Havarikommissionen har netop offentliggjort en rapport om et uheld, hvor et SAS-fly måtte nødlande med store skader efter et sammenstød med en gås, og nu er sæsonen for vilde gæs, der krydser Sjælland, begyndt igen.

PR2-robotten fra Willow Garage har mange talenter. Ved hjælp af dobbeltkameraer og sensorer er den nu i stand til at tegne sit eget portræt på en tavle. PR2 indeholder to i7 Xeon-processorer, hver med otte kerner og 24 GB ram. Desuden en 500 GB harddisk og en dual-radio-router, som kan forbindes til et Wlan.

Time for some concept art! Not for upcoming games, though. Not for old games, either. These are for old systems. More »

Yeah, we spied a few of LG’s new 31-inch, 2.9mm thick displays the other day, but we hadn’t seen the standard TV-like configurations — which don’t mean too much, because this is still a prototype, but they’re a comfort all the same. We also managed to peep a 3D setup with the screens, which used polarized glasses and was surprisingly sharp. We promised ourselves it would just be a quick look, and that we had important things to do today, and that we really don’t need a new TV all that much… but three hours later we found ourselves still planted in the same spot, a small trickle of drool dripping all over our camera gear. When we finally managed to snap out of it, we clicked a few stills and grabbed a video of one of the screens spinning before running out of the LG booth with our eyes shut tight and desire still raging in our heart.

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Følg opsendelsen af den danske raket her på kanalen. Vært er Rolf Ask Clausen fra Ingeniørens redaktion. Thomas Djursing er i kontrolrummet på marinehjemmeværnskutteren Hjortø. Desuden deltager Ingeniørens rumfartsekspert Thomas Andersen - og alle læserne.

As beta testing programs go, Microsoft’s Kinect venture has been kind of… leaky. No surprises, therefore, that we’ve now received our first in-the-plastic pictures of the motion-tracking camera peripheral, replete with a few select shots of its packaging. Redmond’s promise that hardware was en route to testers was clearly not a hollow one, and we can now probably expect a bunch more unauthorized disclosures about the user experience with what should be final retail units. The outside of the packaging includes a couple of teasers encouraging users to pick up some of those bodacious PDP stands and wall mounts for their Kinect — presumably the start of a tidal wave of Kinect accessories.

Microsoft Kinect starts making home deliveries to beta testers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Danmark ligger helt i top på den internationale universitetsranking Times Higher Education, THE, inden for teknisk videnskab. DTU glæder sig, men bruger anledningen til at påpege at bevillingerne til teknisk forskning er faldende i Danmark.

Hos Nvidia annoncerede de i slutningen af maj i år deres hidtil hurtigste mobile GPU, Geforce GTX 480M. Ud over der var tale om den kraftigste model, så er der også tale om den dyreste. Det laves der nu om på med lanceringen af 7 nye GPU’er….

Remember how Samsung downsized the Wave to make the Wave 723 and killed off the pricey, fancy Super AMOLED display in the process? Yeah, well, the same rule applies to the Android-powered Galaxy line — so if you were hoping to see some mind-blowing contrast ratios on Sammy’s new PMP… well, you can just keep on hoping (and besides, even the mighty Tab has gone the TFT route for now). The Galaxy Player 50 is pretty cute in the flesh, featuring a 3.2-inch WQVGA LCD with multitouch capability, Android 2.1, and your choice of 8GB or 16GB worth of internal storage with microSD expansion up to 32GB. It’s also packing a 2 megapixel cam on back and support for 802.11n — and heck, like the Philips GoGear Connect it’s even got a mic, basically putting it just one spec sheet line item shy of being an actual smartphone.

For all intents and purposes, the PMP feels like a midrange Android smartphone when you’re holding and using it; it’s reasonably responsive, and we were happy to see that it has Google Maps Navigation on board (along with the Android Market and all the other standard “Google Experience” Android apps). We found the keyboard a bit cramped, but there’s only so much you can do with a portrait virtual QWERTY keyboard on a 3.2-inch display, and we imagine we could get used to it with time. Needless to say, the total package feels more put-together than the GoGear, and if we were rocking a dumbphone, wanted to keep our music compartmentalized, and couldn’t stand the thought of adding an iPod touch into our lives, we imagine the 50 would be on our short list. Follow the break for Samsung’s press release — and don’t forget to have a gander at the gallery!

