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- Urban Airship’s Strategic Partnership With SimpleGeo Turns Into An Acquisition
- Screen Grabs: Palm Pre-iPhone hybrid appears on Grimm, doesn't look half bad
- Engadget Primed: SSDs and you
- 5 Reasons You Have to See SEMA
- Build Your Own Classic Mustang
- X-mini KAI Bluetooth speaker daisy chains the jams
- GDrive test page pops up in Google search, inches closer to an actual product
- HTC Rezound Appears On Video And Signage Ahead Of Launch
- Tesla 'Sold Out' for 2012
- Crowd-sourced StreetScooter electric vehicle is right by the numbers
- GM's got a brand new electric motor and it'll give you the key (video)
- Your geekiest Halloween costumes
- Ener1 to be booted from NASDAQ stock exchange
- Boston Dynamics PETMAN portends the pending robot apocalypse
- 'Invisible glass' could reduce display glare, fails as food-in-teeth mirror
- ASUS' Eee Pad plans: Transformer Prime landing November 9th, two Win 8 tablets c...
- New Mobile Ad Unit Lets Developers Promote Apps That Are “Coming Soon”
- Sony to divide TV division into three-headed monster, looks to bounce back
- Ford's big battery breakthrough... from 1966
- China debuts homegrown supercomputer, hits one petaflop mark
- FARO Focus 3D scanner captures big 3D models from a tiny Lego trolly (video)
- 500 Startups Peels Back The Curtain On Its Third And Largest Batch Yet
- AMD Bulldozer breaks own world record, overclocked to 8.46GHz
- HTC Rezound ad pays Verizon stores an early visit, soonish launch likely
- Mo system shares cars, e-bikes, bikes, and even public transport
- DeNA, GREE: Japan’s Mobile Social Gaming Giants Report Impressive Financial Numbers
- Ubuntu coming to tablets, phones, cars and smart TVs by 2014
- Australia's Electric Supercar
- Kinect hack makes presentation slides work around you (video)
- AT&T Reveals First LTE Phones: HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket
| Urban Airship’s Strategic Partnership With SimpleGeo Turns Into An Acquisition Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:21 PM PDT Urban Airship's Strategic Partnership With SimpleGeo Turns Into An Acquisition  Urban Airship's Strategic Partnership With SimpleGeo Turns Into An Acquisition Back in November of 2009, former Digg Chief Architect Joe Stump and Social Thing founder Matt Galligan first publicly unveiled their new startup, SimpleGeo, which was slated to become the new infrastructure for location-based services. They called it the "Amazon Web Services" for location, offering products that make it easy for developers to build location-enabled web and mobile apps, including storage, context, API features, and polymaps. Less than a year later, in... |
| Screen Grabs: Palm Pre-iPhone hybrid appears on Grimm, doesn't look half bad Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:21 PM PDT Screen Grabs: Palm Pre-iPhone hybrid appears on Grimm, doesn't look half bad  Screen Grabs: Palm Pre-iPhone hybrid appears on Grimm, doesn't look half bad Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com. Anyone who caught the series premiere of Grimm, NBC's new fairy-tale-and-crime-procedural would have seen another sort of unearthly fusion: a Palm Pre device ringing like an iPhone.... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:21 PM PDT Engadget Primed: SSDs and you  Engadget Primed: SSDs and you Primed goes in-depth on the technobabble you hear on Engadget every day -- we dig deep into each topic's history and how it benefits our lives. Looking to suggest a piece of technology for us to break down? Drop us a line at primed *at* engadget *dawt* com. If you're a storage aficionado -- and who here isn't?... |
| 5 Reasons You Have to See SEMA Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:21 PM PDT 5 Reasons You Have to See SEMA 5 Reasons You Have to See SEMA Never been to the Vegas trade show? Here's what you're missing. |
| Build Your Own Classic Mustang Posted: 31 Oct 2011 02:21 PM PDT Build Your Own Classic Mustang Build Your Own Classic Mustang Ford is allowing restorers to purchase brand-new Mustang shells. |
| X-mini KAI Bluetooth speaker daisy chains the jams Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:35 PM PDT X-mini KAI Bluetooth speaker daisy chains the jams  X-mini KAI Bluetooth speaker daisy chains the jams The X-mini series of portable speakers may not have changed much in appearance over the years (with a few exceptions), but the company behind them has now finally made one significant upgrade: it's produced a Bluetooth model. As with the other speakers, the new X-mini KAI is a pocket-sized device, and it can be daisy chained with additional speakers for some bigger sound (a standard 3.5mm jack is also included for... |
