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OSIM uCrown 2 rubs your head, looks like an electric chair appendage

Dec 21st 2009 10:09PM on Engadget

You guys are so mean! I've actually tried its predecessor in a Malaysian mall somewhere and it felt wonderful. I'll admit that anything the thing does to your scalp is insignificant compared with it's ineradicable styling dorkiness. If I had one, I would definitely wear it in my hot-tub, in my massage chair, or in my office with the door firmly bolted.

The magnets are the subject of another rant entirely.

Leica X1 review digs deep, can't find value

Dec 18th 2009 10:04PM on Engadget

@Markos I've had MS products (and CP/M and HDOS before that) since before Bill Gates needed to shave, but I've never encountered anything as sweet as the iPhone 3Gs I reluctantly ordered to replace my aging Treo 680. I'm just saying!

Leica X1 review digs deep, can't find value

Dec 18th 2009 5:01PM on Engadget

Leica was the best 35mm camera ever made . . . until, say, about 1968, when anybody with computer access could do lens design that would shame the old Elmar, Hektar, and Summar lenses.

But there is no excuse for the styling of this current abomination. Just because Oskar Barnack found this shape functional for his first prototypes is no reason to enshrine it as some mythical ideal.

This looks like it was beaten senseless with the Ugly stick.

Powering Google's PowerMeter: testing TED 5000 and AlertMe Energy

Dec 9th 2009 8:15AM on Engadget

For those (apparently few) of us who generate our own green power, these items (with the exception of http://www.brultech.com/index.html) make no provision for breaking out categories of power generated; power consumed; net power to/from the electric grid.

Windows 7 Black Screen of Death? (It's not as bad as it sounds)

Dec 2nd 2009 4:06PM on Engadget

So the UK "security company" Prevx admits that they blew the diagnosis--it's malware--and the BSOD is *not* the fault of Microsoft, and their CEO says, "We apologize to Microsoft for any inconvenience our blog may have caused," yet people are still cheesed off at Microsoft. A morning talk-jock in S. California ranted for most of drive-time about the evils of Microsoft. I'm betting I won't hear even a hint of apology tomorrow.

Pocket Tool X's Piranha looks like it's a multipurpose animal

Nov 30th 2009 10:56PM on Engadget

Can I take it through airport security? I have awesome Gerber and Victorinox gear that never sees the light of day thanks to 9/11.

Olive 4HD makes the audiophile's music server more audiophilic

Nov 19th 2009 10:00AM on Engadget

AWWWSOME. How many Monster cables will THIS puppy need?

Magellan debuts GPS app / car kit for iPhone and iPod touch

Nov 17th 2009 1:48PM on Engadget

Misogyny plus anal imagery . . . yeah, we got you pegged.

America's (newest) largest solar plant set to go live in Florida

Oct 25th 2009 9:54AM on Engadget

The idea that PV solar is green is nuts--and I speak as somebody with 4.7Kw on his garage right now. The energy required to grow those crystals and manufacture arrays is very significant. And do you think that the mass production of crystalline silicon is a pollution-free industry? Sorry, but the only way to have energy with which to muddle through the forseeable future entails undesirable byproducts. Grow up.

Bose Wave SoundLink wireless music system goes on sale today

Oct 23rd 2009 12:25AM on Engadget

Ha! Actually, the only people more ridiculous than people who think wires "make all the difference" are people who can't hear anything good from a Bose. Sure, a Bose Wave radio is overpriced, but for $75 from a pawn shop it's a killer item.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

"I commonly need to boot a system from an external disc and take a snapshot of the host system. I also then need to burn a copy of the image to a DVD. While I can do it with two separate external devices, and two power supplies, and two I/O cables, it'd be nice to find a small dual-drive enclosure. It would need to have USB, eSATA, and FireWire. Either slim-line or half-height bay for the optical burner would be fine, and space for either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch hard disc. Any ideas?"

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