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Barbie gets a camera implant to snap photos in style, we go hands-on

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:34 PM PST

Barbie gets a camera implant to snap photos in style, we go hands-on


Barbie gets a camera implant to snap photos in style, we go hands-on
Speechless? We can't blame you and, although this fashionable shooter might not be up your alley, we're willing to bet your kids -- or any other young member of the fam -- would snatch her up in a heartbeat. Dubbed Barbie Photo Fashion, she might not be too computer savvy, but this stylish doll's got traits of her own to flaunt....

Hertz charges into EV Plugless Power pilot program, can't say it three times fast

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 02:34 PM PST

Hertz charges into EV Plugless Power pilot program, can't say it three times fast


Hertz charges into EV Plugless Power pilot program, can't say it three times fast
Hertz has been offering up electric vehicles amongst its fleet of rental cars, and now it's getting ready to pull the plug. The company is teaming with Evatran to test out the those cool little Plugless Power discs, installing some at its corporate headquarters this month. Hertz, along with a number of other companies will be logging "feedback on daily usage routines, user interfaces, and any additional functionality needed." No word...

The Government Wants To Build An App Store For Real-Life Jack Bauers

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:51 PM PST

The Government Wants To Build An App Store For Real-Life Jack Bauers


The Government Wants To Build An App Store For Real-Life Jack Bauers
The US Department of Defense Explosive Ordinance Disposal unit is look for a few good coders to help build apps and an entire app store for bomb technicians and soldiers involved in ordnance handling. This is when sliding to unlock could mean the difference between life or death. The request for proposals is as dull as dirt (you can read it here) but the requirements are clear: they're looking for apps that...

Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm license, makes us dream of a world without law...

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:51 PM PST

Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm license, makes us dream of a world without lawyers


Apple sues Motorola over Qualcomm license, makes us dream of a world without lawyers
There are literally no words (at least no family-friendly ones) to describe the insanity that is the ongoing legal war between practically every player in the mobile scene. You can't lay the blame entirely at Cupertino's stoop either -- Motorola, HTC and Samsung all deserve plenty of our ire as well....

Key deadline arrives Saturday in Honda Civic Hybrid lawsuit

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST

Key deadline arrives Saturday in Honda Civic Hybrid lawsuit


Key deadline arrives Saturday in Honda Civic Hybrid lawsuit
Filed under: Hybrid, Honda A California woman beat Honda in small-claims court last week, receiving nearly $10,000 in damages after getting lower-than-advertised fuel economy in her Civic Hybrid. Early next week, we may have a better idea of how many people intend to follow her lead. A key deadline arrives Saturday that affects all U.S....

Best Vehicles for the Apocalypse

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST

Best Vehicles for the Apocalypse


Best Vehicles for the Apocalypse
These are the rides that will carry you through the end of the world.

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET!

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:09 PM PST

Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET!


Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET!
Another week has come and gone, and another Engadget Mobile Podcast is ready to begin. Myriam Joire, Sean Cooper and Brad Molen are ready for the latest round of weekly mobile news and will get you caught up to speed... LTE speed. Join us at 5PM ET! February 10, 2012 5:00 PM ESTContinue reading Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at 5PM ET!Listen to the Engadget Mobile Podcast, live at...

Eurocom Panther 4.0 is the mirror universe's version of an Ultrabook

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 01:08 PM PST

Eurocom Panther 4.0 is the mirror universe's version of an Ultrabook


Eurocom Panther 4.0 is the mirror universe's version of an Ultrabook
Eurocom, like its chassis-brethren Maingear and Clevo, just lives to jam over-sized Sandy Bridge E hardware into mumpsy laptops. Find yourself in front of the Panther 4.0 and you'll be staring into a 17.3-inch 1920 x 1080 display (you can choose between matte, glossy and 3D) as you work or game away on a choice of GeForce GTX 580M, Quadro 5010M or Radeon HD 6990M graphics kit....

