The Constellation program may be in trouble, but that doesn’t mean NASA’s boffins are sitting around playing Asteroids, and flying rocket models. They are still planning to get back to the Moon, and…
A few months ago, Apple bought their own mapmaker, Placebase, which seemingly opened the possibility of non-Google-y maps. Now, they’re looking for an iPhone maps engineer to “rethink how users use…
Normally, Band-Aids are a fine size for any minor cuts I have. But what if I have a huge wound and I don’t have health insurance? I need an unreasonably large Band-Aid, dammit!
This custom Band-Aid…
ClearPlay — remember those guys? You know, the outfit who garnered all sorts of attention years ago by having their content filtering DVD players yanked from store shelves, only to be vindicated by Congress itself? Amazingly enough, these cats are still hanging around, and they’ve just pushed out their first filtering DVD player to upscale content to 1080p over HDMI. As expected, the $99.95 deck still sports the same filtering technology that gives dutiful parents the ability to block objectionable content based on customizable settings, but now you can rest easy knowing that any slip-up in blocking a steamy bedroom scene will be viewed by your impressionable youngster in glorious high-definition. Huzzah.
ClearPlay introduces first content filtering 1080p upscaling DVD player originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Some of the best of Twitter apps just got a lot better with fresh updates—Tweetie 2.1 and Birdfeed 1.2 on the iPhone, and Twidroid 3.0 on Android. Here’s what new and awesomer:
Birdfeed 1.2
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ASUS has been giving its motherboard owners ways to tinker with their wares for years now, but it sounds like things are about to get seriously amped up with the Maximus III Extreme. The P55-based board, which falls into the growing Republic of Gamers lineup, adds a new feature to the existing ROG Connect overclocking system: Bluetooth control. You heard right — ASUS claims that this mainboard actually “enables users to tweak system settings wirelessly over Bluetooth via a mobile phone.” More specifically, RC Bluetooth allows users to “review the status of their systems’ hardware and tweak parameters wirelessly from a Bluetooth-enabled PDA phone,” with examples like controlling music playback and dealing with Skype conversations given. There’s no specific mention of a price or release date, but you can bet we’ll be digging for specifics on the limits and functionality baked in here.
ASUS Maximus III Extreme mobo lets Bluetooth cellphones tweak settings originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
This Japan-nly NTT Docomo Melty Chocolate phone is ridiculous. It’s a working phone—it has 8-megapixel camera, digital TV tuner, Bluetooth and such—but the menus are designed to look like…
How many uses can one tool have? If you think the answer is “never enough,” the Piranha by Pocket Tool X might just be for you. A multipurpose job (which kinda reminds us of a dinosaur’s head), the Piranha boasts a double-ended bit holder, both open and box wrenches, a bottle opener, a nail puller, a scraper, and pry ends — and it’s made of heat-treated S30V Stainless Steel — which means it should be sturdy enough to make it through a few family camping trips. The tool is available for pre-order now, with shipments heading out sometime in December, and for $49 it could be all yours.
Pocket Tool X’s Piranha looks like it’s a multipurpose animal originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
On your desk, it’s about the size and thickness of a triple-decker Wonder bread sandwich. But the BassJump, an aluminum micro subwoofer to match your MacBook Pro, made me salivate more than soft,…
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Samsung Behold II review originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Cyber Monday means big savings on all sorts of electronics. Get in on the excitement now so you don’t find yourself bored and gadgetless on Ordinary Tuesday.
Top Deals:
• 15.6″ Lenovo G550 Dual…
First question: How tough are Thinkpad notebooks? Tough enough to be installed in buses and tram shuttles as seats and keep working just fine. Second question: Are the trackpads scrotumsensitive? I…
Hey gang. Normally we’re not very concerned with prizes or accolades; just getting to play with the latest and greatest gadgets is reward enough for us… though we’re a little excited about this one. Adweek has just announced its “Best of the 2000s” awards, and Engadget is up for “Blog of the Decade”! We’ve got some pretty amazing — and fierce — competition over there, but you guys can help decide who takes the prize by voting for your favorite (us, right?). If you like, you can hit the read link and cast your vote for Engadget. That would be super cool of you. If you’re not into the awards thing, that’s okay too; we promise not to come to your house and force you to vote for us under threat of physical harm. That would be crazy. Just crazy enough to work.
Engadget has been nominated for ‘Blog of the Decade’ — and you vote for the winner! originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Lancerlink pico proj features ARM processor, Windows CE originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Andy Rooney was my weekly lesson in crotchetiness growing up, but I increasingly get the sense he’s a corpse animated by secret government technology to keep senior citizens in line. He loves…
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure, it’s not quite edible yet, but they predict you’ll be eating labmeat in a…
I dislike capital letters. I dislike exceptional capital letters even more. The iPhone, and indeed most Apple products, suffer from “camel case,” as the NYT’s On Language calls it. “Steep is the…
USB Inserts bring ads into the print age and back again… or something originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:04:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
As far as phones go, the Droid is an olympian. A supermodel. A movie star. But without multitouch, it’s a movie star with rickets, and awkward inflection. That is: mildly disappointing! That’s where…
Belkin’s Flywire 1080p HD streamer was canceled, so if you want a device to stream 1080p from one side of the room to another side of the room (up to 33 feet away), Rocketfish has one today. But, no….
If you’re going to have a door as elaborate and beautiful as this, you’d better have a damned impressive house for it to open into. Otherwise, it’s all disappointment once you cross the threshold….
Not everyone has a 4GB USB key or SD card just lying around, which was required to run Hexxeh’s first build of Chromium OS, and we’d say that 8GB keys are exponentially more rare, which is what Dell requires with its build of the Chrome OS open source variant. Well, you can cancel that Fry’s run, because Hexxeh is back with a Chrome OS Diet flavor, which cuts the fat and gets the OS onto a 1GB drive. It supposedly doesn’t cut anything features-wise, and actually improves WiFi support since it’s based on a newer build — check out that compatibility list source link for the full story on that.
