Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world’s top RPG gamers after one criminal’s girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google’s social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets One Japanese man has spent $170,000 to build an army of nearly a hundred ultra-realistic sex dolls made by Orient Industry. Apparently he’s part of the fever taking over middle-aged Japanese men, who buy these $850 to $5,500 silicon zombies with 35 movable joints out of desperation. But fear not, this [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Cellphones
Maybe it was Verizon’s most recent in-court request to stop serving up costly airwaves for which it couldn’t pay, maybe it was the cold reality that it’ll allegedly have a mere $9,000 in the bank as of next Monday — but at any rate, Amp’d Mobile appears ready to throw in the towel. [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Although Vista still seems fresh as a daisy, that hasn’t stopped Microsoft from planning their next major OS release, and it looks like a part of the plan is changing the internal codename from Vienna to “7.” The switch was disclosed at at a Microsoft sales training conference in Orlando this past [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: GPS
Asus is wondering back into the wilderness that is the portable GPS market with the R600, but we’ll admit, it certainly did a fair job differentiating this one from all of the middle-of-the-road alternatives. For starters, you’ll find a 4.3-inch WQVGA touchscreen, Samsung 400MHz processor, 128MB of Flash ROM, 64MB of SDRAM, a [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
There was no need to perform a Voight-Kampff test on this skin job. It came from the folks who introduced the world to the Robosapien—and besides, it had infrared vision sensors and no arms or legs. Since we showed you the first glimpse of robot Elvis at CES, we realized that now that it’s out, [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Does this 1970’s Braun ET44 calculator look familiar? Well for you iPhone users it should, it seems to bear more than a striking resemblance to your calculator application, no? [Wired]
Originally Syndicated via RSS from Gizmodo
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Features
We here at Engadget Mobile tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up all [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Cellphones
Motorola’s newest slider seems to have slipped out of Schaumburg and right into the waiting grasp of Engadget pal The Boy Genius. The Marco features the same slider case, GSM / EDGE radio, and 2 megapixel camera as the MOTORIZR Z3, but updates the internals with a WiFi chip, making compatibility with T-Mobile@Home [...]
Jul 20th, 2007
by hueland.
Trying to cut down a branch high on a tree with a chainsaw is a good way to gamble with your digits. If you value your thumb, perhaps you should find a better way to cut down high limbs. Might I suggest this ingenious hand-powered chainsaw? It’s the links from a chainsaw with 50 feet [...]