Filed under: Transportation
It’s fairly safe to say that Continental Automotive Systems isn’t the only company out there conjuring up an in-car safety system to alert motorists of impending hazards, and while a certain sect (we jest, we jest) would likely ignore whatever great advice it’s sure to give, we can still admire the effort here. […]

Filed under: Digital Cameras
A team of researchers led by Jun Tanida at the University of Osaka look to be making some steady progress in an area where many others have tread before, developing a camera that can capture a scene and produce a 3D image of it. Dubbed TOMBO (Thin Observation Module by Bound Optics), […]

Filed under: GPS
Details are still pretty scarce on this one, but the folks at GPS Review have managed to dig up a few tidbits on a forthcoming addition to Magellan’s line of CrossoverGPS devices, which are aimed at those who take the occasional trek off-road. From the looks of it, the big addition to this […]

Filed under: Laptops
Watch out Sony, it looks like your Vaio X505’s title for thinnest / lightest laptop ever is about to be challenged by some new Intel-sponsored Zima designs intended to push the envelope of portability. The 0.7-inch thick 2.2-pound Metro features an external e-ink display, and might actually stand a chance at redefining slim […]

Filed under: Peripherals, Portable Audio
Ok, so why should Engadget Mobile get to have all the giveaways, eh? We’ve got some top o’ the line Shure headphones to give away up in here: in order left to right above, the triple driver mack daddy SE530 ($450 MSRP), double driver SE420 ($400 MSRP), and single driver SE310 […]

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNo joke, man, Memorex — yeah, that Memorex — recognized that teenage huffers are so into snorting their compressed-gas dusting products they went ahead and added a deterrent (”bitterant”, a “bitter safety additive”) to keep impressionable youth from getting all whacked up on the stuff. So far as we can tell, their […]

Filed under: StorageMore of a heads up than anything else, PNY issued a release today stating its intention to debut is new SSD drive lineup at Computex early next month. We don’t know the sizes or prices on these things, but we do know that every time a new company adds their products to the […]

Filed under: Features, Gaming, Home Entertainment
So naturally the first thing we did this morning was to boot up our PlayStation 3 and download the v1.8 firmware update, which among other things enables DLNA media streaming support and 1080p video upscaling, even on DVDs. The media streaming is what we’ve all been waiting for though — […]

Filed under: Home Entertainment
The long-promised day that die-hard sofa jockeys have been yearning for is almost upon us, friends, with a partnership between Echostar and the Home Shopping Network promising to finally bring the first large-scale shop by remote project to the US. Rather uninspiringly called, um, “Shop by Remote,” the service will allow DISH […]

Filed under: GamingWhile the figurative jury is still out as to whether video games harm our youth by inciting them to commit violence, loiter unnecessarily, and utter profanities, a real flesh-and-blood jury may soon be deciding if one faulty Xbox was to blame for the December 2004 death of an Illinois baby. The family of […]