Asus has some extremely lofty dreams. Digitimes reports that the company has just finalized the spin-off of its manufacturing arm, Pegatron. Asus Chairman Jonney Shih stated that the company intends to become another Apple, based around open-source platfor…

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The Wall Street Journal just laid out a doozy of an Apple tablet rumor piece, all from anonymous sources, “people familiar with the matter,” and the like. There’s a lot to go through, so without further ado:

• The tablet will come with a virtual keyboard — kind of a no-brainer if it’s gonna be a keyboard-less tablet and not, say, another laptop.
• Apple’s been talking with The New York Times, Conde Nast, and HarperCollins / News Corp. over how they could collaborate. When asked, NYT Chairman Arthur Sulzberger would only say “stay tuned.”
• Electronic Arts has been working closely to prep games for the tablet. We know of a number of gaming journalists who’ve gotten invites to next week’s event, and given Apple’s heavy games push over the past year or so, this wouldn’t surprise us in the least.
• A reaffirmation of earlier murmurings about potentially swapping Google for Bing as the default search engine. Maps, too!
• Those TV subscription rumors? Apparently the gang in Cupertino have been pitching a “best of TV” service that would package the best four to six shows per channel.
• A web-based version of iTunes, tentatively called iTunes.com and potentially launching in June, for buying music outside of the dedicated app. Additionally, there’d be a new initiative “to populate as many webs ites as possible with ‘buy’ buttons, integrating iTunes transactions into activities like listening to internet radio and surfing review web sites.” No mention if music will be downloaded or streamed from the cloud, but we can definitely see how Apple’s recent Lala acquisition would play into this in the future — in fact, we’ve already seen it start to bear fruit.
• Here’s a weird one: Apple has supposedly designed the tablet “so that it is intuitive to share.” One such experiment is virtual sticky notes that launch for the intended recipient by facial recognition via built-in camera.

If nothing else, we’re really looking forward to next week putting a large clamp on the torrent of tablet rumors that have have propagated the internet for the last few months.

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The Wall Street Journal just laid out a doozy of an Apple tablet rumor piece, all from anonymous sources, “people familiar with the matter,” and the like. There’s a lot to go through, so without further ado:

• The tablet will come with a virtual keyboard — kind of a no-brainer if it’s gonna be a keyboard-less tablet and not, say, another laptop.
• Apple’s been talking with The New York Times, Conde Nast, and HarperCollins / News Corp. over how they could collaborate. When asked, NYT Chairman Arthur Sulzberger would only say “stay tuned.”
• Electronic Arts has been working closely to prep games for the tablet. We know of a number of gaming journalists who’ve gotten invites to next week’s event, and given Apple’s heavy games push over the past year or so, this wouldn’t surprise us in the least.
• A reaffirmation of earlier murmurings about potentially swapping Google for Bing as the default search engine. Maps, too!
• Those TV subscription rumors? Apparently the gang in Cupertino have been pitching a “best of TV” service that would package the best four to six shows per channel.
• A web-based version of iTunes, tentatively called iTunes.com and potentially launching in June, for buying music outside of the dedicated app. Additionally, there’d be a new initiative “to populate as many webs ites as possible with ‘buy’ buttons, integrating iTunes transactions into activities like listening to internet radio and surfing review web sites.” No mention if music will be downloaded or streamed from the cloud, but we can definitely see how Apple’s recent Lala acquisition would play into this in the future — in fact, we’ve already seen it start to bear fruit.
• Here’s a weird one: Apple has supposedly designed the tablet “so that it is intuitive to share.” One such experiment is virtual sticky notes that launch for the intended recipient by facial recognition via built-in camera.

If nothing else, we’re really looking forward to next week putting a large clamp on the torrent of tablet rumors that have have propagated the internet for the last few months.

