Posted by Jason Kottke on under billis, televi, aying, captivate, frt, dsi, free time, real world, parenting, brain, parents | 
How do you simplify your life and possessions when kids are in the mix?
Don't feel guilty. Modern parents are made to feel as if they are depriving their children of "the best" if they don't sign them up for every lesson, take them to every movie, or buy them every brain-enhancing toy. Advertising companies are paying billions of dollars to make you think this. It is not reality... it is a fictional version of reality they are selling. Let it go. Don't "buy" into it. You are not depriving your children; you are enhancing their mental and emotional development by letting the real world around them captivate and interest them. Do you think the Smiths' kids are really better off because they spend all their free time in front of a television or playing with a DSI?
(via @brainpicker)
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Posted by on under laptop vendors, 3dtv, engadget, physx, computing skills, sagely, fri, heavy hitters, gpu, graphics cards, gtx, general purpose, big time, fab, nvidia, variants, counterparts, insignia, nbsp, magic |
Not everybody needs
the world's fastest mobile GPU, so NVIDIA is sagely trickling down its
Fermi magic to more affordable price points today. The 400M family is being fleshed out with five new midrange parts -- GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M, to give them their gorgeous names -- and a pair of heavy hitters known as the GTX 470M and GTX 460M. Features shared across the new range include a 40nm fab process, DirectX 11, CUDA general-purpose computing skills, PhysX, and
Optimus graphics switching. 3D Vision and
3DTV Play support will be available on all but the lowest two variants. NVIDIA claims that, on average, the 400M graphics cards are 40 percent faster than their 300M series counterparts, and since those were
rebadges of the 200M series, we're most definitely willing to believe that assertion. Skip past the break for all the vital statistics, and look out for almost all (HP is a notable absentee, while Apple is a predictable one) the big-time laptop vendors to have gear bearing the 4xxM insignia soon.
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NVIDIA GTX 470M highlights rollout of 400M mobile GPU series originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under extence, gold master, tweetie, iphone, artt, opti, twitter, ipad, notifications, developers |
To many users, Twitter for iPhone (the artist formerly known as Tweetie) is perhaps the perfect Twitter client (though I'd argue that the new
Twitter for iPad is right there with it). But the one thing it has been lacking and that users knock it for is the lack of Push Notifications. Well, good news. They're coming. Soon. Twitter is currently internally testing the feature, we've confirmed. Interestingly enough, we learned of its existence when the latest version of the app went out yesterday (the universal binary that included Twitter for iPad). It appears that users who have iOS 4.1 installed (which just hit Gold Master for developers, but won't be official out until next week) get the option to enable Push Notifications for Twitter. They don't appear to be working yet, but the feature is definitely there.
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Posted by on under hdmi inputs, 3dtv, best buy, usb socket, engadget, fri, hundies, 720p, starter kit, marts, slew, grabs, dcs, hdtv, plasma, samsung, nbsp |
Looking to spoil yourself with a fancy new
3DTV? Ain't got the cash to go
all-out? Hello, compromise. Samsung's 50-inch
PN50C490 -- which we
peeked just a few weeks ago -- is now shipping from Amazon, Best Buy and a slew of other local consumer electronic marts if we had to guess. As a refresher, this mid-sized HDTV has a 720p resolution, 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, no internet connectivity to speak of, a USB socket, three HDMI inputs, a pair of component jacks and support for the third dimension. It's up for grabs today at just $989, but you'll probably want to budget a few extra hundies for that
Samsung 3D Starter Kit (not to mention a few 3D Blu-ray Discs).
[Thanks, James]
Samsung's 50-inch 720p PN50C490 3D plasma on sale now for under a grand originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted by on under ncc 1701 e, warp jump, birds of prey, image cache, star trek, raquo |
From
Star Trek: The Motion Picture to
Star Trek 2009; from the first Enterprise and Birds of Prey to the NCC-1701-E and back to the Enterprise: This video shows all the warp jump effect types in all the movies. Engage!
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