Archive for December, 2009
Top 20 most trafficked posts of 2009 (in order)
And a few other statistics for 2009 (all related to Engadget Classic):
$38,204.57 - Retail value of stuff we gave away to readers
12,681 - total number of posts for 2009
1,821 - Number of galleries on Engadget for 2009
454 - Number of hands-on posts
99 - Number of Engadget reviews
66 - number of podcasts
4 - number of Engadget shows
originally appeared on on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our .
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You might be able to squeeze a tiny more storage into those Blu-ray discs soon. Sony and Panasonic have been working on increasing the maximum capacity per-layer from 25 to 33.4GB, and the new version might be ready for market in the near future.
Hopefully this doesn’t mean you’ll have to buy another drive, and there’s one hell of involved (regarding something known as an i-MLSE), but the gist is that there is new technology coming.
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We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here is the outlet to do so. This week's question is coming to us from Roland, who can't wait to get his recently relocated sister some sort of phone with capabilities.
"My sister recently moved to Belgium. She has access to WiFi at home, so I'd like to send her a mobile phone that can run a Skype client. Requirements are WiFi, can work on Belgian / European carriers, runs Skype, and has excellent battery life. Anyone have any recommendations?"
There is nothing worse than not being able to communicate with someone when you desperately need to, so we are hoping that our readers across the pond will be able to chime in here with a little advice. If you've got something productive to add, drop it down in comments below!
originally appeared on on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:05:00 EST. Please see our .
We know you have got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, here's the outlet to do so. This week's question is coming to us from Roland, who can't wait to get his recently relocated sister some sort of phone with abilities.
"My sister recently moved to Belgium. She has access to WiFi at home, so I'd like to send her a mobile phone that can run a Skype client. Requirements are WiFi, can work on Belgian / European carriers, runs Skype, and has excellent battery life. Anyone have any recommendations?"
There is nothing worse than not being able to communicate with someone when you desperately need to, so we're hoping that our readers across the pond will be able to chime in here with a tiny advice. If you have got something productive to add, drop it down in comments below!
originally appeared on on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:05:00 EST. Please see our .
Is there still room in your heart for eight more unassuming bits of Xmas? We hoped you'd say yes. See, 8-bit Xmas 2009 is an all-new NES cart full of festive LEDs and an original multiplayer snowball fight NES game. It sells for $43, but for $5 more you can get a personalized title screen -- which seems like a relatively cheap fulfillment of that decades long dream of yours to have your name up in pixelated lights on the home console that defined the home console. The cart should be compatible with all real NES systems and , and while it can't help you forgive your Aunt Samantha for giving you that Sudoku quilt, it might just do the insignificant task of teaching you the true meaning of Xmas.
originally appeared on on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:08:00 EST. Please see our .
It’s not quite as endearing as the (also terrifying) , but the OmniTread robot does seem pretty useful. That is, if you don’t need to go fast. The bot is a specialist in navigating rubble and small spaces, and could help locate people trapped under collapsed buildings. There is a risk of them running in terror, but if they’re pinned it shouldn’t be a problem.
It’s designed by roboticists at the University of Michigan, and right now there aren’t any production plans. But if it were to prove itself in a quake or other disaster, they might find themselves with a government contract right swift.
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Hey, good news everybody! The Palm App Catalog, which has lagged far behind its peers, has reached the 1,000 app milestone as of this morning. Well, to be precise, it's hit 946, as pointed out by Electronista, but still, it's a nice tiny sign of growth for the webOS apps, whose development was hampered by very restricted initial access to its Mojo SDK. In comparison to contenders such as Android, whose catalog , and Apples iTunes store, which , Palm's numbers are extremely modest -- but progress is progress, especially considering it launched its App Catalog in June with just 30 apps. We look forward to hearing Palm's CES keynote, that is for sure.
originally appeared on on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:37:00 EST. Please see our .
So here’s a somewhat interesting gadget. Instead of converting a PS3 into a hand-held device, a crafty modder named techknott built a custom transmitter. The transmitter allows a player to not only control their PS3 remotely, but also to view the output on a small video screen.
Essentially, you’re combining a controller with a wireless video device, and a small LCD screen. Sounds simple right? Well, it’s might be easy, but looking at the in the video, it’s obviously something that required quite a bit of time and effort.
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If you live in a northern climate, tomorrow marks the first real day of hunkering down for the cold, cold winter with nothing to look forward to until spring. We used to have the new season of Deadwood starting up in February, but HBO killed it.
Now there’s nothing. If you’re down with old-school movies, though, Hammacher’s selling 100 – count ‘em – 100 action films spanning 24 double-sided DVDs for $45.
These are movies from the 1920s through the 1990s, when men were men and the women were too. There’s also available for $45 as well.
[Hammacher Schlemmer]
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State hello to "the world's first production model 3D ." What you're looking at is a machine capable of arranging human cells and artificial scaffolds into complex three-dimensional structures, which result in such wonderful things as replacement liver and kidney tissue, or such simple niceties as artificially grown teeth. All we're told of the internal workings is that the bio-printer utilizes laser-calibrated print heads and that its design is the first to offer sufficiently wide flexibility of use to make the device viable. Organovo will be the company responsible for promoting the new hardware to research institutions, while at the same time trying to convince the world that it's not the fifth sign of the apocalypse. Maybe if the printer did not have a menacing red button attached to it, we had all be a tiny less freaked out by it.
originally appeared on on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:28:00 EST. Please see our .
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