Archive for: July 22, 2008

July 22, 2008

Tri-Solar LED Flashlight: considering three panels are better than one

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Nah, it’s no Mag-Lite, but the Tri-Solar LED Flashlight should handle most minor lighting needs. The unit can function with one LED on, three LEDs on or all three LEDs flashing (you know, in case you realize the car you just hopped in is now making a b-line for the Bates M…

Apple experiences iPhone 3G shortage, will launch iPhone 3G to 20 other countries in August

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

 

The new iPhone 3G handsets were greedily snapped up by the consumers that Apple soon found itself having a tough duration keeping up with the demand - so tough, they’re currently experiencing a shortage. But do not nag: according to Apple’s conference sign discussing its Q3 2008 financial resu…

Golden Shellback waterproofing defies water, reality

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

We’re generally pretty jaded when public tell us that we “won’t believe” what we’re seeing in a videos sent to tips — right, right, a cellphone demon, nice one — but it certain seems like the Golden Shellback waterproof coating is the real deal. Developed at the Northeast Maritime Institute an…

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Games for Windows habitable now free

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

Interesting that that didn’t get announced at E3, but Games for Windows Live is now free for all. Yep, totally free, cross-platform multiplayer with the 360 included — which obviously raises the question of whether habitable will ever be free on Xbox. We think that’s a pretty safe no — unlike …

ASUS continues to mercilessly flog Eee type with Eee PC 1000HD

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

ASUS must think that best way to invent the Eee PC stand out in the overflowing netbook market is to crank out minor, uninteresting variants of the same models, considering otherwise we’re at a total loss to explain today’s appearance of the Eee PC 1000HD. Yeah, that’s the 1000HD, not the 1000H,…

AnyDVD & AnyDVD HD 6.4.5.6 Final

AnyDVD is a driver which unprotects DVD Movies automatically in the background This DVD appears unprotected and region code free for all applications and the Windows operating system as well With AnyDVD 39 s help copy tools like CloneDVD Pinnacle Instant Copy InterVideo DVD Copy etc are able to copy CSS protected Movies With the help of AnyDVD you can watch movies with non matching region codes with every DVD Player Software you like AnyDVD decrypts not just DVDs AnyDVD allows you also to play copy and rip protected Audio CDs But AnyDVD does much more of course For example it is possible to control the rotational speed of your DVD drive so you can watch DVDs on your PC with far less noise nbsp

NES gets crammed into third-party light gun, plans a 187 on Bowser

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

Okay, okay — we get it. So possibly there’s just not adequate room in a genuine Zapper to fit all the essential innards of a Nintendo Entertainment System into, but it’s just a bit weird to see the Big N’s antiquated console crammed into some other light gun. Similar to the NES-in-an-NES-contro…

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Gemei gets saucy with the touchscreen X780 PMP

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

It was inevitable. We just knew Gemei couldn’t hold its own forever, and now it seems the resistance to copying other interfaces has finally losed out. The all-too-familiar X780 comes equipped with a 3-inch 400 x 280 resolution display, 4GB of internal memory, a miniSD expansion slot, FM tuner, …

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JVC’s HP-FXC50 earphones promise to get closer to your eardrum

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

They may not conduct sound through your bones, but JVC’s new HP-FXC50 earphones at least promise to pump sound deeper into your ears than your usual earbuds. That’s apparently done simply by usuing a longer and thinner sound driver than usual (measuring 5.8mm in diameter), which can be “instal…

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Belkin BreakFree adds magnetic breakaway connector to your guitar cable

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

From all the coffee shop musicians here at Engadget, we’d like to sincerely thank Belkin for producing that marvelous device. For the rest of us who run around on stage like madmen, we have our doubts about how well that will work. Nevertheless, the BreakFree Connectors were designed to add a ma…

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Researcher Spills Beans on DNS Flaw Specs

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

Details about the massive Domain Name System flaw revealed less than two weeks ago were made public on the Web Monday. Halvar Flake, a reverse engineering expert, posted a hypothetical theory about the vulnerability on his blog. A few hours later, a researcher at Matasano shield who knew the…

British border guards recruit robots to root out stowaways

Filed under: Review - 22 Jul 2008

It looks like attempts to sneak across the border into Britain could soon become a battle of humans versus the machines, as the country’s border guards have now recruited some robots normally used in warzones to help root out folks trying to smuggle themselves into the country. Developed by BA…

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