With flat panel prices in free-fall and sizes approaching those anaemic megaplex screens, it

Have you ever wondered why companies call their all-in-one surround system a

There’s so much to pack when you’re going away on holiday. And no matter what helpful little books and gadgets you end up taking, you’ll still end up lost at some point. If you want to make travelling easier and a bit more fun, it might be worth considering the newly-launched Garmin nüvi. It’s billed [...]

Japanese IT Media has announced some details on the Blu-Ray region coding and it holds a nice surprise. Japan, North America, and East Asia will all be sharing one region code. This potentially means that American gamers will be able to import Japanese PS3 Blu-Ray games, and will definately be able to import Japanese Blu-Ray [...]

Fancy a bit of peace and quiet in your home or office? You could soothe your nerves by replacing your PC case with a new one – like the environmentally friendly Antec P150. This case has “sound-deadening” side and top panels to reduce noise. The integrated 430-Watt high efficiency power supply operates cleaner, cooler and [...]

Digital positioning company EPOS will be showing off some new mobile tech at CES: a system they

Want to get your mitts on an AOpen Mini PC (aka the Mac mini knockoff that Apple’s lawyers are ignoring since it’s based on a reference design by Apple’s new buds at Intel)? You may want to check out the Reg’s review of the diminutive desktop first. According to the review, despite the Mini being [...]

InterVideo announced InterVideo iVideoToGo, the easiest way to copy personal videos for playback on a video-enabled iPod Priced at only $29.95, the software is a 3-step solution that lets users quickly convert their existing DVDs and video files into iPod-compatible files that provide smooth, flawless playback. full text: cdrinfo.com

Many business professionals and students are turning to digital voice recorders to increase productivity. If that’s you, it might be worth checking out the stylish Olympus WS range – voice recorders with music playback and mass data-storage. The only difference between the three models in the WS series is memory size and the colour. All [...]

So by now you must have heard about the latest internet craze, invented by Alex Tew, a 21 year old English lad. It

As the storm over the XCP anti-piracy technology has calmed down, Sony BMG has come under fire for its other DRM technology. The MediaMax software that is supplied by SunnComm was already flagged for a security vulnerability. And now Texas attorney general Greg Abbott alleges that it illegally installed on computers: the application installs even [...]

US Digigami said that its new MegaPEG HD MPEG-2 VBR encoder is capable of matching and, in some cases, exceeding the picture quality while offering reduced bitrates compared to current H.264 encoders. Recently, Sony Pictures senior VP of advanced technologies, Don Ecklund, was blasted for his assertions about MPEG-2 video quality in defense of Sony’s [...]

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As you may know, we at Engadget have been covering the gadget scene for decades. But it looks like the septuagenarians at PC World have us beat, since they’ve just put together a guide to the top 50 gadgets of the past 50 years. Not surprisingly, the pickings are a little slim for the first [...]

December 27, 2005, Tokyo, Japan – Pioneer Corporation announced today that the company’s first internal BD/DVD writer with ATAPI connection for Windows PCs has recently been developed. The new Pioneer BDR-101A complies with the latest specifications for the BD-R (Blu-ray Disc recordable), BD-RE (Blu-ray Disc rewritable), and the BD-ROM (Blu-ray Disc read-only memory). It is [...]