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Posts on ‘August 20th, 2007’

Totally stupid iPhone practical joke #1

If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!I’ve yet to see a mention of a practical joke that can be played with an iPhone. So let me be the first to offer one—albeit one that will only momentarily confuse your victim*.
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Saved by the iPhone

Amazon.com Widgets The iPhone may be a pretty versatile piece of machinery, but did you know it can save your life? That’s what 53 year old Irwin Koss of DeWitt, New York discovered after a trip to the golf course. The proud owner of a brand new iPhone, Mr. Koss decided that leaving [...]

iPhone hacking goes mainstream

On the one hand, it’s nice to see iPhone hacking get a little mainstream attention in the form of an article in the Washington Post. Mike Musgrove’s piece touches upon the Nintendo emulator designed by Stephen White, White’s subsequent attempt to bring classic shooter Doom to the platform, and the existence of “jailbreak” programs.
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Paramount, Dreamworks dropping Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD exclusivity

Filed under: Blu-ray, HD DVD
Affiliations in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format war have been pretty clearly defined for nearly two years now — despite a hybrid player here and some international releases there, most of the players involved have not switched support since the early days. Well that’s all about to change, as Paramount [...]

Fake Engadget store goes to China, gets downsized

Filed under: Meta

No way, this ain’t right. If you’re going to bite our name and set up a brand new fake Engadget store in Guangdong, China, at least do it right and rent a whole freaking shop, ok? At this point you’re really just embarrassing yourselves.
P.S. - Carl, we’ve already fired everyone involved with this [...]

Tilera debuts its sixty-four core processor, melts faces

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Chipmaker Tilera, clearly bored with the peasant-like core counts of two or four as offered by such pedestrian competition like Intel and AMD, has decided to turn the game up a notch with their latest diabolical creation: the 64-core processor. That’s right folks, Tilera’s TILE64 is a new RISC CPU aimed at [...]

Dust-Off announces “Keyboard Quiver”

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Peripherals

We can’t say we’ve often felt the need to whip out a full-size keyboard on a second’s notice, but Dust-Off seems to think there’s enough folks clamoring to do just that, and it’s hoping they’ll find its new “Keyboard Quiver” to their liking. Apparently designed specifically with “active gamers” in mind, [...]

Paramount, Dreamworks dropping Blu-ray in favor of HD DVD exclusivity

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Affiliations in the HD DVD vs. Blu-ray format war have been pretty clearly defined for nearly two years now — despite a hybrid player here and some international releases there, most of the players involved have not switched support since the early days. Well that’s all about to change, as Paramount [...]

DVD-sniffing dogs awarded medals, returning to NYC

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Storage

Lucky and Flo, the two danger-loving police dogs whose exploits as international crime fighters are well know to readers of this site, have just become the first non-humans to be awarded Malaysia’s outstanding service award for their tireless work in trotting around and sitting down at the first whiff of plastic. [...]

HD DVD and Blu-ray releases on August 21st, 2007

Filed under: Blu-ray, HD DVD
The big title this week is without a doubt The Lives of Others. We’re not sure how you can argue with an IMDB score of 8.5 with a overall ranking of #77. As impressive as this is, we have our reservations about any movie with subtitles. It isn’t that we have [...]