Gear Diary » Neuros Technology http://www.geardiary.com Everyone can understand technology; sometimes it just takes a little translating. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:15:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Review: Neuros Control Tablet 1002http://www.geardiary.com/2010/12/14/review-neuros-control-tablet-1002/ http://www.geardiary.com/2010/12/14/review-neuros-control-tablet-1002/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:00:31 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=119013

Joe Born at Neuros Technology has always been a supporter of Linux and Open Source technology since I've known him.  Well Joe came up with a great idea.  How about using a cheap Android Tablet to control the Neuros Link?  Sounds like a good idea, but did it work? The Control Tablet 1002 is very similar to the Eken M002 tablet.  In face, it will run the same builds of Android that the Eken M002 will. Let's take a look at the specs: • Slatedroid firmware based off of Google Android OS 1.6 • VIA MW8505 350-400MHz • 128MB DDR2 • 2GB NAND FLASH, support most TF card up to 32GB • Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2010/12/14/review-neuros-control-tablet-1002/feed/ 0 Black Friday Special: Ultra Quiet Neuros Link – “Phantom”http://www.geardiary.com/2010/11/26/black-friday-special-ultra-quiet-neuros-link-phantom/ http://www.geardiary.com/2010/11/26/black-friday-special-ultra-quiet-neuros-link-phantom/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:18:34 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=119010 Just getting ready to do a review of a upcoming product that Neuros is targeting for the Neuros Link and I spied a deal!  TODAY only in the Neuros store you can get the ultra quiet Neuros Link "Phantom" for $249.99 with a free upgrade to a 320 GB hard drive.  You will have to add a controller to your order or provide your own controller. The specs of this machine are: PC, it is customizable and expandable:
  • Dual Core 2.5Ghz CPU
  • 1GB DDR SDRAM memory (expandable up to 8GB)
  • Up to 1080p H.264 video playback
  • Support an extensive list of video and audio formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, .vob, .mp4
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Imagine being able to watch Hulu, Fancast, Youtube and many other streaming services on your TV.  How about Boxee?  Yes, that too.  What if you don't want to share your local video viewing?  XBMC is on it too.  What can do the things I am talking about?  The Neuros Link, one of the latest products from Neuros Technology.

Setup To setup the Link, you plug a HDMI cable into your HDTV, plug in the power, and then plug in the keymote's dongle.  If you do not have a HDTV, you can use it with a DVI or VGA monitor, although Neuros states they will not support this.  Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2010/04/10/review-neuros-link/feed/ 7 Peeking at Micro Innvations USB Hub Conceptshttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/08/13/peeking-at-micro-innovations-usb-hub-concepts/ http://www.geardiary.com/2009/08/13/peeking-at-micro-innovations-usb-hub-concepts/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:30:47 +0000 Judie Stanford http://www.geardiary.com/?p=42512 Neuros, whose open source products we've been reviewing and talking positively about for years. What you may not know is that Joe also founded the company Digital Innovations over ten years ago.  According to him, he hasn't been "very active in it since starting Neuros, but recently they acquired a peripheral company called Micro Innovations that makes a host of commodity peripherals, and [he's] very excited about applying the Neuros open innovation formula there."

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Last night Joel and I had an opportunity to take a survey that Joe had forwarded us, showing some USB Hub concept Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2009/08/13/peeking-at-micro-innovations-usb-hub-concepts/feed/ 2 Neuros planning for the OSD3http://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/28/neuros-planning-for-the-osd3/ http://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/28/neuros-planning-for-the-osd3/#comments Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:51:19 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=39759

I follow Joe Born(@joeborn) and Neuros Technology(@neurostech) on twitter and I read his blog and generally love Neuros Technology as a company.  They stand behind their products.  They also run open source software on their devices and have quite a community behind their products.  I also own a OSD and one of their original products, a MP3 player.  I still use both on a regular basis.  Well, imagine my excitement seeing Joe's tweet regarding the OSD 3:
"..it's probably two years off, but this time Texas Instruments is involved early: discussion of the OSD3: http://bit.ly/Qt5sl"
Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2009/07/28/neuros-planning-for-the-osd3/feed/ 2 Neuros.TV Site Adds User Contributions to the Neuros Linkhttp://www.geardiary.com/2009/03/23/neurostv-site-adds-user-contributions-to-the-neuros-link/ http://www.geardiary.com/2009/03/23/neurostv-site-adds-user-contributions-to-the-neuros-link/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:40:13 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=23553 has let me know that you are not just stuck with whatever Neuros and their hackers will give you.  Now if you know of a site where a stream of a TV show is, you can add it via a link near the bottom of the page.  The Neuros Link and its companion site are attempting to extend the tradition of users adding content similar to how the cddb (which is now Gracenote) was started.  If you know of a site that carries the content you've searched for, you can now added it to the Neuros.TV website Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2009/03/23/neurostv-site-adds-user-contributions-to-the-neuros-link/feed/ 0 Neuros Link: Netflix Bounty Claimed!http://www.geardiary.com/2009/02/16/neuros-link-netflix-bounty-claimed/ http://www.geardiary.com/2009/02/16/neuros-link-netflix-bounty-claimed/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:57 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=21467 Neuros has long offered bounties on different development projects that enhance their products; one I have been semi excited for is Netflix Streaming.  Well, sundevil98 has managed to get it working on the Link according to Joe.  He did it by installing Mediamall's Playon software on top of XBMC.  The next version of the software on the Link should have XBMC built into it.  Eventually, Neuros will have a native client on the Link, but for now, this will allow you to stream movies from Netflix!

