Gadget news about DIY cat feeder now enabled by a Cisco switch, streams food and video – You know, there are times when you have to part ways with your adorable kitties at home, and you might not be so keen on getting a cat sitter in case he or she touches your precious game consoles (even if it’s an old granny ). We’ve seen the lazy man’s solution before, but Britain’s Mathew Newton has brought us a new DIY internet-enabled cat feeder just in time for a new decade. Rather than using a CD-ROM tray to push-release unknown quantities of cat food, Mathew’s version has a motor-driven cereal dispenser controlled by signal from port status LEDs on a Cisco switch — an ingenious way to avoid expensive Ethernet relay units

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Gadget news about Dell, HP, and Lenovo bringing SDXC to laptops alongside 32nm Intel chipsets? – Those incredibly sexy (as far as portable storage capacities are concerned) 64GB SDXC cards coming on the horizon? You’re gonna want some hardware to work with it, and according to DailyTech , three of the largest computer manufacturers are looking to bring the upgrade with Intel’s forthcoming Arrandale CPUs. Lenovo, HP, and Dell are reportedly working on new designs that’ll contain both the new 32nm chipsets and SDXC readers

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Gadget news about Inside Sharp’s new LCD factory, we can see our next HDTV from here – The path back to LCD leadership for Sharp begins at its just opened Sakai City manufacturing facility. Being a 10th generation facility means it can roll out more and bigger displays, producing six 60-inch LCDs from each glass substrate, 60% more than older 8g facilities

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Gadget news about Google Maps Navigation makes trip across the pond, thanks to some hackery – Apparently us Yanks have been spoiled by the warm embrace of Google Maps Navigation , forgetting that our friends in the UK don’t have the same luxury.

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Gadget news about 2011 Chevrolet Volt gets taken for a test drive – The Chevy Volt is one vehicle we can really get behind. It’s hard not to be a little excited over it — we have, after all, been watching its development for quite a long time now

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Gadget news about Praktica unleashes a slew of 10 and 12-megapixel shooters – Dresden’s Praktica brand has a long, distinguished history — but like many such brands with long, distinguished histories, stateside readers usually encounter this name attached to some pretty average consumer electronics. In this case, we have a smattering of nondescript digicams that feature the usual compliment of face detection, SD/SDHC card support, and a torrent of scene modes: In the realm of 10 megapixel cameras with 2.7-inch displays you can take your choice of either the Praktica Luxmedia 10-03 (available in black or silver, features 32 MB on board memory, voice recording, 720 x 400 video recording) or the Praktica Luxmedia 10-23 (available in blue or red, features 16 MB built-in memory, panorama mode, red eye removal in playback mode, and intelligent scene selection). Moving up to 12 megapixels, the Praktica Luxmedia 12-03 (silver) rocks a 3.0-inch display and panorama mode, while the Praktica Luxmedia 12-Z5 (black) features a 2.7-inch display, 32 MB storage and intelligent scene mode selection

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Gadget news about Flexio solar powered FM radio doubles as bookmark – We don’t really have much use for radio over the airwaves — hell, the closest we ever get to the halcyon days of rock’n'roll radio is the Flaming Groovies station on Pandora . But something as convenient (and as cute) as this next item just might get us back in the habit. A proof-of-concept by a small handful of designers (Wu Kun-chia, Wang Shih-ju, Chen Ming-daw & Liou Chang-ho), Flexio is a a portable, printed, solar powered, paper-thin FM receiver that fits in a book — or a pocketbook

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Gadget news about Xbox 360 controller ingeniously hacked for NES use – Hey, it’s just what you’ve always wanted: to use your Xbox 360 controller on your old NES. Using a Cortex M3 processor left over from a school robotics project, Francois Gervais managed to rig his wireless pad to control something decidedly less advanced than a game of Modern Warfare 2 .

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Gadget news about Nook ship date slips to January 11th, supply chain managers weep – Hardware construction is a funny thing. Sometimes, regardless of the money you throw at something, you just can’t get products to come together any quicker.

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Culinary news about Dine With Anita Lo; No Tiki Bar for Trump Soho – Cobble Hill: The husband and wife behind Smith & Vine will open the Brooklyn Wine Exchange next to Trader Joe’s in a couple of weeks.

