Sure, the Acronym GT-J14 won’t even
charge your iPhone, but at first glance we loved the idea: take a stylish GORE-TEX jacket and throw in a couple slick features aimed at the eager urban technophile, including a so-called Gravity Pocket (accessible by a zipper on your forearm, contents can be dropped directly into your hand using a draw string — demonstrated about 2:25 into the video after the break) and our personal favorite, a magnet that holds your headphones in place while you take that important phone call. We were feeling pretty good about this one, that is, until we finally tracked it down: azitastore.com lists it for €735 (yes, that’s around $1,068). This is clearly only for those of you who put the word “disposable” in “income.” Looks like we’re going to have to find another way to keep our
Lady Gaga headphones safe and secure, after all…
[Via Gadget Review]
Continue reading Acronym’s PMP-loving jacket keeps your earbuds safe, murders your bank account
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Acronym’s PMP-loving jacket keeps your earbuds safe, murders your bank account originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Still have a bit more room on that keychain ring next to your
DAP,
photo frame,
Atari controller and, um, keys? Then you might want to keep an eye out for Navin’s new miniHomer GPS compass, which won’t give you actual turn-by-turn directions, but will at least point you towards up to five different locations of your choosing (including your car’s spot in the parking lot). To ensure the device keeps on ticking during particularly arduous trips away from your car, the miniHomer is also waterproof to IPX7 standards, and it promises a “low power consumption,” although Navin doesn’t seem to be making any firm promises about battery life just yet (it’s recharged via USB). It also isn’t saying anything about a price, but it looks like this one should be out sometime in November.
[Via SlashGear]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, GPS
Navin miniHomer keychain GPS will lead you to your car, won’t help find your keys originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:44:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Today is the day that the BlackBerry-toting Mac faithful have been waiting for. After years of “making do” with less-than-desirable options like PocketMac and Missing Sync, RIM has taken it upon itself to finally release a home-cooked solution for Mac users who simply want to back up their devices without having to install a virtual machine or revert to a Windows PC. Well, it’s been a long month and a half since they first announced it was coming, but BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac has finally landed (officially, we mean), and we’re glad to say it definitely gets the job done. Check out our full impressions and a quick rundown of the big features over on Engadget Mobile!
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac now available, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The OpenPandora kids have dropped us a line to say that
yes,
finally, “after a lot of serious tweaking,” it looks like Pandora is ready to roll. And as an added bonus, they’ve given us a little demonstration of the open source game platform rocking a Dreamcast emulator. Not that you’ll be able to play
The House of The Dead 2 flawlessly on the thing — apparently the CPU suffers from some sort of floating point unit problem and a great many texture / blending modes are not supported. So don’t abandon that
Dreamcast Tablet just yet. As far as getting your hands on the handheld yourself, here’s the skinny: of the four thousand devices in the initial lot, there are about a hundred units unspoken for and still available for
pre-order. Priced at $330 each, if you’re interested you’d better jump now — there won’t be another batch until 2010. In the meantime, you can see that Dreamcast emulator we told you about in action after the break.
[Thanks, Devon]
Continue reading Pandora rolls into production this month, emulates Dreamcast now
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Sony’s announced it will support Breast Cancer Awareness month by outing two new bundles — and both of them are super pink. The first bundle will include a Berry Pink 10.5-inch Vaio W with an Intel Atom N280 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a 160GB hard drive, plus a matching sleeve and mouse. The second bundle will include the special edition Rose Pocket Edition reader with a gold clutch case, plus download codes for four e-books. Sony has said it will donate $110,000 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation in conjunction with October sales for these bundles. The Vaio W bundle will run you $499, while the reader bundle is $199. Both can be ordered now at Sony Style.
[Via Slashgear]
Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops
Sony outs pink Vaio W, Pocket Reader bundles for Breast Cancer Awareness Month originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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