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We’re not ones to get overly sentimental about photos, but the Album2 would love to get us started. The device hinges on a stupid simple control scheme of three buttons, no touchscreen nonsense here, and can sort through photos, movies and music — though it’s clearly centered around the first of those three. There’s WiFi for pulling in YouTube and Picasa media, and… well, actually, that’s just about it. The screen is great, there’s a leather protective cover that flips around as a stand, and the back of the device is beautifully adorned with some raised braille-style dots spelling “album.” When it ships, hopefully sometime this year, Album2 will retail for $199. Check out a video of it in action after the break.

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Man, it’s almost like every hour we come across another tablet-esque device here at CES 2010, and this time around it’s a prototype concept device from Compal being shown off by NVIDIA. This 7-inch tablet / slate / MID / whatever was running Android 2.0 and packed Wifi — sadly, there was no GPS or Bluetooth to be found. Up top there was a SIM card slot as well as a microSD card slot for extra storage, and an HDMI out port around the side. Unfortunately, the device is plagued from the start as its rocking a resistive touchscreen instead of a capacitive one. Despite the next-gen Tegra chip inside, our user experience was pretty abysmal, with touches barely registering and general usability pretty low. However, once we got some HD video up on the display, we got to see that Tegra doing what it was made to do… and it almost made up for that horrendous resistive display.

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Guess what, we don’t even care if the official name is Trix, this product isn’t about its name, its specs, or any other such sensible consideration. This is a loud and proud homage to every urge you’ve ever experienced to “express yourself.” Whether yourself is a Yankees fan, a surfer, or a crazed Twilight aficionado, there are interchangeable covers to appease most (bad) tastes. We took a quick peek around this iPod / iPhone dock, and for those who care, we’d say the Trik actually looks like a well-formed tune deliverator that might very well be worth the $130 asking price. Audio testing in the booming halls of CES was a futile affair, but there’s plenty of time before April’s release date for you to hear them for yourself and to pick a tasteful cover to demonstrate your individuality with.

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O piloto americano Mark Miller, da equipe Volkswagen Motorsport foi o vencedor da quinta etapa do Rally Dakar. Ele percorreu o trecho de 456 quilômetros entre Copiapó e Antofagasta, no Chile, em 5 horas, 16 minutos e 15 segundos, chegando 2 minutos e 10 segundos à frente do seu companheiro de equipe, o espanhol Carlos Sainz, segundo colocado.

Em terceiro lugar ficou o Racing Touareg de Nasser Al-Attiyah .

Com o resultado da quinta etapa, o time oficial da Volkswagen assumiu a liderança da competição, ocupando os três primeiros lugares. No cômputo geral, quem está na ponta é Carlos Sainz, 4 minutos e 37 segundos adiante de Al-Attyiah e 9 minutos e 39 segundos à frente de Miller.

Para a equipe da Volkswagen, o mais importante foi a larga vantagem estabelecida sobre o quarto colocado, o americano Robby Gordon, que corre com um protótipo Hummer. Considerado um dos mais fortes concorrentes da prova deste ano, o ex-piloto da Fórmula Indy está quase uma hora atrás do líder.

O líder da competição, Carlos Sainz, lamentou ter tido um pneu furado que, apesar da rapidez na troca, lhe custou um tempo valioso. “Devemos ter perdido um pouco mais que dois minutos”, contou ele. “Mas estou muito contente por terminar bem este trecho de velocidade, que foi muito longo e difícil. Vou continuar mantendo o mesmo ritmo nas próximas etapas – ainda falta muito para o final e a regularidade é muito importante”, complementou.

Segundo o vencedor da etapa, Mark Miller, a equipe teve uma reunião na noite da véspera e decidiu manter o ritmo imposto desde o início do rali. “Foi o que fizemos hoje, não assumimos nenhum risco. Na parte mais pedregosa, fui super cuidadoso e não tivemos nenhum problema”, contou. “Ainda teremos vários dias longos nas dunas pela frente. Fiquei surpreso com nosso desempenho em relação a Robby Gordon – ele não está aqui para brincar e fará tudo para nos vencer. Nosso time está de parabéns.”

Fonte: Volkswagen

Eco Factor: Self-sufficient sloop yacht harvests solar energy for sustainability.

