Archive for: October 20, 2007

October 20, 2007

Keepin’ it real fake, part XCI: Loomax Ii touch isn’t an iPod, duh

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
German publication Welt Online has the scoop on a killer KIRF: the Loomax Ii touch, which rips off the iPod Touch and sells for less than half the price. It has all the usual ingredients — it plays music, has a touch screen, and Apple-esque icons — but t…

NOD32 3.0.414 RC1

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Debunk: new Zunes will not have text messaging, but Microsoft’s Zune Social community site will

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We’ve gotten a small flood of emails from readers nowadays concerned with a convinced page found in final night’s leaked Zune support training manuals. The conclusion immediately drawn was that the portables would start communicating with one another via W…

Battery pack upgrade for Prius claims 150MPG

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Being shown at the Clean Vehicle Technology Expo in Ontario, California is Hymotion’s modified Prius that can hit up to 150MPG in city areas. By adding a 175 pound battery pack to the trunk of a Prius — which fits conveniently under the floor panel — and charging overnight using a regular abil…

Optimus Prime Peterbilt replica hits eBay

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Filed under: Transportation
Focusing on the untransformed Optimus Prime is that $50k replica that has hit eBay’s Canada store. The seller converted a 1994 Peterbilt into Hollywood’s version of Optimus, total with blue and red flame paint job, dozens of chrome switches, and a 17-inch entertainment sy…

Medical force feedback vest tweaked for gaming

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Filed under: Gaming
by at the E for All Expo, doctor Mark Ombrellaro is demonstrating a medical feedback vest altered so that it works with video games. When an in-game character gets hit or shot, the gamer wearing the vest feels “pneumatic thumps” to their torso. Originally designed for isolated me…

Disgruntled Vista users switching to Leopard?

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Computer solutions providers have reported that preorders for the Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard have doubled, as compared to the release of the preceding OS Tiger. The supposed culprit? Overall dissatisfication of the consumers by Windows Vista.”More than anything, it has to do with the biggest growth co…

Microsoft launches social bookmarking/GTD/wiki service Listas

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Microsoft habitable Labs has a new “technology preview” for you to play with. It’s called Listas and it’s basically a social bookmarking service for keeping track of substance you come across while browsing the Web, and sharing it with others. Users can manufacture their own containers full of all s…

Limited-edition Wisin & Yandel Zune

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio
Microsoft has chosen Latin act Wisin & Yandel to grace the case of a limited edition Zune, but it’s not by any means the first, as Reuters is reporting. Joining the Adult Swim, Halo 3, and various Pink limited edition Zunes, the Wisin & Yandel Zune will target the…

Maker Faire, Austin: you going?

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Austinites and Texans approach and far, we hope you’re headed out to your local Maker Faire that weekend — wish we could be there, too. Seriously, where else in the world are you going to see a skinned Sega Dream Pony? Do us a fave, put your pictures on up the Engadget Fl…

AT&T slaps Vonage with yet another lawsuit

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

Just when you thought Vonage may be catching a breather from the total barrage of lawsuits it has been hit with of late, along comes none other than AT&T to prove you wrong. Reportedly, the company has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Madison, Wisconsin alleging that Vonage unlawf…

PayPal’s open-source solution

Filed under: Review - 20 Oct 2007

I’ve written before on PayPal’s reliance on open source, but came across this commentary that takes it one step farther. Not subject matter to confess to deriving benefits from open source, PayPal’s Matthew Mengerink (VP, Core Technologies, PayPal) lists four things that any IT agency can do to der…

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