping information collected from satellites and airplanes that lets users view geographic images. You can zoom in from space to street level, mostly in large cities in the U.S., and find local shops, hotels, etc....
- Tags: Keyhole
- Blog posts 2004-10-27
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- Sony HT-CT100
- It's a familiar story in consumer electronics: start with a luxurious, expensive, and exclusive product category, and within just a few years, you'll see a sea of imitators delivering the same basic item with more features, less money, and--ideally--better performance. Take single-speaker audio. Once the exclusive domain of Yamaha Digital...
- Tags: Sony HT-CT100, speaker, HDMI, subwoofer, Sony Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-06-05
- Pandigital 8-inch PanTouch Digital Photo Frame
- Pandigital, a veteran digital photo-frame maker, is doing its best to stand out from the competition by incorporating a variation of the familiar touch-screen interface in its new line of PanTouch digital photo frames. You might call it touch screen "lite"; rather than touching the screen, as you would do...
- Tags: Keyboards, Flash memory, Pandigital, PanTouch Digital Photo Frame, display
- Product reviews 2008-06-02
- Who kicked up the cell phone scare?
- His name is Vini Khurana right. Doctor Khurana to you. Best known until now for having performed the first brain keyhole surgery with the patient awake, he has now compiled a review of all the data he could find on cell phones and brain cancer. (The last...
- Tags: Phone, Dr., Cell Phone, Telecom & Utilities, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- Panasonic SC-PT660
- Panasonic's 2008 home-theater-in-a-box line has three contenders in the sub-$500 range. At the top of the line is the SC-PT960, which includes wireless speakers in the rear, tallboy speakers up front, and is XM-ready. In the middle is the $400 SC-PT760; it loses the satellite radio compatibility, but retains...
- Tags: Digital music, Panasonic SC-PT660, speaker, Panasonic, iPod Dock, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-03-26
- Samsung HT-BD2T
- Now that Blu-ray has officially triumphed over its HD DVD rival, it's only natural to begin seeing the high-definition disc format begin to become a bit more, well, standardized. Take the Samsung HT-BD2T: It's the first home-theater-in-a-box system in the world to feature a built-in Blu-ray player. It's...
- Tags: Home entertainment, Consumer electronics, TV & Home Theater, DVD, speaker package, speaker, Samsung HT-BD2T, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
- Product reviews 2008-03-21
- Panasonic SC-PT760
- Panasonic's 2008 home-theater-in-a-box line has three contenders in the sub-$500 range, and we think the midline SC-PT760 will be the most popular model of the group. It comes with a smooth running five-disc DVD changer, wireless surround speakers, an integrated, flipdown iPod dock, and upscales video over HDMI up...
- Tags: Panasonic SC-PT760, speaker, Panasonic, iPod Dock, Apple iPod
- Product reviews 2008-03-18
- Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit
- The speaker cable requirements of today's multichannel home theater systems have created a sizable market for wireless speakers. It seems like everybody wants these things, but the engineering challenges of wireless speakers are steep, and a lot of wireless speakers sound pretty awful. There's a lot of truly awful products...
- Tags: receiver, Rocketfish Universal Wireless Rear Speaker Kit, speaker, transmitter, wireless, surround speaker
- Product reviews 2008-02-26
- Keyhole Solution for Shareware (rar)
- Keyhole Solution for Shareware Keyhole is a shareware registration system solutions developed by AlphaZN Studio. By using Keyhole, you can easily make your DEMO software with trial limits such as using times limits, using days limits, expiration data. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: Shareware
- Software downloads 2008-01-21
- i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon
- Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London ICL. For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...
- Tags: Robot, Imaging, Surgery, Surgeon, i-Snake, Robots, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-29
- Yamaha Air Surround YAS-70
- Yamaha's YSP Digital Sound Projector single-speaker surround systems have been popular for good reason: they produce room-filling sound from a single speaker. The catch is they're expensive: list prices start around $700 (the YSP-900) and go up to $1,600 (for the excellent YSP-4000), and--because the higher-end models include video connections...