Cruising is definitely relaxing and entertaining if you want to get out of the busy life in the city for some peace. However, in doing so, we usually pollute the delicate marine ecosystem with greenhouse gases emitted by the engines of a conventional yacht. Industrial designer Demetrius Tanase, who earlier came up with a similar yacht, the Poseidon, is back again with another solar-powered beauty, dubbed the Marlin Yacht.

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The younger Washington, 25, shows a lot of promise. He convinced his father to do “Training Day,” a provocative police drama in which he played a dirty cop (winning an Oscar in the process), and the acclaimed crime drama, “American Gangster,” in which he depicted a drug kingpin. John David also convinced his dad to sign on to Allen and Albert Hughes’ post-apocalyptic “The Book of Eli,” in which he plays a lone traveler carrying a sacred book across the country in a lawless and dangerous world.

“This has to do with him coming of age,” says Denzel Washington about his son. “I wanted him to read more, so I started giving him scripts to read. All my children are movie buffs.”

Set in the not-too-distant future, “The Book of Eli” is about a solitary man who walks across the wasteland that was once America. Empty cities, broken highways and seared earth are all that remain following an unspecified catastrophe. There is no civilization and no law. The roads belong to bands of thieves who will murder a man for his shoes or a sip of water.

Eli (Washington) is a warrior not by choice but necessity. He wants only peace but if challenged he will cut down his attackers (with a handy machete) before they realize their mistake. It’s not his life he guards so fiercely, it’s his hope for the future – a hope he has carried and protected for 30 years. The only man who understands the power Eli holds is Carnegie, the self-appointed despot of a makeshift town of thieves and gunmen, and he is determined to get what he wants no matter the cost.

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We know our colleagues from Industry News have kept you updated on the GM Selling or Not Selling Saab saga in recent weeks, but it has now surfaced in the media that some of the highly ranked figures of Formula One are also considering buying the Swedish marque from GM. According to financial news service Bloomberg, it is the very owner of F1 Bernie Ecclestone who confirmed his interest for buying the aforementioned car company.

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What if finding that one bit of information is of vital importance? Well, it may not have been the main story angle taken on last month’s attempted terrorist attack over Detroit in the United States, but we’ve certainly heard a lot about how better information management and cross-border collaboration might have prevented the attempted airline bombing.

Or as U.S. President Obama was quoted as saying, "This was not a failure to collect intelligence; it was a failure to integrate and understand the intelligence that we already had. The information was there, agencies and analysts who needed it had access to it, and our professionals were trained to look for it and to bring it all together."

How is it possible the dots weren’t connected? We’ve grown accustomed to seeing movies and series where searches instantly bring up all the relevant information. Then there’s hush-hush operations like ECHELON supposedly filtering all of our communications (we can say with some certainty it exists, but nobody really knows what it does). So we automatically assume that all the content is there, and through some inconceivably complex software, it leads to actionable information. You and I, of course, have no access to such technology, but certainly the intelligence agencies have it, right?

Maybe. In our Search & Information Access research, there’s plenty of familiar software that we’ve heard about from major intelligence agencies in the U.S., UK and France. For instance, Autonomy will gladly tell you their IDOL is being used by many agencies (among them, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and also my local Dutch counter-terrorism agencies). Sinequa is used by the Ministry of Defense in France, and also correlates related crimes logged by Parisian police forces. Or there’s the CIA, which has shown an interest in Lucene Solr; so they invested in Lucid Imagination (which specializes in that technology). And therein lies the point: in all these cases, the software doesn’t just magically achieve the end result of successful crime or terrorism prevention. It takes work to be sure the technology is pulling the right information together, and even more work to make sure someone acts on it. 

So is a "lowered threshold for information considered important enough to put suspicious individuals on a no-fly list or revoke their visas" the real answer here? In information retrieval terms, that’s increasing the recall at the cost of precision. And yes, a large part of this is an information access problem. It’s about common problems such as uniquely identifying a person (especially if there are several different spellings of a name, as there was in this case). It’s about connecting various databases and (geographically disparate) repositories, and federating search across them. And then once all that is achieved, and the relevant data is flagged: someone has to do something about it.

Your organization’s need to retrieve, correlate and act on information may not be in an equally serious domain; still, you likely have a similar challenge. You need to not only decide what information is important, but how it should be weighted, correlated and acted upon. This is an ongoing challenge for those trying to get search right – and it’s a challenge that never ends. Your information needs constant tending, trends need to be analyzed, and subsequent courses of action put in place.

