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Sure, we’ve covered in-ear monitors from the likes of Westone and Shure, but Altec Lansing? Believe it. Taking a sidestep from its usual consumer-focused audio wares, the company today announced a partnership with ACS Custom to bring a trio of custom-molded IEMs, packing balanced-armature drivers to market. Each ear-mold is “handcrafted from advanced, medical-grade silicone” and you can expect noise isolation in upwards of 27dB, although, you’ll somewhat disappointingly be stuck with Altec’s signature smoked-grey and gold color scheme. The IEMs feature kevlar-wrapped cabling — which notably, isn’t removable like similar offerings at this price — and a right-angle 3.5mm plug for hook-up.

The trophy piece of the bunch, dubbed A3 (pictured), is aimed at music professionals and will retail for $1000, featuring a duo of treble and mid-range drivers along with a single woofer. For those leaning toward something less spendy, the $750 A2 variant drops one of the high / mid drivers in favor of a dual-driver setup, while the $500 A1 gets even smaller with a single full-range driver. Better yet, after ordering a set from Altec or an authorized retailer, you’ll have a choice of about 300 audiologists — hopefully within reasonable distance your abode — to get you ear’s impressions taken and sent over for creation. If you’re willing to give ‘em a shot, the Altec Lansing Custom Series IEMs will be available starting this month, and you’ll find the full press release after the break.

Continue reading Altec Lansing announces a trio of ‘Custom Series’ in-ear monitors — no, seriously

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Victor Leloup Aigar Leok Tanel Leok Billy Liles

The Verge has a photo of what looks like a Porsche Design BlackBerry slapped with a large all-encompassing touchscreen. The device supposedly replaces the ‘Colt‘ as the first BBX-equipped smartphone to come out of Waterloo, Canada. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/-tSItEFvslo/blackberry-london-to-be-first-bbx-blackberry

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Whatever Simon C Page sees in chemistry, we wish our high school teachers did as well. The aforesaid graphic artist has whipped up a smattering of eye-pleasing, mind-bending posters to commemorate the International Year of Chemistry 2011, and even if you can’t tell your Hs from your 2s and Os, you owe it to yourself to give that source link a look. Enjoy.

Visualized: International Year of Chemistry, in posters originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Today?s LogicBUY Deal is the customizable Vostro 260 slim tower desktop with 2011 Core i3-2120 cpu and 20? LCD monitor starting at $455.55.  Features:  2GB RAM, 250GB hard drive, Intel HD graphics with VGA and HDMI outputs, card reader, DVD-RW, keyboard and mouse, 15-months Trend Micro, Windows 7, and more. $598  ? $129 off  – [...]

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Galaxy Nexus headed to Bell and Virgin Mobile in Canada, Three in the UK (update: Rogers too) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Victor Arbekov Les Archer Nicolas Aubin Rene Baeten

So much for getting a good night’s sleep tonight. Researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan University have created this disturbing robot cat mask that’s able to mimic the movements of the wearer’s eyes and mouth using a non-contact interface to measure the movements of the muscles in their face. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/kFSwuq51iJ4/did-this-terrifying-robot-kitty-helmet-just-wink-at-me

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Apple has released iTunes 10.5.1 beta 3 to developers which includes stability and performance improvements for iTunes Match. Developers must update to iTunes 10.5.1 beta 3 if they want to continue using the service. The iTunes beta update comes hot on the heels of Apple deleting…

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Later today, Firefox will undergo its biggest developmental upheaval ever. Mozilla-central, the source of nightly builds, will be renumbered to version 5 — and at long last, after years of wallowing around version 1, Mozilla’s rendering and layout engine, Gecko, will also have its version number updated to match Firefox.

Shortly thereafter, Firefox’s new channel system will be implemented. Firefox 5a2 will be introduced as the first Aurora build, and we should also see a Firefox 6 Nightly build. While we we’re not sure where they came from, one Sören Hentzschel seems to have unearthed the new Nightly and Aurora logos (see above), along with new About Firefox dialogs (after the break).

In other news, if you want to take a sneak peek at the new ‘channel changing’ technology that will be introduced in upcoming Firefox builds, head to about:config and create a new string called app.update.desiredChannel — the value doesn’t matter. Then open Help > About Firefox and you’ll be able to switch channel, but it doesn’t do anything just yet (image after the break). Here’s hoping that Firefox channel switching is smoother than Chrome.

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Yes, that’s right, I said adorable. Because Cueboy Quest really is!

You play an 8-bit cowboy whose goal on each level is to get to the door (and thus to the next level), but the door is often locked. To get it to open, you must shoot at one or more targets, and those targets aren’t always in your line of sight. For example, on one level the the target is a balloon which is stuck all the way at the other end of the screen. You must first nudge it free, and then watch it float up and try to shoot it before it floats clear off the screen. Your bullets are chunky pixels that have some weight – the have arcing trajectories, so you don’t always hit exactly where you aim.

There’s another level where you must jump on the balloon as it floats up, use it as a platform to get to the other end of the screen, and then turn to shoot it very quickly before it flies away. Each level is very short, and most of them are quite easy. And not only are the graphics 8-bit blocky, but they’re large too. Simply beautiful!

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Warren Reid Pierre Renet Marc de Reuver Michele Rinaldi

So much for getting a good night’s sleep tonight. Researchers at the Tokyo Metropolitan University have created this disturbing robot cat mask that’s able to mimic the movements of the wearer’s eyes and mouth using a non-contact interface to measure the movements of the muscles in their face. More »

Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/kFSwuq51iJ4/did-this-terrifying-robot-kitty-helmet-just-wink-at-me

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