Chrome OS ‘Diet’ version fits on a 1GB USB key, brings more WiFi support originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Have you ever felt guilty after watching a robot dance? Don’t worry, you will soon. Worse than that time you “accidentally” sat through four episodes of Sailor Moon. Worse than that time you watched the Helicopter Boyz video and then sent it to all your friends. Worse than that time you got a J-pop song stuck in your head and tried to hum it to Shazam so you could identify it and buy it on iTunes. So much worse. Video is after the break.
Doka Harumi’s robot dance routine fills us with shame for humanity, but mostly Japan originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Put a small speaker on a crazy looking modern sculpture and bam! That will be $263,000 please.
I’m not sure whether or not the sound quality of the Opere Sonore speakers justify such a price tag,…
Before you confirm that Cyber Monday HDTV purchase, make sure to check out HD Guru’s list of the best deals going.
According to the list, if you are looking for a 1080p HDTV over 40-inches, you…
ASUS’ Eee PC 1201HA just went on sale here in the States earlier today, but already it seems that the debatable father of netbooks is looking to one-up its own with the 1201T. Shown off recently at an event overseas, this 12.1-inch netbook gets powered by AMD’s Congo platform. The 1.6GHz MV40 CPU was at the helm, followed along by 2GB of DDR2 RAM, a 250GB hard drive, 6-cell battery and an enclosure that looks pretty much like every other Eee PC announced within the past six months. Mum’s the word on price and availability, but we’re guessing both of those will clear themselves up in short order.
Update: The Eee PC 1201T doesn’t have the ION chipset. Those responsible have been responsibly sacked.
ASUS shows off Congo-based Eee PC 1201T netbook originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Progress bars aren’t always accurate, but at least they’re there, giving us hope, curing our angst, and mostly, diverting our attention from the fact that whatever it is, it isn’t done. And soon,…
Nikon’s Coolpix S70 promised to be a point and shoot built with a love reserved for high end smartphones—very thin, and packing a 3.5-inch OLED multitouch screen. Alas, Nikon forgot about one,…
Sure, the LG Expo is the first 1GHz phone in the US, but what really matters is that it has an optional pico projector you can slap onto the back with an 8-foot projection distance.
The projector…
While we might think of the $250 PSPgo pricetag in the States as a criminal act on the part of an out-of-touch and-yet-malicious multinational corporation, we can only imagine how our unfortunate counterparts in the UK felt, staring down a £225 list price (about $371 US). Luckily, that quickly dropped to £200 after a week of sales, and now the console can be had for as low as £149 at UK entertainment retailer HMV. That converts rather tidily to $245 US, which is unfortunately about as far as the console has been discounted around these parts. There’s no way to tell how many more months of dour faces and crossed arms pointed in the general direction of Sony Computer Entertainment America it’ll take to get that price down to something more realistic Stateside, at which point we can start this whole UK / US price disparity drama all over again.
PSPgo dips to £149 in the UK, have cooler heads prevailed? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Still wish the iPhone had physical letter keys like Blackberries or WinMo phones? First there was that butt-ugly iTwinge keyboard holster, now there’s 4iThumbs: a clear plastic overlay with nubs…
Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad has never had a particularly firm basis in reality, and although we’d been promised that the inexpensive browser-based tablet would be launching soon, the sky’s come crashing down: Mike says Fusion Garage, the company he hired to build the CrunchPad, has reneged on their deal, and that he’s about to file “multiple lawsuits.” What happened? Well, it’s not exactly clear: according to Mike, the CrunchPad was ready to be launched on November 20, but on November 17 Fusion Garage decided to cut TechCrunch out of the deal and sell it directly. Oh, it’s a sad tale, especially since Arrington claims a wide variety of industry heavyweights were lined up to support his tablet — including development assistance from Intel complete with sweetheart pricing on Atom CPUs, a “major multi-billion dollar retailer” who offered to sell it at “zero margin,” and even venture capital firms “waiting to invest in the company.” Making matters worse, Mike’s no longer buds with Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan, who he thought he’d be friends with “for the rest of our lives.” Tear. Now, we’re not sure we’ve heard the last of the CrunchPad — if anything, Michael Arrington is irrepressible — but we can’t say we’re surprised the first chapter has ended in such fantastic fashion. We’re assuming several major Hollywood studios are already lining up to buy the rights, and we’ve heard unconfirmed reports that George Clooney has signed on to star for free because he believes in the project so deeply.
The CrunchPad disappears in a puff of vapor originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
if you were Tiger Woods, the Car Cam Dually would have captured you slamming into a tree and your wife smashing the windows with a golf club, while simultaneously recording how you managed to injure…
Hey — what’s that? Oh right, it’s the LG eXpo, the slider with a pico projector jammed inside. Among other things, the full QWERTY slider’s packing a 1GHz CPU, a 3.2-inch touchscreen, a 5 megapixel camera, a microSD slot, and of course that removable Texas Instruments projector. The just-announced handset bears quite a strong resemblance to the Monaco we heard about way back in May — though from the looks of it, its lost all of the brassiness we were so fond of. The eXpo runs Windows Mobile 6.5, and it will hit AT&T on December 7th for $199 after a mail in rebate with a two year contract — plus an additional $179 should you choose to opt in on that projector.
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LG’s pico projector-packing WinMo eXpo outed for AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Michael Arrington’s ambitious project to create a super-simple web tablet is dead, drowned in a bathtub half-full of greed and selfishness. This isn’t a happy story.
It wasn’t because of high costs,…
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