Archive for July, 2009
PlayStation 3 slim listing pops up on Amazon Germany
tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/31/playstation-3-slim-listing-pops-up-on-amazon-germany/’; tweetmeme_source = ‘engadget’; digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/playstation/PlayStation_3_slim_listing_pops_up_on_Amazon_Germany’; Here’s something fun to start your weekend with. Amazon’s Ge…
Brain Carpet microelectrodes could help translate thoughts into actions more effectively
Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a new, more precise way of placing microelectrodes on the surface of the brain to enable patients to turn thoughts into action. Led by Bradley Greger, a professor of bioengineering, the “Brain Carpet” as it’s called, represents a “modest advanc…
FCC queries AT&T, Apple on Google Voice iPhone app rejection
tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/31/fcc-now-inquiring-about-atandts-involvement-in-google-voices-iph/’; tweetmeme_source = ‘engadget’; digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/FCC_queries_AT_T_Apple_on_Google_Voice_iPhone_app_rejection’; Yeah, we’re pretty much all peeved by Apple sudd…
FCC inquires on AT&T’s part in Google Voice iPhone app rejection
Yeah, we’re pretty much all peeved by Apple suddenly ejecting all traces of Google Voice from the app store, but now it looks to have drawn the ire of the Federal Communications Commission, as well. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, the agency has sent out three letters, one each …
LEDSAUR Tyrannosaurus Rex desk lamp makes chewing through paperwork less monotonous
We’ll be straight with you: it was pretty much love at first sight for us and dinosaur bones, and while we’ve always harbored a secret desire to someday acquire a real T-Rex fossil for our private collection, the LEDSAUR is probably our best shot at anything even close to that. Besides taking on …
PS3 manufacturing costs down 70 percent? Strange, it doesn’t feel that way
We understand that Sony has a faraway way to go in making up the losses it’s incurred by selling the PS3 at a loss — even whether it was commanding the highest price in the industry the whole while — but whether that latest word on manufacturing costs is exact, we’d say Sony has some room to get …
Video: Arduino-based ‘insecure, egotistical’ robot band
One part gadget, one part art project, and 100% awesome, the Cybraphon is a MacBook powered, Arduino-based mechanical band housed in an antique wardrobe. Including an organ, cymbals, a motor-driven Indian Shruti box (played with 13 robotic servos, no less), and a gramophone, it relies on infrared m…