- Tags: sub, Yamaha Corp., speaker, YSP Digital Sound Projector, Yamaha YAS-70, subwoofer, cable
- Product reviews 2007-12-19
- Ambient Devices 7-Day Weather Forecaster
- There's a class of people out there who we like to call the weather-challenged. You may know someone like this. Or you may be weather-challenged yourself. But it comes down to this: There are a lot of folks who have a tendency to walk out of their homes each morning...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, WIRELESS, wireless receiver, Ambient
- Product reviews 2007-12-17
- Google Earth inner workings described in newly published Google Patent App
- I've just come across a very recently published U.S. Patent application by Google that appears to explain the inner workings of Google Earth. More specifically, the technology described in this Patent app deals with how mapping-related information within a database makes its way...
- Tags: Geography, Google Inc., Database, Server, Google Earth, Information, Model, Object, Patent App, Keyhole Mark-up Language, Server 130, Servers, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-13
- Kodak EasyShare EX-1011 Digital Picture Frame
- Earlier this year we reviewed Kodak's EX-811 8-inch digital photo with built-in wireless connectivity and were generally very impressed with the product. More recently, Kodak sent us over a review sample of the larger, 10-inch model in the same series, the EX-1011, which retails for around $250. Except for...
- Tags: Wi-Fi, Digital media, Digital music, Kodak EasyShare, Eastman Kodak Co., photograph, EX-1011, EX-811, wireless, PC
- Product reviews 2007-12-07
- (The $363 19-inch dual-core all-in-one LCD PC)
- (The $363 19-inch dual-core all-in-one LCD PC)RF anyoneYou might want to line the inside of the box with some shielding. A couple layers of foil and ground it, at least.RE: (The $363 19-inch dual-core all-in-one LCD PC)Paint that sucker black and it will be perfect!RE: (The $363 19-inch dual-core...
- Tags: Monitors & displays, Desktops, Processors, Wood, LCD PC, dual-core, LCD, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-11-27
- GPS accuracy for a robotic neurosurgeon
- The MiniAture Robot for Surgical Applications MARS is already FDA-approved for orthopedic and spinal surgery. Now, Israeli scientists have given it GPS accuracy for keyhole neurosurgery. This is a minimally invasive procedure used for tumor biopsies or deep brain stimulation, but you need to know exactly where you operate. So...
- Tags: Keyhole Inc., Robot, Registration, GPS, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- HP: Linux ready for most applications
- HP: Linux ready for most applicationsHeck, it's more than readymore so than the equipment vendors touting.It's about timesomeone finally admitted it in the industry! ]:)Gee we have been saying this for two years now!Linux readyLinux user since 1999. There are trade offs using Linux, as there all with all...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Hewlett-Packard Co., Linux JUST, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Linux HAS, One-Man
- Discussion threads 2007-10-01
- Branson hopes to use Google Earth to find Fossett
- Branson hopes to use Google Earth to find FossettBranson hopes to use Google Earth to find FossettThey would have better luck not using any of Google's products to find Steve. Google's satellite images are very inaccurate and out of date. When you have something as serious as this which...
- Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Google Inc., Fossett, Branson, Google Earth
- Discussion threads 2007-09-05
- Pandigital 15-inch Digital Photo Frame
- Unless you've been tracking the rise of digital photo frames, you probably haven't heard of Pandigital. The company has been around since 1998, but since digital frames haven't really come into their own until the last couple of years, the brand is only now building some recognition. Among the company's...
- Tags: Digital cameras, Digital photography, Memory, digital photograph
- Product reviews 2007-07-26
- Panasonic SC PT750 home theater system
- Panasonic offers at least half a dozen home-theater-in-a-box systems HTIBs for 2007, and telling the difference between them can sometimes be a challenge. The entry-level SC-PT650 model, for instance, includes a five-disc CD/DVD changer, HDMI output with 1080p upscaling, XM satellite compatibility, and an included iPod dock--all of which were...
- Tags: home theater, Panasonic, wireless, speaker, Panasonic SC-PT750, SC-PT650, receiver, changer
- Product reviews 2007-07-05
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