FreeLoader Pro Solar Powered Gadget Charger

June 2nd, 2009

The FreeLoader Pro is a pocket sized charger, it has a a built on solar charger that will charge the battery after about 8 hours of sunlight, or it can also be charged via USB, this takes about 3 hours to charge.

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Lenovo Ideapad S12

June 1st, 2009

Lenovo has revealed yet another new netbook to their range, although this one is slightly different than previous models as it uses NVIDIA’s Ion platform.

The Lenovo Ideapad S12 features a 12.1 inch LCD display with a resolution of 1280 x 800, a full sized keyboard, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB HDD, a 1.3 megapixel webcam, HDMI out and a built in card reader.

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Alienware M17X Gaming Laptop

June 1st, 2009

Details have been leaked of the latest gaming laptop from Alienware, the Alienware M17X Gaming Laptop which wasn’t scheduled to be released for another four days.

From the specifications, the Alienware M17X Gaming Laptop certainly looks like it is going to be a serious piece of kit, with dual 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280M GPU’s and a Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor.

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Interactive data eyeglasses could bring the PC to your face, won't fix nearsightedness

by Darren Murph, posted Jun 4th 2009 at 8:19AM

Leave it the mad scientists at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft to concoct this one. Rather than just figuring out a way to read back information in one-way fashion on one's glasses (think Sixth Sense, but with eyewear), these folks are diving right in to the real stuff: bidirectional communication. In essence, their goal for the interactive data eyeglasses is to track eye movement in order to allow ones retinas to scroll through menus, flip through options and zoom in / out on a map. Obviously, a microdisplay will be necessary as well, but that's just half the battle. We'll confess -- we're still not humble enough to take our Vuzix HMD out in public, but we just might swap our Transitions™ for a set of these.

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First working CrunchPad prototypes a few weeks away

by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 4th 2009 at 7:40AM

Michael Arrington's little experiment with consumer electronics is about to get real. The image above is the "near-final industrial design" of the man's CrunchPad with "first working prototypes" expected in another few weeks. Changes include a display now flush with the bezel and an 18-mm overall thickness thanks to the switch from plastic to aluminum. Inside we've got a Linux-based OS that boots direct to a Webkit-based browser. Michael says that the next public appearance will be at a special press event in July. However, as a man (in)famous for leaking other people's details ahead of official announcements, we wouldn't be surprised to see his vision of the ultimate couch computer make its way to Internets before the big unveiling.

HTC Hero / Lancaster running Android and "Rosie" UI launching on June 24th?

by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 4th 2009 at 6:45AM

While the Economic Daily News doesn't cite any sources, its claim that HTC will launch its Android-powered Hero handset on June 24th makes a lot of sense to us. Something's up on that day since we've already seen the press invite to a June 24th event in London, the same place that witnessed the launch of the HTC Touch Diamond last year. The EDN reports two variations of the Hero: one without the QWERTY and another, the HTC Memphis (better known as the HTC Lancaster around AT&T) with full keyboard in tow. What confuses us though is the EDN claim that the Memphis/Lancaster will be an AT&T exclusive for 6 months when it ships in Q3... so why the London launch then?

Logitech's high-end Flight System G940 hands-on

by Tim Stevens, posted Jun 4th 2009 at 5:38AM

Lots of people have Chuck Yeager aspirations but Joe Schmoe opportunities for flight time. For them there's the flight sim. Titles like Microsoft Flight Sim and Falcon are some of the earliest to popularize PC gaming, and since the beginning they've been accompanied by high-price controllers that replicate the experience of flying. Logitech's Flight System G940 is the latest. We spent a little bit of time with it in the company's cramped meeting room on the show floor to see if it's worth adding to your virtual hangar.

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DigiCube unveils newest MID, doubles as a giant cellphone

by Laura June, posted Jun 4th 2009 at 4:38AM

Jkkmobile's gotten a hold of DigiCube's just unveiled MIDPhone-50 at Computex, and we have to say that from the looks of it, it's quite a wild affair. The MIDPhone-50 is a Windows XP, full QWERTY-boasting, touchscreen mid, and a 3.5G mobile phone to boot. The tilting, 800 x 480 touchscreen is 4.5-inches, with mini-USB, standard USB, and microSD slots, plus a docking station with VGA output. Specwise, the phone / MID has an Intel Atom Z-series CPU with up to 1GB of RAM, with Bluetooth and WiFi. The battery supposedly gets a quite sad two hours of life. There's no word on price or availability yet, but there is a video after the break.

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Palm Pre review

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Jun 3rd 2009 at 9:12PM

The Palm Pre. It's not just a phone, it's a myth, an idea, possibly a legacy... and a really, really long time coming. It's almost impossible to believe, but the crew at Engadget has been talking about a Linux-based Palm phone since way back in 2004. Through the now-distant years that followed, we were speculating, pontificating, and wishfully-thinking about a new device from a company that we'd come to expect innovation from. But we waited. And waited. And waited. We waited so long, in fact, that we actually penned a lengthy open letter to Palm, pleading for the company to get back on its game. Only when the picture looked really, truly bleak for the folks in Sunnyvale (you know, like $2 a share bleak) did we actually see a spark of hope -- two sparks, in fact -- called the Pre and webOS.

Yes, this is epic stuff. The Pre (and its accompanying operating system) could likely decide the fate of the company largely credited with ushering in the age of the do-everything phone. Since Palm's announcement at CES this year, news surrounding the Pre has been a veritable whirlwind of activity: rumors, half-truths, hate, love, fear-mongering, fanboyism, rampant gadget-lust... and even a little late night celebrity for the pint-sized phone. Finally the time has come to put rubber to road and get into the guts of this thing once and for all. Can the Pre and webOS live up to the hype -- the kind of hype we haven't seen since the launch of the original iPhone -- or do they snap under the pressure? Read on for the full review.

Part 1: Hardware, webOS / user interface
Part 2: Synergy, phone, media, applications
Part 3: Data speeds, backup, battery, Bluetooth, pricing, wrap-up