Blu-ray Sales Up 91 Awesome Percent [Blu-Ray]
Blu-ray disc sales are up 91 percent so far this year, with player sales up 25 percent, so that there’s around 11 million Blu-ray players in the US, including PS3s. What up haters??? Right? Right?
Well, at least half of those 11 million Blu-ray players are PS3s, which had a US install base of 5.7 million [...]
Gigabyte Booktop M1022 and TouchNote T1028 tablet PC make their way to US
It’s been awhile since we heard anything about Gigabyte’s Booktop M1022 netbook with dock or its tablet pc, the TouchNote T1028 — but it looks like both have finally landed on US shores. If you’ve forgotten, the 10.1-inch Booktop M1022 boasts a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 1.3 megapixel camera, optional [...]
Ultrasone Edition 8 headphones hands-on and impressions
Ultrasone’s been kickin’ out $1.5k headphones for as long as we can remember, and it only takes a glimpse at the Edition 9s from 2006 to see just how far we’ve come. The newest model, curiously titled the Edition 8, was initially announced a few months back, and we’ve just now been able to stuff [...]
Bose intros SoundLink wireless music system, charges $550 with a straight face
Ah, Bose. While almost any other audio company would be properly lambasted for charging $549.95 for a portable sound system with absolutely no hard specifications (driver material, amplifier type, wattage, etc.) to speak of, somehow or another Bose gets away with the practice. All bitterness aside, the fresh SoundLink Wireless Music System is actually rather [...]
Engadget’s recession antidote: win an OCZ Summit Series 60GB SSD!
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. We’ll be handing out a new gadget [...]
Peek cuts Peek Classic, Peek Pronto prices to $19.95 and $59.95
Peek’s already offered lifetime subscriptions and all sorts of other incentives in the hope of wooing folks away from more expensive smartphones, and it looks like the company’s now giving good old fashioned price cuts a(nother) try. As The Wall Street Journal reports, the basic Peek Classic has been slashed to just $19.95, down from [...]
Video: augmented reality business card sells itself
Does your feeble mind recall those wicked awesome 3D Topps cards from earlier this year? How could you forget, right? It seems as if that very same technology has been shifted over to the wine and cheese crowd, and thanks to one James Alliban, now those all-too-boring business cards can also be equipped with augmented [...]
Averatec debuts 22-inch D1005 all-in-one PC for $799
Averatec’s 25.5-inch D1200 a bit too large for your tastes (or your bantam desk)? Fret not, as the very same company is today issuing a 22-inch version with similar specs. Speaking of which, the admittedly stylish all-in-one machine packs a 2.5GHz Core 2 Duo E5200 processor, a WXGA panel, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, a 320GB [...]
LG’s XF1 500GB multimedia hard drive touts HDMI, shimmery case
Looking for an external hard drive with a flashy color-shifting case, reasonably stout multimedia credentials, and a website with an outrageously long flash intro? Look no further than LG’s XF1, a 500GB machine with a USB interface and HDMI output to stream some high-def content straight to your set — but at a maximum of [...]
Video: GBA SP gets touchscreen hack, turns Nintendo concept into reality
The DSi seems to be getting all the cool mods and appendages these days, so we’re pleased to see the other portable Nintendo gaming system getting some love. We’ve tracked down video of an Arduino-powered touchscreen hack for the Game Boy Advance SP that brings to life one of Nintendo’s own concepts and — while [...]
