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Aug

The Degauss Labs Dual Drivers in-earphones brings full mobile functionality and high fidelity sound



Degauss Labs Dual DriversA big gripe of mine when I review audio products that claim “mobile compatibility” is that they often only offer a token effort – usually only a microphone and an answer call button. This is only a small part of what is possible with in-line controls, and that’s something Degauss Labs has tried to address with their new in-earphones. The Degauss Labs Dual Drivers in-earphones include a 3 button in-line control which can be used to also allow users to control volume and skip tracks. What’s also quite neat about them is each earphone contains two drivers, as opposed to the standard one, one which handles the mids and highs, and the other handles the bass. This separate control allows for “a much richer sound and simply makes your favorite music sound better”.

For more information on where to pick up a set of the Degauss Labs Dual Drivers in-earphones, check the press release below.

 

Press Release

DEGAUSS LABS PRESENTS HIGH-END 3-BUTTON HEADSET FOR ANDROID SMARTPHONES

Posted on August 25, 2014

Stockholm, Sweden August 25th. The Swedish headphone manufacturer Degauss Labs today announced the Dual Driver in-earphones made for Android. These sound focused in-earphones has thrilling performance and function. The Dual Drivers are equipped with a full 3-button microphone, a historic feature that´s been lacking on many Android headsets but now delivered to the Android community with cutting edge price & performance.


Finally a high end earphone with 3-button microphone support designed for Android Smartphones!
This earphone with its 3-button headset gives Android users the possibility to talk, play, pause, set volume up/down, skip tracks and much more. Added to that is an incredible sound performance at an equally incredible price. These earpieces actually contains double of all, two separated speakers — one to handle the high and mid frequencies and one to handle the bass. This clean separation creates a much richer sound and simply makes your favorite music sound better. As the earphone circuitry split the signal path appropriately there is no added hardware, you just use them as your cheap bundle headset, plug in and go. Equally amazing is that this will sell at 79USD.

At 79USD the Dual Drivers delivers thrilling performance & full 3-button support Made for Android.

Free app enhances button functionality further
Headset Control Center is a free app Degauss Labs created to give Android users even better support for their headsets when using online music services and more. Simply insert your headset and take control over the player you have installed. Spotify, Deezer or Soundcloud and many more can now be managed through your headset buttons. This app is found on Google Play and works with most headsets on the market. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shengande.degausslabs&hl=sv


About Degauss Labs

Designed in Stockholm Sweden Degauss Labs has aimed its focus to the music interested Android users. Until now most makers has focused on iPhone users. With the market evolving with Google and many others getting into the music distribution business, this is changing. Degauss Labs is now offering all Android users a chance to step up and away from average earphones and their often limited headset button control. Weblink Dual Driver:http://degausslabs.com/earphone/dualdriver

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27
Aug

The World Health Organization is officially against e-cigarettes


Doctors think that the World Health Organization should ease off against electronic cigarettes, if only because the dangers have to be less harmful than the real thing. For its part, however, the WHO disagrees, publishing a report saying that it wants these nicotine delivery systems to be regulated with the same scorn as cigarettes and cigars are today. Research into the relative harm of “electronic nicotine delivery systems” is still pretty nascent, but the report claims that while the water vapor they emit has a smaller concentration of nicotine, it may spread more widely in the air — increasing the risk to children and pregnant women in the vicinity. The WHO concedes that e-cigarettes are preferable to the real thing, at least for now, but only in nations where tobacco smoking is being rapidly reduced. The downside, of course, is that there’s no consensus — beyond a few studies — that the technology actually helps people to kick the habit.

That’s why the body is advocating that, until more research can be done to examine the pros and cons of vaping, companies cannot promote their hardware based on health claims. It’s also advocating for a total ban on electronic cigarette use in public spaces to match the same restrictions imposed on conventional tobacco products. Third on the list is a ban on advertising that could be seen by non-smokers and children, as well as a near-total ban on the sale of such products via vending machines, since these greatly increase the risk of selling directly to minors. The proposals will be voted upon at a treaty group meeting in October, and we can imagine the claims and counter-claims between health groups and big tobacco to get even louder in the next month.

