http://www.aspireonereview.com Your Acer Aspire One Review Site Upgraded! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:24:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 en hourly 1 http://www.aspireonereview.com/evatrans-plugless-power-gives-your-wheels-a-wireless-proximity-based-charge/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/evatrans-plugless-power-gives-your-wheels-a-wireless-proximity-based-charge/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:24:50 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/evatrans-plugless-power-gives-your-wheels-a-wireless-proximity-based-charge/ Trading gas nozzles for electric sockets may be the green thing to do — in more ways than one — but wouldn’t plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles be that much sweeter if you could just forget about the plug? That’s what Evatran is trying to do with its Plugless Power technology, shown off at Plug-In [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/evatrans-plugless-power-gives-your-wheels-a-wireless-proximity-based-charge/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/new-amazon-kindle-announced-139-wifi-only-version-and-189-3g-model-available-august-27th-in-the-us-and-uk/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/new-amazon-kindle-announced-139-wifi-only-version-and-189-3g-model-available-august-27th-in-the-us-and-uk/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:24:49 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/new-amazon-kindle-announced-139-wifi-only-version-and-189-3g-model-available-august-27th-in-the-us-and-uk/ Let’s be honest — you saw this one coming, didn’t you? Today Amazon is introducing a new reading device for e-book aficionados dubbed simply… the Kindle. The new handheld — slated to be released on August 27th — is 21 percent smaller and 15 percent lighter than the previous model, has a 20 percent faster [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/new-amazon-kindle-announced-139-wifi-only-version-and-189-3g-model-available-august-27th-in-the-us-and-uk/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/motorola-takes-another-shot-at-the-iphone-4-says-droid-x-is-no-jacket-required/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/motorola-takes-another-shot-at-the-iphone-4-says-droid-x-is-no-jacket-required/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:24:49 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/motorola-takes-another-shot-at-the-iphone-4-says-droid-x-is-no-jacket-required/ Well this is getting good. Motorola was one of the first to take a subtle swipe at Apple’s iPhone 4 antenna dilemma with an ad saying you could hold the Droid X “any way you like,” Apple came right back with a video purportedly showing the Droid X suffering similar attenuation issues when held in [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/motorola-takes-another-shot-at-the-iphone-4-says-droid-x-is-no-jacket-required/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/apple-investigating-issues-with-ios-4-upgrade-on-iphone-3g/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/apple-investigating-issues-with-ios-4-upgrade-on-iphone-3g/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:24:49 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/apple-investigating-issues-with-ios-4-upgrade-on-iphone-3g/ Back when we outlined the iOS 4 features missing from iPhone 3G, we forgot one key bullet point: performance. As more and more two-year veterans of Apple’s phones have taken the plunge and upgraded to the latest firmware, slowdown and battery drain issues have become a common complaint, which is even more irksome when you [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/apple-investigating-issues-with-ios-4-upgrade-on-iphone-3g/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/porsche-918-spyder-plug-in-hybrid-headed-for-production/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/porsche-918-spyder-plug-in-hybrid-headed-for-production/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:24:48 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/porsche-918-spyder-plug-in-hybrid-headed-for-production/ What once seemed to simply be a ridiculously extravagant concept for a plug-in hybrid has now become a ridiculously extravagant reality — Porsche has just announced that it’s putting the 918 Spyder into production. First unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, the car (in concept form, at least) packs a 500-horsepower V8 [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/porsche-918-spyder-plug-in-hybrid-headed-for-production/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/iphone-4-for-canada-gets-unlocked-price-freedom-is-far-from-free/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/iphone-4-for-canada-gets-unlocked-price-freedom-is-far-from-free/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:13:38 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/iphone-4-for-canada-gets-unlocked-price-freedom-is-far-from-free/ Sure, we in the US are pretty much stuck with AT&T when it comes to iPhone 4 indulgence, but Canada gets to pick — for a price. We knew the of the option up north but not how much, and according to CBC News, that’ll be $659 for 16GB, $779 for 32GB, and $549 for [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/iphone-4-for-canada-gets-unlocked-price-freedom-is-far-from-free/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/rambus-victorious-in-patent-fight-with-nvidia-can-expect-neat-wad-of-cash-for-its-troubles/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/rambus-victorious-in-patent-fight-with-nvidia-can-expect-neat-wad-of-cash-for-its-troubles/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:13:38 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/rambus-victorious-in-patent-fight-with-nvidia-can-expect-neat-wad-of-cash-for-its-troubles/ So what if Rambus doesn’t really produce anything tangible these days? We’re hearing the “innovation” business is going really well for the company that recently celebrated its 1,000th patent, and now there’s a nice big windfall in its near future as well. The US International Trade Commission has handed down a ruling agreeing with a [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/rambus-victorious-in-patent-fight-with-nvidia-can-expect-neat-wad-of-cash-for-its-troubles/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/robot-arm-learns-to-flip-pancakes-can-never-know-the-joys-of-tasting-one/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/robot-arm-learns-to-flip-pancakes-can-never-know-the-joys-of-tasting-one/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:13:37 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/robot-arm-learns-to-flip-pancakes-can-never-know-the-joys-of-tasting-one/ We’d like to pretend to be all serious about the science behind teaching a robot arm to teach itself a complicated motion like pancake flipping. We’d drone on and on about how the combination of demonstrated motion, trial-and-error, and object motion tracking come together for some “Expectation-Maximization based Reinforcement Learning,” but really we just can’t [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/robot-arm-learns-to-flip-pancakes-can-never-know-the-joys-of-tasting-one/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/source-rd-ships-wisair-based-warpia-easy-dock-wireless-docking-station/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/source-rd-ships-wisair-based-warpia-easy-dock-wireless-docking-station/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:13:37 +0000 measpire http://www.aspireonereview.com/source-rd-ships-wisair-based-warpia-easy-dock-wireless-docking-station/ It took ‘em a few months, but Source R&D is finally ready to save your desktop replacement from those awful cables that are typically required when connecting a bona fide monitor, keyboard and mouse to a laptop. The Wisair-based Easy Dock works with Macs and PCs, with a single USB transceiver used to connect your [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/source-rd-ships-wisair-based-warpia-easy-dock-wireless-docking-station/feed/ 0 http://www.aspireonereview.com/canon-eos-7d-joins-fleet-in-receiving-firmware-update-to-fix-manual-exposure-movie-bug/ http://www.aspireonereview.com/canon-eos-7d-joins-fleet-in-receiving-firmware-update-to-fix-manual-exposure-movie-bug/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:13:33 +0000 measpire “Fixes a phenomenon in which the set aperture moves when shooting movies in manual exposure mode using some Canon lenses (such as macro lenses).” If you’ve got a 5D Mark II, 1D Mark IV, or Rebel T2i handy and have been keeping its firmware fresh, that phrase should be all too familiar; all three [...]]]> http://www.aspireonereview.com/canon-eos-7d-joins-fleet-in-receiving-firmware-update-to-fix-manual-exposure-movie-bug/feed/ 0