Dec
15th

FCC cancels white space meeting to focus on digital TV transition

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

Man, we’re clearly in the wrong line of work. It seems that being in the FCC means that you can basically ignore everything else going on so long as you squint really hard and pretend to make progress on an imminent event that’s just over two months ago. Sure, we’re just bitter, but we’re struggling [...]


Dec
14th

Philips underwhelms with lackluster iPod / iPhone accessory line

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

Is it any wonder Philips is opting out of making a stop at CES this year? If it showed up with this line, it’d literally be laughed right out of Vegas. The outfit’s dedicated “showing” in San Francisco this past week consisted of two Streamium Network Music Players (NP2500 and NP2900) that we were already [...]


Dec
13th

iriver’s 7-inch Framee-L digiframe handles multimedia just fine

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

It’s darn tough to pump out a digiframe that’s not immediately forgettable these days, but if anybody can do it, iriver can. The subtly beautiful 7-inch Framee-L features a 720 x 480 resolution display, 1GB of inbuilt memory, an SD / MMC card slot, USB port and an alarm feature for waking you in the [...]


Dec
13th

Estonia to allow citizens to vote via cellphone by 2011

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

Brutal honesty here: on election day this past November, the entire Engadget staff (well, those of us with US passports) collectively agreed that casting our vote via SMS or some other incredibly simple method would be infinitely more awesome than trudging out in the streets and waiting in hour-long lines. Clearly, some higher-ups in Estonia [...]


Dec
12th

AURA in stock at Motorola store, still fiercely expensive

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

So the moment you and your second mortgage have been dreaming about is here — though sadly, the price cut you might have wished for is not. For all those clamoring for the $2,000 AURA, Moto’s store has it listed as in-stock and we’ve a sneaking suspicion that unlike the BlackBerry Storm, these aren’t going [...]


Dec
12th

EFi-X decides to tempt Apple’s lawyers, will start shipping OS X-capable machines

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

We’ve always been intrigued by the EFI-X dongle that fools OS X into running on stock Intel machines, Software Update and all, and now it looks like the company is taking things one step further — it’s planning on shipping pre-built machines capable of running Apple’s OS. The EFi-X Millennium 4 will sport an overclocked [...]


Dec
12th

Andy Grove pushing Intel to manufacture electric car batteries

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

Former Intel chairman, Andy Grove, has been a prominent supporter of plug-in hybrid automobiles ever since he left his post at Intel. Now, in his role as Intel advisor, Grove is pushing CEO, Paul Otellini, to diversify Intel by manufacturing advanced batteries for plug-in electric vehicles. His argument is two fold: 1) the market is [...]


Dec
12th

Adobe-friendly NVIDIA Quadro CX gets reviewed

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

At just under two grand, NVIDIA’s new Quadro CX graphics card certainly isn’t for everybody, but its ability to add some GPU acceleration to the apps in Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 has no doubt piqued the interest of quite a few professionals out there and, according to PC Perspective, they likely won’t be disappointed. On [...]


Dec
12th

Hand-on with Logitech’s G13 Gameboard

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

Maximum PC’s laid hands on that Logitech G13 Gamepad we just saw a few days ago, and they’ve got plenty to say about it. They’re fans of the gamepad’s physical form and the layout of the keys, mouse buttons and the analog stick. The pad’s got a color-customizable mini LCD and backlighting, and it’s possible [...]


Dec
12th

Ultimate Ears intros Triple.Fi 10vi headphones with built-in mic

Author: Jo | Files under Engadget

We’ve always drooled after the top end of the Ultimate Ears headphone line, and it looks like we’ve got a new lust-magnet — the company just introduced the Triple.Fi 10vi in-ear buds with an iPhone and Blackberry-compatible mic / button. The triple-driver ‘phones are said to have the same essential guts as UE’s far more [...]