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The Wall Street Journal just laid out a doozy of an Apple tablet rumor piece, all from anonymous sources, “people familiar with the matter,” and the like. There’s a lot to go through, so without further ado:

• The tablet will come with a virtual keyboard — kind of a no-brainer if it’s gonna be a keyboard-less tablet and not, say, another laptop.
• Apple’s been talking with The New York Times, Conde Nast, and HarperCollins / News Corp. over how they could collaborate. When asked, NYT Chairman Arthur Sulzberger would only say “stay tuned.”
• Electronic Arts has been working closely to prep games for the tablet. We know of a number of gaming journalists who’ve gotten invites to next week’s event, and given Apple’s heavy games push over the past year or so, this wouldn’t surprise us in the least.
• A reaffirmation of earlier murmurings about potentially swapping Google for Bing as the default search engine. Maps, too!
• Those TV subscription rumors? Apparently the gang in Cupertino have been pitching a “best of TV” service that would package the best four to six shows per channel.
• A web-based version of iTunes, tentatively called iTunes.com and potentially launching in June, for buying music outside of the dedicated app. Additionally, there’d be a new initiative “to populate as many webs ites as possible with ‘buy’ buttons, integrating iTunes transactions into activities like listening to internet radio and surfing review web sites.” No mention if music will be downloaded or streamed from the cloud, but we can definitely see how Apple’s recent Lala acquisition would play into this in the future — in fact, we’ve already seen it start to bear fruit.
• Here’s a weird one: Apple has supposedly designed the tablet “so that it is intuitive to share.” One such experiment is virtual sticky notes that launch for the intended recipient by facial recognition via built-in camera.

If nothing else, we’re really looking forward to next week putting a large clamp on the torrent of tablet rumors that have have propagated the internet for the last few months.

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Nope this ain’t your average digital picture frame, this Sir is an Digital Art Frame. Basically Casio took your average Digital Picture Frame and added the possibility for you to tweak each picture your are displaying on it with 7 different effect. Yep a bit like on Photoshop or any basic image editing software, you will be able now thanks to this Picture frame to add a Sepia Effect or a Paint effect on any picture you desire…

Beside this nifty little add-ons, our Digital Art frame features a 10.2” WSVGA Color LCD, has 2GB of internal memory, a SD/SDHC slot, Wireless BG and will be available in the USA within spring.

DOVER, NJ, January 6, 2010 — Casio America, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today that it has developed a revolutionary new digital imaging product that transforms ordinary digital photographs into works of fine art.

Utilizing a “snapshot-to-painting conversion” function to render digital photographs into creative and personalized artistic expressions, Casio’s Digital Art Frame is unlike any conventional digital photo frame on the market. Going beyond simply decorating a home or office with a revolving view of favorite photographs, Casio’s new product can actually create original photographic artwork from digital images, making it more enjoyable than ever to share images with friends and family.

“We are excited to announce yet another innovative product with unparalleled features distinctive to Casio,” said Toshiharu Okimuro, Chairman of Casio America, Inc. “The Digital Art Frame adds personalization and artistic integrity to your conventional digital photo frame.”

A truly next-generation digital imaging product, the Digital Art Frame converts ordinary photographs into vibrant works of art by using image recognition and image processing technologies. Users can create up to eight different authentic styles of art from a single photo at the push of a button: Water Color Painting, Color Pencil Sketch, Pastel Painting, Pointillism, Air Brush, Oil Painting, Gothic Oil Painting, and Fauvist Oil Painting.

The Digital Art Frame integrates Casio’s superior facial recognition technology to create a work of art that highlights facial characteristics in the image, ensuring that people’s faces are completely recognizable. Moreover, users can enjoy slide shows with automatic playback of photos, art, or both, just by inserting an SD card with photos on it.

The product also comes with Dynamic Photo, a popular function in Casio’s digital cameras that enables the creation of composite moving images. User can combine moving characters directly on the Digital Art Frame. With the included Art Dynamic Photo function, which applies snapshot-to-painting conversion to the Dynamic Photo images, users can create moving works of art to impress and entertain family, friends and guests.

