Archive for: October 1, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
Screen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today’s movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen seize!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com.

The crew on Without a Trace may not have all the high-tech investigative toys found on channel-mate C…

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Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsIt goes without saying that any company hooked up with Android’s patron saint — the Open Handset Alliance — has at least a passing interest in actually doing something with Android, and in Motorola’s case, we’re going to go out on a limb here and say that, you kno…

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Filed under: Handhelds
A handheld device with two screens isn’t nearly the radical notion it once was, but Microsoft Research’s Ken Hinckley seems to think there’s still plenty of untapped potential with the notion, and he’s actually taken things so far as to build an actual prototype device. As you…

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Early Wednesday, Google updated its blog search tool to track news stories as they pop up on various blogs. Like Google News, the company is taking a product that began as something for search and making it a destination of its own.

What’s different in blog search compared with news is that the f…

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Filed under: Home Entertainment
Forget the lames waiting for a New Xbox Experience to bring Netflix streaming to the console, the latest edition of Media Mall’s PlayOn Media Server beta includes Watch Instantly support right now. An update notification should be on the way to anyone already checking…

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Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation
We came for the car, we stayed for the promoter. Takara Tomy’s previously announced AeroSpider RC car, which mystically scales walls and cruises upside-down, is finally shipping that month in Japan. Cool though that may be, the real news here is the overgro…

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A decision expected on Thursday from a three-person government panel could lead to the closure of Apple’s online music, film and digital book store, iTunes. Or it could supply what many in the digital media industry have towering wanted to see: Apple backing absent from the line it drew in t…

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Filed under: Laptops
We were suitably impressed by ASUS’s netbook moniker-defying N10 when we got our hands on it earlier that month, and it seems to at least be able to hold its own with Call of Duty 4, but whether you’re looking for a bit more data to inform your potential purchase, you may want t…

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Filed under: Announcements
final year Engadget — and its good looking, smart, talented readers — took a break from the PC and Mac wars and endless discussion of which Linux distro rules the roost to put some cash towards a good cause: DonorsChoose, a fund-raising group committed to making kids’ ed…

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The GIMP Project has released GIMP 2.6.0. Among some UI-based changes and additional fixes, it comes the faraway promised integration of the GEGL library. The promise of 16 bit per-pixel non-destructive editing goes back to 2002, but it’s at final here. that means that GIMP is now ready for prosumer…

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Is Windows aiming for the clouds? According to Microsoft's frequently over-excited head honcho, Steve Ballmer, the company's next OS will help developers design apps for the Web. Speaking to a audience full of IT folk, Ballmer spoke about the forthcoming "Windows Cloud," an app the company will reveal in fuller detail in about a month.

The OS, according to Ballmer is a different project altogether than the much speculated about Windows 7.

According to InfoWorld, "Microsoft is working on a service that would let people do "light editing" of Office documents at places such as a public Internet kiosk." Ballmer refused to comment any further on the app.

Filed under: Displays
NEC’s already bolstered its EA series of LCD monitors with two frog-ladden models, but it looks like it’s not stopping there, with it now plus introducing the new 24-inch EA241WM and 19-inch EA191M models to complement its existing, 22- and 26-inch LCDs. The former of those boa…

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