It sounds like it’s not just us that spend half our sweet time with lint-free cloth in hand. Researchers at MIT have developed a new type of glass that “virtually eliminates” reflections, and is also water-repellent. By using techniques from the semiconductor industry, conical nano-textures etched into the layered surface that give the wonder-glass its fog, glare and self-cleaning properties

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MIT develops fog resistant, glare-free glass, it’s clearly amazing (video)

If you’ve been looking for a reason to replace your aging device with something a tad more contemporary, your local pawnshop GameStop is happy to oblige. According to Gadget Experts , the games retailer is looking to bolster its Android offerings with Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 , Nexus S and Samsung Infuse 4G trade-ins at select GameStops this summer, expanding to all locations by the end of the year

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GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade

Cunning design is a wonderful thing, and this triangular bundle of smarts is almost meta! Rocketfish ‘s Sound Prism is exactly what it says it is, a three-sided speaker bar with a twist (metaphorically speaking.) Inventors, CRE8 Design studio, cooked up the clever idea of using the empty space created by a folded Apple Smart Cover . This fella neatly slips into the cubby-hole of the folded case, and attaches itself magnetically

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Rocketfish’s Sound Prism is triangu-lovely

Would you look at that?

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NVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, loads it with dual Kepler GPUs, charges $1k

Last week may have drawn to a close, but the march of Clevo news continues. On the heels of Maingear announcing an 11-inch gaming notebook, Origin PC is throwing its own ultraportable into the ring: the EON 11-S

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Origin PC joins the 11-inch, rebadged gaming laptop party, outs the EON 11-S

We know you’ve got questions, and if you’re brave enough to ask the world for answers, here’s the outlet to do so. This week’s Ask Engadget inquiry is coming to us from Chris, who simply has too much money to blow on a super-laptop. If you’re looking to send in an inquiry of your own, drop us a line at ask [at] engadget [dawt] com .

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Ask Engadget: best money no object laptop?

Not all mobile news is destined for the front page, but if you’re like us and really want to know what’s going on, then you’ve come to the right place. This past week, we learned that ZTE intends to release a phablet of its own, and Samsung unseated Nokia as the world’s largest supplier of mobile phones.

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Mobile Miscellany: week of April 23rd, 2012

You know the drill — grab yourself a spoonful of Morton’s and get ready for another supposed leak of a gadget.

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Is this RIM’s BlackBerry 10 development device?

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These two brawlers were given until July to come together and mediate over their numerous globe-spanning patent lawsuits , but it appears neither side needs to wait that long. According to Foss Patents , May 21st and 22nd have been circled on the calendar of a certain San Francisco courthouse, where Magistrate Judge Joseph C.

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Apple and Samsung set to meet May 21st, hug it out over 48 hours