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Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dt com. There's one thing (and one thing only) that we know about House, MD . He seriously loves nearly killing people before saving them. Well, that,...
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The folks at ABI Research have done up a nice summary of the status of mobile WiMAX globally, saying that they expect the total number of subscribers to be at around two million come January. Overall it's not the most optimistic picture, with many service rollouts falling short of their projected aims both...
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Let’s face it: Sony’s UMD disc format was absurd. In UMDs, Sony tried to foist upon consumers miniature DVDs, not just in game delivery but with things like film as well. It was a proprietary format, which Sony had — to that point (this was before Blu-Ray) — poor success with: Sony were...
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Oh, where can you find pleasure, or search the world for treasure, or learn science and technology? Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true, on the land or on the sea? Where can you learn to fly, play in sports and skin dive… heck, even study oceanography? Why… in...
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Those of you who have never lived in the British Isles can’t really lay claim to having experienced it, but public television sucks. I don’t mean PBS. I don’t mean Sesame Street or 3-2-1 Contact. I mean public television: the idea that the government directly taxes you for merely owning a television set....
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Induction chargers like Palm's Touchstone are great and all but they lack one significant feature long mastered by USB tethers: data transfer. That could soon change as Sony begins pushing out its first TransferJet LSI in hopes of obtaining broad industry adoption of this newest form of short-range wireless transmission technology. TransferJet, remember,...
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Looking for a techno spin on the traditional, the Samurai of Kuroda have become assimilated into robot territory. They dance, they drink, they wield a great spear and use it to skewer flesh when you're not looking -- probably. Look for the creations at IREX 2009 and then after at RoboSquare in Kyushu....
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A little later than mid-November, sure, but ASUS has finally unleashed to the US masses its 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201HA . Available at Best Buy for a penny under $330, it's got all the standard affairs: 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520, 1GB RAM upgradeable to 2GB, 160GB HDD, WiFi, and a touted 6 hour,...
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We were as surprised as anyone when the USAF threw down the cash for 300-odd PlayStation 3s back in March of last year , but what's more shocking is that it's now back for more -- seven times more, in fact. Already employing its PS3 cluster for research into high-def video processing, the...
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