Archive for December 28th, 2007

Reminder: get in your nominations for the 2007 Engadget Awards!

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, ...

Nokia E90 meets maker courtesy of 12 gauge shotgun

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 Source: [Link]

GPS baby Jesus stolen again, found across the street

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 ...

Creative-built TAG Heuer USB headset outed by FCC

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 ...

Bluetooth headset helps foil Wendy’s robbery

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 ...

Amazon’s “Best of 2007″ topped by Wii, a few surprises

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 ...

Phenom upgrade poses problems for AM2 motherboard users

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 ...

Art Lebedev kills us with Optimus Tactus keyboard concept

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 ...