New Android App Lets You Flashback To The Arcades Of Yesteryear

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:26 PM PST

New Android App Lets You Flashback To The Arcades Of Yesteryear


New Android App Lets You Flashback To The Arcades Of Yesteryear
The arcade scene here in the United States is but a fraction of what it was back in its heyday, but that doesn't mean that the love for those classic games has just evaporated. Capcom's CPS2 arcade board has attained legend status in certain retro gaming circles because of its catalog of instant classics, and a developer named Cpasjuste has just given those games a new lease on life with a...

Master Moves Mickey hands-on: challenges Bieber and TOSY to dance-off (video)

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 12:25 PM PST

Master Moves Mickey hands-on: challenges Bieber and TOSY to dance-off (video)


Master Moves Mickey hands-on: challenges Bieber and TOSY to dance-off (video)
Beethoven's Fifth or Michelangelo's Pietà it's not but, while Master Moves Mickey can't stand as a cornerstone of civilization, it can certainly throw down on the dance floor. The b-boy bot has a speaker hidden under its garb that kicks out the jams while this mechanical mouse break dances its little Disney trademarked heart out....

Acer CloudMobile phone wins design award, lets cat out of the bag

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:43 AM PST

Acer CloudMobile phone wins design award, lets cat out of the bag


Acer CloudMobile phone wins design award, lets cat out of the bag
Sometimes, you're just so darn full of pride you can get lost in the moment. We assume that's what Acer's done, having revealed possibly its trump handset weeks before the global mobile event, MWC, even starts. Its CloudMobile has won the iF design award for 2012, and the company just wanted everyone to know....

Apple seeks injunction against Samsung in California with newly acquired patents

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:43 AM PST

Apple seeks injunction against Samsung in California with newly acquired patents


Apple seeks injunction against Samsung in California with newly acquired patents
You can now add one more case to the long list of disputes between Apple and Samsung. As PaidContent reports, Apple filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the Northern District of California federal court on Tuesday, seeking a temporary injunction on the basis of two patents it obtained in December....

Hyundai CEO: Elantra GT's 39 mpg is "pretty good"

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:00 AM PST

Hyundai CEO: Elantra GT's 39 mpg is "pretty good"


Hyundai CEO: Elantra GT's 39 mpg is "pretty good"
Filed under: MPG, Hyundai, AutoblogGreen Exclusive, Chicago Auto Show During the unveiling of the Hyundai Elantra GT at the Chicago Auto Show, the message was the following: This car is lighter than its competitors, cars like the Mazda3, Ford Focus and the Volkswagen Golf, and therefore it gets decent fuel economy. Hyundai CEO John Krafcik pointedly mentioned that a lot of vehicles these days - from Hyundai and other automakers - get 40...

Withings Smart Baby Monitor drops through FCC's chimney

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 11:00 AM PST

Withings Smart Baby Monitor drops through FCC's chimney


Withings Smart Baby Monitor drops through FCC's chimney
Baby monitors. If you're in the market for one (er, congrats) and you run an Apple-flavored household, then this Withings device looks sufficiently over-specced for your needs. It's been out in the UK for a couple of months already priced at £269 ($425), and judging from the FCC filing it's coming to the US too, where it'll face sibling rivalry from the likes of Samsung, Evoz and the Exmobaby bodysuit....

AMD outs cheap Athlon II X4 Llano-based processors, minus integrated graphics

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:18 AM PST

AMD outs cheap Athlon II X4 Llano-based processors, minus integrated graphics


AMD outs cheap Athlon II X4 Llano-based processors, minus integrated graphics
Given that superior integrated graphics was one of the key selling points of AMD's low-power Llano desktop chips, it might seem like a strange move to offer two new Athlon-branded variants that have been stripped of their GPUs. However, while one hand slaps your face, the other hand gives you more cash to spend on a proper graphics card for your ultra-cheap rig -- because both the Athlon II X4 641...

