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  • Yep, the iPhone runs Android 2.2, too

    Yep, the iPhone runs Android 2.2, too

    Posted on June 6, 2010 | No Comments
    Sure, we might be seeing some big changes to the iPhone tomorrow, but what if you could see some big changes on your very own iPhone, today? Well, you can if you're brave enough to try installing Android on your iPhone, which we've seen done before, but not with Android 2.2 (otherwise more deliciously known as Froyo). Still not convinced that such a thing is possible? Then head on past the break for the video evidence, and hit up the link below for the complete, not-for-the-faint-of-heart instructions for performing the feat yourself.

    P.S. Of course, "runs" isn't exactly the same as "runs well." The iPhone in the video apparently got noticeably hot after five minutes of use, and there's some issues with Android not recognizing little things like WiFi or the phone's GPU.

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    Yep, the iPhone runs Android 2.2, too originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Pew Internet report reveals what everyone already knows: Teens like to text

    Posted on April 20, 2010 | No Comments
    If you've seen a teenager in the last two years, then you've seen a teenager texting. Seriously, I can't think of a situation in the last couple of years where I saw a teenager without a cell phone. The teenagers in my extended family send text messages seemingly all day long, every day. Now the Pew Internet and American Life project has released a pretty comprehensive analysis of teen texting behavior.

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  • This amazing photo of Earth cost only $750 to take

    This amazing photo of Earth cost only $750 to take

    Posted on March 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Hello, Earth! Can you believe that this photo was taken by a man who attached a digital camera to a balloon? Madness. There’s actually not too much involved here. You take a helium-filled, high-altitude balloon, strap a digital camera to it, and off you go. The camera goes up (that’s 22 miles above the surface of [...]

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  • Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs

    Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Bam. If you've ever had to sit through a modern educational kids movie, you've realized they're garbage. Junk like Diego and Baby Einstein are useless educationally and, in comparison to Looney Tunes and the like, absolute pablum. Now parents won't feel guilty because little Mason and Kirsten aren't learning how to say "monito" through video watching. It is written that 12- to 24-month olds get no language-learning benefits from garbage educational videos.

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  • More DRM-free Sierra titles (Space Quest!) added to GOG.com

    More DRM-free Sierra titles (Space Quest!) added to GOG.com

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Hot on the heels of GOG.com’s recent deal with Activision to sell DRM-free classic games, a handful of additional Sierra titles are now available alongside Gabriel Knight.

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  • Geek Lunch: Bacon double dog burrito

    Geek Lunch: Bacon double dog burrito

    Posted on February 11, 2010 | No Comments
    For the record, I hate cooking. So if I’m putting a recipe up here you can be sure that it’s something cheap, easy, and quick. Like many self-proclaimed geeks, I eat purely to survive. Inspired by a whimsical little show on the Food Network called Diners, Drive-ins and Dives (I think eating takes too much time, yet I’ll watch shows about food for some unknown reason), this recipe is basically two hot dogs, a slice of bacon, and shredded cheese rolled up into a tortilla and then grilled. Easy.

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  • Hello, Moshi: a voice controlled alarm clock

    Hello, Moshi: a voice controlled alarm clock

    Posted on January 21, 2010 | No Comments
    moshiI've been wondering how long it'll be before we start talking to all our appliances and gadgets, just like the gang on Star Trek talks to their computers. Typing, pressing buttons, waving wands around in the air: it's all so inefficient! We should be able to simply speak to our gadgets to have them do our bidding. Today we're one step closer to that golden Utopia, with Moshi, the voice controlled alarm clock. Fun video inside!

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  • President Obama’s policies have pushed the Doomsday Clock back by one minute

    President Obama’s policies have pushed the Doomsday Clock back by one minute

    Posted on January 14, 2010 | No Comments
    Way to go, President Obama! Thanks to your bold and forward-thinking policies, the Doomsday Clock has been moved back by one minute! That means Planet Earth is “one minute” further away from utter destruction! Well, destruction brought about by man himself; an asteroid can still smash into the planet and we'd all be doomed. Or, as we've seen in Haiti this week, some other cataclysm can strike and we'd have zero control over it.

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  • Coming soon for Android: the crocodile keyboard app

    Coming soon for Android: the crocodile keyboard app

    Posted on December 3, 2009 | No Comments
    The crocodile keyboard is coming to an Android phone near you on December 7! Instead of refreshing MobileCrunch every five minutes, on Monday you can instead refresh android.com every five minutes until the app is released! That's the Christmas spirit!

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  • It’ll linger for a week: Japanese security system sprays stinky smell on thieves

    It’ll linger for a week: Japanese security system sprays stinky smell on thieves

    Posted on December 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Does anyone remember the Japanese anti-burglar mat for stores and restaurants I blogged a few months ago? Well, there's another security system from Japan and it clearly raises the bar: It's a new mechanism, dubbed Capture, for these places and it sprays stinky agent on thieves who won't be able to get rid of the stench for a week.

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  • For your holiday consideration: A little truck that poops dominoes

    For your holiday consideration: A little truck that poops dominoes

    Posted on November 20, 2009 | No Comments
    Does your child enjoy dominoes? Does your child enjoy trucks? Does he or she like to see trucks move? Do they like to see the trucks poop out little dominoes? Do you know your kids? At all? Do you know that they'll play with this for like five minutes and then eat the dominoes?

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  • Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable

    Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments

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    Microsoft's Windows Phones just left the chute a few days ago, and already it seems that ye old DRM is getting talked about -- and not in a good way. According to one Chainfire over at XDA-Developers, the so-called "copy protection" involved in keeping applications in place rather than strewn across a neighborhood of handsets is a pitiful joke, requiring just five minutes of tinkering to save the CAB files that the Marketplace app downloads to a separate folder. In other words, that relocated CAB file could be distributed to all of your friends, turning a single purchase into freeware for as many people as you know (or don't know, even). So, Marketplace devs -- does that make you feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside, or what?

    [Thanks, GreeKNastY]

    Dev finds Windows Marketplace DRM severely lacking, easily circumventable originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Are The Pirate Bay’s servers now stored in a nuclear bunker?

    Are The Pirate Bay’s servers now stored in a nuclear bunker?

    Posted on October 8, 2009 | No Comments
    I think we've all had our fill of The Pirate Bay stories, but here's one more in the interest of killing five minutes. The site moved its servers from Sweden to Ukraine last week, and rather than have its servers being stored in some random server farm, they're being stored in a former NATO nuclear bunker. So we think, at least.

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  • Photo dialing, solar cellphones, and newspapers on TV: only in Japan

    Photo dialing, solar cellphones, and newspapers on TV: only in Japan

    Posted on October 6, 2009 | No Comments
    aquos-newspaper-02Sharp has on display a number of fun new gadgets at CEATEC. As is all too often the case, these things are for Japanese release only (at least for now). Maybe we'll see them in a couple years. Read on for details on a dial-by-photo phone, newspapers on TV, solar-charging cell phones, and the Sharp Netwalker!

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  • New mini toy car: Penny Racer Hybrid (video)

    New mini toy car: Penny Racer Hybrid (video)

    Posted on September 23, 2009 | No Comments
    Toy maker Takara Tomy's mini vehicles are being sold everywhere in the world. Marketed as Penny Racers in the US and Choro Q in Japan, the series so far includes mini helis, trains and even small UFOs that attack Tokyo. And now the company has announced Choro Q Hybrid mini cars [JP] for the Japanese market.

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