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iWave Cube, the personal portable microwave {Engadget}
Feb 10th 2008 11:23AM That's one big Kleenex box!!!
The JerkStopper keeps your power cord in place, does little else {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2008 6:50PM To all the people who thought this product is dumb: Use your brain. A power cable being accidentally pulled suddenly and forcefully out of your laptop is only OK if the pull happens in exactly the right manner, i.e. the right direction. If the pull happens at an angle to the line of insertion, it's pretty easy to break the power jack. I already partially broke my jack, and was worried about busting it completely.
And if you're unlucky enough to have a power adapter cable like mine, it's even worse: my plug has a right-angle on the end, so it's impossible to pull on the cord and NOT produce torque on the jack.
I can live without USB ports, without RJ-45 and certainly without RJ-11, but I can't live without recharging my laptop!!!!
And just to clarify, there's no metal in this product, it's just ABS plastic.
And FYI, the USB Jerkstopper stays in there really well. It must be tapered or something because by the time it's all the way in, it's very, very snug.
Yes, magsafe is really cool. Someday we'll all have one, but in the meantime, Jerkstopper's a cool product at a reasonable price.
The JerkStopper keeps your power cord in place, does little else {Engadget}
Jan 29th 2008 6:38PM I just got my JerkStopper today. Best $10 I ever spent. The article is a little unclear -- I was surprised to receive THREE Jerkstoppers, one each for RJ-45, RJ-11 and USB -- so you get to choose which port you'd rather destroy than your power jack. C'mon, anybody really use RJ-11 any more?
I use the USB one, I have three ports so if I destroy one, no big. Plus the USB Jerkstopper fits really tight, it wouldn't come out unless you pull on it directly with your fingers, a normal yank on the power cord won't dislodge it.
Until I get a new laptop with a magnetic power connection, this is really, really an awesome product.
Bluetooth headset helps foil Wendy's robbery {Engadget}
Dec 28th 2007 11:35AM Uh, duh, folks, bluetooth headsets don't answer the phone. It was the phone itself that was responding to voice commands. Duh. Could've been a wired headset or earpiece for that matter.
Ask Engadget: Media streamer of choice? {Engadget}
May 5th 2007 2:29PM Oh, and product link for DSM-750 is: http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=547&sec=1
Ask Engadget: Media streamer of choice? {Engadget}
May 5th 2007 2:27PM This question is of great interest to me too.
Personally, I'm holding off until the D-Link DSM-750 media player hits the market, which should be soon. Draft-N and H.264 support seems crucial, and this box is gonna have it. D-Link's previous media streamers were crap (e.g. their latest supposedly-HD offering didn't even support HD JPEGs) But hopefully they've learned from their mistakes.
The Wal-Mart $299 HD DVD player on the way {Engadget}
Apr 20th 2007 1:59PM I'm sorry, did you say, end of 2008? Man, that's an eternity away. Why even talk about this? There'll be plenty of sub-$200 HD & Blue-Ray players by then, if not sub-$100.
Snooze.
Thieves swipe dyslexic student's specialized laptop {Engadget}
Mar 22nd 2007 4:11PM Anybody who doesn't back up their data to a separate device, gets no sympathy whatsoever. None. Period. Cry all you want. Boo hoo. If you have to learn the hard way, so be it. But I doubt most people will ever learn, despite having their laptop stolen/hard drive crash/virus that wipes everything out, etc.
Archos 204 compact DAP announced {Engadget}
Mar 7th 2007 8:08PM This looks to be an updated version of the Archos XS202, which I own, and is one damn fine player. The key ability for me is that you can create MULTIPLE playlists on the go, unlike Apple's one-shot On-The-Go Playlist, which last I checked didn't even work right on their 8gb nanos.
Also, you can simply drag-and-drop tunes to this player, unlike the iTunes slavery that Apple forces upon you.
TiVo Desktop 2.4 public beta loosed, enables PC-to-TiVO transcoding {Engadget HD}
Feb 26th 2007 1:51PM I'm very interested in how HD JPEGs show up on a Tivo Series 3 using this new software. If someone can report on that, via Comments or otherwise, I'm sure we'd all appreciate it.
Some things I'd like to see some info on:
-- whether there's still an unused black box around the image (current Tivo Desktop doesn't use the full height or width of the screen)
-- how does it handle undersized or oversized images? Does it scale them properly? Are there options for how you want to scale over- or under-sized pictures?
-- What happens if you have a 1080 TV? Is the output mode reset to 720? Or does it scale the image to 720, then up it to 1080 for display (thus possibly making the image look crappy, depending on how they scale it)?
Surely I'm not the only person in the world looking for a device that can display decent, hi-res HD JPEG image slideshows, without barfing at a horrendous implementation of the concept? I mean, come on, CE manufacturers, how hard can implementing HD JPEG slideshows BE?