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Gadget news about Editorial: The Engadget style guide reaches a MILESTONE – So last week the New York Times Magazine published a piece called “Against Camel Case” which argues that intercapped product names like iPhone and TiVo are “medieval,” because they harken back to a time in which people mostly read aloud, slowly sounding out each word as they tried to understand them. Proper word spacing, says the Times , “eventually made possible phenomena like irony, pornography and freedom of conscience.” That’s sort of a crazy coincidence — while we’re not so sure word spacing and porn have anything to do with each other, we did just re-do our style guide when we launched our jazzy new redesign , and we actually thought long and hard about how to handle intercapped, all-capped, and otherwise non-standard product names. This is something we deal with a hundred times a day, and we simply weren’t going to let Motorola tell us to write MILESTONE over and over again, completely contradicting our own sense of style and taste — as the Times says, “Writers of the world, fight back!” Well, we can’t say no to that, so we thought we’d share our four newly-minted rules for writing out non-standard product names: Product and company names that are regular English words shall be treated like proper English nouns, complete with proper capitalization

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Gadget news about Editorial: The Engadget style guide reaches a MILESTONE – So last week the New York Times Magazine published a piece called “Against Camel Case” which argues that intercapped product names like iPhone and TiVo are “medieval,” because they harken back to a time in which people mostly read aloud, slowly sounding out each word as they tried to understand them. Proper word spacing, says the Times , “eventually made possible phenomena like irony, pornography and freedom of conscience.” That’s sort of a crazy coincidence — while we’re not so sure word spacing and porn have anything to do with each other, we did just re-do our style guide when we launched our jazzy new redesign , and we actually thought long and hard about how to handle intercapped, all-capped, and otherwise non-standard product names.

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Gadget news about ClearPlay introduces first content filtering 1080p upscaling DVD player – ClearPlay — remember those guys ? You know, the outfit who garnered all sorts of attention years ago by having their content filtering DVD players yanked from store shelves , only to be vindicated by Congress itself? Amazingly enough, these cats are still hanging around, and they’ve just pushed out their first filtering DVD player to upscale content to 1080p over HDMI

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Gadget news about ASUS Maximus III Extreme mobo lets Bluetooth cellphones tweak settings – ASUS has been giving its motherboard owners ways to tinker with their wares for years now, but it sounds like things are about to get seriously amped up with the Maximus III Extreme. The P55-based board, which falls into the growing Republic of Gamers lineup, adds a new feature to the existing ROG Connect overclocking system: Bluetooth control

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Culinary news about Tables Available at Wallsé, Convivio; Scarpetta Mostly Booked – It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight. We just asked ten restaurants the best time they can squeeze a couple in for dinner; you need only make your chosen reservation.

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Culinary news about Tables Available at Wallsé, Convivio; Scarpetta Mostly Booked – It’s 4 p.m., and that means it’s time to play Two for Eight.

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Culinary news about Next Year’s Dining Trends – It’s officially end-of-the-year list season, and among the trends that Restaurants & Institutions sees coming: Asian-Latin fusion, more lunch and breakfast options, craft beer, eggs as ingredients, retro desserts, downscaling chefs, low-carbon-footprint dining, locavore liquor, coal-fired pizza, high tea, gluten-free foods, off-the-bone cuts of lamb, and a return to canning, smoking, curing, and pickling. [ Restaurants & Institutions ] Read more posts by Daniel Maurer Filed Under: trends , lists

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Gadget news about Pocket Tool X’s Piranha looks like it’s a multipurpose animal – How many uses can one tool have? If you think the answer is “never enough,” the Piranha by Pocket Tool X might just be for you

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Culinary news about Martha Stewart Flew the Coop on Thanksgiving, Ate at Per Se – As usual, America did a lot of cooking over Thanksgiving — maybe you saw those cool New York Times maps showing which states searched for which recipes? But one person whose hands were nowhere near the kitchen mitts? Martha Stewart! Last week Martha told OK! Magazine that she likes to decorate her Thanksgiving table with gourds, but it turns out she spent Turkey Day at Per Se (at a private brunch for Thomas Keller’s friends) and then at the Four Seasons ! And you’ll never get back the time you spent watching Martha Stewart’s Thanksgiving Special .

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Culinary news about Doorman God Fabrizio Brienza Comes Out of Retirement to Join in Midtown’s Moment – Onetime Happy Valley owner Sal Imposimato took a break from nightlife to concentrate on the real-estate business, but he’s getting back into the game now as the Morgans Hotel Group’s new regional director of nightlife and promotions (the hotelier wants to be hip again). The really exciting part, though, is that he’s bringing his partner at Happy Valley, Fabrizio Brienza, with him. Our crush on Fabrizio is well known: The flamboyant (semi-nude) model , onetime porn actor, and bon vivant came to our attention when he parodied himself in the mockumentary The Doorman , but we love him for real-life lines such as (imagine this in an Italian accent) “My policy of doing the door is really simple: If you look good and you’re cool and you’re stylish and you’re surrounded by beautiful, chic, chic girls, I’ll take care of you ..

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Gadget news about Samsung Behold II review – It was but a year ago that Samsung graced us with the original Behold. At the time it was more or less positioned to win the hearts of folks who wanted a luscious touchscreen but had no real truck with smartphones

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