In case you hadn’t heard, Nintendo’s trend-setting handheld, the Game Boy, just had its 20th birthday — and that’s no small thing for a game console. We won’t bore you with stories from our childhood about wasted time and missed opportunities spent chasing the dragon that was Tetris, but we will entertain the hell out of you with this vintage ad touting the system’s launch from way back in the totally excellent year of 1989. We know what you’re thinking: does the robot create the kid or just warp him there? And if he does create him, does that mean he’s some kind of metallic god? And does that mean that the kid kills god? And… why is the robot dancing? Hey — now you’re playing with power.
A couple weeks back I took a quick look at the Samsung SyncMaster P2370 and honestly, I am still looking as I type this. I have a difficult time taking my eyes off of pretty things. Now, as creepy as that sounds, I really can’…
Samsung and Verizon Wireless have just announced the Samsung Trance, a slim slider music phone with a touch-sensitive navigation pad. It boasts enhanced sound technology thanks to Bang & Olufsen’s ICEpower, 1GB of internal memory, stereo …
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 every day (except for weekends) to lucky readers until we run out of stuff or companies stop sending things. Today we’ve got an AT&T TL92278 Bluetooth-enabled DECT 6.0 home telephone for those of you not quite ready to kick the landline habit. Read the rules below (no skimming — we’re omniscient and can tell when you’ve skimmed) and get commenting! Hooray for free stuff!
Leave a comment below. Any comment will do, but if you want to share your proposal for “fixing” the world economy, that’d be sweet too.
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If you enter more than once, only activate one comment. This is pretty self explanatory. Just be careful and you’ll be fine.
Contest is open to anyone in the 50 States, 18 or older! Sorry, we don’t make this rule (we hate excluding anyone), so be mad at our lawyers and contest laws if you have to be mad.
Winner will be chosen randomly. The winner will receive one (1) AT&T TL92278 Bluetooth-enabled DECT 6.0 home telephone. Approximate retail value is $89.95.
If you are chosen, you will be notified by email. Winners must respond within three days of the end of the contest. If you do not respond within that period, another winner will be chosen.
Entries can be submitted until Thursday, April 23rd, at 11:59PM ET. Good luck!
What true geek wouldn’t love the Sleeptracker watch, a charmingly awkward-looking device that monitors your sleep and wakes you at the optimal time, so you’re left feeling refreshed and rested? We detailed both the first and second versions in this space, and I’m happy to say the third version, the Sleeptracker Elite, has just arrived.
The Sleeptracker Elite comes in both male and female versions, and is 25 percent smaller than before. While the Sleeptracker Pro (the second version) let you upload your sleep data to a Windows computer, this version works with Macs, as well. I’m crazy about the Elite’s styling, which suggests Tron, or maybe an ’80s digital watch that also played Pac-Man.
Give the Sleeptracker Elite a time-frame when you’d like to wake up (say between 7:30 and 8) and it will monitor your movements with a built-in accelerometer to determine when you’re sleeping lightly, then wake you at the optimal time. Transfer sleep data to your computer to see when you’re sleeping the deepest. The Elite has a snooze button, audible and vibrating alarms, is water-resistant, and also works as a standard watch. It’s available from the Sleeptracker site and will set you back $179.
Alltel’s RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip with be the first CDMA version of the phone.
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On Thursday, Alltel announced that it will begin offering the RIM BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8230 starting in early May. Alltel’s Pearl Flip is the first CDMA version of the smartphone (a GSM model …
AMD’s new quad core Phenom II X4 945 and 955 Black Edition desktop chips hit retail stores and enthusiast review sites this morning. With higher clock speeds than previous models, aggressive pricing, and support for fast DDR 3 memory, these chips compete with Intel’s Core 2 …
If your new notebook has pages and a spiral binding, you might be a cheap geek (I’m working on my stand-up routine).
1. It’s an Amazon day at Cheap Geek, because online’s uber-retailer is knocking us over with great deals. To start, it’s offering the Compaq Presario CQ60-210US, a 15.6-inch laptop with a 2.0-GHz AMD Athlon dual-core processor, for only $519.99 after rebate (and it includes free shipping).This laptop runs Vista Premium and has a spacious 250GB hard drive.
2. We offer a lot of flat panel TV deals on Cheap Geek, but a gorgeous screen is only half the setup. You also need great speakers for the full home theater experience. Amazon is bringing you Harman Kardon’s HKTS-15 5.1 channel speaker system for $415.87, and you know that includes free shipping.
3. The Motorola Razr V3 may no longer be the hot phone, but it’s still plenty popular. HassleFreeCell, selling through Amazon, is offering the blue version unlocked for only $72.99. This is the U.S. version and yes, it has a warranty.
Apple has pulled an iPhone game that involved shaking a baby to death in response to widespread outrage from parents.
The premise of Baby Shaker was to quiet a baby by shaking the iPhone. But the animation suggested a player was silencing the baby by murdering it: A successful shake caused two large red Xs to appear on the baby’s eyes.
"As the father of a three-year-old who was shaken by her baby nurse when she was only five days old, breaking three ribs, both collarbones and causing a severe brain injury, words cannot describe my reaction," said Patrick Donohue, founder of the Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, a New York-based group that educates the community on pediatric brain injuries, in a letter to Steve Jobs and other Apple executives.
Baby Shaker launched in the App Store on Monday. Apple pulled the game Wednesday after it gained attention from various media outlets, including New York Times, Washington Post and LA Times. Krapps, a "different and funny iPhone app review site," was the first to report onBaby Shaker.
Albeit short-lived, the approval of Baby Shaker brings into question Apple’s App Store approval process. When Jobs introduced the App Store, he laid out the rules of what wouldn’t be approved — and the list did not include offensive apps like Baby Shaker.
"There are going to be some apps that we’re not going to distribute," Jobs said. "Porn, malicious apps, apps that invade your privacy."
Though the approval of Baby Shaker appears to be a slip, Apple has approved other peculiar apps as well. For example, the app Spank snaps a photo of a person and then displays a talk bubble above his or her head that says "Spank." Then, when you shake the iPhone you hear the sound of a spank followed by a man yelping.
"As the grandmother/adopted mother of a ‘shaken baby’ I can’t even start to explain the anger and rage at this game that someone was trying to promote," Wired.com reader Debbie Dunlap said in an e-mail. "My son is now 6 and was very fortunate … but is faced with many problems now and more to come…. How could any one with a brain think a game like this would be OK?"
We’re not the biggest theatre-goers around here (though we’ve been known to take in the odd Phantom of the Operaperformance), but this is one play we would jump at the chance to see. Called — quite fittingly — Robots, the musical stars three autonomous robots developed by Bluebotics, a company which specializes in service bots. The story revolves around a lonely human man who lives in isolation with just his robots, and what happens when a woman threatens to visit him in the not too distant future. Yeah, like we haven’t heard this one a million times. The play opens on May 1st at the Barnabe Theatre in Servion, Switzerland, and will run until May 17th.
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