Posted on November 30th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
The Brazilian subsidiary of Electrolux has joined with ProFusion Embedded Systems to develop a refrigerator that includes a Linux-based touchscreen computer. The Infinity I-Kitchen’s computer is based on a 400MHz Freescale i.MX25 processor, offering a 800 x 480 display and an Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) user interface. Infinity I-Kitchen touchscreen interface In addition, the computer [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
The company’s motion control system has sold at a a high clip, and it has Black Friday sales in part to thank for it. Microsoft has announced that the Kinect hardware has sold more than 2.5 million units since its launch less than a month ago, with strong Black Friday sales contributing in part to [...]
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Posted on November 30th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Audi used yesterday’s DTM finale in Shanghai to show off a new GT4-spec TT it plans to sell in Europe and—you guessed it—China. It’s based on the TT RS and as such the prototype shown uses that car’s turbocharged 2.5-liter inline-five tuned for 335 hp; we’re told the final version may use a different engine, possibly [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Vitaly Borker welcomes customer complaints, saying they vault his business higher in Internet search results. SHOPPING online in late July, Clarabelle Rodriguez typed the name of her favorite eyeglass brand into Google’s search bar. In moments, she found the perfect frames — made by a French company called Lafont — on a Web site that [...]
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Posted on November 29th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Five years ago, Shop.org published a press release: “While traditional retailers will be monitoring store traffic and sales on Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving), online retailers have set their sights on something different: Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, which is quickly becoming one of the biggest online shopping days of the year.” Ta-dah! [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
The company already has a browser named Chrome and the Android operating system, but it said questions would be answered when it released a netbook running the Chrome operating system. When a Google engineer gave top executives computers running the company’s new Chrome operating system, Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, tried to hold on to his [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Over the next 15 years China is expected to build the equivalent of 10 New York Citys. That’s a lot of concrete and steel, and it goes a long way in explaining why the country is using so much energy. Roads, bridges, rail lines, skyscrapers and factories all take tons of concrete, steel, chemicals and [...]
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Posted on November 27th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
With Brotherhood just now hitting shelves, a third chapter is surely being planned. But to possibly release so soon? Hmmm. Assassin’s Creed 3 may be on the way in 2011, just one year after the now-in-stores Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood released to retail. While Assassin’s Creed 3 is surely in development, the possible release date of [...]
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Posted on November 26th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Netflix has a strong grip on movie and television distribution — a grip Hollywood and cable TV want back. In a matter of months, the movie delivery company Netflix has gone from being the fastest-growing first-class mail customer of the United States Postal Service to the biggest source of streaming Web traffic in North America [...]
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