Archive for: August 16, 2007

August 16, 2007

Back-to-school shopping? Don’t forget the bulletproof backpacks

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

Filed under: Wearables
Sending your kid off to school these days isn’t what it used to be — at least that’s what one company called MJ Safety Solutions would have you believe — considering they’re selling a bulletproof backpack. That’s right, two worried parents in Boston have created “My Child’s …

Sprint’s XOHM WiMAX service gets official

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

Filed under: WirelessThe Xohm website is now hot, making yesterday’s rumor pretty incontestable at that point. Although seeing a press release would really seal the deal. The teaser site simply states that Xohm is coming in the Spring of 2008 and promises to “expand the Web experience” to a new cou…

AOL’s Truveo re-launches, takes on Google Video search

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

I’m a big fan of simple search tools, and one of the areas that’s been booming lately is video search. There are dozens of popular services for hosting video, but few for crawling all of them at once. Video search service…

iKey intros rugged, mobile keyboard with LED-backlit keys

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

Filed under: Peripherals
certain, we’ve seen our fair share of rugged input peripherals, but iKey’s FT-86-911-TP hits a niche that isn’t often covered. that ruggedized mobile unit is resistant to spills and sealed to IP55 specifications, and the universal mounting holes construct it ideal for placem…

Today in Engadget: August 15

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

Features

Hands on with the Sirius Stiletto 2
Hands on with the Sportster 5, SCV1 tuner, and Sonos with Sirius

News

Samsung’s SC-X300L wearable camcorder gets reviewed
Pocketable probe could detect drink spiking
Sprint’s mobile WiMAX service called XOHM?
Charmr concept tran…

Two-Way video conference shout “hack” for the iPhone

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

“Iron Coder Live” is a contest during the C-4 developer conference where attendees develop “hacks” within a given duration limit. that year they decided to “hack” the iPhone and first place went to a group who developed two-way video conference calls for the iPhone.Now anyone who’s ever seen an iPho…

Fiire’s Linux-based media center ties it all together

Filed under: Review - 16 Aug 2007

Filed under: Home Entertainment
A intelligent group of whippersnappers have got the right concept when it comes to domestic entertainment, namely, LinuxMCE-based systems that don’t break the bank but offer a pretty stacked feature set. Fiire, a company which manufactures and sells modular media boxe…

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