It surely didn't escape anyone's attention Twitter is on track to becoming a mass phenomenon globally . The service is also growing nicely in Japan where it has been embraced by the geek community in particular ( Japanese is the only alternative language Twitter is available in until today ). And today a small group of those Japanese geeks, members of the so-called Koress Project, have announced the development of the Akiduki Pulse box, a device that automatically posts your heart rate to Twitter [JP]. [...more]
Step aside, Project Natal , Ubisoft plans to bring camera-based body scanning to the Wii for the holidays, with its new Your Shape title. The "game" doesn't really sound like a pleasure, however: the USB camera scans your body and casts moral aspersions on your "shape." Once a 3D version of yourself is captured, you can glare at your TV through the tears and pick a particular segment of your body to work on [...more]
This whole global economic crisis, and its resulting massive loss of jobs got us thinking. We here at Engadget didn't want to stand helplessly by, announcing every new round of misery without giving anything back -- so we decided to take the opportunity to spread a little positivity. [...more]
We see tons of casemods , but the NES holds a special place in our hearts and memories, so anything in the black-redish orange-gray combo catches our eye pretty easily. The nesPod -- the fine work of flickr user recycledgamer -- is made of a gutted NES controller and an iPod mini circa 2004-2005. [...more]
Hoping to relive the days of the Cold War -- you know, without the air raid drills? The handiwork of someone called Fred Niell (a character from a John le Carre' spy novel if we ever met one -- and we have), the ?????????-6 ("indicator-6") uses gas-filled Nixie tubes to display the time [...more]
The wild and crazy guys over at Portable Monkey have just got their hands on one of Onkyo's 10.1-inch Sotec C204 netbooks and were cool enough to share thoughts, impressions, and a madcap YouTube video with all of us. Priced at around ?49,000 ($511), but seen going for less at various online tech purveyors, the gentleman's first impression of this device was, in a word, "great." Smaller and lighter than even the ASUS Eee PC S101, this bad boy seemed to perform as you'd expect an Atom N270-powered, 1GB, Windows XP Home machine should -- even if it does generate more noise than a little guy like this oughta. Curiosity piqued [...more]
Look Cochese, we know you've been wondering what DJ Hero live play looks like in a multi-player setup. So check the two-player turntable and guitar mashup after the break that pits the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" against the Foo Fighters' "Monkey Wrench." You'll be much sexier for doing so. Promise Continue reading Video: DJ Hero in a two-player turntable and guitar sabotage Filed under: Gaming Video: DJ Hero in a two-player turntable and guitar sabotage originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:38:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments [...more]
Don't get all worked up here, you won't find anything too far out of the ordinary. That said, there's nothing at all wrong with new LCD options in the 20-, 22- and 24-inch segments, and that's exactly what ViewSonic 's delivering. The VG2027wm, VG2227wm and VG2427wm are all equipped with 1,920 x 1,080 Full HD panels, a 20,000:1 contrast ratio, 300 nits of brightness, an integrated two-port USB 2.0 hub, DVI / VGA ports and built-in stereo speakers. The new trio can be had right now for $319, $399 and $499 from smallest to largest. Sexy side shot is after the break. Continue reading ViewSonic intros new 20-, 22- and 24-inch VG27 LCD monitors Filed under: Displays ViewSonic intros new 20-, 22- and 24-inch VG27 LCD monitors originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments [...more]
Life can sure be confusing for a teenager in this fast-paced techno-world we live in. Without the proper guidance, a kid could find himself unplugging someone's life support , or going to jail for borrowing the neighbor's WiFi . Hell, if old man General Tommy Franks (retired) has his way you won't even be able to hang out behind the Safeway and enjoy a six pack with your fellow juvenile delinquents without being tracked via GPS! So it warms our hearts when we do hear of a youngster that's bucked the odds and done something constructive. For example, a 13-year-old named David Baker has received a patent for his Light Beam Delivery System, a pico projector that fits in a pen casing, and works by combining three RGB lasers with an optics assembly that creates a light ray that is then shined through a rotating disk to the screen. "When the light goes through the lenses," he explains, "they take each light pixel and shine it onto a screen or wall. The lenses run back and forth until it fills the screen. This process repeats 30 times per second to make it appear as though you're looking at a solid image and not a series of pixels, and you have the image projected." And where did he find the inspiration for all of this? "I was sitting in church thinking about how to make projectors easier to handle and I just thought of it," he says. Here's to daydreaming during mass! [Via About Projectors ] Filed under: Displays Teen invents pen-sized pico projector while your kid's busy beating up honor roll students originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read ?|? Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments [...more]
On a roll of late, aren't we AMD ? Just when you thought the fun was slowing over in Taiwan, in flies this: the world's first official DirectX 11 -friendly GPU demonstration. We also learned that DX 11 (and presumably, AMD cards to push it) will debut prior to the dawn of 2010, but outside of that, most everything else is being kept under wraps. Indeed, the demo was mostly to show that things were still on track and for the chip maker to assure us all that it will "deliver DirectX 11 first." Alright, AMD -- now you've something to prove. Full release is after the break. Continue reading AMD shows off world's first DirectX 11 GPU Filed under: Gaming AMD shows off world's first DirectX 11 GPU originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink ?|? Email this ?|? Comments [...more]
