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 [...]
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
In a commercial featuring 30 Rock actress and producer Tina Fey and director Martin Scorsese, the former Saturday Night Live head writer uses her credit card to gain entrance to an airline lounge. The notion of a faceless slice serving as an access [...]
According to extremely reliable and embarrassingly handsome Engadget sources, at an iPhone event held today, John Geleynse (AKA Director of Technology Evangelism at Apple) made some statements regarding the iPhone platform that should seriously raise a few eyebrows. During an ADC “iPhone Tech Talk” in San Jose, Geleynse apparently waxed excited about the potential for [...]
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 [...]
Shopping doesn’t get much better than this. With the free Amazon Mobile app, you enjoy the Amazon shopping experience while on the go. Check your shopping cart, add to your wish list, read customer reviews, see product images, compare prices, track shipping status, and make secure purchases from iPhone or iPod touch. And wait till [...]
The editors at PCMAG.com think they know. And they’ve included iMac (“the iconic all-in-one desktop that others try to emulate”), iPod touch (“the best portable media player on the market, period”), and iPhone 3G (“one of the best handheld computers ever”) among their choices for The Best Products of 2008.
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Generally speaking, iHome produces fairly respectable kit. Sure, it’s almost all involved directly with Apple’s iPod or some random alarm clock (or a mixture of the two), but there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with offering up a narrow range of products. To that end, we present the iH15W, an iPod-friendly stereo box that actually changes colors [...]
Earlier this year, Audioengine rolled out the practically universal AW1 wireless audio adapter, and we certainly enjoyed our time with it. Now, the outfit is making the anticipated leap to iPod-dom with the sequentially named AW2. Put simply, the kit contains two main pieces: a transmitter that plugs easily into your dock-connecting ‘Pod and a [...]
We’ve received no official word either way on this, but all the signs are currently pointing to a delay for the US launch of Cowon’s S9 Curve. The undoubtedly sexy PMP is still set to launch in South Korea this month, but unspecified “production problems” are reportedly responsible for pushing the Stateside shipment back. So, [...]
Hey, just because using secret undocumented iPhone SDK calls might get you booted from the App Store doesn’t mean it’s not a good time — Ars Technica commissioned Freeverse to mod its Moto Chaser game to use the hidden video-out features in iPhone 2.2, and we have to say the results turned out pretty decent. [...]