Filed under: Laptops

It’s a little bulky for the consumer-friendly 13.3-inch form factor, but Samsung‘s Q70 laptop charms with specs like a Santa Rosa processor, Intel GMA X3100 and NVIDIA GeForce 8400M graphics, Bluetooth 2.0 and some Korea-friendly DMB. The 6-in-1 card reader is great as well, but 1.54-inches of thickness, a 4.5 pound weight and the fingerprint-showing glossy surface are definite turnoffs. If you can see past the flaws, this laptop can be yours later this month for 1,690,000 won ($1,822 US).

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Filed under: Robots

It looks like Vision Robotics’ would-be fleet of agriculture robots is getting a little closer to reality, with the previous crude 2D sketches of ’em now replaced with slightly less crude 3D models (among other developments). Last we heard from the company, its scout robot was still a long ways from hitting the farm, but Wired News is now reporting that Vision expects to have a prototype of it ready sometime next year, with the larger harvester bot expected to follow two or three years after that. As before, the company plans to have the scout robots plot out the best fruit-picking route, which the harvester would then follow, grabbing hard to reach fruit with the utmost delicacy — no doubt picking up a few humans’ jobs along the way.

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

We’d probably be more inclined to gripe about iriver stringing us along like this — five gadgets, five days, hardly any hard facts — if there wasn’t so much sexy to the devices and photographs the DAP manufacturer is tossing up every 24 hours or so. Today’s gadget is the iriver W10, a slim little touchscreen number we got to play with at CES, which seems to swipe some of the iPhone’s interface ideas for touchscreen VoIP dialing, while still sticking with those WPS (WiFi positioning system) and PDA / e-book / PMP features we heard about before. We wish we had more to tell you, like price or a release date, but two things are certain: iriver seems bent on swiping every gadget dollar we’ve ever stashed, and is singlehandedly keeping the hand modelling industry in business.

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Filed under: Portable Audio

It looks like Apple waited ’till the last minute to respond to the EU’s latest demand for answers in its longstanding investigation into the company’s iTunes pricing practices, coming in just under an already extended midnight deadline yesterday. Of course, nobody’s saying exactly what Apple’s response entailed, with the EU only going so far as to say that they are “carefully” studying it. The EU’s prime concern here is Apple’s practice of preventing users in one country from downloading music intended for another which, in some cases, results in some users paying more for music than others. No word on what’ll happen next, although we somehow doubt this latest response will suddenly put the EU at ease.

[Via MacNN]

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Filed under: Cellphones

The beauty of the messaging beast known as the BlackBerry, is, of course, the lovely QWERTY pad layout and giant luscious screen. We have seen a goodly pile of patent applications from RIM in an effort to preserve said keyboard while potentially supplying a new twist on a fairly utilitarian (and a bit long in the tooth) design. This latest application sees your favorite handset fitted with keys in a “garage door” type layout, so if you only need a few keys for watching a video or wandering the interwebs, the extra keys just roll back into the handset’s body. Apparently RIM may already know what Apple could discover next week: on screen keyboards can be pretty weak affairs, albeit much easier to keep clean.

[Via Unwired View]

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