Rca Archive

  • Daily Crunch: Pac Pills Edition

    Daily Crunch: Pac Pills Edition

    Wearing your unread email count on your chest This gives Pac-Man a whole new twist RCA’s AirPower has been repackaged to better hide the snake oil inside Review: Nintendo DSi XL Rugged Camera Roundup: The Movie

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  • RCA’s AirPower has been repackaged to better hide the snake oil inside

    RCA’s AirPower has been repackaged to better hide the snake oil inside

    The RCA Airnergy AirPower is curious little device. It is supposed to harvest WiFi signals and convert them into usable energy, which is then sent out over a USB cable to charge a gadget. Yeah, think of the possibilities. But while the technology really does exist and has been demonstrated, it seems a little to easy. Apparently RCA is serious about the product line and has ditched the name Airnergy in favor of AirPower and is now showing off a slightly more polished look than the ones seen at CES 2010.

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  • New Elgato EyeTV hybrid is smaller, more compatible

    New Elgato EyeTV hybrid is smaller, more compatible

    Elgato just released the updated version of their USB tuner, the EyeTV. This new version has been resized (smaller) and added compatibility with Windows 7, making it ideal for that HTPC project you've been thinking about.

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  • Official Nexus One desktop dock now available

    Official Nexus One desktop dock now available

    Straight from the source, you can now get the official $45 desktop dock for your shiny new Nexus One. When you dock your phone, the clock automatically launches. Behold the future!

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  • RCA Airnergy promises usable power generated from Wi-Fi signals. Possible?

    RCA Airnergy promises usable power generated from Wi-Fi signals. Possible?

    I’m a simple man. I understand certain things. How ambient Wi-Fi signals could be converted into enough energy to charge a BlackBerry is something I do NOT understand. However, RCA not only showed off the technology at CES but the device will apparently be available by the summer and it’ll only cost $40. OhGizmo! tells us [...]

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  • The Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver sends your iPhone’s music to speakers and such

    The Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver sends your iPhone’s music to speakers and such

    Looking at this Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver, I'm over here thinking, “Man, 99 percent of the stuff we write about is useless unless you're in the market for that type of item.” That's not a knock against the Bluetooth thing here, but if you're not looking for one right now? Not all that exciting, no.

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  • Sony and Best Buy team up on the ALTUS wireless audio system

    Sony and Best Buy team up on the ALTUS wireless audio system

    Because everyone including your mother wants to rid their world of wires, Sony and Best Buy have new audio systems that feature…wireless audio! The ALTUS audio line includes basic setups like wireless computer speakers, iPod docks, and even multi-room a systems through a little add-on.

    The $500 ALT-SA32PC has two wireless speakers controlled by a USB [...]

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  • Rural Cellular Association agrees: Verizon’s new exclusivity deal sucks

    Rural Cellular Association agrees: Verizon’s new exclusivity deal sucks

    Just a few days ago, Verizon announced a change to the way they’d handle exclusive handset deals: rather than holding on to all of their exclusive handsets for years and years, they’d let any small carrier (defined as any carrier with under 500,000 customers) offer the same phones after a 6-month absolute exclusivity period. It [...]

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