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Xbox 360 Elite to Replace Pro at $299.99
By Shane McGlaun, Dailytech The game console market is not doing as well as it once was and the more expensive consoles are especially feeling the pinch of the poor economy. The Nintendo Wii at $249 still reigns supreme when it comes to sales and the PS3 remains the most expensive of the game consoles. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Hands-on with the Zune HD
By Peter Ha, Tech crunch Can Microsoft’s latest Zune, the Zune HD, take down the king? It depends on which king you’re talking about. As it stands, the iPod Touch is a whole different beast because of the App Store. What Microsoft has done with the Zune HD is nothing short of spectacular, but who [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nanovision’s MIMO 720-S USB secondary display is slim yet touchable
By Tim Stevens, Engadget If you got all excited about the upcoming MIMO 710-S, Nanovision’s slinky refresh of its earlier UM-710, but then felt like someone took the wind out of your proverbial sails when you learned it lacked a touchable screen, we’d advise you to hold fast and ready that metaphorical spinnaker. The company [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gigabyte T1028X touchscreen netbook quietly debuts
By Chris Davies, Slashgear Gigabyte have quietly updated their convertible touchscreen netbook range with the T1028X, a slightly re-fettled version of the T1028M they announced back at CeBIT 2009. Among the key changes are a switch in processor, moving up to the Atom N280 1.66GHz CPU paired with a faster FSB, and a higher-resolution display, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )iTunes 9: Blu-ray And App Organization And Twitter
By MG Siegler, Tech crunch This is completely a rumor, but an awesome one. Citing a “pretty reliable” source, Boy Genius Report is saying that the next version of iTunes will add a bunch of new, highly requested features. Specificially, BGR’s source says iTunes 9 features Blu-ray support, a new way to organize iPhone apps [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sony Ericsson’s MS500 Bluetooth speaker makes old people cranky
By Thomas Ricker, Engadget Annoyed by urban youth and their desire to fill the world with “music” from the tin-can speakers on their cellphones? Yeah? Then prepare yourself old man ’cause your curmudgeon knob is about to get a twist from this new Bluetooth 2.1+EDR speaker from Sony Ericsson. The MS500 2-watt speaker is designed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Peek arrives for small businesses in $149 5-pack
By Darren Murph, Engadget As Peek continues to poke, prod and experiment in order to find the best niche(s) to serve, it has now pushed out a sweetly priced 5-pack designed for small businesses. Reportedly, “lots” of these smaller operations have been looking for “more affordable solutions” to everyone toting BlackBerry devices, and this is [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Axiotron’s Modbook goes and Modbook Pro to get projected capacitive screens
By Tim Stevens, Engadget Resistive touch-screens are great when you have a stylus in-hand, capacitive screens offer more finesse when you’re going at it with fingertips, and both are about useless when you’re wearing gloves (for now, anyway). That changes with the projective capacitive screen, able to offer responsiveness to a bare fingertip and also [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kogan GPS Watch has Bluetooth and bulk
By Chris Davies, Slashgear Last week it was their first netbook; before that, Android smartphones. Now Kogan have set their sights on our wrists, but be warned: you’ll have had to do some serious arm exercises before wearing the Kogan GPS Watch. Billed as “the most feature packed watch on the market”, it’s a combination [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Third-party iPod shuffle headphones will require Apple-licensed authentication chip
By Nilay Patel, Engadget Sigh, it looks like Apple’s habit of squeezing iPod accessory manufacturers for license fees has now extended to freaking headphones — iLounge is reporting that the new iPod shuffle can only be controlled by headphones with a special hardware authentication chip. That means that third parties will have to pay Apple [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Garmin Oregon 500 series with built-in camera leaks out
By Nilay Patel, Engadget Looks like the latest Garmin Oregon nav unit is following in family footsteps by leaking out a little early — listings for an Oregon 500 and Oregon 500t appear in the latest REI catalog. The pair are basically the same as the Oregon 400 / 400t, with the addition of a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Motion’s J3400 rugged tablet PC boasts dual batteries
By Darren Murph, Engadget Need a tablet PC that’ll last all day, do ya? Care for one that you can also see whilst outdoors? Look no further than Motion‘s brand new J3400, a rugged (albeit sleek) new tablet that comes equipped with dual battery compartments and an outdoor-visible LCD. Other specs include an Intel Core [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )iriver P7 does the unboxing thing