Did GM's "Apocalypse" commercial backfire?

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 10:18 AM PST

Did GM's "Apocalypse" commercial backfire?


Did GM's "Apocalypse" commercial backfire?
Cheap shot raised interest in Ford products.

OpenLabel Exits Stealth, Raises $80K To Turn Barcodes Into Public Labels

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:35 AM PST

OpenLabel Exits Stealth, Raises $80K To Turn Barcodes Into Public Labels


OpenLabel Exits Stealth, Raises $80K To Turn Barcodes Into Public Labels
OpenLabel, a startup that wants to augment everyday products' barcodes with crowd-sourced information that helps you decide whether to buy, has raised $80,000 in seed funding in a round led by Peter Kirwan, also an investor in IFTTT. Also participating in the round were Tim Drees and Doug Taylor. According to OpenLabel co-founder Scott Kennedy, this $80K is just the first part of a larger $300,000 seed round, which the company...

Samsung's NP700 gaming laptop goes up for pre-order with Ivy Bridge pride

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:35 AM PST

Samsung's NP700 gaming laptop goes up for pre-order with Ivy Bridge pride


Samsung's NP700 gaming laptop goes up for pre-order with Ivy Bridge pride
Jonesing for some more of Samsung's 17-inchers? Jones no more, because the Korean manufacturer has just put its NP700G7C gaming laptop up for pre-order. Packing 16GB of memory, this new Series 7 lappy made a brief appearance on Best Buy's website last month, but was quickly pulled. This time, though, it looks like it's for real, with Samsung touting its new "Gaming PC" on its very own website, alongside a $1,700...

Motorola Droid 4 available on Verizon today for $200

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 09:35 AM PST

Motorola Droid 4 available on Verizon today for $200


Motorola Droid 4 available on Verizon today for $200
It can be tough to keep track of which Droid is launching when these days, but those waiting patiently for the Motorola Droid 4 will be glad to know that the QWERTY slider is available on Verizon today for $200 on-contract. That of course buys you a pass onto Verizon's LTE network, along with a 4-inch qHD display, a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, a 8-megapixel camera (paired with a lower-res front-facing cam),...

New vehicles 14% more fuel efficient than four years ago

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:52 AM PST

New vehicles 14% more fuel efficient than four years ago


New vehicles 14% more fuel efficient than four years ago
Filed under: Diesel, Hybrid, MPG, Legislation and Policy, USA It's amazing what a little regulation can do for an industry. In the past four years, the fuel economy of new vehicles has improved by an average of 14 percent, according to a new study by the University of Michigan. This increase comes on the heels of big hikes in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, which Congress raised in 2007 for the first...

A Whole Lot Of Reading: Social Publisher Wattpad Hits 1B User Minutes Per Month

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:52 AM PST

A Whole Lot Of Reading: Social Publisher Wattpad Hits 1B User Minutes Per Month


A Whole Lot Of Reading: Social Publisher Wattpad Hits 1B User Minutes Per Month
Wattpad, a Union Square Ventures-backed platform for sharing stories and interacting with writers, has been growing steadily, and it hit a nice milestone in January — during that month, users spent more than 1 billion minutes on the service. Co-founder and CEO Allen Lau tells me via email that the growth comes from a combination of attracting new users and convincing each of those users to spend more time on the site....

Netflix Android app adds onscreen volume slider, Facebook integration (where ava...

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:52 AM PST

Netflix Android app adds onscreen volume slider, Facebook integration (where available)


Netflix Android app adds onscreen volume slider, Facebook integration (where available)
Now that Netflix is available on most Android devices and even sporting a fresh tablet interface, what's there left to tweak? Plenty actually, and the company just pushed a new 1.7 version of the app that adds Facebook sharing and discovery in the countries where those features are enabled (read: not the US)....

