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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy Prevail review: Surprisingly elegant]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Samsung Galaxy PrevailTake a look at the Samsung Galaxy Prevail and you may agree, it's one classy-looking smartphone. A silky-smooth 3.5-inch touch screen is rimmed with metallic gray, and the phone's sides and back are robed in soft-touch material. However, this is no premium Android phone, and that's OK. The handset runs a respectable Android 2.2 Froyo operating system (sans TouchWiz), has a regular HVGA display (versus the Super AMOLED screen of other Galaxy phone,) and sports only a 2-megapixel camera and camcorder without a flash. For the most part these specs are perfectly fine, but they're not high-end components. On the other hand, the more modest attributes help keep the Prevail's price tag under $200 without a contractual obligation.Related links&amp;149' Full review of the Samsung Factor on Boost Mobile&amp;149' Full review of the Samsung Mesmerize&amp;149' Full review of the T-Mobile G2XIn the end, it's a comely handset for a fair price, and hands-down Boost Mobile's most exciting phone. That isn't the end of it, of course. There are more pros, one notable con, and plenty of photos inside the full review, so keep reading.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The craziest Rube Goldberg cell phone ad ever]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 07:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amytalbots</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I am not sure I would ever want a cell phone with a wooden case.But if anything could ever persuade me to consider it, it has to be this wildly inventive (and therefore Japanese) ad for the Touchwood SH-08C by NTT Docomo.In order to show the sheer magic of wood, the ad's creators, a company called Drill Inc., decided to go to a wood. This is what we in advertising call &quot;lateral thinking.&quot;However, in between the trees they then built the largest, Rube Goldberg-est wooden xylophone ever.Then they rolled a little wooden ball down it.The xylophone is so meticulously constructed that, as the ball rolls down, it plays Bach's Cantata 147, known better by some as &quot;Jesu, Joy of Man's Desire.&quot;If you don't, at the very least, find this curiously mesmerizing, then your doctor has not prescribed you what he said he prescribed you.The creative director of Drill Inc. promised faithfully to The New York Times that no artificial musical additives were used in the making of this ad. However, he said, some levels were adjusted.Naturally, I am slightly skeptical. Because I am slightly skeptical naturally. But the spot still somehow manages to lift the spirits rather more than, oh, I don't know, a Droid ad.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[You, robot: Kinect hacks make you into a machine]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amytalbots</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[editor's notebook OK, this whole Kinect-hacking phenomenon is starting to make my head spin. (Funny that--the system is thus controlling my movements, rather than the other way round.)First we started to see Minority Report-style interfaces, by way of which one could browse the Web with nothing more than a gesture or two.Now things are getting really trippy. Thanks to Web site Kinect Hacks, we can watch as humanoid robots are controlled by users of Microsoft's gestural-gaming system.How long before this setup gets combined with some sort of BattleBots competition for a true robotic smackdown And on the fine arts front, I can see this combined with the mind of Jean Tinguely and the work of Survival Research Laboratories to produce some truly profound mayhem. But that's small potatoes--for with this setup, who needs Second Life or other virtual worlds Any day now we'll no doubt be able to send physical avatars out into the real world to do our bidding. By next holiday season, we'll probably be leaving it to our personal botatars to battle the crowds at Macy's (provided we practice our goods-snatching gestures enough to make them effective).But you, gentle readers, are the truly in-the-know geeks. I realize it may take us awhile to get where we're going with all this, but where, exactly, might that be Share your thoughts in the comments section.Credit for above video: YouTube user ikaziso.Credit for above video: YouTube user hbenersuay.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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