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LG KF300: the Wine Phone goes global {Engadget Mobile}
Mar 27th 2008 9:58AM With the large keys, add a clear B&W screen or at least a decent high contrast display (verizon is right out then!) and you have a nice phone for people with low vision.
Emotiv to make mind-controlled games a reality by Christmas {Engadget}
Feb 21st 2008 7:18PM Ah, sorry -- used one analogy when a better one would have done as well. I do not mean to imply that the technology is innovative, just not up to the hype of "thought control"
Unless there is a lot more happening than the article indicates, it is just like a button on a desk. If you run one demo program a cube will be displayed in front of you. Press the button and the cube vanishes. Run another demo and the cube is displayed, press the button and the cube moved toward you. The device detects that something occurred, and the program executes a specific action. Nothing more.
Emotiv to make mind-controlled games a reality by Christmas {Engadget}
Feb 20th 2008 10:09AM Quoted from the article:
"Of course, there's no relationship at all between brain activity that is consciously trying to "pull" the cube forward and what happens. That is to say, it doesn't matter in any way what you're doing with your mind, so long as what you do during the six-second calibration matches what you do when you try to enact the action."
As expected it is nowhere near "thought control". It just senses that something was detected and performs the action it is programed to do when something happens. You could put it on a dog (a really good natured dog that loves and trusts you not to subject it to medial experimentation), calibrate it to showing the dog a treat and each time you showed the dog a treat either the cube would vanish or move toward you, depending on which program was running. Come to think of it, I love my dogs too much to subject them to this form of embarassment... now peanut butter on the roof of their mouths on the other hand.....
Give up: 77.3m Symbian phones shipped in 2007 {Engadget}
Feb 12th 2008 1:01PM Any chance EngadgetMobile could perform a great service for the phone-challenged here (me only probably!).
Keep a list of current and upcoming phones that are Europe only or can be used on US networks? I can not half keep track of what I can only drool over or can actually use!
Nokia's 6210 Navigator, 6220 classic, and Maps 2.0 {Engadget}
Feb 11th 2008 9:08AM Traveling with Firefox on a thumb drive so apologies if I managed to double post!
Any chance this pedestrian mode has a voice option to speak where you are and what is near?
Keepin' it real fake, part CVIII: the PX-3600 gaming console {Engadget}
Jan 31st 2008 8:30AM Do people actually fall for these or is there a specific market that knows what they are getting, but get it anyway?
NavStar's Voice Navigator ditches the screen, simply talks back {Engadget}
Jan 2nd 2008 5:07PM Actually for the field I work (accesibility technology for the blind) in this is exciting. I love the idea of a single self contained unit. Now if they can make it say the road you are on every 100 or so feet and program points of interest....
Could be a great competitor for a Trekker system.
http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/gps/trekker/_details/id_88/trekker.html
If you have a Trekker and are out walking, it tells you what road you are on and informs you as you approach intersections which is which way. NOT a substitute for a guide dog or cane, but a great addition.
House overwhelmingly passes SAFE Act on obscene images -- Ron Paul dissents to save us from ourselves? {Engadget}
Dec 6th 2007 8:32AM Big congressional response -- the MAFIAA must be please. After all, if they accuse you of "stealing" music and movies and you try to claim your wifi access point is open and anyone could have done it, they can use this law to nail you otherwise. Either you were letting child pornographers use your connection or you were downloading pristine copies of "Battlefield Earth" -- which is it?
UK drivers change lanes to outsmart SPECS speeding cameras {Engadget}
Oct 16th 2006 12:37PM Probably just update the software to track vehicles as they change lanes -- then tack the Brit equivalant of "reckless endagerment" to the speeding charge.
Microsoft will cripple PCs running pirated copies of Vista {Engadget}
Oct 4th 2006 4:09PM My regret is that game developers are going to migrate to DX10 over the next year, virtually requiring you to buy Vista. If MS would cut the OS (and Office) prices by 50% and skip the anti-piracy expenses, they would likely sell far more copies than will be pirated.
