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iPhonECG case monitors your heart rate to make sure you’re appropriately excited about CES
CES isn’t just about incrementally thinner or faster hardware, you know. Some people like to bring legitimately innovative ideas to the show, such as this iPhonECG case, which does what its name suggests: it takes an ECG (electrocardiogram) reading of your heart’s activity through a pair of electrodes and then communicates its findings to an iPhone 4 it can be attached to. We say it can be attached to an iPhone as communication is done wirelessly, so you’ll probably be able to monitor your ticker’s rhythm without the Applephone pressed against your bosom. Then again, maybe you like that. It’s a free world, we don’t judge. We’ll be sending out our most hairy-chested editor to give this thing a proper test at the Las Vegas convention next week. Until then, scope out the video after the break.
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Game Boy, HTC Aria and fake iPhone 4 combined for your amusement, is also possibly art
We’re not sure what happened to Japanese tech mashup artist Goteking that inspired him to stuff an Android phone and a KIRF iPhone 4 into the back of a Game Boy Pocket, but stuff them he did, along with a bank of battery-powered LEDs that — if we’re not mistaken — spell out a Tokyo train schedule. Perhaps it’s designed to be a mind trip through and through, or perhaps it’s a homage to the joint forces of nostalgia and geekdom that spark daily flame wars all around the world.
We’re not sure what happened to Japanese tech mashup artist Goteking that inspired him to stuff an Android phone and a KIRF iPhone 4 into the back of a Game Boy Pocket, but stuff them he did, along with a bank of battery-powered LEDs that — if we’re not mistaken — spell out a Tokyo train schedule. Perhaps it’s designed to be a mind trip through and through, or perhaps it’s a homage to the joint forces of nostalgia and geekdom that spark daily flame wars all around the world.
Game Boy, HTC Aria and fake iPhone 4 combined for your amusement, is also possibly art originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 31 Dec 2010 06:31:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPad Grabbit Case Helps You Keep A Grip On Your Tablet
iPad case design concepts keep coming out, with more and more of them starting to look the same. The concept is simple: a hard case, with a hand-strap grip on the back that rotates 360 degrees. The case looks like a great idea if you depend on your iPad and use it for extended periods of time.
The problem with the Grabbit is, there’s already another product identical to it out there, called the Handstand. The Handstand is currently listed as patent pending, so the Grabbit people might be disappointed depending on when they filed their patent request. The Grabbit case also is “available soon” according to their website, so it appears that they might not be in production yet. The Grabbit is currently available for pre-order for $ 49 (plus shipping) from their website. Be aware, this is part of the Kickstart project, where a product will only be produced if enough random people ante up the money.
If you’re interested in looking at some other cases, check out our iPad case round-up from earlier this month.
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Proof That We’re Living In The Future: The iPhone Heart Monitor
We’re living in the future, folks. Really, look around you: we have the biggest collection of knowledge in history available for free, at our fingertips — and we can access it in a car, at 70 miles per hour, without any wires. Planes can transport us across the country, or across the world, in hours (or, as Louis CK so wonderfully puts it, “You’re sitting in a chair.. in the sky.) Technology that changed the world and cost many thousands of dollars just 20 years ago now comes at a fraction of the price, and at a fraction of the size. Everything is amazing.
The thing in the video after the jump (which’ll be announced at CES next week) is just one more example.
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With Nintendo 3DS Release Looming, Speculation Turns To Its Price Outside Japan
We’re rapidly approaching the release of the Nintendo 3DS, and all sorts of things are being speculated right now. The latest concerns the price: what will it be? Nintendo has already said that it’ll launch on February 26, and that it will retail for JP¥25,000. That converts, at time of writing, to around $ 306. But will it actually be that expensive?
Pocket-lint wants to know, too. A UK retailer has slapped a £194.99 price tag on the system, but with a suggested retail price of £199.00. Given that UK folk typically have to pay much higher prices than others (the 120GB PS3 Slim can be had there for £259.99, or around $ 399, while the same thing can be found on the U.S. version of Amazon for $ 298), some have taken the £194.99 price tag to mean that the 3DS won’t be quite as expensive as once figured, if not feared.
