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It’s been a long time coming but after years of cataloging various gadgets in TV and movies, we finally got our own starring role on the small screen. Our HTML code stood in for the usual computer gibberish pretending to be a dangerous hacking program on an episode of the French / Canadian TV series XIII and was spotted by a keen-eyed (and HDTV-equipped) reader as seen above. US viewers might recognize the title since it was also the source of a videogame in 2003 and a miniseries that aired on NBC in 2009; in its current iteration, the tale of a conspiracy in the US government airs strictly outside our borders. A clip of the scene is included after the break, check for the “5 years old, highly encrypted source code” at about 1:29. Nice job Prodigy Pictures but next time we expect a speaking role, two scenes with co-star Aisha Tyler, a trailer and a bowl of M&Ms — but only the green ones. Have your people talk to our people, we’ve been looking for a new career.
[Thanks, Dennis]
Continue reading Screen Grabs: Engadget makes its prime time TV debut on XIII
Screen Grabs: Engadget makes its prime time TV debut on XIII originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jul 2011 18:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nokia’s hookup with the new Transformers movie runs deep — some of its international X7 launches have been themed around the Dark of the Moon three-quel that’s just come out in cinemas — so it’s no surprise to see plenty of the company’s handsets in the film itself. The metal-backed, 4-inch X7 gets the most screen time, quickly showing off Ovi Maps in 3D, but there’s also a portrait QWERTY device which may be the recently launched E6 or an earlier model such as the E72. A lot of consternation has also arisen regarding a third Nokia handset glimpsed in Transformers 3, which could well be an N950 running MeeGo, though if you ask us, there’s no way a MeeGo phone would take 157 minutes to save the world. We’d expect a double-tap to kill the baddies, an edge-to-edge swipe to get the girl, and a simple flicking gesture to turn the lights out.
[Thanks, Nicholas]
Screen Grabs: Nokia X7 scores cameo in third Transformers movie, joined by N950 lookalike originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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In the futuristic world of the would-be summer blockbuster Real Steel, Rock ‘em Sock ‘em-esque robots have become participants in a very real sport and, it seems, Nokia is still going strong — although you probably knew that if you’ve seen the latest Star Trek movie. In fact, this device bears more than a small resemblance to the one used by a young James T. Kirk, with it boasting the same translucent shell that encases what’s still unmistakably a Nokia design. Head on past the break for the full trailer, and look for the phone to make an appearance around the 16 second mark — although we wouldn’t recommend taking this as a hint of what’s to come for Windows Phone.
Continue reading Screen Grabs: futuristic Nokia smartphone answers the product placement call in Real Steel
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A tipster sent us video from
ESPN’s NFL
draft coverage, asking us to identify the giant phone in University of Georgia wide receiver AJ Green’s hand. Turns out it’s a white
Dell Streak, perhaps the only phone on the market capable of dwarfing the Cincinnati Bengals’ fourth overall pick by comparison. Keep in mind, Green is a big guy — he’s 6 feet, 4 inches. He also catches footballs for a living, so we figure that, at the very least, he’s got to have average hands for a man of his size. We’re happy to report he didn’t spike the phone after hearing the news. Videographic evidence after the break.
[Thanks, Ramon]
Continue reading Screen Grabs: Newly minted Bengals wide receiver AJ Green rocks Dell Streak during NFL draft (video)
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If you have pleasant memories from your youth of a Dr. Dre in happier times, chilling with Snoop somewhere in LBC doing things we can’t discuss on a family-friendly site such as this… well, you’re in for a bit of a shock to the system with this latest video. The clip for I Need a Doctor — which is really more of a short film — features a brutally mangled Ferrari 360 Modena, Skylar Grey, and an angry Eminem (is there any other kind of Eminem?) yelling at Dr. Dre while suspended in some sort of creepy life-supporting fluid. Oh, but let us fast forward to the technology angle: Dre’s already hooked up with HP for Beats, and the trend continues here with the appearance of a Touchpad and Pre 3 doing a little Touch to Share action around the 4:20 mark. Follow the break for video.
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
Continue reading Screen Grabs: Dr. Dre video for ‘I Need a Doctor’ features HP Touchpad, Pre 3, weird Dr. Dre floating in a glass tube
Screen Grabs: Dr. Dre video for ‘I Need a Doctor’ features HP Touchpad, Pre 3, weird Dr. Dre floating in a glass tube originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 19:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sure, in real life it’s a $100,000-plus piece of machinery, but for West McKinley High School’s glee club, the ReWalk is a chance for one of its quieter stars to get a chance to use his legs again (and not just in a dream sequence like from season one’s “Dream On”). But hey, that’s Hollywood for ya. Or maybe it’s a Christmas miracle — with lots of singing! Yeah, that’s the ticket. A shame they didn’t break out into “Domo Arigato (Mr. Cybernetic Enhancement-o),” though.
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Whoulda thunk that the third time we’d see the BlackBerry PlayBook on video, it’d be in the hands of cube-headed dopplegangster Will.I.Shill? Not us, but we’re terribly excited to see the 7-inch tablet show off its augmented reality chops in the Black Eyed Peas’ latest music video. We’re not really sure what alternate reality hijinks turned the musicians into 8-bit portraits nor pixelated their world, but the BEP sure look adorable as Xbox LIVE-friendly avatars. Watch it after the break, or skip to 2:12, 3:16 and 3:54 if you just want to get your tablet on.
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Sure, Verizon has the lock on Gossip Girl product placement, but even the technological reality of CDMA must bow to plot development, and if that means Serena’s Droid X sprouts a SIM card so Lil’ J can steal it and surreptitiously swap in a new one, well, so be it. Of course, this clever plan assumes that Serena doesn’t text or call anyone using her new SIM, but, you know, just go with it. Video after the break.
Continue reading Screen Grabs: A Droid X with a SIM card? XOXO, Gossip Girl
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Well, it looks like The Vampire Diaries isn’t the only show that’s hopped on the Windows Phone 7 bandwagon — what appears to be an LG Optimus 7 turned up in the latest episode of Hawaii Five-0, where it was used in yet another awkward attempt to introduce the phrase “Bing it” to a dumbfounded audience. What would Jack Lord think? Head on past the break to check out the ad clip in question.
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An eagle-eyed reader pointed this one out: Where do
HD-DVD players go when they’re no longer hot items? That’s right: Hollywood, where they help make up the backdrop of Buy More’s in-store Halloween display. Chuck was involved in some horrifying shenanigans, and then we were horrified by sitting through most of an episode of
Chuck. And the circle is complete.
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