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Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2009/02/16/neuros-link-netflix-bounty-claimed/feed/ 5 Neuros Link Bounties Posted and Morehttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/18/neuros-link-bounties-posted-and-more/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/18/neuros-link-bounties-posted-and-more/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:32:18 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17888 bounties for the Neuros Link. The first bounty is $2500 for getting Netflix working directly on the Neuros Link, or $500 when working through a intermediary PC.  This bounty has some stipulations: The programmer must beat Boxee, Ubuntu or Netflix themselves with the functionality.  All of these people are working on getting Netflix streaming to work on on Linux.  Once any of them get it working, the bounty is unavailable as they can easily incorporate this into the Neuros Link. The second bounty is the Move Networks plugin.  The lucky hacker will get $2000 if they get it working and $2500 if it works in Firefox. The third Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/18/neuros-link-bounties-posted-and-more/feed/ 1 Neuros Link to Support Joosthttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/08/neuros-link-to-support-joost/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/08/neuros-link-to-support-joost/#comments Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:11:11 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=17430 OdNT Blog about Joost and the Neuros Link.  Joost, which came from the creators of Skype and Kazaa, started out as a client you loaded on your computer that was similar to Boxee.  Now it's a flash video site very similar to Hulu.  Well it too is now supported on the Neuros Link! Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/12/08/neuros-link-to-support-joost/feed/ 0 10 Reasons I am Thankful for Free and Open Source Softwarehttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/26/10-reasons-i-am-thankful-for-foss/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/26/10-reasons-i-am-thankful-for-foss/#comments Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:43:26 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=16893 Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/26/10-reasons-i-am-thankful-for-foss/feed/ 1 Amazon Unboxed to be on the Neuros Linkhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/25/amazon-unboxed-to-be-on-the-neuros-link/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/25/amazon-unboxed-to-be-on-the-neuros-link/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:33:44 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=16835 Even though most people don't even have the Neuros Link yet, Neuros is at work adding features to the Link in the form of Amazon's Unbox video on demand service.  Now you can use your Neuros Link to watch any of the 20,000 titles you can rent via Amazon's service.  They are still hard at work trying to improve the device as I type this.  The Neuros Link should be THE set top box to order on cyber monday!

Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/25/amazon-unboxed-to-be-on-the-neuros-link/feed/ 0 How Hackable is the Neuros Link? VERY!http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/20/how-hackable-is-the-neuros-link-very/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/20/how-hackable-is-the-neuros-link-very/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:18:15 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=16628 The Neuros Link is running Ubuntu 8.10 according to Joe Born's post in the forum and the specs page.  That means that you can pretty much run any variant of Ubuntu on it.  Joe himself has installed Boxee on the Neuros Link, so it may even be possible to get Mythbuntu running on the box since you can probably add a USB Tuner to it as well. UPDATE: Found more....the Neuros Link runs a Athlon Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/20/how-hackable-is-the-neuros-link-very/feed/ 0 Neuros releases the Neuros Linkhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/19/neuros-releases-the-neuros-link/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/19/neuros-releases-the-neuros-link/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:23:03 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=16606 now available for $299.99 and there is NO subscription service either!  Plus it comes with a spiffy wireless keyboard as well.  Neuros keeps impressing me time and time again!  I can't wait to look at this device!  Now I really need to get a HDTV... Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/19/neuros-releases-the-neuros-link/feed/ 0 Winner of the Neuros OSD!http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/12/winner-of-the-neuros-osd/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/12/winner-of-the-neuros-osd/#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:29:36 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=16229 The winner of the Neuros OSD giveaway is none other than Dann Washko of the Linux Link Tech Show.  The comment my son pulled out of the hat is below:
I did not see if the Neuros had a built in webserver but that would be great. To be able to stream the movies over this server like MythWeb does. As for home movies, having the ability to easily upload to youtube would be beneficial. Support for file systems other than fat32 to avoid the 2gb limitation. As a Linux user I would like to see more documentation on their site about using the device in Linux. Right now I see a lot of Windows and OS
Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/12/winner-of-the-neuros-osd/feed/ 0 Contest: Gear Diary is giving away a Neuros OSD!http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/03/contest-gear-diary-is-giving-away-a-neuros-osd/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/03/contest-gear-diary-is-giving-away-a-neuros-osd/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:27:48 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=13243 This contest is now closed, and a winner will be announced shortly. Thank you for participating! As a fan and advocate of open source software, I've got a lot of love for companies like Neuros.  Now I have another reason to love them: Neuros is sponsoring an OSD give-away on Gear Diary! To win, all you have to do is post an idea of something you would like the Neuros OSD (or the as yet unreleased OSD2) to do out of the box that it can't do already.  For example, my wish would be that it include a web browser.  You can't steal my idea, so come up with one of your own! The Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/11/03/contest-gear-diary-is-giving-away-a-neuros-osd/feed/ 13 Crowd Narration Comes to the Neuros OSDhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/29/crowd-narration-comes-to-the-neuros-osd/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/29/crowd-narration-comes-to-the-neuros-osd/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:46:20 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=14385 Click here to view the embedded video.

Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/29/crowd-narration-comes-to-the-neuros-osd/feed/ 3 Neuros OSD 2 Developer Kits now on Salehttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/22/neuros-osd-2-developer-kits-now-on-sale/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/22/neuros-osd-2-developer-kits-now-on-sale/#comments Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:38:16 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=13984 Neuros Store.  Now this isn't intended for end users just yet, but when it is it will bring High Definition to the OSD platform.

The OSD is very powerful, and you can do things with it that you can't do with any other set top box thanks to the open technology that it's built upon.  Just this week, I have discovered the uPNP Media features of the OSD, and I was streaming music from my laptop to the OSD connected to my TV. If the OSD is any indication of what's in store for us in the OSD 2, then I think we have a exciting device on it's way.  The only limit of the OSD and OSD2 are the limits of the programmers and the limits of the users.  The OSD didn't do as much when it first shipped as it does now; the OSD2 won't be any different.

Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/22/neuros-osd-2-developer-kits-now-on-sale/feed/ 0 Neuros OSD 2.0 Developer Kit Available for Pre-orderhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/09/neuros-osd-20-developer-kit-available-pre-order/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/09/neuros-osd-20-developer-kit-available-pre-order/#comments Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:46:20 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=13513 theinquirer.net already has one and it's been posted on Crunchgear but I must have missed it.
Image Provided by Neuros

Images Provided by Neuros

The expected specs of the OSD 2.0 are 720p(1924x768) or D1(720x480)H.264 +AAC/AC3/MP3 Encoding; 720p playback with up to 1080i with certain content; Supporting H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4 and WMV codecs;Composite/Component Input: 2 composite input, 1 component input, all with dedicated stereo audio;Composite/Component Input: 2 composite input, 1 component input, all with dedicated stereo audio;RCA Audio I/O;2 USB ports in rear, 1 in front, and 1 internal to housing. All of this is stuffed in to a Mini-ITX case which means you can install a internal hard disk, a slimline Optical Drive and more into this baby truly making it your own device. Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/09/09/neuros-osd-20-developer-kit-available-pre-order/feed/ 0 Use the web without using a browserhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/28/use-the-web-without-using-a-browser/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/28/use-the-web-without-using-a-browser/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:02:04 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=12888 a new feature of the Neuros OSD will be the ability to use wiki's and other internet sources to look up data about TV recordings on the OSD and more. Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/28/use-the-web-without-using-a-browser/feed/ 0 Neuros OSD now does Last.fmhttp://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/20/neuros-osd-does-lastfm/ http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/20/neuros-osd-does-lastfm/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:05:45 +0000 Joel McLaughlin http://www.geardiary.com/?p=12504 Long time no talk! I hope you are well. I wanted to share with you a piece of news that might interest your audience: Through user contributions, last.fm is coming to the Neuros OSD. If you are not familiar with last.fm (you never know :-)), its a collaborative, interactive internet radio service that's powered by a large community of users. It's subscription and ad free, and it learns from your likes and dislikes to introduce you to new music that you'll like. Now, a last.fm community member, sponsored by Google, has ported the feature/service to the Neuros OSD: http://open.neurostechnology.com/content/lastfm... Now the words in this e-mail excerpt that I like the most are Continue reading on Gear Diary ...]]> http://www.geardiary.com/2008/08/20/neuros-osd-does-lastfm/feed/ 0