Archive for December, 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 ...

Xbox 360 Devil May Cry 4 bundle hitting Japan in January

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 ...

Shiro readies trio of ho hum PMPs

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. ...

Sony’s 1080p VPL-VW40 projector set for January release

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 ...

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S730 compact shooter pre-announced for CES

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 ...

TG’s LLUON Crystal reminds us that mini PCs can be sexy, too

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 ...

Cowon’s N3 player packs DMB, GPS, 7-inch touchscreen

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 ...

Angry drivers torching traffic cameras in England

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 ...