Archive for: November 10, 2007

Filed under: Gaming
An ingenious little hack enables anyone with a Wii, a forceful infrared emitter, and some reflective tape to control their Wii with their fingertips, as demonstrated in the creator’s YouTube video. The “hack” involves sticking the reflective pads on your fingertips, and placing a…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Announcements
Did you know you could change some of the data in your Engadget / Weblogs, Inc. profile, including your password? We know, it’s some crazy crap that every other site on the internets has had for years, but we do it too, and it just so happens it’s not a very well documente…

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Gadgets

EcoWatts and its fake free energy gadget is back in the limelight again, with the BBC Breakfast Show falling hook, line, and sinker in an interview with the company’s “CEO” Paul Calver. Calver stated that “we’re still getting to the question of why it works,” explaining to a BBC presenter his be…

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Gadgets, Household

Filed under: Home Entertainment
It’s no secret that all TV studios hate writers, puppies and you, so it’s really no surprise that NBC dropped iTunes distribution a couple months back — it’s all part of the master plan. Luckily, the new NBC Direct service, which is now in beta, is a tiny breath of f…

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Gadgets

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Palm began life as a software company (anyone remember bailing out their Newton’s testy handwriting recognition by installing Graffiti?), and who the heck knows — perhaps a software company again it will be. Okay, okay, it’s way too early to be sounding the death …

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Gadgets

Filed under: Announcements
Since everyone apparently likes to see the names of the winners of our contests, here’s who’s taking domestic one of the three peripherals from our post-award-spam giveaway: Todd, Ben, and Trevor, come on down. (Remember, winners were selected randomly, not considering of …

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Gadgets

Ahead of the official launch of the updated Zune range on Tuesday, there’s been a deluge of new info about the device and its new features. First up we have the inevitable unboxing photos, although there’s an interesting surprise in store whether you manage to get one before the official availab…

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Gadgets, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Filed under: Features, Laptops, Storage
We’ve been fooling around with Samsung’s 64GB SSD for the past couple of days and guess what, it turns out the thing is both totally silent and really fast. Who knew? Without getting all chartngraph up in that piece, we pitted it against a couple of stock Seag…

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Gadgets

Filed under: CellphonesWhile we wouldn’t mind a bit whether the iPhone had an easy-to-replace battery like most mobiles these days, it seems that Exradia feels that such an oversight was nothing short of (potentially) harmful. As you very well know, we’ve seen so much conflicting notes regarding the…

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Gadgets

ZoneAlarm protects your sensitive personal and financial data from hacker attacks It keeps your private information safe from the outside world and can even track the source of intrusion attempts and map their whereabouts instantly without exposing your identity or location For iron clad firewall protection choose ZoneAlarm
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Anti virus Fixed a problem where running vmware on the same machine as Suite caused major performance problems especially on dual core machines
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We’ve got a strange feeling that digiframes are going to be relatively hot that holiday season, but possibly the sudden rash of offerings are just coincidentally launching weeks before Black Friday. Regardless of the reasons, EDGE Tech is hitting us up with a 12-inch version of its own, which fe…

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Digital Cameras, Displays, Gadgets

No, the headgear in the photo above wasn’t some unused prototype created for The Terminator; rather, it’s a snazzy new helmet designed to give fighter pilots a better look at their environment. Within the tinted faceplate are two projectors which sync up with plane-mounted cameras and display im…

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Gadgets, Wearables