Lumix DMC-LX5 review roundup: great hardware for a not-so-great price

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• Lumix DMC-LX5 review roundup: great hardware for a not-so-great price
• Dragon Con Cosplayers Will Cosplay Anything [Cosplay]
• Form 3 Sex Toy Resembles a Computer Mouse [Nsfw]
• Three Steps to Happiness [Mindhacks]
• Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice
• The Floating Isle Widescreen Wallpaper
• GroupMe offers super-easy group texting and conference calls from any phone
• We Need Some Cheetos Here Stat! [Gameface]
• MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts
• Audio Monitor Simplifies Monitoring an Audio Input Source on Your Mac [Downloads]

Lumix DMC-LX5 review roundup: great hardware for a not-so-great price Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:01 PM PDT Reviews are starting to trickle out for Pansonic's LX3 successor, the DMC-LX5, and so far they all seem to echo similar sentiment. The form factor hearkens back to its Micro Four Thirds darling GF1, at least from the top, with "dinky buttons" (in CNET UK's words) on the back reminding you of its point-and-shoot bloodline. The pictures are solid if not characteristically warm -- and the ability to simultaneously produce RAW and JPEG files is a nice touch -- as is the choice of either Motion JPEG or AVCHD Lite video. The universal issue with this camera is the price; that £449.99 tag (the equivalent of $691 in US currency) doesn't quite seem to match the offerings, especially when it's about on par with entry-level DSLRs with interchangeable lenses (albeit without the slim look). As PhotographyBLOG puts it, Panny's gotta hard case to make for a camera "that looks, at first glance to be very similar to a £299 model." Hey, a hardware switch for changing the aspect ratio (just above lens barrel; 4:3, 3:2, 16:9, or 1:1) doesn't come cheap. Much more detail can be found in the reviews below. Read - PhotographyBLOG Read - CNET UK Read - Pocket-lint Lumix DMC-LX5 review roundup: great hardware for a not-so-great price originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments

Dragon Con Cosplayers Will Cosplay Anything [Cosplay] Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT No entertainment property was beyond the reach Dragon Con's cosplayers in Atlanta this weekend, resulting in our 50-photo gallery featuring everything from Final Fantasy to Flo, the Progressive Insurance spokeswoman. More »

Form 3 Sex Toy Resembles a Computer Mouse [Nsfw] Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT When JimmyJane showed off their Form 2 sextoy, Jesus Diaz said it looked like a Millennium Falcon. The new Form 3, on the other hand, resembles a soft-touch computer mouse—but don't go using a Microsoft Arc "down there." More »

Three Steps to Happiness [Mindhacks] Posted: 06 Sep 2010 03:00 PM PDT Self-titled designtrepreneur Joe Gebbia has a pretty simple process for finding happiness in three steps. More »

Plagiarizing a Takedown Notice Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:40 PM PDT ChipMonk writes "Over at hobbyist site OS News, editor-in-chief Thom Holwerda published a highly skeptical opinion of the announcement of Commodore USA's own Amiga line. Within hours, Commodore USA sent a takedown notice to OS News, demanding a retraction of the piece and accusing the site of libel and defamation. What's funny is that the takedown notice was mostly copied, with minor edits, from Chilling Effects, a site dedicated to publicizing attempts at squelching free speech. The formatting, line breaks, obtuse references to 'OCGA,' and even the highlighted search terms were left largely intact." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

The Floating Isle Widescreen Wallpaper Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT Floating Isle [deviantART]

GroupMe offers super-easy group texting and conference calls from any phone Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT Filed under: Productivity, Social Software, Mobile As long as text messages have been around, there's never been a really easy solution for having a group conversation via SMS. GroupMe fixes that by making SMS more like an email thread with multiple recipients. See, your group has its own phone number, and everyone can just text (or call!) that to communicate with the whole crew. It's such a simple, elegant solution to such an old problem that I can't believe it was never done this way before. Setup for GroupMe is ridiculously easy: just put in your mobile phone number, and your group will be created and get its own number. You can text commands to the new number to add friends or change the name of the group, or you can invite your friends to add themselves by texting a code to the group number. If a group gets too spammy, you can text #mute to the group number to stop getting messages for a while, and #unmute to start again. Advantages of GroupMe: even the most old-and-busted dumbphone on the market can use it, as long as it supports texting, because GroupMe works like a regular phone number. Even without texting, you can still call a group number to start a conference call. Disadvantages: it's US-only for the moment, so international users are out of luck. GroupMe offers super-easy group texting and conference calls from any phone originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments SMS - Text messaging - Mobile phone - Download Squad - Social Software

We Need Some Cheetos Here Stat! [Gameface] Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:30 PM PDT A robot playing video games at the MIT Media Lab... sans a savory treat. As seen on Blackaller's Twitpic. More »

MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:10 PM PDT Oh, sure -- a few people have called Google's Nexus One a "superphone," but suddenly, that nickname has taken on a whole new level of meaning. A team of talent from MIT has put its head down in order to concoct a new Android application that can come darn close to solving complex computational problems in just a fraction of the time that it'd take a bona fide supercomputer. The goal here is to let researchers and scientists convert to Google's mobile OS, but if you aren't falling for that one, it's also designed to "let engineers perform complicated calculations in the field, and to better control systems for vehicles or robotic systems." Of course, the models that are hosted on the phone do require a supercomputer to create, but once certain formulas are embedded, the app can then compute approximations in mere seconds rather than hours. Best of all, rbAPPmit is available for download as well speak in the source link below, but we'd probably wait for the (presumably thick) user guide to surface before diving in headfirst. [Thanks, Alasdair] MIT app turns your Android phone into a supercomputer... of sorts originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  MIT, rbAPPmit download  | Email this | Comments

Audio Monitor Simplifies Monitoring an Audio Input Source on Your Mac [Downloads] Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT Mac OS X: If you're in need of a simple way to monitor audio inputs on your Mac, Apple's Developer Tools includes Audio Monitor to handle that specific task. More »

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