Hasta La Gadget!

The Waterloo-based Allerta has officially announced the inPulse smartwatch for BlackBerry–but as we reported last week, it’s not exactly what it seems.

The inPulse isn’t a full-blown BlackBerry smartphone, and Research in Motion has nothing to do with it, as CrackBerry.com reports. Instead, it works as a companion device that alerts you to incoming BlackBerry messages or calendar events.

The inPulse features a 1.3-inch full color OLED display, Bluetooth 2.0, a tiny 150 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery, a glass lens, a vibrating motor for alerts, a micro-USB port to charge the thing, and the ability to install firmware updates over the air. The company estimates that the inPulse lasts about four days on a single charge; it also requires an app install on the main BlackBerry, which needs to run BlackBerry OS 4.3 or up.

Allerta is taking pre-orders for the inPulse smartwatch at $149, with deliveries scheduled for February 2010.

Sprint has announced it has launched 4G WiMAX mobile broadband service throughout the Philadelphia area. Sprint 4G costs an extra $10 per month over current Sprint 3G mobile ad plans, and is capable of delivering speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G (though less than that in the real world, as we’ve found in our testing).

Last week, Clearwire, Sprint, and Comcast announced plans to turn on 4G service during the month of November in Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh, San Antonio, and Seattle, with Honolulu and Maui following in December. All three companies sell 4G plans for the same service under different names.

Head over to www.sprint.com/4g for a full-blown coverage map.

Coldfinger (wah wah wah wah)!
He’s the man, the man with a frozen touch, an iPod touch…

It’s a little surprising how many companies are creating cold-weather gadget solutions. Sure, you can’t use an iPhone or iPod touch with gloves on, but wouldn’t you rather duck into the vestibule of a Starbucks than have two fingers permanently frostbitten?

If you don’t mind a couple chilly digits, Etre, A U.K. company, has just released the winter lineup of its attractive 100-percent lamb’s wool Etre Touchy gloves, which expose index fingers and thumbs. They come in four color combinations and four sizes (men’s, women’s, youth’s, and children’s) so that every member of the household can tap their screens outdoors.

A pair sells for approximately $32.74 U.S, and the company ships globally. I’m pretty sure this is a real product and not something made up by The Onion. I wouldn’t swear to it, though.

Time to freshen up the old netbook market with a dash of Windows 7, a pinch of touchscreen functionality, and a generous helping of… Seline10? eviGroup, the crew responsible for the attractive 5-inch Wallet MID, has announced the 10.2-inch Pad, whose pièce de résistance is the Seline10 artificial intelligence software that’s been in development for a decade, if you can believe it. Its purpose is to act as your secretary / assistant, and while the novelty’s good, we all know how well Clippy worked out. Fret not though, it’s just an optional extra and shouldn’t detract from the appeal of a device that offers 3G and a/b/g WiFi connectivity, one VGA and three USB ports, multicard reader, webcam, microphone, and the old faithful 1.6GHz of Atom power. A price of under €500 is being touted, with further details set to emerge over the coming days.

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David Smith believes he has build the world’s smallest working train, and based on the images and video I wouldn’t doubt that claim. Apparently, it is 35,000 times smaller than the real deal.

Of course, it would have been more legit as a model train if it ran on its own mini engine instead of a rotating external motor, but since nano machines of that caliber are not readily available, I will have to call this build impressive nonetheless. Probably could use a little moisturizer on those hands though. [James River Branch via Engadget]