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Posts on ‘August 16th, 2007’

Polk Audio delivers miDock Portfolio for your Stiletto

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Although Polk Audio has made its miDock Portfolio available for your iPod in the past, it’s about time that Stiletto receiver of yours received the same treatment. The SLPTD1, which can be powered [...]

Foxy Brown allegedly assaults neighbor with BlackBerry

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Joining the growing list of celebrities who can’t quit using their cellphones to beat up on others is Foxy Brown, who was recently “charged with assault and possession of a weapon” after allegedly hitting a neighbor with her BlackBerry. Of course, this isn’t the first time Foxy’s temper has [...]

Today in Engadget: August 16

Features

Winner of the super rare signed 300-Edition Xbox 360 Elite!
Contest: let Engadget trick out your home theater
Ask Engadget: Can you turn my clunker laptop into a media center?

News

iKey intros rugged, mobile keyboard with LED-backlit keys
Sprint’s XOHM WiMAX service gets official
Back-to-school shopping? Don’t forget the bulletproof backpacks
Robotic cucumber hand freaks out party goers
Asus Eee PC pricing [...]

Samsung’s YP-S5 caught in the wild

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

You may have already seen the static pics of Samsung’s latest slick little YP-S5 earlier today, but GenerationMP3 just got their hands on a demo model and snapped a whole bunch of action shots (including a comparison with its predecessor, the K5), and we’d like to share them with you. [...]

German scientists claim to have broken speed of light

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’re almost terrified to hear what the physicists in the crowd have to say about this one, but a duo of German scientists have reportedly broken the speed of light. To do so, the two “set up an experiment in which microwave photons, energetic packets of light, appeared to travel instantaneously between [...]

Denon launches USB / MIDI-equipped DN-HC4500 for digital DJs

Filed under: Portable Audio

It was close to this time last year when Denon unveiled the DN-HD2500, and now it’s time for DJs the world over to get a glimpse of the DN-HC4500 Media Player and Controller. The unit itself is the firm’s “first USB / MIDI audio interface designed exclusively for computer performance club and [...]

DivX sez 100 million certified video devices have been shipped

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Video
Moving 100 million of anything is no easy feat, and DivX is using this very milestone to throw itself a party. Reportedly, over 100 million DivX Certified video devices have shipped out “since the launch of the DivX Certification program in 2003,” and it notes alliances with LG, Philips, Samsung, [...]

Ask Engadget: Can you turn my clunker laptop into a media center?

Filed under: Ask Engadget, Media PCs
We were keeping it simple last week on Ask Engadget, helping in Perry’s quest for a stripped-down GPS unit. This time Xtopher Robin is looking to do more with less, with big hopes for his aging laptop. If you’d like your own question answered by the best tech minds ever [...]

Palm Centro: Palm’s next Treo, er, smartphone

Filed under: Cellphones

You didn’t really think it was going to be called the Gandalf, did you? Palm’s next smartphone is the, wait for it, “Centro”; Palm’s apparently not calling it a Treo (it was presented to us as the Palm Centro, not the Palm Treo Centro, or the Treo 800), and isn’t yet showing off [...]

Gateway heads into China with help from distributor

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Following a brief pilot progam in June, Gateway’s announced that it’s making its first major push into China, with the company teaming with Digital China, Inc. to offer its systems nationwide. While Gateway isn’t getting specific about exactly what systems will available, it is saying that it’ll be offering a “new premium [...]