Archive for: October 18, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones
While bone conduction has been fairly quick to catch on in headsets, the slightly unnerving technology has so far been conspicuously absent from the cellphones themselves, save for the odd rumor. Pantech looks set to change that, however, with its newly-announced bone-rattlin…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
A pair of researchers at UC Irvine look to be out to prepare a name for themselves in the increasingly-crowded field of nanotechnology, with them now announcing that they’ve developed the first nano-scale radio. While the entire setup obviously isn’t nano-sized (as you can…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Cellphones
Compulab may start a trend in the do-it-yourself world with its introduction of a fully functional — less screen — handheld computer. Starting at $122 you get the basic module running an Intel Xscale CPU up to 520 MHz with either Linux or Windows CE and for a bit increasing…

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Gadgets

whether you’ve ever tried to manipulate an Excel file (or similar) on a 320 x 240 resolution display in the palm of your hand, we totally understand your pain. Thankfully, a few dutiful individuals at BYU have concocted a snazzy way to get handheld imagery onto tabletop displays, and there’s eve…

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Cellphones, Displays, Handhelds

While we’re not going to complain about the launch of the cheaper 40GB PS3, we are still kind of miffed that it isn’t backwards-compatible with our huge library of PS2 games — particularly since newer PS3s retain compatibility through software emulation and not specialized hardware like earlier…

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Gaming

While everyone else was distracted by some touchscreen thing, Nokia spent the past quarter absolutely dominating the worldwide market for low-end phones, and the results, announced nowadays, seem like the company might have the right concept: Nokia’s profits rose 85 percent to 1.56B euros ($2.2B…

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Cellphones

Ubuntu is a community developed linux based operating system that is perfect for laptops desktops and servers It contains all the applications you need a web browser presentation document and spreadsheet software instant messaging and much more Ubuntu is free software Whether you use it at home at school or at work Ubuntu contains all the applications you 39 ll ever need from word processing and email applications to web server software and programming tools

We’re a bit short on reader-submitted questions on Ask Engadget that week — speaking of, send your questions to ask at engadget dawt com and you’ve got a good shot at getting it some air instance — but it’s alright ’cause we’ve got a question of our own:

A buddy of ours is setting up a dome…

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Displays, Features, Gadgets, HDTV, Home Entertainment

At PhotoPlus Expo in New York, Industrial Color, the leader in digital photo capture and online workflow software, announced the GLOBALedit Export Plug-in for Aperture. The plug-in, available as a free download, lets photographers “securely upload image collections from Aperture version 1.5 int…

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Apple

Well, it looks like Microsoft has acknowledged what we’ve known for almost a week — the Xbox 360 Arcade is real and shipping. When asked by the Financial Times, Microsoft’s Robbie Bach said the $279 console was designed to draw in gamers who are “more casually focused, they’re looking for a new…

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Gadgets, Gaming

While any commoner can carry around 32GB of goods in an ugly plastic flash drive nowadays, the discriminating gadget lover would much rather carry around 4GB of documents in Bissol’s luxury brass enclosure — which the company is additionally touting as the “world’s smallest 4GB flash drive.” Th…

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Gadgets, Storage

Earlier that month, we noticed that fence-sitters in the drawn out format war could play both sides by picking up the towering m9000t with an HD DVD / Blu-ray combo drive built right in. For those still wondering whether it’s worth the coin, ComputerShopper managed to sit it down and reply that …

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Desktops