Hasta La Gadget!

Are you ready for this? We’re dropping another Engadget Show on your head next Friday, October 21st! This time out, we’ll be celebrating Halloween early, with a costume contest, a trip to New York Comic Con and all manner of additional surprises.

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. If you are joining us in studio, make sure to come in costume if you want to be eligible to win some awesome giveaways, including a very special $900 complete costume package provided by HalloweenCostumes.com. But don’t worry, if you can’t get there in person we’ll have a download up soon after taping.

Sprint is also offering 60 guaranteed tickets to The Engadget Show taping to the first 60 entrants who text “ENGADGET” to 467467 or enter online! Standard text messaging rates apply. Click for the Official Rules and see how to enter online.

If you live outside of the tri-state area (NY, NJ, CT), you can enter online for a chance to win a trip for two to New York City to attend The Engadget Show. Standard text messaging rates apply. Click here to enter.

Here are the details if you win a ticket:

• The event is all ages.
• We’ll open doors and begin seating at 5:15pm on October 21st, and the taping begins at 6:00PM. We’ll be closing the doors at 5:50PM.
• Winners must pick confirm and print tickets 24 hours before taping begins or risk forfeiting their seat.
• Please bring a photo ID with you to the taping.
• The show length is around an hour.

If you’re a member of the media who wishes to attend, please contact us at: engadgetshowmedia [at] engadget [dot] com, and we’ll try to accommodate you. All other non-media questions can be sent to: engadgetshow [at] engadget [dot] com.

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The Engadget Show returns Friday, October 21st — win a ticket to the taping! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re getting closer! We’re shooting tonight at 6PM ET, and if you’re lucky enough to be in NYC we have a few tickets left over. If you’d like to attend, e-mail jon dot turi at engadget dot com including your full name and confirmation that you can show up tonight. Do it quick enough and we’ll save you a seat.

If, however, you’re not lucky enough to join in on the fun in person in NYC, you can follow from home right here.

We have an interview with musician / internet sensation Jonathan Coulton, who will be discussing his viral rise to the top of the guitar-playing YouTube masses and treating us to a familiar song or two.

We’ll also be traveling to Maker Faire in NYC to take a look at robots, racing turtle shells, fire breathing iron dragons, and a lot of 3D printers. And Make:Live co-hosts Matt Richardson and Becky Stern will be joining us live in the studio to discuss some of their favorite DIY projects.

Then we’ll be paid a visit by the creators of the Keepon, to discuss the origins of their adorable little dancing ‘bot. Tim will take a trip through the mean streets of New York City on the Grace One electric bike and Brian will pop by Frog’s Manhattan location to take a look at the company’s latest industry-defining designs.

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The Engadget Show is live tonight, with Jonathan Coulton, Maker Faire, Keepon, and more! originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Ferrari’s been one of the most respected car manufacturers in the world since the 1940s, but it hasn’t exactly gotten there by being bleeding-edge. In the early ’60s, when rear-engined cars were sweeping the charts in Formula One, Il Commendatore — Enzo Ferrari — refused to take one racing, famously saying “the horse doesn’t push the cart along with its nose.” It would take many humiliating defeats before his company would finally put that horse where it belongs. Being an early adopter, obviously, was not a priority. It’s only in the past few years, with cars like the Enzo and 458 Italia, that Ferrari has truly embraced modern ideas of whizz-bang tech to make their cars genuinely faster — not just easier to drive.

That’s just the beginning. Automotive technology is finally starting to accelerate the way personal computing devices have for the past few decades. New means of propulsion are combining with ever-greater integrated systems and it’s easy to see this as leading us toward a generation of cars faster and still more efficient than anything we’ve yet seen on the roads. Ferrari calls this four-wheeled singularity the “hypercar,” and to get an idea of just what that car of the future might look like it invited 50 teams of designers from major universities around the world to compete. Join us as we look at some of the best creations.

Continue reading Engadget previews Ferrari’s future hypercars at the World Design Contest (video)

Engadget previews Ferrari’s future hypercars at the World Design Contest (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:15:00 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

Download the Show: The Engadget Show – 023 (HD) / The Engadget Show – 023 (iPod / iPhone / Zune formatted) / The Engadget Show – 023 (Small)

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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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