July 3, 2009
The rules:
- Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
- You may only enter this specific giveaway once. If you enter this giveaway more than once you’ll be automatically disqualified, etc. (Yes, we have robots that thoroughly check to ensure fairness.)
- If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
- Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
- Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) Transformers Nintendo DS Lite Starter Kit and one (1) Megatron stylus.
- If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
- Entries can be submitted until Friday, July, 3rd, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
- Full rules can be found here.
Filed under: Announcements
Engadget’s recession antidote: win a Transformers Nintendo DS Lite Armor case and stylus! originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Archaeology 101 will tell you that accurately dating an object is critical to understanding its meaning and value. When it comes to stone carvings, this typically requires a researcher with plenty of energy, time and skill, but scientists at the National Technical University of Athens have now developed a computer algorithm that promises to revolutionize the entire process. By overlaying digital scans of known inscribers’ work, the Greek team are able to recognize stylistic idiosyncrasies and thereby identify the author of a carving. Their accuracy was confirmed by a recent test, in which they attributed proper authorship of 24 stone tablets, picking out the correct chiseler each time. Next step: seeking royalty payments for the works of your great uncle Xanthos.
Filed under: Science
‘Handwriting’ recognition offers accurate way for dating stone tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 2, 2009
O2 might get all the media love with its Palm Pre win, but Orange has already rebounded by offering the (not as cool, but still nice) Toshiba TG01, a smartphone with a zippy fast Snapdragon processor. You can’t tell on the photo, but it’s big, I mean, comfortable. It’s true that the display is impressive and we’ve played with it enough to tell you that it is fast, and reacts quickly - although we did not see one with a ton of apps installed. The page in the photo above has since been taken down, but the cat is now out of the bag.
Permalink: Orange To Sell the Toshiba TG01 In The UK from Ubergizmo | Hot: Wii, PS3 and Natal Motion Sensing
July 2, 2009
NXZT’s Sentry 2 Touchscreen Fan Controller must be one of the cooler PC fans around, since it doesn’t come with buttons but relies on pure touchscreen goodness to get its settings up and running. What looks like a standard LCD display is actually the touchscreen segment, and anyone with a spare 5.25″ drive bay on their computers will find themselves lovingly stroking the chassis for no apparent reason other than to go through the range of settings on the Sentry 2.
Permalink: NXZT Sentry 2 Touchscreen Fan Controller from Ubergizmo | Hot: Wii, PS3 and Natal Motion Sensing
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Sonos CR200 remote control has a touchscreen, at last originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Continue reading Pool-Mate watch packs built-in accelerometer to track laps
Filed under: Wearables
Pool-Mate watch packs built-in accelerometer to track laps originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nearly a month to the day after iBUYPOWER launched its gamer-centric M865TU gaming laptop, the outfit has now given the desktop gamers in attendance something to consider. The liquid cooled Paladin XLC series is comprised of three well appointed models, the XLC V1, XLC V2 and XLC V3. All three of ‘em are stored in the monstrous Coolermaster HAF 922 (the V3 gets a HAF 932), while even the lowest end model gets a Core i7-920 processor. Other specs include up to 12GB of DDR3 RAM, as many as three NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 GPUs, upwards of 1TB of HDD space, optional Blu-ray support and Windows Vista Home Premium. The trifecta can be ordered now for $1,399, $2,159 or $4,299 in order of mention.
Filed under: Desktops
iBUYPOWER launches Core i7-packin’ Paladin XLC desktops originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Just a few short weeks after eMachines outed its EL1300 line of SFF PCs, the company is hitting us up again with a new trio of full-size desktops. The ET1300-02, ET1810-01 and ET1810-03 are all encased within a luminous white mini-tower and ship with a matching LCD monitor, speakers and a keyboard. As for specs, the $449.99 ET1300-02 checks in with an AMD Athlon X2 4850e (2.5GHz) CPU, Vista Home Premium, NVIDIA’s GeForce G100 (512MB), 3GB of DDR2 memory, a 160GB hard drive, 18x SuperMulti DVD burner, multicard reader, HDMI / DVI / VGA outputs and an 18-inch E182H display. The $369.99 ET1810-03 steps to a 2.2GHz Pentium E2210 CPU, GeForce 7500 integrated graphics and just a single VGA port, while the $299.99 ET1810-01 cranks it down to a 1.6GHz Celeron 420 and 2GB of DDR2 RAM. The trio should be filtering out to respected retailers as we speak.
Filed under: Desktops
eMachines intros ET1300-02, ET1810-01 and ET1810-03 desktop PCs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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A news item is circulating the internet reportedly from German business weekly Wirtschaftswoche claiming Amazon is facing a major hurdle in trying to bring its Kindle to Deutschlan. The problem at hand? The two big wireless providers in the country, Vodafone and T-Mobile, are both saying “nein” to providing Whispernet service, and apparently the issue has to do with how much money Amazon was willing to give — unsurprising, if true. Another, very likely reason for T-Mobile’s unwillingness is that parent company Deutsche Telekom is rumored to be working on its own e-book reader, and we gotta believe those company picnics would be mighty awkward if a large subsidiary was given the competition a major boost. We can’t imagine this stopping Amazon for long, and we’d be very surprised if the Kindle didn’t find some way to sneak itself into the region sooner or later.
Filed under: Handhelds, Wireless
Kindle’s German launch stalled by T-Mobile and Vodafone? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 30, 2009
Your fancy new iPhone OS 3.0 starting to look a bit long in the tooth? Heads up, Apple’s now sending out the beta OS 3.1 and its SDK to the developer community to finagle with. We’re still looking to see what’s been changed here, so for now, if you’re someone who needs the Latest and Greatest and happens to have the right access, download away!
[Thanks to everyone who sent this in!]
Filed under: Cellphones
iPhone OS 3.1 beta now available for developer community originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
