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iOS 5 To Have Powerful Face Detection

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 02:13 AM PDT

After Apple’s purchase of face recognition software provider Polar Rose, we were unsure what Apple had planned. Now, thanks to a little 9to5mac digging we know that face recognition (FaceRec? FaceTimeRec? FaceSnatch?) will be baked deeply into iOS 5 and support a number of clever features including, potentially, the same wacky effects available in Lion’s Photo Booth app.

Photo Booth, for example, uses Polar Rose’s technology to add tweeting birds flying around your head and to specifically change your eyes or nose rather than your entire face. This feature has been available with some webcams for a few years on Windows and is only now trickling over to the buttoned-up Mac world.

The API supports a call to mouthPosition as well as left and right eye positions. There are no clear examples of these API calls in the OS itself but developers could, for example, use them to make better, more accurate fart apps and to take Talking Tom to dizzying new heights.

Daily Crunch: Handset

Posted: 27 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT

Olympus E-PL3 Gets Price And September Shipping

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 10:00 PM PDT

Olympus first announced the E-PL3 late in June, but at the time only the E-P3 (which we recently reviewed) had a price and a date. No longer! The E-PL3 is now officially coming to the US in September, though Oly didn’t want to get any more specific than that.

At $700, the E-PL3 is $200 cheaper than the E-P3; the two share the same sensor, image processor, and general camera capabilities (including interlaced video, unfortunately), but the E-PL3 lacks the sexy OLED touchscreen. Instead, it has a tilting, 3″, 480×320 LCD. It also lacks a built-in flash, something to think about if you’re looking for an all-in-one device.

They all fit the same lenses, of course, and the E-PL3 will be bundled with either a 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 zoom or 17mm pancake prime, speed unknown (hopefully they aren’t ashamed).

Olympus also announced their VF-3 electronic viewfinder, which is cheaper than its predecessor at $150 — but reportedly loses a lot of resolution to hit that price goal: 640×480 was the rumor. The resolution isn’t mentioned in the press release, so I’m guessing it’s not one of the marquee features. Instead they focus on the fact that you can look into it with “your own eye,” and that it can be rotated. Well!

If you don’t feel like shelling out for the E-P3, just hang on for a little bit before settling on the E-PL3. We’ve got micro four thirds and mirrorless cameras coming out our ears this year, so something better might just come along soon.

Japanese Professor Shows Rare Earth-Free Electric Car (Video)

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 09:51 PM PDT

Prices for rare earth elements have gone through the roof in recent years, with China basically monopolizing the market for these rare substances (the country currently produces a whopping 97 percent of all rare earths used globally). But in the field of electric vehicles, the dependence on rare earths could be a thing of the past soon: Professor Nobukazu Hoshi’s Lab from the Tokyo University of Science has developed an electric car that doesn’t require any kind of rare earths.

The current prototype (a re-modeled Mazda Roadster from 1999) is powered by a 400V/9.5kWh hybrid car motor. The lithium-battery consists of five modules that are sized at 215x335x210mm and weigh 20kg each. Professor Hoshi developed a so-called switched reluctance motor that boasts an output of 50kW – no rare earth elements required.

In the video embedded below (shot by Diginfonews in Tokyo), the professor explains the technology behind the motor and points out there is room for improvement (specifically, he wants to boost torque and energy efficiency and push down noise and vibration).

Still, a pretty impressive accomplishment for a university lab (Toyota is working on a rare earths-free engine for electric cars, too).

Here’s the video (in English):

Official: Japan To Get The World’s First Windows Phone 7 Mango Handset In September

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:04 PM PDT

As the sun just starts to set here on the West Coast, we’ve got a bit of news straight from the other side of the globe: Fujitsu and KDDI (Japan’s second largest wireless operator) have just confirmed that they will launch the world’s first phone running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango) sometime in September.

Word of the new handset comes from a Tokyo press gathering which just began moments ago. Exact details surrounding the handset are still developing, but all signs are pointing to it being the Toshiba-Fujitsu IS12T (Update: this is now confirmed) device that Microsoft gave a very brief sneak peak of at their Worldwide Partner Conference just a few weeks back.