The Digital Art Frame also uses Adobe® Flash® Lite™ playback technology, which allows users to display preset Flash content, such as clocks and calendars, to add a decorative accent to just about any type of room. Users can also download additional content from the internet. Or they can use family photos to make their own homemade clocks and calendars, by combining the Dynamic Photo and snapshot-to-painting conversion functions on the Digital Art Frame and images from a Casio digital camera with high-speed burst shooting.

Packed with all these new features, Casio’s new Digital Art Frame is a quantum leap beyond conventional digital photo frames, which really do nothing more than replace photo frames for printed photos. Casio’s Digital Art Frame unleashes the full creative potential of every user, providing entirely new kinds of fun for users to want to create and share images. The new product will be available in the spring of 2010.

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News Corp. will likely pull all of its newspaper content from Google News once its switches from an ad-supported to a subscription-based model, according to Chairman Rupert Murdoch.

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Probably time you started thinking about making it look good for Movember

You can’t just grow hair on your top tip and think that’s all there is to it, grooming your moustache, or mustache for our American readers, takes time and consideration.

We sat down with Dr. Aaron Perlut, the chairman of the American Mustache Institute to find out more.

“The best tip I can give is to grow a moustache that is appropriate for your face”, says Perlut, stern and to the point. “A moustache can enhance the image you want to portray. A Fu Manchu or Horseshoe is good for looking tough. A Pencil or Handlebar is good for adding an appearance of being intelligent. Just don’t forget the monocle”.

Once you’ve started growing your mo – you’ve got to care for it, look after it. Here Perlut recommends a moustache wax over gel or hairspray.

“Moustache wax really can’t be beaten, here at the AMI [American Mustache Institute] we recommend Oregon Wildhair Moustache Wax”, says Perlut.

Oregon Wildhair Moustache Wax is an artisan wax made using beeswax, petroleum jelly, lanolin, and natural musk oil without perfume, so as not to destroy flavours like tea or coffee.

Mark Coyl, the creator of Wildhair, offers a rather elaborate set of tips for grooming his mo: “I usually?groom my moustache after my morning shower. First, I vigorously brush my moustache with a natural bristle brush to help shape it; then I apply my wax. Sometimes, when I find that my moustache doesn’t want to cooperate, I use a hair dyer to warm the wax after it is on my moustache. I heat one?side of my moustache for 10 seconds or so and then I hold?the end?of my moustache to the shape I want until the wax cools, which takes another 10 seconds.?Then I do the same to the other side. I apply more wax if I feel more is needed”.

Still on the subject of cleaning, Dr. Perlut believes that a moustache left to its own devices can get rough and uncomfortable. He recommends using a conditioner every other day to ensure its full bodied and fluffy.

So what about foods? Easy claims Perlut:

“Creamy substances like soups are outstanding as they can be caught in the moustache and savoured later, while drinking beer helps keep it moist”.

If the girlfriend or wife complains? Perlut has an answer for that too:

“If a girlfriend ever requests you remove your moustache find yourself a new girlfriend”.

Brave words, but perhaps Perlut’s second piece of advice on the subject might help to sway them to reconsider:

“Every time a moustache is shaved an angel dies.”

And finally one to leave you even more confused than you were before:

“Midgets with Moustaches are awesome”.

You heard it here first.

Movember is about having fun, growing a moustache and raising much needed funds and awareness for men’s health – specifically prostate cancer. What many people don’t appreciate is that one man dies every hour of prostate cancer in the UK, more than 35,000 men will be diagnosed this year and that prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK. ?

The more that join us, the more we can ‘change the face of men’s health’ through raising awareness and the money that will be raised.

Let’s ‘Change the Face of Mens Health’.

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Related links:

• Link – Movember
• Feature – Top grooming gadgets for Movember
• Feature – Moustache styles and what to grow

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We discussed how Lee Clow, the man behind Apple’s most popular advertisements, is stepping down from his position as chief creative officer of TBWA/Media Arts Lab. Turns out that Lee’s not really leaving, he’s just getting annoyed at the blogosphere.

