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  • Giveaway: Gunnar Optiks MLG Legend Glasses

    Giveaway: Gunnar Optiks MLG Legend Glasses

    Posted on December 8, 2009 | No Comments
    07-1204Whether you're sitting in front of your computer at work on a daily basis, or getting dominated by those damn Call of Duty campers for hours on end, chances are your eyes are taking quite the hit. Help your poor eyes out by reducing the strain they incur with Gunnar's MLG Legend Glasses.

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  • Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room

    Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room

    Posted on November 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Remember back in the day when the West was still wild, the gold rush was still in full effect, you owned whatever land you could manage to fence off, and tycoons were being made and broken on a daily basis? No? Well, some of you whippersnappers might be too young to recall it, but trust us, it happened -- and it seems like that's the kind of frontier mentality we're getting again today in the nascent Android landscape. Just a couple weeks after launching, mobile ad clearinghouse AdMob reports that the Motorola Droid is already accounting for a whopping 24 percent of all its Android-based traffic -- no small feat, considering that the then-unreleased device didn't even move the needle in their October report (pictured in the left graph). The HTC Dream -- the world's first retail Android device, you might remember -- still reigns supreme at 36 percent, but it's amazing that the entire Android space is still volatile enough to register nearly a 25 percent shift with the launch of a single new device on a single carrier. For comparison, the CLIQ clocks in with a lowly 6 percent -- proof that Verizon's aggressive advertising has been working some magic. Question is, what'll be the next device to completely screw up this pie chart again?

    Stats show Motorola Droid is the new elephant in the Android room originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Dynamic Controls unveils integrated iPhone app for wheelchair controls

    Dynamic Controls unveils integrated iPhone app for wheelchair controls

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Dynamic Controls has just taken the wraps off of its new iPhone application which should be of great interest to those who use a wheelchair on a daily basis. The application -- which connects with the wheelchair via Bluetooth and has a built-in charger for the iPhone or iPod touch -- enables diagnostics to check for any problems with the chair. It also allows users to get real-time information, speed information, and compass data.

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    Dynamic Controls unveils integrated iPhone app for wheelchair controls originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Verizon and iSkoot make feature phones just a little bit smarter with Social Beat

    Verizon and iSkoot make feature phones just a little bit smarter with Social Beat

    Posted on November 18, 2009 | No Comments
    We may blather on a daily basis over which smart phone reigns supreme – but, outside of the tech world, smart phones are still the minority. Believe it or not, as many as 80% of the handsets floating around out there are basic feature phones. Take Verizon, for example; sure, they’ve got the Droid now, [...]

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  • T-Mobile UK employees caught peddling personal data

    T-Mobile UK employees caught peddling personal data

    Posted on November 17, 2009 | No Comments
    Here in the states, T-Mobile has been no stranger to screw-ups, but we’d always just figured that their UK counterparts were stand-up guys. After all, they’re British – as we all know, every one from that side of the pond is charming, affable, and rocks a bloody good accent. Unfortunately, it looks like not everyone [...]

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  • Philips DirectLife shows you exactly how much time you spend sitting

    Philips DirectLife shows you exactly how much time you spend sitting

    Posted on October 22, 2009 | No Comments
    Think you're active because you walk around the office all the time on your way to meetings? Well, now there's a way to actually track that and know for sure if you're REALLY getting all that much exercise when you're strolling through the cubicles.

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  • Hands-on with the Pentax K-7 at the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix

    Hands-on with the Pentax K-7 at the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    One of the downsides to covering gadgets on a daily basis for as long as I have is the fact that I think everything is crap. Very few things excite me and anything that does usually ends up falling short of my expectations. It’s unfortunate, but once in a blue moon does something not only impress, but also exceed my expectations. Case in point, the Pentax K-7.

