Archive for September 21st, 2007
Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Media PCs
There's one other notable on that Acer product sheet we peeped earlier: a new iDea media center. The specs go a little something like this: Vista Home Premium, Core 2 Duo T5500, 2GB memory, 500GB 7,200RPM SATA disk, DVD burner, nVidia MXM7600 GO graphics, dual MCE tuners, ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Robots
Could it be that a distant relative of the Great Gazoo has crash landed in Japan only to serve as tour guide in a government building? Well, in Japan, anything is possible. Besides representing what many believe to be the original "jump the shark" television moment, this Osaka ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
We caught a peek of Asus' R3 UMPC / MID yesterday, but it got shown off in a little more detail today during a presentation on Adobe's AIR platform. No word on which variation of Intel's Menlow platform it'll be sporting, but it looks like the ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Keepin' the flow of new BenQ gear rolling is the C840 point-and-shoot, which claims to be the successor of the 2.5-month old C740i. This camera features an eight-megapixel CCD sensor, an SMC Pentax lens, face tracking functionality, anti-shake, 3x optical zoom, a 2.5-inch LTPS LCD monitor, red-eye ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Announcements
Engadget fans in Tokyo, San Francisco, and New York! We're scheduling our next round of reader meetups in your cities, but we need your help in finding a good spot. If you've got a good suggestion of some place that will put up with the motley likes of ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Gaming
For those of you whose salivary glands have been working overtime when thinking about Sony's new Playstation Eye PS3 camera accessory (and we're sure there's at least one or two of you), you better go get a napkin. According to reports, the interactive, VGA cam will ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
Although BenQ prefers to market its MP622 and MP622c projectors to the suits, we see no reason these bad boys can't be carted home after the nine-to-five for a little fun. Both DLP units sport a 1,024 x 768 (XGA) resolution, a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Laptops
Sure, you've had the space of a few minutes without Apple rumors, but be honest with us: it felt lonely, didn't it? Well don't worry, because the rumors are back... with a vengeance. According to 9to5mac (who recently nailed news on the iPod nano), Apple is readying a ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe're not really sure if Seoul Semiconductor is completely accurate in the assertion that its new 420-lumen (peak) LED is the world's brightest at 8-watts, but considering that we were pretty impressed by the company's 240-lumen model late last year -- and the fact that even the ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsIt looks like the open source community is about to head into some uncharted waters, with the first GPL-related lawsuit in the US now headed to court. At the center of this particular brouhaha is Hava-maker Monsoon Multimedia, who is being sued by the Software Freedom Law ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Robots
Kyotaro Nishimura is a mystery writer from Japan with his very own museum, which now -- thanks to Fujitsu -- has a shiny new guide robot. The droid in question, a friendly helper named Enon, will autonomously move to the entrance of the museum to greet guests, will ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones
C'mon, you knew this would become an issue, now didn't you? Or did you seriously figure Apple would just leave well enough alone and let you hack that iPhone to your heart's content (and still receive service)? Whatever the case, it seems like Cupertino may be playing hardball ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessJust a few months removed from rumors that Vodafone would offload its stake in Verizon Wireless altogether, the two networks have announced that they'll share a common selection for their fourth-generation data networks: Long-Term Evolution. Endorsed by the 3GPP as the official way to burn wireless rubber ...
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