Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category

Creative Ships HS-1200 X-Fi USB Gaming Cans

Creative intends their HS-1200 2.4Ghz wireless boom-mic-equipped cans to appeal to the hardcore gamer who’s tied up in knots by irritating wires. However, while it’s true that the full duplex operation and USB connection are both pluses that mean that you can use the HS-1200 without worrying about a soundcard, its profile does not mention […]

PEAK PlasmaBlade electrosurgery scalpel gets FDA approval

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We’re still a bit gun shy when it comes to surfing over to PEAK Surgical’s website after watching that PlasmaBlade demonstration video, but a new release from the outfit affirms that said electrosurgery scalpel has just been approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration. The “tissue dissection system,” as […]

Networks of carbon nanotubes find use in flexible displays

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Carbon nanotubes may very well kill you (okay, so that’s very much a stretch), but you’ll have a hard time convincing the dutiful scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to stop their promising research. Put simply (or as simply as possible), said researchers have discovered that “networks of single-walled carbon […]

Sprint Nextel sells off "nearly all" of its towers to TowerCo for $670 million

Filed under: Cellphones, Wireless

Details are scarce right now, but you can make of it what you will. Sprint hasn’t been in the best of situations since it acquired Nextel in 2005, and while this move may not be seen by everyone as definitively negative, it certainly is questionable. The flagging carrier sold off “nearly all” […]

NES Belt Buckle: most inelegant, awesome NES-in-a-whatever mod out there

Filed under: Gaming, Wearables

Just as Mr. Adams wrote of the summer of ‘69, some heralded pop star decades from now will pen a smash hit recalling the summer of two-thousand and eight. Oddly enough, the tune will likely focus on the revitalization of the Nintendo Entertainment System, which has somehow wiggled into just about everything […]

Ask Engadget: What’s the best iPhone 3G alternative?

Filed under: Ask Engadget, Cellphones
We know, we know — this one’s going to be a doozie, but it’s something that just has to be done. For folks out there too far from the reaches of GSM or simply unwilling to cough up the requisite dough to pay for AT&T’s comparatively pricey plans, we figure […]

Kingston sprinkles 16GB models into DataTraveler line, launches DT101

Filed under: Storage

Nothing too fancy from Kingston Technology today, just a couple of more capacious flash drives and an all new one for good measure. For starters, the DataTraveler 400 with MigoSync software and the DT100 are both now available in roomy 16GB flavors. Meanwhile, the DT101 arrives on the scene with security software, capacities […]

Purdue researchers want tiny refrigerators cooling your PC

Filed under: Desktops, Peripherals

You think your liquid-cooled rig is pretty snazzy, don’t you? After Purdue researchers get their technology on the streets, that stuff will seriously look like old hat. The team is working on a “miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit inside laptops and personal computers,” which would hopefully boost cooling performance while […]

Intel’s dual-core Atom 330 processor to ship in Q4 2008

Filed under: Laptops
Bad news, Atom fans. That dual-core nugget of netbook-powering goodness that you were so looking forward to seeing in Q3 won’t begin shipping until Q4. According to some data picked up by Fudzilla, the Atom 330 will only be debuting in Q3 (September 21st, to be precise), but it isn’t scheduled to get […]

US Army turns to toy company to develop new weapon

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We’re not quite sure how the pitch session went with this one, but it looks like the US Army was so impressed by toymaker Lund and Company’s Hydrogen Fuel Rocket that it decided to recruit the company to build a decidedly more lethal version of it. The new system, dubbed the Variable […]