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PSP is already outselling Nintendo DS in Japan...

It would seem as if that monolithic retailing juggernaut, Wal Mart, has decided to get on the iPod Shuffle gravy train. Somehow I thinnk it will sell just fine, even without a scree or a scroll wheel.

seen it yesterday at engadget but i always look forward to repostings due to the higher caliber of comments one finds at /.

Now not only am I saving hundreds of dollars on gas, but I never have to charge my cellphone either. Now I'm just waiting on a case badge that'll up my cpu 300mhz.

I don't buy it...

It sounds as fishy as the noeffectwhatsoever(tm) SmogBuster.

Btw. I'm going to start selling stickers that you you can put on your forehead. It will change your image for sure. Anyone wants to buy?

I was planning on using Cingular's EDGE network with the upcoming Treo 650 and bluetooth DUN, but of course, cingular decided to disable the bluetooth DUN profile on the Treo 650 and rain on my parade..

There is a review on endgadget (Incidentally, it includes the words 'blasphemy' and 'Fisher Price.'I think that's why the 'anonymous poster' posted a link to his so-called blog.)

Until they start learning how to play Doctor and Nurse:

http://ces.engadget.com/entry/1234000593028087/

Treat says the robot, developed with a grant from the National Science Foundation, should be able to do "everything a nurse can." Well, not everything. Treat envisions the bot, which is basically a large robotic arm with visual and tactile sensors, handing surgeons their tools in the operating room -- not tucking patients in or fielding questions from family members.

*Cough* ahem hem hem...

Original press release
Engadget reivew
From the CES show

My problem with this so far is that the alphabetical layout is about as bad for your wrists as QWERTY. And I type too many numbers and symbols to seriously consider this type of keyboard.

Not to mention it has a Windows XP ^W^W Fisher Price theme.

What is SkypeIn and what are the plans for it?

SkypeIn will allow phone calls from the traditional phone network in to Skype. We don't have a specific launch date yet, but hope to offer it sometime this winter.

get software here http://www.will-burn.net/

After all, SanDisk has done something mildly clever with their flash memory offering. While I don't use the Sony MS myself, the size and shape looks like they could do something similar on the other end of their product, giving something reminiscent of these USB flash drives.

Compare the Mac Mini with Hoojum products. Coincidence? Engaged made made the same comparison.

Now, Griffin, if you would feel so inclined as to offer us a stereo bluetooth headset with voice com capabilities that doesn't appear to be completely worthless junk? Yours, -Frustrated by tangles and snags

That power connector looks fairly nonstandard. Is it just to reduce socket size to leave room for the tiny connector panel, or does this thing have an external power supply like the cube did?

I can't find the answer on Apple's site.

Engadget has some pictures of the mac mini http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000590026982/ It's about 1/3 the size of the cube- looks smaller than most external cd drives. They're going to cell millions.

Another link about the FlashCard: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000020023447/.

fwiw: I got into the page after 15 tries, myself.

cheers...ank

how about Cat Swartz's coverage at CES for engadget. just watch how Kevin Rose of G4TechTV drools all over her 30 seconds into the clip ;)

Philip Torrone mentioned a "rumor" on the Engadget Podcast the other day that, to protest Apple's suits against fan sites, a number of those sites were planning to disrupt the keynote by having people stand up at some point during it and start shouting "Stop suing us! Stop suing us!"

I would say this seems to give some credence to Philip's report...

I went and researched this a bit, and found the following links useful:

http://engadget.com/entry/5180876097686388/ http://www.audioholics.com/techtips/specsformats/C ableCARDprimer.php
http://broadcastengineering.com/news/broadcasting_ cable_era_begins/

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000490026252/
http://techdigestuk.typepad.com/tech_digest/2005/0 1/meet_robosapien.html

I quote from this page:

"Current large screen OLED devices consume far more power than LCDs [..]"

So it appears that OLED seems to have a problem with power efficiency in addition to the longevity of its pixels. Definitely not a good sign. The article I quoted from also specifies 2008 as the date when OLED might enter mass-production. Still a long way off, in other words.

As for SED, take a look at this article: Toshiba's SED TV at CES. First (big) TVs released this year, with production ramping up next year.

Also, I disagree with what you say about OLED being superior to SED and FED because it doesn't have the dead-pixel problem. SEDs and FEDs can have multiple electron emitters per pixel, and phosphors have a tendency to last a very long time (just look at CRTs)

So SED is available this very year, uses less power than comparable displays (one-third of a plasma display) and won't wear out within 5 years. FED might be released in a few months or years and will exhibit pretty much the same benefits as SED. OLED will be released in 2008. If we're lucky.

Files have to be named in a special 8.3 naming convention, all upper case as well, or the PSP won't see them.

An hour f video fills up a 512 memory stick.

Read about it here:

You can only use the memory stick duo pro. All other memory stick formats are unrecognized by the PSP.

The video aspects are underwhelming, unintuitive, unfriendly and unimpressive.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000980024404

Perhaps they did some research into the marketability of an "HP blue" iPod and decided to call that off... after all, you can always buy the iPod Tattoo kit and print up your own blue umm... those are stickers, right? Yea, that's what I want to do, cover my iPod with stickers...

