Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Robots
The characters over at RobotsRule managed to snag one of the rare review units of the new Elmo Live!, and according to them, the standard order they placed last week has already been canceled by Toys R Us. In other words, this hands-on video review really may be as close as you get to this intelligent ball of fur without forking out wads of cash. Based on the four minutes we get to share with Fisher-Price’s latest cash, um, cow, it’s easy to see how crazy awesome this thing will seem to your youngster. He recognizes when he has fallen over and begs for help, he goes bonkers when you squeeze his nose and he tells stories and jokes while moving in a fashion that’s more “lifelike” than ever. Heck, it even puts itself to sleep to save batteries should your youngin’ get called away for chores. All that aside, the best part is Elmo’s attempt to bust rhymes, scat and get your kid jumpin’ — seriously, check it out at the 1:15 mark after the break.
[Via RobotsRule]
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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
The 5800 XpressMusic may be delayed for some people, but apparently, the boys and girls at the FCC aren’t included in that flatly unlucky group. Nokia has passed a version of its first touchscreen S60 handset by the Fed’s watchful eyes, and all’s looking good except for one critical detail: this isn’t the HSDPA 850 / 1900 version. We’re sure it’s coming, don’t get us wrong — but for the time being, this does us just about as much good as a Nokia with a resistive touch… ah, wait.
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Filed under: Podcasts
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You read that right — the
Engadget Podcast is back… with a vengeance. Recently we’ve been getting a ton of emails and comments suggesting we bring back the show, and since we’re all as much a fan of it as you are, that’s just what we did. We’ve been dying to get the podcast back in action — especially with the holidays, CES, and Macworld on the very near horizon — so now seemed like the ideal time. We’ve just wrapped the official reintroduction, and you can listen in via the links below. This week we cover quite a few exciting developments in the world of gadgetry, including (but certainly not limited to) RIM’s new
Storm, the upcoming Apple laptop event, and Nintendo’s unveiling of the
DSi. We hope you enjoy, and stay tuned for more!
Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller, and Nilay Patel
Guest: Ryan Block (gdgt)
Producer: Trent Wolbe
Music: Professor Murder — Dutch Hex (Brothers)
01:02 – BlackBerry Storm 9500 hands-on
14:06 – T-Mobile G1 launch day roundup
20:10 – Nokia 5800 XpressMusic hands-on
26:58 – Apple “notebook” event is on, October 14th!
48:21 – Nintendo announces DSi with dual cameras, “DSi Shop” content store (updated)
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Filed under: Cellphones
Oh sure, LG has teased us with a faux wood cellphone, and Hulger has actually produced one that four people in existence can afford, but this… this is something else. According to the captions in textlad’s Flickr pool, Nokia’s own eco-team designed and created the object of desire that you see above: an 8-megapixel “handset” that appears to function just fine. We can already tell you this thing isn’t coming to market, but we would absolutely love to be proven wrong.
[Via TreeHugger, thanks shellshock]
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Filed under: Desktops
Well, it looks like Averatec is now fully on board the Atom bandwagon, with it now pushing its
Buddy netbook
out the door, and also getting official about the US launch for its Atom-based, 18.4-inch All-in-One desktop PC, which was first announced in Europe last month. This one’s apparently intended to complement the company’s larger, equally unimaginatively-named 22-inch All-in-One PC, and comes loaded with some expectedly more netbook-like specs, including 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, Windows XP and, of course, that ever-present 1.6GHz N270 Atom processor. You won’t find anything like the 1680 x 945, 18.4-inch display on a netbook, however, or on many other desktop PCs with a $550 price tag, for that matter.
[Image courtesy of Laptop]
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