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  • Sony’s FeliCa Launcher lets you use smartcards and phones on your PC to launch websites

    Sony’s FeliCa Launcher lets you use smartcards and phones on your PC to launch websites

    Posted on August 18, 2009 | No Comments
    Even though virtually unknown in the US or Europe, Sony's Felica technology, mainly materialized in the form of a contactless RFID smart card or a chip built into cell phones), is used for electronic payment by millions of people on a daily basis. Now users in Japan (one of the main markets apart from Hong Kong and Singapore) get to use it for other things (and on computers), too.

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  • Let’s say: The music industry gets its way and throws everyone in jail. Then what?

    Let’s say: The music industry gets its way and throws everyone in jail. Then what?

    Posted on August 17, 2009 | No Comments
    And now, the 900th note on Internet piracy written in the past week. It would appear that the UK is inching closer to a law that would require ISPs to disconnect people who download music, movies, etc. illegally. The proposal, currently making its way through the back rooms of the British Government, could well be placed before the Parliament during its next session.

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  • Guess why the big ISPs have refused broadband stimulus money

    Guess why the big ISPs have refused broadband stimulus money

    Posted on August 14, 2009 | No Comments
    There's two ways to look at the story that many of the country's biggest ISPs have refused government stimulus money for broadband infrastructure investment. One, the ISPs patently don't need the money, and are more than capable of delivering broadband to as many Americans as possible with their own capital. Two, the ISPs could use the money, but they'd prefer not to accept it lest they be beholden to all sorts of government-imposed restrictions, one of which relates to net neutrality.

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  • Review: Stuhrling Centurion

    Review: Stuhrling Centurion

    Posted on August 11, 2009 | No Comments
    When Stuhrling first contacted us to do a review, they sent a Centurion. When it arrived, I'll admit, the design threw me off for a bit. The unique font, the extremely sharp and square case - this didn't reflect the type of watch I typically wear. To be fair, I didn't care for it all that much. I was determined to give the watch a fair chance however, and wore it on a daily basis for a while, just to collect some opinions.

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  • Booyah Society: Level Up in Life! with your iPhone

    Booyah Society: Level Up in Life! with your iPhone

    Posted on July 28, 2009 | No Comments
    Keith wasn’t as boisterous during our second filming of the app as he was the first time. Hopefully you guys get the idea. So what is Booyah and what does it bring to the iPhone that no one else has done? Before we dive into that here’s a little background info on the Palo Alto, Calif.-based [...]

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  • i-Real: Toyota updates its futuristic tricycle

    i-Real: Toyota updates its futuristic tricycle

    Posted on June 29, 2009 | No Comments
    Formerly known as iSwing, Toyota's single-seat personal mobility cars gained worldwide attention back in 2005 when TIME magazine called it one of the ”coolest inventions” of that year. But now Toyota has decided to update the vehicle (by reworking the 4-wheel car into a 3-wheel "chair"), give it a new name (i-Real) and let the Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya test a total of four units on a daily basis.

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  • China, don’t install Green Dam! It’s full of bugs!

    China, don’t install Green Dam! It’s full of bugs!

    Posted on June 12, 2009 | No Comments
    Well this ought to be of some use to our Chinese readers. And by that I mean people who are actually in China who visit, for whatever reason, crunch gear dot com. There's some sort of software called Green Dam that will be required on all Chinese PCs soon that blocks all sorts of fun content from being downloaded and/or viewed. Salty political talk? Banned. Pornography? Banned. (Well that's 90 percent of the Internet right there, silly political arguments (NOBAMA, REVERSE RACISM, etc.) and porn.) Tips on how to grow marijuana? Banned. Violent video games? Banned. Fun all around!

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  • Bathroom Mirror Packs iPod Controls, Clock, Barometer

    Bathroom Mirror Packs iPod Controls, Clock, Barometer

    Posted on June 5, 2009 | No Comments
    It’s a problem experienced by Gadget Lab’s own Daniel Dumas on an almost daily basis. How does one stare for hours on end into the mirror, admiring one’s beautiful hair, and at the same time control the romantic background music? For Danny, the thought of removing his eyes from the perfectly coiffured and outrageously handsome visage [...]

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