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It’s the most wonderful time of the week once again, pals. Like most seven-day periods, this one comes to a close with the latest issue of our e-magazine for your gadget reading pleasure. Front and center this time around, our own Darren Murph pays a visit to the South Carolina HQ of accessory maker Twelve South to chat about making a big splash while staying small
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Distro Issue 41: a visit to the Lowcountry’s Twelve South, TiVo Premiere XL4 and HTC EVO 4G LTE
Speakers these days! They are everywhere , in constantly evolving iterations, smaller and more versatile than ever before. Singaporean manufacturer X-mini has a pretty good foothold in this game with a consistent brand message of “Sound Beyond Size.” That indicates the portability, mass, and reproductive capacity of its products in a pretty nebulous fashion, so we decided to grab its latest offering, the Bluetooth-toting KAI, and place it in our real lives for a few months
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X-mini KAI capsule Bluetooth speaker review
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Distro Issue 40: the battle for smartphone dominance continues and we go hands-on at CTIA 2012
While the world still waits for the GTX 680 to reach Newegg, NVIDIA has pushed ahead with the next card down in its stack: the $399 GTX 670 .
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 review round-up: ‘just get here if you can’
With the recent spring TiVo Premiere update we figured it was as good of a time as any to spend some quality time with the newly-renamed TiVo Premiere XL4 . The highest model in the TiVo line, the XL4 costs $399 plus $15 a month, or $499 for lifetime service. For the money, it records four HD shows at once with a single CableCARD and offers 2TB of storage.
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TiVo Premiere XL4 review
With roughly 98 percent of the desktop and laptop market spoken for, you’d be forgiven for thinking your only choices for powering your computer were Windows or Mac OS X . There is another way, though.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin review
It was back in February when we first caught wind a beefier version of Jawbone’s Jambox, thanks to some less-than-stealthy ninjas at the FCC . Today it’s officially here . Dubbed Big Jambox, this $300 Bluetooth speakerphone and “smartspeaker” is unsurprisingly a supersized — yet still portable — version of the new-age micro-boombox that the won us over back in 2010
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Jawbone Big Jambox review (video)
Fujifilm confirms X-Pro1 at CES Fujifilm X-Pro1 interchangeable lens camera preview Sony Alpha NEX-7 mirrorless camera review Hear any mention of retro-styled cameras with exorbitant price tags and it’s hard not to get suspicious. That kind of talk brings to mind Leica’s incessant re-branding of Panasonic Lumix models, or those unicorn limited editions out of Japan that just leave us baffled. But it’s okay, you can relax with the Fujifilm X-Pro1 .
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Fujifilm X-Pro1 mirrorless camera review
Ah, yes. The end of the week is upon us. Of course, this means that the latest installment of our tablet publication has arrived.
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Distro Issue 38: a peek at the Navy’s Robotics Laboratory and an interview with MSI’s Jeans Huang
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
Third time’s a charm… Three’s a crowd… 