2007 December 24 | tech news blog

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Laptop of the Year

Posted by: in Laptops

Filed under: Laptops

It’s time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Laptop of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you’re nominating for this category. We’ll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here’s five simple rules of what NOT to do:

Don’t include your reasons for nominating it.
You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
Don’t nominate anything that wasn’t sold for the first time in 2007.
We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
No concept devices or prototypes.
It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don’t count.
Don’t nominate anything more than once.
It’s not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone’s already beat you to it.
Seriously, don’t nominate anything that’s already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

Body-scanning chair to show UK prisoners who’s BOSS

Posted by: in Mobile Phones

Filed under: Cellphones, Misc. Gadgets

Not nearly as intrusive as it first sounds, the Body Orifice Security Scanner (BOSS) is a chair-shaped mobile metal detector that officials are considering installing in every prison in England and Wales. Designed mainly to weed out one of the most popular forms of contraband — cellphones — the new BOSS II is said to be sensitive enough to detect even a single SIM card being smuggled somewhere inside an individual. So far the two £6,500 ($12,900) chairs that have been used at the Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes since April have helped authorities seize 21 handsets, with inmates who trigger an alert segregated and swiped down by a metal detector every time they leave their cells until the metal object has been, um, passed. While this system does humanely do away with uncomfortable cavity searches, those poor souls with a knee replacement, a bit of shrapnel embedded in their hip, or the like seem destined to toil away in solitary confinement for eternity.

[Via SlashGear]

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

Windows Mobile 6-based RoverPC P6 on sale in Russia

Posted by: in Mobile Phones

Filed under: Cellphones

It’s been a tick since we saw the oh-so-snazzy RoverPC G5, and we must say, the RoverPC P6 cranks up the sexy by a few orders of magnitude. The Windows Mobile 6-based handset, which is sure to make those not in Russian mighty envious, sports a 300MHz Samsung 2442B processor, a 2.4-inch 320 x 240 resolution touchscreen, 64MB of RAM, 128MB of Flash ROM, a microSD expansion slot, Bluetooth, miniUSB, a 2-megapixel camera and a built-in media player to boot. Additionally, the phone checks in at just 15.1-millimeters thick, rocks a dark gray motif and touts tri-band GSM connectivity. So go on, pick one up for around 7990 rubles ($323) — just don’t rub it in when you do, alright?

[Via MobileWhack]

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

Samsung’s F490 / P720 handsets get outed

Posted by: in Mobile Phones

Filed under: Cellphones

Although we came across Samsung’s SGH-F490 during a recent FCC scavenger hunt, it, along with the previously announced P720 were recently spotted at an event in Ukraine. Unfortunately, most is lost in translation, but we can gather that the latter will rock dual SIM card slots, a 3-megapixel camera, a 320 x 240 resolution display and a price tag upwards of $500. As for the F490, you can expect a 5-megapixel camera, touchscreen display (presumably with tactile feedback support), 432 x 240 resolution panel and an estimated cost of $600. Beyond that, it seems that we’ll have to wait before finding out more, but considering the Q2 / Q1 2008 release dates (respectively), we ought not be waiting long.

[Via UnwiredView]

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Cellphone of the Year

Posted by: in Mobile Phones

Filed under: Cellphones

It’s time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Cellphone of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you’re nominating for this category. We’ll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here’s five simple rules of what NOT to do:

Don’t include your reasons for nominating it.
You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
Don’t nominate anything that wasn’t sold for the first time in 2007.
We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
No concept devices or prototypes.
It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don’t count.
Don’t nominate anything more than once.
It’s not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone’s already beat you to it.
Seriously, don’t nominate anything that’s already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Smartphone of the Year

Posted by: in Mobile Phones

Filed under: Cellphones

It’s time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Smartphone of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you’re nominating for this category. We’ll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here’s five simple rules of what NOT to do:

Don’t include your reasons for nominating it.
You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
Don’t nominate anything that wasn’t sold for the first time in 2007.
We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
No concept devices or prototypes.
It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don’t count.
Don’t nominate anything more than once.
It’s not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone’s already beat you to it.
Seriously, don’t nominate anything that’s already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Continue reading Jingle Bells played with graphics card, Santa wonders why

24 12 2007

Jingle Bells played with graphics card, Santa wonders why

Posted by: in Gaming

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals

As if an office full of guitar-controlled lights weren’t enough to get you in the holiday spirit, along comes a self-proclaimed geek to play Jingle Bells on his graphics card. We know, it’s hard to really grasp what we mean, so jump on past the break to catch a video that will undoubtedly do our explaining for us.

[Via TheInquirer]

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Game Device of the Year

Posted by: in Gaming

Filed under: Gaming

It’s time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Game Device of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you’re nominating for this category. We’ll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here’s five simple rules of what NOT to do:

Don’t include your reasons for nominating it.
You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
Don’t nominate anything that wasn’t sold for the first time in 2007.
We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
No concept devices or prototypes.
It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don’t count.
Don’t nominate anything more than once.
It’s not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone’s already beat you to it.
Seriously, don’t nominate anything that’s already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

24 12 2007

The 2007 Engadget Awards: Nominate the Game Console of the Year

Posted by: in Gaming

Filed under: Gaming

It’s time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Game Console of the Year.

Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you’re nominating for this category. We’ll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.

Here’s five simple rules of what NOT to do:

Don’t include your reasons for nominating it.
You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
Don’t nominate anything that wasn’t sold for the first time in 2007.
We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
No concept devices or prototypes.
It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don’t count.
Don’t nominate anything more than once.
It’s not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone’s already beat you to it.
Seriously, don’t nominate anything that’s already been nominated!

Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!

Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!