Hasta La Gadget!

Can you believe it? Another CES has come and gone — and the crew of Engadget was there to capture all the highs and the lows. If you haven’t been keeping track of things, this year was an insanely jam-packed frenzy of gadgety goodness. Our team bounced between the towering monuments to 3D TV, a boatload of smartbooks, netbooks, and tablets, an unexpected deluge of “superphones” and smartphones, and the requisite helping of crazy Crapgadgets and mountains of new laptops with the style and grace of a ballerina on opening night. Of course, we captured all of that madness on the pages (and pages, and pages) of Engadget, blowing it out with our biggest CES showing ever and putting a bunch of our new redesign elements into play to get news to you guys faster. But like all awesome things, they must come to an end, and after a week in Las Vegas, everyone is definitely ready to truck it on home. We wanted to leave our readers with a taste of what CES was like for us (including some awesome video of senior editor Thomas Ricker breaking it down). We also want to shout out a big thank you to you guys and girls for coming to the site every day and making this our biggest and best CES ever. You absolutely rule forever.

Continue reading It was Vegas, baby — Engadget departs CES 2010

It was Vegas, baby — Engadget departs CES 2010 originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Engadget’s iconic and recognizable logo has a long history of being used in unauthorized ways. We should probably be appalled or something, but we’ll leave that to the lawyers — because we can’t help but find it amusing. This time around, it’s Batteries n’Gadgets — a store at a mall in Toronto — that saw fit to take liberties with our logo. Nice work, Canada!

[Thanks, David]

n’Gadgets store has us pondering a name change, new line of business originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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1. Phil Schiller keynote live from WWDC 2009
2. Live from Apple’s ‘It’s only rock and roll’ event
3. Live from Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 preview event
4. Live from the Macworld 2009 keynote
5. iPhone 3GS review
6. Motorola Droid review
7. Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know
8. Exclusive: first Google Phone / Nexus One photos, Android 2.1 on-board
9. HTC Hero review
10. Windows 7 review
11. Palm Pre review
12. Microsoft sucks at Photoshop
13. Microsoft announces availability of Windows 7 Beta and Windows Live
14. Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence from Apple due to health reasons
15. Video: Sony’s PSP Go leaks out before E3, is obviously a go
16. Motorola Droid first hands-on
17. Windows 7 Beta goes public
18. Modern Warfare 2’s Prestige Edition includes fully functioning night vision goggles
19. Snow Leopard review
20. Live from Palm’s CES press conference

And a few other statistics for 2009 (all related to Engadget Classic):

$38,204.57 – Retail value of stuff we gave away to readers
12,681 – total number of posts for 2009
1,821 – Number of galleries on Engadget for 2009
454 – Number of hands-on posts
99 – Number of Engadget reviews
66 – number of podcasts
4 – number of Engadget shows

Engadget’s top posts, 2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We don’t know exactly what it is about the Engadget logo that people love so much (well, we have some ideas), but our name and likeness does seem to pop up in the most unusual places. This time, it’s more unusual than, er… usual. Apparently, our sweet E is being used as the prime designator for a Croatian “civil society organization” called e-misija. We don’t pretend to get exactly what it is they do, but anything with a promo video as sublime as the clip after the break sounds cool to us.

Note: Our logo is all over their YouTube page! See it in videos here.

[Thanks, Ahmed]

Continue reading Engadget’s logo gets boosted… for a Croatian civic action group!

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Engadget’s logo gets boosted… for a Croatian civic action group! originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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As you may soon become aware, this week’s podcast is about two hours long. Now, we’re aware that this might present a difficult scenario for those of you who like to rent out a sensory deprivation room every week to maximize the experience of listening to Josh, Nilay and Paul babble, so here are some usage ideas for this “wild card” hour of listening to be spent in the real world:

• Listen to the first half of the podcast twice
• Stand in line for the Pre for an hour and then leave
• Teach yourself to juggle Wiimotes
• Make a recording of yourself lightly chuckling off and on for an hour

Those are just a few of the things we though of off the top of our heads, we’re sure you can improve upon these ideas when the moment of truth comes.

Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, Paul Miller
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Song: Hotel California

00:03:15 – Palm Pre review
00:49:12 – Engadget & Joystiq live from Microsoft’s E3 2009 keynote
00:50:34 – Microsoft announces “Project Natal” motion controller for Xbox 360!
00:51:40 – Project Natal video hands-on, impressions, and further details
00:52:30 – Xbox Live gets 1080p Zune video store, Netflix browsing, Twitter and Facebook integration
01:03:03 – Xbox 360 getting full retail games delivered on demand
01:15:20 – Engadget & Joystiq live from Nintendo’s E3 2009 keynote
01:15:35 – Nintendo Wii Vitality Sensor detects your pulse
01:22:40 – Miyamoto: Super Mario Bros. Wii could be better, but the Wii’s too weak
01:23:30 – Engadget & Joystiq live from Sony’s E3 2009 keynote
01:24:12 – Sony PSP Go announced — $249, no UMD
01:32:20 – PSP Go first hands-on! (updated)
01:41:20 – Sony announces new PS3 motion controller
01:58:10 – Apple iPhone 3.0 rumor roundup, part II: parental controls and sketchy shots

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Engadget Podcast 149 – 06.05.2009 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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