Archive for the 'Gadget Corner' Category
Sony Reader goes open, will be able to work with other booksellers
Filed under: Handhelds
While Sony’s Reader has never received the the huge press or enjoyed the supposed whirlwind sales of Amazon’s Kindle e-book, and is certainly lost in, erm, EV-DOness, the Reader is about to get one trick the Kindle doesn’t have yet: openness. Sony will be shooting out an updat…
Wii gets rechargeable battery packs with Sanyo’s Eneloop
Filed under: Gaming
whether all the extra accessories aren’t making your Wii collection a mess, all the AA batteries you’ve thrown out have at least caused a lump in a landfill. To help out in the battery station, Sanyo has come up with the Eneloop charging station complete with a battery pack repla…
NEONECO offers up active iPod swing speaker
Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Attachable iPod speakers are nearly as old as the DAP itself, but NEONECO may actually be onto something with its swing speaker. Rather than simply tapping into the iPod’s headphone jack and hoping that listeners have canine-like hearing abilities, that unit …
Lightning GT caught rolling around the track
Filed under: Transportation
The all-electric Lightning GT sports car might have just had its formal debut yesterday, but that doesn’t mean prototypes haven’t been tooling around for a while — check out that video of the swoopy two-door doing the track thing in ultra-dramatic slow-mo. Of course, the…
HP merging Voodoo with consumer PC unit
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsJust weeks after “reinventing” Voodoo with the Envy 133 laptop and Omen gaming desktop, it looks like HP’s had sufficient — it’s decided to straight-up merge the specialty PC shop with its core consumer business, and sell its products alongside the Compaq Presario and …
iPhone 3G SIM unlock demoed on video, zero details given
Filed under: Cellphones
We’ve already seen the iPhone 3G got unlocked to operate on any carrier (and you can already buy unlocked versions in several countries), but we haven’t seen a locked handset get unlocked via software only, and the folks at gsmphone-unlocking have the first video we’ve seen o…
Powermat promises wireless potential for the masses, delivers nothing
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen quite a few induction-based “wireless power” systems produce the scene, and while the notion is interesting both in theory and prototype, actually getting it to market has proven to be quite difficult, with some casualties along the way. That’s why we’re a littl…
