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The best speaker for your PC or laptop. Jan 28, 2008 A lot of designs and functions of the speakers impress our imagination nowadays. The latest novelties open new possibilities. For example, there exist usual speakers, different armchairs with built-in speakers, etc. There are so many variants that you don’t even know what to choose. Let’s try to investigate some of the variants. Number 5. At first, let me present you Digital USB Apple-Shape Speaker. This little speaker is perfect for a laptop. The gadget doesn’t take much place, looks stylish and unusual. There is absolutely nothing complicating with the installation. You may use the speaker at home or in the office. (Read the full post about ‘The best speaker for your PC or laptop.’…)

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Posted Jan 27th 2008 8:13PM by Joshua TopolskyFiled under: Robots Ever wondered what would happen if you were to pit the Wowwee Roboquad against an excitable, yapping puppy? Wonder no longer, friends, as the answer to this age-old question has been captured on video — replete with NES sound effects and 8-bit scorecard. Watch the battle for ultimate supremacy after the break… (Read the full post about ‘Puppy vs. Roboquad: the ultimate man-machine showdown’…)

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Posted Jan 12th 2008 9:24AM by Ryan BlockFiled under: CES, Meta Hard to believe, but the 150,000 some-odd people that flooded into Vegas for CES have all gone home — including your Engadget editors. Sure, it wasn’t the most exciting CES in recent memory, but it wasn’t without merit, either. Why, just think of the eight thousand HDTVs announced, blockbuster format war news, or iriver’s unexpectedly show-stealing lineup. One thing’s certainly for sure: you demanded we give wall-to-wall coverage of CES, and we’d like to hope we did you right. See you at CES 2009 — and every day in between!Gallery: Gear and loathing in Las Vegas - Engadget has left the building Vital stats Number of posts to Engadget Classic: 737 and counting… (Read the full post about ‘Gear and loathing in Las Vegas - Engadget has left the building’…)

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The University of Edinburgh is set to reveal its new toy, a £113 million ($221 million) supercomputer named HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource). The huge machine has the power of 12,000 PCs, and white-coated boffins will “push forward the boundaries of knowledge” at the speed of 63 million calculations per second. HECToR was designed and built by Cray, the US manufacturer synonymous with super computers, parts of which can still be found on ebay. When an IT worker tried to install BioShock, HECToR was reported to have said: “I’m sorry, Dave. I can’t do that”. (Read the full post about ‘Britain Gets New Super Computer: You Can Call Me HAL’…)

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Allegro Multimedia unveiled the prototype of Guitar Wizard. Forming a strategic partnership with US Music Corporation’s SoundTech Professional Audio Division, the two companies have combined to develop a gaming package that can teach aspiring rock stars how to play real music on a real guitar. The product will include both the SoundTech Ediface Digital Guitar Interface and the patented Guitar Wizard software, allowing people to play and learn on their PC or Mac with their existing acoustic or electric guitars. The SoundTech Ediface technology converts the guitar sounds to digital for live interactive video game play. (Read the full post about ‘Play Real Music on a Real Guitar’…)

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Posted Jan 24th 2008 4:14AM by Thomas RickerFiled under: HDTV, Laptops Check it Blu-ray on-the-go fans. Sony just gave the Penryn bump to their VAIO AR series of media laptops. Sweet, powerful, 2.5GHz of cool running, long lasting, Core 2 Duo T9300 processing and 512MB of NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT graphics now at the heart of this 17-inch, 1,920 x 1,200 resolution lappie. Your $3,300 pre-order should be greeted by a Jan 29th ship date if you’re lucky.[Thanks, Zainuddin Z.] (Read the full post about ‘Sony’s 17-inch VAIO AR with Blu-ray meets Penryn’…)

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Posted Jan 17th 2008 11:14AM by Ryan BlockFiled under: Misc. Gadgets Wait up, hang on here — you’re telling us a personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple’s biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users “are more liberal, less modest, and more assured of their own superiority than the population at large.” And this so-called survey says Apple users have high indexes for “low modesty,” “high perfectionism,” and “high superiority”? Lies and half truths. We don’t know a single Apple user that fits anything remotely similar to that profile. (Read the full post about ‘Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority — no wait, hear us out’…)

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[CES 2008] We’ve all heard of sweatshops in the east that produce goods at a dirt cheap cost only to be sold to gullible folk at an extremely outrageous price. United Pepper from Europe aims to change that mindset, and the company has released a sustainable design webcam known as Lili. Designed in Belgium and manufactured in Vietnam, all harmful materials during manufacturing has been removed save for the essential parts only. It uses recycled packaging for a reduced CO2 impact with body components comprising sand, cotton and kapok. Lili captures the environment in 1.3 megapixel glory, while the built-in microphone works just fine for video calls. There is also the United Pepper Oscar USB Hub that comes with a quartet of USB 2.0 ports. In the pipeline is a 54-in-1 memory card reader which you can check out in the photo gallery. The Lili Webcam and Oscar USB Hub will retail for $39.90 and $24.90 respectively. If you want to do your bit for the environment, going green with United Pepper is one way of going about it. (Read the full post about ‘United Pepper supports Fair Trade’…)

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