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Same price, same features (mostly) but a sleek and slender new look: yesterday Elgato introduced the latest revamp of its EyeTV Hybrid USB tuner for high-definition digital television. The US$150 widget gives you the option of watching over-the-air digital television in full HD glory, and can also tune in unencrypted (Clear QAM) and analog cable TV signals. If you’ve got an analog source like a VCR or videogame console, you can also route those signals through the EyeTV Hybrid to watch or play on your Mac (for those who don’t need the analog option, Elgato also sells the HD tuner-only EyeTV One for $120).

The tuner ships with the EyeTV 3 software, enabling live TV, DVR functionality and shared recordings for your iPhone and iPod touch. With every new EyeTV Hybrid you get a one-year subscription to the TV Guide data feed, which provides full listings and enables the Smart Series recording feature; the software also can detect and display the embedded ATSC schedule information for broadcast shows. After the first year, re-upping with TV Guide will cost you $20.

Other than the slimmer profile, the major new feature on this model is the addition of driver support for Windows 7’s Windows Media Center. Mac users may not care much, but this does let you use the same tuner if you’re using Boot Camp, or you can loan it out to Windows-centric friends — if you trust them to give it back.

You can check out our previous coverage and reviews of the EyeTV Hybrid for more.

EyeTV Hybrid shrinks down, gains Win7 compatibility originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

EyeTV Hybrid shrinks down, gains Win7 compatibility originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Hardware, iPod Family, Hacks, iPhone

Warning: If you are baffled by people who think dismantling technology is fun, and completely fail to understand the excitement of building robots to battle other robots, this post may not be for you. Just so you know.

On the Make: magazine blog, they recently posted a piece about the evolution of a project. It was an iPod remote from last year that has gone from a “start and stop” only device to a full featured remote. It is a lovely piece of tech, powered by Arduino hardware. Arduinos are open-source circuit boards and software you can use to develop interfaces with all sorts of electronics.

I remember reading the first post about this remote last fall and being interested in where he would take this project, mostly because I love seeing what people do with Altoids tins. I have to admit hooking one up to a giant “Easy” button for my car never really occurred to me, though.

I really like the idea of building my own remote; partly so I can say I did it, but also because it would be a nicer way to get my iPod or iPhone (depending) working nicely with my car stereo.

Honestly I only understand about half of what he’s talking about in this article, but I’m good at following instructions and I am reasonably handy with a soldering iron, so this doesn’t look completely unreasonable. If I do end up building one I’ll be sure to post all about it for you. In the meantime, have you built an unholy alliance between your Roomba and your iMac, or any other variety of Mac Tech Mashup? Tell me about it, I’d love to see what you all can do!

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Hack: The iPod serial library enables homebrew remote controls originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Google Apps Marketplace has officially been launched. What does this marketplace offer? Well, it features “products and services designed for Google users, including installable apps that integrate directly with Google Apps.” Continue reading for the entire Google Campfire One presentation.

Musician Yoshi Akai wanted to combine his love of art and music, so he built an innovative music sequencer using the two. This creation “uses three-dimensional Lego structures to emulate a three-channel, eight-step sequencer, where each differently colored plastic brick produces a different sound.” Video after the break.

…complex combinations (including tremolo and overdrive) are possible when the blocks are stacked. Akai tells us it works using resistors embedded in each and every block.

[via Engadget]

There’s been a lot of internet buzz lately about The Story of Stuff, an animated documentary on consumerist American society, so we’ve embedded the full video after the break. The 20-minute clip “divides up the materials economy into a system composed of extraction, production, distribution, consumption, and disposal.”

Race simulators like rFactor or iRacing offer the kind of gaming experience only available this side of a six-point harness, particularly when combined with a wheel like Logitech’s G27, but sometimes it’s a little difficult to get into the game when perched on an office chair. The 4DOF racing simulator from Motion-Sim will provides the missing link with a somewhat dangerous looking combination of pistons and articulating arms. It’s been around for a few months but we’re just now getting a chance to check out the thing in motion — pitch, roll, yaw, and heave to be specific, with a harness of its own to keep the latter of those forces from sending you across the room whilst braking for La Source. It’s only available to PC simmers (games like Gran Turismo and Forza don’t provide the necessary output) and only the very richest ones: €18,450.00 for the home version, or $25,000 — enough to get into a Formula Ford and onto a real track if you wanted. For everyone else we have two infinitely more affordable videos embedded below, one showing frantic F1 action, the other rallycrossing in Live for Speed.

Continue reading Motion-Sim 4DOF racing simulator will take your retirement fund for the ride of its life (video)

Motion-Sim 4DOF racing simulator will take your retirement fund for the ride of its life (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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For those enjoying media bliss thanks to a little MediaSmart box humming away somewhere in the corner, life just got a even more lovely. HP has announced a partnership with TiVo that allows MediaSmart users to install a Windows Home Server add-in, enabling the two devices to talk sweet nothings to each other. From within the WHS console you’ll be able to suck recorded content from the TiVo onto the MediaSmart’s expansive storage array and, from there, play it on any of your compatible devices (PC, Mac, Xbox, PS3, etc.). Or, when you start to miss those happy TiVo sounds, you can send that content back over to DVR to view from there. The WHS extension is available right now to MediaSmart owners, so get on with the downloading already.

HP MediaSmart add-in adds TiVo compatibility, enables video transfers to and fro originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Another day, another CEO with more lip gloss than brain matter. Jeffrey Katzenberg has been talking to USA Today on what seems to be his favorite topic these days, 3D, and telling us that the glasses ain’t no big deal. After all, “many many many people” wear glasses — that’s three lots of many for those keeping count at home — and the new and improved 3D appendages are so “beautifully styled” that he expects them to start popping up at your local optometrist right next to the sunglasses and designer eyewear isles. In fact, this dude’s sipping the corporate firewater so hard, we half-expect him to tell us that 3D offers “very high value” for money or … wait, he said that too? Alright, we give up.

CE-Oh no he didn’t!: Katzenberg says ‘beautifully styled’ 3D glasses won’t make you look like a dweeb originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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David Riesenberg obviously had his head in the clouds when he dreamed up the OO High Definition Wireless Projector, but it’s not like we’re kvetching about his imagination’s ability to go far beyond the limits of most humans. For one thing, the concept 1080p projector looks (and lands) like a stunning orange UFO; for another, the specs are otherwordly. Should the device ever come to market, Reisenberg says it will pack SSD storage, WiFi and internal decoder chips into its svelte, 11-inch round carbon fiber frame, as well as three independently articulated legs for balance and a Li-ion battery for up to three hours of cord-free HD streaming and playback. Did we mention it’s got a matching touchscreen remote? And our deepest affection, forever and ever? See what we’re drooling over in Riesenberg’s subtle video homage to a certain interstellar piano waltz right after the break.

[Thanks, David]

Continue reading OO HD wireless projector concept reaches for the stars, almost grabs ‘em (video)

OO HD wireless projector concept reaches for the stars, almost grabs ‘em (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ready for your daily dose of ingeniousness? That word is actually real, and so is the Happy Hour Timepiece — a watch that doubles as a bottle opener, because as the tagline reminds us, “it’s 5 o’clock somewhere.” It has just become available to buy from Time Tap’s website, and its black leather-strapped awesomeness can be yours for $49.95. Click past the break to see video of it being demonstrated as well as a shot of the watch face itself — it even has dual digital and analog time displays, so much value!

Continue reading Happy Hour watches open bottles, doors unto new worlds (video)

Happy Hour watches open bottles, doors unto new worlds (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:34:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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