Posts Tagged ‘features’
Fils Sound Film transparent speaker hands-on (video)
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on January 10th, 2010
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Fils Sound Film transparent speaker hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:56:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsGames Of The Decade: 2009
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Games, Technology on January 3rd, 2010
You could argue that 2009 hasn't been quite on par with previous years in gaming. With an army of current-gen sequels under pressure to deliver, and the threat of Modern Warfare 2 looming in November, most big name releases abandoned ship to 2010 - but that doesn't mean we haven't had some stunners in our gaming system of choice.
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Games of the Decade: 2008
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Games, Technology on January 2nd, 2010
Full of quality releases, 2008 marked a great year for gaming. A number of big-name franchises like Metal Gear Solid, Fable and Fallout made their highly anticipated current generation debuts, while a host of innovative and accomplished new IPs attempted to overthrow the old guard. There was certainly plenty on offer to choose from and it's been a tough choice narrowing down this list to just five titles.
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How would you change Palm’s Pixi?
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on January 2nd, 2010
How would you change Palm's Pixi? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsSwitched On: The 2009 Switchies
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on January 2nd, 2010
The "Sharing is Caring" and the Product of the Year Award goes to the Seagate DockStar, which uses PogoPlug technology from Cold engines. Like the original and recently upgraded PogoPlug device, the DockStar attacks what has been the thorny NAS market with an inexpensive device that allows easy sharing of photos and other files, eliminating tedious uploading. Honorable Mention goes to the Axentra HipServ-powered Netgear Stora, which offers many of the features of Windows Home Server at a fraction of the price of many products using that operating system.
The "Phone So Good It's Smart" Award for Best New Smartphone goes to the Palm Pre, which debuted the well-conceived and elegant webOS. The hardware still needs to match the software with larger screens and a faster processor, but in many ways webOS feels like what the iPhone OS wants to be when it grows up. Honorable Mention goes to the Motorola Droid, which saw a revamped Android paired with a disappointing keyboard, but showed that Motorola is climbing back into the game.
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Switched On: The 2009 Switchies originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsGames of the Decade: 2007
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Games News, Technology on January 1st, 2010
Even though some years during the Noughties have strong gaming line-ups, the quality of 2007 is simply exceptional. You know it's going to be a tough year when classics like Zelda Phantom Hourglass don't even make the list and it's a real duel between Bioshock and Mass Effect to make it to the final five. Still, eventually I applied a mixture of stern logic and tactical violence and here's what I came up with.
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Opinion: New Year’s Resolutions
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Games News, Technology on January 1st, 2010
Stuck for a New Year's Resolution? Listened to the government and given up smoking, drinking, sex, crystal meth, meat, sneezing into anything other than your elbow, leaving your bin open, driving over 20mph, making references to people's ethnicity or religious orientation and leaving the house after dark (or in adverse weather conditions) without a high-visibility jacket? Then you might want to consider suicide. Or the following.
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Ask Engadget: Best Skype phone for Europe?
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on January 1st, 2010
There's 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 little advice. If you've got something productive to add, drop it down in comments below!"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 suggestions?"
Ask Engadget: Best Skype phone for Europe? originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Permalink | | Email this | CommentsEntelligence: Gartenberg’s best of 2009 in personal tech
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 31st, 2009
Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he’ll explore where our industry is and where it’s going — on both micro and macro levels — with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.
As the year comes to a close, it seems appropriate to cast my vote for the best (and some of the worst) gadgets I’ve seen. These are my personal choices for products that I felt were best of breed and really managed to differentiate themselves (or didn’t at all). In no particular order, here are my picks and pans.
Best Phones: This was a tricky category, and I’m not breaking it down into different segments. This is just the best on the market in my opinion — no matter how smart it was considered to be, or how well it did in school.
- iPhone 3GS. It was a simple choice. Take the coolest phones on the market, bump up the memory and make it twice as fast. Add in some new features like a digital compass and toss in an ecosystem of 100,000+ apps. Sure, it’s still locked to AT&T but the iPhone is still the phone that many others aspire to be.
- Palm Pre. At this point last year many had written Palm off entirely. Instead of fading away, Palm came back on strong with webOS, a new way of integrating diverse content called Synergy and two devices launched across the globe. Along the way, the Pre garnered much mindshare from consumers, and Palm showed that you don’t need to clone the iPhone to drive the state of the art forward.
- HTC HD2. When Microsoft released Windows Mobile 6.5, there was a chorus of groans about more of the same. HTC took up the challenge and proved that there was more to Windows Mobile than slow devices and resistive screens. The HD2 takes Windows Mobile to places never seen before with a capacitive touch screen, a Snapdragon processor and HTC-created extensions that make multi-touch work the HD2’s gorgeous 4.3-inch display. Wrap it all up in HTC’s Sense UI and you’ve got the best Windows Mobile device on the market today.
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Entelligence: Gartenberg’s best of 2009 in personal tech originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Socially Acceptable Geek Subgenre Scale [Geeks]
Posted by: Gadget Boy in Gadget News, Technology on December 31st, 2009
Being a geek no longer holds the stigma it once did. In fact, it can be downright cool to be a geek these days. But not all geeks are created equal.
The Socially Acceptable Geek Subgenre Scale is a handy showcase of just where various types of geeks fall in the social hierarchy. And if you’re offended because you find yourself near the bottom of the scale, just remember: there’s no shame in being passionate about something unpopular as long as no one knows about it. And if you really hate clicking through the gallery, click here to see all of them on one long page. Although while doing so realize that people who whine about galleries are their own subgenre of geek, and it’s not very high up on the scale.
Illustrations by Dan Meth.
