Hasta La Gadget!

Ah, convergence. Pure Digital — DAB and WiFi radio extraordinaire — has just made live a product portal for its forthcoming Sensia, which looks to be a serious leap forward in terms of features and design. For starters, this product ditches the typical retro vibe and goes for something entirely more Jetsons-esque, and while many of Pure’s past radios have had some sort of display, the 5.7-inch touchscreen (640 x 480) is certainly a first. Boasting DAB and FM tuners, this device is also equipped with an 802.11g module that lets it pull down radio streams from the web as well as stream other media from networked PCs / storage. Other specs include twin 3-inch full-range drivers, an RF remote, optional rechargeable battery and a 3.5 millimeter socket for connecting those “other sources.” Moreover, users will be able to tap into a variety of applications, from weather to news to Picasa to social networking. If all goes well, it’ll ship before the holidays for £249.99 ($406).

[Via Macworld, thanks Ian]

Filed under: Home Entertainment

Pure Sensia DAB / WiFi radio gains touchscreen, streaming and Facebook originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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PlayStation Home not “social” enough for you? Fret not PS3 users (or soon-to-be PS3 users), ’cause Sony Computer Entertainment Europe head Andrew House has recently dropped a not so subtle hint that some more traditional social network features are on their way to the console. While he obviously didn’t get too specific, House did tell the Financial Times that Sony has plans for more social networking features, and apparently wouldn’t rule out a partnership with “popular sites such as Facebook,” much like Microsoft has already announced for the Xbox 360. In PS3 price-cut news, House also noted that Sony is indeed aware that “consumers are watching their euros and pounds more carefully than before,” but added that “it would not be fair to say this is a reaction to current market conditions.”

[Via Joystiq]

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Sony’s Andrew House hints at more social networking for PS3 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:18:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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While you’d expect the first hands-on shots of INQ’s new sociable Mini 3G and Chat to emerge on Twitpic, it’s TechRadar doing the honors. Both of these featurephones are fairly attractive in their own right, with each being suitably slim and chock full of status updating power. In fact, we’d say the Mini 3G’s red and black QWERTY keypad is amongst the sexiest we’ve seen. Why not judge Like[TM] for yourself by giving those read links below a look?

Read – INQ Mini 3G hands-on
Read – INQ Chat hands-on

Filed under: Cellphones

@iPhoneHater INQ Mini 3G and Chat are now posing for photographs, lol #hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you don’t own a digiframe yet, perhaps it’s because you were waiting for the kids at Toshiba to design something that looked even more like the faceplate of a microwave oven than the usual fare. But that’s not the whole story: besides looking at home next to your Cuisinart and rice cooker, this guy also supports FrameChannel accounts, so personalized weather, traffic, sports scores, music, and video are also on the plate — as well as the Flickr, Photobucket, and Facebook integration that companies like Toshiba think that you want in a digital picture frame. Hitting shelves in August, the 8-inch frame is available in white (DMF82XWU) or black (DMF82XKU) for an MSRP of $179.99. For the 10-inch frame (DMF102XKU, black only) you can expect to pay $229.99.

[Via i4u]

Filed under: Displays

Toshiba’s new digiframes feature social networking, FrameChannel originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Threadless, the democratically designed T-shirt company, wants to see your tweets. More specifically, it wants to print them on a T-shirt.

Twitter Tees by Threadless, launched earlier this week, is exactly what it sounds like: a new line of T-shirts based on Twitter. Threadless explains:

Twitter Tees will feature notable Tweets submitted and voted on by Twitter users, with art direction and design of each t-shirt by the
in-house creative team at Threadless. Anyone can submit a Tweet for inclusion. Twitter users will vote on submitted Tweets, with two new Twitter Tees selected and printed each
week. They are likely to be as diverse and varied as the conversations happening all day on Twitter.

But wait, that’s not all! There are prizes to be had!

Twitter users whose Tweets are selected for printing will receive $500
($360 in cash and a $140 Threadless gift certificate). In addition, the
first nominator of a printed Tweet will receive $140 ($100 cash and a
$40 Threadless gift certificate).

To kick things off, Threadless has already selected and designed four, well, let’s call them tweet-shirts, shall we? The following designs are available immediately for $18 each:

I’m huge on Twitter, by Boing Boing co-editor @xenijardin

140 is the new 420, by @mutgoff

The messaging system we didn’t know we needed until we had it, by Twitter co-founder Biz Stone

In space, no one can hear you tweet, by @LouisTrapani (Side note: If I were Mike Massimino, the astronaut who recently became the first person to tweet from space, I might take offense at this one.)

Submit one of your own tweets, nominate your friends’ tweets, or purchase one of the four inaugural designs at twitter.threadless.com.