It’s the complete process of retrieving, correlating, and acting on relevant information — not just finding it — that makes all the difference. 

Eco Factor: Concept curtains woven with photovoltaic panels.

Normally on a sunny day an open window lets in a great amount of solar heat, which then requires cooling systems to bring interior temperatures to bearable levels. Eco-conscious industrial designer Astrid Krogh is trying to kill two birds with one stone with a concept curtain that not only blocks solar heat but also acts as a renewable energy generator.

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“Christmas is a time when Ars people get toys. January is a time when they review them.”  Thus tweeteth Deputy Editor Jon Stokes, and right he is. Under the tree this year (well, on the UPS truck) was a new steering wheel for my Xbox 360. Not just any wheel, but a (deep breath) Fanatec Porsche Turbo S steering wheel and Clubsport pedal setup, available directly from the manufacturer for the princely sum of $499.95. Yes, that’s a lot of money, but as we’ll see, you get quite a lot in return, and you could spend quite a lot less on the standard edition and still have what’s probably the best driving wheel peripheral on the market right now. Compared to the Microsoft Wireless Racing Wheel, the Porsche-licensed peripheral is a massive leap forward for Xbox gamers, and the ability to use the rig with a PS3 and the forthcoming Gran Turismo 5 should put it high on any racing nut’s wish list.

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A GMC apresenta o Acadia Denali 2011 no Salão Internacional do Automóvel de Detroit, que acontece a partir da próxima segunda-feira (11/01/2010). Dentro da gama de veículos da GMC, os modelos topo de linha são identificados com o nome Denali, sendo que o primeiro foi lançado em 1999, baseado no modelo Yukon e ajudou a definir o segmento utilitários-esportivos de luxo no mercado norte-americano. O Acadia Denali fornecerá aos clientes GMC todas as tecnologias e confortos reconhecidos dos modelos Denali em um crossover mais eficiente no consumo de energia.

“Os modelos Denali da GMC chegaram para representar luxo e exclusividade, e é isso que os clientes terão com o novo Acadia Denali,” disse Lisa Hutchinson, diretora de marketing de produtos da GMC.

O Acadia foi lançado em 2007 e como o primeiro crossover da GMC, apresenta o melhor índice de consumo de combustível do segmento e características inovadoras, como o sistema SmartSlide, que permite acesso fácil a terceira fileira de bancos, com versões para sete ou oito passageiros. Os bancos da segunda e terceira fileiras são dobráveis e permitem diversas configurações entre passageiros e carga.

O Acadia Denali 2011 estará à venda no terceiro trimestre de 2010 e é disponível nos modelos com tração nas rodas dianteiras ou tração nas quatro rodas, nas configurações para sete ou oito passageiros. O motor é um V6 3.6 l com injeção direta.

O Acadia Denali se sobressai com seus detalhes do design que levam a assinatura Denali destacados pelo exterior e a grade em forma de colméia cromada, uma característica de todos os modelos topo da GMC. Também apresenta algumas características como:

* Painéis dianteiro e traseiro exclusivos
* Faróis de xenônio
* Revestimento inferior e molduras na cor da carroceria
* Painel de instrumentos na cor da carroceria e protetores dos paralamas
* Exclusivas molduras do lado da carroceria com detalhes cromados e emblemas da Denali
* Ponteiras de escapamento duplas e cromadas

Outros diferenciais são as rodas cromadas em dois tons de 20 polegadas. As rodas de seis raios apresentam acabamento em cromado negro e cromado brilhante.

Fonte: GM

“Big Brother” is watching…as you discipline your kids. 

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 In today’s world of modern electronics (cell phones with cameras and videos, iPhones, Blackberrys, etc.), your activities and discipline with your children in public can easily be recorded, shown to authorities, and/or posted on the Internet.

You find so many “experts,” who may not think as you do in disciplining kids.  Your verbal expression, your actions and your activities with your youngsters might not meet with their approval.

So….they decide to play the “expert” and record you.  No matter that this is an invasion of privacy.  No matter that they don’t have all the facts.  If what you’re doing is different from what they think they would do, they find it a heady expression of importance in recording you, even reporting you.

Yes, there are instances when a child is in danger.  But other times, the situation may be one for which the observer doesn’t  have all the facts.

What do you think should be done if a child is throwing a tantrum in public?  If you’re a parent, you’ve probably had to deal with this and may or may not have yourself reprimanded.

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“Big Brother” Is Watching…

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