| GDrive test page pops up in Google search, inches closer to an actual product Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:35 PM PDT GDrive test page pops up in Google search, inches closer to an actual product  GDrive test page pops up in Google search, inches closer to an actual product The GDrive leaks and rumors have started up again in earnest, really for the first time since 2007. The service seemed to destined for the dustbin when Docs started accepting any type of file, but in September hints started dropping that Drive may be resurrected. The latest interesting, if not entirely telling development, is a link to a "test page for Platypus (GDrive)" that pops up when you Google "Writely," the... |
| HTC Rezound Appears On Video And Signage Ahead Of Launch Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:35 PM PDT HTC Rezound Appears On Video And Signage Ahead Of Launch  HTC Rezound Appears On Video And Signage Ahead Of Launch By now it's no secret that HTC's Verizon-bound Rezound will debut shortly, but the stars seem to have aligned recently, because we're absolutely swimming in Rezound-related news. Most notably, a video demoing the Rezound in action has begun to make the rounds, and it gives us our best glimpse yet at Verizon's next holiday heavyweight. The video doesn't probe very far, but it does confirm that the Rezound packs a 1.5GHz dual-core... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 01:35 PM PDT Tesla 'Sold Out' for 2012 Tesla 'Sold Out' for 2012 Want a Model S next year? You may already be out of luck. |
| Crowd-sourced StreetScooter electric vehicle is right by the numbers Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:43 PM PDT Crowd-sourced StreetScooter electric vehicle is right by the numbers  Crowd-sourced StreetScooter electric vehicle is right by the numbers Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Europe/EU Looking for an electric vehicle that has can perform on the street, but costs only around one fourth the price of a Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus EV, but comes in at about one quarter of the price? If you're willing to settle for two seats and a range less than 50 miles, you find such a thing in the StreetScooter EV. The StreetScooter is being built in a... |
| GM's got a brand new electric motor and it'll give you the key (video) Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:42 PM PDT GM's got a brand new electric motor and it'll give you the key (video)  GM's got a brand new electric motor and it'll give you the key (video) Cars with electric motors running the show are few and far between, which is something we need to change -- that's why General Motors is finishing up a new plant in White Marsh, Maryland. The facility will be cooking up magnet and induction electrical motors to power GM's next generation of EVs.... |
| Your geekiest Halloween costumes Posted: 31 Oct 2011 12:42 PM PDT Your geekiest Halloween costumes  Your geekiest Halloween costumes Sure, we may have had our official Halloween costume contest on October's Engadget Show, but who are we to deprive you the reader of taking part in the spooky holiday fun? We've asked everyone to send in their geeky costumes and got some great responses, from the above playable Game Boy, to Barf from Spaceballs, to the requisite Vulcan, to a handful of Steve Jobses.... |
| Ener1 to be booted from NASDAQ stock exchange Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:54 AM PDT Ener1 to be booted from NASDAQ stock exchange  Ener1 to be booted from NASDAQ stock exchange Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Th!nk (Think) Looks like things that were bad with Ener1 (and the Think City electric car) are about to go to worse. After a string of bad news (see here, here, here and here), the latest shoe to drop is the news that the NASDAQ suspended Ener1 from the stock exchange.... |
| Boston Dynamics PETMAN portends the pending robot apocalypse Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:54 AM PDT Boston Dynamics PETMAN portends the pending robot apocalypse  Boston Dynamics PETMAN portends the pending robot apocalypse If the sight of Boston Dynamics' unstoppable Alpha Dog didn't convince you of the coming robot apocalypse, then perhaps a glimpse of its bipedal relative, PETMAN, will. Last time we saw the two-legged bot, It was walking well enough, but it lacked the humanoid visage needed to infiltrate and overthrow.... |
| 'Invisible glass' could reduce display glare, fails as food-in-teeth mirror Posted: 31 Oct 2011 11:54 AM PDT 'Invisible glass' could reduce display glare, fails as food-in-teeth mirror  'Invisible glass' could reduce display glare, fails as food-in-teeth mirror There's nothing worse (seriously, it's scientifically proven) than catching some serious glare on your smartphone, unless you're checking for spinach in your teeth -- but thanks to Nippon Electric Glass' new "invisible glass," an overly reflective surface may be a problem of the past. According to our friends at Tech-On, the company has developed a new type of vitrine that reduces glare by using a special film on each side of... |
