Callpod Gets Temporary Restraining Order Against Target For Knockoff Chargepods [Callpod]

Remember those knockoff 6-1 Chargepod chargers we showed you last week? A judge just granted a temporary restraining order to get Target to stop selling the unlicensed, unauthorized duplications. Good news for Callpod and good news for consumers, who were getting fooled by the not-as-good knockoffs anyway. Here’s our original review in case you were interested in getting one yourself. Short verdict: they’re good. [Photo Credit Ben Johnson]

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Incase Power Slider For iPhone 3G Skillfully Conceals its Battery Booster [Iphone Cases]

The Incase Slider is one of the more popular iPhone cases, and this new version is notable for being one of the better integrations of a supplemental battery pack yet. It’ll add some girth, yes, but it also more than doubles your battery life and offers more protection than battery piggybacks like the Mophie Juice Pack. Also features a mini-USB pass-through for syncing and charging without case removal, and it’ll cost you $100. Which is a little steep, but if more battery life is a must for you, this is not a bad way to go. [Product Page via BBG]

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Robots

Oh Rolly… we know you’re an overpriced, 2GB dancing robot with convoluted controls and questionable sound quality. But dammit, your impractical, big-corporate ways have gnawed a soft-spot deep into the noxious cesspool we call a heart. Now this: Rolly model SEP-50BT with Bluetooth control from your cellphone or laptop. Shipping in Japan on November 21st for an expected ¥40,000 or about $427. Sold. Watch it all unfold in the video after the break.

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Sony’s Rolly learns the Bluetooth trick originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Robots

Oh Rolly… we know you’re an overpriced, 2GB dancing robot with convoluted controls and questionable sound quality. But dammit, your impractical, big-corporate ways have gnawed a soft-spot deep into the noxious cesspool we call a heart. Now this: Rolly model SEP-50BT with Bluetooth control from your cellphone or laptop. Shipping in Japan on November 21st for an expected ¥40,000 or about $427. Sold. Watch it all unfold in the video after the break.

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Continue reading Sony’s Rolly learns the Bluetooth trick

Sony’s Rolly learns the Bluetooth trick originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:27:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS rolls out Eee PC 1002HA, still mum about next week’s model

Filed under: Laptops

Still haven’t found an Eee PC to your liking? Then perhaps ASUS’s new 10-inch Eee PC 1002HA model will be more to your liking, with it bringing some of the S101’s stylings to the company’s standard 1000 series. Otherwise, you can expect most of the usual specs that now haunt our dreams, including a 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor,1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and, apparently, a two-cell, 4200 mAh battery. No word on a release ’round here just yet, but it looks like this one will be available in Europe in the not too distant future for €449, or about $565.

ASUS rolls out Eee PC 1002HA, still mum about next week’s model originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Digital Transition is Proceeding Exactly According to Plan [Dtv]

Everything is fine. Just fine. [Reuters via digg and Getty Images]

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Filed under: Robots

Rovio owners have been able to control their all-seeing sentry bot from their iPhone (or any other internet-connected device) from day one using WowWee’s browser-based interface, but one enterprising individual apparently found that a tad lacking for his taste, so he decided to take things one big step further by building his own full-fledged iPhone / iPod touch app. In addition to giving you a larger view of the Rovio’s webcam feed, the app achieves the inevitable by letting you use the iPhone or iPod touch’s accelerometer to control the Rovio, which should let you give your Wiimote a rest for a while. Better still, the app is free — you know where to get.

New app turns iPhone / iPod touch into Rovio controller originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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