Small, right? That’s Epson’s Infineon XPOSYS chip, its next generation Assisted-GPS device set for mass production in late 2009. The chip measures just 2.8 x 2.9-mm making it 25% smaller than other A-GPS chips on the market, according to Epson, while consuming half the power. The sensitivity has also been improved for a more accurate location fix while indoors. Between this, Google Latitude, and the ever expanding lineup of Skyhook positioning devices, you can kiss your location anonymity goodbye.

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Epson’s little GPS receiver will make everything location aware originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A US Iridium satellite has hit a defunct Russian satellite in an unprecedented space collision. The crash occurred some 790km (491 miles) over Siberia on Tuesday, according to NASA, and produced a “massive” cloud of debris. About 600 pieces are being tracked from the debris field in hopes of understanding the risk they present to other satellites and the international space station. The Russian craft was identified as the 950kg (2,094 pound) Cosmos 2251, a communications relay station launched in 1993 and believed to have been non-operational for the last 10 years or so. The Iridium telecommunications satellite was estimated to weigh about 560kg (1,234 pounds). Unsurprisingly, its loss is expected to have “minimal impact on Iridium’s service,” according to a statement made by the company. When asked who was at fault, NASA responded dryly:

“They ran into each other. Nothing has the right of way up there. We don’t have an air traffic controller in space. There’s no universal way of knowing what’s coming in your direction.”

Gulp.

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US and Russian satellites collide in ‘unprecedented’ accident originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yay! Another new auction site proudly set up by a Singapore company. Check out http://www.cannla.com/ . The site has just started less than a month ago. Hence, it may look a bit quiet and bare to seasoned auctioners. But give it a while and I bet the More

New Delhi: Its celebration time for gamers in India. Sony has launched the much awaited, higher version PS3 with 80 GB storage space (40 GB extra storage space than the earlier version), a more power-efficient DUALSHOCK 3 controller and the More

The recently announced Playstation Portable version of LittleBigPlanet is being developed by Media Molecule and will likely be able to connect in someway with the Playstation 3 version. The PSP’s LittleBigPlanet will also tap into the three tenants More

I already made the initial investment for the system about a year ago. I’m not super savvy about video-game consoles, but I want to maximize its usefulness. When the PS3 initially came out, I admit I had my reservations. Offering a Blu-ray media More

What NOBY NOBY BOY does for you is entirely dependent on two things. First, it depends on your tolerance for the utterly bizarre. Its entire color palette is made up of pastels—no primary colors, really, but never quite reaching the unnatural glow More

Let’s be honest with each other, readers. The PS3 is high-priced. Sure, it’s a Blu-ray player and there’s free online services, but it’s still high-priced. It desperately needs a price drop to maintain its position in the market. But Euro Sony More

Quick: Your vehicle or the PS3? Make a decision and pronto . Nicholas Stanfield. a 24-year^old Sacramento man, chose the PLAYSTATION 3. On December 17, a 911 call was placed about the carjacking of Stanfield’s Dodge Ram truck. Police responded and More

Sony lists the genre of its downloadable game “Flower” as Zen gaming. It’s a good description for “Flower” and other games enjoy it, such as the earlier PlayStation Network title “flOw,” created by the same developer. The Zen game has none of the More

Midway has got a mountain of debt to overcome if it wants to fight its way out of bankruptcy, but one way it won’t be raising capital is the just-announced Unreal Tournament 3 downloadable content for Personal computers and the PlayStation 3. Billed as “the most More

Which console has won the war? If you ask one developer, neither. Shaun Himmerick, executive producer for Wheelman , told This Xbox Life podcast last week that the PlayStation 3 is a “pain in the ass” to develop on. However, the Xbox 360 is a “dumb More

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Not like Dell itself didn’t already confirm this puppy, but the first Dell-branded, ZINK-enabled product is officially official. The Wasabi PZ310 ultra-mobile printer promises to produce 2- x 3-inch prints in under a minute, and users with Bluetooth-enabled handsets can send over images for printing with just a few button mashes. The sub-7 ounce device measures in at 4.8- x 2.8- x 0.9-inches, and it’ll be made available in black, pink and blue hues. The middling minutiae is all posted up after the break, and those eager to get their paws on one will certainly appreciate the immediate availability and the $99 promotional price. Better hurry — only Round Rock knows when it’ll jump back up to the standard $149.