Unknown HTC phone running ICS pops up, looks Incredible

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:52 AM PST

Unknown HTC phone running ICS pops up, looks Incredible


Unknown HTC phone running ICS pops up, looks Incredible
What's this we have here? Well, clearly it's an HTC phone, but it looks different to what we've seen before. If the pictures are to be believed, we're looking at an Android 4.0 device with HTC's Sense 4.0 on top. There's LTE on board, and what looks like Verizon's splash-screen, meaning there's every reason to believe this is destined for the US....

Android Hack Exposes Google Wallet PIN On Demand

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:08 AM PST

Android Hack Exposes Google Wallet PIN On Demand


Android Hack Exposes Google Wallet PIN On Demand
Like most hacks, this discovery of a way to find an Android phone's Google Wallet PIN requires a lot of initial access but is disturbing nonetheless. Google knows about the hack and is repairing it. Discovered by Joshua Rubin of Zvelo, the hack is one of the most interesting attacks on Google Wallet so far. In short, this hack allows access to credit card data and purchase history and could, in theory,...

NEC Casio Medias LTE N-04D launches in Japan next week

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 08:08 AM PST

NEC Casio Medias LTE N-04D launches in Japan next week


NEC Casio Medias LTE N-04D launches in Japan next week
It was mere weeks since we saw NEC's last smartphone that will probably never take the plane ride away from Japan, but contrary to its recent financials, the company doesn't appear to be letting up. The NEC Medias LTE N-04D, arriving on NTT DoCoMo, is a little chunkier than its predecessor, but that 11.6mm shell manages to squeeze in 4G connectivity and a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor Along LTE credentials, the...

Not the same old chicken

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:23 AM PST

Not the same old chicken


Not the same old chicken
Try some new, and healthy, ways to jazz up your chicken it up by stuffing it with savory ingredients.

Proxama, ARM Partner For Joint NFC Venture

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:23 AM PST

Proxama, ARM Partner For Joint NFC Venture


Proxama, ARM Partner For Joint NFC Venture
NFC is picking up traction everywhere you look, and the latest news comes out of the UK's Proxama. According to a release sent out this morning, the company is planning a partnership with ARM to create an NFC system. Employing ARM TrustZone technology in conjunction with the Proxama Mobile Wallet, the venture aims to provide secure NFC contactless payments and mobile internet payments to more mobile devices....

Verizon’s Latest LTE Smartphone Leaked: Is This The HTC Incredible 3?

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:23 AM PST

Verizon's Latest LTE Smartphone Leaked: Is This The HTC Incredible 3?


Verizon's Latest LTE Smartphone Leaked: Is This The HTC Incredible 3?
With MWC drawing ever closer, new handset leaks are hitting the wires hard and fast. Today alone we've seen the Galaxy Mini 2 break cover and new images of the LG Miracle Windows Phone emerge, and now HTC's latest LTE-friendly Android phone has been caught on film. As PhoneArena notes, this mysterious handset sports the same sort of curvaceous back that gave devices like Verizon's HTC Incredible and Rezound a bit of...

Foursquare Adds NFC Support To Its Android App

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:23 AM PST

Foursquare Adds NFC Support To Its Android App


Foursquare Adds NFC Support To Its Android App
In addition to the updated "Explore" feature that rolled out to Foursquare's Android and iPhone applications this week, the social discovery service also added a special feature to its Android app that sort of flew under the radar: support for NFC. NFC, or near field communication, allows devices to exchange data over short distances, typically with a wave or a tap....

DarwinBot is a surrogate play partner for man's best friend

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 07:23 AM PST

DarwinBot is a surrogate play partner for man's best friend


DarwinBot is a surrogate play partner for man's best friend
The problem facing Microsoft developer Jordan Correa and his wife was hardly an uncommon one. They both have full time jobs (that's not the problem), but they also have an adorable dog Darwin that is left alone for about eight hours each day. Correa decided to keep his pup active and virtually bridged their physical divide by building his own telepresence robot using Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio, a Kinect and a...