| The Engadget Show returns Friday, March 16th with Douglas Rushkoff, Sony, iRobot, MWC and air combat Mar 14th 2012, 19:00  We're back in familiar surroundings for the 31st episode of the Engadget Show, and boy do we have a lot planned for this month. Some might say it's too much. To those people we shake our heads disapprovingly. We're pushing the limits this time out, testing the latest GoPro and Contour rugged camcorders in the deserts of Nevada and the skies above them. We'll be taking a trip to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and swinging by iRobot's Massachusetts headquarters. And we'll talk to media theorist Douglas Ruskoff about his book Program or be Programmed and Sony Electronics president Phil Molyneux. We've also got some sweet giveaways and, as always, we'll be taking a look at the month's hottest new gadgets. Best of all, we've still got a few tickets left. If you're in New York City, you can be a part of the live show -- just fire off an email to engadgetshow [at] engadget.com. And if you can't make it in person, fear not, we'll be streaming live at 6PM on Friday. Just bookmark this here URL. Here are the deets: o. The event is all ages. o. We'll open doors and begin seating at 5:15pm on March 16th, and the taping begins at 6:00PM. We'll be closing the doors at 5:50PM. o. A limited number of tickets are available, first come first serve. We will also have a limited stand-by list available. o. Please bring a photo ID with you to the taping. o. The show length is around an hour. If you're a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we'll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com. Subscribe to the Show: [ iTunes] Subscribe to the Show directly in iTunes (M4V). [ Zune] Subscribe to the Show directly in the Zune Marketplace (M4V). [ RSS M4V] Add the Engadget Show feed (M4V) to your RSS aggregator and have it delivered automatically. The Engadget Show returns Friday, March 16th with Douglas Rushkoff, Sony, iRobot, MWC and air combat originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Rumored NVIDIA GTX 680 specs surface online, photos prove it does indeed exist Mar 14th 2012, 18:16 As NVIDIA readies its 28nm family of Kepler graphics cards, more and more details are starting to trickle out. Just yesterday, NVIDIA teased an Acer Ultrabook packing a mysterious new GT640M card based on the Kepler architecture. Today, we're seeing information about the GTX 680 surfacing on multiple sites. China-based PCOnline posted specs it claims to have received from an internal NVIDIA source, including a 1,536 CUDA core count, 1,006MHz core frequency, 195W TDP and 6Gbps memory. If it turns out to be true that it supports 2GB of 256-bit GDDR5 VRAM, that would fall short of AMD's Radeon HD 7970, whose 384-bit bus serves 3GB of GDDR5 memory. Then again, these specs don't quite match what was previously rumored, so perhaps there's still room for some surprises. No word on a release date or price, so for now you'll have to make do with parsing those source links. Rumored NVIDIA GTX 680 specs surface online, photos prove it does indeed exist originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:16:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink |  Chiphell, PCOnline | Email this | Comments | | Apple's new iPad shows up in Hong Kong, teases with sample photos and video clip Mar 14th 2012, 18:02 Looks like Vietnam ain't the only place that got an early taste of the new iPad, which is due out this Friday around the world (unless you're super tight with your delivery man, of course). Hong Kong magazine PCM just informed us that it got hold of a 4G flavor of Apple's latest tablet, courtesy of a very mysterious person (especially considering the 4G version isn't yet available in this region). Within the little time it spent with the new iPad, PCM managed to do plenty of comparisons with the tablet's predecessor, particularly with their camera and graphics performance. While pretty much everything's been beefed up, PCM claims that the new lens isn't as wide as before, and it also notes that the extra 50g is pretty noticeable -- obviously we shall see for ourselves on Friday. Hands-on video and sample video clip embedded after the break, and head on over to the source link for more comparison shots. Continue reading Apple's new iPad shows up in Hong Kong, teases with sample photos and video clip Apple's new iPad shows up in Hong Kong, teases with sample photos and video clip originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 14:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Engadget Chinese | PCM | Email this | Comments | | New iPad inventory shipments spotted at Best Buy, backroom eye-candy until Friday Mar 14th 2012, 17:22 If you somehow haven't heard, Apple's new iPad officially goes on sale this Friday. As such, it's not surprising to find out that at least one US Best Buy location has already received its stock of the Retina display-loaded slates. Thanks to an anonymous tipster, we've received photos showing short-stacks of the pads just waiting to be given new homes. If you'll recall, Apple's online store has already sold out of its arrival day shipment stock for home delivery, with newer orders now set to go out on the 19th. That said, if you haven't reserved one and have to it come March 16th, you'll likely have another option for a retail camping adventure aside from your local Apple, AT&T and Verizon stores. [Thanks, Anonymous] New iPad inventory shipments spotted at Best Buy, backroom eye-candy until Friday originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | |