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De svenske trafikselskaber afviser DSBFirsts krav om at køre øresundstogene på den svenske side af broen. Det kan underminere økonomien i den svenske del af kontrakten.

Although we stand by our claim that canned beer can be great beer, many enthusiasts still love the bottled stuff. But what if you want to sample without commitment? Enter the BeerVault—preserving and dispensing craft brewski as needed. More »

Det er først og fremmest private, der hiver salget af pc’er op. De nyeste tal viser en stigning på knap 20 procent.

We’re excited about the Boxee Box, and the new-look Apple TV is intriguing, but no single box is as good as a box that doesn’t exist yet does the same stuff. Confused? Sit down, let us explain. That’s the point Plex is making in announcing its new partnership with LG, which will integrate Plex software into its 2011 Netcast HDTVs and Blu-ray players. Plex enables the same sort of functionality as those smart little boxes mentioned above, letting you serve content from a machine running OS X and push it to your TV or to a mobile device (iPhone and iPad right now, Android coming). Plex also supports all the major online streamers, like Netflix, Hulu, and even the BBC iPlayer. Lack of PC support is something of a bummer, but a Windows version is said to be coming, so even your beige box can soon get in on the box-free fun.

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I USA er det velkendt at man i reklamer inddrager konkurrenterne for typisk at nedgøre dem eller gøre grin med dem. I samme båd finder man nu en reklame fra den amerikanske forbrugergruppe Consumer Watchdog, der har rettet sit skyts mod Googles administrerende direktør Eric Schmidt….

Nokia er gået sammen med Swype om at bringe den interessante inputmetode til Symbian-platformen. Nu er den første beta-udgave klar.

Welcome to the future, dear readers, where boring black tires are replaced with bright orange and yellow ones and where your car can dynamically expand or contract. This is the X-Frame Folding Vehicle, a concept from the Nagoya Institute of Technology that was first shown at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show, but rolled out of hiding again for the city’s recent Good Design Expo. The car changes shape to offer seating for either one or two and can raise or lower itself dynamically based on terrain, speed, and proximity of Clown Gang members when you’re cruising in Neo-Tokyo. No word on when or if it will see production, but don’t let a complete lack of crash-worthiness get you down on this vision of tomorrow.

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The long-awaited 3D Blu-ray release of Avatar will arrive before 2011—but you’ll need a Panasonic Viera 3D TV if you want to own it this year. More »

Indien planlægger at bygge verdens største solteleskop for foden af Himalaya-bjergene til at studere de mikrostrukturer i Solens overflade.

There’s a very attractive job going at Google, with the company looking for someone to head up its Music launch later this year. Meanwhile, Android dude Andy Rubin is working with the team closely, and even meeting with record labels. More »

. 43 alvorlige fejl betød, at digital tinglysning dumpede sidste test inden lancering.

Vær bange. Vær meget bange. Det værste botnet er ikke set endnu, lyder advarslen fra sikkerhedsekspert.

Who says the Streak is the only game in town if you want a 5-inch Android device? Well, no one, actually — there are lots of generic options if you just want something with a 5-inch display running on Google juice — but regardless, we had a chance to check out just such a device introduced at IFA this week, the so-called MX10 with Android 2.1 from South Korea’s For You Digital. Our first impression on seeing the MX10 is that it’s pretty stylish and doesn’t give off the air of jankiness that you occasionally get with these off-brand MIDs; it’s available in both black and white, and we especially liked the white which gets a matte silver ring around the edge (the black is paired with chrome, which obviously suffers from more fingerprint issues). There’s no internal cellular connectivity (the “E” on the screen above seems to be a bug), but the device supports USB host mode, which means you can connect a USB modem from your carrier of choice when the 802.11b / g just doesn’t cut it. Unfortunately, the MX10’s Achilles’ heel is its display, which we found to be exceptionally low-contrast — putting it up against a Super AMOLED would be almost comical — and resistive, which just isn’t a good option for a platform as finger-friendly as Android is. If anything, this might make for a good media tank that you can use to carry around a bunch of movies, since it’s available in internal capacities from 2GB up to 16GB and offers microSD expansion paired with HDMI-out (real HDMI, not micro) and 1080p capability. Check out some more shots (including more of the white) in the gallery.