Can Nintendo truly get away with charging, say, $ 300 here in the U.S. for the 3DS? Take your pick: a PS3 or a 3DS. I’d be shocked if it ends up retailing for more than $ 250 at launch. I think at $ 250 it’s pretty much an instant buy, because once you throw in the cost of a game—let’s assume for now that Ocarina of Time won’t be a pack-in—you’re looking at a $ 300 outlay.
The only thing I do know is that of all the fancy new toys that are expected to be released in 2011 I’m most looking forward to the 3DS. I have zero interest in any of the 8 million tablets that are coming out, and the Verizon iPhone is a big yawn—will it be so different that you’ll stop in your tracks, kicking up dust like in a Road Runner cartoon, and visit the VZW store in double-quick time? Nah.
Bring on Mario and Zelda in 3D, I say.
The Engadget Podcast, live at 4:45PM EST!
It’s the end of the year, so it’s time for the boys to look back and reflect on the… oh, who are we kidding, we’ll probably just do more skits. Join us below!
P.S. And don’t forget that Ustream has Android and iPhone clients as well, if you’re out and about and you can’t join in on the Flash-based fun below.
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Related Posts:Skype’s New App Brings Video Chat To The iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch
We’ve been hearing reports that Skype is debuting a mobile video chat service and D-Day has arrived. The company is launching a brand new version of its iPhone app that includes the ability to turn on video in any Skype chat.
The beauty of the app is that it brings free video calling to iPhone 3G devices, iPad and iPod Touch, all of which couldn’t run Apple’s video calling feature Facetime (the feature only works with iPhone 4 devices and Mac computers). Of course, iPad owners won’t be able to initiate a video call, but these users can receive any video chats from contacts.
Olympus XZ-1 and other pre-CES camera rumors from Sony and Panasonic
It’s no secret that CES is the stage from which camera companies unleash more compact shooters than you can shake a tripod at — and preceding those come a glut of rumors, naturally. 4/3 Rumors has heard Olympus will unveil the XZ-1 (pictured), which boasts the LX5′s 10 megapixel sensor and a none-too-shabby 28-112mm f/1.8-2.5 lens. The site also heard that a few Panasonic model numbers that at this point really don’t tell too grand a story: DMC-S1 and S3, DMC-TS3, FH2, and FH5. Meanwhile at Sony Alpha Rumors, the eponymous company will reportedly launch a number of compact cameras (go figure) including a Cybershot DSC-HX1 successor, some new Bloggies, and new 2D and 3D video recorders… and though no Alpha and no NEX models will be on the show floor, the site is also suggesting the future NEX-7 and Alpha A77 models have 1080p60 AVCHD and a 0.1-second autofocus. Latter tidbit notwithstanding, we’d wager by mid-January everything else here will be either confirmed or forgotten.
Olympus XZ-1 and other pre-CES camera rumors from Sony and Panasonic originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Gresso classies up the iPad with 18k gold logo and ancient wood case
We’ll openly admit we never knew what African Blackwood was until Gresso started applying the stuff to its line of extremely luxurious cellphone mods, but now we can’t imagine a new product from the Russian company without the 200-year old timber making an appearance. And sure enough, the Gresso iPad’s rear is composed almost entirely of Dalbergia melanoxylon, broken up only by the insertion of an 18-karat gold Apple logo. Strangely, in spite of its extravagant constituent materials, this design is a very restrained, dare we say, classy, affair. It goes on sale on New Year’s Eve at an unannounced price, but you know what they say: if you have to ask or you have to work for a living, you probably can’t afford it.
Gresso classies up the iPad with 18k gold logo and ancient wood case originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Hex iPod Nano Watch Band Instructional Video: What the Hex?
The Hex Watch Band didn’t make it into our iPod Nano watch round up but by gum it should have been there, especially considering this truly magical example of videography provided by the company itself.
The band costs $ 29 and holds the Nano in a handsome rubber case. It’s really nothing special but this video, as we can plainly see, definitely is.
