Archive for April, 2009
PeeWee debuts drop and spill-resistant Pivot Tablet Laptop
At first glance, PeeWee PC’s Pivot Tablet Laptop is a formidable rival to the long-standing OLPC XO. Unfortunately, the lofty price tag puts it in a class of its own, but it’s still a solid machine for those looking to a learn a bit (or just give their kids a wholesome distraction). Debuting today, the […]
Acer already working on “several Android devices,” smartphone included
Okay, now we get it — the flood of Android phones we were expecting at MWC and CTIA this year are actually arriving a month or two late. Nice. Anywho, with Samsung just recently dishing out official dirt on its Google-fied I7500 and HTC pushing out its Magic overseas, Acer is making darn sure it’s […]
PXP-900 handheld ditches the UMD drive, and the PSP
A new PSP may well be on the horizon, but it looks like the knock-off business is still going strong with the classic model, and it’s kicked out one of its most faithful / blatant homages to date with this new so-called PXP-900. While it doesn’t do anything crazy like actually play PSP games, you […]
TiVo’s Jim Denney responds to Engadget!
We can’t say we were expecting any sort of response to our state-of-TiVo piece yesterday, but we just got a note from VP of Marketing Jim Denney. It’s not long, but he says that TiVo takes comments like ours “very seriously,” and that TiVo’s always looking to build on customer feedback. Sure, uh, we’re glad […]
Birthday boy gets box of rocks instead of Nintendo DS
No, you’re not being mercilessly attacked by an unyielding feeling of déjà vu for no good reason — we really have seen something eerily similar to this happen before. This go ’round, we’ve got a totally innocent ten year old boy who was given Guitar Hero for DS prior to even owning a console; as […]
AMD’s $69 2.8GHz Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition CPU launched, reviewed
AMD already showed us yesterday what kind of graphical prowess could be crammed into a sub-$100 GPU, and today it’s attempting to pull the same kind of stunt on the CPU front. The Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition — a 2.8GHz chip with 2MB of L3 cache and loads of overclocking potential — has just […]
Engadget’s recession antidote: win a Sonos Multi-Room Music System Bundle 150
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn’t want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back — so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. We’ll be handing out a new gadget […]
Students build 3D computer interface using copper, felt, and lots of moxie
Always on the lookout for bigger and better ways to faux-scratch a record with your PC, these students at Northeastern University have developed a human-computer interface that utilizes copper pads and our beloved theory of electrostatics. This little devil is able to track the position of a user’s hand in three dimensions, without attaching markers […]
Nokia Music veep addresses slow Comes with Music sales in the UK
After some rather disheartening (albeit unconfirmed) estimates last week that Nokia’s Comes with Music service had snagged only 23,000 subscribers in the United Kingdom, Rob Taylor, vice president of Nokia Music says that the company is pretty “happy” with what its learned there so far. He admitted that the UK launch (the service’s first) devices […]
Sensitive Object’s Anywhere MultiTouch extends touch sensitivity to the whole device
Sensitive Object, a French startup best known for its louche, Gitanes-smoking engineers and its love of cocktail jazz, has just announced the development of Anywhere MultiTouch, a Windows 7-compliant platform that brings touch sensitivity to glass, aluminum, and plastic, through the use of piezoelectric sensors. This product is an extension of the company’s ReverSys technology, […]
