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According to Duke University grad student Justin Manweiler and assistant professor Romit Roy Choudhury, this phenomenon is due to gadgets consistently fighting to retrieve the same information. Their Systems Networking Analysis Group has designed a system …
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Rugged gadgets place to the test in Engadget labs, wanton destruction ensues
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Typically even though, we resist these urges, understanding complete nicely that it would spell the end for our valuable gadget. There's a special class of rugged devices although, that are created to withstand something you throw at it — or throw it at, as the case could …

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USB power pot uses excess heat to charge your gadgets
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Yale students build spokeless bicycle in one semester, now looking for jobs originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:16:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Truth be told, we weren’t sure what to make of this laser harp-looking contraption when we saw it across the room at the International Toy Fair. Eloquently dubbed the Beamz Interactive Music System, it has six laser beam “strings” that when struck by a hand or finger produces one of 100 instrumental sounds. Here’s the catch, though: the standing instrument must be connected to your PC via USB so that it can use its speakers. We think it’s sort of a bummer that you have to be attached to your computer to rock, but the PC software (we’re told Mac is on the way) lets you easily assign an instrument to the laser strings and also includes a variety of popular songs to jam along with. Though it’s been around since 2008, Beamz seems to have wised up and lowered the original $600 pricetag to $199. We realize we could continue to describe this digital instrument in length, but we’d rather you just watch us “play it” and royally embarrass ourselves after the break.

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Beamz laser instrument allows even the tone deaf to rock out for $199 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re still patiently waiting for Sipix’s color e-paper to hit the commercial realm, but ’til then, we suppose we’ll pretend to be content with the monochrome variety. Bookeen, which obviously has a hard row to hoe in the slam-packed e-reader market, recently announced what appeared to be a relatively ho hum reader in the Orizon. Today, however, we’ve learned that it’ll ship with a multitouch 6-inch Sipix display (800 x 600 resolution), and it’ll be available for purchase this May in the United States and UK. For those who’ve forgotten, it will arrive with WiFi, 1GB of internal memory, Bluetooth, an accelerometer and support for PDF / ePUB formats. Still, if the rumored $250 price point sticks, we sort of doubt those to-be Kindle customers will turn their back on an always-on connection, but hey — if the hackers step it up, this whole multitouch thing could really be enticing.

Bookeen Orizon to ship this May with multitouch Sipix display originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Does tracking your phone’s location violate your Fourth Amendment rights? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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You’d have to be heartless to walk by Interbots’ Quasi and not crack a smile. Q, as we like to call him, isn’t an autonomous bot, but instead everything from his facial expressions to his speech are controlled wirelessly via a tablet PC. As you can see in the video after the break, his master can change his eye color and arm / hand movements with just a touch of the stylus. So, why did Quasi, who was born at Carnegie Mellon in 2006, make an appearance at the 2010 Toy Fair? Interbots is planning to bring an affordable child-friendly version of the $80,000 bot to market by the end of the year, and the reps on hand told us that it’ll even have similar puppeteering capabilities. Sounds like a potential nightmare for parents, but there’s something about this guy that makes us sure about his future as much-adored, bona fide family member.

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Quasi robot melts hearts at Toy Fair, Interbots promises toy version soon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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If you’re both ready and set, then you’ll be pleased to know that Microsoft has major Windows Mobile goings-on to discuss tomorrow at 9AM ET (3PM here in Spain). What does that really mean? Well based on the torrent of circumstantial (and actual) evidence we’ve seen, it looks like the big M is set to deliver its most important piece of mobile news in years: Windows Mobile 7. Or, Windows Phone 7 Series… or whatever it is they’re calling it these days. Regardless, it looks like a new era for Redmond’s smartphone platform, and we’ll be there covering the whole thing minute-by-minute… as only Engadget can.

If you’re as curious as we are about Microsoft’s plans, the event kicks off on Monday, February 15 at the times below. And here’s the URL to park your browser at to see the action take place:

04:00AM – Hawaii
06:00AM – Pacific
07:00AM – Mountain
08:00AM – Central
09:00AM – Eastern
02:00PM – London
03:00PM – Paris
11:00PM – Tokyo

Microsoft’s Windows Phone event at MWC kicks off tomorrow at 9AM ET originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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