admin | May 31, 2009
Man, the mad scientists are really on a roll of late. First we hear that Li-ion cells are set to magically double in capacity, and now we’re learning that a new form of invisibility cloak is totally gearing up for its Target debut. As the seemingly endless quest to bend light in such a way [...]
admin | May 31, 2009
Look, LED light bulbs are fanciful, great for Ma Earth and a fine addition to any home, barber shop or underground fight club. But let’s be honest — even the guy that bikes through blizzards to get to work and wears garb that he grew in his basement isn’t apt to shell out $120 a [...]
admin | May 29, 2009
You’re already well aware of what GigaPan’s wild camera robot is capable of when its in masterly hands, but have you ever wondered if such a device is practical for folks who don’t have excellent seats for events such as Presidential inaugurations or the Arirang Mass Games? We’ve been toying around with an Epic 100 [...]
admin | May 22, 2009
One step forward, one step back: just as we were getting ready to celebrate Microsoft’s decision to remove the three-app limit from Windows 7 Starter Edition, we’re hearing that Redmond is still planning to impose strict limits on what types of machines get to run the stripped-down build. Just like today’s max XP specs, things [...]
admin | May 22, 2009
And here you were expecting this day to never, ever come. At long last, e-tailer Justek has begun to ship UMID’s dainty mbook M1 to customers all over the globe, with pricing set at $659.42 for the Linux model and $765.78 for the Windows XP model (along with an 8GB microSD card). By this point, [...]
admin | May 21, 2009
Coming to you live from left field, it’s this week’s edition of Ask Engadget. Once your done reading and replying (in comments below, naturally) to the question here, feel free to send us your own to ask at engadget dawt com.
“I am looking for a portable hard drive with memory card slots so [...]
admin | May 21, 2009
Sure, it’s no Zaurus, but Sharp’s new RD-PM10 certainly is a looker. It packs a 4.3-inch WQVGA screen, QWERTY keyboard and 8GB of storage into a pretty delightful form factor, and while it’s only designed for light e-dictionary and media playback duties, with Windows CE 5.0 as the backbone, we could imagine it doing a [...]
admin | May 21, 2009
“You know, I could build a better phone than this.” We’ve probably all uttered something to that effect in our past in a fit of frustrated rage — some more than others — but are you ready to put your money where your mouth is? If so, you can now part with some cash and [...]
admin | May 21, 2009
Panasonic has launched the worlds first ‘Class 10′ series of SDHC cards. Class 10 is a new speed specification developed by the SD Card Association, it inherits the attributes of the current ‘Class 6′ line with further enhanced speed performance of up to 22MB/s. In addition to its Gold series Class 10 cards, it has [...]
admin | May 21, 2009
Don’t take it personally, Blu-ray — we still love you and all, but there’s just something dreamy about baking 1.6TB of information onto a blank piece of optical media we can actually afford. According to a new report, a crew of researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have exploited the properties of a [...]