| ASUS' Eee Pad plans: Transformer Prime landing November 9th, two Win 8 tablets c... Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:45 AM PDT ASUS' Eee Pad plans: Transformer Prime landing November 9th, two Win 8 tablets coming in 2012  ASUS' Eee Pad plans: Transformer Prime landing November 9th, two Win 8 tablets coming in 2012 The Transformer Prime, with its quad-core silicon and tasty OS, has rightfully garnered much attention lately. A PowerPoint deck detailing ASUS' Q3 earnings now gives us a peek at its Eee Pad strategy -- confirming the aforementioned Prime's November 9th release date, while also promising two more bot-powered slates in the first quarter of 2012.... |
| New Mobile Ad Unit Lets Developers Promote Apps That Are “Coming Soon” Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:45 AM PDT New Mobile Ad Unit Lets Developers Promote Apps That Are "Coming Soon"  New Mobile Ad Unit Lets Developers Promote Apps That Are "Coming Soon" Mobile marketing platform Appsfire is launching a new ad unit for iPhone that lets app developers promote the applications they're about to launch. The "Coming Soon" ad doesn't just announce the forthcoming applications, however, but can also gather early sign-ups from potential users through its "notify me" button. According to Appsfire Co-founder Ouriel Ohayon (and former editor of TechCrunch France), most app developers wait until their app has launched before they start... |
| Sony to divide TV division into three-headed monster, looks to bounce back Posted: 31 Oct 2011 10:45 AM PDT Sony to divide TV division into three-headed monster, looks to bounce back  Sony to divide TV division into three-headed monster, looks to bounce back Looking to make a rebound in the ailing TV business, Sony has announced that it will split its television division into three. According to Reuters, the company is looking to keep operations in check with separate departments for LCD TVs, outsourcing and next-gen TVs. The company is wasting no time, as the move will take place on November 1st.... |
| Ford's big battery breakthrough... from 1966 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:52 AM PDT Ford's big battery breakthrough... from 1966  Ford's big battery breakthrough... from 1966 Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Ford Battery technology is getting better, it just isn't getting better as quickly as we'd like. Certainly, battery advancements haven't kept pace with the astounding advances in areas like electronics, and it has failed to produce the cheap, capacious, powerful cells we'd like to have for driving our electric vehicles cross country while laughing at gas stations and electric outlets alike. So, imagine if you saw an announcement in the... |
| China debuts homegrown supercomputer, hits one petaflop mark Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:52 AM PDT China debuts homegrown supercomputer, hits one petaflop mark  China debuts homegrown supercomputer, hits one petaflop mark China has already, however briefly, sat atop the Top500 list of supercomputers, but that was using silicon designed by American companies like Intel and NVIDIA. The country's latest contestant though, is sure to be a much bigger point of national pride. The Sunway BlueLight MPP, which was installed at the National Supercomputer Center in Jinan this September, is powered by 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 CPUs -- the homegrown chips that come out... |
| FARO Focus 3D scanner captures big 3D models from a tiny Lego trolly (video) Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:52 AM PDT FARO Focus 3D scanner captures big 3D models from a tiny Lego trolly (video)  FARO Focus 3D scanner captures big 3D models from a tiny Lego trolly (video) Nothing catches our collective eye quite as easily as the combination of high technology and childhood toys. Making a play for our man-childhood inclinations today is a Lego-augmented FARO Focus 3D, purportedly the world's smallest 3D laser scanner yet still able to detect surroundings up to 120 metres away. It can grab a cloud of points, then offer up a detailed three-dimensional model of the environment, with some extra details (thanks... |
| 500 Startups Peels Back The Curtain On Its Third And Largest Batch Yet Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:07 AM PDT 500 Startups Peels Back The Curtain On Its Third And Largest Batch Yet  500 Startups Peels Back The Curtain On Its Third And Largest Batch Yet It's Halloween, so it's the perfect day to unveil the newest group of 500 Startups' "little monsters". Yes, this is the name that founder Dave McClure and his partner in crime Christine Tsai give to all the rock star entrepreneurs that grace the halls of their Mountain View offices. 500 Startups, as you may have heard by now, is the early-stage seed fund and incubator program founded in 2010 by the globe-trotting... |
