- Alt-week 7.14.2012: Bleeping sheep and ATLAS art
Alt-week peels back the covers on some of the more curious sci-tech stories from the last seven days.
While there might not quite have been the epic science news that we had last week, that doesn’t mean that there isn’t plenty going on in the world of Alt. In this installment we get to see how CERN tricks out its offices, how one farmer tries to keep his flock, and learn about how the military will be high-tailing around the planet in just a few years. This is alt / week.
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- Beacon Audio Phoenix review: our new favorite portable speaker
We’ll admit it: we’re jaded. There is so much bad, middling and just okay stuff floating around in the portable speaker universe that we’re tired of even thinking about it. We’ve had our distinct favorite — the Tivoli iPal — for almost 10 years now, and it takes a lot to knock it off its unglamorous, but distinctive, pedestal. And we predict that it will continue to stay there. But newcomer Beacon has a hot little number in a soft-touch red dress that we’re willing to put right next to it on a slightly more diminutive pedestal. The $99, baseball-sized, Bluetooth-packing Phoenix has gotten under our collective skins, and we’d like to tell you why.
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Beacon Audio Phoenix review: our new favorite portable speaker originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
- Engadget Podcast 301 – 07.14.2012
Live! from the Hamptons, it was Friday night! at the official Engadget Retreat Basement Garage Studio, where the surroundings are cozy, the recording is iffy, and the rabbit is always just around the corner. The Engadget Podcasters prove once again that there really is no such thing as vacation in their world as long as there are Tesseracts to chat about.
Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Guest: Richard Lawler
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Orbital – Never02:05 – Thorsten Heins, Mike Lazaridis elected to RIM board during shareholders meeting
07:47 – Heins: RIM focusing on a ‘smaller number of devices’
16:00 – Nintendo 3DS XL review: bigger is better, but it’s still not quite enough
23:01 – Ouya’s $99 Android-based gaming console meets Kickstarter goal: $950k in under 12 hours (update: it’s a record)
08:00 – Ouya’s Android-based, hackable game console now official: we chat with designer Yves Behar (update: funded)
33:00 – Viacom channels disappear from DirecTV after the two companies can’t reach a deal
37:00 – LG Optimus Vu review: a 5-inch, pen-enabled phone to take on the Galaxy Note
40:12 – Nexus 7 pre-orders ship to some customers — has yours?
49:15 – Marvel Cinematic Universe 10-disc Blu-ray box unveiled, Tesseract and all
52:00 – Columbia House still exists, launches first Blu-ray specific clubHear the podcast
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