According to this note he supposedly wrote and sent to his staff, Lee’s figuring out other people’s positions, not his own:

Hey Everyone:

So we tried to promote Duncan Milner because of the great job he’s been doing leading the Media Arts Lab and look at how the blogosphere decided to make it a conversation about me.

As you all know, I’m here every day meddling in everything that goes on, pushing the creative on many brands including keeping an eye on Apple.

I remain Chairman of MAL, Global Creative Director of Media Arts and Chief Creative Officer of TBWA Worldwide.

I’m not going anywhere.

Love, Lee

There you have it. We can stop fearing that Apple ads will start sucking. [Media Bistro via All Things D]

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Our friend and astronaut blogger Leroy Chiao sat on the human spaceflight advisory committee which released its report last week. Since news stories about it were hazy at best, we asked him to explain what it really said:

It is not surprising, but it is dispiriting, to realize how little the general public knows (or cares?) about space exploration. We seem to take for granted, that America is the leader in human spaceflight. Will it always be so?

Remember high school history? Remember Portugal? They dominated the seas way back when, and thus, dominated the known world. Then what happened? Did they get lazy? Rest on their laurels? Sure, they still are the only ones who make port wine (at least any that’s worth anything), but WTF, over? How about Rome? Ok, maybe they just got too decadent. I never did see the X-rated movie Caligula, but it probably wasn’t too far off the mark. They got too full of themselves, and that was that.

So, what’s it going to take to get America enthralled again about space exploration? This was one of the questions we considered, on the Review of US Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, also known as the Augustine Committee, after our chairman, respected aerospace veteran, Norm Augustine. What do we have to do? Do we have to go chase imaginary aliens to get your attention?

The media generally missed the mark on understanding our report. How is this possible? Maybe I’m too close to it. I suppose I shouldn’t over-think this. I should give ‘em what they want. Alright then, here are the report highlights, from my perspective:

• The space program needs more money. NASA has been trying to do too much with too little for too long. Let’s either spend more money, or scale back our expectations.

• The Space Shuttle has been a magnificent, beautiful flying machine, but it is more fragile than we thought, and it is too expensive to operate. There is a case to be made to keep flying the Shuttle for a few more years, but only if we are going to base the next heavy launch vehicle on its technology.

• The International Space Station has been a great success, in that an international framework for cooperation has evolved. This is the future, not only in space exploration. In addition, there have been relevant, significant scientific results from research conducted onboard. The US should use this framework, to move exploration forward beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

• The Constellation Program was a reasonable path, five years ago, when the Vision for Space Exploration was first formulated. Since then, budget shortfalls have caused significant delays. Moreover, the goals evolved into a focus on getting astronauts back to the Moon, to the development of the Ares family of rockets and the Orion spacecraft. The public generally is bored with going back to the Moon, since we already did this forty years ago.

• Commercial crew access to LEO should be considered. Traditional aerospace companies can do this, and who knows? Maybe the startups can too, more efficiently. At any rate, the technology has existed for almost fifty years, it’s time to give it a try.

• Heavy Lift Vehicle: Let’s choose one, then, do it. Be it Ares-V, Ares-V Lite, Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, or Shuttle Derived. Pick one.

Clear as mud? For a more detailed (yet, still very high-level) explanation, check out my blog.

Leroy Chiao, Ph.D. served as a NASA astronaut from 1990-2005. During his 15-year career, he flew four missions into space, three times on Space Shuttles and once as the copilot of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station. On that flight, he served as the commander of Expedition 10, a six and a half month mission. Dr. Chiao has performed six spacewalks, in both US and Russian spacesuits, and has logged nearly 230 days in space.

Dr. Chiao is Gizmodo’s official astronaut (and “astroblogger“). On occasion, he still ponders strategies to hunt for imaginary aliens.

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