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Two years. Can you believe it’s only been two years since we started browsing the internet faster than a potato can tear through the air? Well, Google can, and it’s certainly not been sitting around during that time, improving Chrome’s JavaScript performance by a factor of 3, and throwing in a litany of additional features, like tab side-by-side view, themes, auto-translation, and bookmark and preference sync across machines. To celebrate the anniversary, the company’s uploaded version numero 6 to its stable channel, which brings a few more GUI optimizations and some bug fixes to the table. Hardware graphics acceleration isn’t yet included in the public release, but it too shall be joining the party before long.

Chrome is now 2 years old! Google celebrates with release of version 6 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Den fynske metalvirksomhed Ib Andresen Industri vil tiltrække store internationale kunder med et nyt fabriksanlæg i Thailand som selskabet mener er langt enklere at etablere sig i end Kina.

Danske it-succeser risikerer at forsvinde ud af landet, hvis vi ikke fremadrettet sørger for at sikre gode forhold for it-branchen.

Den meget populære torrent-klient µTorrent, der i dag kun findes i en version til Windows eller OS X, er nu endelig udkommet til Linux….

After warning us last week of their impending dual-booting tablet, ViewSonic has now spilled the beans on the ViewPad 100’s specs. I don’t think anyone will be impressed by the Android 1.6 flavor, even if Windows 7’s also there too. More »

Chinese telecom giant Huawei — which has been playing the Android game with major carriers around the world for some time now — has selected IFA to debut the Ideos, a new entry-level model running Froyo in a variety of colors. Huawei’s press release calls the Ideos “the world’s first affordable smartphone” — which seems like a bit of an overstatement (okay, a huge overstatement) to us — but really underscores the fact that this thing is going to be launching for somewhere between $100 and $200 unsubsidized in Europe, Asia, and both North and Latin America. It’s got 3G, WiFi, mobile hotspot capability for up to eight devices, and was apparently developed in direct partnership with Google, a sign that Mountain View is serious about taking Android 2.2 across the entire price spectrum.

We checked out the Ideos today and were pretty impressed; clearly, you’re not going to mistake it for an EVO, a Droid X, or a Defy, but Huawei has definitely put some effort into engineering this thing so that they were able to make it cheaply without making it feel like it would come apart in your hands. The company is quick to note that 2.8-inch capacitive displays aren’t very common — and though we could’ve definitely used HVGA instead of the Ideos’ QVGA, we were pleased with the responsiveness, both from a processor performance perspective and a touch sensitivity one. Add in the support for 7.2Mbps HSDPA and the stylish colors (black, yellow, blue, and purple) and Huawei might just have a winner here. More on this one when launch carriers start to come out of the woodwork. Follow the break for the full press release.

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This August, and after aggressive price cutting, Sony’s Walkman outsold Apple’s music players in Japan. But then again, the month’s drop in iPod sales has been partly brought about thanks to buyers waiting for Apple’s new iPods. [Yahoo] More »

The UK’s Royal Mail may’ve been kicking around in some shape or form since 1516, but they’ve become the first postal service to create an “intelligent stamp,” readable like a QR code by an Android or iPhone app. More »

Lacie’s keeping up its eccentric branding strategy today with this pest-inspired new USB key. Measuring a mere 20mm in length and 10 grams in weight, the MosKeyto is ready to all but disappear once you plug it into your computer, and it’ll outdo its physical counterpart by not only sucking data down but pushing it back out should you want it. Basically, it’s yet another miniaturized USB drive and can be owned today, starting at $18 for the 4GB version. 8GB will set you back $28 and there’s a 16GB variant to come as well. Got all that? Good. Now buzz off.

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Centrifuger en blodprøve og få et plaster, som kan hele kroniske sår på diabetikeres fødder. Så simpel er to iværksætteres opfindelse og den har allerede vist gode resultater i forhold til at løse det stigende problem.

Gammel strid om radioers betaling for musik får rettighedshavere og radiostationer til at kræve lovtvungne FM-modtagere i alle mobiltelefoner og bærbare dimser.

En højst ustabil Groupcare-komponent i ingeniørforeningen IDA’s mødetilmeldingssystem giver kaos i organisationens møder og arrangementer. Potentielt er 60.000 årlige deltagere berørt.

Samsung’s Seongwoo Nam says his company’s new high-end QX410 is “the masterpiece of Samsung’s computer business”—but it’s probably more like of a copy of a well-known metal-bodied old master. Still, nice island keyboard. More »