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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Taste that? It’s the sweet nectar of want for Cowon’s new S9 Curve. This 3.3-inch media player features an AMOLED capacitive touch panel display that spreads 16 million colors across 480 x 272 pixels. Inside you’ll find a 500MHz dual-core CPU, T-DMB digital television tuner, Bluetooth, FM radio, TV-out, and G-Sensor accelerometer. All that and nearly two days (40 hours) of music playback from a single charge. No price yet but we expect to hear more later this week as the big European IFA show kicks off in Berlin.

Gallery: Cowon’s S9 Curve with 3.3-inch AMOLED touch-screen kills with style

[Via CNET Asia]

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Original post by Thomas Ricker

Filed under: Household, Robots

We were already ga-ga over the hobbyist-built ReadyBot cleaning bot when it was scrubbing down a kitchen, but this latest video of the all-white droid picking up a living room cluttered with kid’s toys has us solidly past crush and into dangerous obsession territory. Of particular note is that ReadyBot’s brought a friend along for the ride — it deploys a Roomba to vacuum the carpets while it works on the big stuff. Says lead dev Tom Benson, “Why should we re-invent something that already works great?” Good thinking — an even better idea would be to send one of these things to Engadget HQ immediately. Video after the break.

Continue reading Readybot cleans a living room, our hearts continue to flutter

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Original post by Nilay Patel