...and let's not forget, Emulate the C64 hardware so you can one day create a C64 30-in-1 game joystick and sell it on QVC

Vonage already offers softphone service. Although it wasn't designed for use on a PDA, of course the guys over at engadget had to make it work.

• engaget
• Joongang
• Forbes

File names have to be all uppercase and be formatted like this "E:\MP_ROOT\100MNV01" where E is your memory stick drive. Not intuitive. Even the extension has to be upper case or the PSP won't recognize it.

You can find out more on the Engadget article.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000980024404/

"if you had a 90 minute movie, and used the the same settings we did to convert to to AVI then to MP4, you would have the whole movie in 1100MB, which, unfortunately, is larger than the largest Memory Stick Duo currently available."

There's an accessory for that, too.

http://www.engadget.com/entry/0488528073016041/

posts like that are enough for me to declare they're a scam.

I have just found this...http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000570024 663/

I never remove the tire (maybe the wheel) when parking. The tire is the rubber part of the wheel. I have been known to undo the quick-release lever of the front wheel when I forget my lock. A thief breaking his collar bone because the front wheel came off is going to be more obvious than one rolling along a bike with no seat.

Personally, I think the authors went to a lot of trouble to steal the rental bike. I hacksawed one of my own Kryptonite locks (had lost the key) in two minutes.

Speaking of hardware hacks (to try to get back on topic), I missed seeing the great Kryptonite Bic pen hack on Slashdot. I had to read about it in the Washington Post. By way of disclosure, Kryptonite has fixed this and has a new kind of key.

Plasma Myths

LCD's also have lousy contrast ratios and poor refresh rates compared to Plasma. However, in the market, one technology doesn't automatically trump another. You gotta shop SMART. Currently there are some good LCD screens that outperform some poor Plasma screens. So just buying Plasma doesn't guarantee you a better picture over LCD. It really depends on how much money you're willing to spend.

Eventually LCD's are going to catch up and surpass Plasmas but that's not the case now or in the near future (next year or so).

I myself have a demo Panasonic 42PX20 that has about 6000+ hours on it and I've not noticed any brightness changes at all. My only complaint is that the picture isn't as good as a CRT. But that's true of all flat panels I've observed.

Important shopping tip kids: Contrast is the key, watch dark scenes. Most of the flat panel screens (LCD, Plasma and RPTV LCD screens) will crunch black. So as soon as you get to a dark scene, you don't see shades of gray, everything just goes to black. (Some TVs will auto-adjust their contrast/brightness to counter this but then you end up with brightntess shifts between bright and dark scenes).

Caveat Emptor!

While the companies producing the DRM will make big bucks in the short term, the recording labels will only shoot themselves in the foot by using DRM. When they are forced to abandon the technology as Sony recently did, the gravy train for DRM producers will be gone, too.

There are already two cell phones with 4 GB hard drives. I can't recall which models they were, but they are totally Japan-only deals. Check on engadget, that's where I've seen the stories.

Well I can hazard a guess as to why some people might buy something like a, uh, razor or electric toothbrush... after all, somebody out there must have a use for devices such as this "Eye Massager", otherwise why would they make them?!

Seen this?

Focusing on the news of the smaller, lighter 40GB drive, coule there be other applications of this in a device such as the iPod mini or even an Apple branded cellphone?

Or perhaps the 80GB will me a debut not in an iPod for music and photos, but in an iPod-like PDA/Table/Treo type device.

And people thought Phillip Torrone was ahead of the times :-)

The actual posts on Engadget about these rumors:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/3746421329807386/
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000100021627/

The actual posts on Engadget about these rumors:
http://www.engadget.com/entry/3746421329807386/
http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000100021627/

Flash Ipod

There's an interesting article on engadget on using a combination of bittorrent and RSS to get a tivo-like system on your pc that will download shows automatically for you.

Internet Tivo is happening. I wonder how long until they start trying to put some sort of DRM in Tvs.

Dood, they should just take that ifbot and turn it into a kind of KIT/Gundam mobile suit for old and handicapped folks... a robot you ride in and have a conversation with... and I am sure the ifbot would love to remind old people what they just did... it already has a built in camera...

Engadget has a photo of what it looks like here: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000837021481/ You won't exactly be blown away.

This could be the reason why it is suddenly making headlines. The article has been doing the rounds recently and I guess getting some peoples attention.

It is a bit annoying because I have been using this exact method for quite some time, but now that everyone else has a step by step guide to it, they are having a 'slashdot effect' on my favourite rss feeds, and it is drawing attention to the tv episode download scene, which can only mean lawsuits are just around the corner.

For me I feel I am justified in downloading some of these shows as they are never going to make it onto tv over here (the UK), for example Survivor, which is in its 9th season and not one episode has aired here, so it is highly doubtful they ever will. Maybe though if the UK companies use bitorrent file popularity for research, they might see which new US shows are popular with UK downloaders, and will buy them to air here.

There's an interesting article on engadget on using a combination of bittorrent and RSS to get a tivo-like system on your pc that will download shows automatically for you.

I thought about comparing that statistic with the chance of getting struck by lightning.. off I go to google, and look what I found:

Two Koreans with cellphones struck by lightning

Forget dodgy batteries - you're going to die no matter what you do!

(FYI: for an American, you have a 1 in 280,000 chance of being zapped.)