The handful of images in this post are pulled from a video of that fleeting glimpse; we’ll update with better photos as soon as they’re available.

Here’s what we know about the device:

  • 3.7″ LCD Display
  • 1 Ghz Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU
  • Waterproof
  • 13.2 Megapixel Camera
  • Will come in multiple colors. Bright yellow and pink versions of the handset have already been caught in leaks. (Update: Looks like it’ll come in black, too.)
  • 32GB of internal memory

Windows Phone 7.5 (otherwise known as “Mango”, since all the cool kids give their updates fun nicknames now) is the first major update to the platform. I’ve spent a good amount of time with it on a pre-release device, and to sum up my experience: call it what you will, but this is version 1.0. This is the first version of Windows Phone 7 that feels competitive thrown up against the likes of Android and iOS and, while it’s still lacking a trick or two, is the first version that feels complete.

For those of you who don’t gobble up every bit of Mango news, a quick recap of the bigger new stuff:

  • Multitasking support: Quick app switching, with certain apps (music, GPS) allowed to run in the background
  • Internet Explorer 9 with HTML 5 support
  • Turn-by-turn, Voice Guided Navigation
  • Social Networking:Integrated Twitter support, plus the addition of Facebook check-ins.
  • Dynamic Live Tiles: Tiles for third-party apps on the homescreen can show live updated information
  • Unified Threaded Messages: Support for text/facebook chat/Windows Live Messenger all pulled into one conversation window
  • Unified Inbox: Shows all of your email inboxes in one view, with threaded e-mail support
  • Custom Groups: You can bundle contacts into “group” tiles on the homescreen for quick access to just that group’s status updates, or to quickly text the entire group at once
  • Voice-to-text text messaging
  • Bing Stuff: Music Search (think Shazam), Vision (scan a book cover or barcode to search for that product)

Alas, chances are pretty slim that this thing will ever come stateside. Don’t fret though, Windows Phone fans (hey, they exist!): there should be plenty of Mango to go around by years end, with the likes of Samsung, Acer, and plenty of others throwing their goods into the ring.

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Aircounter: Japan Gets Mini Radiation Detector

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 05:26 PM PDT

The nuclear crisis in Fukushima has yet to come to an end, and most of the radiation meters out there are expensive and usually sold in special-interest stores only: reason enough for Japan-based chemicals company S.T. Corp decided to bring the so-called Aircounter [JP] to market.

The device, developed in partnership with the Tokyo Metropolitan University, is essentially a handheld radiation detector that’s cheaper, looks nicer and is easier to use than most radiation detectors out there.

S.T. says they are using their existing distribution channels, i.e. drugstores and similar retailers, to make it easy for potential buyers to get the device (the company’s core business is sales of deodorizers and other products). Starting October 20, the Aircounter will be sold for just $190, which is less than 50% of the price similar counters carry, according to the company.

The device is able to detect radiation levels between 0.05 to 9.99 microsieverts per hour at a height of about 1m above the ground (the process takes about 10 minutes to complete). It’s sized at just 82×62×34mm (LCD: 40mm×25mm), weighs 105g and needs two AAA batteries to run (which are enough for about a month when used daily for one hour).

S.T. expects to sell 50,000 Aircounters in Japan by the end of the year.

Next MacBook Pros To Feature Air DNA?

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 03:14 PM PDT

The Sandy Bridge update to the Air line has been enough to make some feel the lightweight laptop is ready for prime time (I’m convinced, personally), but it’s still not enough for some. MacBook Pro users are accustomed to more storage, more screen real estate, and a greater number of ports. If rumors are to be believed, the best of both worlds might be on its way, with Air-style design making its way to the Pro line.

The sources are obscure, referred to only obliquely (MacRumors “has learned” and TUAW is “hearing”), so take this with a grain of salt. But even sans source, it makes sense, while leaving room for plenty of speculation. What will the compromises be?

For one thing, the optical drive will almost certainly be eliminated. Luckily for Apple, that particular item is not a priority among their users. iTunes and the Mac App Store are popular, and Apple Stores themselves are increasingly bereft of boxed software.

Furthermore, Thunderbolt presents an extremely easy way to add a high-speed peripheral. No optical drive? No problem: $100 external drive operating with no loss of speed compared to the wired-in original.