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Dell’s Wasabi PZ310 ZINK printer now available for $99 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, bollocks! When CERN’s Massive Hadron Collider started up this past September, we figured it was only a matter of time before the world as we knew it imploded. Thus, we did as any reasonable group of individuals would do and evaporated our life savings before being beamed up. Now, we’re stuck waiting around (with four or five pennies) for this September, as that’s the new restart date following the LHC’s run-in with bad luck late last year. If all goes to plan this go ’round, the machine will run into autumn of 2010, when engineers will hopefully see collisions of lead ions. Needless to state, gurus are implementing a new enhanced protection system to keep things from going so wrongly again, but you never can tell what’ll happen when smashing atoms, now can you?

[Via CNET]

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Big Hadron Collider restart delayed till September originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Yes, your greatest / worst dream has come to fruition: Steve Wozniak will be featured on the next season of Dancing With the Stars. There’s not much we can tell you right now about his upcoming moves, though we’ll be watching with bated breath, quietly hoping for a double Lindy, the Sugarfoot, and Denise Richards being dipped on a Segway.

[Thanks, Ethan]

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Steve Wozniak comes to ‘Dancing With The Stars,’ universe quivers originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Wall Street Journal just weighed in on today’s Amazon press event with two nuggets of information. First, they state as fact that Amazon.com will announce a new version of its Kindle e-book reader. Additionally, Amazon is expected to announce an exclusive new work available only on the Kindle from best-selling author and be-spectacled weirdo, Stephen King. According to the WSJ, “a Kindle-like device” could play a role in the story. Oh Stephen, don’t you know that they’re all going to laugh at you? Find out all the details later today with our live Kindle launch coverage.

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WSJ: Kindle 2 launching this day with Stephen King exclusive originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Here’s something we don’t see everyday, a sexy voice recorder with a built-in digital camera. Samsung’s YP-VP1 made its first appearance at CES, apparently, and now sees its official Korean launch. The 2GB / 4GB recorder features a directional mic that records up to 30 hours in 192kbps max quality with support for MP3 / WMA playback (up to 50 hours) tossed in for grins. As to the camera, a VoicePix function grants you to tag a recording with a photo — something that should help with searching for specific items later on.

[Via DAPreview and AVING]

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Samsung’s YP-VP1 voice recorder with VoicePix pic tagging originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’ll be straight up with you — there’s a lot of fancy work going on with this one that laypeople will have a tough time grasping, but the long and short of it is this: a team from Rice University (Krishna Palem pictured) and Nanyang Technological University have created a microchip that “uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today’s ideal technology.” Already crying snake oil? Not so fast. By trashing the traditional set of mathematical rules (that’d be Boolean logic) and instead applying probabilistic logic, researchers have figured out how to deliver similar results with a fraction of the energy. The tech is being dubbed PCMOS (probabilistic CMOS), and could eventually end up in embedded systems and even cellphones. In the case of the latter, this type of chip will be able to display streaming video on a minuscule display with more artifacts than usual, but due to the small screen size and the human brain’s ability to piece together nearly-perfect images, the errors involved would be all but forgotten. Meanwhile, your battery bar would still be nearly full. We always heard there was beauty in imperfections — now, at long last, we finally get it.

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Probabilistic logic makes microchip more energy efficient originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 06:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s not exactly the level of technology that’ll cause Lucius Fox to storm out of a room, but this new so-called BEAM 3D mapping software developed by a pair of students from the Engineering College of Aarhus is still pretty impressive, and could be of real use to firefighters and others in an emergency. While complete details are a bit light, the software is apparently intended to be paired with a 3D sensor of some sort that’s carried through a building by a firefighter or other individual, which relays information back to a handheld device that pinpoints the person’s location. The downside, and a fairly massive one at that, is that it only works if there’s 3D plans of the building pre-loaded on the handheld. No word on a commercial version just yet, but the students did receive a bit of help from software firm Systematic, which is apparently “extremely pleased” with their efforts.

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New 3D software tracks peoples’ location in buildings originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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