Archive for March, 2007
MIT using disco-style lighting to calm erratic brain activity
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsMIT’s brainiacs aren’t exactly new to the world of partying, and now scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to “reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light.” The presumably rave-inspired pulsing design offers up the prospect of “controlling the …
DeVillian’s Centerfold guitar sees release
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsFirst designed by airline pilot Fredrik Johansson all the way back in 2004, the newly-named and self-descriptive Centerfold guitar is now finally seeing the light of day courtesy of DeVillian Guitar Co., with the company now accepting orders for the flip-and-fold axe. Accor…
British school chooses PSPs over textbooks
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Filed under: GamingThe Nintendo DS may currently have the better reputation for educational-related activities, with Brain Age and similar titles molding minds young and old alike, but a school in England looks to be doing its best to sway things in the PlayStation Portable’s favor, announcing that’…
Cornell researchers developing lie-detection software
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWhile most of the world simply takes what everyone else says at face value, there’s always been a dark market for inconspicuous lie-detecting gadgetry for the overly paranoid, but researchers at Cornell University are hoping to take lie-detection to the next level by carefu…
Hacking Linux onto your 360 just got a wee bit easier
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Filed under: Desktops, GamingOnce again, we’re a far cry from PS3-Linux-easy, but those 360 kids seem rather hard to dissuade. The latest development on the XeLL bootloader front is that you no longer need a serial cable hooked up for executing the boot loader, all you need is a 360 set up for runni…
Powercast looking to bring wireless power to reality
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, PeripheralsWe know, energy without wires has always seemed like one of those novel concepts that sounds terrific in theory, but remains a tad difficult to imagine hitting the commercial scene for some time to come. Apparently, all that is about to become nonsense, as a Pe…
Engadget Podcast 105 - 03.30.2007
Filed under: Cellphones, Features, Gaming, Podcasts
Sure, the Xbox 360 Elite was finally announced, but we’ve got a fair bit of interesting cellphone news this week, too. Check out Samsung’s UpStage, finally launched; or the long-awaited Helio Ocean dual-slider QWERTY featurephone — not bad eh? And…