Archive for December, 2007
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If there are fifty ways to leave your lover, surely there are at least a few methods to make miserable and humiliating the life of your arch-nemesis with the aid of gadgets. If you’ve got a chip on your shoulder, maybe you’ll find a few things in our Holiday Gift Guide for enemy that really are better to give than to receive.
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Oh boy, oh boy! If you’re especially lucky you woke up this morning to a few wrapped boxes containing whatever it was you spotted on Engadget and have been lusting after ever since. Sure, we’d love to hear about what you got your loved ones (and maybe even a gripe or two about what you didn’t get), but we’re sure what most people have on their minds right now is their take of gifts. Merry Christmas!
P.S. -Don’t forget to check out all that ancient crap people pulled back in 2006, 2005, and 2004.
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If you’re a musician of any type, odds are you’ve found yourself on stage more than once desperately hunting for some variety of esoteric adapter which is supposed to plug into a connector you’ve never seen before. Well, for those who’ve mounted Orbital style goggle-lights and gone digging into bottomless bags only to come up empty handed, today is your day. Enter the Electronic Musician’s Emergency Adaptor kit — a little red bag containing all of the connectors, adapters, splitters, and couplers you could ever want or need. With a wide variety of XLR, 1/8″, 1/4″, and RCA plugs, your excuses for sucking are probably going to get a lot more complicated.
[Via Gear Diary]
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 Not nearly as intrusive as it first sounds, the Body Orifice Security Scanner (BOSS) is a chair-shaped mobile metal detector that officials are considering installing in every prison in England and Wales. Designed mainly to weed out one of the most popular forms of contraband — cellphones — the new BOSS II is said to be sensitive enough to detect even a single SIM card being smuggled somewhere inside an individual. So far the two £6,500 ($12,900) chairs that have been used at the Woodhill jail in Milton Keynes since April have helped authorities seize 21 handsets, with inmates who trigger an alert segregated and swiped down by a metal detector every time they leave their cells until the metal object has been, um, passed. While this system does humanely do away with uncomfortable cavity searches, those poor souls with a knee replacement, a bit of shrapnel embedded in their hip, or the like seem destined to toil away in solitary confinement for eternity.
[Via SlashGear]
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We hate to get all teary, but we’re going to miss 2007. All things considered, it was kind of a monumental year for personal technology (and maybe even for us Engadget editors, too). But as it draws to a close it’s about time for our favorite moment of the year, where we pay tribute to the all the new devices we love and loathe. Welcome to the fourth annual Engadget awards!
This year we’ve got 22 categories up for grabs, with 44 total awards to be decided. All finalists for Engadget Awards are reader-nominated, and the editors of Engadget will then select the best of those nominations (usually somewhere between 4-6 devices or technologies) as finalists.
There are two awards per category, Reader’s Choice (voted on by you!), and Editors’ Choice (selected by us). The vote will take place in January (as soon as CES and Macworld finish up), and winners will be announced later that month.
You’ve got until 11:59PM ET on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 to get your entries in. Now, go nominate!
Good luck!
See also the 2004, 2005, and 2006 Engadget Awards winners.
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 While we already knew Sony’s mysterious Rolly got down to holiday tunes, this installation managed to capture our attention just a wee bit more. Rivaled only by the famed TSO project from 2005, this guitar-controlled setup transforms a traditional office into a holiday funhouse by enabling rockers to control the light patterns within the building. Open source software, dubbed Frets on Fire, was modified to generate controls for dozens of light strings around the cubicles, with the corner plant being used to “keep the beat” and the trash can fittingly being lit only when someone missed a note. Click on through to catch this madness in action — and yeah, it’s pretty evident the boss left weeks ago to enjoy the rest of ‘07 from afar.
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 We know what you’re thinking, and trust us, we’re right there with you. We’ve no idea how a speaker constructed from a foam plate could sound anything close to decent, but judging by the comments from folks that have made their own, it may actually be worth your while to do the same over your holiday break. Reportedly, all you’ll need is a standard foam plate, a couple of paper strips, two business cards, some wire, a bit of glue / tape, a neodymium magnet and an audio plug; once you’ve gathered your materials, you can hit the read link for the how-to guide of putting together the relatively simple device. Of course, we aren’t responsible for any strange looks you get should you choose to pimp your new sound system to members of your extended family.
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 Circulating tumor cells, which are more commonly referred to as CTCs, have thus far remained practically useless when it came to aiding in clinical decision making, but a new development could enable these rare cells to finally be used for guiding treatment. Reportedly, a crew of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital have crafted a “microchip-based device (dubbed CTC-chip) that can isolate, enumerate and analyze CTCs from a blood sample,” which has the “potential to be an invaluable tool for monitoring and guiding cancer treatment.” Additionally, researchers can look forward to “better understanding the biology of cancer cells and the mechanisms of metastasis,” but there’s still quite a bit of work to be done before the device can be put to clinical use.
[Via Physorg]
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 And you thought that fellow who managed to fit your entire name — middle initial included — onto a grain of rice was hot stuff. Apparently, a team of nanotechnology experts at the Technion institute in Haifa were able to etch some 300,000 words (Hebrew text of the Jewish Bible) onto a minuscule silicon surface “less than half the size of a grain of sugar.” The feat was accomplished by “blasting tiny particles called gallium ions at an object that then rebounded, causing an etching affect,” and was reportedly done in order to show that copious quantities of data could eventually be stored on bio-molecules and DNA. Oh, and it only took about sixty minutes to finish the job.
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It’s time for the 2007 Engadget Awards, and we’re asking for your nominations for the Gadget of the Year.
Nominating is easy, simply leave a comment with what you’re nominating for this category. We’ll round up the best selections and put them to the popular vote.
Here’s five simple rules of what NOT to do:
- Don’t include your reasons for nominating it.
You can debate the product later when we put it up to vote. Just leave the name of what you want to nominate, ok?
- Don’t nominate anything that wasn’t sold for the first time in 2007.
We will allow updated versions of previous devices, however.
- No concept devices or prototypes.
It has to be a real gadget people can buy! Pre-orders don’t count.
- Don’t nominate anything more than once.
It’s not a popularity contest (yet), all it does is make our lives harder. Just do a quick find to see if someone’s already beat you to it.
- Seriously, don’t nominate anything that’s already been nominated!
Thanks, and good luck to all the gadgets!
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