Archive for October 25th, 2007

Verizon Wireless abandons fight over 700MHz auction rules

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, WirelessWorried that Verizon's complaints about the open-access rules in the upcoming 700MHz spectrum auction would shake things up in a negative way? As of now, your anxiety is apparently unfounded. According to The New York Times, Verizon Wireless has "abandoned its legal challenge of the Federal Communications ...

Gateway offers up 22-inch HD2200 / 24-inch FHD2400 LCD monitors

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Displays Finding that 30-inch XHD3000 to be a bit too rich for your blood (or just too ginormous for your desk)? Gateway understands, and that's why it's offering up new 22- and 24-inch LCD monitors for those who demand a bit less screen real estate. Up first is the ...

Mary had a little…Pleo?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Robots From now on, when we can't sleep at night, we'll be counting Pleos.[Via Robots Rule] Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life! Source: [Link]

RelaxView 5.0 Dental Pack distracts from pain, does not clean teeth

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets, Portable Video In a clever bit of marketing designed to play to our deepest fears of oral torture at the hands of a disgruntled hygienist, Dutch manufacturer relaxView B.V. is bundling a head-mounted display with a portable DVD player and offering it up to dentists as ...

LG’s 13.3-inch E300-AP75K laptop packs a 160GB hybrid HDD

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Laptops LG's E300-AP75K isn't the first laptop this year from the company rocking a hybrid hard drive within, but it's just hard to gloss over a new machine with 160 gigabytes of HHD under the hood. Reportedly, this 13.3-incher sports a WXGA panel, a 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo ...

Samsung intros 19-inch SyncMaster 942BW LCD monitor

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Displays Gateway isn't the only company out there cranking out a new display today -- oh no, Samsung's getting in on the action, too. The 19-inch SyncMaster 942BW won't make any jaws drop, but it does feature a 1,440 x 900 resolution, five-millisecond response time, 500:1 contrast ratio, 300 ...

Psion Teklogix launches rugged iKon PDA phone

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Handhelds Last we heard from Psion Teklogix, it was busy cranking out a handheld workhorse for those rough days in the field, but now the outfit is celebrating its 40th year in the biz by offering up the iKon. This PDA / smartphone features a 3.7-inch VGA ...

Apple envisions tactility on touchscreen keyboards

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Handhelds, Peripherals Tactile feedback isn't exactly new to the mobile device arena, but Apple is apparently looking to add a bit of tactility to on-screen keyboards of the future. In a recent patent filing, the gurus in Cupertino have described four arrangements for accomplishing the aforementioned goal, some of ...

LG offers up 22-inch Flatron M228WD LCD

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, HDTV At first glance, you may think that you've seen LG's 22-inch Flatron M228WD before in another life, but fortunately that's not the case. This unit ups the ante from the oh-so-similar M228WA that came before it by including an integrated digital TV tuner and swapping out the ...

Poll: How do you want us to cover Leopard?

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsCheck it out: Leopard's been brewing in "public" beta (read: BitTorrent) for a fair amount of time and we'd be willing to bet that the majority of interested Engadget readers have already been either voraciously consuming every bit of available news about the new OS or straight ...