Storage is a bit more complicated. As popular as streaming solutions are, local storage is still very important for editing media, something Apple has been pushing on consumers hard with the iLife suite — though pros may be jumping ship after the poor reception of Final Cut X. 256GB of flash storage is nice, but people want terabytes. Yet 2.5″ laptop drives are still too thick to include in an Air-like body. Or are they? Some laptop drives with a terabyte of space are coming in at under 10mm thick. You couldn’t fit that at the sharp end of the Air but there might be room for a 2.5″ right at the top right edge, where the optical drive would go. Apple is happy to customize PCBs to optimize space.

Only a spinning HDD would mean a performance hit, though. So I’m guessing they’ll ship with a hybrid SSD-HDD volume, with system, applications, and temp kept on SSD and bulky media kept on HDD. It’s not so hard to segregate data like that, and as Apple likely can’t commit to only one storage type or another, they’ll have to do something interesting with both.

Let’s not forget the ports. Apple will want to push Thunderbolt, and while shipping with only that port might be a daydream of theirs, my guess is they’ll go with two Thunderbolt and two USB ports. 2.0 or 3.0? I wouldn’t put it past Apple to limit their USB capabilities in order to make Thunderbolt accessories more enticing. And as other have pointed out, Thunderbolt-connected I/O hubs will handle USB 3.0 speeds with ease, though the ports on the new Cinema Display are indeed only 2.0.

A holiday release (as suggested by TUAW) would prevent them from adding a next-gen processor (coming in 1Q12), but to complement the Air styling they’ll probably want to market long battery life as well, and switching from the old Core i7s to Sandy Bridge might have been enough for Apple’s purposes. Want the latest hardware? Get a PC (I did).

So: no optical drive, hybrid SSD/HDD storage, and 2xTB, 2xUSB ports (and an SD slot and Ethernet, of course). Maybe something more for the 17″, but I don’t think these specs sound at all unlikely.



Video: Motorola Triumph Screens Flicker Black And White, Owners Seeing Red

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 02:33 PM PDT

The Motorola Triumph — a pretty snazzy-lookin' little beast (especially for a pre-paid device!) if I may say so — seems to have just hit a bit of a hurdle in its first week on the market: a number of new owners are hitting the forums with complaints of a flickering screen.

Not-so-proud new owners have reported that the screen starts to flicker after a couple successive taps at the lock button, whereas others have said the screen goes completely white at random. Some of these flicker-victims are calling it a hardware issue, although a number of them have said that even multiple hardware exchanges haven't solved the problem.

One Triumph owner in particular had a more extreme issue than mere screen flickering: their screen actually went completely black, while the four buttons on the bottom locked up and stayed lit. The only fix that worked was the classic "battery-out-and-reboot" move.

Hopefully, this isn't a widespread hardware issue, which is much more difficult to amend. If it's software-related, it can be fixed as soon as an update is ready to be released. As I said, the Triumph has only been with us for just a week, and barely anything ships without bugs these days. Still, if the issue escalates the same way it did for our black-screened friend up there, both Virgin and Motorola are going to have some angry customers on their hands. Especially after shelling out $300.

[Thanks, juxxx]

Verizon LTE Push Hits Laptops, Tablets, And Networks

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:57 PM PDT

You could be forgiven (and are) for skipping over the LTE news of the last six months: the roll-out of the new 4G standard has been spotty and few consumers actually have any idea what it means, or whether they have it. But Verizon’s next big investment is starting to show up in more than small-run hot spots and high-end smartphones.

Today was a big day for LTE — the vanguard of really consumer-oriented devices is hitting, and while it’ll be some time before your free-with-contract phone or bargain-bin netbook is tapping into the fourth G, the news is still significant.

Tablets with built-in 3G have been a sort of consumer visibility pilot program for widespread deployment of non-phone devices on mobile networks. Sure, 3G cards and built-in wireless have been options for laptops for a long time, but I’d say that the Kindle, iPad, and Chromebooks have pushed that idea farther in two years than it’s gone in the previous ten. It’s no longer an obscure option but a plain subset of devices. We’ll be seeing lots more, but I think some interplay between smartphone and other-device plans will be necessary before people at large see the light.

