The Sony Ericsson C903 Cybershot comes in a slider form factor and has a 2.4-inch screen, 5-megapixel camera, face detection and geotagging.

The phone also comes with a full suite of photo-specific features, such as Flickr Uploadr, ShutterSmile (snaps when it detects a smile) and BestPic (takes 9 rapid-fire photos, keeps the best) enhancements, as well as Photo and Video Blogging apps. The geotagging uses aGPS to carry out it's function, has an auto-rotating screen and dedicated camera buttons, but the phone only makes use of an HSPA cellular radio.

The C903 is essentially a lesser-equipped version of the 8.1-megapixel C905, but I prefer the look of the the C903, personally. The phone is expected to hit stores in Q2 2009. [Sony Ericsson via BB Gadgets]

A team of undergrads at MIT -- led by Shakeel Avadhany and Zack Anderson -- has produced a prototype of a shock absorber for vehicles which can harness and generate electricity back into the vehicle. The team claims that their prototype increases a vehicle's fuel-efficiency by up to 10 percent by using a "hydraulic system that forces fluid through a turbine attached to a generator." There is an active electronic system for controlling and optimizing the damping for a smoother ride than regular old shocks. The team is actively seeking to develop and commercialize the product, and have already seen interest in the prototype from the United States military and also several manufacturers of trucks, which see the most benefit from the shocks... so look for these guys on Grave Digger any day now.

Filed under: Transportation

Regenerative shock absorbers developed by team at MIT originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Even though the mandatory switchover date from analog to digital will be June 12 soon, about 681 (or forty percent of) television stations will stop broadcasting analog by the end of next week.

Yup, everything's going to plan. [Reuters]

Not content to just outsource their customer service, United is shutting down its phone center in India in April, instead relying wholly on written complaints. They claim they'll be able to better respond to written complaints, but we know it's just as easy to paste irrelevant advice and insincere apologies as it is to speak them.

Ok, so it might not be an official Hulu-Microsoft partnership, but Secondrun.tv, an upcoming third-party plugin for Windows Media Center will allow you to watch Hulu videos, along with others, from within the app.

News of the Secondrun.tv first appeared on The Green Button forums, and is being developed by a forum poster calling himself Yaggs.

The plugin is still in public beta, but a video demo is available. Secondrun.tv bascially takes selected RSS data from Hulu, and repackages it in a more TV-friendly format. Instead of a UI that absolutely requires a mouse, Secondrun.tv fashions itself in the likeness of Roku's Netflix box UI, with big cover art and a brief description below.

Shows are organized by network at the moment, but once you start playing a video, the Hulu website rears its remote-unfriendly head. But the guys at Secondrun are working on getting the basic functions working with the remote, and improving the playback UI.

Admittedly, it looks a bit more difficult to search for specific, obscure items that might be on Hulu (and TRUST ME, there is some OBSCURE shit). But if you want to browse the major and/or popular items from the video site, this app seems like it will do the trick.

No word on a release date, but the creator says it will be out soon. There's also no word on how it works with the Windows 7 version of Media Center or the Xbox 360 Media Extender. [The Green Button via TheDigitalLifestyle via Geek Tonic via Download Squad]

	Dell Latitude XT2 multi-touch tablet with 11-hour battery now official (starts at $2,399) Pinch to zoom and two-fingers swipes... yup, it's in there. 11-hours of battery (6-cell plus battery slice) and DDR3 memory (max of 5GB!) too in a chassis just 2.5-cm (0.98-inches) thick.		10-inch Acer Aspire One now official in the US You've read the specs, gawked at the pics, and pored over the reviews -- and now Acer will officially accept your hard-earned United States currency and ship you a 10-inch Acer Aspire One D150.
	Valentine's Day: last minute, last resort gifts Sure: you could get your sweetheart some totally awesome gadget -- our pages have numberless examples of all the finest that tech has to offer.	Other news of import Large Hadron Collider restart delayed till September Dell's Mini 10 launching on or around February 27th? Immaculate prosthetic limb concept makes combines fun again
	DirecTV records a monster Q4, adds 461,000 new net subscribers Say what you will about the economy, but don't dare touch an American's television.		Nokia's 5630 XpressMusic is 12-mm slim, HSUPA fast, and S60 powerful Like Symbian candybars? Then try this surprising little number, the 5630 XpressMusic.
Mini DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter ships next month for under $15 Zip Express charges small fortune for DTV rescue service		Sony Ericsson's W395 Walkman and C903 Cybershot bring more of the same Verizon's LTE vendor partners to be revealed at MWC

The Daily Roundup: here's what you might've missed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 will be a perpetual loop—if you won't be dizzy from the design, you'll be dizzy from how breathtaking it is.

Visitors will get a little taste of Danish culture with the BIG's Danish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. In their proposed pavilion, BIG will include a city bike trail, a nature playground, a harbor bath and an ecological picnic. The pavilion's 1,500 city bikes will be offered for general use during the expo. Did I mention the bath will be filled with water from the Copenhagen Harbor in the heart of the pavilion? Amazing.

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M-Edge's $30 Kindle 2 book jackets are designed to do what real book jackets do—provide a protective cover and a fancy exterior to better present your reading materials to the outside world.

They're designed for the Kindle 1 and the Kindle 2, and are made out of "genuine leather". It's even compatible with their book light, because apparently even electronic books need book lights. One sec, my eyeballs rolled too far back into my head. [Buymedge via Crunchgear via Boing Boing Gadgets]