Archive for July, 2008
Ask Engadget: Best digiframe / alarm clock combo?
Filed under: Ask Engadget, Digital Cameras, Displays, Misc. GadgetsFrightening though it may be, the fall semester is just around the corner. You know what that means? You’ll actually have to get up at — wait for it — an appointed time. Carissa, being the proactive student she is, posed that quest…
Tether your iPhone, wirelessly. perhaps. (updated with video)
Filed under: Cellphones
We’re not certain how that one got past Apple’s App Store censors, but the intelligent kids at Nullriver have released what appears to be the first tethering solution for the iPhone. The $10 NetShare app is just a SOCKS proxy that hyperlinks an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPho…
Tether your iPhone, wirelessly. possibly.
Filed under: Cellphones
We’re not certain how that one got past Apple’s App Store censors, but the intelligent kids at Nullriver have released what appears to be the first tethering solution for the iPhone. The $10 NetShare app is just a SOCKS proxy that hyperlinks an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPho…
Logitech to produce “premium” Guitar Hero: World Tour instruments
Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsIf you didn’t think every single third-party peripheral provider would try to snag a piece of the band game pie, we guess you thought wrong, huh? With outfits like Mad Catz and Ion already jumping in, it was only a matter of day before Logitech threw on its tightest j…
NASA says Phoenix lander is sampling water on Mars
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Yep, just like we’d heard, the Phoenix lander has identified water in a soil sample it collected in Mars earlier, and NASA’s extended the mission for another 90 days to go look for more. There’s no analysis of the ice yet, but it doesn’t look like there’s any organic mater…
Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective — it’s a lot
Filed under: LaptopsSo now that HP’s joined Dell in releasing information on which laptops have those defective NVIDIA GPUs, we can sort of piece together which chips are faulty — and just as had been rumored, it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected. That’s not good n…
Dell Vostro 2510 now configurable online
Filed under: Laptops
It looks like those already sold on Dell’s slightly less business-like Vostro 2510 laptop don’t have to wait too distant to get their hands on one, as the just-leaked laptop is now configurable on Dell’s website with an estimated ship duration of 3 to 5 days. As we had heard, th…
Team overclocks Core 2 Quad to 5.1GHz, claims world record — too poor it’s not
Filed under: Desktops
So we hate to break it to the good guys at Tom’s Hardware, but while we’re impressed that they managed to overclock a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 to 5.1GHz using a cryogenic cooling system, it’s not nearly close to the world record they’re claiming — we’ve seen P4’s at up to…