In the meantime, Verizon is pushing LTE as hard as it can to differentiate it from the competition. Today saw the introduction of an LTE-enhanced HP dm1 laptop. This ultraportable (lighter than laptops, better than netbooks, the fruit of a big HP push a couple years back) doesn’t have particularly impressive specs, but it’s the first to have built-in LTE. With a 1.6GHz AMD E-series processor, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, and an 11.6″ display, it’s about standard for its class. You can pick one up July 28 for $600 from Verizon, no contract required, and then pay monthly for LTE access: $50 for 5GB or $80 for 10GB. Not the most enticing plan, I must say, but Verizon has to maintain an elite air until it goes totally downmarket.

Next, a pair of tablets. An LTE-capable Verizon variant of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 was announced today (artist’s rendition, top), which will ship Thursday for $530 (16GB) or $630 (32GB) — that’s with a two-year agreement at a minimum of $30 a month, which gets you a whopping 2GB of data.

2GB at the advertised 12Mbps speeds equals… about 22 minutes of use. Per month. Very generous! It’s worth noting that these initial speeds will increase, since right now they can’t even match those (advertised, anyway) of T-Mobile’s pseudo-4G networks.

The Xoom, too, finally has an estimated date for its long, long overdue conversion to 4G. We were told it would happen three months after shipping. We were told we’d have a functional MicroSD slot, too. Speaking for myself, if I bought a Xoom I’d have returned it by now. But for those less disposed towards such drastic actions, September is the time (according to a memo sent to Droid-Life) when you’ll have the opportunity to back up all your data and ship your tablet to Motorola for a chip swap.

Meanwhile, Verizon continues its nation-wide roll-out of LTE networks. As of a few days ago they are live in 102 markets, and they spent over a billion more dollars in 1H11 than they did in the same period last year, due (according to CFO Fran Shammo) to LTE installation costs. This effort and expenditure should put them in around 175 markets by the end of 2011, which puts them well ahead of AT&T, which is only just now beginning its LTE push, and T-Mobile, which rather than lay down 4G networks, has attempted to redefine its HSPA+ networks (by most accounts a bridge technology like EDGE) as 4G. Their news section is choked with individual region announcements.

Right now we’re still at the early-adopter phase, but the great wheels of Verizon are creaking into motion finally, and over the next year (they hope) LTE will change from foreign acronym to household tech jargon — that is to say like 4G, megapixels, and so on, used but not fully grokked. Meanwhile, consumers should be wary of signing up for ridiculous data plans that will almost certainly be revised a few months from now during the holiday push.

PC Victory: Battlefield 3 To Be Scaled Down For Consoles

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 12:04 PM PDT

Battlefield 3 is perhaps one of the most anticipated games of 2011. It arrives in October and will likely see hundreds of thousands of sales on day one. As a AAA title, it behooves BF3 to debut on the 360, PS3, and Windows at the same time. But the last several years have seen troubling compromises in PC versions, obviously being made because of console restraints. Just recently I panned Dungeon Siege 3, a major production if I’ve ever seen one, for this exact problem. But it looks like the shoe is on the other foot with BF3: maps are going to be more “compact” and player counts reduced to from 64 on the PC version to 24 on console.

As a PC gamer myself, I believe I have a valid right to be smug here. The shoddy console ports we’ve seen have been so blatant that for years we’ve wondered why they bother at all. And here we have (as they promised) a game actually made for the PC and then scaled down for the consoles.

The consoles are years old and, although developers are managing to squeeze every last drop of performance out of them, it’s not an exaggeration to say they’re totally out of date with current graphics technology. Graphics doesn’t just mean things are shinier – it means making the graphical component of the game easier to implement, the art easier to apply, the levels easier to sculpt. More time can be spent designing the game and less coming up with a way to fit environmental reflection calculations into spare cycles.

And now is the crunch time. If we’re to believe industry sources, new consoles from Microsoft and Sony will likely come in 2013, perhaps with a 2012 announcement, but still some ways out. And until then the discrepancy in power between the consoles and PCs will only grow. If developers are planning a PC release, it makes much more sense at this point to design for the PC and then scale down, rather than vice versa. Because if they try to scale up, the results are so laughable that it should come as no surprise when port sales are low.

