Gadgets (Tech)
The Engadget Show Live! with Omar Khan, Rock Band 3, and more!
Keep your eyes tuned to this post — because at 8:00 PM ET, we’ll be starting The Engadget Show live, with Samsung CSO Omar Khan, Rick Karr, Rock Band 3! Nilay’s on vacation, but Josh and Paul are on hand with Joanna Stern and Ross Miller, plus we’ll have music from Zen Albatross and [...]
ASUS prices 10-inch Android Eee Pad under $399, 8-inch Eee Tablet at $300, other tablets too
ASUS just dumped Windows Embedded Compact 7 for Android for its lower-end tablet devices, and CEO Jerry Shen is passing along the savings. He’s pledging that the 10-inch Eee Pad EP101TC, due to ship in March, will cost under $399 — and if the Notion Ink Adam is any indication that means it’ll be $398. [...]
Axon Logic's Haptic tablet can run a desktop's OS, has a desktop's price
Half a year ago, you’d have been forgiven for expecting that today both Windows 7 and Mac OS X would have flagship tablets representing them, in the shape of the HP Slate and the Apple iPad. Alas, one of those devices ran away to enterprise land and the other opted for a mobile OS. It’s [...]
Dell Streak gets leaked Android 2.1 update in the UK, but still the same ol' 1.6 in the US
What is there to do on a cloudy Friday in Britain? Why, scouring the web for your phone’s firmware update, of course. That’s probably how a Modaco member unearthed the Dell Streak’s latest Android 2.1 build (apparently just for locked O2 devices), anyway. Sure, the link’s quirky domain name and sluggish speed may arouse some [...]
Yurina health care robot promises to help lift, terrify patients
We already got a look at a robot wheelchair that was on display at the recent Next-Generation Robot Manufacturing Exhibition in Japan, but it wasn’t the only robotic health care device on display at the show — this so-called Yurina robot from Japan Logic Machine was also busy impressing attendees with its patient-lifting abilities. This [...]
Sony circles August 24 for all-new Alpha DSLR launch event
News has been a bit barren on the DSLR front lately (not counting Pentax’s color explosion earlier on), but that’s not going to last for much longer. Sony is starting up the fall refresh cycle with “never-before-seen” Alpha models, which will be shown off at an event on August 24 alongside the NEX-VG10 and some [...]
HTC schedules September 15 event, leaves us guessing as to what it's launching
Time to get our guessing caps on as HTC has announced it’ll be hosting a little shindig in London in the middle of next month. No advance information is available beyond the smoky teaser image above, leaving the door wide open for speculation. Given the event’s proximity to Windows Phone 7’s launch and the recent [...]
Splitfish announces power-saving FragFX Shark controller for PS3, PC and Mac
SplitFish isn’t providing a ton of details on this one just, but it has announced that its new FragFX Shark controller for the PS3, PC and Mac will be making its official debut at Gamescon later this month, and it’s given us our first look at it. As you can see, it’s not all that [...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100 reviewed: the best megazoom shooter your dough can buy
Panasonic and superzoom cameras go together like… well, like any two things that are undoubtedly meant to be together. The company has a history of outdoing itself time and time again when it comes to enlarged point-and-shoots with atypically long zooms, and the all-new DMC-FX100 is most certainly not bucking the trend. Announced just a [...]
Doc Marten USB drive makes puppies look skinny, gristle throb
We’ve all been there: hands punched violently into pockets, conspicuously affected by the visceral industrial hum of big city decay. If only we had this $25 limited edition 50th anniversary 2GB “stomper” USB drive to complete our ensemble. Who knows, in the right hands it might have helped Jesus build a hotrod.
Doc Marten USB drive [...]