By Nilay Patel, Engadget We thoroughly enjoyed our CES hands-on time with iriver’s slick P7 PMP, but it looks like the touchscreen player is starting to make it out to the wild — check out these unboxing photos. We’re not sure why iriver’s chosen “like a magazine” as the tagline here, but we’re pretty anxious [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Amnesty Generator puts iGoogle gadgets on your Windows 7 desktop
By Lee Mathews, Downloadsquad You may have read about Amnesty Generator before on Download Squad – it’s a free application that converts thousands of web gadgets and widgets – from dozens of sources – for use right on your Windows desktop. While it was designed for Vista, it’s not too surprising to find that it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Phone Through The Skull Makes Sure Care Bears Are Really Dead
By Darren Murph, Engadget we’re having a really tough time determining whether this is just mildly weird, astonishingly strange or adorably cute. While we wrestle with our emotions, we’ll candidly explain that this stuffed Care Bears head does nothing more than hold your cellphone and cast dubious glances in your direction. If that’s all you [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kinetic HD:Hub HTPC gets hip with Core i7, square with HD DVD
By Darren Murph, Engadget We know, vendors have to get rid of these leftover HD DVD drives somehow, but it’s still a tad comical to see brand new systems shipping with support for a format that perished over a year ago. Nevertheless, we’re still pretty jazzed about Kinetic’s HD:Hub, as the built-in HD DVD drive [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple Introduces New iPod Shuffle
By Brian, Mobilewhack The Apple iPod shuffle, the usual starting device for people to get into the iPod craze has long been forgotten due to the various iPod variants introduced in the market. Today, Apple announced the launch of the new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Sony’s Maguire: UMD ‘wasn’t brilliant’ for third parties
By Justin McElroy, Joystiq.com One of the most important classes in blogger college is Learning to Decipher Executive Quotes 101. So, for example, when Sony responded to Dave Perry’s claims of a UMD-less PSP 2 with a, “Can’t comment either way,” we knew that meant, “We’re not ready to announce that yet, but yeah, totally.” [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wacom Intuos4 pen tablet spotted by Mr. Blurrycam
By Donald Melanson, Engadget There’s not exactly much official word about this one just yet, but it looks like Wacom could have a little surprise in the offing for pen tablet enthusiasts, with some seemingly legit pics of the hereto unannounced Intuos4 now surfacing courtesy of our old friend Mr. Blurrycam. Unfortunately, ‘ol Blurry didn’t [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New iPod shuffle requires extra adapter for third-party headphones
By Nilay Patel, Engadget We were wondering why the new voice-enabled iPod shuffle even has a standard 3.5mm headphone jack since it’s controlled by proprietary headphones, and we just got the answer: non-Apple headphones will require a special dongle that includes the new three-button controller, and Apple says it’s working with third parties to bring [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Dev Team releases free iPod touch 2G jailbreak
By Nilay Patel, Engadget Well, that didn’t take long — hot on the heels of the $15 NitroKey Slipstream iPod touch 2G jailbreak, the Dev Team’s released their free version. Apparently they’d been hoping to keep the jailbreak-enabling security hole a secret until the next version of the iPhone came out so Apple wouldn’t be [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Water Fountain Toothbrush No Longer Costs $1750
By Charlie Sorrel, Blog.wired.com Remember the Brush & Rinse? The novel toothbrush first came to our attention back in August of 2007, when a prototype could be had for a rather scary $1750. Now, Scott Amron has them in production at a much more comfortable $1.18 (It will rise to $5). The Brush & Rinse [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Vigilant Windows Could Detect An Intruder Before They’re Even Broken
By Andrew Liszewski, Ohgizmo.com Imagine if the windows in your home or business could be used as motion detectors to sense a potential intruder before they even attempted to break in. Well that’s the idea behind the ‘Vigilant windows’ being developed at the Fraunhofer Institutes for Applied Polymer Research. The glass is coated with a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Apple’s redesigned iPod shuffle hits 4GB, talks to you
By Thomas Ricker, Engadget Bam, another Apple rumor vindicated. Apple just doubled the capacity of its iPod shuffle to 4GB while ditching the control wheel entirely. The new design keeps the clip and adds VoiceOver — a new feature that gets around the lack of display by telling you which song is playing and who [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Apple store down: 4GB iPod shuffle on the way?
By Thomas Ricker, Engadget Yeah, we know, the Apple Store’s down. We had presumed it to be regular maintenance since it’s not Tuesday and there’s not a single Apple rumor in the mix that would warrant such a quiet product launch. Then we peeped MacRumors and low and behold Arn’s got a source claiming 4GB [...]
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