The Daily Engadget: Track Your Tech at gdgt, Microsoft 'Pink' Phone?
Our friends over at Engadget obsessively cover everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics, which is why we compile this daily roundup of their top stuff. For more details on any of these stories, click on the Engadget links in each story below.
Gizmo-tracking Site gdgt Launches
Former Engadget editor-in-chief, Ryan Block, and Engadget founder, Peter Rojas, unveiled their latest project yesterday -- gdgt. The site mixes social networking, news aggregation, and wikis to build a database and a community around gadgets. It's like Facebook, Wikipedia, and Newsvine had a baby -- but for nerds.
Microsoft Prepping iPhone Competitor?
Although the Zune's popularity may pale in comparison to the iPod, Microsoft may be getting ready to take on the iPhone with a Microsoft-branded handset, codenamed "Pink." Details are still slim, but the new system appears to be running on top of Windows Mobile.
Stronger Seats and Airbags on Planes
Starting this fall, new regulations will require all passenger jets have seats that can withstand a force 16 times that of gravity, or almost double the 9 Gs currently required. Some airlines have even started including airbags in the back of seats to increase the likelihood that you'll walk away from a crash landing -- primarily for first-class passengers so far.
Rat-like SCRATCHbot Searches for Survivors
The Bristol Robotics Laboratory has built a creepy rodent-like robot that uses "whiskers" to search out survivors in dangerous or inhospitable environments, such as underwater or underground.
Python Skin-Covered Headphones
HOON (a French accessory company) and The Perfect Unison (audio equipment company) have teamed up to produce a set of headphones that would make any animal lover cry. The band holding the cans to your head is made from layers of birch wood, lined with goat skin, and then covered up with the skin of a python. The factory that builds these $1,600 monstrosities is rumored to be powered by kitten tears.
Dell Accidentally Sells Thousands of Monitors for $15
Dell accidentally listed a 19-inch LCD monitor on its Taiwan site for NT$500, or about $15 American. Sure enough, more than 26,000 customers ordered almost 140,000 monitors before the problem was discovered. Engadget reports that the Taiwanese government first suggested Dell compensate consumers, and the latest we've heard is that Dell has agreed to send out refund coupons for the monitor purchases.
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Jacky said 8:28AM on 7-24-2009
Black Berry is also a great competitor of iPhone but this sounds really great that Microsoft is launching an another contender to compete both of them............
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