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Via: Reuters

Source: The WHO (.PDF)

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27
Aug

A look at what unfolded during Engadget Live Boston


The Engadget Live tour continued last week, with the latest stop taking place in Boston. Just like at our previous two events, in Austin and Seattle, Beantown didn’t disappoint and the reader turnout was incredible. Attendees were treated to a night filled with a myriad of activities, giveaways and social mingling. Want to know what you missed? Check out the picture gallery bellow, where you’ll also get a glimpse of what the sponsors brought over to the Royale venue to share with the Engadget aficionados in attendance.

And keep in mind this is all leading up to our main event, Engadget Expand 2014, which is set to happen on November 7th-8th, at the Javits Center in New York City. Until then, however, we have one more stop before setting up in The Big Apple — and that’s in Los Angeles on October 3rd. See you there!

For even more photos from Engadget Live Boston, take a look at our Facebook page here.

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27
Aug

8TB hard drives have arrived


Seagate enterprise hard drive

We’re sorry to break the bad news, but that 5TB hard drive you bought last week? Yeah, it’s already obsolete. Seagate has started shipping the first-ever 8TB desktop hard disk, doubling the 4TB capacities that seemed huge just a couple of years ago. If it’s any consolation, though, this machinery isn’t ready to go inside your hot gaming PC. Right now, all those terabytes are destined for data centers where capacity trumps every other concern; Seagate isn’t mentioning prices, but enterprise-class storage is rarely cheap. You may want to set aside some money all the same. These extra-roomy drives have a tendency to filter down to the mainstream pretty quickly, so you may soon have more free disk space than you know what to do with… at least, for a little while.

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Via: 9to5Mac

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27
Aug

Kobo’s Aura H20 lets you read in the bath


With Barnes and Noble reduced to borrowing Samsung tablets and Sony giving up altogether, only Kobo stands in the way of Amazon’s total e-book domination. Now, the company is hoping to steal a march on its rival by introducing the first waterproof e-reader, the Aura H2O (assuming you don’t count Waterfi, and we aren’t). It’s the first such device that’s IP67 certified, meaning that it’ll last under a meter of water for up to half an hour if the port cover is closed. The display is the same size as the Aura HD, offering a 6.8-inch touch-enabled e-ink display with ComfortLight tech, offering a resolution of 1,430 x 1,080 and a pixel density of 265 dpi. Like its brethren, it does come with Pocket integration, enabling you to read long form web content away from your tablet or smartphone. There’s 4GB of on-board storage and a microSD slot if you want to add in a 32GB card, as well as a battery that’s rated for two months of use — if you only use it for 30 minutes a day, of course. The Kobo Aura H2O will be available on October 1st, priced at $180 in the US/Canada, £140 in the UK and €180 in Spain, Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands.

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27
Aug

August Smart Lock Finally Begins Shipping to Customers [iOS Blog]


After a long delay, the August Smart Lock is finally shipping out to preorder customers beginning today. First introduced in May of 2013, the August Smart Lock is a Bluetooth-based iPhone-compatible locking system designed by Jason Johnson and notable designer Yves Béhar.

At August, our mission is to make beautiful products that allow your physical environment to seamlessly respond to you. Today, we are one step closer to achieving that goal. We are excited to announce that the August Smart Lock has begun shipping in limited quantities.

The August Smart Lock, which allows users to unlock their doors with their iPhones, is crafted from anodized aluminum and looks similar to a standard home lock. It comes with several different faceplates and deadbolt adapters to fit the majority of locks on the market, functioning on four AA batteries.

Like competing products from Lockitron and Kevo, the lock can be programmed remotely to let in visitors through an accompanying iPhone app. It’s also designed to monitor when guests enter and it can be customized with specific timers.

