The Boy Scouts of America took the wraps of their newest merit badge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s EurekaFest invention fair today. I live near MIT, so I’m here at EurekaFest just like a real-life reporter.
The Boy Scouts have been working to revamp the merit badge process, streamlining the amount of time it takes to …
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Google TV will be here in the fall and hardware partners are hard at work on their own set-top boxes. Logitech’s box has just been officially named “Revue,” though few details beyond the name have been revealed.
The idea is that you’ll purchase the Revue box and then use your Android phone or iPhone to run a remote …
Lenovo’s jumping into the 3D arena with its 15.6-inch IdeaPad Y560d, which will be available at the end of the month with a starting price of $1200. It appears that it’ll basically be an extension of the already-available Y560 line.
You’ll be able to configure the Y560d with up to an Intel Core i7 CPU, up to 8GB of DDR3 …
A beta version of Swype’s very-excellent software keyboard interface has been made available to Android users for a limited time—“probably a few days”—according to the company’s website.
Swype takes the traditional on-screen keyboard model and tweaks it a bit to allow “one continuous finger or stylus motion” instead of …
If you haven’t been following the iPhone 4 preordering fiasco, here’s a quick recap. Yesterday was the first day the phone could be preordered and the first units out the door were to arrive by June 24th. AT&T and Apple’s ordering systems were quickly overloaded, leading to mismatched customer account information, credit card …
The little info cards next to the cell phones sold in San Francisco stores will soon contain data on the amount of radiation the handsets give off thanks to a citywide vote that passed yesterday, according to the New York Times.
There’s been conflicting scientific evidence over the years as to whether or not cell phone radiation is …
While Verizon and Motorola are expected to officially announce the gigantic Droid X on June 23rd, Engadget managed to get some early hands-on time with the phone. The 4.4-inch Droid X is expected to directly compete with Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G (see our review here), a phone that’s already quite large in comparison to other phones. The …
After reports yesterday involving glitches in the iPhone 4 preordering systems through both Apple and AT&T—servers crashing, ordering systems overloaded, stores taking handwritten orders, and more—it appears that simply not being able to preorder an iPhone 4 wasn’t the only problem.
Gizmodo is reporting that several would-be …
At Nintendo’s E3 press conference today, the company gave the 3D, no-glasses-required Nintendo DS the official “Nintendo 3DS” moniker. Originally announced in March, Nintendo’s next portable brought with it a fair amount of additional detail today. The official announcement can be found here, the specs page can be found here, and …
Sony just announced pricing and availability for its “Move” motion control system. The controller itself will cost $50, the navigation controller will run $30, and there will be a bundle including the Move controller, PSEye camera, and a game called “Sports Champions” for $100.
There will also be a PS3 package …
Rumors of a Google-backed music service aren’t necessarily new by any means but CNET has recently re-fanned the flames by citing “multiple music industry sources” as saying “Google could launch a music service that offers song downloads and streaming music as early as this fall.”
The search engine giant has several things …