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Gadgets

A Web Browser For Your… Graphing Calculator?

1:32AM July 26, 2011 | Casey Chan

Did anyone ever use a graphing calculator to actually, like, calculate graphs? All I remember is playing Tetris and some Drugwars game. Kids these days have something crazier: Gossamer. It’s a web browser for graphing calculators. More »


Computing

Next-Gen Phones And Tablets Are Gonna Do Crazy Shit

6:56AM February 8, 2011 | Matt Buchanan

TI’s current-generation OMAP4 processors are already hardcore: They’re what’s behind simultaneous 1080p-playing, Quake-raging BlackBerry PlayBook. But TI’s next-gen OMAP5 chips are on a whole ‘nother level of crazy. Multi-core chips built on ARM’s fastest Cortex A15 processors – that ramp up to 2GHz each with another pair a pair of Cortex M4s thrown in for fun. More »


Gadgets

Consistency Counts For Something

11:40PM July 19, 2010 | Brian Barrett

In 1996, you could get a Palm Pilot 1000 with a 16MHz processor, 128KB storage and a 100-name address book for $US300. Times sure have changed! Like, what about a TI graphing calculator? More »


TI’s OMAP4 Chipset Promises Insane Performance

2:00PM February 3, 2010 | Dan Nosowitz

TI’s new dual-core OMAP4 mobile chipset, the sequel to the OMAP3 series that powers the Droid and Palm Pre (among others), claims crazy performance: Three independent displays running 1080p video, for example, and an estimated 145-hour battery life for audio. More »


Gadgets

Highly Hackable TI Watch Used To Wirelessly Unlock Doors

9:00AM January 22, 2010 | Sean Fallon

Often when I reach for the keys in my pocket, I wonder why the hell we still use them. This dude is ahead of the curve though – he can open his doors by simply tapping his TI eZ430-Chronos watch. More »


Cameras

TI Applies Its Latest DLP Pico Projector To Mobile Phones, Cameras

6:56AM January 7, 2010 | Sean Fallon

Because of its super-compact size, DLP Pico projectors are ideal to cram into all kinds of gadgets. Texas Instruments is doing just that by applying it’s new Pico WVGA resolution chipset into everything from mobile phones to digital cameras. More »


Viewsonic Launches 3D Projectors

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9:38AM July 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Viewsonic has just announced three new 3D capable projectors for the Aussie market. Sure, we could make a big deal about the lack of 3D content to make use of the projector, but we won’t. Not today, anyway. More »


Gadgets

Archos Event Invitation Unsubtly Hints at Rumoured Android MID

7:24PM May 18, 2009 | John Herrman

On its own, it’s a stretch: the invite is green and vaguely Android-y, and there’s a faint rectangular device in the background, therefore Archos must be working on an Android MID! Right? Well, they are.

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New Pico Projectors Offer DVD-Quality Resolution

7:00AM February 18, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Guess which version is the second gen DLP Pico projector. (Hint: It’s the smaller one on the right that’s better in every way.)

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Gaming

Gameboy Colour Inside a TI-83 Series Calculator

7:30AM November 19, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

Where, oh where were you, Nintendo Gameboy Colour disguised as a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator, when I was in school? Where? WHERE? Probably nowhere to be found, really, as Gameboy Colours weren’t invented back then, and I was too busy trying to get off latin class to make out with girls in the backyard woods, anyway. But if you had existed back then, I would have been all over you too. That’s how much I like you. [Make]

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