Initial preorders of the August Smart Lock, which originally had an estimated shipping date of November or December 2013, were available for $199, but the retail price of the lock is now $249.99. The company plans to fulfill orders for the lock over the course of the next few months, with new orders displaying a prospective shipping date of “late October.”




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27
Aug

Seagate Announces First 8 TB Hard Drive for Enterprise Customers [Mac Blog]


Seagate today announced the world’s first eight terabyte hard drive, designed to provide high capacity storage for private and cloud-based data centers. The single 3.5-inch hard disk drive surpasses the storage capacity of previously available hard drives, including 6 TB HDDs from both Western Digital and Seagate itself.

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Unlike similar high-capacity offerings from Western Digital, Seagate does not use helium in either its 6 TB HDD or its new 8 TB offering. While Seagate has not released the details behind the 8 TB drive, it’s likely the HDD uses Seagate’s shingled magnetic recording technology, which, according to the company, adds more than 25 percent capacity growth by maximizing the number of tracks per inch on a single disk.

Seagate says that its new 8 TB HDD also uses fewer components to make it more power efficient, which ultimately lowers power costs for enterprise customers.

A cornerstone for growing capacities in multiple applications, the 8TB hard drive delivers bulk data storage solutions for online content storage providing customers with the highest capacity density needed to address an ever increasing amount of unstructured data in an industry-standard 3.5-inch HDD. Providing up to 8TB in a single drive slot, the drive delivers maximum rack density, within an existing footprint, for the most efficient data center floor space usage possible.

The 8TB hard disk drive increases system capacity using fewer components for increased system and staffing efficiencies while lowering power costs. With its low operating power consumption, the drive reliably conserves energy thereby reducing overall operating costs. Helping customers economically store data, it boasts the best Watts/GB for enterprise bulk data storage in the industry.

Seagate is currently shipping the drives to select numbers with wide scale availability coming next quarter. The company did not release pricing on the drives.




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27
Aug

A taste of the amazing videos made with Instagram’s new app, Hyperlapse


This morning, Facebook-owned Instagram released a new, free iOS app for making time-lapse videos. It’s called Hyperlapse. Though it sounds simple, the app is anything but: it adds beautiful image-stabilization to normally shaky-cam. We’ve compiled half a dozen of the best videos we’ve seen thus far, but we’d love to add more to our collection as the day goes on. Let us know about your favorites in the comments below, on Twitter/Facebook/G+/the Engadget forums, by carrier pigeon — really, whatever means you’d like. Preferably not smoke signals

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27
Aug

Bloomberg claims a 12.9-inch iPad is coming next year


The rumor mill surrounding Apple is at full force right now. But while people are still waiting for the supposed bigger-screen iPhone (or iPhones) and a smartwatch to show up, we can now add one more device to the list. According to Bloomberg, Apple’s set to introduce a 12.9-inch iPad in 2015. Citing sources familiar with the matter, the report claims that production on said iPad, which would be Apple’s biggest yet, is scheduled to begin as early as Q1 of next year, noting that it’s all part of Tim Cook’s plan to “shake up the iPad line.” Of course, this isn’t the first time we’ve heard whispers on a 12.9-inch tablet from the iPhone maker, as some outlets have previously reported on leaked parts from a device being known as “iPad Pro.” Now whether or not Apple is actually working on one, that’s yet to be determined — but even if it was, let’s not forget that companies tend to have a change of heart from time to time.

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Source: Bloomberg

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27
Aug

Hangouts in Gmail finally floats online friends to the top


Those of us who’ve been frustrated that Hangouts in Gmail has been displaying conversations in chronological order rather than who’s online are about to get some relief. Rolling out over the next few days, a new tab in the Hangouts window will allow you to toggle your contacts list there, so you can easily see who’s available at the top of the group. What’s more, you’ll also be able to pin your favorites above the rest — whether they’re online or not. Of course, you’ll need to click the “Try the new Hangouts” option in the setting pane in order to leverage the conversation method, if you haven’t already done so.

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