While initially enthused at the prospect of RFID tagging our objects for swipability by a home-based RFID reader -- like Violet's new Mir:ror -- we eventually came the realization that we would never use it for anything, ever.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.18 at 09:39
For those of you who love the concept of the Eye-Fi, but detest being forced to talk to its servers and send pictures precisely how it wants you to, take heart.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.17 at 07:39
The Air Force has announced that it will do its part for economic stimulus by spending $400 million on a dirigible designed to float 65,000 feet above the Earth, where it will provide constant surveillance of an area (such as the Afghanistan-Pakistan border).
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.16 at 21:02
Eager to see what life's like on a Sony VAIO hitting speeds in excess of 160Mbps? Head on over to the City of Brotherly Love, as that's where a flashy new retail location is opening up to simultaneously showcase the future of high-speed internet and Sony gear.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.16 at 13:27
Wait, let us get this straight. UWB is dead, but it's. . . not? According to a melancholy release issued today by the soon-to-shutter WiMedia Alliance, said entity has reached technology transfer arrangements to shuffle its ultra-wideband workings to groups within Bluetooth SIG and Wireless USB.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.16 at 13:19
Today marks the twentieth anniversary of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's submission to CERN titled "Information Management: A proposal. " Over roughly the next year and a half he had built HTTP, HTML, WorldWideWeb (the first web browser), CERN httpd (the first server software), and the first web server (http://info.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.13 at 15:55
If your low-rate router fails on you, you might as well select a replacement with more utility than the one you're burying, right? Axel sure thinks so:
"My bargain-basement CompUSA-branded wireless router is finally starting to fail on me, prompting me to buy a new one.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.12 at 20:52
The broadband stimulus project is moving forwards in the manner most familiar to our federal bureaucracy: meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. The inaugural soiree was recently held at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's swank Washington, D.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.12 at 18:44
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 dt com.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.10 at 05:57
Sprint hasn't been coy about its love and adoration for all things WiMAX, and while it obviously has a vested interest in seeing the next-gen wireless protocol thrive, even it isn't completely ignoring the possibility of dabbling in LTE.
Via Engadget | Posted on 2009.03.10 at 03:43