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DiaForce film captures your virtuoso performance, could replace guitar pickups

Do you shred it up on the guitar and wish there were a way to capture your one-of-a-kind technique — every bend, hammer and slide? Well then, get thee to the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering where a few musically-inclined scientists — closet Hendrix fans, we assume — have managed to translate every pluck of the string into a laptop-processed digital control signal. To do this the team layered guitar tailpieces (that part on the end with the knobs and strings) with a ten-micrometer piece of the powerfully named, piezoresistive DiaForce film and recorded string tension with absolute precision

Do you shred it up on the guitar and wish there were a way to capture your one-of-a-kind technique — every bend, hammer and slide? Well then, get thee to the Fraunhofer Institute for Surface Engineering where a few musically-inclined scientists — closet Hendrix fans, we assume — have managed to translate every pluck of the string into a laptop-processed digital control signal. To do this the team layered guitar tailpieces (that part on the end with the knobs and strings) with a ten-micrometer piece of the powerfully named, piezoresistive DiaForce film and recorded string tension with absolute precision

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DiaForce film captures your virtuoso performance, could replace guitar pickups

ZiiLabs unveils Jaguar family of Honeycomb tablets for OEMs to devour

Just a few weeks after unveiling its ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 StemCell processors, ZiiLabs has now designed a new family of slates to house them. Developed with the OEM market in mind, the company’s new Jaguar Honeycomb tablets come in two breeds — one with a seven-inch, 1024×600 LCD and another with a ten-inch 1280×800 display. Unlike their ZiiO predecessors , these 64GB siamese twins call for both capacitive and resistive touchscreen capabilities, support OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics and, as you can see in the image above, feature front- and rear-facing five-megapixel cameras.

Just a few weeks after unveiling its ZMS-20 and ZMS-40 StemCell processors, ZiiLabs has now designed a new family of slates to house them. Developed with the OEM market in mind, the company’s new Jaguar Honeycomb tablets come in two breeds — one with a seven-inch, 1024×600 LCD and another with a ten-inch 1280×800 display. Unlike their ZiiO predecessors , these 64GB siamese twins call for both capacitive and resistive touchscreen capabilities, support OpenGL ES 2.0 3D graphics and, as you can see in the image above, feature front- and rear-facing five-megapixel cameras.

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Researchers find graphene transistors cool themselves, silicon counterparts seethe with envy

We’ve seen graphene promise some pretty slick tricks already: budget-minded bendable batteries , superior stain resistance , and upping ultracapacitors’ energy density . We can now add self-cooling transistors to the list of awesome, yet unfulfilled possibilities for these microscopic sheets of carbon

We’ve seen graphene promise some pretty slick tricks already: budget-minded bendable batteries , superior stain resistance , and upping ultracapacitors’ energy density . We can now add self-cooling transistors to the list of awesome, yet unfulfilled possibilities for these microscopic sheets of carbon

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Researchers find graphene transistors cool themselves, silicon counterparts seethe with envy

Ask Engadget: best Android tablet for under $200?

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Pavel, who seems to be primed and ready to splurge on a bargain-bin Android tablet during the impending Black Friday rush. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com .

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget question is coming to us from Pavel, who seems to be primed and ready to splurge on a bargain-bin Android tablet during the impending Black Friday rush. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com .

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LG Cookie Fresh GS290 Review

In the old days pay as you go phones were cheap, cheerful and do everything required out of a phone one would need. They text, they ring.

In the old days pay as you go phones were cheap, cheerful and do everything required out of a phone one would need. They text, they ring.

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Pandigital Novel preview

Sure, Pandigital’s Novel may be delayed until next month because of some firmware issues — and we haven’t heard the most positive things about the 7-inch LCD based e-reader / tablet — but we had to check it out for ourselves. At $149, the all-plastic reader isn’t going to win any build quality awards (it’s also rather heavy for what it is), but the Android 2.1-powered gadget does have a pretty attractive user interface. In use, however, the resistive screen had to be pressed quite firmly to make selections and the software was noticeably sluggish.

Sure, Pandigital’s Novel may be delayed until next month because of some firmware issues — and we haven’t heard the most positive things about the 7-inch LCD based e-reader / tablet — but we had to check it out for ourselves. At $149, the all-plastic reader isn’t going to win any build quality awards (it’s also rather heavy for what it is), but the Android 2.1-powered gadget does have a pretty attractive user interface. In use, however, the resistive screen had to be pressed quite firmly to make selections and the software was noticeably sluggish.

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CTL 2go Convertible Classmate PC NL2 now available for the kids

We may have dropped the Convertible Classmate PC on its head back at its CeBIT launch, but obviously that didn’t throw the little netbook off its educational course.

We may have dropped the Convertible Classmate PC on its head back at its CeBIT launch, but obviously that didn’t throw the little netbook off its educational course.

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CTL 2go Convertible Classmate PC NL2 now available for the kids

Resistive HTC devices can have (pseudo) multitouch, too

“Multitouch on a resistive screen?” We must be joking, right? Not at all — if we’ve learned anything from our encounters with a little firm named Stantum , resistive multitouch is not only possible, but potentially preferable to its capacitive counterpart. Of course, that knowledge doesn’t help you any if you’re currently stuck with single finger commands, but if your phone is made by HTC and running Windows Mobile, you may one day get to see what two digit input feels like

“Multitouch on a resistive screen?” We must be joking, right? Not at all — if we’ve learned anything from our encounters with a little firm named Stantum , resistive multitouch is not only possible, but potentially preferable to its capacitive counterpart. Of course, that knowledge doesn’t help you any if you’re currently stuck with single finger commands, but if your phone is made by HTC and running Windows Mobile, you may one day get to see what two digit input feels like

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Intel’s new convertible Classmate PC hands-on

Score one for the kids! We just got to toy around with the new convertible Classmate PC and, boy, does it feel solid. Though it feels quite heavy in hand, it definitely feels like it can take a beating in a backpack and, as you can see in the video below, survive a decent fall.

Score one for the kids! We just got to toy around with the new convertible Classmate PC and, boy, does it feel solid. Though it feels quite heavy in hand, it definitely feels like it can take a beating in a backpack and, as you can see in the video below, survive a decent fall.

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Compaq AirLife 100 hands-on

We visited with HP to see what’s changed since we saw the Compaq AirLife during CES — aside from it now having a name — in early January. We were told by HP that the device’s plastic housing has been improved, received confirmation that it’s indeed running a 1GHz Snapdragon, and will be sold exclusively through a deal with Telefonica. The AirLife’s performance was impressive while scrolling through carousels of photos, and control of the resistive display was also snappy with no stuttering while scrolling — that we noticed

We visited with HP to see what’s changed since we saw the Compaq AirLife during CES — aside from it now having a name — in early January. We were told by HP that the device’s plastic housing has been improved, received confirmation that it’s indeed running a 1GHz Snapdragon, and will be sold exclusively through a deal with Telefonica. The AirLife’s performance was impressive while scrolling through carousels of photos, and control of the resistive display was also snappy with no stuttering while scrolling — that we noticed

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