With the increase in downloadable and streaming game services, the PC is pulling ahead of the console once more, and it’s going to take time before they can catch up. The golden age of Half-Life and Everquest is over, but PC gaming get a second spring — if developers know what’s good for them.

Sprint To Finally Retire The Evo 4G?

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 11:49 AM PDT

It's looking like Sprint has signed off on death warrants for a few of its handsets, including our nation's first-ever 4G smartphone, the Evo 4G. According to a leaked screenshot of this internal Sprint document (discovered by SprintFeed), at least 10 phones are getting the ax.

First up on the chopping block are the pink Samsung Seek and the blue Sanyo Innuendo, which will both get their EOL (end of life) branding in the next two weeks. Then, the Motorola i1 will see its end along with the grey BlackBerry Style 9670 around the end of July/early August.

Following those funerals, September will hit and bring with it a world of pain. The white Evo 4G will be no more, along with the BlackBerry Bold 9650 (rear-camera model) and the grey BlackBerry Curve. A month later, we'll have to say goodbye to the Samsung Epic 4G, the Samsung Transform, and the black Evo 4G.

Many of these models have successors that are either in the works or on shelves now. But if you've had your heart set on an Evo 4G, Samsung Epic 4G, or any of these other doomed phones, get your rear in gear because they won't be around much longer.

[via Phone Arena]

Sony Walkman A Series Leaks, Shows The Touchscreen PMP Is Far From Dead

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Meet the upcoming Sony Walkman A series. This little guy appeared on a major UK retailer’s website sporting digs noticeable different from the current generation. It’s actually, dare I say, sexy.

As Sony’s top-tier media player, the A series have always existed with the sole purpose of fighting the iPod. That hasn’t changed. The upcoming models feature wireless file and music streaming along with a 3.4-inch OLED touch screen per a Cnet source. It also features an FM radio, various media modes, and the ability to sync with iTunes. According to the retailer, the new series should hit on July 31st with the standard assortment of models: the NWZ-A864 (8GB), NWZ-A865 (16GB), NWZ-A866 (32GB), and NWZ-A867 (64GB).

The BookBook Case: Because You Always Wanted Your iPhone To Look Like A Little Bible

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 09:10 AM PDT

Tired of feeling like people are judging you for gawking at your iPhone all day? Feel like you’re always 10 seconds from some big dude punching you in the face and making your iPhone his iPhone?

Enter the BookBook. It’s a case that makes your iPhone look like.. a book. More specifically, it makes your iPhone look like a little itty-bitty Bible. Which is great, because (almost) no one can judge you for reading a Bible. And who would steal someone’s Bible? There’s just no need; you can get a free Bible just by walking into a church and saying “Sup guys, can I have a Bible?”

The BookBook is the first iPhone accessory out of the guys over at TwelveSouth. If you recall, these are the same guys who made the Apple Keyboard/Magic Trackpad-melding MagicWand.

Beyond shrouding your iPhone in a lookalike handbook, the BookBook has another trick up its sleeve: it’s a wallet. It’s got a slot for your ID, two credit cards, and some of that weird papery green stuff I’m told the people of the 90′s called “cash”.

One odd bit: as the video below makes clear, there’s no hole cut in the back for your camera to peek through, so you’ll have to pull your iPhone out a bit to snap a shot.

You can find the case, available today for $60 a pop, right over here. Or you can wait and see if the Gideons start hiding them in hotel drawers.

Toshiba Thrive Tablet (Almost) Completely Rooted

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:12 AM PDT

Great news for anyone who fell for the Toshiba Thrive's chunky, full-featured charms! A team from TabletRoms.com (who created the hack) and ThriveForums.org (who tested it) has managed to gain root access on the Thrive's stock ROM, which is the jumping-off point for countless ambitious development projects to come.

Well, more or less anyway. Understandably Toshiba didn't want to make things too easy for them.

Apparently, while they have superuser permissions on the device, they still aren't able to read or write to the system directory. More interestingly, they haven't been able to get the Clockwork Recovery image to stick very long because the Thrive reflashes its own stock image every time it reboots. Very clever, Toshiba.