| AMD Bulldozer breaks own world record, overclocked to 8.46GHz Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:07 AM PDT AMD Bulldozer breaks own world record, overclocked to 8.46GHz  AMD Bulldozer breaks own world record, overclocked to 8.46GHz Advanced Micro Devices is probably feeling a bit silly right about now. To show off how powerful the Bulldozer chip really is, it drafted in the world's most elite overclockers, set them up in a room with whatever was required (including a vat of liquid helium) and broke the chip-speed world record.... |
| HTC Rezound ad pays Verizon stores an early visit, soonish launch likely Posted: 31 Oct 2011 09:07 AM PDT HTC Rezound ad pays Verizon stores an early visit, soonish launch likely  HTC Rezound ad pays Verizon stores an early visit, soonish launch likely The above image isn't a leak -- it's a dye-in-the-wool, true-blue LTE poster that a few Verizon stores have preemptively hung up. We're pretty sure these adverts aren't supposed to be displayed for our eyes to see since they feature the HTC Rezound, a forthcoming 4G device that hasn't even been announced yet.... |
| Mo system shares cars, e-bikes, bikes, and even public transport Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT Mo system shares cars, e-bikes, bikes, and even public transport  Mo system shares cars, e-bikes, bikes, and even public transport Filed under: Green Culture, Transportation Alternatives, Germany Showing that a technological advance can sometimes deliver significant change to an apparently unrelated system, the Mo sharing service leverages a cell phone app to create a linked network of increasingly varied transportation options. Created as a joint venture between LUNAR Europe, environmental organization Green City e.V.... |
| DeNA, GREE: Japan’s Mobile Social Gaming Giants Report Impressive Financial Numbers Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT DeNA, GREE: Japan's Mobile Social Gaming Giants Report Impressive Financial Numbers  DeNA, GREE: Japan's Mobile Social Gaming Giants Report Impressive Financial Numbers GREE and Mobage are brand names that don't ring a bell with too many people (yet) as far as markets like the US or Europe are concerned, but these mobile social gaming platforms are hugely successful in Japan. The Tokyo-based companies behind these homegrown gaming networks, GREE and DeNA, reported some big financial numbers today. DeNA (current market cap: US$6.4 billion) today announced sales reached US$457 million for the second quarter of... |
| Ubuntu coming to tablets, phones, cars and smart TVs by 2014 Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT Ubuntu coming to tablets, phones, cars and smart TVs by 2014  Ubuntu coming to tablets, phones, cars and smart TVs by 2014 We've already seen Ubuntu running on tablets and smartphones, but not in any official capacity. Rumors had it that Canonical would be making a serious push into the tablet space in early 2011, but that effort never materialized, or at least was never acknowledged. Still, Unity has some finger-friendly streaks and Oneiric added ARM support -- so it's not much of a stretch to see the popular Linux distro on your... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2011 08:21 AM PDT Australia's Electric Supercar Australia's Electric Supercar Varley Electric Vehicles unveils its answer to the Tesla Roadster. |
| Kinect hack makes presentation slides work around you (video) Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:34 AM PDT Kinect hack makes presentation slides work around you (video)  Kinect hack makes presentation slides work around you (video) What's the scariest thing about presentations? Getting the perfect angle. You know, the point on stage where you can wave at your slides without blocking the projector bulb or your audience's view. Thankfully, Haruki Maeda from Meiji University is gonna show your text and graphics who's the boss. He's knocked up presentation software that can sense where you stand and orders the text into the visible space around you.... |
| AT&T Reveals First LTE Phones: HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket Posted: 31 Oct 2011 07:34 AM PDT AT&T Reveals First LTE Phones: HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket  AT&T Reveals First LTE Phones: HTC Vivid and Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket For a few months now AT&T has had an LTE network, but no phones that could take advantage of it. Well, that all changes today — AT&T has just announced that the Android-powered HTC Vivid and the Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket will be the first to run on their LTE network, and will hit store shelves on November 6. The HTC Vivid packs a 1.2GHz dual-core processor under the proverbial hood,... |
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