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SmartKey TV HDMI dongle gives ICS brains to any boob tube (video) Jun 11th 2012, 10:55 How many similar devices have to come to light, until a new category is born? Screentop? USBPC? We're going with "Pendroid." Whatever you want to call it, here's another one, this time up the SmartKey TV from Italian firm LiquidTv. Inside its tiny housing are a 1GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, Mali 400MP GPU, 512MB RAM and 4GB flash storage. There's a USB host port, and one for power, along with a microSD (up to 32GB) card slot, plus wireless in b, g and n flavors. Unlike other products that leave the input solution up to you, this little guy has accessories and a smartphone app purpose-built for that. If you want a slice, it'll cost you €99 (about $125,) or €119 ($150) with a motion sensor remote control. Tune your browser to the Italian video after the break to see it in action. Continue reading SmartKey TV HDMI dongle gives ICS brains to any boob tube (video) SmartKey TV HDMI dongle gives ICS brains to any boob tube (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  LiquidTv  | Email this | Comments China planning manned mission to its own space station, didn't want to be on the ISS anyway Jun 11th 2012, 10:27 State news agency Xinhua is reporting that China is planning to launch a manned spacecraft later this month. A Shenzhou-9 capsule and rocket are already in place, and when it launches it'll manually dock with the nation's space station: Tiangong-1. The nation is moving quickly to capitalize on its successes last year, after learning how to dock two objects in high-speed orbit. Once both are linked up, the three astronauts on-board would move across to perform scientific experiments before returning to Earth in the craft, as you do. [Image Credit: China Daily] China planning manned mission to its own space station, didn't want to be on the ISS anyway originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 06:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Yahoo! News (AFP)  |  Xinhua, (2)  | Email this | Comments Microsoft revives free Windows desktop development tools, didn't mean to make you cry Jun 11th 2012, 09:49 Microsoft has resuscitated Visual Studio Express for Windows Desktop, a few weeks after deciding to bump it off. The company had wanted to push developers onto the $400 professional edition of the software, but a volley of complaints forced the climbdown. When it arrives in the fall, it'll let hobbyists, beginners and open-source coders create desktop and command-line applications... for free! Microsoft revives free Windows desktop development tools, didn't mean to make you cry originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jun 2012 05:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Ars Technica  |  Microsoft  | Email this | Comments

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