Still, given that Toshiba's chubby portable has only been available for a hair over two weeks now, this is quite the accomplishment. What makes the whole thing more impressive is the fact that one of the project's main devs, a chap who goes by the handle DJ_Steve, is based in the UK where the Thrive hasn't even been released yet.

Feeling adventurous? Full instructions are available on ThriveForums, as well as the specific bits to make it work, but do so at your own risk. Bricking a shiny new toy isn't pleasant, and you don't need to take my word for it.

EDIT: Updated to accurately reflect TabletRoms.com’s role in the project.

Microsoft Releases New Bluetooth Headset And Media Remote For Xbox 360

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 08:10 AM PDT

The old, white Xbox media remote was often a godsend. Instead of pressing odd buttons on the controller, the media remote let you control Netflix and DVD videos with ease and it was big and unique enough not to get lost. This new media remote, however, looks less like a bar of Dove soap and more like a traditional remote control.

Announced on MajorNelson’s blog, the remote will cost $19.99 and will be available in November.

Also announced was a little Bluetooth headset for gaming. It costs 59 bizucks and, the best thing, Senor Nelson shows it off below.

There’s a Lady Who Knows That There’s A Griffin Guitar StompBox For Your iPad

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 07:51 AM PDT

This $99, for switch stomp box by Griffin turns your iPad into a shredding machine. It connects to Frontier Design’s iShred LIVE app and allows you to add multiple sounds to your git-fiddle or keyboard.

The kit includes a special cable for simultaneous guitar, PA, or amp connectivity along with a cable that jacks right into your iPad. We would not recommend slamming your guitar straight trough the iPad’s glass, but we’re assured it has been tried already and looks totally badass.

Also, for some reason, it also works with teleprompters:

StompBox is not just for musicians. Its programmable controls also work with Qscript, Griffin’s teleprompter app for iPad. Using StompBox with Qscript you can control text scrolling and other presentation functions with one foot.

Product Page via Engadget



Watch Out, Netflix. Walmart Now Streaming Vudu Video On Demand On Walmart.com

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:02 AM PDT

Netflix just got some more competition. Walmart launched its video streaming service today and don’t just write it off as a “me too” service. This is a serious offering.

Walmart bought Vudu 18 months ago and has slowly evolved the business. Vudu, like Netflix, is available on a number of set-top boxes, gaming systems, and media streamers. Users have access to 20,000 titles, including titles the same day they hit DVD, when used on one of these devices. The just-launched service puts Vudu streaming directly on Walmart.com for instant viewing. The Walmart.com service doesn’t seem to have access to the entire library, but there’s still a good chunk available and that might be good enough to make Netflix slow its roll.

This isn’t a subscription service. It’s on-demand with rentals available from $1 to $5.99 and purchases starting at $4.99. That’s the same way Vudu has always worked. Except this time it’s available directly on the website of America’s largest retailer.

This release comes just two weeks after Netflix hiked a popular plan by 60%. Vudu, even with a smaller library, has always been considered the main alternative to Netflix, and now it seems as if Walmart is ready to give it the proper support and placement to make it a true competitor.

Canon’s X Mark I Mouse Lite Is A Jack Of All Trades

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 06:00 AM PDT

All-in-one. That's my golden word. If you want to sell me something, make sure it can do ten completely random never-would-have-expected-it-to tasks, and I'm in. Three-in-one is only slightly less enticing, but still worth a good inspection. Canon today introduced its X Mark I Mouse Lite — a three-in-one calculator, keypad and laser mouse designed by the Canon camera team.

This would be a nice addition to any office, and it doesn't look half bad either. With three mouse buttons, including a scroll wheel, the Canon mouse has support for Bluetooth 2.01. The Canon X Mark I Mouse Lite comes in both black and white, and is compatible with both Windows and Mac OS X. The mouse also sports a little low battery indicator to make sure you stay charged.

Canon is selling this alongside its X Mark I Keypad that doubles as a 10-digit semi-calculator. Both will go for an MSRP of $59.99. However, the X Mark I Mouse Lite will be available in August, whereas the keypad won't show up until September.



Daily Crunch: Roasted Color

Posted: 26 Jul 2011 01:00 AM PDT