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Refresh Roundup: week of February 27th, 2012
Mar 5th 2012, 01:01

Refresh Roundup: week of February 27th, 2012
Your smartphone and / or tablet is just begging for an update. From time to time, these mobile devices are blessed with maintenance refreshes, bug fixes, custom ROMs and anything in between, and so many of them are floating around that it's easy for a sizable chunk to get lost in the mix. To make sure they don't escape without notice, we've gathered every possible update, hack, and other miscellaneous tomfoolery we could find during the last week and crammed them into one convenient roundup. If you find something available for your device, please give us a shout at tips at engadget dawt com and let us know. Enjoy!

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Refresh Roundup: week of February 27th, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Switched On: Metro and the Mac
Mar 5th 2012, 00:00

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

With the release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, more consumers can more easily experience Metro, along with Metro-style apps. With this new approach, Microsoft is making the most radical shift in user interface it's ever attempted -- a change so drastic it will supplant the desktop as the default user experience.

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Switched On: Metro and the Mac originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mercedes slaps sheet of LEDs on the side of an F-Cell, turns car into a chameleon
Mar 4th 2012, 23:12

Mercedes F-Cell gets LED camouflage
It's not often that folks want to hide the fact that they're driving a Mercedes, what with plenty of them being among of the finest motorcars on the road. However, as part of a marketing plan to call attention to its zero-emissions F-Cell model, the German marque swathed a side of one in LEDs to give it the ultimate in camouflage. You see, in addition to that makeshift display, a Canon 5D Mark II was mounted on the other side of the car so that video of its surroundings could be shown on the LED bodywork -- rendering the car all but invisible to onlookers, as long as they're staring at the left side, of course. Go ahead, head on down to see the magic of digital camo for yourself in the video after the break.

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