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Oh Brendan Hines, you’re so dreamy with that scruffy beard, curly hair that just can’t be tamed, and propensity to whip out random gadgets at inappropriate times on Lie to Me. In the last episode Brendan’s character Eli Loker was waving OQO’s Model 2+ around at lunch like a wine list, the MID playing the role of voice stress analyzer, helping the team identify whether a reclusive witness was telling the truth. No word on whether Intel plans on including such insightful software with the device when it comes to market, but we’d be telling a lie if we said we thought it would.

Update: Andrew commented to let us know the software running here is called GoldWave, which may or may not help you identify someone being untruthful, but does generate some impressive-looking 3D visuals and can be yours for $45.

[Thanks, Mike Wydra]

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Screen Grabs: OQO Model 2+ makes lunchtime appearance on ‘Lie To Me’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been nearly a year since we were first confused about what this whole Moblin thing was going to be, but now here it is released to the wild, roaming about in alpha form and looking to find a home for itself in your netbook. If you haven’t been following along, Moblin is a custom flavor of Linux that Intel has been whipping up for installation on devices using its chips, particularly the Atom but Core 2 processors as well. It’s based on Fedora and, as of this release, is confirmed to work on Acer’s Aspire One and Dell’s Mini, though Eee peeps can check it out too — so long as they don’t mind living without WiFi. Mind you, this is still a very early version and there’s a ways to go before a final release, so feel free to sit this round out if you’re not into the whole bleeding edge thing.

[Via Ars Technica]

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Alpha version of Intel’s Moblin OS released for brave netbookers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Get ready, India’s $10 laptop is set for its first unveiling on February 3rd. Ok, so it’s not quite $10… $20 actually, but that’s far better than the $100 some were estimating. It’s also much better than the $200 per OLPC XO deal that Negroponte wanted to reportedly charge the Indian government more than 2 years ago — an offer rejected by officials with a promise to young Indians to do it better and for less. According to some reports (we can’t find anything official), the laptop will feature 2GB of memory, WiFi, fixed Ethernet, expandable memory, and consume just 2 watts of power. The Devil’s in the details, they say, but with any luck, India will be swimming in cheap silicon within the next 6 months if the project can keep to schedule… that’s a big IF.

[Via TechTicker, image courtesy of FMCKids]

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India’s $10 laptop coming February 3rd, take that Negroponte originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Reuters – For more than 75 years, Daily Variety and The Hollywood Reporter have battled to be the movie industry’s top newspaper, but recent layoffs due to the recession and competition from Internet blogs has Hollywood wondering if it will soon become a one paper town.

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MP3 players with screens that show pretty colors are certainly nothing new, but Rhea Jeong’s Colorsonic concept is something rather different. It’s a little donut-shaped device that lacks a proper display, instead lighting its sections up to represent different types of music tagged using software at home — think Shuffle meets mood ring. You could drop all your Sabbath and miscellaneous metal on black, Green Day and various faux-punk on green, and your Clannad and other soothing tunes on a nice dreamy blue. Then, just touch that section of the player and let the music flow. The thing even has storage for two impossibly small Bluetooth earbuds (shown below) that can nestle within the center (aka the Munchkin/Timbit zone). While we generally hate being teased by fanciful concepts as much as you, but this one was developed as part of an internship at Samsung, meaning there might just be a chance it could come to fruition. Sorry, colorblind folks, you’ll have to stick with other oddly shaped ways to play your tunes.

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Colorsonic concept MP3 player turns your tunes into groovy colors, man originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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