Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Announcements
Just in case you missed it: we're in the process of collecting nominations for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we're asking for your nominations! If you've never seen a gadget in a Stella McCartney gown break down in tears thanking its development team on live national television, well, ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
We think the emphatic "For Parts ONLY" in the description of this well-loved E90's eBay auction pretty much says it all.[Via Just Another Mobile Phone Blog] Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: GPSMaybe next year they can just spring for an RFID baby Jesus. The folks in Florida noticed that their GPS-equipped baby Jesus we mentioned the other day was missing from his nativity, and fired up the old GPS tracker. Turns out they didn't have to look far: baby ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals, Wireless
We have no idea why luxury watch and occasional cellphone maker TAG Heuer would be getting into the PC peripherals game, yet according to an FCC filing we got our hands on, the 150-year-old Swiss watchmaker has a Creative Labs-built USB headset in the pipeline. And ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, WirelessAn armed robbery at a Columbus, Ohio Wendy's restaurant on Wednesday morning was thwarted mid-progress, partly due to an employee's Bluetooth headset automatically answering a call because of the robber screaming at her to do just the opposite. We've all learned to live with the wonky ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Certain winners on Amazon's "Best of 2007" list of could've been seen coming a mile away, but in the top sales category we were just a little surprised to see the Canon PowerShot A570 IS topping the list of electronics, and Nokia's Internet Tablet topping out computers ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Desktops
It looks like AMD users hoping to pop one of those speedy new Phenom processors into their old AM2 motherboard for a bit of a boost could be in for some trouble, at least according to the folks at Tom's Hardware, who recently put the processor to the ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
Filed under: Displays, Peripherals
Yeah, you thought the Optimus Maximus was the holy grail of keyboarding -- then you saw the Optimus Tactus, a giant touch sensor display tablet keyboard that could do all the sorts of crazy stuff the Maximus can't even touch, like playing movies and being a gigantic ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: Gaming
For all you Devil May Cry fanatics out there (wait -- are there Devil May Cry fanatics out there?) you're about to get a super-special, unicorn explosion from Microsoft. That's right, babies, it's the Devil May Cry special edition Xbox 360. Actually, it's more like a bundle of ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoWe'll spare you the obvious here -- we're quite aware that Shiro's VJ (pictured) looks an awful lot like something else -- but nevertheless, the outfit is hoping that its forthcoming trio of portable media players can somehow get traction in the overly saturated market. ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Feeling a bit bummed that Santa didn't deliver that swank new front projector you'd been asking pleading for? Trust us, it's for the best. Apparently, Sony is looking to release its VPL-VW40 to the masses at the end of January, and judging by the ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Sony's got a new basic camera in the works to flesh out its line of compacts. The Cyber-shot DSC-S730 brings 7.2 megapixels of resolution, a 2.4-inch LCD, ISO 1250 and 3x zoom. The high-ish ISO is ostensibly there to fight camera shake, but we'd rather Sony sprang ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: Desktops
Sure, manufacturers are stuffing all sorts of great components into inconceivably small cases these days, but all that cramming has still left plenty of room for ugly of late. TG has been honing its skinny desktop form factor for a few years now, and seems to have it ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: GPS, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Cowon has really been tossing out a lot of winners of late, and if this N3 is any indication, there seems to be no stopping the DAP manufacturer at this point. While the N3 doesn't look to be headed for US shores in the ...
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
Filed under: Robots, Transportation
Apparently, the Luddite tradition of machine breaking is alive and well in its country of origin. According to a report, a group calling itself MAD -- or Motorists Against Detection -- have taken to setting autonomous traffic cameras ablaze across the United Kingdom, and are detailing their ...
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