LG announces LSM-100 Scanner Mouse, saves valuable desk space
Update: Apparently this bad boy is already available the UK for £89.98 (around $148), via the coverage link below. Also, we added a promo video from the folks at LG showing the peripheral in action — which you can check out after the break.
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LG announces LSM-100 Scanner Mouse, saves valuable desk space originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HP ships $50 WiFi Mobile Mouse, gives your Bluetooth radio a break
If you’ve been waiting oh-so-patiently for HP’s $49.99 WiFi Mobile Mouse to ship, take heart — the aforesaid critter is now ready to free up one more valuable USB port at your workstation. As mentioned before, this ain’t your mum’s wireless mouse, as it makes use of WiFi technology — you know, instead of the tried-and-true Bluetooth. In other words, this bad boy doesn’t require anything other than itself to connect. HP promises up to nine months of battery life, offers five programmable buttons, a four-way tilt scroll wheel and adjustable sensitivity. Just think — you can finally choose to keep those remaining Four Loko cans chilled without resorting to an inbuilt trackpad. Reason enough to pull the trigger, yeah?
Gallery: HP WiFi Mobile Mouse
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HP ships $50 WiFi Mobile Mouse, gives your Bluetooth radio a break originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:25:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cool Leaf keyboard’s shiny, buttonless future gets release date
Keyboards get really gross, really fast, especially when you eat around them. It’s a problem the backlit, buttonless Cool Leaf doesn’t have to contend with, since it doesn’t have any pores for crud to fall into and is easily wiped off with a wet cloth. The lovely mirrored peripheral will be hitting Japanese retailers on May 13th at an unknown price that we expect to be around 20,000 yen ($245) — steep, not to mention the cost of repairing sprained fingers after an all night term paper writeathon. The Cool Leaf will only be available in a Japanese language, Windows-compatible version at launch, though other languages — including US English — and a Mac-friendly variety have also been announced, so the rest of us may have a wait a little longer for the future to arrive.
Cool Leaf keyboard’s shiny, buttonless future gets release date originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Apr 2011 12:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
HTC Incredible S auto-rotating buttons explained? (video)
We were quite bedazzled by the HTC Incredible S after our hands-on at MWC, but it’s the auto-rotating icons for the capacitive buttons that left us most intrigued. So we went back to the HTC booth to try to make sense of it all. From what we were able to observe, there’s some optical trickery happening here: the icons appear to be glittering and shimmering depending on viewing angle as if lit through a prism, half-mirror or grate of some kind. We think that a pair of LEDs are used to project the intended icon onto the glass surface via either a combination of prisms and half-mirrors, or via horizontally and vertically polarized grates. Watch our video after the break, and let us know in the comments how you think this actually works.
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HTC Incredible S auto-rotating buttons explained? (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Know your buttons
Every Android phone has a standard set of buttons at the bottom. They may be physical — with parts that move — or they may be capacitive, reacting to your touch. The order may change, but the functions are the same. You’ll find:
- Home: Returns to the main home screen. Hold down to see your most recently used apps. (Tip: Try tapping it again once you’re at the main home screen and see what happens.)
- Back: Takes you back a level in an app, or back a page in a browser, etc. (Tip: Hold down while browsing to quickly access bookmarks, history and most-visited sites. Thanks, Snapdragon0503!)
- Menu: Tap this for additional options in an application, or from the home screens. (Tip: Hold down to make the keyboard appear.)
- Search: Brings up the search function. Could be search within an app, Google search, or universal search of contacts, bookmarks, apps, etc. that are in the phone. (Tip: Hold down to launch voice search.)
Most Android phones have four buttons, though occasionally a manufacturer will do without the search button.
Posted originally at Android Central
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