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If you have a really nice in-dash unit that you don’t want to get rid of but doesn’t support Bluetooth or streaming audio from the Web, the new Scosche MotorMOUTH II can fill the gap for you. For example, if you really wish you could listen to Pandora on the go but your car stereo doesn’t support it, or you wish you could make and receive calls over your car’s speakers instead of the speakerphone, the MotorMOUTH II will help make those things possible without ripping out your existing car stereo.

Simply plug the MotorMOUTH II into your stereo’s auxiliary jack and then pair the device with your mobile phone. From there you can fire up any app on your phone and the audio will be transmitted wirelessly over Bluetooth to the MotorMOUTH II, which will play it through your car stereo.

The same applies to phone calls: use your phone to take or place the call, and the audio from the call will be played over your car’s speakers. The MotorMOUTH II is available now for $79.99 retail, and comes with a Y adapter so you can move the audio jack around your car or plug directly in for private listening. 

Origin made news a few weeks ago when they released their combination XBox 360 and gaming PC, The Big O. Now the company is at it again with the Eon17, a high-end gaming laptop with a laundry list of gaming hardware that you’d traditionally find in a full-sized PC.

The Eon17 features a 17-inch 16:9 LED backlist display, an optional six-core Intel Core i7 980X processor, up to 24GB of memory, and up to three hard drives. The Eon17 also has HDMI inputs and outputs so you can show your movies and gaming on a larger screen, and can be configured with two NVidia GeForce 480M graphics cards in SLI mode.

Just for good measure, Origin also crammed a Blu-Ray burner and combo drive into the laptop case, along with a full-sized keyboard and a touchpad that supports multi-touch gestures. However, like many other gaming laptops there’s no doubt the Eon17 will be heavy and not really meant to use on your lap at all. Pricing starts at $2,499 and goes up depending on how many of the listed features you want in the one you order. Orders start shipping in October. 

Amazon will make its free Kindle app available for BlackBerry’s upcoming 7-inch PlayBook tablet when it ships in early 2011.

We’re not sure exactly what Verizon is up to with these high-end Android phones that aren’t Droids and feature Bing over Google, but it looks like the Fascinate is about to get a friend: BGR just got these snaps of the HTC ADR6325, which appears to be the Merge we’ve heard so much about, and the same dual-mode set we saw at the FCC. Nothing’s confirmed specs-wise except a five megapixel camera, microSD slot, and SIM slot for global roaming, but we’re still pretty sure this thing will basically be the CDMA version of the Desire Z / T-Mobile G2 and feature a Qualcomm MSM7630 processor with 4GB of onboard storage. And then there’s that Bing logo on the homescreen — we don’t know how thoroughly it’s integrated into Sense, but here’s hoping it’s better than what Samsung accomplished with TouchWiz on the Fascinate — hardware this promising shouldn’t be saddled with carrier-wrecked firmware.

HTC Merge for Verizon gets snapped: another Android phone with Bing originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What is Marvel’s Ironman comic book hero but an average guy with a failing heart wearing a really awesome exoskeleton? It’s not as implausible as, say, a “man who can fly” or a dude who turns into a giant green body builder when he’s angry. So why should be surprised when we hear that a real-world “ironman” exoskeleton may be coming to a shipping yard or military operation near you?

According to a report on the Salt Lake Tribune, Massachusetts-based defense contractor Raytheon-Sarcos has developed a 195-lb, full-body suit, the XOS-2 that can make a 200 pound weight feel like 12 pounds and give the wearer the ability to punch through a roughly 6-inch-thick wood wall.

Despite the millions already spent developing the suit, Ratheon’s body suit looks nowhere near as impressive as the armor worn by Robert Downey Jr. in the Ironman movies; nor can it travel great distances without an external hydraulic power pack. That will all change, eventually, According to Raytheon executives, tethered industrial use could come as early as three years from now. Fully mobile, combat-ready use is at least five years away.

Even so, who doesn’t want to try one of these on today?