Cricket Captr
(Credit: Cricket)
Cricket recently announced a new basic camera phone dubbed the Captr (pronounced like “capture”). The flip phone only has a VGA camera, so it won’t take great pictures, but it’s okay if all you want is an entry-level camera phone. The Captr has Bluetooth, …
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(Credit: Brian De Vitis)Behold! The retro gaming force is strong with this one-of-a-kind R2-D2 replica by PopSci reader Brian De Vitis. The Star Wars droid was meticulously built from a cooler and houses no less than seven discontinued game consoles, a sound system, and a projector.
Based on the …
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Teclast to debut Android-powered PMP? Wake us up when it arrives originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve gone over one whole month without speaking of DisplayLink, and honestly, it’s killing us on the inside. Thus, we’re thrilled to see yet another product looking to the always-popular USB port for guidance, with Kensington’s two newest universal docking stations channeling your graphics, peripherals and even internet journeys (only on the $149.99 K33926US, not on the $129.99 K33930US) over one single cable. Put simply, these docks allow users to connect up a set of speakers, USB peripherals and even a DVI / VGA display, and when you stroll in with your laptop, you simply link the two via a single USB connection and enjoy a “docked” experience. What’s most interesting here, however, is the maximum resolution support; while most universal docks top out well below the 1080p mark, these two support resolutions as high as 2,048 x 1,152. Oh, and if you’re just looking to connect a few (up to six) monitors to your existing rig via USB, the $79.99 Universal Multi-Display Adapter should be able to help.
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Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals
Kensington slaps DisplayLink into USB universal docking stations originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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An internal memo floating around from the good folks at Best Buy seems to confirm all of those upcoming rumors about a Wii price drop. The drop, according to the statement, is set to be officially announced by Nintendo on Friday, and carried out by Best Buy and the rest of the retail world on Sunday.
The console’s price will be set at $199.99, down from its long time price of $249.99, which should help keep the popular console competitive in an economic environment that’s finally begun taking its toll on the gaming industry.
It’s a largely new system on the inside, but Alienware isn’t digging up a new name for its powerful 15-inch gaming laptop. Featuring Intel’s new mobile Core i7 processor, the Alienware m15x debuted today, the first of several Core i7 laptops we expect in the near future.
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Palm’s App Catalog for the Pre properly launches tomorrow, and right now the question on most peoples’ minds is just how many paid apps will be in there when the doors open. Based on the latest word from the development team, the answer could be quite a lot. Apps submitted late to the party are apparently being added to approval queues so long Palm is having a hard time keeping track of them all. Developer Community Manager Chuq Von Rospach has indicated the approval group has “more applications than we could handle well,” apologizing because they have “dropped some things on the floor.” We’re hoping they’ll be picked up and dusted off quickly, because the five-second rule is not something to be messed with.
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Palm’s App Catalog is swamped with submissions, bursting with flavor originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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(Credit: Fujifilm)With Polaroid killing off its instant-film business in favor of its Zink printing technology, Fujifilm saw a hole it could fill with its instant-film cameras. The first Instax camera arrived in November 2008, and Wednesday the company announced the arrival of the Instax Mini 7S.
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The latest entrant into the ereader market has two powerful new allies: Best Buy and Verizon. iRex, once a provider for a Barnes & Noble-branded device, is set to hit Best Buy shelves next month, ready to mix up the decidedly sparse ebook market.
The company is rolling out the DR800SG, a $399 device that features an 8.1-inch touchscreen and unlimited Verizon 3G wireless access. The reader has access to Barnes & Noble’s ebookstore and Newspapers Direct’s 1,100 plus papers. The device can handle HSDPA data and, unlike the Kindle, is up for some serious ePub action, which means you’ll have Google Books at your disposal.
UPDATE: More details and photos of the iRex available now at pcmag.com.
Rendering of the Irex DR800SG.
(Credit: Irex)
Back in August we wrote about the impending arrival of a new, touch-screen, wireless-enabled e-reader from Irex, and now the company has officially unveiled the product, the DR800SG, which boasts a 8.1-inch screen and costs $399.
While Sprint provides the Amazon Kindle’s wireless service, the Irex e-reader will use Verizon for its 3G wireless connectivity. As with the Kindle, the “free” wireless plan offers unlimited e-book and periodical downloads and is included in the price of the DR800SG.
Irex reps previously hinted that they would be pairing their new e-reader with a large e-book retailer, and not surprisingly, the DR800SG has a tie-in with Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore. For newspaper and other periodicals, Irex continues an already established partnership with NewspaperDirect, which serves up “1,140 newspapers from 87 countries in 41 languages in their original layout.”
Just as importantly, Irex has brokered a deal with Best Buy to sell the DR800SG in Best Buy stores nationwide. According to the New Times, this week “Best Buy is training thousands of its employees in how to talk about and demonstrate devices like the Sony Reader and Irex, and adding a new area to its 1,048 stores to showcase the devices.”
Here are the DR800SG’s highlights. We’ll add more specs as we get them:
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