CrunchGear Week In Review: Go With The Floe Edition

Here’s a selection of stories from the past week on CrunchGear: Cloud-Based Storage Coming To PS3 (But For A Premium)? Audi-Designed Carbon Skis: Want So Bad Just In Time For Trenta: Send Your Facebook Friends Starbucks Card eGifts So Why Should You Care About NFC? How The Glif Got Made: From Design To Sales In [...]

Source: http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/01/31/week-in-review-go-with-the-floe/

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GAEMS Xbox 360 traveling case gets sleek redesign, still won't help you spell correctly

The last rendition we saw of the GAEMS console-carrying case looked more like a giant lunch box than a solution to your portable gaming needs. If you're still interested in bringing your Xbox 360 on the road, the company has redesigned the case and it now supports the fat and slim versions of the 360 and even the PS3-skinny. What's new in this compact carrying case is the fact there's actually room to store the console, controllers and power brick. It comes bundled with a remote, HDMI cable and power supply to power the speakers and LED screen. If you're road trippin' any time soon and want this beast, you can save yourself 20 bones by pre-ordering before April 20th and you'll receive the $300 case come June.

GAEMS Xbox 360 traveling case gets sleek redesign, still won't help you spell correctly originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Researchers Muffle Radio Noise to Make WiFi Breakthrough

Ten-4. Back to you. Over. On a radio or over the TV airwaves, speakers have to rely on back-and-forth communications because radio traffic only flows in one direction at a time on a frequency. Or so said scientific conventional wisdom, until Stanford researchers developed so-called "full duplex" radios that can send and receive signals at the same time.

Source: http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/71878.html

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A Man Now Has Two Hearts After Undergoing Surgery [Video]

The video above is jarring and very graphic, showing two hearts pumping at once. It's also beautiful because without that extra heart, a man wouldn't be alive. Tyson Smith, the man whose hearts are shown above, went through a rare surgery that's called a heterotopic heart transplant. In the surgery, doctors add another heart to the right side of his chest to share the work and get the job done. More »

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CorelDRAW tutorial: Trace, vectorize and modify a simple logo (video)

This is the second CorelDRAW tutorial in a series of four. Last week we looked at how to make a Polaroid-like image, and this week I'd like to show you how to vectorize a simple logo. I use the Android logo in the video, but you can do this with pretty much any logo other simple graphic.

There are many reasons why you might like to vectorize an existing logo. Perhaps you need to modify it, integrate it into a larger design, or generate a high-res printout. As you can see in the video, there's not much you can do with the low-res Android logo Google gives you. If your bitmap logo is large enough, you might be able to use CorelDRAW's auto-trace capabilities and simply generate a good vector outline of it. However, since the bitmap I selected was so small (and simple), I opted to use a completely manual tracing method - I just recreated the Android logo using a few simple shapes.

Rather than wax poetic about what the video contains, if you're curious to see the Android logo dissected and recreated in full vector glory, just watch the video after the jump.

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Low-Tech Geekery Makes Beautiful High-Speed Photography

Vincent Riemersma’s beautiful time-freezing photographs are a mixture of skill and old fashioned geekery. The pictures show splashes of colored water frozen in time as they jump simultaneously from a row of wine glasses. The results are clearly impressive. But how were the photos taken?
First, the splashes. To ensure repeatability, time after time, Vincent built [...]

Source: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/low-tech-geekery-makes-beautiful-high-speed-photography/

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7digital for Android now plays your local music library

The 7digital app for Android is a great way to listen to music you previously purchased via its service on your device. 7digital version 1.5 is even better, adding support for even more of your songs -- the ones stored in your local music library.

To add your existing library to 7digital, just tap the menu button on your device and then tap the settings icon. Check the 'show local music' box, then back out, tap menu again, and then tap sync. You can then build a play queue using both your 7digital cloud locker and local Android music library!

As you can see, 7digital also now features a landscape mode, and the new update also adds Last.fm scrobbling support so that you can track your listening via the popular discovery service.

Download 7digital for Android (QR code after the break)

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7digital for Android now plays your local music library originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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