Hasta La Gadget!

Oh man, do we have another action-packed episode of The Engadget Show coming your way! This time out, we’ll be visited by the one and only Jonathan Coulton, who will be treating us to some rock and regaling us with tales of his viral journey through the music industry. Tim and Brian will also be sitting down with the creators of Keepon, to discuss the adorable little yellow ‘bot’s path from interactive learning tool to store shelves. And we’ll be taking a trip to the Frog studio in SoHo and Maker Faire in Queens, NY, and discussing some of our favorite DIY projects with Make: Live co-hosts Becky Stern and Matt Richardson.

The Engadget Show is sponsored by Sprint and will take place in our intimate NYC studio, so if you want to get in, you’ll need to win a ticket in advance. But don’t worry, if you can’t get there in person we’ll have a download up soon after taping.

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The Engadget Show returns Tuesday, September 20th — win a ticket to the taping! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Sep 2011 17:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s another action-packed episode of the Engadget Show! Tim, Brian and Dana start things off by taking a look at the latest devices from RIM and discussing the BlackBerry’s future — or lack thereof — in the consumer space. Also on the reviews table is the latest in iPhone 5 KIRF technology.

Next up, Tim travels all the way to Italy, to get a tour or Ferrari’s factories and discuss what the high performance sports car might look like in the years and decades to come (hint: it will probably be red).

Fusion Garage Founder and CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan pops by the studio to show off the Grid 10 and Grid 4 and discuss why his company deserves another chance. Brian maxes out our travel budget swinging by Times Square to put Engadget’s name in lights on some cool new interactive billboards.

Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Julie Samuels pays us a visit to discuss the state of patent law in the US, in the wake of Google’s recently announced Motorola acquisition. Also, what the heck is up with the whole Apple / Samsung thing anyway? The show wraps up with a solo, guitar pedal-filled performance by Parts & Labor’s Dan Friel.

The video stream of the show is above, and you can also download us in HD below.

Continue reading The Engadget Show – 024: We visit Ferrari, take over Times Square, check out the Grid 10, and talk patents with the EFF

The Engadget Show – 024: We visit Ferrari, take over Times Square, check out the Grid 10, and talk patents with the EFF originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Hello, and welcome to yet another installment of Engadget Laboratories. This time around we’re taking a pseudo scientific look at sub-$100 earbuds. We’ve all been caught out, headphoneless, and desperate to put some tunes in our ears. So, the question is, what exactly do you get for your money when you stumble into a Best Buy and pick up whatever happens to be hanging on the shelves? Clearly you’re trading convenience for selection when you shuffle into a big box shop for your audio needs, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you should just grab the cheapest thing hanging by the register, or the most expensive for that matter. We randomly selected four sets of phones, at four different price points, and put it to a group of average Joes and Janes to see if they could actually tell the difference between a $100 pair of buds and a $10 pair (while blindfolded and trapped inside a booth).

Continue reading Big box earbuds put to a blind ‘taste’ test in the Engadget Labs

Big box earbuds put to a blind ‘taste’ test in the Engadget Labs originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You probably don’t think “top-tier audio” when you ponder the wonders of Colorado Springs, but sure enough, one of music’s best kept secrets is headquartered there, camped out slyly in quite the nondescript building. A few months back, we were granted unprecedented access to Westone’s lair (just a year and change after visiting Klipsch’s HQ), and they even let a film crew in for good measure. The goal? To show you, the budding audiophile, exactly how a set of custom in-ear monitors are crafted, and what kind of work goes into creating one of the planet’s most diminutive speaker arrangements. We’ve whipped up the entire experience there in the video above, but if you’re looking for a more textual perspective, head on past the break.

Continue reading Westone lab tour: how in-ear monitors are made, from impressions to impressing (video)

Westone lab tour: how in-ear monitors are made, from impressions to impressing (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Engadget Show is back, and this time we’re in full-on rock star mode. We kick things off with a trip to the Engadget Laboratories, where Brian and Terrence test out some sub-$100 headphones on a quartet of guinea pigs. Do you really get what you pay for when you buy a pair of earbuds from your local Big Box retailer?

Things get a bit ritzier when Darren tours Westone’s laboratories in Colorado to find out how a pair of $950 in-ear headphones are made. Hint: it involves squirting silicone into our managing editor’s ears and a whole lot of sanding.

Next up, we stop by the reviews table, where Tim and Brian take a look at this month’s most exciting gadgets, including the new MacBook Air, Sony Vaio Z, Toshiba Thrive, and Droid 3.

John Flansburgh and John Linnell of They Might Be Giants pay a visit to Engadget headquarters to show off some of their favorite lo-fi musical gadgets, including the Stylophone and a circuit-bent Speak and Spell. Also, if you’ve ever wondered what the long reigning kings of underground geek rock would sound like given the T-Pain treatment, this is a segment you’re not gonna want to miss.

Universal Republic Records’ VP Digital Colleen Quill also stops by to discuss the role of the major label in the world of Twitter, iTunes, Spotify, and the like. And we wrap things up with a performance by New York City’s own Cookies.

The video stream of the show is above, and you can also download us in HD below. Oh, and if you’re still waiting for some Spotify invites, don’t worry — we’ve got you covered.

Hosts: Tim Stevens, Brian Heater
Special guests: Terrence O’Brien, They Might Be Giants , Colleen Quill
Producer: Guy Streit
Director: Michelle Stahl
Executive Producers: Joshua Fruhlinger and Michael Rubens
Music by: Cookies

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The Engadget Show – 023: We tour a headphone factory, talk record labels, and look at They Might Be Giants’ favorite gadgets originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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