The FCC has approved the Dell Looking Glass tablet. In the FCC documents, some of the tablet’s specs have been revealed. The specs include WiFi and 3G (AT&T/T-Mobile), SD card support, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Android operating system, 7-inch touchscreen, and a Tegra 2 processor. [BGR]
Technmarketing.com recently did an interesting interview with Rovio Mobile Mighty Eagle Peter Vesterbacka. One of the most interesting answers he gave when asked about why Angry Birds was available for free on Android was “Nobody has been successful selling content on Android.”
Jersey shore resident Michael Black showed us just how much snow piled in his backyard in 20 hours during the blizzard that rocked the East Coast this past weekend. He used a Canon DSLR on a tripod with a remote timer that automatically took a photo every 5 minutes. Watch how the snow pile on as the clock’s minute and hour hand moves in the video above.
P2P Internet voice calling company Skype had a massive outage last week. The outage was caused by an overloaded cluster of support servers for offline IM. In order to compensate Skype’s paid users, the company is offering a $1 worth of credit towards the service.
LG is boasting that they have developed the world’s thinnest bezel on their Xnote P210 laptop. The bezel that is around a screen and not the actual notebook computer. The LG Xnote P210 has a 12.5 inch screen that can fit in an 11.6 inch footprint. The Xnote P210 specs include a 1.33GHz Intel Core i5 470UM processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, 320GB hard drive, and Intel HD integrated graphics. This notebook sells in Korea for $1,135. [Softpedia]
Embedded above is a video of a beer fridge tossing a Bud Light as controlled by an iPhone. A guy named Ryan along with his friends Josh Lilly and Graham Phero put together this creative mini fridge beer cannon. The fridge has 4 types of beer, broadcasts the temperature, uses a webcam for aiming, and fires beer at 50psi. The fridge also automatically tweets every time it tosses a beer. This keg is easily more high-tech than the one Bill Gates filed a patent for back in June 2009. [Gizmodo]
Hewlett Packard has dropped the price of the Envy 13-1130NR to $999.99 with a $450 instant rebate. The Envy 13 inch laptop has a 1.6GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 3GB DDR3 RAM memory, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 Graphics and 250GB 5400RPM hard drive, SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW drive with double layer support, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, and Beats audio. The Envy 13-1130NR competes directly with the 13-inch MacBook Air because of its less than 4 pound weight. [CNET]
According to a leaked Radio Shack flyer, the retailer is planning to start selling the HTC EVO Shift 4G for $150 on January 9th with a 2 year contract. If you want the phone without a contract, it will run you $449.99. Just as a quick reminder, the HTC EVO 4G has a 3.7-inch screen size, sliding keyboard, Android 2.2 operating system, 800 MHz processor, and 512MB of RAM. [Android Central]